This thesis has its origin in a series of theoretical investigations on the aspects of the standard model in particle physics. It summarizes some relatively independent but intrinsically related research work that I have done in the past four years. Diverse topics are presented and used to prove the relevance of certain theoretical models to the particle phenomena in nature. I investigate a measure of CP violation in strong interactions. In the presence of nontrivial topological gauge configurations, the 6'-term in QCD has a profound effect: it breaks the CP symmetry. The CP-violating amplitude is shown to be determined by the vacuum tunneling process, where the semiclassical method makes most sense. I discuss the important issue of whether or not the instanton dynamics satisfies the anomalous Ward identity (AWI). The strong CP violation measure, when complying with the vacuum alignment, is proportional to the topological susceptibility. To solve the IR divergence problem of the instanton computation, I present a 'classically gauged' Georgi-Manohar model and derive an effective potential which uniquely determines an explicit U(l)A symmetry breaking sector. The CP violation effects are analyzed in this model. It is shown that the strong CP problem and the U(1) problem are closely related. Some possible solutions to both problems are discussed. I examine an interesting scenario to solve the cosmological domain wall problem from the viewpoint of particle physics. The effective potential for Higgs fields is calculated in the presence of the QCD axial anomaly. It is shown that some discrete symmetries such as CP and Z2 can be anomalous due to a so-called K-term induced by instantons. It is pointed out that Z2 domain-wall problem in the two-doublet standard model can be resolved by two types of solutions: the CP-conserving one and the CP-breaking one. In the first case, there exist two Z2 -related local minima whose energy splitting is provided by the instanton effect. In the second case, there is only one unique vacuum so that the domain walls do not form at all. The consequences of this new source of CP violation are discussed. I study the behavior of the self-mass for a quark with a current mass larger than AgcD, as a function of its Euclidean momentum and mass, in QCD. An expression for the Bethe-Salpeter kernel of the Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation valid in both the infrared and ultraviolet regions is obtained based on a renormalization group analysis. The resulting SD equation is solved numerically. It is found that the quark constituent mass at zero momentum is substantially enhanced due to its effective gauge interaction. The solution in the ultraviolet region agrees well with the known asymptotic solution. The self-mass scales exactly as the on-shell current mass at a fixed momentum. A dynamical mechanism that may yield a natural chiral symmetry for fermions is presented. The small fermion mass generated by various dynamical interactions is obtained.


A new PCR-ELISA detection method of Streptococcus suis type 2 has been set up.A pair of primers contained upstream biotin label and a digoxin-marked specific probe were designed according to the published Streptococcus suis type 2 cps2j gene sequences,PCR amplifier was used as the hybrid spaces,and several main parameters were optimized.The results showed that the concentration of salmon sperm DNA of 1.6mg/mL,denaturation temperature of 94℃,denaturation time of 1 min,probe concentration 0.5 μmol·mL-1,hybridization temperature of 55℃,the the hybridization time 1 min,the first anti-role time 45 min,the second anti-role 40 min were the best conditions for sensitivity and specificity.17 negative samples were measured whose average was 0.057,variance was 0.047,and the ritical value was 0.198.


OBJECTIVES
The aims of this descriptive study were to characterize lung cancer patients by age at diagnosis, smoking status, and histology and, also to explore the histologic sub-type according to cigarette smoking, in a tertiary care setting.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
A retrospective review of 830 patients for whom smoking status was available in the records was carried out at a comprehensive cancer care facility, the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, situated in Lahore, Pakistan.

RESULTS
The mean age at presentation of the 830 evaluable cases was 59.8 years (standard deviation 11.8, range 18-90). Stratifying by gender, statistically significant differences were found in the average age at diagnosis between males (60.1 years) and females (57.5 years) and, in the distributions of non-smokers, current smokers, and ex-smokers, but none for histology.

CONCLUSIONS
Similar to other populations, the age of disease onset amongst females was lower than that seen in males. The proportion of smokers was higher amongst males versus females. The reversal of smoker to non-smoker ratio when stratified by gender, may highlight the importance of exploring alternate pathways implicated in the etiology of lung cancer in our population.


Independent college attributed to the applied undergraduate college and was one of the main part of undergraduate educationg in China.On the basis of the characteristic of independent colleges,the dialectical relationship between learners and teachers during the polymer chemistry teaching was explored.Polymer Chemistry was a conjoint course of theory and practice.In order to improve teaching effectiveness,the direction and method of teaching innovation along with the course property of Polymer Chemistry were proposed.


In this paper an innovative approach for preparing qualified and skilled engineers is presented. The paper reports on a new inter-institutional master's degree program in Information and Communication System (ICS) that is delivered online and across five European institutions. The program has been developed under the European grant "Remotelabs Access in Internet-based Performance-Centered Learning Environment for Curriculum Support (RIPLECS)", and it aims to mitigate the deficit in qualified professionals and technical job-specific skills. On the other hand, the program copes with the predominant students' lifestyles by eradicating distance and time restrictions. The program is administrated and delivered through an online learning platform (DIPSEIL) that enables world-wide distribution of learning resources by utilizing multiple Web servers at partners' institutions within a single network topology. Access to remote laboratories as an integral task within the subjects, in order to guarantee the acquisition of practical competences as well as the theoretical ones, is the main novelty of the program, making it a unique approach of its kind. The development and the organization of the program are discussed in this paper. This is followed by a description of a selected state-of-the-art remote laboratory–Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR)–that is going to be adopted in one of the master ́s subjects– Power Supplies for Information and Communication Technology (ICT). VISIR is a remote laboratory for wiring and measuring electronic circuits on a breadboard. Some previous results from the system implementation are presented along with the scheduled practices to be done within the new master's degree program.


Developing complex telecommunication systems requires more efficient, understandable, and extendible development approaches. This paper presents telecommunication systems development approach based on meta-model. The meta-model is devised in an object-oriented manner to be a reference model for developing telecommunication systems. A specific telecommunication system can be constructed by instantiating each component of the meta-model. With the meta-model, telecommunication systems can be built with ease and in a consistent way. The approach covers analysis and design phases in the development life cycle. The effectiveness of this approach is illustrated with an example of a video-on-demand service system.


Aggregating coherent generators is an important step in dynamic equivalencing to create a reduced order system. The available methods tend to keep dynamics of large generators which is a valid approach as these generators can provide a large amount of power. However, this approach loses the accuracy if a large generator is not able to provide enough power in the postfault state of the system. The typical methods also fail to create an accurate reduced system when there is an error in coherency identification. This manuscript presents a new adaptive aggregation method wherein the weight of each generator is determined based on its impact on the system dynamics. The proposed method keeps the dynamics of key generators which are more influential in dynamic behavior of the system. Additionally, by using the trapezoidal integration rule, a new criterion is defined to evaluate the accuracy of the reduced system. If the reduced system is not accurate, the non-coherent generators are identified and separated from their groups. The effectiveness of the proposed method is investigated and demonstrated using a IEEE 50-gen test system by comparing the results with Time-Domain simulation and Inertial Aggregation algorithm.


ABSTRACT Given the regression in empowering representations of queer women in the literary and, more generally, the cultural life of the modern Arab world, this article spotlights the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of female homosexuality as a site of redemptive and/or reparative, queer(ed) home in 21st-century Syria. Through a close reading of Samar Yazbek's Ra'ihat al-Qirfa (2008), and, for added nuance, its English translation Cinnamon (2012), the study explores the novel's curation of home in and through the protagonist Aliyah's same-sex relationship with her employer Hanan al-Hashimi. Using Roberta Rubenstein's and Sara Ahmed's notions of fixing past homes, and of queer(ing) home, respectively, the article shows how the sense of home cushioned by the same-sex affair transcends social class and domination/submission binaries. I thus argue that even as the same-sex relationship in Yazbek's novel may not be performative from a contemporary lesbian feminist perspective, it kneads hope, not desolation, into the plot and the real-life setting it extrapolates, since it responds to the local context the characters inhabit.


To understand the epidemiology, current treatment, and disease burden of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.


Background: Intracranial meningiomas are relatively common extra axial primary neoplasms which arises from arachnoid cap cells. The purpose of the study was to analyse the demographics, location, various clinical presentations, radiological characteristics, histological variants and grading of intra cranial meningiomas and their surgical outcome by simpson grading & recurrence if present. Materials and methods: A prospective observational study at single centre with all surgically treated patients of intracranial meningiomas during the period of August 2013 to December 2015 were included for analysis. Age, Sex incidence, different clinical features, Radiological findings, Location of meningiomas , Grading and typing of meningiomas based on histological features, Simpsons Grade of Resection and recurrence were studied. Results: A total of 52 patients of intracranial meningiomas managed surgically were included in this study. Follow up were available for all patients. Mean age was 44.96 yrs, 69.2% were females & 30.7% were males with male to female ratio of 1:2. The presenting symptom was headache in 69.2% patients and seizures in 40.38%. Convexity meningiomas corresponds to 57.7% of the tumors followed by 21.15% are parasagittal meningiomas. 50% of the cases were treated by Simpsons Grade II resection, followed by Grade I resection in 38.46% of cases. Tumor pathological grade was WHO grade 1 in 73.61% of patients, of which 30.77% were meningothelial meningiomas. Follow up period was 6 months to 3 years. Two cases in which Simpsons grade III and IV resection was done 2 had recurrence on followup. Conclusions : Intra cranial meningiomas are more common in females especially in middle and late age of adulthood. Convexity meningiomas as well as grade I histological variants are predominant. Recurrence of tumor depends on Simpsons grading of excision and histological grade of tumor.


