Complex institutions comprising several divisions and departments such as hospitals need access to information. Hospital information system has many capabilities and in case this system is acceptance by hospital staff, it leads to a revolution in the health care delivery industry. The identification of effective determinants and measures on the success of hospital information systems could significantly lead to the improvement of their performance. In this paper, the effective determinants and measures on the success of hospital information systems have been identified and then the data has been collected with the help of two customized questionnaires and finally analyzed with inferential statistics using SPSS software. According to the questionnaires, the results of the collected data were divided into two groups: results of experts and those of system users. In the experts group, after identifying the measures and determinants from the literature, they were presented to experts and with the use of one sample T test, the influencing measures and determinants on the success of hospital information systems have been identified. These measures were provided to users and then the confirmatory factor analysis was performed to assess the validity of questionnaires and structure of the identified determinants from the users' opinions. Finally, several linear regression analyses were conducted to examine the hypotheses and proposed a model to improve user satisfaction in hospitals.


We present a framework to simultaneously constrain the values and uncertainties of the strength of convective core overshooting, metallicity, extinction, distance, and age in stellar populations. We then apply the framework to archival Hubble Space Telescope observations of six stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud that have reported ages between . Assuming a canonical value of the strength of core convective overshooting, we recover the well-known age–metallicity correlation, and additional correlations between metallicity and extinction and metallicity and distance. If we allow the strength of core overshooting to vary, we find that for intermediate-aged stellar clusters, the measured values of distance and extinction are negligibly effected by uncertainties of core overshooting strength. However, cluster age and metallicity may have disconcertingly large systematic shifts when is allowed to vary by more than . Using the six stellar clusters, we combine their posterior distribution functions to obtain the most probable core overshooting value, , which is in line with canonical values.


Literary works offer platforms where society can engage in discourse with itself. It is in this sense that the study examined how Ngugi wa Thiong'o provides a re-write of history of the Kenyan nation in his novel Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir. The study was qualitative in nature, employing discourse data obtained from a close reading of the text. This paper examines how Ngugi wa Thiong'o narrates his life experiences and how he weaves his story to accommodate the history of the Kenyan nation. wa Thiong'o survived traumatic moments and he tends to write depending on story lines on which the traumas is given prominence. This renders the study of his episodes in Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir appear as a diary entries whereby he records historical events steadily. The paper argues that wa Thiong'o dwells so much on history to make a significant contribution to the lives of Kenyans by persuading and convincing people that colonialism had an adverse effects on the lives of the Kenyan people. Through history, he is able to raise the consciousness of society to reflect back at its history. He brings out the cruelty, the humiliation people went through in order to gain independence. He foregrounds Mau Mau wars, Second World War at the backdrop of his struggle to attain the white man's education therefore creating the irony of goodness verses badness of colonialism. The paper then comes to a conclusion that Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir gives more fundamental historical issues and events that helped shape Kenya as a nation. Therefore, it is actually a book that helps rewrite history of Kenya.


Abstract Densities and thermal expansion coefficients of liquid Al–Ag and Al–Cu alloys were measured using the technique of electromagnetic levitation. This technique involves producing shadow images of the sample from which the volume is calculated by an image processing algorithm. Data was obtained at temperatures above the melting point. The concentration dependence of density and thermal expansion was studied for both systems. It was found for Al–Ag and Al–Cu that both density and thermal expansion can be related to a negative excess volume and its temperature coefficient.


The invention relates to a natural formaldehyde scavenging agent and its preparation method. Specifically, the invention relates to a formaldehyde-purifying scavenging agent prepared by natural raw materials and its preparation method. The natural formaldehyde scavenging agent is prepared by the following materials by weight: 30-55 parts of magnets, 50-80 parts of a purslane extracting solution, 20-45 parts of a cassia seed extracting solution, and 100-180 parts of distilled water. By adopting extracting solutions of natural herbal medicines, the natural formaldehyde scavenging agent of the invention provides a solution to the problem of secondary pollution caused by harmful substances generated during usage of current formaldehyde scavenging agents, and has no pollution, lasting effectiveness as well as obvious effect.


