This article directed to study mother imagination through poem that produced by Indonesian poets on their wandering to "culture migration" cities. The cause is the rise of nationalism and modernism ideas that established new belief that human as "center of creativity". Mother image is son perspective to his mother and this perspective poet is that write mother on his poem. Poem about mother taken from 1930 to 1998 that used as interpretation object to reveal poet's sub-consciousness realm to obtain knowledge about son image to his mother on Indonesian poem history and this nation history (colonialism, independence, economic-politic turbulence, till reformation). Through poem, researcher also analyze if there is a gender bias on this mother image


The Histologic studies on the spleen was carried out with Chloroquine, Fansidar, Cotecxin and Amalar to observe any pathologic effect(s) on the tissue on comparative basis. The study revealed some degenerated white pulps and wider interstitial spaces with chloroquine drug not observed in control samples. Also animals with fansidar administration showed clumping of periateriolar lymphoid cells in the white pulp not shown in the control group without any drug. In the Amalar group the spleen showed sinuisoidal dilation in the red pulp with macrophages scattered around it but not in the form of activation. For cotecxin drug there was the degeneration of periarteriolar lymphoid sheaths with residue of the infiltrated cells in the arterioles. It is concluded that chloroquine, fansidar, cotecxin may induce jaundice and splenic disorders. Keywords: splenomegaly, splenic rupture, anti-malaria drugs.


Dithiocarbamates have been extensively studied and reported as complexing reagents for a large number of metal ions for the solvent extraction, spectrophotometric and high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) determination of metal ions. They form coordinatively saturated, neutral metal chelates, which are easily extractable in organic solvents. They also provide adequate shielding to the metal ions to enable them to eluate from a GC column. The GC of metal chelates of diethyl dithiocarbamate, di(trifluoroethyl)dithiocarbamate and pentamethylenedithiocarbamate from packed and capillary columns have been reported. Pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate (PDTC) has advantages as an analytical reagent for metal analyses because of its complexation in acidic media. A number of studies have been made for HPLC determination of metal ions using PDTC, but the GC is characterized by increased resolving power with respect to HPLC and GC involves less running cost than HPLC. The conversion of the analyte selectively to volatile product, could possibly remove a number of matrix effects. The present work focuses to extend the range of complexing reagents for GC separation and analysis of metal ions. Pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate (PDTC) chelates of Cu(II), Ni(II), Fe(III), Mn(II), were extracted in MIBK and subjected to capillary gas chromatography. The research work was carried out on the capillary column; DB-1701 column (30 m x 0.25 mm, id, film thickness 0.25 mm) installed in Network GC 6890 (Agilent Technologies, USA) coupled with FID detection system. The metal chelates were subjected to capillary GC for the determination of Cu(II), Ni(II) and Fe(III) from Pakistani currency 5 rupee coin and municipal waste water sample of Hyderabad (Sindh). The results were compared by AAS.


!e concept of phylo-evo-devo highlights the bene"ts of reciprocal illumination between studies of phylogeny and of developmental biology when studying character evolution. Here we consider the case of the evolution of a segmented body plan within the major animal clade of Ecdysozoa. Speci"cally, we consider developmental studies supporting the homology of segmentation between Arthropoda, Onychophora and Tardigrada. In parallel, we examine inconclusive results regarding the possible phylogenetic a#liations of the tardigrades. If tardigrade arthropod and onychophoran segmentation is indeed homologous, molecular phylogenies supporting a sister group relationship between tardigrades and nematodes imply a loss of segmentation in the la$er. To progress, we need both fully resolved phylogenies, and more developmental studies of 'lesser' groups including tardigrades and even more obscure, segmented ecdysozoan clades such as the Kinorhyncha (mud dragons).


Objective: To investigate whether hepatocyte apoptosis participates in the warm ischemia reperfusion injury of liver transplantation. Methods: Rat liver transplantation was performed in 3 groups of animals of 20 pairs in each (HB, NHBD-30 and NHBD-60) according to the duration of cardiac arrest of 0, 30 or 60 minutes before the donor liver was harvested. Recipients were sacrificed for sample collection 1,3, 6 and 24 hours after operation. Graft specimens were studied by HE staining, TUNEL method and transmission electronic microscopy. Blood samples were collected for the measurement of TNF-α. Results: No hepatocyte apoptosis was observed in Group HB. Early after the transplantation, individual hepatocyte apoptosis was demonstrated in Group NHBD-30 and massive apoptosis in Group NHBD-60. While in the later stages after transplantation, focal and massive hepatocyte necrosis were found in both Groups NHBD-30 and NHBD-60. The serum TNF-α level was elevated parallel to the warm ischemia time experienced by the donor liver. Conclusions: Hepatocyte apoptosis takes part in the warm ischemia reperfusion injury of the transplanted liver. Apoptosis might be the cause of liver necrosis, and the expression of TNF-α is closely related to hepatocyte apoptosis.


The massive growth of IoT and the rise of inventions in this field have led people to depend heavily on those technologies. This change has directed users to place their data, whether it is confidential or not, in specific storage known as the cloud. Cloud Computing enables users to save their data in the cloud. When IoT devices started generating large amounts of data, known as Big Data, the cloud couldn't handle them due to its limited bandwidth and resources, so storing the data was moved to the endpoints of the network replacing cloud computing with edge computing. Edge computing allows users to store the data at the edge of the network. This is a promising technology now as it provides the best features of real-time and parallel processing and content perception. However, just like cloud computing the security of edge computing has risen a lot of concerns. Cloud security and Edge security have the most crucial concepts that gather data to process. Several security frameworks for cloud and edge computing have been discussed and invented. In our paper, we discuss the different challenges and solutions to said frameworks. We also compare the old and new frameworks of security according to their security encryption methods, confidentiality handling of data, and splitting of data through the packets.


The objects of this study is large water-hydrogen-hydrogen cooled 4-pole turbo-generator,according to the principle of CFD,the 1 /48 three-dimensional model of stator core,stator coil,magnetic shielding and axial air gap are built,basic assumptions and boundary conditions are selected,temperature field of cooling medium and solid part in stator are solved numerically. The solid part of the highest temperature appeared in the outer side of the magnetic shield,which is about 399. 9 K. The maximum temperature of stator core is 376. 3 K and it isn't exceeded the maximum temperature limit. The maximum coil temperature appeared in outlet location of cooling water,which is about 342 K,the relative error between calculated value and experimental value is about 5%. The results obtained may provide new theoretical guidance for the development and optimal design of the cooling system of large water-hydrogen cooled turbo-generator.


The problem of robust fault-tolerant control for the uncertain time-delay system is studied.The considered system has sensor and actuator failures.Based on Lyapunov stability theory and linear matrix inequality(LMI),a method of robust fault-tolerant against sensor and actuator failures for uncertain system was proposed via memoryless state feedback control law.The sufficient conditions for the closed-loop system possessing integrity against sensor and actuator failures are given,and it is proved.At last,the problem is simulated by using LMI tool-box of Matlab.The results of simulation demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the presented method,reducing to judge first which failure broke down,for permitted the fault-tolerant control to provide the convenience.


The main goal of this thesis consists of converting an electric remote control (RC) vehicle into a fully autonomous vehicle. To this end, a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) approach for simultaneous path planning, path tracking, and obstacle avoidance is presented. NMPC has the capacity of dealing with system nonlinearities, foresee the future evolution of a process, and control it while fulfilling a set of constraints. The current work uses a nonlinear dynamic bicycle model with the Pajecka's tire model to predict the RC vehicle states throughout the prediction horizon. The path planning, path tracking, and obstacle avoidance form a nonlinear optimization problem that is solved in real time and during navigation of the RC vehicle (online). To implement a real-time NMPC scheme on a low-cost embedded system, an efficient nonlinear programming (NLP) solver is required. In the scope of this work, two different NLP solvers are investigated, which are the gradient search method and the state-of-the-art solver IPOPT. The simulation results show that both solvers present similar solutions. However, the gradient search method presents faster computational times. Furthermore, two local path planners, weighted distance and modified parallax method, are compared through simulation. The results demonstrate that the modified parallax method is more effective in obstacle avoidance maneuvers than distance-based methods, especially in cluttered environments. The performance of the purposed controller is experimentally tested on an RC vehicle. The experimental results prove that the gradient search method is a suitable NLP solver for real-time NMPC implementations in simple embedded systems with limited computational power. The modified parallax method has proven itself superior to the weighted distance approach, as it allowed the RC vehicle to avoid obstacles on its path to the destination point.


The Hough transform is one of the most common methods for line detection. In this paper we propose a novel extension of the regular Hough transform. The proposed extension combines the extension of the accumulator space and the local gradient orientation resulting in clutter reduction and yielding more prominent peaks, thus enabling better line identification. We demonstrate benefits in applications such as visual quality inspection and rectangle detection.


The success of corporate social initiatives of firms depends largely on the perception of these have from the outside. This perception is liked directly to the values that have developed individuals in the areas where they play their academic or occupational activities. In fact, people in different occupations and education environment develop different value system which influences their behavior and choices. The University environment in Social Sciences studies offered a value opportunity to explore the value structure and how this structure influences the attitudes (patterns/behavior) towards the social initiatives of a company. The current study has pursued to aims. First, basing on existing research, the current study explores whether Schwartz's value theory is applicable to the Spanish Social Science students at the undergraduate level. Second, the research intend to bring new knowledge to the relationship between basic values and those patterns which determine the perception of the Spanish Social Science students under a social initiative carried out by a company. The quantitative data consisted of 1060 university students by using a structured self-completion questionnaire.


