Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) received a great attention in Malaysia to support the online learning activity in Malaysia Higher Education. However, the low completion rate and overall use of the system was reported, thus raised question regarding students' willingness to continue use the system. Accordingly, to capture this issue, data from survey method constructed from different variables and items need to be validated empirically as an initial standpoint in identifying the problem of low completion rate. Hence, the assessment of validity needs to be carried out. This paper reports the procedure of the assessment of outer model in path model approach by using newly origin second generation multivariate statistical technique of Partial Least Squares - Path Model (or Structural Model), PLSPM. The objective of the study is to analyse the outer model focusing the reflective modes in PLSPM based model. Data was collected through online survey from students enrolled in MOOC in Malaysia Higher Education Institutions. Before evaluating the structural model or inner model, an assessment of outer model or measurement model which relies on two main criteria called reliability and validity was run to determine how specified the measured. These involve the internal consistency, (Cronbach alpha and composite reliability), construct validity (loading), convergent validity (AVE), and discriminant validity (Fornell-Larcker criterion, cross-loading and HTMT criterion). Results concluded that the outer model has achieved their validity and reliability. Thus, the instrument used for this survey confirm the internal consistency, convergent validity, and discriminant validity, thus can be used in future research.


Aim  To study the efficacy, safety, and compliance of 500 mg azithromycin thrice weekly for 12 weeks in acne vulgaris.


Left ventricular free wall rupture is one of the most catastrophic and lethal mechanical complications associated with myocardial infarction. Its diagnosis in a patient still alive is rare, and its only therapeutic option is open surgical treatment. We report the case of an 82-year-old male patient who presented with an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, within more than 24 hours of onset, in which it was possible to record, in real time, the rupture of the left ventricular free wall by means of ventriculography.


A tungsten carbide coated chamber component of semiconductor processing equipment includes a metal surface, optional intermediate nickel coating, and outer tungsten carbide coating. The component is manufactured by optionally depositing a nickel coating on a metal surface of the component and depositing a tungsten carbide coating on the metal surface or nickel coating to form an outermost surface.


Presents the results of Phase II of a study examining use of integrated curriculum as a reform strategy in US schools. The purposes of this phase were to determine how the uses of integrated curricula change over time and to explore relationships between teacher implementation of integrated curricula and principal beliefs and practices. Telephone interviews with a subset of principals of schools using integrated curriculum gathered information about changes in use since the original data collection, team planning practices, involvement with peer coaching, teacher involvement with decision processes, and relationships among principal belief systems, practices, and support of integrated curriculum. Results, using qualitative and quantitative methods, show that over time integrated curricula use increased and became more sophisticated, time is an obstacle even with common planning periods, teacher involvement in decision processes increased, and principals overwhelmingly believe that the integrated curriculum has positive effects on teachers and students.


In this issue of the journal, Kiotsekoglou et al. report on right ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS). Over the past years, several studies have demonstrated mild, though significant, left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients with MFS.1–5 This is the first study indicating impaired right ventricular function.

Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant connective-tissue disorder caused by mutations in the fibrillin-1 gene ( FBN1 ). Cardiovascular manifestations are mainly characterized by progressive dilatation of the aortic root, leading to aneurysm formation which may—when left untreated—lead to aortic dissection or rupture. Other established cardiovascular manifestations include mitral valve prolapse, dilatation of the pulmonary artery, and dilatation or dissection of the descending thoracic or abdominal aorta.

Although not commonly related to MFS, dilated cardiomyopathy, beyond that explained by aortic or mitral valve regurgitation, seems to occur with higher prevalence in patients with MFS, implicating involvement of the extracellular matrix protein fibrillin-1 in ventricular structure and/or function.6 Whether left ventricular dysfunction is a rare but severe complication of MFS or rather a widespread but generally asymptomatic finding was unclear until recently. Several studies have now demonstrated that both systolic and diastolic left ventricular functions are impaired in patients with MFS. These alterations may already be present in childhood.1–4

This study by Kiotsekoglou …

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[1] We report high spatial resolution observations of optical proxies for suspended particles and dissolved matter measured at the boundary of the Connecticut River plume (CRP) in Long Island Sound (LIS) in April 2000 when river discharge was near the annual maximum. The magnitude of beam attenuation, cp, backscatter, bb, and absorption at short wavelengths indicated higher concentration of suspended particles and colored dissolved matter within the LIS relative to the adjacent CRP. The fractional backscatter from particles indicated relatively higher organic matter fraction within the LIS. An absorption feature centered at 429 nm (aPB), indicated the presence of pigmented heterotrophic bacteria unique to the LIS and the strongest signals were observed at locations closest to shore. The spectral slope of beam attenuation associated with particulate matter (γ) indicated the presence of relatively larger particle assemblages within the LIS. Strong linear relationships between γ and salinity were observed within the energetic CRP boundary region, within 30 m of the front location. Regression residuals indicated a shift to smaller particles and were greatest at the front and decreased with distance toward the plume interior with a length scale similar to previous reports of the kinetic energy dissipation rate. At the same time, the magnitude of cp and bb remained uniform. These results are consistent with the disruption of low fractal dimension particle assemblages due to enhanced turbulence and mixing. The residuals in γ were weakly correlated with salinity and aPB suggesting that aggregate disruption was primarily associated with entrained Long Island Sound water.


Metasurfaces have been investigated for various applications ranging from beam steering, focusing, to polarization conversion. Along with passive metasurfaces, significant efforts are also being made to design metasurfaces with tunable optical response. Among various approaches, voltage tuning is of particular interest because it creates the possibility of integration with electronics. In this work, we demonstrate voltage tuning of reflectance from a complementary metasurface strongly coupled to an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) mode in an ultrathin semiconductor layer. Our approach involves electrically controlling the carrier concentration of the ENZ layer to modulate the polaritonic coupling between the dipole resonances of the metasurface and the ENZ mode for modulating the reflectance of the metasurface. The hybrid structure we fabricate is similar to MOSCAP configuration where the complementary metasurface offers a continuous gold top layer for biasing and positive/negative bias to the metasurface leads to accumulation/depletion of carriers in the ENZ layer beneath it. We optimized our structure by using InGaAs as the ENZ material because of its high mobility and low effective mass. This allowed us to reduce the doping requirement and thereby reduce the ionized impurity scattering as well as the reverse bias required to deplete the ENZ layer. For low leakage and efficient modulation of carrier density, we used Hafnia as the gate dielectric. We further added a reflecting backplane below the ENZ layer to enhance the interaction and by applying bias, we achieved spectral shifts of 500 nm and amplitude modulation of 11% of one of the polariton branches at 14 µm.


How do transport improvements a ect the growth and spatial structure of population and employment? This paper answers these questions in the context of nineteenth century England and Wales. It analyzes the e ect of railways on population and employment growth following a large expansion in the railway network during the 1840s. Endogeneity is addressed using a hypothetical network minimizing construction costs between large towns in 1801. Results show that population, secondary, and tertiary employment growth were signi cantly higher near railway stations and agriculture was signi cantly lower. Moreover, larger growth e ects are found in higher density localities and with coal, suggesting railways magni ed agglomeration economies and natural resource advantages. A nal counterfactual shows population and employment growth would have been 7 to 9% lower from 1851 to 1881 if the network remained at its smaller 1841 level.


Since the new century,due to the frequent events of unexpected public crisis,how to prevent and solve effectively public crisis became a highlighted issue that governments and scholars around the world paid their attentions to.This paper,from the perspective of CAS theory,analyzes the institutional drawbacks of Chinese traditional model of public governance in the modern crisis management,and puts forward that we should set up a cooperative governance model.This model should be suitable for complex,dynamic,and external environment,led by government and be in cooperation among NGO,enterprise and the public,in order to integrate fully public power and social capital and solve common public crisis.


The development of current and next-generation high-performance electronic devices has led to miniaturization in more densely packed spaces. The increasing power levels have resulted in ever-increasing heat flux densities which necessitates the evolution of new liquid-based heat exchange technologies. Implementation of single-phase cooling systems using pulsating flow is viewed as a potential solution to the problems involving high energy density electronics. This work involves a combined experimental and numerical analysis of pulsating flows in a rectangular minichannel undergoing asymmetric sinusoidal flow pulsation formats. The minichannel design includes a heated bottom section approximated as a constant heat flux boundary by uniformly heating a $12.5~\mu \text{m}$ thick Inconel foil. Infrared thermography (IRT) is used for thermal measurements of the heated boundary from the hydrodynamically and thermally developed region of the minichannel. A 3-D conjugate heat transfer ANSYS CFX model is used for simulations. Asymmetric sinusoidal pulsating flows in the form of leading and lagging profiles with Womersley number of 2.5 and a flow rate amplitude ratio of 0.5 and 3 are investigated. The rapid fluctuating characteristics of the asymmetric waveforms cause a sudden shift in the flow velocity profiles and the subsequent increased pressure drop shows an evolution of phase lag. The intensification of fluid momentum due to high oscillating flowrate amplitudes causes enhanced mixing in the near-wall and bulk regions of the channel, as evidenced by the wall temperature profiles. The presence of wall viscous forces leads to the phenomenon of annular effects which has been widely investigated in the literature for symmetric flow profiles. The wall and bulk temperature profiles tend to readily adjust to this rapidly fluctuating flow. The effect of high pulsation flow rate amplitude leads to a heat transfer enhancement of about 11% over the corresponding steady flow.