Time history analysis of elasto-plastic seismic response of a single-layer three-span subway station with arched cross section and island platform has been carried out using finite element software MSC.Marc by means of static-dynamic coupling analysis method based on unified viscous-spring artificial boundary. A fiber model program THUFIBER is used to simulate the structure. The results show that both the middle positions of arched roofs of side spans and top positions of columns have strong responses to the horizontal acceleration and displacement. The columns take greater internal forces than other members of the structure under horizontal seismic loads, which implies that the columns are the most disadvantageous positions of seismic bearing. Compared with the bottom of the column, the top of it takes a similar axial force but a greater moment, thus it may be crushed first under strong seismic loads. The arched shape top roof takes a smaller moment and a relatively greater axial force, so the structural form with arched cross section has a more reasonable and advantageous stress state than that with rectangular cross section. The results also show that for the aseismic analysis and design of underground structures, the peak ground displacement relative to bedrock (PGRD) seems tobe a more reasonable and efficient design parameter of ground motion than the design basic acceleration of ground motion.


Automation control is needed in the industry today as facilitate oversight,
implementation and requires fewer workers. One of the tools that are needed in
the automation control PLC (Programmamble Logic Controller). Made in order
to facilitate learning as a training tool kit.
PLC
To make this training kit is more easily learned by students and more
similar to the industry then this training kit consists of a (Programmamble
Logic Controller) and Electropneumatic.
After training kit is made easier, students are expected to understand and
know how to work with the automation control system using PLC
(Programmamble Logic Controller) which is connected to the Electropneumatic.


Mars is the most similar planet as the Earth in the solar system. So it is the most studied planets in the solar system. U.S.A., Russia and E.U. have launched more than 43 satellites or spacecraft. China has realized to surround and land on the Moon, but has never been to explore Mars.


One of the ethical foundations of medical practice is the injunction: primum non nocere or 'first do no harm'. This is the basis of the ethical principle 'non-maleficence' in the
principle-based approach to bioethics. However, as all practitioners know, every substance (including plain
unadulterated H2O) can have unwanted or harmful effects - which are dependent on a variety of factors.


(Abridged) We study the effects of a global magnetic field on viscously-rotating and vertically-integrated accretion disks around compact objects using a self-similar treatment. We extend Akizuki & Fukue's work (2006) by discussing a general magnetic field with three components ($r, \phi, z$) in advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs). We also investigate the effects of a global magnetic field on flows with convection. For these purposes, we first adopt a simple form of the kinematic viscosity $\nu=\alpha c_{s}^{2}/\Omega_{K}$ to study magnetized ADAFs. Then we consider a more realistic model of the kinematic viscosity $\nu=\alpha c_{s}H$, which makes the infall velocity increase but the sound speed and toroidal velocity decrease. We next use two methods to study magnetized flows with convection, i.e., we take the convective coefficient $\alpha_{c}$ as a free parameter to discuss the effects of convection for simplicity. We establish the $\alpha_{c}-\alpha$ relation for magnetized flows using the mixing-length theory and compare this relation with the non-magnetized case. If $\alpha_{c}$ is set as a free parameter, then $|v_{r}|$ and $c_{s}$ increase for a large toroidal magnetic field, while $|v_{r}|$ decreases but $|v_{\phi}|$ increases (or decreases) for a strong and dominated radial (or vertical) magnetic field with increasing $\alpha_{c}$. In addition, the magnetic field makes the $\alpha_{c}-\alpha$ relation be distinct from that of non-magnetized flows, and allows the $\rho\propto r^{-1}$ or $\rho\propto r^{-2}$ structure for magnetized non-accreting convection-dominated accretion flows with $\alpha+g\alpha_{c}< 0$ (where $g$ is the parameter to determine the condition of convective angular momentum transport).


The United States, with over 11 million cases and ∼250,000 deaths (1), has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic since the first case was identified in Washington State on January 19, 2020. In New York City the first case of community acquired COVID-19 was identified on March 1, 2020 and the number of known cases increased rapidly making the city the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States. Public hospitals became deluged with patients as the communities they serve, urban poor and minority, were disproportionately affected by the disease. COVID-19 often affects the nervous system with both central and peripheral sequalae, neurology services had to adapt to a new landscape (2–6). This paper will report on the process changes for the neurology service, in particular for stroke and electroencephalography (EEG) services, at King County Hospital Center (KCHC), a 637 bed, public, university-affiliated, teaching hospital in central Brooklyn, New York, which serves a predominantly African American community. Implementing those changes resulted in maintaining our pre-COVID structure and quality of care despite the workflow, economic, and technical challenges induced by the virus.


Schmidt (1991-this issue) presented four criticisms of the sliding-band ap- proach we (Cascio, Outtz, Zedeck, & Goldstein, 1991-this issue) advocated. These criticisms deal with: (a) the use of statistical significance testing as the basis for a decision rule to determine whether candidates with different test scores should be treated as equivalent, (b) logic, (c) the particular data set used to illustrate the sliding-band procedure, and (d) whether true scores are parameters or statistics. We respond to each of these criticisms in turn, point- ing out the appropriateness of the sliding-band concept, from both a logical and statistical perspective, when an organization wants to maximize optimal selection and to take into account other criteria that may have economic and social consequences, such as having a diverse workforce. In addition, we present new sets of data to demonstrate that the original data set, which was intended for illustrative purposes only, is in fact not anomalous. In conclu- sion, we a...


Accountancy 288–307 amortization and impairment test 304–305 defi nition 304 US GAAP 305 initial measurement of patents 295–301 business competition 296 external acquisition 295–297 'Fair Value Measurements' 297, 301 technical and commercial feasibility 297 interrelated aspects 288 problems 289–290 disclosure of patents 289 initial recognition 289 measurement of 289 mismatch between economics and accountancy 290 recognition of patents 290–295 capitalisation of 294–295 conditions 292 identifi ability 293 IFRS vs US GAAP 295 probability, and 293 reliable measurement 293–294 US GAAP 294 useful life 301–304 Accounting purposes see Accountancy


Taking typical western ethnic pastoral area- Evenki Autonomous Banner in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as an example, this article analyses the factors restricting income increase of herdsman penetratingly as follows: the growth in revenue of animal husbandry in pastoral area is limited by ecology; the infrastructure construction in pastoral area lags behind, and the development of animal husbandry is still sluggish; the overall level of industrialization operation of agriculture and animal husbandry is not high; the employment structure of herdsman is simple, and the channel of income increase is narrow; the transfer of labor forces in pastoral area shows "pumping-like transfer"; herdsmen enjoy few national policies of supporting agriculture and benefiting farmers, and the policy support is short. On the basis of the actual situation in western ethnic minority areas, following countermeasures and proposals are put forward for increasing herdsman's income: transform the mode of production and operation, enhance the organization degree of the majority of herdsmen; improve infrastructure conditions, and promote comprehensive production capacity of agriculture and animal husbandry; quicken pace of industrialization, strengthen the construction of technology support and service system; speed up human capital accumulation rate of herdsman, improve self-development ability of herdsman; propel transformation of production pattern of animal husbandry, innovate ecological protection construction mechanism; increase subsidies for animal husbandry, pastoral area and herdsman in western ethnic minority areas, strengthen policy implementation.


Artificial insemination (AI) is widely used in farm animals for efficient utilization of superior males. However, AI is not being used in camels due to various difficulties involved in the process. In an attempt to develop the technology in camels, the present study was carried out to assess the success rate of insemination using fresh semen mixed by physical agitation within the extender media for overcoming difficulties out of gel formation. The studywas carried out utilizing 3 males and 10 female Omani camels. Starting from November 2015, 109 semen ejaculates were collected and good quality ejaculates were extended using Triladyl or Tris sucrose based extenders. Ejaculates added with the extender were subjected to physical stirring for 30 sec using plastic straws to achieve mixing of the ejaculate gel. Female camels were scanned regularly for ovarian activity, ovulation was induced and AI done using fresh extended semen doses having at least 100 million motile sperms. Seventeen AI in three rounds resulted in 9 pregnancies giving an overall conception rate of 53%. First insemination conception rate was 50% and 80% of thecamels conceived at least by three AI. Various determinants of conception from AI in camels are discussed. It is concluded that insemination using fresh semen extended by physical agitation in Triladyl and Tris Sucrose extenders provided encouraging conception rate for developing AI technology in camels.


In Yunnan red soil slope field,soil and water loss characteristics was studied by six kinds of farming measures,through monitoring the amount which Soil eroded in rainfall-runoff process by natural rainfall-runoff plot experiments. The study shows that contour ridge planting could effectively prevent the soil erosion by heavy rainfall in slope field,but not by consistent rainfall. The runoff amount of vertical ridge planting was more than contour ridge planting in heavy and consistent rainfall courses. The influencing factors of soil erosion were changed with tobacco growing period. The main factor affecting soil erosion at the early growth stage was ridge planting way. There was no obvious difference between the silt losses of farming measures during maturity. The maximal vegetation cover among different farming measures was the main factor affecting soil erosion.