Three yeast strains were isolated from a spontaneously fermented native millet (Pennisetum typhoideum) malt beer (Oyokpo). One of the yeast isolates found to have the most highly fermenting capacity was characterised and identified as a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The yeast was then utilised as the pitching yeast in a subsequent controlled fermentation of millet wort at 20°C for 120 hours. Bitter leaf (Vernonia amagdalina) extract was used as the bittering and flavouring agent. The Oyokpo beer sample produced under these conditions was found to possess both chemical and organoleptic qualities comparable to some extent, to the conventional barley malt beer. At the end of fermentation, the pH, specific gravity, alcohol content, reducing sugar content and protein content of the beer were 4.11, 1.0308, 2.81% (v/v), 4.00 (mg/ml) and 0.84 (mg/ml) respectively.


In the early 2000s, a phosphorus nutrient trading plan (NTP) requiring best management practices (BMPs) to be installed as pollution abatement strategies to offset phosphorus waste from the Alpine Cheese Company was implemented in four subwatersheds of Sugar Creek in northeast Ohio. To assess the impacts of the Alpine NTP, 49 sites were sampled approximately biweekly from 2010 to 2018 for phosphate, total phosphorus, nitrate, ammonia, and total nitrogen. In addition, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency conducted stream health surveys at 21 sites before and after the BMPs were implemented. This study evaluated the potential impact of 68 BMPs implemented under the NTP on the observed changes in nutrient concentrations and stream health indicators. Most nutrient concentrations observed during high discharge conditions showed significant declines from 2010 to 2018 for all subwatersheds, which was most likely due to BMPs that reduced erosion and surface runoff. However, there were fewer significant declines and some significant increases in nutrient levels during low discharge conditions, suggesting a possible contribution from legacy nutrient sources. Most sites reported increases in stream health indicators, but many streams are still below recommended levels. Collectively, the installation of BMPs and decreases in nutrient concentrations observed during high discharge conditions can be attributed to the NTP and likely contributed to improved stream health.


Stephan Harbarth and Matthew Samore discuss the implications, and the limitations, of new research that might indicate that most Clostridium difficile cases are imported into hospitals.


As Internet technology further develops, a social networking service (SNS) also develops. But most studies on SNS are not appropriate for business purposes since they mainly focus on personal characteristics. Unlike previous studies, however, this study tries to understand the effect of SNS on performance in the perspective of business. As the result of analysis, SNSE(Social Networking Service Engagement) appears to have positive effect on TMC(Transactive Memory Capability) and PER(Performance), and TMC also seems to affect PER. On the assumption that there should be some parameters between SNSE and PER that earlier studies did not consider, this study has proved that a new way of memories, or TMC, forms the bridge between SNS and PER. It also found out that the time spent on SNS is positively controlled when SNSE affects TMC. These results are different from those of the previous studies arguing that SNS has nothing to do with PER.


Experiments,numerical calculation and theoretical analysis are carried out to study the impact pressure of water flow on detained air mass in pipeline.It is found that the impact pressure may be maximal when the ratio of initial air volume,under standard atmospheric pressure,to total volume in pipeline reaches a certain value.The experimental data are accord with the calculated results.In case the initial air volume is unknown the rigid water hammer model can be adopted as the calculation model,in which the friction is neglected.The volume of air will not affect the calculation result.


This article analyzes the efficiency of various high-performance implementation techniques for the communication system of UNIX workstations. Using an open system implies that a certain compatibility level is required from the protocol, user interface, and implementation framework. These constraints limit the opportunities to design a high-performance communication system The authors have designed an experimental platform around the TCP/IP protocol suite, using the STREAMS environment. A BSD TCP/IP stack and a classic STREAMS-based TCP/IP stack serve as reference implementations for performance comparisons. The article explains why the efficiency of some high-performance implementation techniques the authors have applied to this platform is limited. The impacts of the hardware architecture, operating system, and communication stack architecture on performances are analyzed. It is shown that the efficiency of data transmission would benefit from more simplicity and more synchronism in the communication environment, direct data paths between the applications and the device drivers, and a limited ILP integration. he communication system of a workstation is at the meeting point of three trends: the evolution of the physical network technology in terms of higher performance, lower error rates, and new kinds of services; the evolution of application needs, since new multimedia applications often have real-time constraints; and the evolution of the workstations from the hardware and software points of view. The need to take advantage of advances in technology and to offer applications the best possible services has motivated much research in the field of high performance communication stacks. This article focuses on standard workstations; that is, mono and multiprocessor machines running a UNIX operating system (OS). This article shows how several high-performance techniques can be applied to such a system. The experimental platform we built includes several Transmission Control ProtocoliInternet Protocol (TCP/IP) communication stacks and uses the STREAMS environment. A BSD TCP/IP stack serves as a reference implementation for performance comparison. This platform allows us to draw several conclusions on the efficiency of the high-performance imple


Two employees of the [name removed] told several county employees not to visit a restaurant, the Colonial House, because they believed one of the people working there had AIDS. A suit filed by Colonial House alleged that the statements by the medical services employees were defamatory, false, made with malice, and intended to harm the reputations of the businesses, owners, and employees. A Superior Court judge dismissed the lawsuit. A three-judge panel in the State Court of Appeals ruled that since the defendants are accused of making a reference to someone rather than a specific individual, the plaintiffs had no cause of action for defamation. The plaintiffs did succeed in persuading the appeals court to allow the lawsuit to proceed based on the plaintiff's claims of intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.


Purpose – To describe the historical development of micro‐electromechanical system (MEMS) sensor technology, to consider its current use in physical, gas and chemical sensing and to identify and discuss future technological trends and directions.Design/methodology/approach – This paper identifies the early research which led to the development of MEMS sensors. It considers subsequent applications of MEMS to physical, gas and chemical sensing and discusses recent technological innovations.Findings – This paper illustrates the greatly differing impacts exerted on physical, gas and chemical sensing by MEMS technology. More recent developments are discussed which suggest strong market prospects for MEMS devices with analytical capabilities such as microspectrometers, micro‐GCs, microfluidics, lab‐on‐a‐chip and BioMEMS. This view is supported by various market data and forecasts.Originality/value – This paper provides a technical and commercial insight into the applications of MEMS technology to physical and m...


Recently, indoor localization systems based on wireless sensor networks have received a great deal of attention because they help achieve high accuracy in position determination by using various algorithms. In order to minimize the error in the estimated azimuth that can occur owing to sensor drift and recursive calculation in these algorithms, we propose a novel relative azimuth estimation algorithm. The advantages of the proposed technique in an indoor environment are that an improved weight average filter is used to effectively reduce impulse noise from the raw data acquired from nodes with inherent errors and a rotational displacement algorithm is applied to obtain a precise relative azimuth without using additional sensors, which can be affected by electromagnetic noise. Results from simulations show that the proposed filter reduces the impulse noise, and the acquired estimation error does not accumulate with time by using proposed algorithm.


This study aimed to assess the pharmaceutical performance of formulations consisting of either indomethacin or glibenclamide and the ordered mesoporous silica material SBA-15. Both compounds were loaded on SBA-15 via solvent impregnation. Adsorption in the SBA-15 mesopores was confirmed using nitrogen physisorption. Differential scanning calorimetry results suggested that both compounds were dispersed monomolecularly onto the SBA-15 surface. In in vitro experiments simulating the gastric-to-intestinal transition, the release of both compounds from SBA-15 remained under 1% in simulated gastric fluid (SGF, pH 1.2), whereas both drugs were completely released within 10 min after transfer to fasted state simulated intestinal fluid (FaSSIF, pH 6.5). As both drugs exhibited very rapid precipitation from the supersaturated state in SGF, the preferential release in FaSSIF--where conditions are more favourable by virtue of either much higher solubility (indomethacin) or more stable supersaturation (glibenclamide)--was considered crucial towards achieving optimal absorption. This hypothesis was confirmed by an in vivo study, where the extent of absorption of a glibenclamide-SBA-15 formulation was found to be more than fourfold higher than that of the commercial glibenclamide product Daonil®.


ABSTRACT Human ageing and age-associated diseases are among the greatest challenges and financial burdens faced by developed countries. Unfortunately, undergraduate students often do not experience any laboratory training in ageing research in the current laboratory curriculum of majors in biology, biotechnology, or medicine. In this study, we developed and implemented a 12-week laboratory course for biotechnology undergraduates in which Drosophila melanogaster is used as the model organism to scaffold the understanding of the basic concept and process of ageing research. Students worked in teams of three to conduct lifespan analyses based on the use of selected dietary supplements on Drosophila melanogaster. By integrating abstract knowledge and practice in the process of scientific research, students gained hands-on experience in lab techniques while learning about the principle and process of ageing research. The learning outcomes demonstrated that students substantially enhanced their understanding of how lifespan assays could be used to evaluate whether a certain dietary supplement has an anti-ageing effect. Overall, the course was very effective for helping biotechnology undergraduates learn the theory and application of basic ageing research, while also yielding positive effects in developing confidence and scientific skills for future work in research.


PURPOSE: A digital image processing apparatus and a method for photographing using the same are provided to obtain a clear image by extracting a synthesized image using an infrared filter and a visible ray filter. CONSTITUTION: An infrared ray cut off filter(120-2) and a visible light cut off filter(120-3) are placed on an optical axis between a lens and an image sensor. A filter operating unit(130) operates the infrared ray filter and the visible ray filter. A first image information acquisition unit(180-1) acquires the first image information which passes the infrared filter. A second image information acquisition unit(180-2) the second image information which passes the visible light filter. An image synthesizing unit(180-3) extracts a synthesized image using the first and the second image information.