Gigahertz transverse electromagnetic (GTEM) cells for electromagnetic pulse simulator must be high voltage resistant and favorable transfer characteristic. A three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) representation of the GTEM adapter was described. The field contour and voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) were presented after the results calculation. According to the field behavior,the breakdown strength was discussed. A high voltage GTEM adapter for an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) simulator was designed. And structure and size of its axe and cable linker were optimized by using HFSS based on the finite element method (FEM). Computation and analysis show that the max. electric field intensity of circle coaxial section is more than triple of square section. By adding polyfluortetraethylene sheath between inner and outer conductor,adapter's max. breakdown strength can increase to 54 kV/mm when inputting transient pulse,and its VSWR is lower than 1.3. Test results show that VSWR of GTEM cell with optimization adapter is lower 1.6 when frequency of input sine wave is between 30MHz to 2.4 GHz. The waveform generated by the EMP simulator is all right. The adapter satisfies the needs of engineering application.


So-called unorthodox methods of cancer treatment are readily available to patients and families. They are frequently claimed to be "harmless" or "nontoxic" or "painless" alternatives to more standard treatment regimens. The Congress of the United States has estimated that $2 billion is spent annually on cancer quackery. Many physicians will be asked by their patients for opinions on such alternative treatment regimens, and the purpose of this review is to provide the practitioner with the basic information necessary to discuss these topics with their patients.


THE methods in general use for estimating bromine in cr-bromoacylcarbamides are based on the Volhard method. Many foreign pharmacopoeias include this method in their specifications, e.g., the Danish Pharmacopceia for bromisovalerylurea, carbromal and acetylcarbromal, the Swedish and German Pharmacopoeias for bromisovalerylurea, and the Finnish Pharmacopceia for carbromal. The British Pharmaceutical Codex 1949, in its monographs on bro9caletone and carbromal, does not call for a quantitative assay, but here also the Volhard procedure is generally accepted whenever a bromine assay is required to determine the purity of such substances. The general procedure involves hydrolysis of the test sample with hot aqueous alkali, acidification of the solution with nitric acid, and estimation of bromide by the normal Volhard procedure. The Swedish Pharmacopaia XI and the German Pharmacopaia VI specify that the initial alkaline hydrolysis is carried out by boiling; the Danish Pharmacopoeia 1948 requires heating on a steam-bath for 15 minutes. Detailed study of these variations has led us to conclude that the results obtained by these methods tend to be inaccurate and erratic. When applied to the or-bromoacylcarbamides, the method appears to be liable to some specific sources of error, in addition to those which are generally known to be associated with this method, viz., the usual disadvantages inherent in the use of back titrations, the effect of traces of nitrous acid present in the nitric acid used, the risk of decomposition of the thiocyanate solution to give cyanate, difficulties in attaining adsorption equilibrium, etc. (cf. Kolthoff and Lingane; and others). It was, therefore, considered desirable to develop a simple alternative method, which is at once more rapid and more accurate.


The present invention discloses a method for preparing lithium iron phosphate static material mixing tube type reactor, which is mainly divalent iron source, phosphorus source solution was mixed with lithium hydroxide, a mixed solution of equal volumes of ammonia flow from the static mixing tube One end of the reactor into the liquid-phase reaction product mixed emulsion, washed membranes eliminate the impurity ions after aging in a static mixing tube reactor, mixing the carbon source was added, after spray-drying to obtain a carbonaceous precursor LiFeP04 powder, the powder precursor is placed in a tubular furnace, at 600-750 deg.] C protected sintering 3-10h, that is finished in an inert gas atmosphere. The resulting material of the present invention, a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution, and low price of raw materials, simple process, easy to continuous industrial production.


An apparatus is provided in one example embodiment and includes a power management module configured to receive data associated with travel being proposed by an end user of an electric vehicle. The power management module is configured to suggest a starting time for the travel based on time of use (ToU) rates for electricity consumption and a current level of power in the electric vehicle. In more specific embodiments, the data associated with the travel includes a starting location, an ending location, and a proposed drive time. In other embodiments, the power management module is further configured to interface with a mapping tool in suggesting the starting time for the end user. The power management module can be configured to obtain the ToU rates from a utility, and the ToU rates are provided as a function of time.


We present a general theory of second-harmonic generation from the surface of small spherical particles. Experimental data for dye-coated polystyrene spheres of 30 nm radius confirm predicted scattering patterns and selection rules.


III-V nitride semiconductors are useful for LEDs with colors ranging from ultraviolet, blue to green. The luminescence of these LEDs shows a high luminosity and a high purity of color, and, therefore, many applications have been realized using these LEDs.


This study was aimed to explore the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory role of quercetin (QCT) in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) treated rats. Forty (40) adult male rats were randomly divided into four groups (10 ratseach) and were handled daily using gastric gavage for 30 days: Control group(C) in this group the rats were received ordinary tap water administered the vehicle only (norm al saline), H2O2 group(T1) The rats in this group were administered orally0.5 ml of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and given water containing 1% of H2O2 along experiment period (one month); H2O2 and Quercetin (T2) group: the animals in this group were administered orally 0.5 ml of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and given water containing one percent of H2O2 for 15 days followed by oral administration of Quercetin (20 mg\kg B.W) for another 15 days; Mixed (T3): group the rats were given QCT plus 1% of H2O2 in drinking water in the same previous doses for one month. Blood sample were collected by cardiac puncture technique at the end of the experiment and serum were collected for estimation the concentration of tumor necrosis factor –alpha (TNFα), intrleukin-10 (IL-10) and total antioxidant capacity (TOAC). After animal scarifying, sections from small and large intestine were taken for estimation tissue reduced glutathione (GSH) and malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration. The tissue samples of intestine (Duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon) were taken for Histomorphometric analysis (The villus height, thicknesses, depth of epithelial crypts and the number of goblet cell). The results showed that the oral intubation of quercetin for 15 days after H2O2 (group T2) or combination of quercetin and H2O2 for one month (groupT3) caused significant decrease in TNF-α, significant increase in the IL-10 at the end of experiment comparing to the value inT1 group and the value tend to normalize that of control group. A case of oxidative stress as explained by elevation in intestinal malondialdehyde (MDA) and depression in reduced glutathione (GSH) accompanied with depression in TAOC concentrations in H2O2 treated group comparing to QCT group which caused alleviation of pro-inflammatory and oxidative stress induced by H2O2. Histomorphometric analysis of intestine revealed significant elevation in depth, thickness of villi with elevation in villus height to crypt depth ratio that caused improvement in absorptive capacity of intestine, as well as elevation in number of goblet cell in some part of intestine were observed in QCT treatment groups (T2 and T3) comparing to H2O2 (T1)treated group. On conclusion, the current study documented, for first time, in vivo damaging effect of H2O2 on intestinal (oxidative status, Morphometric), in addition to its effect on anti-inflammatory status. The result also pointed to protective and preventive effect of quercetin.


The first of July 2017, Boverket implemented new rules on how to calculate a buildings energy use. This was the first of two steps where Boverket implemented use with a factor depending on the type ...


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Linezolid, a member of the oxazolidinone class of antibacterial drugs, is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium infections, nosocomial and community‐acquired pneumonia, as a part of anti tubercular regimen and complicated and uncomplicated skin and soft tissue infections, including diabetic foot infections. Linezolid has potential adverse effects like bone marrow suppression, peripheral neuropathy and hyponatremia. One of the extremely rare reported adverse effects of the drug is hypoglycaemia. We present a case of Linezolid toxicity presenting as resistant hypoglycemia, bone marrow suppression and severe hyponatremia all together in a single patient.