4 May 2021). These recent observations call into question the relation between the ECI and the executive and the extent to which a non-elected body can maintain its autonomy in the context of the rise of majoritarian populist parties and governments. Other contentious issues include the timing of elections, announcement of election dates by persons other than those associated with the ECI, and more specifically its recent refusal to club together the last four phases of polling in West Bengal assembly elections even when there were rising cases of COVID-19 which spiked 530% in the poll bound states (theprint.in, 5 May 2021). The critical opprobrium generated by the conduct of the ECI is indicative of a loss of credibility that the institution has so painstakingly established for itself, a journey well spelt out in the book. Inter-institutional dynamics and the question of institutional autonomy in the context of the emergence of populist regimes may be issues that the authors could take forward in a separate volume. The importance of this book lies in demonstrating how Indian democracy, as manifest in the realm of electoral practice, most successfully countered the aspect of 'deference legitimation', (p.329) typical of the period which immediately succeeded independence. It traces the trajectory of the ECI as it expanded its remit from one of oversight, acting as a 'referee' to one of regulation in the 1990s, while simultaneously reigning in tendencies of institutional over-reach or loss of credibility by resisting being implicated into partisan electoral politics. As the book emphasizes, the very location of the ECI is reflective of its complex identity and complicated mandate. While being an institution of the state, it is tasked with ensuring that the act of popular sovereignty is realized, and democratic uncertainties respected. Yet, the very fact that all stakeholders are willing to play the electoral game as spelt out by the ECI and accept the election outcomes is testimony to its enduring legitimacy.


In the article, a new biofuel named ethylene glycol monomethyl ether palm oil monoester (EGMMEPOM) is developed as a clean alternative fuel for diesel engine. It was synthesized through transesterification reaction with a refined palm oil and ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (EGMME) as reactants and potassium hydroxide (KOH) as catalyst under certain conditions. Its chemical structure was identified through Fourier transform‐infrared (FT‐IR) spectrum, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy, and gel permeation chromatography (GPC) analyses, and its main fuel properties were measured precisely. A two‐cylinder diesel engine was utilized to investigate its combustion performances, fuel economy and emissions characteristics. When the engine was operated with the new biofuel at a high speed of 2000 r/min instead of diesel fuel, smoke emissions were decreased by 26.3% to 70.0% with carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon compounds (HC) emissions significantly reduced. Nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions were decreased by 14.0% to 23.5%. The new palm oil monoester has a cetane number as high as 77.0 which leads to a shorter autoignition delay duration than diesel fuel and makes the curves of in‐cylinder pressure increasing rate and heat release rate shift forward 2 to 3 degrees crank angle (°CA). Owing to more amount of oxygen existing in the new biofuel, both peak in‐cylinder pressure increasing rate and peak heat releasing rate decreased. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 35: 241–249, 2016


A series of acrylic copolymer solutions were prepared by copolymerizing methyl methacrylate (MMA) with n-butylacrylate monomers in toluene to high conversion using dibenzoyl peroxide (0.5 wt %) as initiator. The various reaction parameters, such as MMA concentration and mode of addition of reactants to the reaction vessel, were changed to obtain an acceptable quality of the resins for the paint. The properties of the resins and the effect of MMA concentration on these properties (such as viscosity, drying time, hardness, and adhesion) were measured according to ASTM standard tests. A linear relation between final percentages of conversion and MMA concentration was observed. Drying time, hardness, and glass transition temperature of the samples were increased with MMA concentration; adhesion of the samples remained constant up to 50 wt % of MMA and then decreased significantly with a further increase in MMA concentration. These results led to the selection of resins with the properties that fulfill the requirement of a good quality traffic paint. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 70: 367–372, 1998


In this work it was investigated the extracellular proteins (exoproteome) in a unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and a filamentous one, Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. The analysis was done in the presence of different nitrogen sources; nitrate and ammonium in both species and without combined nitrogen only in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 since Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is incapable of nitrogen fixation. The identification of the extracellular proteins was done with an ESI-ion trap mass spectrometry analysis. A total of 117 extracellular proteins were identified for Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 and 30 for Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Although most of the proteins identified had unknown functions it was notorious the presence of proteins related to the processing and acquisition of nutrients present in the medium. It was also identified proteins involved in the defense of oxidative stress in the Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 cultures. These proteins were further analyzed to confirm if indeed these proteins have activity in the extracellular milieu. To evaluate the contamination of the extracellular milieu with intracellular proteins, mutants expressing GFP exported to the periplasm were generated to ultimately verify the presence of the GFP in the exoproteome. Deletion mutants for the outer membrane pore (TolC) of the secretion pathway Type I were also generated for both species. In the future these mutants will be used to compare their extracellular proteins pattern against their respective wild type strain. The follow-up of the proteins identified in this work together with the characterization of the proteins identified will provide a better understanding of the mechanisms of survival of these bacteria in different environments. Key-Words: Extracellular proteins; Synechocystis; Anabaena; Protein Secretion FCUP Characterization of the Exoproteome of Two Morphologically Distinct Cyanobacteria VII


The inhabitants of rain fed zone of Indian Central Himalayas have survived on their traditional management practices for their daily needs. A survey of 5 villages of the Garurganga-Bhetagad watershed, Indian Central Himalayas was made through personal interview schedules of farming community. By the documentation and assessment of the different land resources in the watershed area it was noticed that the rain fed agriculture is one of the sensitive and risky land uses for crop cultivation. These rain fed agriculture lands have been categorized by farming community according to variation in soil behaviour as per agriculture land. Such land categorization of the rain fed agriculture is more relevant to scientific knowledge (in terms of land capability). Furthermore the forest and grassland of the study area are also used and managed by these farming people in view of maximum utilization. Thus, the traditional land management practices are closely related with modern scientific tools and techniques i.e. soil depth, physiography, climatic conditions, accessibility, approaches, etc.


The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of the shipping industry real economy index on the stock prices of domestic shipping companies. The parameters used in this analysis were the stock price of H Company in South Korea and shipping industry real economy indices including BDI, CCFI and HRCI. The period analysis was from 2012 to 2015. The weekly data for four years of the stock price index of shipping companies, BDI, CCFI, and HRCI were used. The effects of CCFI and HRCI on the stock price index of domestic shipping companies were analyzed using the VAR model, and the effects of BDI on the stock price index of domestic shipping companies were analyzed using the VECM model. The VAR model analysis results showed that CCFI and HRCI had negative effects on the stock price index, and the VECM model analysis results showed that BDI also had a negative effect on the stock price index.


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Abstract : The report discusses the sea test and evaluation of a modified spar, taut-moored oceanographic/meteorologic buoy which was implanted during January 1969 in 12,600 feet of water approximately twenty-five miles southwest of Bermuda.


Combined the RFID technology and ubiquitous computing technology,and applied it in the broad-sense supply chain.We researched the architecture of broad-sense supply chain,especially the terminal techniques in the architecture.With the application background of museum guiding,we had designed a terminal with the following functions:active service,passive service,RFID tags reading command.It integrated the following modules:embedded WLAN(wireless local area network),wireless real-time speech transmission,RFID tags reading module.The terminal design was based on the ARM MCU(microprocessor control unit) and embedded Linux technology.The accomplishment of this terminal is a important step in the construction of the whole system architecture.


Homosexuals were among those persecuted in nazi Germany. Various researchers have explained this in terms of National Socialist racist ideology and eugenics, because the, nazis justified their regulations on the basis of population policies. They were apprehensive at the appearance and spread of homosexuality because it would result in larger numbers of Germans no longer procreating. This persecution was inevitable and massive, so the argument runs, because in the Third Reich, sexuality above all served propagation, population expansion, biological health and the purity of the so-called 'Aryan' race.' Medical historians have characterized the nazi regime as a 'biocracy': major social and political issues like the Jewish 'question', ethnicity, gender, poverty, crime, 'asocial' behaviour and sexual deviance, were transformed into and reduced to biological and medical problems, for which there were apparently 'neutral', technical solutions. The willingness of the German medical profession to embrace the National Socialist cause was substantial, and biomedical scientists played an active role in the initiation, administration and execution of nazi 'biopolitics'.2 Thus it has been argued that the nazi biocracy was based on a strong affinity of the intellectual and social structures of professional medical science with authoritarian politics. The more science became expert knowledge and the domain of privileged professionals and a technocratic elite, the more it was conceptualized as undemocratic. Refuting the current notion that nazism corrupted, distorted and misused a supposedly neutral biomedical science, these authors assert that biology and medicine were already inherently politicized and that they lent nazism a specifically


Saudi Arabia is a crucially important media player in the Middle East, commanding modern, sophisticated and far-reaching media systems. Driving the Saudi media hegemony is what may be loosely termed 'a security imperative' which is tightly connected to internal dynamics, geopolitical considerations and regional rivalries. Empowered with its oil wealth, Saudi Arabia pursued a dual media strategy, operating state-controlled and circumscribed domestic media systems which insulate the population from undesired external influences and uphold the religious sensibility of the kingdom while developing decentralized, open and modern transnational media systems abroad capable of safeguarding the kingdom's interests and promoting its foreign policy. Instrumental as it may be in the kingdom's comprehensive security approach, though, the media have proven to be an inordinately complex asset. Although remarkable in many respects, the liberalization of Saudi media engendered a number of conflictual dynamics which are potentially consequential.


Of the 2 species of Chromobacterium, Chromobacterium violaceum has been rarely implicated in human disease. It is a bacterium of low virulence causing occasional localized infection and sepsis. We report a case of C. violaceum infection of pancreatic pseudocyst. The patient was treated by cystojejunostomy with Roux-en-Y jejunal loop and antimicrobial therapy with ciprofloxacin and amikacin. As sepsis due to this organism is associated with high mortality, empiric therapy with fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides is recommended, along with proper surgical management.