Objective:To develop an HPLC method for determination of rutin and quercetin in buckwheat husks. Methods:A Zorbax SB-C_(18)column (4.6 mm×150 mm,5μm) was used with a mobile phase of methanol - 0.4% phosphoric acid solution (50:50) ,the flow rate was 1.0 mL·min~(-1),the UV detector was set at 254 nm. Results :A linear relationship of rutin was good at the range of 0.024-0.963 mg·mL~(-1)(r=0.9996) and querce- tin wasgood at the range of 0.0132-0.528 mg·mL~(-1)(r=0.9990).The average recovery of rutin was 100.1% (RSD=1.15% ) and of quercetin was 99.9% (RSD=1.04% ).Conclusion:The method is simple,accurate and good reproducibility.It is suitable for the simultaneous determination of rutin and quercetin in buckwheat husks.


This is a survey paper presenting map enumeration results obtained by the author, either alone or jointly with other researchers, as well as some of the other results in the literature that are the most relevant to the author's work. The results discussed in this paper include counting and generating maps and hypermaps of various types on orientable surfaces. The counting is achieved by means of closed-form formulas where possible, and otherwise - again, if possible - by computationally efficient algorithms.


Abstract. Following the protocol of the fourth phase of the Paleoclimate
Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4), we performed numerical experiments
targeting distinctive past time periods using the Model for
Interdisciplinary Research on Climate, Earth System version 2 for Long-term
simulations (MIROC-ES2L), which is an Earth system model. Setup and basic
performance of the experiments are presented. The Last Glacial Maximum was one of the most extreme climate states during
the Quaternary and conducting numerical modeling experiments of this period
has long been a challenge for the paleoclimate community. We conducted a
Last Glacial Maximum experiment with a long spin-up of nearly 9000 years.
Globally, there was reasonable agreement between the anomalies relative to the present day derived from model climatology and those derived from proxy data archives, while some regional discrepancies remained. By changing orbital and greenhouse gas forcings, we conducted experiments
for two interglacial periods: 6000 and 127 000 years before present. Model
anomalies relative to the present day were qualitatively consistent with
variations in solar forcing. However, anomalies in the model were smaller
than those derived from proxy data archives, suggesting that processes that
play a role in past interglacial climates remain lacking in this
state-of-the-art model. We conducted transient simulations from 850 to 1850 CE and from 1850
to 2014 CE. Cooling in the model indicated a clear response to huge volcanic
eruptions, consistent with paleo-proxy data. The contrast between cooling
during the Little Ice Age and warming during the 20th to 21st
centuries was represented well at the multidecadal timescale.


Abstract : This report contains a study of joints made from fiber composite materials. Several types of joints are considered, such as bolted and adhesive joint. Elements for a rational joint design are presented, as well as test results. A finite-element computer program, used to obtain stress distributions incomposite joints, is included.


At the same time of bringing about huge convenience to users,the security hidden dangers have gradually emerged in university's digitalized archives network system.From five aspects of archives network system environment,memory device,network's topological structure,network system and network management,this paper probes into some measures for the security of university's archives network system.


Conjunctiva has two components; a clear mucous membrane and subepithelial stroma consisting of fibrovascular connective tissue that thickens in the fornix and thins at the limbus. Neo plasms can arise in the conjunctiva from both epithelial and sub epithelial connective tissue. Nevi are the most common, and, fi brous tumors of any type are rare in the conjunctiva. A solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare mesenchymal tumor characterized by spindle cells, fibrotic cells, and branching vasculature. SFT occurs mainly in the serosal cavities, but it is also found in the nasal cavity and thyroid gland. To date, about 60 cases of SFT of the eye have been reported with most of them in the orbit, and only one in the conjunctiva. We report here on the second reported case of a SFT arising in the conjunctiva, which clinically and histologically resembles conjunctival nevus, glomangioma, ectopic meningioma, and a hybrid neurogenicmyogenic tumor such as mesectodermal leio myoma. CASE REPORT


Torsion pairs in the category of finitely presented modules over a noetherian ring can be parametrised by the class of cosilting modules. In this paper, we characterise such modules in terms of their indecomposable summands, providing a new approach to the classification of torsion pairs. In particular, we classify cosilting modules over cluster-tilted algebras of type $\tilde{A}$. We do this by using a geometric model for finite- and infinite-dimensional modules over such algebras.


Abstract A deterministic computer model is described which simulates the growth of pigs (20 – 90 kg liveweight). From information on the sex, genotype, liveweight, and body lipid content at the start of growth, diet, and feeding scale, the model can be used to predict average daily liveweight gain, mean food conversion ratio, carcass weight at slaughter, and backfat thickness. A comparison of the actual and predicted growth performance of entire male and female pigs given a balanced grower diet at a daily rate of either 9 or 11% of metabolic body weight (kg 0.75) over the liveweight range 20 – 80 kg, demonstrated that the model can be used to give realistic predictions of pig growth performance.


'Bing' sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) trees were treated with hydrogen cyanamide (CH 2 N 2 ) or calcium ammonium nitrate (CaNH 4 NO 3 ) during dormancy, or gibberellic acid (GA 3 ) 26 days before harvest during three consecutive years. Fruit were evaluated at harvest for sensory taste quality using twenty trained panelists sampling for firmness, sweetness, tartness, and cherry flavor. Nondestructive instrumental firmness preceded destructive sensory firmness on the same untreated and GA 3 -treated cherries in one year when used as a supplementary evaluation. Sensory firmness was consistently higher in GA 3 fruit and to a lesser extent in CH 2 N 2 fruit than in CaNH 4 NO 3 and untreated fruit. Instrumental firmness of GA 3 fruit did not increase significantly compared with untreated fruit yet instrumental firmness of each treatment correlated relatively well with perceived sensory firmness. Sensory sweetness and cherry flavor scored very similarly, yet both attributes simultaneously varied between treatments across the years. Perceived sensory tartness of treated fruit was variable among years; yet, on average, was rated among treated and untreated fruit as similar. Under the assumption that elevated sensory firmness, sweetness, and cherry flavor intensity reflects improved sweet cherry quality, GA 3 fruit were rated of higher quality than untreated fruit given their increased firmness and similar or occasionally elevated sweetness and cherry flavor intensity. CH 2 N 2 fruit maintained quality similar to that of untreated fruit, despite often having marginally higher firmness, due to similar or reduced ratings for sweetness and cherry flavor intensity. Notwithstanding similar firmness between CaNH 4 NO 3 and untreated cherries, sensory quality of CaNH 4 NO 3 -treated cherries was reduced due to their often-diminished levels of perceived sweetness and cherry flavor.


The article is an attempt to investigate differences in elision in juncture consonant clusters in the utterances of British English and American English speakers. The research was aimed at defining certain general as well as specific features of elision in junctural consonant clusters in the two regional standards BBC English and General American (spontaneous monologue). Samples of unprepared monological speech were analysed at the perceptive and acoustic levels. The preliminary data analysis revealed that the percentage of elision in junctural consonant clusters in British and American English is practically equal.


The kinetics and polymer microstructure of the seeded semibatch emulsion copolymerization of n-BA/MMA were investigated in this work. Free monomer concentration was determined on-line by means of FT-Raman spectrosocopy. The kinetics, gel fraction, and molecular weight distribution were determined for several semibatch reactions of different monomer composition. The experiments show that, when the amount of MMA in the recipe was increased (from 90/10 to 50/50 n-BA/MMA by moles), the instantaneous conversion increased, whereas the gel content decreased and the sol molecular weight exhibited no defined trend. A mathematical model was used to analyze the experimental data.


By partial deuteration of a methyl group in a threefold symmetric potential the nuclear spin states are no longer correlated to the rotational states, resulting in a fast establishment of thermal equilibrium between the rotational levels (even at low temperature), enabling a calorimetric study of the low lying energy levels. For CHD2NO2 these data confirm the localisation of the CHD2 group, as already seen by infrared and Raman spectroscopy at low temperatures. Combining the optical and specific heat data allows an improvement of the energy level diagram, consistent with the NMR result.


This paper deals with an existence and uniqueness result of the weak solution for a quasilinear elliptic PDE with nonlinear Robin boundary conditions.This problem is defined on a domain whose boundary is the union of two disjoint surfaces.where a Dirichelet condition is prescribed on the exterior boundary and a nonlinear Robin condition on the interior one.To achieve that, we use the theory of monotone operators


Since I read Dr. Robert Latkany's study on nocturnal lagophthalmos in 2006,1 I am perpetually on the lookout for it, especially in the patients who present with dry eye symptoms. Sometimes it's easy to spot lagophthalmos—sometimes, if you ask your patient about lid closure, they will report to you that they know about their incomplete lid closure, mostly when they sleep.


A proposed rule on the definition of "waters of the United States" has caught the attention of numerous industries, agencies, organizations, and consumer‐interest groups; there is concern that the rule's possible interpretations and consequences could do more harm than good.


Linearizable libraries provide operations that appear to execute atomically. Clients, however, may need to execute a sequence of operations (a composite operation) atomically. We consider the problem of extending a linearizable library to support arbitrary atomic composite operations by clients. We introduce a novel approach in which the concurrent library ensures atomicity of composite operations by exploiting information (foresight) provided by its clients. We use a correctness condition, based on a notion of dynamic right-movers, that guarantees that composite operations execute atomically without deadlocks, and without using rollbacks. We present a static analysis to infer the foresight information required by our approach, allowing a compiler to automatically insert the foresight information into the client. This relieves the client programmer of this burden and simplifies writing client code. We present a generic technique for extending the library implementation to realize foresight-based synchronization. This technique is used to implement a general-purpose Java library for Map data structures -- the library permits composite operations to simultaneously work with multiple instances of Map data structures. We use the Maps library and the static analysis to enforce atomicity of a wide selection of real-life Java composite operations. Our experiments indicate that our approach enables realizing efficient and scalable synchronization for real-life composite operations.