What does it take for an area of practice and an area of research to become a recognized field? Merriam-Webster's second definition for "field" after the land used by a farmer is "an area or division of an activity, subject, or profession" (www.Merriam-Webster. com). Perhaps that simple definition already applies to the evidence-based division of design activity or to an identifiable area within the design professions.If the design of healthcare facilities based on the best available information and credible research findings is a recognizable field, when and how did it begin? I like to think that architects designing hospitals have been trying to work with the best information since Florence Nightingale's observations on hospital design were published in the 1850s. Nineteenth-century hospital architects toured the renowned hospitals of Scotland and Germany, doing what we might today call benchmarking. The original design for Johns Hopkins by Dr. John Billings dating to the 1880s featured innovative chimneys to create a fresh-air draft across beds widely separated to reduce infection and minimize contagion. These and other design decisions that paralleled the Scientific Revolution were based on the best available information of their time, as were many of the design decisions for hospitals during the turn-of-the-century period and the years between World Wars I and II. As hospital design developed in the 1950s and 1960s postwar era, numerous changes occurred when architects and designers incorporated ideas inspired by the march of science and medicine.By the 1960s and 1970s, hospital design was the subject of several books, and hospital designs were based on careful predictions of utilization derived from demographic data and population projections. The identification of age cohorts, prevalent disease patterns, and historic utilization of services were needed to determine the number of beds, whether to expect a large volume of obstetric patients, and how many operating rooms to provide. Many of these designs were very much data driven. The evolving complexity of the facilities needed to support the delivery of advanced medicine produced the conditions in which healthcare design became a specialty field. This subset of architecture was marked by the growth of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (www.aaia.org/practicing/ groups/kc), which began shortly after World War II as a committee with a handful of members and today serves more than 6,000 members of the AIA. The evolution of the Academy subsequently led to the first examination-based, board-certified specialty among North American architects, the American College of Healthcare Architects.I was once encouraged by Professor Craig Zimring to think that a "field" wouldn't exist until university students felt that they could follow a productive course of study, publish their scholarly papers, and consider it as a legitimate and distinct career choice. I interpret this as a higher standard than the Merriam-Webster definition. For many years graduate students at Texas A&M University, Clemson University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Medical Architecture Research Unit (known as MARU) at London's South Bank University (www.lsbu.ac.uk/ maru) have pursued specialized healthcare design education and found it to be a consistently productive path to steady employment. Today new and emerging programs at many institutions such as Arizona State University, the University of Kansas, the University of Nebraska, the University of Illinois-Chicago, Ball State University, the University of Texas-Arlington, the University of Texas-San Antonio, and the University of Washington indicate the increasing spread of specialty education. The Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture organization apparently represents more than 30 specialized programs and their faculty from around the world (www. gupha.org). These universities have a number of academic researchers on their faculties who have chosen to work in areas that contribute to the growing body of relevant environmental science. …


Automation systems today have become remarkable warehouses of knowledge and information. Beyond just system configuration, many years of effort is inevitably invested in these systems, not only by control engineers, but operations, process, maintenance, business, and management personnel as well. In fact, over the life of an automation system the value of the total intellectual investment will come to exceed the initial hardware and software cost many times over.


Body sensor systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and have amazing potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery. Sensors come in a variety of form factors (e.g. wearable, ambient, ingestible or injectable) and can measure a plethora of physiologic and behavioral states in a near continuous fashion. Integrated into networks of sensors, these body sensor systems offer a mechanism to integrate technology into daily life. Perhaps most promising is the potential of such sensor systems to contextualize sensor data, to provide understanding of the milieu in which changes in health occur and to intervene in an automated, real time fashion to change behavior and promote health. Many challenges need to be overcome before body sensor systems can be widely adopted and highly effective. Designing sensors that are highly accurate while being non-obtrusive and aesthetically acceptable to users is a top priority for designers. Optimization of machine learning approaches, big data management, and privacy are other considerations that will influence success and uptake. In addition, the design process must involve the end users, maximize acceptability and intercalate with daily life. The ideal end product is a body sensor system that can track specific behaviors, but also create a new opportunity to deliver feedback, corrective interventions and other behavioral modifications in the setting of detection of specific parameters. Last year's mini-track focused on the state of art of wearable sensor systems and generated recommendations regarding design of closed loop sensor systems and methods for evaluating sensor systems. This year's mini-track builds upon last year's work by discussing deployments of body sensor systems, interpretation of data generated from systems and the implications that body sensor systems have on understanding health, wellness and populations. This year, the mini-track has two exciting papers that describe practical and innovative approaches to body sensor system applications. In our first paper, the authors leverage off-the-shelf wearable devices and on-board smartphone sensors to contextualize the daily activity of adolescents and quantify opportunities to increase academic engagement during the daily activities of students. Our second paper discusses the use of contactless body sensors in the form of ultra-wide band radar to detect the presence of an individual in a room and measure respiratory rate noninvasively. The authors of both papers will describe novel applications of body sensor systems for unobtrusive detection of biometrics that may correlate with key features of daily life or health status. Importantly, these papers establish important preliminary data which can be used to develop automated interventions, whether the context of academic engagement or healthcare Following the paper presentations, we will open the forum for discussion on the material presented. We will use the challenges and successes from each paper to explore how this information can immediately inform research, commercial and clinical endeavors. We will also crowdsource ideas for a follow-up mini-track that will fill identified gaps and be highest yield for future HICSS participants. We anticipate that presentations and discussion will help attendees consider key design factors in their own work evaluating body sensors and generate new ideas for collaborations and applications in this space. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | 2020


In this chapter, a different approach for refugees and asylum-seeking children and young people referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is described. Clinicians working with this population group need to maintain a holistic, psychosocial perspective not constrained by CAMHS diagnostic categories. In many cases, the children and young people referred to CAMHS have functional family backgrounds with their 'mental health disorder' being the result of adverse experiences prior to or during the perilous journey they have undertaken before arriving in UK. Their essentially positive functioning provides the basis for a good recovery provided social conditions support them appropriately. Discerning when to offer what intervention is a crucial skill. Prosocial behaviours, resourcefulness, and strengths should be recognized and nurtured for these young people to develop their own preferred identities and start on a healthy process of integration into new society. Various types of intervention such as an emotional well-being group work and narrative-based interventions (for unaccompanied asylum seekers), community interventions, risk support to the professional network, direct work, as well as training frontline workers in assessing concerns about young people, offering effective emotional first aid and suitable referrals are described.


Abstract Chemical reactivity along the trajectory of a charged particle in a dielectric solid depends on the density of radiation-damaged species. In inorganic crystals such as are found in meteorites, cosmic rays can be identified by etching for a long time and measuring the entire etchable ranges of the slowing particles, which are related to their atomic numbers. In plastics, the etching rate is an increasing function of radiation damage density. Measurements of etched 'cone' lengths at different points along the trajectory of a particle that passes thruough several sheets provide a very sensitive measure of atomic number. In favorable cases it is possible even to resolve isotopes with the same atomic number. In addition to serving as a general review of work on particle identification using these two schemes, this report provides some unpublished experimental details that are useful in achieving high resolution and reports some new, unpublished measurements.


Combined with the characteristics of power grid,the paper constructed an index system closely combined with technology indicators of power grid,economic indicators and evaluation indicators of the national economy.According to the difference of margin financing in the construction of power grid program,an advanced evaluation of power grid program economy could be further divided into two distinct assessments and optimal choices which were limited construction fund and unlimited construction fund under different construction condition.Therefore,the more comprehensive evaluation result,the broader scope of application and the more universal system and method could be formed and used to assess the backbone network program of a city and achieve remarkable success.


Abstract The aim of the paper is to present the binomial transformation formulae of Fibonacci numbers scaled by complex multipliers. Many of these new and nontrivial relations follow from the fundamental properties of the so-called delta-Fibonacci numbers defined by Wituła and Słota. The paper contains some original relations connecting the values of delta-Fibonacci numbers with the respective values of Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kind.


Aim: To delineate the problem of the use of psychoactive substances in a rural secondary school.
Method: Using a self – report questionnaire a random sample of students of a rural secondary school in Enugu State in Nigeria was studies to find the prevalence and the pattern of use of psychoactive substances.
Results: A life time prevalence of the use of substances of 76.3 percent was obtained. Eighty one percent of the boys as against 67.8% of girls have ever used drugs and this was statistically significant (P
Conclusion: It is pertinent to mention the observation of the absence of the use of Amphetamine, Cocaine, Opiodis and Hallucinogens in our study population. However, the need for immediate action to check this level of drug is highlighted and the need for health education in all schools is stressed.
Key words: Drug abuse, rural school, prevention.
[Jnl College of Medicine Vol.7(2) 2002: 115-117]


Review(s) of: Gestalt therapy in clinical practice: From psychopathology to the aesthetics of contact, Edited by Gianni Francesetti, Michela Gecele, and Jan Roubal, Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli, 2013, Gestalt Therapy Book Series, 762 pp., ISBN 978-88-204-2072-7.


Thematic structure is an effective way to organize the test Thematic progression modal (TP modal) plays an important role in the analysis of textual cohesion and organization This paper aims at an evaluation of TP modals as a method of scientific textual analysis It starts with the introduction of several influential types of TP modals Then the TP modals in scientific text and their similarities and differences will be analyzed


The illumination circuit includes three parallel branches of LEDs forming "i" lines and "j" columns. The network is connected with each branch connected in series and individual LEDs paralleled up, forming a total of "ij" LEDs. Some of the branches have resistors in parallel (22,23). Each LED circuit has a series resistance and zener diode (Ri) placed in series with it.


Laser surface heat treatment has been accepted as an effective technique of surface hardening of steels because of the converging of the laser beam by the lens on a tiny spot with a diameter near the value of the laser wavelength, laser surface heat treatment has been an effective way to improve the surface properties of. There are many applications in the industrial of the laser technique. This concentrated a lot of energy into a tiny area, resulting in a lot of heat compared to traditional heating methods. Wear resistance is a surface phenomenon, although it is influenced by elements such as surface hardening, surface condition, and microstructure. In this research, the aNd-YAG laser was used to treat the surface of alloy steel in order to investigate the effects of irradiation on the microstructure, metal surface hardening, and wear resistance. Low surface roughness and increased surface microhardness have been achieved due to the laser pulse indicated (900 Hv). The wear resistance was discovered to be higher due to laser treatment with the selected conditions.