The Wolfram syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease affecting many organs with life-threatening consequences; currently, no treatment is available. The disease is caused by mutations in the WSF1 gene, coding for the protein wolframin, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) transmembrane protein involved in contacts between ER and mitochondria termed as mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs). Inherited mutations usually reduce the protein's stability, altering its homeostasis and ultimately reducing ER to mitochondria calcium ion transfer, leading to mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death. In this study, we found that activation of the sigma-1 receptor (S1R), an ER-resident protein involved in calcium ion transfer, could counteract the functional alterations of MAMs due to wolframin deficiency. The S1R agonist PRE-084 restored calcium ion transfer and mitochondrial respiration in vitro, corrected the associated increased autophagy and mitophagy, and was able to alleviate the behavioral symptoms observed in zebrafish and mouse models of the disease. Our findings provide a potential therapeutic strategy for treating Wolfram syndrome by efficiently boosting MAM function using the ligand-operated S1R chaperone. Moreover, such strategy might also be relevant for other degenerative and mitochondrial diseases involving MAM dysfunction. Description Activation of the ER chaperone sigma-1 receptor promotes functional recovery for MAM alteration in experimental models of Wolfram syndrome. Treating Wolfram syndrome in the ER Wolfram syndrome (WS) is a genetic disease characterized by early diabetes, optic atrophy, and deafness caused by mutations in the WSF1 gene. Pathologic mutations lead to altered communication between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the mitochondria within the mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs), ultimately resulting in impaired mitochondrial function and cell death. Here, Crouzier et al. used preclinical models of wolframin deficiency and showed that activation of the sigma-1 receptor in the ER restored MAM alterations, boosted mitochondrial function, and improved behavioral symptoms in zebrafish and rodents. The study identified a potential therapeutic target that could be targeted for alleviating symptoms in patients with WS and other MAM-related diseases.


In this paper anti money laundering policy of the international financial regime is analyzed in principal agent model perspective. The strategy of the principal for formal agents is deliberated for global financial stability. This strategy encompasses incentive and dis-incentive for cooperation of formal agent. Formal agent by cooperating with principal may induce dis-incentive for informal agent. All the integrating stake holders make decision on the basis of comparison of present value of marginal cost of non-cooperation and present value of returns from cooperation. As the desired objective of the principal is to minimize transaction of money through informal channels therefore it has to include informal agents and clients in the strategy. The successful anti money laundering strategy can only be evolved by the cooperation of all the stakeholders.


Purpose of review Immunosuppressive treatments increase the life-long risk of solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients for severe infections, some of which are vaccine-preventable. In this review of the literature published during the last 15 months, we critically summarize vaccine-oriented articles in SOT candidates or recipients. Because of previously reported differences, vaccine-specific studies are needed for each type of SOT recipients. Recent findings Thanks to new data gathered during the H1N1/2009 influenza pandemic, recent research mainly focused on influenza vaccination, especially in kidney transplantation. Lung transplantation, mycophenolate treatment, increasing age and end-stage organ failure were frequently identified as risk factors for nonresponse to immunization in general. New evidence concerning the safety of immunizing SOT recipients with live-attenuated vaccines is obtained. Summary


FIELD: metallurgy. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to production of cast iron or steel semis. In compliance with this invention, metal-bearing stock is reduced, at least partially, in reduction zone with the help of reduction gas, fed in fusion zone and smelted at feed of carbon carriers and oxygen-bearing gas to form reduction gas. Said formed gas is fed to reduction zone wherein it is converted and bled as export gas. Carbon dioxide is separated from export gas to use formed gaseous product for delivery of carbon carrier powders to fusion zone. Note here that gaseous product is fed to at least one mixing chamber along with said carbon carrier powders and transfer gas, nitrogen in particular, to fusion zone. EFFECT: power reducing, agent saving. 17 cl, 2 dwg


Prosthetic heart valves of the Bjork-Shiley Convexo-Concave (BSCC) type have long been used extensively in implants; however, there have been reports of cases where one component of the valves failed, leading to the demise of the patient. This paper presents a new method for noninvasive electromagnetic evaluation for this type of valve, using an eddy current transducer with orthogonal coils. In vitro experiments have shown that discontinuities of outlet strut with depths equal or larger than 0.4mm can be detected with a probability of detection (POD) of 86.4%, and in the case of discontinuities with depth equal or larger than 0.6mm with POD of 97%.Copyright © 2008 by ASME


A common problem in medicine is that a single therapy, such as a drug, can have different effects on different individuals. The vision of personalized medicine is to design and apply therapies, especifically pharmaceuticals, based on an individual's genotype, which significantly influences how biological mechanisms mediate the effects of drugs. The resulting variability in effects can either occur over different individuals (or inter-strain in the case of laboratory animals), or within an individual over time (or intra-strain in the case of laboratory animals). An example is variability of necrosis across mouse strains caused by a dose of acetaminophen (APAP) through APAP induced liver injury (AILI). We performed virtual agent-directed experiments in silico on biomimetic mouse analogs to help explain such variability. We found that the biomimetically plausible changes in certain critical mechanisms involved in AILI can mimic the intra- and inter-strain variability of necrosis in mice observed in wet-lab experiments.


Abstract: The adhesion molecule Mac‐1 plays an important role during leukocyte recruitment into inflammatory sites and also serves as a complement receptor type 3 (CR3). Mac‐1 is a noncovalent heterodimer consisting of an α‐chain (CD11b) and a β‐chain (CD 18). We report the cloning and sequencing (GenBank accession number U40072) of the porcine CD 11b cDNA using the reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR). Porcine CD 11b cDNA and deduced amino acid sequences demonstrated 84% and 80% sequence identity, respectively, with human CD11b. The 4.7 kb porcine CD11b transcript was also similar to the size of the human CD11b transcript. Northern blot analyses detected CD11b transcripts in spleen cells and peripheral blood leukocytes, but not in lung lavage cells. In contrast to Northern blot results, 72% of freshly isolated alveolar macrophages stained positive using a cross‐reactive anti‐human CD11b antibody (TMG6–5). Compared to spleen and peripheral blood cells, alveolar macrophages expressed the highest levels of CD 18 mRNA. Using anti‐CD 18 monoclonal antibodies which cross‐react with porcine CD 18, two different porcine CD 18 epitopes were identified by flow cytometric antibody competition assays. However, the majority of the anti‐CD 18 antibodies tested competed for the same CD 18 epitope. Mac‐1 expression in porcine alveolar macrophages was not altered at either the mRNA or surface expression level by inflammatory stimuli, including fMLP, PMA, LPS, hIL‐1α, hIL‐6, hTNF‐α, and hIFN‐γ.


Synopsis In an earlier paper [6] we showed that if q ϵ CN[0, ε) for some ε > 0, then the Titchmarsh–Weyl m(λ) function associated with the second order linear differential equation has the asymptotic expansion as |A| →∞ in a sector of the form 0 < δ < arg λ < π – δ. We show that if the real valued function q admits the expansion in a neighbourhood of 0, then


We explored the virome of the "Phytophthora palustris complex", a group of aquatic specialists geographically limited to Southeast and East Asia, the native origin of many destructive invasive forest Phytophthora spp. Based on high-throughput sequencing (RNAseq) of 112 isolates of "P. palustris" collected from rivers, mangroves, and ponds, and natural forests in subtropical and tropical areas in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Japan, 52 putative viruses were identified, which, to varying degrees, were phylogenetically related to the families Botybirnaviridae, Narnaviridae, Tombusviridae, and Totiviridae, and the order Bunyavirales. The prevalence of all viruses in their hosts was investigated and confirmed by RT-PCR. The rich virus composition, high abundance, and distribution discovered in our study indicate that viruses are naturally infecting taxa from the "P. palustris complex" in their natural niche, and that they are predominant members of the host cellular environment. Certain Indonesian localities are the viruses' hotspots and particular "P. palustris" isolates show complex multiviral infections. This study defines the first bi-segmented bunya-like virus together with the first tombus-like and botybirna-like viruses in the genus Phytophthora and provides insights into the spread and evolution of RNA viruses in the natural populations of an oomycete species.


The increased carbon emissions cause relatively climate deterioration and attract more attention of governments, consumers, and enterprises to the low-carbon manufacturing. This paper considers a dynamic supply chain, which is composed of a manufacturer and a retailer, in the presence of the cap-and-trade regulation and the consumers' reference emission effects. To investigate the manufacturer's behavior choice and its impacts on the emission reduction and pricing strategies together with the profits of both the channel members, we develop a Stackelberg differential game model in which the manufacturer acts in both myopic and farsighted manners. By comparing the equilibrium strategies, it can be found that the farsighted manufacturer always prefers to keep a lower level of emission reduction. When the emission permit price is relatively high, the wholesale/retail price is lower if the manufacturer is myopic and hence benefits consumers. In addition, there exists a dilemma that the manufacturer is willing to act in a farsighted manner but the retailer looks forward to a partnership with the myopic manufacturer. For a relatively high price of emission permit, adopting myopic strategies results in a better performance of the whole supply chain.


The utility model discloses a plate pipeline gate. The plate pipeline gate comprises an upper drum and a lower drum which are made of a plastic material and are connected together; an insertion slot with an opening in the right part is arranged at the connection part between the upper drum and the lower drum; a movable gate plate is inserted in the insertion slot; a handle is arranged a the right part of the movable gate plate; the upper drum and lower drum are both square; an upper rubber plate downwards extending into the insertion slot is adhered to the right side surface of the lower part of the inner cavity of the upper drum; a lower rubber plate upwards extending into the insertion slot is adhered to the right side surface of the upper part of the inner cavity of the lower drum. An upper groove and a lower groove which are matched with the upper rubber plate and the lower rubber plate are respectively arranged at the upper surface and the lower surface of the movable gate plate. The plate pipeline gate has the advantages of lower cost and difficulty for leakage.