The media have been laggard in mobilising public opinion against the arms trade — but wars make better copy than peace


Prototyping has long been a popular method in engineering and design practice. The continued use of physical prototyping is based on its strength in helping teams to make ideas tangible, iterate quickly at a low cost, and develop a shared language. Over the past seven years, our team has used prototyping in an industry-research program focused on foresight engineering?the development of new products and services that are three or more product cycles in the future. Through the discussion of three international cases drawn from India, Europe and the United States, this paper offers insight into the value and application of physical prototypes earlier in the innovation process and before the traditional handoff from strategy to product design. In summary, physical prototypes are exemplary tools for envisioning complex systems, serving an unmet need in helping teams explore potential service applications, and helping reveal the path of progression from today's solutions to tomorrow's opportunities.


It has long been known that the HalberstaedterProwazek inclusion bodies found in inclusion blennorrhoea of the conjunctiva of the newborn could sometimes be demonstrated in the cervix of the mother (Halberstaedter and Prowazek, 1909; Heymann, 1910; Thygeson, 1934; Thygeson and Mengert, 1936; Braley, 1938; Jones, Collier, and Smith, 1959; Kotcher, Gray, James, Frick, and Bottorff, 1962) and the urethra of the father (Fritsch, Hofstatter, and Lindner, 1910; Lindner, 1910). Inclusion conjunctivitis, a syndrome diagnosed chiefly in Europe and America, has been recognized as a counterpart in the adult of the disease in the newborn. Trachoma is a more serious eye disease and is responsible for much blindness in underdeveloped countries. Corneal involvement, with the development of pannus and scarring of the conjunctiva, differentiates it from inclusion conjunctivitis. Virus was isolated from trachoma by T'ang, Chang, Huang, and Wang (1957); this was confirmed by Collier and Sowa (1958). Isolation of virus from neonatal inclusion blennorrhoea was reported by Jones and others (1959), and confirmed by Hanna, Zichosch, Jawetz, Vaughan, and Thygeson (1960). Virus was also isolated by Jones and others (1959) from the cervix of a woman whose baby had developed inclusion blennorrhoea. This has not yet been repeated in Europe or America, but virus has been isolated from the cervix of the mother in the case of three women in Gambia whose babies had developed ophthalmia neonatorum with inclusions (Furness, Graham, Reeve, and Collier, 1960): since one of the babies developed pannus, it is possible that these genital isolates could produce trachoma. Hitherto, there has been no report of the isolation of this type of virus from the urethra. The nature of the agents isolated from that site by Siboulet and Galistin (1963) remains obscure. A study of cases of infection of the eye in the adult, in which inclusions were present, indicated that in London these cases did not always fall into two entirely separate types-trachoma or inclusion conjunctivitis; several cases were better described as falling into an intermediate syndrome of punctate kerato-conjunctivitis (Jones, 1961, 1964b). Furthermore, cervicitis with inclusions was found in a patient with trachoma (Jones, 1961, 1964a). Virus of genital origin, which had been isolated from neonatal inclusion blennorrhoea, gave rise to the trachoma syndrome when inoculated into the eye of a volunteer (Jones and Collier, 1961). Mitsui, Konishi, Nishimura, Kajima, Tamura, and Endo (1962) confirmed this observation.


Learning to process speech in a foreign language involves learning new representations for mapping the auditory signal to linguistic structure. Behavioral experiments suggest that even listeners that are highly proficient in a non-native language experience interference from representations of their native language. However, much of the evidence for such interference comes from tasks that may inadvertently increase the salience of native language competitors. Here we tested for neural evidence of proficiency and native language interference in a naturalistic story listening task. We studied electroencephalography responses of native Dutch listeners to an English short story, spoken by a native speaker of either American English or Dutch. We modeled brain responses with multivariate temporal response functions, using acoustic and language models. We found evidence for activation of Dutch language statistics when listening to English, but only when it was spoken with a Dutch accent. This suggests that a naturalistic, monolingual setting decreases the interference from native language representations, whereas an accent in the listeners' own native language may increase native language interference, by increasing the salience of the native language and activating native language phonetic and lexical representations. Brain responses suggest that words from the native language compete with the foreign language in a single word recognition system, rather than being activated in a parallel lexicon. We further found that secondary acoustic representations of speech (after 200 ms latency) decreased with increasing proficiency. This may reflect improved acoustic-phonetic models in more proficient listeners.


The production method of the modified growth hormone polypeptide, the coding for the modified growth hormone polypeptide nucleic acid molecules and variant GH polypeptide is provided. Further, the treatment method using the modified growth hormone polypeptide is provided. Resistance to the modified growth hormone polypeptide, protein stability, heat resistance, proteolytic half-life, an amino acid substitution


The concentrations of airborne particulate matter (PM) in Navrongo, a town in the Sahel Savannah Zone of Ghana, have been measured and the major sources have been identified. This area is prone to frequent particulate pollution episodes due to Harmattan dust and biomass burning, mostly from annual bushfires. The contribution of combustion emissions, particularly from biomass and fossil fuel, to ambient air particulate loadings was assessed. Sampling was conducted from February 2009 to February 2010 in Navrongo. Two Gent samplers were equipped to collect PM10 in two size fractions, coarse (PM10-2.5) and fine (PM2.5). Coarse particles are collected on a coated, 8-μm-pore Nuclepore filter. Fine particle samples were sampled with 47-mm-diameter Nuclepore and quartz filters. Elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) concentrations were determined from the quartz filters using thermal optical reflectance (IMPROVE/TOR) methods. Elements were measured on the fine-particle Nuclepore filters using energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence. The average PM2.5 mass concentration obtained at Navrongo was 32.3 μg/m3. High carbonaceous concentrations were obtained from November to March, the period of Harmattan dust and severe bush fires. Total carbon was found to contribute approximately 40% of the PM2.5 particulate mass. Positive matrix factorization (PMF) suggested six major sources contributing to the PM2.5 mass. They are two stroke engines, gasoline emissions, soil dust, diesel emissions, biomass burning, and resuspended soil dust. Biomass combustion (16.0%) was identified as second most important source next to soil dust at Navrongo. Implications: Black carbon has now been recognized as playing a major role in radiation forcing, and one major source of biomass burning is slash-and-burn agriculture. Such practices are used in Sub-Saharan Africa and the time for field burning corresponds to the time when there is also substantial transport of Saharan dust to West Africa. This paper shows the major role of biomass burning on fine particle concentrations in northern Ghana and provides useful data on the EC concentrations in this area.


Formulation of the problem. Studies of bioclimate of a territory are aimed at determining the favorable and adverse impacts of various climatic factors and their combinations on the human body. Complex urban morphology has a significant impact on microclimate and, accordingly, on thermal comfort of a person in such an environment. The height of buildings, street orientation, and distance between buildings alter the solar energy inlet, affect thermal regime, transform the wind speed and direction at the street level. Studies of the bioclimatic conditions of urban areas during the warm season are highly relevant as they provide an opportunity to evaluate human thermal sensations in the city, as well as the potential effectiveness of adaptation measures to heat stress (architectural measures and measures based on the use of green areas and water
bodies).

The purpose of the article. The aim of this research is to simulate the bioclimate of an urban environment to determine the human thermal load in summer months based on modern bioclimatic indices and software.

Methods. For the purpose of this study, a part of the territory of the Osokorky residential area of Kyiv was selected. To get values of the main meteorological parameters of the researched area, a three-dimensional, prognostic, microscale model ENVI-met was used. ENVI-met pertains to the CFD-models (computation fluid dynamics model) and is designed for microscales with a horizontal resolution from 0.5 to 10 m and with a time step of 10 seconds as maximum. The PET calculation was performed using the RayMan model.

Results. A clear hot summer day (04 August 2017) was chosen for the simulation. The simulation was performed from 6:00 EEST on 4 August till 6:00 EEST the next day (output interval – 1 hour). The simulation results show that the values of the main meteorological parameters (air temperature and humidity, wind characteristics) and physiologically equivalent temperature differ significantly within urban spaces, even across small areas. The amplitudes of PET value were maximum in the daytime and made 12°–15°C. The decrease in the amplitude of the air temperature within the researched area in the evening and night hours led to a notable decrease in the PET amplitude to 2°–3°C. The analysis of the simulated PET values for the researched area confirmed that the residents of the urban areas experience the most intense heat stress while staying in the open asphalted areas during the daytime. The duration of the period with comfortable conditions during the researched day was very short – from 22:00 EEST through midnight. The range of the daily course of PET values at different points of the researched area varied from 19.4° (at point No. 7) to 37.1°C (at point No. 5 located in the well courtyard).

Based on the PET values simulated for the researched area and for CAWS Kyiv was found the significant differences between thermal comfort conditions within the complex urban spaces and at the weather station. Therefore, the values of bioclimatic indices simulated based on the weather station data can not be applied with any approximation to solve scientific and applied tasks that require information on the bioclimate at particular points in the urbanized environment. To solve such tasks, it is recommended to apply modern methods – ENVI-met and RayMan models.

Scientific novelty and practical significance. For the first time in Ukraine, microclimate and thermal comfort conditions within the complex urban environment has been simulated using ENVI-met and RayMan models. The results of such simulation can be used to choose heat adaptation measures which would help to increase the comfort of the urban areas. The simulation of microclimate and thermal comfort conditions of some parts of the city territory is important stage of design of the buildings, in order to choose the optimal location for buildings and trees and to create the most comfortable conditions for people.