The applicability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to determine polarity was examined for GaN, ZnO, AlN and GaAs. The adopted methods are the TEM-EDS (energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) and the conventional convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) methods. TEM observations and dynamical electron diffraction calculations were carried out. The results show that the CBED method is useful for ZnO and GaN, while the TEM-EDS method must be used for AlN and GaAs and can also be used for GaN and ZnO. It is clearly indicated that the TEM-EDS method is of use for the case where the difference in atomic scattering factor between the two constituent elements is small, while the CBED method is useful for the case where the difference is large.


Kawasaki disease is an acute systemic vasculitis, It represents the most prominent cause of acquired coronary artery disease in childhood, yet coronary aneurysms are not vasculitic we present a case of a with and


Rapid external changes demanded that the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia reformulate a strategic plan for its lecturer development that is appropriate and relevant to the current time and situation. This study aims to explore the steps taken by the university in identifying strategic issues as guidelines for the formulation of its lecturer development strategy. Using the qualitative case study approach, the data for the current study were collected via semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Six informants from the university's top management were purposively selected for the interviews. The interview data were then compared and analyzed with relevant document reviews to finally draw conclusions on the steps taken. The findings revealed that several strategic issues were considered to inform the steps taken in formulating a strategic plan to develop lecturer competency at the Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. The steps included revitalizing university management, improving university policy development, utilizing the paradigm of scientific development, and promoting local wisdom of Acehnese people.


PURPOSE
To determine whether type 1 diabetes preferentially affects the inner retinal layers by comparing the thickness of six retinal layers in type 1 diabetic patients who have no or minimal diabetic retinopathy (DR) with those of age- and sex-matched healthy controls.

METHODS
Fifty-seven patients with type 1 diabetes with no (n = 32) or minimal (n = 25) DR underwent full ophthalmic examination, stereoscopic fundus photography, and optical coherence tomography (OCT). After automated segmentation of intraretinal layers of the OCT images, mean thickness was calculated for six layers of the retina in the fovea, the pericentral area, and the peripheral area of the central macula and were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.

RESULTS
In patients with minimal DR, the mean ganglion cell/inner plexiform layer was 2.7 microm thinner (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.1-4.3 microm) and the mean inner nuclear layer was 1.1 microm thinner (95% CI, 0.1-2.1 microm) in the pericentral area of the central macula compared to those of age-matched controls. In the peripheral area, the mean ganglion cell/inner plexiform layer remained significantly thinner. No other layers showed a significant difference.

CONCLUSIONS
Thinning of the total retina in type 1 diabetic patients with minimal retinopathy compared with healthy controls is attributed to a selective thinning of inner retinal layers and supports the concept that early DR includes a neurodegenerative component.


The study aimed at identifying youth and sport forums from planning and leadership point of view and their relation with organizational culture. The researchers used the descriptive method on (140) worker in Baghdad youth and sport forums. A scale was designed for measuring planning and leadership in youth and sport forums as well as designing a scale for measuring organizational culture. After the application of the main experiment, the results showed that both youth and sport forum administration scale and organizational culture scale are appropriate to the study community. Finally the researchers recommended using these scales by workers in youth and sport forums and involving administration mangers in periodical training courses and keeping them updated with all modern administrative styles and organizational cultures.


ABSTRACT Lay knowledge concerning false confession risk factors appears to be insufficient to safeguard against wrongful convictions, and research on false confession expert testimony has not led to a clear understanding of its impact on juror decision making. Thus, the current study sought to clarify whether expert testimony can induce sensitivity to a wide variety of false confession risk factors. Furthermore, jurors bring a variety of predispositions into the courtroom that may shape the way they view evidence. Yet, little research has evaluated the impact of individual differences in cases involving confession evidence. The current study assessed 330 participants' self-reported likelihood of falsely confessing. These participants subsequently read an abbreviated criminal trial transcript where the defendant confessed to committing murder, but later recanted. We varied police use of four psychologically coercive interrogation techniques as well as the presence of expert testimony during the trial. Generally, participants were not sensitive to variations in the psychological coerciveness of the interrogation with or without an expert. However, self-reported likelihood of falsely confessing influenced perceptions of the detective and confession voluntariness, which in turn predicted verdict decisions. Increasing belief that one could falsely confess decreased the likelihood of conviction by decreasing perceptions of detective credibility and confession voluntariness. The results suggest the need to take into account individual differences of jurors who evaluate confession evidence. Current remedies may also need modification to assist jurors in deciphering confession evidence quality.


By many measures, communist moral education appeared to be a tragic failure. Drawing on that history, Mr. Glanzer warns American teachers to be cautious about promoting lists of virtues that serve a political agenda or are justified primarily on political grounds. BETRAYED. That's how Olga, an education official responsible for moral upbringing in the Soviet Ministry of Education, felt after the downfall of communism. Four years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, she told me in an interview: For many years I had been sure that I was doing exactly what was needed. And I was horrified when I saw all the ideals that I trusted and all the ideals that I was conveying to young kids breaking down. And I was honestly sure that our society was the very best and the most just and that there would be just, good people around me always. . . . I have lived in an ideal world. It's like an illusion. . . . Suddenly, everything was turned upside down. It was a shock, a personal tragedy for me, when all the ideals of my whole life were destroyed.1 Olga's feelings of betrayal are understandable. She had invested her life in building a well-developed system of character education. In fact, some have argued that character education received more attention in the former Soviet Union than in the United States. For example, Urie Bronfenbrenner came to this conclusion after a study in the 1970s comparing the U.S. and Soviet education systems: Probably the most important difference between Soviet and American schools is the emphasis placed in the former not only on subject matter, but equally on vospitanie, a term for which there is no exact equivalent in English; it might best be translated as "upbringing" or "character education." Vospitanie has as its stated aim the development of "Communist morality."2 Despite the Soviet emphasis on character education, when political enforcement was taken away, it appeared that communist vospitanie had little lasting influence. During the four years that communist moral education was disbanded (1988 to 1992), crimes committed by all juveniles increased by almost 50%.3 In the midst of this moral decline, Soviet historian and dissident Andrei Amalrik's earlier analysis sounded all the more relevant: It is difficult to understand whether a majority of our people have . . . any moral criteria - notions such as "honesty" and "dishonesty," "good" and "bad," "virtue" and "evil" . . . which become a restraining and guiding factor in periods when the mechanism of public coercion falls and each person is left to his own resources.4 Educators reported similar tales of discouragement. During this period, one Russian teacher asked children in her classes, "Do you want to become better than you are?" Amazingly, half of her students answered no. Their reasoning was, "I don't want to be better. I don't want to be conspicuous like a white crow, or they'll treat me meanly and hurt me."5 Responses such as these left the teacher who reported them asking, "This is what we have managed to create? A climate in society, in the home, and in the school where it is simply crazy to be better than you are?"6 By many measures, communist moral education appeared to be a tragic failure. What can be learned from the collapse of character education and moral behavior in the former Soviet Union? In this article I draw on interviews with more than 100 Russian and Ukrainian educators and officials from 15 different cities.7 I conducted these interviews as research for my dissertation on moral education in the former Soviet Union. Using the methods of qualitative research, I questioned educators to learn some lessons about what went wrong with communist moral education. Character Education Captive to Ideology Since communist ideology had controlled the content of Soviet character education, such virtues as forgiveness, compassion, and tolerance were not taught. …


It is shown that the apparently flattened celestial vault can be represented by a geocentric sphere at a height of 3000-4000 km above the surface of the earth. It is also argued that our eye estimates the distance to this 'sky sphere' by its apparent opacity which is a function of the air mass. A hypothesis regarding the physiology of distance vision is proposed.


Strategy,as a means of conversation discourse markers in language use in conversation, both sides will help better verbal communication.The teacher if fully utilized,both to convey the accurate meaning,they can mobilize the enthusiasm of students.This paper summarizes the teaching of discourse markers in several functions,;to provide a reference for the teaching activities.


New faculty members at faith-based institutions are likely to have expectations and experiences similar to their peers at secular institutions. However, faith-based institutions may be better positioned than their secular counterparts to meet the desires of new faculty for collegiality and community through a variety of shared rituals. These shared experiences, including formal and informal, religious, social, and professional events, are important occasions through which a sense of common purpose can be built, strengthened, and revitalized. Given that for many religious institutions the combination of small size and limited resources, particular religious tradition, and low selectivity may make attracting and retaining high quality candidates difficult, developing practices that promote collegial relationships and institutional solidarity can help to accomplish multiple institutional goals, including satisfaction and employment persistence. This article, based on a historical case study of Eastern Mennonite University (1965–2000), demonstrates the important though shifting role of faculty rituals. Here I illustrate ways that occasions of this sort, when thoughtfully used or encouraged, can build connections between colleagues and between faculty and the institution that meet faculty desires for community and result in work life satisfaction and persistence (though occasionally marginalization and exclusion as well).