Effect of length scales on microstructure evolution during Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD) was studied using orthogonal machining as a test of microstructure response. Machining was performed on Ni-200 in the plane strain configuration inside the chamber of a scanning electron microscope. Mechanics of material flow in the deformation zone was characterized in-situ using Digital Image Correlation. Post-mortem Orientation Image Mapping was performed using Electron Back Scattered Diffraction on partially detached chip specimens. Length scales were varied by setting depths of cut between 10-1 μm. It was found that with shrinking length scales, the continuous evolution of microstructure induced by SPD is replaced by abrupt but sporadic refinement mechanisms. By machining pre-strained samples, it was seen that this switchover is further instigated by initial defect concentrations.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


Meeting American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 16-19 November New Orleans, Louisiana USA Conference Co-ordinator AHA, Scientific & Corporate Meetings 7272 Greenville Avenue Dallas, TX 75231-4596 USA Telephone (1) 214 7061511 Fax (1) 214 373 3406 Meeting 6th International Conference Vascular Surgery 1992 1-3 October Seoul Korea JohnB Chang Headquarters, Long Island Vascular Center 1050 Northern Boulevard Roslyn, NY 11576 USA Telephone (1) 516 484 3430 Fax (1) 5164843482 1992


Regional wall motion analysis has been used in clinical routine to assess myocardial disease, particularly in ischaemia. This disease can be distinguished from normals by looking at the local abnormality of cardiac motion. In this chapter, the first result of a feature extraction experiment using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is presented, where abnormal patterns of myocardial contraction from patients are recognizable and distinguishable from normal subjects. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.


Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is a perennial plant widely used as a forage resource for several animals. This plant is the exclusive host of Hylastinus obscurus (Marsham) which causes irreparable damages to the root system affecting their persistence. It has been reported that the presence of the isoflavonoid formononetin in roots of red clover could act as an antifeedant on H. obscurus. There are not studies related to the formononetin content in red clover roots to the antifeedant effect elicited by experimental lines and cultivar of red clover. Six red clover genotypes were investigated in both formononetin content and their respective antifeedant action. The results showed to Sabtoron High and Superqueli-INIA with both the highest formononetin content in red clover roots and antifeedant effect, allowing to suggest that this secondary metabolites could be used as a chemical factor for red clover plants. Moreover, a rapid methodology for searching red clover genotypes with high formononetin content is reported.


Objective To explore the influence of archenteric symptoms including nausea,abdominal distention,poor appetite on nutrition ingestion in patients with severe hepatic diseases.Methods The actual amounts of energy,protein,fat mass and carbohydrates of patients with different types and numbers of archenteric symptoms were compared by investigating the patients'diet and archenteric symptoms and calculating their aim energy and actual ingestion.Results Archenteric symptoms could cause insufficient ingestion of energy.The influence on nutrition intake in patients with severe hepatic diseases varied with the symptoms and those with anorexia suffered the most.The more the symptoms occurred,the worse the nutrition intake was.Conclusion Improving the archenteric symptoms by target-oriented nursing measures plays a crucial role in increasing nutrition ingestion.


The process of collective predication is inherently vague. Whereas distributive predication commits a speaker to relatively concrete statements about the state of the world — if a plurality distributively holds some property, then each member holds that property — collective predica-tion admits much broader construals. So when are collective interpretations appropriate, what do they communicate, and what mediates the choice between distributive and collective interpretations in the first place? Rather than focusing our efforts on the nebulous interpretations of collective action statements, highlighted by predicates like build a raft, we consider in detail a specific class of predicates with more concrete, (relatively) objective evaluation strategies: gradable adjectives. Predicates like heavy or expensive admit ambiguities in interpretation when used to ascribe properties to sets of objects. The boxes are heavy can mean either that each member of some salient set of boxes is heavy, or that taken together the set of boxes collectively counts as heavy (even if no individual member is). Not all predicates are so permissive. Since Quine (1960, p.140), researchers have assumed that some predicates lack collective interpretations: The boxes are big is said to communicate about individual, but not total box size. Other size and shape predicates behave similarly (e.g., long, round); Schwarzschild (2011) terms them " stubbornly dis-tributive. " Here we show that the probability of an interpretation depends crucially on potential variability in the property being communicated. Collective weight is a stable property of sets: (1) The boxes were big/heavy/tall. (2) The boxes each were big/heavy/tall. (3) The boxes together were big/heavy/tall. Stacking boxes on top of each other or lining them up side by side, the total weight of those boxes remains the same, and corresponds to the sum of the weights of each box. The collective interpretation that eludes predicates like big or wide or long or tall depends crucially on the way a set of objects is arranged physically (e.g., stacked one on top of the other, lined up side by side, etc.). The collective size of a set will therefore change depending on the physical arrangement of the members of that set. Manipulating variability in interpretation by decreasing noise in physical arrangement makes a collective interpretation more likely: If sets of boxes regularly come stacked on top of each other, The boxes are big is more likely to communicate that the total size of some set of boxes is large. These …


While effects of program context on commercials have been investigated exhaustively, most of these
studies investigated a limited number of independent and dependent variables. Conversely, the
present study examined the effects of program elicited arousal (medium and high) and valence
(positive and negative) on subjects' emotions, memory as well as evaluation of neutral commercials.
Moreover, the pod position (first, third and fifth) of the target commercial has been examined in
conjunction with the abovementioned
variables. Results show that program arousal affects cued
recall, commercial evaluation and arousal during the commercials negatively, indicating that
commercials are better recalled and evaluated more favorably in a medium arousal program context
than in a high arousal program context. Also program valence affects commercial evaluation and
emotional valence during the commercial negatively. Commercials are better liked and subjects feel
more positive during commercials shown in a negative program context compared to commercials
shown in a positive program context. Effects of pod position are found as well. Results show that
program context effects gradually disappear after the end of the program. Cued recall and evaluation
of the commercial are only significantly affected by program context for the first pod position.
However, the effect of program arousal on arousal during the commercial remains the whole
commercial break.


ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of the informality double-bind, arguing that informal citizen volunteers must choose between helping border crossers in less formal and more intimate ways due to the lack of formal response, or leaving them to receive the inadequate aid of state-sponsored and formal organisations. Either choice entails multiple risks to both border crosser and volunteer. Drawing on fieldwork in Athens, Greece, in 2017–2018, we expose how volunteers engaged in 'intimate solidarity' with border crossers, giving out personal phone numbers and inviting them to stay in the volunteers' personal apartments. The article argues that (a) the cause of the informality doble-bind was the very lack of formal service provision which propelled volunteers to get involved in the first place, (b) organisational bureaucracy shelters government actors, aid workers and more formal volunteers from facing such ethical dilemmas, and (c) while these bureaucratic procedures appeared to produce precarity, they may have at the same time protected the border crossers and aid workers from risks associated with informal aid.


The measuring body of PRS-2 cigarette paper smoldering rate tester is industrial vision sensors P4E1.3, it could determine and identify the burning of the cigarette paper by using the advanced computer image processing techniques.The vision sensor can detection to 10,000 times per minute when the image resolution is 1.3 million pixels-accurate, it simultaneously monitors the 5 cigarette paper, and can ensure that the scanning frequency of each cigarette paper is not lower than 100 Hz. In the case of deducting the necessary analysis and calculation time, it can guarantee that the timing accuracy is no less than 0.1s. The instrument is able of detecting the serrated depth of the burned cigarette paper line and excludes the misjudgment which caused by human factors,so it could achieve control, data analysis, save and print independently.


Objective To study the relations between HBsAg-positive and ABO blood groups.Methods HBsAg-positive and ABO blood groups were detected respectively by ELISA and micro-plate in 1 559 Yao population.The distributions of HBsAg-positive in ABO blood groups as well as sex groups were analysed by Chi-square (χ2) test. Results There were 299 HBsAg-positive patients among the total 1 559 cases.The total HBsAg positive rate was 19.18%.Male positive rate was 19.70% while that of female was 18.70%. There was no statistically significant difference between different sex groups.The distribution of HBsAg-positive people in ABO blood group was AOABB in male,and ABOAB in female. There was no significant difference of ABO blood group distribution on sex(χ2=8.51,P0.05). HBsAg positive rate of A2 subgroup accounted for 66.67%,and all of the patients were female.Conclusion The HBsAg positive rate of Yao nationality in Guangdong was higher than average level of the whole country. There was no statistically significant difference of HBsAg-positive population's blood types in different sex groups.


Aggressive Non-Hodgkin - Clinical Limited-stage diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is associated with favourable outcomes with overall survival of 70-80% at 10 years. Stage-modified IPI (sm-IPI) predicts the risk of relapse and death based on clinical factors that do not include extranodal (EN) involvement, although in some studies it has been associated with worse outcomes. To analyse the characteristics and outcomes of limited-stage DLBCL in a single center series and evaluate the prognostic impact of EN involvement. We conducted a retrospective analysis of consecutive patients with newly diagnosed stage I-II DLBCL treated with curative intent at a single centre from 2015 to 2019. Primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma, primary testicular lymphoma, primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma and transformed lymphoma were excluded. Response to therapy was assessed according to Lugano criteria. Overall (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) were calculated by Kaplan-Meier method and comparisons done by the log rank test. Cumulative incidence of relapse was calculated using competing risk models and Gray test for group comparisons. Cox regression was used to identify prognostic factors for PFS. were and Seventy-two Our study corroborates the very favourable outcomes of localized DLBCL. We could not find differences in PFS according to N and EN presentations when controlling for other prognostic factors. These results do not support different treatment strategies for EN disease; however, due to limited sample size the role of RT and the prognostic impact of specific locations cannot be fully ascertained.