Undrawn and drawn poly-γ-methyl-L-glutamate (PMLG) fibers having different secondary structures were treated with 18N sulfuric acid, and the apparent weight loss was measured. From quantitative analysis by infrared spectra of the hydrolysis degree of side chain ester groups in insoluble residue, the apparent weight loss was devided into the weight loss due to hydrolysis of main chain and that of side chain. Besides, the density and intrinsic viscosity of insoluble residue were measured, and the accessibility of PMLG fibers to sulfuric acid is discussed in connection with secondary structures. The results were as follows;(1) In both PMLG fibers, the weight loss due to hydrolysis of main chain proceeds at two stages, the early stage of higher rate and the later one of lower and constant rate. The former is considered to be due to the dissolution of more accessible amorphous region from the decreasing behavior of intrinsic viscosity of insoluble residue. The weight loss due to hydrolysis of main chain in the first stage is larger in undrawn fiber and therefore it is considered that undrawn fiber has larger accessibility than drawn fiber.(2) Density of insoluble residue supports quantitative analysis of the hydrolysis degree of side chain by infrared spectra.(3) The difference of accessibility to sulfuric acid between undrawn and drawn fibers was concluded to be caused by the following facts. Since random-coil structure is difficult to be recognized in both fibers, the region where α-helix dose not stand side by side but stand random situation in undrawn fiber decrease during the α→β transformation by drawing.


Objective We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis aiming to assess the relationship between apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene ε2/ε3/ε4 polymorphism and breast cancer risk. Methods Yun-Long Liu and Hao-Min Zhang independently completed literature retrieval and data collection, and statistical analyses were performed by Stata. Individual odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were pooled in a random-effects model using the DerSimonian–Laird method. Heterogeneity was evaluated by I2 statistic at a significance level of 50%. Publication bias was assessed by Egger's test. Results Eleven articles including 2,074 breast cancer patients and 2,372 controls were summarized. Using the most common allele ε3 as a reference, the ε2 (OR =0.87, 95% CI =0.72–1.05, P=0.154, I2=0.0%) and ε4 (OR =1.07, 95% CI =0.80–1.42, P=0.654, I2=71.8%) alleles were not found to be significantly associated with breast cancer risk in the overall analyses. Subgroup analyses revealed that the comparison of allele ε4 with ε3 was significant in Asians (OR =1.58, 95% CI =1.17–6.32, P=0.003, I2=12.1%) and in studies that used the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) genotyping method (OR =1.27; 95% CI =1.01–1.61, P=0.045, I2=34.3%), and was marginally significant in hospital-based studies (OR =1.33; 95% CI =0.98–1.79, P=0.065, I2=30.2%), without heterogeneity. Moreover, the presence of the ε2 allele was significantly associated with breast cancer in small studies (total sample size <500) (OR =0.73, 95% CI =0.54–1.00, P=0.052, I2=0.0%) without heterogeneity. The Egger's test indicated low probabilities of publication bias. Conclusion We observed a significant association between APOE gene ε4 allele and breast cancer risk in Asian populations. Moreover, the findings of our subgroup analyses suggest that source of controls, genotyping platform, and sample size might be the potential causes of heterogeneity.


An analysis of the suicide and homicide rates of 48 countries is made to determine whether national suicide and homicide rates, on the one hand, and the relation between the rates, on the other, are related to economic development. The research hypothesis was supported in the finding that suicide rates tend to be high and homicide rates tend to be low in countries of high economic development and that suicide rates tend to be low and homicide rates tend to be high in countries of low economic development. The evidence indicates that economic development-as measured by urbanization and industrialization-bears a fairly constant relation to the relative frequencies of suicide and homicide. It is thus concluded that suicide and homicide should be considered causally separate social phenomena.


To cite this article: Tawfik DS, Cowan KR, Walsh AM, Hamilton WS, Goldman FD. Exogenous immunoglobulin downregulates T‐cell receptor signaling and cytokine production. Pediatric Allergy Immunology 2012: 23: 88–95.


For a distance of four miles north of Newbiggin-on-Sea, Northumberland, the coast presents a stretch of low cliffs and headlands of sandstone, alternating with shallow bays flanked by sand-dunes, the dunes usually resting visibly on a low boulder clay cliff, not usually rising more than 20 ft. above high tide level. The river Lyne reaches the coast now about two miles north of Newbiggin, at Lyne Sands, but in preglacial and early post-glacial time, entered the sea at Newbiggin bay. The old course of the river is occupied by the "Carrs," a strip of swampy peat, proved at several places by boring, to reach a depth of over twenty feet and to be underlain by river gravel on boulder clay. The basal layers of the peat are proved by pollen analysis to be of latest Boreal age. Between this old channel and the sea, lies Newbiggin Moor, between 30 ft. and 50 ft. OD. a wide stretch of sandstone covered by thin soil, and occasional peat and blown sand. In early Boreal time this would be a headland prolonged southward between the sea on the east and the river Lyne on the west. At a subsequent period the Lyne has broken through its present course to the sea, north of Lyne Sands. The foreshore is made up by a wide stretch of sandstone, flats and skerries overlain by boulder clay, making the low cliff in the southern part, with sand dunes resting directly on the clay. Northward the sandstone gradually rises and towards Cresswell Point makes the whole cliff, with only a thin boulder clay cover on top.


Abstract
Purpose
This chapter expands the existing literature by examining voluntary intellectual capital disclosure provided by listed Romanian companies in 2010 annual reports.

Design/methodology/approach
The chapter aims to determine the extent of intellectual capital disclosure within Romanian listed companies. Within this chapter we have conducted a content analysis using the annual reports of 71 companies listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), main market (Bursa de Valori Bucure_ti – BVB). The intellectual capital framework developed by Sveiby in 1997 was used in our analysis and the frequency of disclosure was used as the measure of disclosure.

Findings
The results show that the key components of intellectual capital are relatively poorly reported by Romanian listed companies. The main areas of intellectual capital disclosure focus firstly on structural capital, then on relational capital and at the end on human capital.

Research limitations/implications
The existence of information related to intellectual capital is used as the measure of the level of intellectual capital disclosure. Also, our exploratory investigation concerns only one fiscal year.

Originality/value
According to the authors' knowledge the present chapter is a pioneering study developed at national level which highlights the intellectual capital disclosure practices of Romanian listed companies by examining their 2010 annual reports. The chapter highlights new insights of the level of intellectual capital disclosure within companies which operates in small capital market.


D,Kahneman,who is a behavioral economist and the winner of Nobel Prize for economics,and A.Tversky,who put forward "Prospect Theory" refuting the foundation of the utility theory of new classical expectancy in an all-round way,have proposed the general mechanism model based on the individual experiences subjectively and limited rational decision,so that they offered a brand new statement for the individual's economic decision behavior under the uncertain condition.This text plans on the basis of classical model of Prospect Theory to try the factors of limiting,to try the pressure of joining day,to analyze the decision behavior under individual's reasonable time restriction,and further probes into the development and completion of Prospect Theory model.


The fundamental limits on the maximum number D/sub max/ of cochannel wideband emitters uniquely resolvable by a passive K-element sensor array are studied. It is shown that for uncorrelated emitters D/sub max/ is only O(K square root L), where L is the measurement time-bandwidth product. These results extend the author's recent result, that for a uniform linear array with uncorrelated cochannel wideband emitters D/sub max/ approximately=K L/2. Hence, D/sub max/ of a given array for cochannel wideband signals is essentially limited only by the observation interval, rather than by the number of sensors.<<ETX>>


The shearer drum height adjustment closed-loop control system is introduced,models are established,and relevant co-simulation is carried out.First of all,according to mechanism,dynamic model is built in ADAMS software.Secondly,the hydraulic system which is transformed is established in AMESim software.Eventually,co-simulation of hydraulic and mechanical systems simulate real work of the shearer,and it is getting that system is feasible.


In this paper, simulation is carried out to determine the relationship between the resistivity contrast and the thickness depth of the Hydrocarbon reservoir in seabed logging application. In order to establish this correlation, various simulation models are carried out using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) tool and the results obtained from each simulation is plotted as graphs using MATLAB. The simulations are performed, by varying individually the resistivity contrast and the thickness depth, at each seawater depth. The results from the simulations, illustrate that the resistivity contrast and the thickness depth of the Hydrocarbon have a direct relationship and that at significant values, they clearly signify the presence of Hydrocarbon under the seabed floor.


Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an emerging disease worldwide. Glycemic control in pediatric T1DM patients is a challenge in diabetes management. Attending diabetic camp has been associated with improved glycemic control in diabetic children and adolescents. Objective To determine the effect of diabetic camp attendance on glycemic control in children and adolescents with T1DM Methods A cross-sectional, non-experimental study was done in December 2010 at a diabetic camp held in Bogor, Indonesia. The two-day camp educated diabetics about T1DM, including insulin use, meal planning, exercise, monitoring and complications. The diabetic camp was attended by 28 children and adolescents, consisting of 5 boys and 23 girls, aged 7 – 18 years. Eighteen participants completed the requested data for our study. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was measured before and 3 months after subjects attended the camp. Participants also filled the Pediatric quality of life (PedsQL) questionnaire. We compared HbA1c levels before camp and 3 months after, by Stata 19. Results Before camp, the mean HbA1c was 9.18% (SD 2.48) and 3 months after camp it was 8.67% (SD 1.62), a statistically significant improvement (P=0.004). The PedsQL revealed that none of the subjects had poor quality of life. Conclusion Glycemic control in T1DM children and adolescents was significantly improved 3 months after attending diabetic camp compared to that before attending camp. According to subjects' self-assessment by PedsQL questionnaire, no subjects indicated a poor quality of life for the duration of their illness. [Paediatr Indones. 2011;51:294-7].


Traditional data warehouses integrate new data during lengthy offline periods, with indexes being dropped and rebuilt for efficiency reasons. There is the idea that these and other factors make them unfit for realtime warehousing. We analyze how a set of factors influence near-realtime and frequent loading capabilities, and what can be done to improve near-realtime capacity using a traditional architecture. We analyze how the query workload affects and is affected by the ETL process and the influence of factors such as the type of load strategy, the size of the load data, indexing, integrity constraints, refresh activity over summary data, and fact table partitioning. We evaluate the factors experimentally and show that partitioning is an important factor to deliver near-realtime capacity.