The flow diverter device (FDD) is an important treatment method for cerebral aneurysms, especially for intracranial dissecting aneurysms. This paper is the result of FDD treatment for two cases of vertebral dissecting aneurysm (VADA) patients and short-term follow-up at 3 months. All two cases were targeted for unruptured cerebral aneurysm, and 4-vessel angiography was performed as a follow-up examination for 3 months after receiving the procedure. As result, it was possible to shorten the period of use of antiplatelet drugs. In the case of VADA, there are limitations in general coiling procedures or conventional surgical treatment methods. In that sense, the FDD treatment method can be a very effective alternative treatment of VADA


Abstract— Free choline and acetylcholine (ACh) in mouse or rat brain were assayed biologically. The subcellular distribution of ACh in brain slices that had been incubated in the presence of eserine was compared to that in control brain; during incubation, the ACh outside nerve endings increased four‐fold, the ACh released from synaptosomes by osmotic shock doubled but the ACh bound firmly within nerve endings did not increase. The two nerve ending stores of ACh were labelled to similar specific radioactivities when slices were incubated with [3H]choline, but the specific radioactivity of the ACh formed was much lower than that of the added choline. Tissue incubated in the presence of eserine released choline and ACh into the medium and the tissue levels of both substances increased. Brain tissue exposed to Na+‐free medium lost 84 per cent of its ACh and 66 per cent of its free choline; the amounts of both substances returned towards control values during subsequent incubation in a normal‐Na+ medium (choline‐free). Both the ACh outside nerve endings and the ACh associated with synaptosomes were depleted when tissue was incubated in Na+‐free medium.


An ultrashort (100 fs) Ti:Sapphire pulsed laser has been employed in order to produce nanostructures by pulsed ablation of a graphite target in water. Different (10−100−1000 Hz) repetition rates have been used, and the features of material produced have been investigated by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). SERS spectra show that a broad asymmetric band associated with diamond-like carbon (DLC) is observed when repetition rates of 10 or 100 Hz are used. On the contrary, ablated species produced with 1 kHz pulses present a narrow peak at 1333 cm−1, the typical mode of diamond, which is, however, embedded in a DLC band centered at 1540 cm−1. SEM images show the presence of dispersed octahedral-shaped structures having a size from 1 to 5 μm, in the case of 10 or 100 Hz repetition rates, and agglomerates of particles having a dimension below 300 nm, when 1 kHz pulses are used.


Two methods of self-capacitance determination for windings on high-permeability ferrite cores are described. The first one is connected with the measurements on three frequencies, the second - with the measurements on a single frequency with and without additional capacitance. The methods are free from error associated with frequency and amplitude dependencies of the complex magnetic permeability components of ferrites. The potentialities of these methods are shown by data obtained for measuring windings (single-layer windings on toroidal cores) which are broadly used in magnetic measurements. In such a complicated case when the components of complex magnetic permeability are strongly frequency dependent, the offered methods ensure the acceptable accuracy of measurements even for small self-capacitance (in order of 1 pF). C is the parasitic parameter of the windings (inductors). By increasing the frequency the influence of o C also increases and the problem of estimation of o C influence becomes actual. In this paper only measuring windings (MW) will be considered. MW is the single-layer winding which is winded on the toroidal core to measure its magnetic properties, for example, magnetic spectra (MS) - the frequency dependence of the components of complex magnetic permeability (CMP) 2 1 µ µ µ


The article is devoted to problems of legal regulation of duties of military men in the Russian Federation. The role of the constitutional duties of military men in their structure constitutionallylegal status is revealed. The maintenance of the general and special functions of the military men fixed in federal laws and under law standard legal certificates is analyzed.


Background: Om is having immense importance in Hindu tradition as well as in all yoga techniques. Every yoga technique begins with pronouncing the Om. The three letters A, U, and M combined together to form the word Om and it orderly represents the past, present, and future.

Aim and Objectives: The study aimed to provide further evidence for beneficial effects of Om chanting on stress and cognitive functions in young adults with type D personality.

Materials and Methods: A total of 30 young adults with type D personality will be included in the present study. Participants will be screened for type D personality using DS 14 questionnaire. Om chanting was performed once in a day at 8:00 am daily. Stress levels were assessed using perceived stress scale. Spatial and verbal memory was assessed using spatial and verbal memory test.

Results: There was significant improvement in the levels of cognitive functions that are spatial memory and verbal memory scores in the participants of intervention group when compared to control group. There was significant decline in the stress scores in the participants in the intervention group when compared with control group.

Conclusion: The study explains beneficial effects of Om chanting. More works have to be undertaken to recommend implementation of Om chanting in daily lifestyle.


The valorization of foreign vegetal species present in local environment is of special interest in the last years because there is an increased demand of natural ingredients obtained with environmentally-friendly technologies for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and biotechnological applications. The present work included the optimization of the conditions for the extraction and purification of bioactive products from three different types of vegetal biomass: the macroalga Sargassum muticum, the flower Acacia dealbata and the mushroom Hericium erinaceus. The phD student Maria Parada Casas developed experiments with leading-edge technologies in different biomass matrixes as biological extraction, like enzyme-assisted extraction, and physico-chemical extraction, like subcritical water extraction, supercritical CO2 extraction, microwave-assisted extraction and solvent fractionation. The purification of the fractions with resins allowed her to obtain potential high-added value products with concentrated active compounds. The promising activities of the products are based on the results from the in vitro analytical methods for antioxidant and antiradical capacities, and the in vitro cell culture biological methods she developed during a short term period research in a foreign university in O Porto, Portugal.


Symmetric shared disks file systems are functional, versatile, and just plain cool. For these file systems to work, they require a global lock space, acessable to all clients. This paper describes a proposal for the implementation of the SCSI device lock command which provides a global lock space on storage devices. This paper details how Dlocks behave. This paper is a condensed overview of the 0.9.5 version of the proposed SCSI device locks specification. The full paper includes a thorough description of Dlock implementation, optional features of Dlocks, and a discussion of how Dlocks are used by the Global File System. For a postscript version of the full 0.9.5 Dlock specification, please visit our web site http://www.globalfilesystem.org . This paper is an evolution of the 0.9.4 Specification of SCSI Device Locks, which can also be found at the GFS web site. 1 Dlock Concepts 1.1 Expiration In a shared disk environment, a failed client may not be allowed to indefinitely hold whatever locks it held when it failed. Therefore, each holder must continually update a timer on the disc. If this timer expires, other lock holders may begin error recovery functions to eventually free the lock. Expiration is alternately refered to as 'timing-out', and the act of updating the timer is often refered to as 'heartbeating'. 1.2 Client IDs The Client ID is a unique identifier for each client. The client id is completely opaque to the Dlock device. In GFS the client ID is used both as an identifier and to store the IP address of the client, allowing inter-machine communication. The Client ID can be any arbitrary 32-bit number that uniquely identifies a machine. 1.3 Version Numbers Associated with every lock is a version number. Whenever the data associated with a lock is changed, the version number is incremented. Clients may use cached data instead of re-reading from the disk as long as the version number on the dlock is unchanged since the data was read. This is reported by the lock device, so that the clients know not to use cached data. 1.4 Conversion Locks The conversion lock is a simplesingle stage queue used to prevent writer starvation. There is an awkward case where one client is trying to acquire an exclusive lock and can't because other clients are constantly acquiring and dropping the lock shared. If there is never a gap where no client is holding the lock shared, the


In 1991, Malaysia's then Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamed, declared that the country should aim to be "fully-developed" and "industrialized" by 2020. To attain this goal, Malaysia would have to grow at an annual average of 7 per cent (in real terms) for thirty years. Prosperity and economic inclusiveness were overarching objectives, and education levels as well as scientific and technological progress were means to these ends. Twenty-six years on — and a mere three years away from the target date — Malaysia's economy has undergone profound transformation, incomes have risen, and extreme poverty has been virtually eliminated. However, the prospect of high-income status is — for now — just beyond reach. The country's economy has grown at a slower pace in recent years, averaging 4.5 to 5.0 per cent annually. While this is respectably above the global average of 2.5 per cent, it is about half the level achieved by the country before the Asian Financial Crisis. This is also below the target rate needed for sustained progress towards higher income status. Furthermore, in an era of metrics and rankings, the ringgit's sharp devaluation in 2015 saw Malaysia's per capita income in U.S. dollar terms actually decrease — a first since 1997. Apart from a temporary growth slowdown, Malaysia's economy has also undergone an unusual structural change. The share of manufacturing sector in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) has declined from 30.9 per cent in 1999 to 20.1 per cent in 2016. While it is common to observe deindustrialization among high-income economies, Malaysia is experiencing it at a lower income level than most economies. In addition, high-income countries attained this status by exporting an increasingly diverse and sophisticated "basket" of goods and services based on more efficient methods of production. However, in Malaysia's case, much of its manufacturing sector is dependent on imports for assembly, as well as labour-intensive processes. Multinational corporations are at the heart of production, with limited linkages to local firms that, in turn, have little technological depth. This raises the question of Malaysia's economy being stuck in a middle-income trap. Has the country sustainably made the transition from labourand capital-intensive growth to productivityand technology-driven growth? Beyond specific income thresholds, the discussion around the trap is — at a deeper level — about


We present a real-world application utilizing a Genetic Algorithm (GA) for exploratory multivariate association analysis of a large consumer survey designed to assess potential consumer adoption of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs). The GA utilizes an intersection/union crossover operator, in conjunction with high background mutation rates, to achieve rapid multivariate feature selection. We experimented with two alternative fitness measures based on classification results of a naïve Bayes quadratic discriminant analysis; one fitness function rewarded only for correct classifications, and the other penalized for the degree of misclassification using a quadratic penalty function. We achieved high classification accuracy for three different survey outcome questions (with 3-, 5-, and 7- outcome classes, respectively). The quadratic penalty function yielded better overall results, returning smaller feature sets and overall more accurate contingency tables of predicted classes. Our results help to identify what consumer attributes best predict their likelihood of purchasing a PHEV. These findings will be used to better inform an existing agent-based model of PHEV market penetration, with the ultimate aim of helping auto manufacturers and policy makers identify leverage points in the system that will encourage PHEV market adoption.