The openness of the Web allows any users to access almost any type of information. However, some information, such as adult content, is not appropriate for all users, notably children. Additionally for adults, some contents included in abnormal pornographic sites can do ordinary people's mental health harm. In this paper, we propose a new criterion and divide contents of Web documents into 4 grades. We use a hierarchical way of filtering texts. At first, we filter off 0-grade texts contain no adult contents using a pattern matching algorithm, and classify 1-grade, 2-grade and 3-grade texts using a machine learning algorithm


This paper investigates properties of the second best allocation in a scal federal system in which both federal tax and intergovernmental grants are involved and the taxation is distortionary We extend the analysis of Boadway and Keen and Dahlby and Wilson by introducing both imperfect mobility and heterogeneous regions In contrast to the outcomes in the existing works we nd i the second best does not require the equalization of the conventional MCPFs between regions ii in order to replicate the second best matching grants based on either the local tax rates or tax revenues should be introduced to internalize the tax externality and iii federal tax policy is redundant once the intergovernmental grants are optimized The irrelevancy of the federal tax implies that optimal scal gap is indeterminate Therefore it will be argued that the standard framework of scal federal model in the literature does not provide a rationale for either decentralization or centralization of the tax system once the federal government is allowed to use su cient instruments of inter regional transfers


Preventing retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss could improve outcomes in retinal disease or injury. Studies suggest that somatostatin may be beneficial in some retinal diseases. As RGCs are the only cell type in the retina that express sst4, a better understanding of the sst4 signaling pathway may provide a selective therapeutic target in retinal disease. The aim of the present study was to examine the signaling pathways involved in sst4 stimulation in RGCs. Experiments used whole‐cell patch clamp techniques to isolate ICa in isolated rat RGCs. L‐803,087 (selective sst4 agonist, L‐803) suppressed ICa by 39% compared to control. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin (Gi/o inhibitor, PTX) had no effect on basal ICa amplitudes or the ability of L‐803 to suppress ICa. Administration of L‐803 in GF109203X (GFX, a PKC antagonist) pretreated cells showed similar suppression of ICa compared to cells not pretreated with GFX. These results suggest that suppression of ICa by L‐803 is not mediated by a Gi/o signaling pathway, nor is it mediated by the actions of PKC (Gq signaling pathway). Ongoing studies are examining a potential role of βγ subunits in the modulation of Ca2+ channels by sst4. Support from CIHR‐NSHRF RPP, NIH.


Abstract We investigated the adsorption characteristics of hydroxyatrazine (HA) and introduced a relatively simple method to analyze and extract the compound from wetland sediment. Although concentration of HA could be easily measured using an amino‐phase HPLC column, one should be cautious not to use solvent programs that interfere with atrazine (A). The adsorption characteristic of HA on wetland sediment was roughly linear with a distribution coefficient of 0.057 L/g. About 90% of HA adsorbed on the sediment was recovered using our heated extraction method.


Based on the C-TRDM temporal data model and the time filtration operator,a method for the aftertime temporal data processing is put forward,that is implementing temporal data's pro-arranging on its lifespan with extending timeaxis and operating with the time filtration operator.The illustrations of classroom resource management of an university are provided.


The green′s function edges detection algorithm could be highly interfered by the noise and threshold value.According to the problem,anisotropic diffusion equation was applied to the noise treatment.The improved particle swarm algorithm was applied to optimize the exponent entropy for the determination of the low and high threshold values.The improved green′s function edge detection algorithm was introduced to the processing of the seam images and could be effectively to sole the contradiction between the anti noise capacity and accurate positioning capacity for the edge detection technology.The simulation results showed that the edges detected with the improved algorithm was fine and coherence and the noise interference was low.The improved algorithm was applied to the seam image process with good results.


ABSTRACT Although Tarawa Atoll appears to be little different from the other fifteen Gilbert Islands it has been the most important island of the group for seventy years. A detailed examination of physical relationships and historical developments illuminates the reasons for its precedence. Geographical situation and excellent lagoon passage and anchorage have been dominant factors since its selection for Protectorate headquarters in 1895, whereas turbulent inhabitants, port of entry policies, and a variety of centripetal factors have contributed to the augmentation at various times. As a case study in microcosm it illustrates many of the factors of political geography which lead toward the development of capitals.


A detailed /sup 29/Si NMR analysis is presented on the silylation of a series of heat-treated silica gels by hexamethyldisilizane (HMDS) with the aim of elucidating details of the surface hydroxyl population of the unsilylated samples. It is found that the complete removal of all silanol groups from silica is probably approached only at temperatures higher than those normally employed in silica treatment (i.e., higher than 1000/sup 0/C) and that some molecular water may remain on the surfaces of samples normally considered ''dried'' (e.g., evacuated at 200/sup 0/C). The population and reactivity patterns of surface hydroxyls are considered in terms of reasonable surface and dehydration models.


Mechanical upgrades can increase the overall performance of a house by as much as 40%–50%, and the remaining 50%–60% inefficiency in the overall performance of a home is largely misunderstood. This 4-page fact sheet discusses ways to improve your home by making minor conservation measures. Written by Randall A. Cantrell and published by the UF Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, March 2012.
FCS3309/FY1320: Improving Savings and Health through Minor Conservation Measures in the Home (ufl.edu)


During routine anatomical dissection of the right lower limb of a 68-year-old male cadaver, a rare muscle variation was revealed and identified as an accessory piriformis muscle. This variant muscle started from the anterior surface of the sacrum below the usual piriformis muscle and extended in a well-identifiable lateral tendon also inserting to the greater trochanter of the femur. In the case described, the accessory piriformis pierced through the proximal part of the sciatic nerve. The length of the additional small muscle was 85 mm with the broadest part of the muscle belly as 9 mm. The course of the variant muscle, especially its tendinous part, might irritate the sciatic nerve and cause piriformis syndrome and other sciatica-like symptoms. The neurologists who diagnose piriformis syndrome and surgeons performing nerve releasing surgery should be well aware of the described rare muscle variation.


A method of AC loss measurement for an air-core superconducting transformer is introduced. By using this method, the AC loss of an experimental transformer has been measured. Based on this, an equivalent circuit which includes losses has been proposed, and the validity of this equivalent circuit has been confirmed by experiment. From the results of loss analysis by using this equivalent circuit, it has become clear that the loss characteristics of an air-core superconducting transformer are seriously affected by the magnetic coupling factor. Therefore, the loss relates to the leakage flux. >


This paper discusses the use of pulse techniques for analysis of zonal elution data for the determination of mass-transfer and axial dispersion constants for porous support materials with adsorption to the surface or to a surface-bonded phase. As an example, this paper considers the case of controlled pore glass (CPG) with a bonded phase that is used with microcolumns and a flow injection analysis system. For the CPG, axial dispersion in the form of eddy mixing can be described by l = 0.203, and the overall mass-transfer term, K(OL) = 3.9 x 10(-6) cm/s. Additionally, an affinity chromatography model was adapted to effectively describe systems employing CPG as the support material through modification of equations describing typical affinity chromatography systems and by inclusion of an axial dispersion term in the calculation of N. This model was used to predict breakthrough curves for cadmium adsorption by 8-hydroxyquinolinol immobilized on CPG packed in microcolumns. In general, the information from the model can be used to extract equilibrium-based constants (binding strengths and site capacities) from a nonequilibrium flow system. The data and model can also be employed in determining the performance for scaled-up extraction systems. The modified model is available in EXCEL spreadsheet format as Supporting Information.


Kathryn M. E. Dominguez of the University of Michigan reviews "Currency Conflict and Trade Policy: A New Strategy for the United States," by C. Fred Bergsten and Joseph E. Gagnon. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: "Analyzes the economics and politics of currency manipulation, globally and with respect to the key individual countries that engage in repeated intervention or feel its effects, and demonstrates empirically the strong connection between official foreign-exchange intervention and trade imbalances."


Hidradenoma papilliferum (HAP) is known since the nineteen century. The vast majority of cases occur on genital and perianal regions of women. Tumors found in other areas of the body are considered to be "ectopic". The lacrimal caruncle is a vestigial skin structure with a diverse histology including hair. To our knowledge, the presence of HAP on the caruncle was referred only once in a series of cases published in a gynecological journal. We report for the first time in the ophthalmic literature a case of a caruncular hidradenoma papilliferum (HAP) as an unusual benign tumor of apocrinic differentiation.


Co-branding has seen a dramatic increase in its use as a strategic marketing tool by enterprises worldwide over the past decade.In this paper,factors influencing the performance of co-branding strategy are identified based on a literature review of the function and functioning mechanism of co-branding,and a framework is proposed to help enterprises to get involved into the implementation of co-branding strategy to expand international market.