Despite exceptions, full access and integration of disable people into the labor market is far from being an accomplished goal; numerous physical and mental-social barriers to their incorporation into some organizations of certain jobs and roles still remain solid. Work centers, jobs and tasks designed and adapted to disabled people might provide possibilities of full integration in the workforce for this collective, as well as give them the opportunity to develop positive relationships with organizations and positive work attitudes. This study aims at analyzing effects of opportunities of incorporation and integration into the labor market on: 1) psychological contract' development (that is expected to present a relational orientation); and 2) work attitudes – commitment, job involvement, satisfaction and continuance in the organization – (which are expected to be positive). Quantitative data were collected from a cross sectional-survey study on a sample of 46 call/contact center employees with physical and sensory disabilities. In order to obtain complementary insight from qualitative data, a focus group of nine employees was conducted. Results describe disabled workers' relationship with their organization and orientation of their work attitudes. In addition, this paper explores the possible positive effects for organizations and for individuals derived from employability of this collective, barely studied and object of frequent labor discriminations.  DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v21i1.361


The fortification of fruits with active components (AC) by vacuum impregnation process (VI) is a current alternative in the development of functional foods (FF). This study evaluated: the process VI in cape gooseberries (Physalis peruviana L.) hemispherical shaped with emulsion containing sucrose or sucralose, calcium and vitamins (D, E and B9); and its influence on the physicochemical fruit properties. Response to VI in fraction terms and volumetric deformation, in the vacuum stage (Χ1, γ1) and at the end of the process (X, γ) and effective porosity (ee) were evaluated. The respond to the VI was affected by the impregnation liquid, to be more favorable to emulsions composed of sucralose: were Χ: 24,90±0,97%, Χ1: -10,60±0,05%, γ: 11,8±0,04%; γ1: 0,90±0,01% and ee: 2,70±0,06%; and levels of AC as a percentage of daily reference value according to Colombian law were: 16,4±3,3%, 12,1±1,2%, 104,0±2,8% and 55,9±1,3% for calcium and vitamins B9, D and E, respectively. Matrix Engineering using the technique VI and implemented in cape gooseberry affects properties like water activity, moisture, soluble solids, color and texture, and is an effective methodology to generate added value and greater competitiveness in the chain of gooseberry.


Cyperus rotundus plant belongs to (Cyperaceae) family has a common local name siada. It has many different medical uses and these were based on the different parts of the plant. The aim of this work to extract Cyperus rotundus rhizomes oil, identify chemical components, test the antioxidant and antimicrobial effect of the oil. Three samples from cyperus rotudus rhizomes were collected from different locations in North kordofan State (Elrahad(A), Elobeid(B) and Bano(C)). The extraction process was carried out by hydrodistillation. The percentage yield of the hydrodistilled essential oil prepared from the three samples (A, B and C) gave 2.9%, 0.6% and 1.8% respectively. Analysis of the oils by GC/MS resulted in the identification of 75, 83 and 79 compounds for samples A, B and C respectively. The composition of the essential oils differed qualitatively and quantitatively according to the growing places. The antimicrobial activity was tested by cup-plate agar diffusion method using four different concentrations of the three extracted oil samples (100, 50, 25 and 12.5mg/ml) against four types of bacteria (Staphylococcus aurous, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli) and two fungi strains (Candid albican and Aspergillusnige). Candid albican was the most susceptible to extract (A) at higher concentration (100mg/ml) among the tested microorganisms the inhibition zone diameter was found to be 20mm. Extract B have been shown to possess the strongest antimicrobial activity against Aspergillusniger at higher concentration 100mg/ml with an inhibition zone diameter 20mm. Extract C at concentration 100mg/ml exhibited moderate antimicrobial effect in the range 14-17mm towards investigated microorganisms. Other concentrations for the three samples A, B and C have been shown to possess an inhibition zone diameter in the range of 1317 mm. DPPH and iron chelating ability assays were used to test the antioxidative properties of the extracted oils. The radical scavenging assay percentage (%RSA ±SD) was found to be 01±0.04, 0.0, 06±0.11 and 88±0.04 for samples A, B, C and the standard respectively. The iron chelating ability percentage was found to be 01±0.02, 55±0.03, 29±0.2 and 98±0.01 for the samples A, B, C and standard respectively. The study recommended further study on other part of the plant.


We have investigated the variation of spherical aberration of the anterior and posterior surface in a Korean sample population with various age between 20 to 71 years old. We used Pentacam (Oculus Inc., Germany) to measure the corneal radius, asphericity, and spherical aberration of 290 patients with normal cornea. There were negative correlation between corneal anterior radius and spherical aberration(r = -0.22, p and . The average of spherical aberration was . There were significant positive correlations between anterior spherical aberration and age(r = 0.227, p


OBJECTIVE The factors of insulin resistance in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus were studied in this paper.METHODS The levels of leptin,OGTT,IRT,CPRT were determined in 32 patients with gestational diabetes mellitus and 36 normal pregnantwomen.Insulin resistance index were calculated in this paper.The factors of insulin resistance inpatients with gestational diabetes were studied with multiple linear regression.RESULTS The levels of leptin,TQ insulin,insulin resistance index in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus were significantly increased than those in normal pregnant women.The levels of leptinand BMI before pregnancy were positively correlative with insulin resistance index.CONCLUSION The level of leptin is the independent risk factor for insulin resistance of gestational diabetes mellitus.


The potted plants of Thompson Seedless, Red Globe , Yatomi Rosa grape varieties were used for the experiments. The effect of water stress on change of proline, malonaldehyde, plasma membrane permeable and chlorophyll content was studied. The results showed that under the condition of soil relative water content of 85% (ck) 、65% 、45%、25%, the proline, malonaldehyde contents and plasma membrane permeable increased. Along with the soil relative water content went down, the chlorophyll contents reduced as the degree of soil drought seriously. By means of analyzing the integrative physiological index, the drought resistance of Thompson Seedless was the strongest in three varieties, the Red Globe and Yatomi Rosa were weaker comparing with Thompson Seedless.


Inspections performed by code enforcement officials (building inspectors of a code enforcing jurisdiction) to confirm building code compliance are an important part of the home building production process. In 2003, an estimated 10 to 15 million code compliance inspections for residential construction were performed in various jurisdictions around the nation. The inspection process and its outcome have a significant impact on all the stakeholders, including city building departments, homebuilders, and trade contractors. This paper focuses on the inspection process in production homebuilding and provides critical analysis via a discrete event simulation model. The design of the simulation model is at the subdivision level and provides a mechanism through which a critical analysis of the process can be performed and waste due to inefficiencies can be identified. The simulation model has been developed in SLAM-II. Input data for the simulation model was obtained from municipal jurisdictions within the Phoenix metropolitan area. Key output parameters include inspection failure rates, impact of failure rates on the production cycle time, and impact of inspection failure on resources provided by individual stakeholders. Even though the model is developed at a subdivision level its results can be extrapolated at the city level and broad conclusions can be drawn.


CAEP is the merge of the two authoritative teaching education authentication organization—NCATE and TEAC. The 2013 new standards cover disciplines,pedagogical knowledge,clinic partnership and practice,quality of pro- education workers,enrolment and choice,precept influence,the quality guarantee and sustainable improvement of teacher education organizations. The standards of CAEP are characterized in the following four aspects: paying attention to the connection to other related standards,Putting educational practice in to central position,gradually raising the course quality of American teacher education and maintaining evidence- based guarantee system. It is still needs concerning whether the CAEP authentication is rationalized with its further connection to the American main stream of educational reformation of the promotion of the new concept of assessment.


Thyroid hormone (TH) is essential for bone development. Altered TH levels such as hyperthyroidism, or thyrotoxicosis, results in the early maturation of the cartilaginous scaffold for long bone development, which can cause improper ossification. Maternal hyperthyroidism during embryonic development causes neonatal thyrotoxicosis and can therefore lead to stunted growth in infants. In our avian model of induced thyrotoxicosis, we injected saline (control) or 25ng thyroxine (T4) in 0.1 mL dose into fertilized chicken eggs on embryonic (E) days E11 and E15. On E19, chicken embryo length was measured and limbs were collected. The left limbs were whole-mount stained with Alizarin Red (bone) and Alcian Blue (cartilage). Limbs were then imaged and tibias were measured using ImageJ. The tibias from the right limbs were further dissected, embedded in paraffin, cut (5μM), and stained with Safranin O (cartilage) and Fast Green (bone). Sections were examined to determine morphological changes in the cartilaginous long bone scaffold. Body length was 4.8% shorter following thyroxine exposure (p<0.01). Tibias were 2.4% shorter, though not statistically significant (p=0.36). Paraffin-embedded sections suggested increased chondrocyte hypertrophy, although further quantification is required. In conclusion, our data support thyroxine-induced changes in long bone morphology. Understanding how thyrotoxicosis can alter bone development in utero is important for developing potential targeted therapies for improving ossification in cases of neonatal thyrotoxicosis.

Acknowledgment of NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium (Grant #80NSSC20M0055) and the Genomics Core Facility and WV-INBRE (NIH grant P20GM103434).


A simplified mathematical model was developed for the Hydraulic Control Rod Driving System (HCRDS) of a 200 MW nuclear heating reactor, which incorporated the design of its chamfer-hole step cylinder, to analyze its seismic response characteristics. The control rod motion was analyzed for different sine-wave vibration loadings on platform vibrator. The vibration frequency domain and the minimum acceleration amplitude of the control rod needed to cause the control rod to step to its next setting were compared with the design acceleration amplitude spectrum. The system design was found to be safety within the calculated limits. The safety margin increased with increasing frequency.