The authors determined the bactericidal power of blood in relation to str. viridans and Ebert's bacile after intravenous administration of 10 cubic meters. cm, 33% alcohol solution in 45% dextrose solution.


In this paper, we examine the role of diversity in design team performance, and discuss how diversity factors affect the dynamicsand success of a design team. In particular, we focus on diversity in learning styles, as defined by Kolb's Experiential LearningTheory. We also consider other demographic factors, such as discipline and gender. We present data gathered over two semestersof a multidisciplinary, project-based graduate level design course offered at the University of California at Berkeley. The data werecaptured through a series of surveys administered during the semester, first to collect diversity information on learning styles andstandard demographics, and then to assess team performance as students reflected on their team interactions. We examine andcompare the overall learning style breakdown of students in the class, along with an analysis of the teams. The results of ouranalyses offer insights into how students with different learning styles appear to contribute to design team performance. Weprovide recommendations that will help inform design educators on how to enhance overall team performance and innovation,with an understanding of learning style differences.


Abstract : A procedure is fully described for isolation and deacylation of phospholipids from serum or tissue. Control experiments are described that ensure maximum yield with minimum degradation. A completely automated system is described for column chromatographic resolution and quantitative analysis of the fractions of a complex mixture of deacylated phospholipids. Control experiments are described that ensure maximum efficiency of chromatographic separation of and maximum sensitivity of analysis of the fractions. Elution profiles for human serum and red cells and for rat liver deacylated phospholipids are shown. All of the seven fractions are identified.


Globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus L. var. scolymus (L.) Fiori) is an edible herbaceous perennial plant that plays an important economic role in Mediterranean agriculture. In recent years, extensive research, which aimed to characterize the phenolic profile of the most important globe artichoke cultivars in Italy, has been conducted. However, very little information is available on the phenolic composition of cultivars traditionally grown in Spain. In this work, six cultivars ('Opal', 'Symphony', 'Concerto', 'Madrigal', 'Blanca de Tudela' and 'A-106') cultured in Spain were characterized according to their phenolic content. The phenolic profile differed between cultivars, and also between flower parts. The major phenolic compound in all the different cultivars was chlorogenic acid. Of the six studied cultivars, 'Madrigal' had the highest phenolic content.


This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of the mullet fish's Festival and its traditional fishing for the invention and development of the concept of Azorean culture. Through the concepts of tradition and customs we saw that the Azorean tradition of the Santa Catarina's coast was built with a discourse coming from the mid-twentieth century, in order to "rescue" the coast population from the secondary position they occupied in relation to residents of the Itajai Valley, of German descent – who were seen as dynamic and successful workers.


In this publication a logger is introduced that is small and lightweight enough to be carried by bats. It tracks the GSM downlink spectrum, enabling coarse localization. The logger contains a Sub-GHz transceiver, a microcontroller and a DC/DC converter assembled on a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) that is directly mounted on a lithium coin cell battery. The total weight is approximately 2.1 g and the size is comparable to two stacked 1 Euro Cent coins after coating the logger with epoxy resin. A flexible nickel titanium wire antenna is used for receiving GSM signals and for transmitting in the European 868 MHz short-range devices (SRD) band. In a short-term field test the functionality was proven.


This study aimed to understand the factors that affect attitude toward credit card by bangkokian and also find the difference between generation X and Y in attitude toward credit card. The questionaire was conducted and collected 410 respondents by convenience, quota and snow-ball sampling method. The methods used to analyze the data are linear regression and independent sample t-test. The result shows free spending has the strongest effect to attitude toward credit card and there is significant difference between Gen-X and Y in attitude toward credit card.


Method for the analysis of intracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP), adenosine diphosphate (ADP), and adenosine monophosphate (AMP) in Mycobacterium smegmatis that involves rapid extraction procedure based on sonication of cells in perchloric acid, as well as separation of nucleotides by ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and ultraviolet (UV) detection at 254 nm, is developed. The analytes were separated with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile and 50 mM monobasic potassium phosphate (pH 4.6) with 25 mM tetrabutylammonium hydrogensulfate in a ratio of 0.5:99.5% within 30 min. The calibration curves were linear in the range of 20–1000 pmol of ATP and 10–1000 pmol of ADP and AMP with correlation coefficient (r2) of ≥0.9998. The proposed method is applicable for mycobacterium cultures taken over a wide range of optical density and physiological states. Concentrations of ATP, ADP, and AMP in mycobacterial extracts varied from 2.61 ± 0.27 to 9.60 ± 0.19 nmol/mg dry weight, from...


Within the understanding of psychotransgressionism, personality is a network of five equipollent psychons: cognitive, instrumental, motivational, emotional and personal. The strength of the individual psychons lies at the basis of the tendency to undertake transgressive actions of a pro-development nature. In the presented research, we focused on the affective sphere of spouses as a manifestation of the functioning of one of the psychons – emotional. The analysis of the results obtained confirmed the assumed hypothesis. Spouses with a higher level of transgression were characterized by a greater positive affective shift than spouses with a lower level of transgression. The emotional climate brought into mutual relations by spouses with a higher level of transgression may foster building satisfying and stable marital relationships.


Ammonia is one type of air pollution has a negative impact on animal and human health. Furthermore, ammonia is also inflicted
a financial loss to farmers cause decreased livestock production. Several approaches have been suggested for reducing
ammonia from animal manure like reducing formed and volatile ammonia. Ammonia is a product of hydrolysis urea by bacteria
urease. Ammonia production can be reduced by inhibiting activity bacterial urease to forming ammonia with bioactive
compounds in bael (Aegle marmelos). This paper provides a review about the potency of marmelosin bioactive compounds to
reducing ammonia and method selection for extraction and measurement of standardization marmelosin bioactive compounds
in bael (Aegle marmelos).


Plants compete with each other over finite resources like water and nutrients but also for sunlight when they grow in each other's shadow. Light filtered through leaves is rich in far-red light and initiates responses, known as shade avoidance syndrome (SAS), that aim to out-compete neighbors by


BACKGROUND
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of our hospital has a 30% survival rate among babies born premature weighing <1,000g. This hospital serves about 10 million people; there was no retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening program in place in Nigeria.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Babies born premature were recruited based on preset criteria: ≤ 35 weeks Gestation Age and birth weight ≤ 1.9 kg. The first retina examination was done at 3-4 weeks post-delivery and were documented on a proforma and analyzed with SPSS 15 Statistical Package.

RESULTS
58 eyes of 29 babies were examined. The birth weight range was 950-1900g, 17(58.6%) babies were ≤ 1500g, and 12 (41.4%) 1500-1900g. The Gestation age range was 27-35 weeks with a mean of 30. Avascularity in retina zones 2&3 was found in 52(89.6%) eyes mostly among babies <32 weeks gestation age and <1500g. Risk factors associated with retinal avascularity are highlighted. The challenges were with co-ordination of follow-up visits and accessibility to treatment such as laser and newer treatment methods.

CONCLUSION
A cost effect screening criteria for ROP in Nigeria is suggested to include birth weight ≤ 1500g and gestational age ≤ 32 weeks. Dedicated staff & resources for treatment and imaging are needed for a successful program. An opportunity exists to study the effect of genetics on the development and severity of ROP among native African babies.


Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) is a further expansion of the classical job shop scheduling problem (JSSP). FJSSP is known to be NP-hard with regards to optimization and hence poses a challenge in finding acceptable solutions. Genetic algorithm (GA) has successfully been applied in this regard since last two decades. This paper provides an insight into the actual complexity of selected benchmark problems through quantitative evaluation of the search space owing to their NP-hard nature. A four-layered genetic algorithm is then proposed and implemented with adaptive parameters of population initialization and operator probabilities to manage intensification and diversification intelligently. The concept of reinitialization is introduced whenever the algorithm is trapped in local minima till predefined number of generations. Results are then compared with various other standalone evolutionary algorithms for selected benchmark problems. It is found that the proposed GA finds better solutions with this technique as compared to solutions produced without this technique. Moreover, the technique helps to overcome the local minima trap. Further comparison and analysis indicate that the proposed algorithm produces comparative and improved solutions with respect to other analogous methodologies owing to the diversification technique.