With the booming development of the modern vehicle industry,the safety problems caused by heat generation of batteries become more severe,thus an effective cooling and heating device is necessary.Compared with most studies on thermal dissipation for batteries in high temperature,there are little studies on heating batteries in low temperature.According to thermal principles,a heat transfer model of hot wires was established.With this model,an electric air-heated box made of 11 electric heating wires in parallel was designed and produced.The Air with constant 20 ℃ was input into the box.Less than 8 minutes later,the output air temperature could be raised to 90 ℃.And then the high temperature air was used to heat the low temperature batteries.The box and the battery pack in series were put in the thermostat at-15 ℃.About 21 minutes later,the battery-surface temperature could be raised to 0 ℃.Therefore it is effective that the high temperature air heated by hot wires was used to heat the low temperature batteries.


This article is devoted to the study of correlations between school teachers' locus of control and symptoms of professional burnout. The results allow suggest that teachers taken as a whole are characterized by internal control and expressiveness of emotional exhaustion. The less the teachers are internally controlled, the less they are under the risk of depersonalization, and those with an internal control have shown to be less experienced and burnout symptoms are accompanied by personal anxiety.


THz (Terahertz) wave communication has been widely researched for its great properties in high quality short distance communication. In this article, we have proposed an experimental system using electronic multipliers to realize 3.5 Gbit/s OOK signal delivery at 441.504 GHz over 88 cm free‐space transmission, and the BER is below the 7% FEC threshold of 3.8 × 10−3. Without the photonics‐aided procedure, the system complexity can be significantly reduced, and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to realize THz signal generation and wireless transmission with an electrical method.


Brain Computer Interface (BCI) controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) has been
proposed in literature for rehabilitation of spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke patients [1, 2]. It is believed that
faster rehabilitation can be achieved by combining the activation of the motor pathways through motor imagery
(MI) and sensory pathways using FES [3]. Currently, suggested solutions typically rely on costly equipment,
limiting their application to a hospital environment. The period of potential rehabilitation for patients is longer
than the average time spent at the hospital post-injury; therefore patients would benefit from extended homebased
therapy with an inexpensive, user-friendly device. Here we propose a portable BCI system consisting of a
wireless multi-channel headset (EPOC, Emotiv, USA) and a tablet (ASUS Win 8.1), combined with multichannel
FES (Rehastim, Hasomed, Germany).


A new residual-based finite element method for the scalar Helmholtz equation is developed. This method is obtained from the Galerkin approximation by appending terms that are proportional to residuals on element interiors and inter-element boundaries. The inclusion of residuals on inter-element boundaries distinguishes this method from the well-known Galerkin least-squares method and is crucial to the resulting accuracy of this method. In two dimensions and for regular bilinear quadrilateral finite elements, it is shown via a dispersion analysis that this method has minimal phase error. Numerical experiments are conducted to verify this claim as well as test and compare the performance of this method on unstructured meshes with other methods. It is found that even for unstructured meshes this method retains a high level of accuracy. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This article examines the learning processes and the generation of technical capabil ities in the autoparts and petrochemical industries in Mexico, as part of an inter national competitive process. This analysis explores the process through which technology is generated and diffused and is useful as a source of long-term competi tion. Based upon in-depth interviews in more than fifty companies, the study con cludes that both industries have experienced an important learning process, although in some cases it has been limited, which has enabled many companies to accumulate important productive capabilities but scarce technological capabilities. The market position of the companies has been maintained or has been better off as a result of this technological learning process.


Charge transfer (CT) complexes formed between electron donors and acceptors have been studied extensively.It has been considered impossible to distinguish kinetically whether CT compleses are real intermediates in the reactions so far.This review summarizes the results of CT complexes studies with focusing on the mechanistic aspects.Negative observed activation enthalpies obtained in hydride transfer reactions and in Diels Alder reactions indicate that CT complexes act as true intermediates in these reactions.


Wastewater runoff containing hazardous dyes must be treated properly before being discharged into the environment. Indigo carmine (IC), a kind of dye, has been recognized to be potentially toxic. In this work, mediated electrochemical oxidation (MEO) using cerium (Ce4+) mediator ions incorporated with an Ag+ catalyst ion was tested to treat IC solution in a reactor as a simulation. The experimental results demonstrated that the IC molecules can be degraded quickly in a relatively short time by MEO. It was clearly shown that the degradation performance of IC by MEO was affected by the Ce2(SO4)3 concentration, working potential, time, and catalyst ion concentration as well. In addition, the high percentage recovery of Ce4+ proves the reusability of Ce4+ as a mediator ion. As an outstanding result, the percentage degradation of IC using Ce4+ /Ag+ ions was remarkably higher than that without Ce4+ mediator ions (100% vs 2%). In summary, our work suggests that MEO using a combination of Ce4+ mediator and Ag+ catalyst ion has great potential to improve the wastewater quality


Bovine coronavirus (BCV) is an important cause of calf enterocolitis and respiratory disease. It is the second major cause of viral diarrhea in calves, with rotavirus being the first. At the Wisconsin Animal Health Laboratory during 1993-1994, BCV was detected in 93 cases of calf scours out of 1,058 bovine fecal samples examined by direct electron microscopy. Electron microscopy is used commonly for the diagnosis of enteric viruses, including BCV. The advantages of electron microscopy are that diagnosis can be made rapidly and multiple pathogens, a common feature in enteritis, can be detected simultaneously. Using electron microscopy, more than a dozen novel enteric viruses have been described in the last 2 decades. However, electron microscopy has some limitations; approximately 1 million viral particles should be present to detect a virus by electron microscopy. Thus, it lacks sensitivity and can lead to false-negative results. In addition, some viruses, especially coronaviruses, can be confused morphologically with nonviral particles such as intestinal brush border epithelium and with other morphologically similar viruses, leading to false-positive results. Virus isolation is not commonly used for the diagnosis of BCV. However, 1 advantage is that the virus propagated in cell culture can be used for further antigenic and genomic characterization. To improve BCV isolation from clinical samples, factors affecting its isolation and propagation in human rectal tumor18 (HRT18) cell line were investigated. In a previous study, 10 HRT-18 was found to be a suitable cell line for BCV isolation. In this study, BCV propagated in vitro showed a change in hemagglutination pattern from that of the BCV from the original clinical samples. It is not known if this change correlates with changes in antigenicity and immunogenicity of the virus. HRT-18 and human colon tumor-8 (HCT-8) cells are derived from adenocarcinomas of human rectum and colon, respectively. 16 The 51 samples included in this study were provided by the Wisconsin Animal Health Laboratory (WAHL), Madison (n = 27), the California Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (CVDL), San Bernardino (n = 6), and another diagnostic laboratory (referred to as VDL for confidentiality) (n = 18). Samples were obtained as 20% fecal suspensions in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (pH 7.2), as


Fermented whey and soy beverages with curcumin supplementation has no cholesterol, low lactose, high protein to fat ratio and ability to fights against several diseases. These beverages are more palatable, digestive and good for lactose intolerant people. Addition of curcumin increases its medicinal and nutritional properties. Soymilk was prepared by adding whey in place of water and supplemented with curcumin. L. acidophilus NCDC195 (LA195) and S. thermophilus NCDC323 (ST323) were used for fermentation. After 24 hour of incubation at 37 0 C their acidity and total count were 1.38, 1.41 and 9.09, 9.39 log cfu/ml respectively. Antimicrobial activity was also analyzed at different levels of curcumin. LA195 and ST323 had shown antimicrobial activity against E.coli, B.cereus, S.aureus, L. monocytogenes, Sh.dysentriae, and S.typhi . Zone of inhibition ranged between 16 to 23 mm. Maximum antioxidant activity was obtained by LA195+ST323 (989.70 TEAC (μM)) with curcumin. Prepared fermented drink was analyzed for sensory properties on the basis of 9 point Hedonic scale. Soy beverage with 12% sugar solution was having more acceptability in terms of colour and flavour. Product was stable for 4 days at 4 0 C and no coliform and yeast and mold were present. Product showed increase in acidity upto 14 days. After 14day of storage acidity and total counts (CFU/ml) were, 1.86 and 8.57 respectively. Antioxidant activity decreased during the storage from initial 986.46 to 702.58 TEAC (μM) on 14 th day. The results showed that the fermented whey and soy based curcumin supplemented beverage had health beneficial biofunctional properties.


The future energy demand will require a change in the current energy supply. In this regard, the production of hydrogen by photoelectrochemical solar cells is a promising alternative because the fuel is obtained from water and, importantly, its combustion is free of carbon. Many metal oxides, including those having a complex stoichiometry (i.e. ternary oxides) behave as semiconductors and present good stability in aqueous environments, making them attractive candidates for water splitting devices. This thesis focuses on the preparation and study of ternary metal oxide materials as photoelectrodes for water splitting, with emphasis on photocathodes. These materials must meet the requirements for a practical device: low cost, non-toxicity, made of Earth abundant elements, environmentally friendly, etc. The thesis also aims at the study of strategies to improve their photoelectrochemical response. lt comprises the investigation of the kinetics of hydrogen generation reaction and the characteristics of the electrode solution interface by photoelectrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The main points can be summarized as: (i) the effect of an electrochemical oxidative pretreatment in CuFe2U4 photocathodes (ii) the investigation of water splitting mechanisms in CaFe2U4 photocathodes, (iii) the effect of metal doping in LaFeO3 photocathodes (iv) the study of the photoelectrochemistry of compact and nanoparticulate YFeO3 photocathodes and (v) the effect of a reductive electrochemical treatment in NiTiO3 photoanodes, and comparison with the effect of the treatment in anatase electrodes.