Abstract Chemical-based wettability modification has become important for the worldwide abundance of fractured carbonates with the potential to enhance water imbibition to expel more oil from matrix to the fractures. The authors present systematic experimental and modeling approach on the combined benefit of wettability alteration for enhanced water imbibition and interfacial tension reduction. Brine, alkali, and alkali surfactant solutions were injected sequentially to improve oil recovery from a fractured mix-wet carbonate core. The experiments were successfully modeled with a simulator capable of modeling wettability alteration. Part I presents the experimental procedure and the results. The history match of the waterflood is also presented. In another article the authors describe the procedure to model alkali and alkali surfactant floods including sensitivity simulations of some key parameters.


Second in Garcia Lorca's trilogy of rural tragedies, which includes Bodas de sangre and La casa de Bernarda Alba, Yerma examines human sexuality in a perspective differentiated from that of its companion works. In Yerma, Lorca assesses the nullipara! state of his titular protagonist, the attendant frustration brought about by her unfulfilled desire for a child of her own, and the tragic consequences of her despair. But the play is not only a study of maternal instinct gone awry. It is also a powerful statement on two polarities that govern the characters' lives and effect massive changes thereof when the contrasting systems are placed in direct and open conflict. Yerma's is a distinctive struggle between two diametrically opposed aspects of European life in general and Spanish life in particular-the veneer of the Christian ethos and the substratum of pagan tradition. Lorca's protagonist is victimized by the social and religious codes of a Christian milieu, codes which frustrate human drives and are, therefore, contra natura in the eyes of the playwright. In sharp contrast is the naturalness of those who follow the old pagan ways, especially in instinctual and sexual matters; theirs is a


Advancements in health informatics pave the way to explore new medical decision making systems which are characterized by an exponential evolution of knowledge. In the medical domain, disease prediction has become the centre of research with the increasing trend of healthcare applications. The predictive knowledge for the diagnosis of disease highly depends on the subjective knowledge of the experts. So the development of a disease prediction model in time is essential for patients and physicians to overcome the problem of medical distress. This paper explores a hybrid approach (Cooperative Ant Miner Genetic Algorithm) for classifying the medical data. Three benchmarked Type II diabetic datasets (US, PIMA, German) from the UCI machine learning repository were used to analyze the effectiveness of the disease prediction model. The devised classification algorithm with a Soft-Set approach was deployed in a Multi-Cloud environment for enhancing the storage and retrieval of data with reduced response and computation time. The cooperative classification algorithm in the cloud database distinguishes the diseased cases from the normal ones .The soft set theory analyzes the severity of the diseased cases by calculating the percentage of diabetic risk using soft intelligent rules and stores them in a separate knowledge base. Thus the proposed model serves as a suitable tool for eliciting and representing the expert's decision which aids in prediction of Type II diabetic risk percentage leading to the timely treatment of patients.


The Unnamable (1953) shows the breakdown of the Cartesian Cogito in a post-war soulless world in which its inhabitants suffer from disconnectedness. When the speaker's consciousness breaks down and is no longer able to attribute the projections of its own consciousness to the self, he becomes incapable of ascertaining his own agency, authority and existence; hence the dissolution of the Cartesian Cogito. The condition is further exacerbated when the speaker who hears unattributable, disembodied authoritative voices finds himself in a universe where there is no one else to ascertain one's existence. The sense of agency is therefore lost. Yet, the speaker, as in the fashion of AVATAR therapy for people with schizophrenia, attempts in writing, turning the voices into characters and stories and entering a dialogue with them to overcome his ontological insecurity in a universe that is generated out of his head and yet achieves an uncanny kind of independence. In other words, it is a therapeutic attempt to put the dismantled elements back into place in order to overcome the consequent ontological insecurity that this dissolution generates. This is done through a kind of quasi-corporeality that Steven Connor calls 'the vocalic body.' Nevertheless, as this paper argues, although being able to substantialise the voices, the Unnamable is still wavering between mediumship (being the medium of others' voices) and agency.


Four-dimensional A4 polytopes and their dual polytopes have been constructed as the orbits of the Coxeter–Weyl group W(A4) where the group elements and the vertices of the polytopes are represented by quaternions. Projection of an arbitrary W(A4) orbit into three dimensions is made using the subgroup W(A3). A generalization of the Catalan solids for 3D-polyhedra has been developed and dual polytopes of the uniform A4 polytopes have been constructed.


Objective
To investigate the dynamic changes of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) as well as their correlations with the initial severity of TBI and prognosis.

Methods
A total of 229 patients with acute TBI admitted from September 2014 to June 2016 were retrospectively studied. Patients were further classified as mild TBI group (GCS 13-15 points), moderate TBI group (GCS 9-12 points) and severe TBI group (GCS 3-8 points) according to Glasgow coma score (GCS). The control group consisted of 30 healthy subjects. The prognosis was evaluated by using Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) at 6 months after TBI. The IGF-1 levels were further tested at days 1, 3, 5, 7 and 14 and their correlations with the initial GCS and GOS at 6 months after injury were evaluated.

Results
(1) The serum IGF-1 levels of mild, moderate and severe TBI group at all time points were significantly lower than those of the control group (P<0.05); the serum IGF-1 levels of severe and moderate TBI groups at all time points after injury were significantly lower than those of the mild TBI group (P<0.05); the serum IGF-1 levels of the severe group at days 1, 3, 5 and 7 d after injury were lower than those of the moderate TBI group (P<0.05). (2) IGF-1 levels were significantly different between the two groups (P<0.05) at different time points during the follow-up of 6 months. (3)IGF-1 levels were positively correlated with both GCS and GOS at the acute stage of TBI and sub-acute stage following TBI (P<0.05).

Conclusion
The dynamic changes of serum IGF-1 levels in patients with acute TBI are related to both initial severity of TBI and the neurological outcomes and can be used as a reliable biomarker for early severity assessment and prognostic prediction of TBI.

Key words:
Craniocerebral trauma; Insulin-like growth factor Ⅰ; Injury severity score; Prognosis


The automotive engine performance is greatly affected by the calibration of ECU, which controls fuel injection and ignition advance over different timing. Fine tuning an engine giving maximum performance is equivalent to calibrating the ECU of that engine. However, the method for ECU calibration is traditionally done in a trial-and-error way. Every trial means an adjustment to the fuel and ignition maps and then run on a dynamometer to verify the engine performance. This traditional method expenses a large amount of time and money. In order to resolve this problem, Case-based Reasoning (CBR) from artificial intelligence field is employed so that the maps of a fully calibrated ECU can be adapted to fit another similar class of engines. This paper briefly reviews the methodology of CBR. Then the application of CBR to ECU calibration is described. By applying CBR, the efficiency of calibrating an automotive ECU becomes higher. Furthermore, expert and novice automotive engineers may use this system as an assistant when calibrating an ECU. A prototype system has been developed to verify the usefulness of CBR in ECU calibration.


Abstract Microwave dielectric properties of Bi(Nb1-xTax)O4 with 0.8 wt.% Cu2V2O7 were investigated as a function of Ta content and sintering temperature. X-ray powder diffraction patterns of the specimens sintered at 775°C for 3h showed the orthorhombic single phase throughout the entire composition range. Dielectric constant was not changed drastically, however, Qf value strongly depended on the composition and sintering temperature. The temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency (TCF) could be controlled with Ta content. Typically, K of 45, Qf of 8900 GHz and TCF of +4 ppm/°C were obtained in the Bi(Nb0.6Ta0.4)O4 specimens with 0.8 wt.% Cu2V2O7 sintered at 775°C for 3h.


Background Little is known of the impact of social factors on mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We explored sex‐ and age‐specific associations between mortality risk after CABG and marital status, income, and education. Methods and Results This population‐based register study included 110 742 CABG patients (21.3% women) from the SWEDEHEART registry (Swedish Web‐system for Enhancement and Development of Evidence‐based Care in Heart Disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies) operated 1992 to 2015. Cox regression models were used to study the relation between social factors and all‐cause mortality. Never having been married compared with being married/cohabiting was associated with a higher risk in women than in men (hazard ratio 1.32, 95% CI 1.20–1.44) versus 1.17 (1.13–1.22), P=0.030 between sex. The lowest income quintile, compared with the highest, was associated with higher risk in men than in women (hazard ratio 1.44 [1.38–1.51] versus 1.25 [1.14–1.38], P=0.0036). Lowest education level was associated with higher risk without sex difference (hazard ratio 1.15 [1.11–1.19] versus 1.25 [1.16–1.35], P=0.75). For unmarried women aged 60 years at surgery with low income and low education, mortality 10 years after surgery was 18%, compared with 11% in married women with high income and higher education level. The median life expectancy was 4.8 years shorter. Corresponding figures for 60‐year‐old men were 21% versus 12% mortality risk at 10 years and 5.0 years shorter life expectancy. Conclusions There are strong associations between social factors and mortality risk after CABG in both men and women. These results emphasize the importance of developing and implementing secondary prevention strategies for CABG patients with disadvantages in social factors.


The interaction of very low frequency transmitter signals with radiation belt electrons depends ultimately on their wave normal angles. In the equatorial interaction region, these can be either low (ducted propagation) or comparatively large (nonducted propagation). Experimentally distinguishing the two modes is complicated, as multicomponent spacecraft data typically do not extend to high enough frequencies with a sufficient frequency resolution. One exception that we exploit are 11.9 kHz signals from Alpha transmitters detectable by the Van Allen Probes spacecraft. We use multicomponent burst mode measurements to distinguish between the ducted and nonducted modes of propagation and to evaluate their relative importance. While the ducted waves are detected less often, they tend to have larger Poynting fluxes. The total power propagating in the two modes is thus comparable. Magnetic local time and in‐situ density fluctuations are main parameters controlling the relative fraction of ducted waves.