The increasing amount of legal information available online is overwhelming for both citizens and legal professionals, making it difficult and time-consuming to find relevant information and keep up with the latest legal developments. Automatic text summarization techniques can be highly beneficial as they save time, reduce costs, and lessen the cognitive load of legal professionals. However, applying these techniques to legal documents poses several challenges due to the complexity of legal documents and the lack of needed resources, especially in linguistically under-resourced languages, such as the Greek language. In this paper, we address automatic summarization of Greek legal documents. A major challenge in this area is the lack of suitable datasets in the Greek language. In response, we developed a new metadata-rich dataset consisting of selected judgments from the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece, alongside their reference summaries and category tags, tailored for the purpose of automated legal document summarization. We also adopted several state-of-the-art methods for abstractive and extractive summarization and conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the methods using both human and automatic metrics. Our results: (i) revealed that, while extractive methods exhibit average performance, abstractive methods generate moderately fluent and coherent text, but they tend to receive low scores in relevance and consistency metrics; (ii) indicated the need for metrics that capture better a legal document summary's coherence, relevance, and consistency; (iii) demonstrated that fine-tuning BERT models on a specific upstream task can significantly improve the model's performance.


Speech enhancement models have greatly progressed in recent years, but still show limits in perceptual quality of their speech outputs. We propose an objective for perceptual quality based on temporal acoustic parameters. These are fundamental speech features that play an essential role in various applications, including speaker recognition and paralinguistic analysis. We provide a differentiable estimator for four categories of low-level acoustic descriptors involving: frequency-related parameters, energy or amplitude-related parameters, spectral balance parameters, and temporal features. Un-like prior work that looks at aggregated acoustic parameters or a few categories of acoustic parameters, our temporal acoustic parameter (TAP) loss enables auxiliary optimization and improvement of many fine-grained speech characteristics in enhancement workflows. We show that adding TAPLoss as an auxiliary objective in speech enhancement produces speech with improved perceptual quality and intelligibility. We use data from the Deep Noise Suppression 2020 Challenge to demonstrate that both time-domain models and time-frequency domain models can benefit from our method.


The invention relates to a sharps container for medical use. The sharps container comprises a container cover, a container body, a rotating door and a wall hanging frame, wherein the container body is covered by the container box; an opening is formed in the container cover; the rotating door is arranged in the opening; the opening is semi-sealed by the rotating door; L-shaped shaft bodies are arranged on the rotating door; the wall hanging frame comprises a rear wall, a left sidewall, a right sidewall and a support bottom plate, and is provided with a first clamping part; the container body is provided with a clamping groove; the first clamping part is clamped with the clamping groove, so that the container box is detachably and fixedly connected with the wall hanging frame. The sharps container for medical use can be hung on a wall, so that the condition that the sharps container for medical use is incautiously kicked over to expose medical waste is avoided, and the spreading of bacteria is effectively prevented; the L-shaped shaft bodies are arranged on the two sides of the rotating door, so that cross infection can be effectively prevented.


Currently, the process of recording drug sales and purchase transactions at the Marlasria Pharmacy is still manual, namely using a ledger and is not very well organized. So that this is very ineffective and efficient and can cause errors when inputting data, recording sales, recording purchases and in finding information on medicines, employees often experience difficulties. Therefore, this is done to design a web information system using the waterfall method and use a sequential search algorithm to classify drug names, categories, expiration dates, selling prices or drug units and a selection sort algorithm to sort data from ascending or descending order of goods data. medication or expiration date. With the information system that has been designed, it turns out that it makes it easier for Marlasria Pharmacies to find drug data information, when inputting transaction data and can make it easier to check drugs that need to be re-stocked so that there are no errors in the process of purchasing goods or their expiration periods.


This report describes the analytical solution for a problem of constructing quasi-optimal programmed control for spatial motion of a spacecraft of an arbitrary dynamic configuration in the inertial coordinate frame using dual Euler (Rodrigues–Hamilton) parameters and Clifford's biquaternions (dual quaternions). A new model of spatial motion of a spacecraft is used to solve the problem. This new model includes differential equations for dual Euler parameters and dual velocities of a spacecraft, and dynamic algebraic relations for vectors of control force and control moment. Boundary conditions for angular and linear positions of a spacecraft in the inertial space and for its angular and linear velocities are arbitrary. Dual auxiliary controls are non-limited. Control time is fixed. Dual integral quadratic quality functional is minimized with respect to correlated control of angular (rotational) and translational (orbital) motion of a spacecraft. The solution is derived in the class of generalized dual coning motions using the method of solving inverse dynamic problems and the principle of maximum.


GLOBAL STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT 2009 One of the key challenges that strategists face is balancing the tension between the constantly changing character of war and its underlying, unchanging nature. During the early 1990s, technological enthusiasts suggested that information technology would eliminate the Clausewitzean fog and friction of war. Today, even its most stubborn proponents now admit that advanced technology cannot do so. It is equally important for traditionalists to admit that, although the underlying nature of war as described by Clausewitz has not changed, the character of warfare has and will continue to change along with society as a whole. This chapter addresses the changing character of modern warfare with an eye to both truths. Chapter 7 The Changing Character of War


(A) A semiconductor memory cell capacitor has a cylindrical storage electrode with three or more layers. (B) Prodn. of a semiconductor memory cell capacitor involves (a) producing first, second and third interlayers successively on a conductive substrate and then producing a capacitor contact hole; (b) depositing a first conductive layer on the entire surface ad a fourth interlayer (25) on the first conductive layer; (c) depositing and structuring a second conductive layer (26) to produce a protruding section (27); (d) forming a multilayer stack for alternate third conductive layers (28) and fifth interlayers (29) on the protruding section (27); (e) back-etching the third conductive layers and fifth interlayers to leave multilayer ribs (33) around the second conductive layer (26); (f) etching the fourth interlayer (25) using the ribs (33) as mask; (g) depositing a fourth conductible layer; (h) back-etching the fourth, third, second and first conductive layers; (i) etching the fourth and third interlayers by wet etching to form a first storage electrode; and (j) producing a dielectric layer on the first storage electrode and a capacitor electrode plate on the dielectric layer. The capacitor has increased capacitance.


In this paper, a finite-control-set-based model- predictive-flux-control (FCS-MPFC) strategy with iterative learning control (ILC) is proposed and implemented for a three-phase flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machine with the aim at torque ripple minimization. The transformation process of the stator flux reference is simplified by only using the references of stator flux amplitude and torque angle. Moreover, to alleviate the impact of cogging torque, a P-type ILC method is adopted. The simulation results reveal that the proposed FCS-MPFC combining ILC strategy can suppress the torque ripple significantly and offer good dynamic performance. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is validated by experimental results on prototyped FSPM machine.


In this work the Coulson-Longuet-Higgins response function (atom-atomic polarizabilities) is employed to describe the transfer of an electron perturbation in π -conjugated systems in the presence of a static electric field. Computations are performed using different many-electron approaches to study the effect. An accurate account of the electron correlation is shown to plays a key role in the description of the interaction of a π -shell with the external electrostatic field. The study reveals that the Hückel theory widely used in calculations of electron-perturbation transfer is not reliable even at the qualitative level to describe the effects studies in this work. However, the π -electron coupled cluster theory is proven capable of providing reliable electronic-structure (among them atom-atom polarizabilities and excitation energies) that agree with the results obtained with the π -electron full configuration-interaction approach. The calculations also show that these properties have a essentially non-linear character in terms of the strength of the applied electric field. The results obtained in the present work can provide useful information relevant to the application of π -conjugated systems in molecular electronics. The study presents an application of the Coulson-Longuet-Higgins response function to describe a transfer of electron perturbation in the presence of electric field through π conjugated systems using different many-electron approaches. An accurate account of the electron correlation is shown to play a key role in the description of the interaction between the π -shell and the field. The Hückel theory widely used in calculations of the transfer of an electron-perturbation is found to be qualitatively unreliable.


Abstrak: this research aims to analyze the effect of service quality and pricing strategy on satisfaction, and its impact on loyalty of Umrah Sawitha Group is customers. Data are analyzed descriptively and inferentialy by using PLS, wich is smart PLS version 1.10. Data are obtained by survey on members of Umrah Sawitha Group who were departed in 2011 and 2012, for to 189 respondents the analysis result proves that service quality has positive and significant effect on group members' satisfaction. Pricing strategy has positive and significant effect on satisfaction and loyality. Nevertheless, satisfaction does not home any positive influence on members' loyalty. Keywords: quality of service, pricing strategies, satisfaction of pilgrims, worshipers loyalty


Pulmonary function testing helps in the evaluation of respiratory disorders in children. Although it does not provide a specific diagnosis or etiology, it can identify abnormalities in lung volumes, airflow, diffusion, respiratory endurance, and respiratory muscle strength. Pulmonary exercise testing can help differentiate pulmonary from cardiac disease with exercise, detect the presence of ventilatory and/or cardiac limitation with exercise, and measure the degree of physical fitness. These studies have a role in the research of lung disorders in children because changes in lung function with age and alterations in lung growth secondary to acute and chronic disease can be identified.