This paper makes a case for the use of participatory ergonomics by and for ergonomists. A strategy for using participatory ergonomics in a conference workshop format is described. The process could be used as a tool for issues of common concern among ergonomists. it would also offer an experience of the participatory ergonomics process. An example workshop on quantifying costs and benefits of ergonomics is discussed.


The tablet published in ARET 5 no. 23 turne out to be a scribal exercise containing lines 50-57 of Word List D (MEE 3 165ff.) whose first forty-nine lines were studied by this writer in OrAn. 21 (1982) l ff. The tablet ARET 5 23 starte exactly where MEE 3 63, ends and both tablets are therefore likely to be part of the same curricular activities. The text, presented with the corresponding "Standard** Sumerian version on the left, reads äs foÜows:


In a compact orbifold, for small prescribed volume, an isoperimetric region is close to a small metric ball; in a Euclidean orbifold, it is a small metric ball.


Seventeen diabetic patients with moderate to mild foot lesions associated with 20 osteomyelitic bones diagnosed by both bone scan and bone biopsy received rifampicin plus ofloxacin for a median duration of 6 months. Cure was defined as disappearance of all signs and symptoms of infection at the end of the treatment and absence of relapse during follow up. At the end of the treatment period, cure was achieved in 15 patients (88.2%) and was maintained in 13 patients (76.5%) at the end of an average post-treatment follow-up of 22 months. No serious drug-related adverse events were recorded.


This paper shortly introduces the two logic programming languages Prolog and Mercury. On this background we introduce the problem of analysing termination of programs. Then we present Mercury's termination analyser, that the authors of the language incorporated into its compiler. We will also discuss the proposition based on the same method analyser for Prolog's predicates.


An in-line inspection method for partial-electrical measurement of defect resistance, which is quantitatively estimated from the voltage contrast formed in an SEM image of an incomplete-contact defect, was developed. This inspection method was applied to wafers manufactured for an SRAM device. That is, the gray scales of the defect images captured on an SRAM plug pattern were quantitatively analyzed. Accordingly, the gray scales of defective plugs formed for shared contact patterns were classified as two levels. The higher contrasts, which were calculated from the grayscales of the darker defects, were about 100%; the lower contrasts, which were calculated from the grayscales of the other defects, were from 38% to 60%. The resistances of these defects were estimated from a calibration curve obtained from the grayscales of the SEM images and the resistances of deliberately formed failures on standard wafers for voltage-contrast estimation. The estimated resistances of the lower-contrast defects (with an accuracy of about an order of magnitude) agree well with the resistances measured by nano-prober. It is concluded that this in-line inspection method for partial-electrical measurement is a useful technique for defect classification based on defect resistance and defect mode.


Guidelines for preparing and mounting specimens of Cyclanthaceae, as well as a key to the genera, are presented in order to facilitate collecting of a difficult and often neglected family. In general, specimens should be prepared so the depth of the leaf division is apparent and the lower surface of the basal part of the leaf is visible or accessible. The family Cyclanthaceae has far fewer species than the other related families of large intractable monocots for which guides to the preparation of herbarium specimens have recently been published (Croat, 1985; Dransfield, 1986; Stone, 1983). Nevertheless, in much of the wet lowlands of the Neotropics the cyclanths form a very conspicuous element of the understory and epiphyte flora (Figs. 1, 2). Careful collecting in almost any area of wet primary forest often yields new species because the family is poorly represented in herbaria and many species are narrowly endemic. This paper is a call for more collections as well as a guide to help insure that they be properly prepared.


According to one embodiment of the present invention, by making the frictional force it can be selectively transmitted to the first reverse gear the driving force transmitted to the driving gear a double gear so that a variety of other media can be fed is properly separated through a second reverse gear it is possible to provide a printing medium feeding device and an image forming apparatus including the same to rotate the retard roller in a rotational direction opposite to the direction of the forward roller to also be accurately separated special media, the friction coefficient low. According to one embodiment of the invention, the drive gear the second reverse gear is selectively to be connected to the material, so as to have the best separation conditions, depending on the paper being fed to the paper thickness, a variety friction different exactly the paper is separated can be fed.


This article presents an approach for identification of measurement bias within the fuel pump of a gas turbine engine using principal component analysis and partial least squares approaches. These techniques are used to categorise the levels of deterioration experienced by the engine in order to improve the diagnosis of any measurement bias. This work illustrates that principal component analysis can provide a good estimation of fuel pump measurement bias in a gas turbine engine and improve efficiency of flight by more accurate measurement of fuel. Different methods are investigated to find the best adaptation of principal component analysis for diagnosis of fuel pump measurement bias, which provides robust estimation of engine deterioration and expected fuel flow to the engine.


In order to study the influence of raw materials, the mold culture addition and fermenting time on the quality of rice wine, the comprehensive utilization of the optimized rice wine process in practice was discussed. The aroma rice, glutinous rice, red rice and black rice in Renxing Town, Lufeng County, Chuxiong City were used as the main experimental materials, and the single-factor test was used to optimize the fermenting process of the mixed glutinous rice wine. The contents of starch, reducing sugar and soluble solids in aroma rice, black rice, red rice, and glutinous rice were measured after soaking, cooking and cooling, and the quality characteristics of the raw materials in mixed rice wine were studied. Using the black rice, red rice and aroma rice mixed with glutinous rice separately for the mixed rice wine, and using the rice wine made from single glutinous rice as blank control. The physical and chemical indexes and electronic tongue analysis of the mixed rice wines were determined, and the best rice materials were selected by combing with sensory evaluation. Using the best rice materials, different concentration gradients of the mold culture were added in for fermentation (1 g/230g, 1 g/240g, 1 g/250g and 1 g/260g), the best concentration of the mold culture were obtained. Based on the optimum materials and the optimum concentration of the mold culture, the different time gradients (5 d, 8 d, 11 d, 14 d and 17 d) were set for fermentation to study the effect of fermentation time on rice wines. It was finally determined that the best material was the aroma rice. The optimum concentration of the mold culture was 1 g/240 g, and the optimum fermentation time was 14 d. By fermenting glutinous rice wine with aroma rice can increase the rice aroma of rice wine on the one hand, and provide a useful route for the new process of rice wine on the other hand. Studying the influence of the amount of the mold culture and the fermentation time on the fermentation of rice wine not only improves the fermentation rate of rice wine, but also makes the rice wine have a unique aroma, which also provides a more perfect process route for rice wine fermenting process, thus promoting the optimization of rice wine fermentation process.


Amid growing concerns of government surveillance and corporate data sharing, web users increasingly demand tools for preserving their privacy without placing trust in a third party. Unfortunately, existing centralized reputation systems need to be trusted for either privacy, correctness, or both. Existing decentralized approaches, on the other hand, are either vulnerable to Sybil attacks, present inconsistent views of the network, or leak critical information about the actions of their users. In this paper, we present Beaver, a decentralized anonymous marketplace that is resistant against Sybil attacks on vendor reputation, while preserving user anonymity. Beaver allows its participants to enjoy open enrollment, and provides every user with the same global view of the reputation of other users through public ledger based consensus. Various cryptographic primitives allow Beaver to offer high levels of usability and practicality, along with strong anonymity guarantees. Operations such as creating a listing, purchasing an item, and leaving feedback take just milliseconds to compute and require generating just a few kilobytes of state while often constructing convenient anonymity sets of hundreds of transactions.


The temperature dependence of the Hall coefficient, RH, for the (Cr100− xAl x)95Mo5 alloy system with 0 ≤ x ≤ 8.6, in the temperature range 2 K ≤ T ≤ 380 K and in a magnetic field of 4.5 T is reported. Anomalies in the form of an upturn were observed just below the Néel transition temperature, TN, for the incommensurate (I) spin density wave (SDW) alloys with x ≤ 1.3 and commensurate (C) spin density wave (SDW) alloys with x ≥ 5.3. In addition to these anomalies, alloys with x = 0, 0.5, 0.9 and 8.6 show a peculiar behaviour below TN, in which R H increases and then decreases depicting a hump on further cooling. Remarkably RH for the alloy with x = 0 shows a sign reversal of majority charge carriers from holes to electrons on cooling below 120 K. The crossover of majority charge carriers disappears by the addition of just 0.5 at.% Al into the base alloy with x = 0. The behaviour of the Hall coefficient for the alloys with x = 0, 0.5, 0.9 and 8.6, is explained in terms of the simple two band model in which both charge carriers contribute to magneto-transport properties. The relative magnetic contribution to the Hall coefficient, Δ R H(2 K)/ R H(2 K), indicate a suppression of antiferromagnetism in the concentration range 1.7 ≤ x ≤ 4.7.


We incorporate explicit Nystrom methods into the RKQ algorithm for stepwise global error control in numerical solutions of initial-value problems. The initial-value problem is transformed into an explicitly second-order problem, so as to be suitable for Nystrom integration. The Nystrom methods used are fourth-order, fifth-order and 10th-order. Two examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.


After leaving the ICU, many ICU patients and their families will be affected by the long-term effects of physical, psychological and social dysfunction, which will affect their recovery and quality of life.Therefore, it is necessary to provide follow-up care services for this group. The follow-up of ICU after more than 20 years of development has a positive effect on helping patients and their families cope with various problems after ICU and promoting comprehensive rehabilitation of patients. This article reviews the development of follow-up care after ICU, the follow-up care model after ICU, and the common tools for follow-up care after ICU, which provides reference and basis for follow-up nursing practice in domestic ICU.

Key words:
Intensive care units; Follow-up; Nursing care; Review