In this artifact, we document our publicly shared data set of our functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study on programmers. We have conducted an fMRI study with 19 participants observing program comprehension of short code snippets at varying complexity levels. We dissected four classes of code complexity metrics and their relationship to neuronal, behavioral, and subjective correlates of program comprehension. Our data corroborate that complexity metrics can—to a limited degree—explain programmers' cognition in program comprehension. In the paper on the fMRI study, we outline several follow-up experiments investigating fine-grained effects of code complexity and describe possible refinements to code complexity metrics. We view our conducted experiment as a starting point to link code complexity metrics to neural and behavioral correlates. To enable future research to continue this line of work, we aim to provide as much support as possible to conduct similar studies with this artifact.


Aim: To ascertain therapeutic effectiveness and adverse reactions with radiochemotherapy for locally invasive bladder cancer, comparison was made between two‐port and four‐port irradiation with intravenous cisplatin administration.


In Malaysia, containerized freight transport has been growing and is expected to continue in that trend in the future. Therefore, the freight transport system needs to consider the growing impacts that it has on congestion, time of delivery, cost and environmental issues. To address such issues, there is a need to develop a framework to analyze intermodal transport network under different decision criteria and scenarios


Article history: Received April 25, 2012 Received in Revised form June, 16, 2012 Accepted 28 June 2012 Available online July 2 2012 In this paper, we study the effects of non-interest activities on return of some Iranian banks over the period of 2006-2011 using Pearson correlation as well as regression analysis. The paper uses two independent variables where the first one is obtained as a difference between other non-interest incomes with commission fee and the second one is the commission fee income. There are three dependent variables including return on investment, return of equities and risk, leading us to setup three regressions analysis. The result of our survey indicates that noninterest based activities have meaningful effects on the performances of banks. In addition, there are some meaningful relationships among interest free activities, which are mostly in terms of negative relations. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


Various challenging constraints must be satisfied in railway alignment design for topographically complex mountainous regions. The alignment design for such environments is so challenging that existing methodologies have great difficulties in automatically generating viable railway alignment alternatives. We solve this problem with a hybrid method in which a bidirectional distance transform (DT) algorithm automatically selects control points before a genetic algorithm (GA) refines the alignment. This approach solves the problems of (1) determining the appropriate distribution of control points in the GA and (2) producing alignments that deviate significantly from the DT‐optimized paths. Automatic design of backtracking curves and dynamic generation of vertical points of intersection handling multiple constraints are developed to improve the GA performance. This method has been applied to a real case on the Sichuan–Tibet Railway where excessively severe natural gradients must be overcome. It automatically finds an alignment optimized for the given objectives and complex constraints, as well as various promising alternatives.


It is a commonplace to state that elderly people and the old are becoming an increasingly important group in the community in most countries of the world. Nutritionally, at least, it is not yet a commonplace to investigate them. Durnin, Blake, Brockway & Drury (1961) give the results of measurements on the food intake and energy expenditure of seventeen elderly women living alone in their separate households. The present paper describes, as part of a large-scale study on elderly people in Scotland, similar measurements on some elderly men working in three different types of engineering. Only the mean results of the study of energy expenditure are referred to briefly here; the details of the type of work and of the results obtained are given separately (Durnin & Blake, 1962).


This paper aims to present a model predictive controller based on discrete state-space modeling, where the future control trajectory is approximated by a set of discrete-time Laguerre functions instead of shift forward operators. The benefit of using these orthonormal Laguerre functions is that they have fewer parameters to adjust in the optimization problem and the computation load is significantly lower than the standard predictive control. The effectiveness of this controller is illustrated through the quadruple tank process, which is a highly interacted, multivariable and constrained system.


Regular logic is the fragment of first order logic generated by equality, true, conjunction, and existential quantification. In this talk we will summarise the recent revamping and completion of the project to rigorously and completely understand the connection between regular logic – manifest as the internal language of regular categories – and general regular calculi – those objects capturing regular theories: contexts, predicates in those contexts, and supporting the regular fragment of logic thereupon. The connection between these two notions is mediated by a graphical formalism, and by our main theorem we may understand this graphical formalism as expressing the natural rules and operations of regular logic. In contrast to earlier work on the topic we give here a fully 2-dimensional treatment of the matter, and significantly generalise the earlier objects of study. In this way we are no longer obstructed by the technicalities imposed by working 1-dimensionally, and are able to successfully prove our desired comparison theorem, which we will state and understand in this talk: the 2-category of relational po-categories is "pseudo-reflective" in the 2-category of regular calculi. In addition, owing to the new generality we obtain the novel corollary that taking the regular category of internal functions in relational po-category is a 2-dimensionally represented 2-functor RlPoCat→ RgCat.


In defining children's literature, the centrality of the public whom this literature refers to is a crucial critical issue: children's literature is, in fact, «a category of books the existence of which absolutely depends on supposed relationships with a particular reading audience: children» (Lesnik-Oberstein 2002: 15). The article is structured in three parts: i ) in the first part, I will frame children's literature within the contemporary literary system and I will make explicit the asymmetry existing between, on the one hand, literature – and all agents involved in its production and in its distribution – and, on the other, children – reception; ii ) in the second part, I will make explicit the content of the assumptions most children's literature critics have and the ideas of child they are grounded on; iii ) in the third part, I will outline the reasons why questioning these assumptions is a political matter: the arguments used by those political forces that in Italy want to limit the distribution of and to ban Piccolo Uovo – and the like – are, in fact, grounded on the same assumptions most children's literature critics have, especially those working within pedagogy.


The authors demonstrate optimal control of the propagation of ultrashort, ultraintense (multiterawatt) laser pulses in air over distances up to 36m in a closed-loop scheme. They optimized three spectral ranges within the white-light continuum as well as the ionization efficiency. Optimization results in signal enhancements by typical factors of 2 and 1.4 for the target parameters. The optimization results in shorter pulses by reducing their chirp in the case of white-light continuum generation, while they correct the pulse from its defects and set the filamentation onset near the detector as far as air ionization is concerned.


Purpose: To compare the effect of autoclave and microwave post-polymerization treatments on flexural strength of hard reline and heat-polymerized acrylic resins.Material and Methods: Hard chairside reline and heat-polymerized acrylic resin specimens (64x10x3.3 mm) were fabricated. 80 specimens with 4 subgroups for each acrylic (n=20) received post-polymerization treatment by microwave irradiation and two autoclave post-polymerization modalities (short and long). Specimens were subjected to flexural strength testing using 3-point bending with a crosshead speed of 5 mm/min. Two-way, one-way ANOVA and Tukey's HSD tests were used for statistical analysis of data. Results: The microwave post-polymerization significantly increased the strength of heat polymerized acrylic resin and hard chairside reline resin specimens where its effect was significantly higher than the autoclave and control groups (p 0.05). Conclusion: Using autoclave, may be considered as a viable post-polymerization treatment alternative in order to increase the flexural strength of relined dentures.


OBJECTIVE: To report the clinical, electrophysiological, and autonomic features of a patient with acute autonomic and sensory neuropathy (AASN).
BACKGROUND: AASN is a rare disorder that has been only anecdotally reported.
METHODS: Case report.
RESULTS: 11-year-old male presenting with progressive imbalance and severe autonomic and sensory disorders after an upper respiratory tract infection. Autonomic disturbances included vomiting, diarrhea, anhidrosis, dry mouth, dry eyes, orthostatic hypotension and supine hypertension. Sensory disturbances included decreased perception of all sensory modalities in limbs and trigeminal area and severe sensory ataxia. Symptoms progressed for a few days and later stabilized. Neurological examination revealed very reduced or absent deep tendon, corneal, and gag reflexes with preserved muscle strength. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis was normal. A paraneoplastic panel was negative. Nerve conduction studies showed extremely reduced or absent sensory nerve action potentials in all nerves and absent blink reflex responses with preserved motor action potentials. No signs of peripheral nerve demyelination were found. EMG showed normal motor unit action potentials and full interference recruitment in all muscles, however, some fibrilation potentials were recorded in the right gastrocnemius muscle. Cardiovascular autonomic evaluation during tilt test evidenced decreased heart rate variability, orthostatic hypotension without compensatory tachycardia and very low levels of plasma norepinephrine. Spinal MRI showed extensive T2 hyperintensity of the dorsal aspect of the cervical spinal cord and bilateral focal enhancement of the trigeminal nerves. Several months after onset, significant autonomic and sensory deficits persisted.
CONCLUSIONS: The presence of acute autonomic and sensory deficits with preserved muscle strength confirmed the diagnosis of AASN. Despite possibly having an underlying immune-mediated mechanism, AASN cases are rarely diagnosed. A literature search for case or series studies returned 28 articles only. Milder forms of AASN could remain under-diagnosed. Disclosure: Dr. Gutierrez has nothing to disclose. Dr. Palma has received personal compensation for activities with Lundbeck Research USA, Inc. as a consultant. Dr. Vishwanath has nothing to disclose. Dr. Kaufmann has received personal compensation from Chelsea Therapeutics as a scientific advisory board member. Dr. Kaufmann has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for Clinical Autonomic Research. Dr. Kaufmann has received research s


For assessment of water quality in Gharasou River, located in the Northwest of Iran, multivariate statistical analysis was used. During the period of one year, 18 physical, chemical and microbiological parameters were sampled in 11 sampling stations. The measured data were analyzed by a multivariate statistical approach, Cluster Analysis (CA). Based on CA analysis the stations were divided to three groups of highly polluted (HP), moderately polluted (MP), and less polluted (LP) stations. The results of the study revealed that multivariate statistical techniques are an effective statistical method for water quality assessment, identification of pollution sources/factors in water quality for effective water quality management. As Extracted clustered information can be used in reducing the number of sampling sites on the River without missing much information.