The application of Organic Computing techniques, which often involves nature-inspired algorithms, to safety-critical systems depends mainly on whether behavioral guarantees can be provided or not. Self-x algorithms sometimes return incorrect results. For example, if learning or similar methods are involved. To allow the use of such algorithms even if they sometimes return incorrect results, adequate techniques are needed. Verified result checking which is presented in this paper provides an approach to ensure during runtime that only valid results are applied to the system, despite the uncertainty provided by the use of self-x algorithms. It allows to give formal proofs and thereby to give guarantees about the system's behavior. This approach enables verification at design time, independently of the self-x algorithms used at runtime. In this paper an architecture for Organic Computing systems which accommodates these concepts is presented. First the components of the architecture and integration of a result checker are described. The systematic development of a result checker based on a system model is shown for the application domain of self-organizing resource-flow systems. Further its formal verification and an implementation are roughly sketched.


We review topical results on diffractive processes from the experiments H1 and ZEUS at the HERA electron-proton collider. Emphasis is placed on the phenomenological and experimental consequences of the discoveries at HERA for the proposed electron/polarized-ion collider EPIC.


The regulation of interfaced converters with the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power grid with penetration effect is the subject of this article. Various amounts of RES penetration into the grid are used to present a suitable outcome of this investigation. The simulation findings for grid integration with varying levels of PV penetration are presented. A maximum PV penetration of 50% of peak demand is modelled, with a minimum of 10%. This project examines a variety of faults, including symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults. Two controllers are employed in the control process, one for boost converter with maximum power point tracking and the other for VSC controller. The VSC controller regulates the DC voltage. Inner and outer loops exist in the VSC controller. The current is controlled by the inner loop, while the DC voltage is controlled by the outside loop. With these future scenarios in mind, this paper presents existing solutions as well as new and future options to solve these concerns.


In this study, we applied a novel method by using correlation coefficient filter for dimensionality reduction followed by fuzzy rough quick reduct algorithm for feature selection. The classification performance was evaluated using the gene subsets obtained from correlation based filter and our proposed method. Later we compared the results with other traditional classifier techniques. After suitable experimental analysis, it has been found that our proposed method has a two-fold advantage namely selection of much lesser number of genes compared to correlation coefficient and improved classifier accuracy in majority of the cases. This approach also reduces the number of misclassifications that might occur in other approaches.


Communism and nationalism, probably the two principal political ideologies of the twentieth century, are the subject of Emmanuel Sivan's book on French Algeria, which covers the period from the origins of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1920, through the creation of the Algerian Communist Party (PCA) in 1936, to Algerian independence in 1962. To the specialist on modern Algeria or French communism, the book should prove most useful: it fills an important gap in our information by providing a readable, detailed account of the attempts of communism in Algeria to come to terms with North African nationalism.


IN a democracy every man is his own economist! His wisdom or folly about matters economic depends to a large extent on his day-to-day experience with the world in which he lives rather than upon any economic theory about that world. Indeed, it is probably true to say that the average citizen is far more likely to live his way into his thinking than to think his way into his living. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he," but what he thinks is likely to be profoundly influenced by the nature of his living. For as the hand is subdued to the die with which it works so the mind is influenced by the area in which it operates. A design for living, in a word, has not become the universal possession of the American citizen. Furthermore, because every man in a democratic society has a different experience with the world, he tends to develop different and frequently partial views of economic realities. Because of the bewildering complexity of our modem society the task of developing economic competence has become increasingly difficult for the layman if not for the expert. Moreover, the development of a sound working knowledge of economic realities requires a large measure of common sense, and there is nothing which seems so uncommon at times as that kind of sense.


In the history of Chinese and European painting, landscape painting in the Northern Song Dynasty and Dutch landscape painting in the 17th century have achieved important artistic achievements. Generally speaking, the meaning of comparison is to compare the commonality, difference and mutual influence of paintings produced in different contexts. The purpose of studying and comparing the differences between the two is to take the painting forms of different countries and nations as reference, so as to have a thorough understanding of the forms and styles of the two arts in different times, different regions and different cultural backgrounds.


One certain way to insure the coherence of a collection of essays is for all of them to be authored (or co-authored) by the same sensitive scholar who seeks to trace his intellectual development across the crucial years from the end of the Cold War to the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Such is the case with the book under review. Bob Keohane has been a major, perhaps even the leading, figure in the field of international relations (IR) for several decades. His work has ranged widely—from interdependence to institutionalism, from liberalism to rational choice, from political economy to foreign policy, from sovereignty to legalisation, among other foci—and many of his students have gone on to make major contributions as well. So a collection in one volume of his more recent writings is welcome and worthy of careful reflection. The book consists of 12 chapters, five of which were co-authored and the middle 10 of which were published prior to the book's publication. The first chapter is a highly introspective assessment of those that follow, while the last chapter was scheduled for publication the same year as the book. In many ways these two chapters are the most interesting, not only because the others are familiar to anyone who has followed Keohane's writings, but even more because of what they have to say about him and the evolution of his understanding of 'how the world works' (p. 1). More specifically, they are interesting because the way Keohane conceives the world to work in 2002 is not the way he understood it during the prior 12 years, with the result that he has to strain to discern continuities between his earlier formulations and his acknowledgement that 9/11 had 'incalculable consequences for domestic politics and world affairs' (p. 272). He argues that while the theories of IR analysts 'provide important components of an adequate post-September 11 conceptualization of world politics ... we need to alter some of our assumptions in order to rearrange these components into a viable theoretical framework' (p. 273). In the end, Keohane's straining pays off. More accurately, having stressed in earlier chapters the importance of institutions, sovereignty, states, and rational calculations as the basis for actions that do and do not unfold in world affairs, he posits 9/11 as 'posing a fruitful test for institutionalist theory' (p. 278) by highlighting the need to rearrange the components of our theoretical perspectives in such a way as to analyse the security needs of people and societies in the context of the increasing obsolescence of geographic space, by recognising more fully the importance of domestic politics to world politics, by avoiding the inadequacy of narrow definitions of economic integration, by emphasising the


This article discusses the risk of depression and suicide in men, focusing on increased risk in men with genitourinary cancer and other urologic conditions.


Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication resulting from diabetes due to changes in the retinal blood vessels. The person may lose eyesight because of damaged blood vessels. Although diabetes cannot be cured, but diabetic retinopathy can be treated successfully with laser surgery. So far, there has been a lot of research for diabetes diagnosis and classification of eye images by machine-learning algorithm and neural network, but these algorithms are good for a few images and features are extracted from pictures by manual or semi-automatic methods. With the emergence of deep learning leading to very good results in various areas of computer vision, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was used by researchers as one of the most active algorithms in this area. One of the areas where this type of network has achieved very good results is the classification of the images. In this article, one of the available architectures of the deep convolutional neural network called ResNet is reviewed and will be used for classification of eye fundus Images into two groups of normal and diabetic images. This architecture has been used on the collection of eye fundus images available on the Kaggel website and simulation result has achieved 85% accuracy and 86% sensitivity. Classification of diabetic and normal fundus images using new deep learning method Mehdi Torabian Esfahani, Mahsa Ghaderi, Raheleh Kafiyeh 234


Stage structure of science technology resources allocation is an important part in science technology resources allocation. The relationships between stage structure of science technology resources allocation and the output of innovation activities, adjustment of stage structure of science technology resources allocation from the view of innovation activities are discussed. A numeric matrix of adjustment to stage structure of science technology resources allocation is presented.Individual innovation activity cannot obtain the maxima of technology benefit and economic benefit simultaneouly.Comprehensive output benfit can be best achieved by means of making macro adjustment in stage structre of science technology resources allocation,i.e.making adjustuent in research input of technology resources at different stages.


Synopsis The paper deals with equivalent norms and Schauder bases in anisotropic Besov spaces where 1≦p <∞, = (s1,…, sn), and 0 < sk <1.


The article describes the experience of the Elabuga Institute of the Kazan Federal University, one of the oldest Tatarstan higher educational institutions, in training teachers of physics, mathematics, computer science, and bachelors in energy & power engineering at the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty. The specific character of activity of teachers who participate in training programs is described, those teachers who will have to work at technical colleges, vocational schools, at enterprises of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, and research, development, and production and educational clusters. The research methodology addresses the system approach, the universal connection of phenomena and processes of reality, and the education development sphere in the Russian Federation that is presented in the activity of the KFU and its structural units. The following research methods are selected: generalization of best practices, observation of students' activity, analysis of scientific publications, learning and teaching publications, periodicals, Internet resources, the plans of study, working programs, organization of experiments and laboratory sessions, implementation of research projects in energy & power engineering, as well as implementation of innovative and digital technologies and teaching techniques.


AbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate some factors that control the drug release from non disintegrating cylindrical slow release tablets using sodium salicylate as a model drug. The in vitro release of sodium salicylate was described adequately by a previously published cubic equation. It was found that the release of the drug from a nondisintegrating tablet is controlled by the factors such as porosity (e) of the tablet and the mass of drug present (A) per unit tablet volume. On the other hand, pH of the dissolution fluid had no influence on the release of sodium salicylate.