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TraumAID is an artificial intelligence consultation system intended to provide expertise in the initial definitive management of patients with multiple injuries to surgeons with training in Advanced Trauma Life Support following the initial resuscitation of the patients. Currently, two modules have been developed, providing expertise for penetrating injuries of the chest and abdomen. A second version of the current system, for Navy corpsmen on independent duty in submarines, illustrates how an expert system can be modified for another environment with different resources and/or a different level of expertise. Both versions reach their recommendations through combinations of forward and backward chaining. They can ask questions and explain their reasoning. The submarine version also reasons from defaults to deduce safe assumptions when essential information, such as the results of roentgenograms, is unavailable and it modifies the concluding recommendations to be consistent with the resources at hand. The TraumAID system demonstrates how an expert system can be augmented to provide different recommendations for different environments with different constraints.


A reproducible method for the fabrication of ZnO transducers on InSb substrates is described. These transducers are being used for ultrasonic attenuation measurements over a wide low‐frequency range (90–600 MHz) at very low temperatures(0.1–4.2 K). They have been characterized by their x‐ray diffraction patterns, their insertion loss, and their contribution to the acoustic attenuation in InSb at low temperatures.


by Jim Simpson Jim Simpson grmi duated from the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies in 1977 and spent three years in mixed practice before returning to the 'Dick' to work in small animal medicine. In 1983 he obtained a masters degree for his work on canine exocrine pancreatic disease. In addition to being actively involved in teaching, he is involved in running referral clinics in both internal medicine and gastroenterology. In 1991 he was appointed senior lecturer in the department of veterinary clinical studies. He is an RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Internal Medicine). Management of


A stacked-PON scenario using todays most deployed standards over the same fiber span was proposed and a coexistence upstream traffic scenario was simulated an experimentally evaluated.


Accurate assessment of cardiovascular risk in the clinical setting is important for appropriate management and counseling of patients and for identification of biological pathways. Classic models, including the Framingham risk score,1 have combined strong correlates of risk, such as age, with modifiable factors, such as blood pressure and lipids, into a single model. That structure has been retained by the most recent pooled cohort equations from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines.2 The article by Ambale-Venkatesh et al3 in the current issue uses a different framework for prediction and risk factor identification and results in an array of identified risk factors across multiple outcomes.

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Ambale-Venkatesh et al build on the strengths of MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), which collected extensive baseline and outcome data on the participants and included an ethnically diverse cohort by design. The MESA cohort has been a source of key insights in the use of markers, such as coronary calcium to predict risk,4 and the findings in MESA have been widely replicated in other cohorts. In this article, the authors took advantage of as much of the information as possible, examining 735 variables across a range of different domains, including …


The invention relates to an automatic gearbox. The electronic control instrument (12) detects outside the circuits a fault in the input values (18 to 20), the couplings and brakes (A to F). When the fault is present for an extended period, the electronic control instrument (13) detects a symptom and switches to a replacement gear thereby ensuring maximum drivability without the introduction of a diagnostic operation.


This anthology is well done. It consists of essays mainly by medical contributors and philosophers focusing on problems of values underlying various assumptions about health and disease. A few contributions by social scientists, among others the economist Victor Fuchs and the sociologist Talcott Parsons, add some analytical specificity to the discussion. All authors agree that both health and disease are difficult to define although it would be important to do so since, as several point out, one has to know what disease is if one wants to know what is to be treated. However, physicians do not treat only diseases, a fact to which Leon Kass objects. According to him, pregnancy and childbirth, abortion, or plastic surgery for purely cosmetic reasons should not be the concern of physicians. He objects to the definition of the World Health Organization (whose constitution is also reproduced here) that health is "the state of


In order to more reasonable exploitation and protection of groundwater resources in the Datong county,the article is based on geological environmental conditions and groundwater exploration material,analyses the enrichment regulaton and influencing factor of Groundwater,then divides water abundance of groundwater into partition.The study has important significance on the sustainable utilization of groundwater resources in the Datong county.


There are many methods for medical image registration. The principle of them is to extract appropriate image features, and to decide which registration transformation to be used according to features selected. So the extraction of image features is the most important step for image registration. There are many kinds of image features to be used for registration, such as image edges,marks outside of image, etc. In this paper is presented a method to extract the image ridge feature for image registration, and good results were obtained.


The underwater imaging environment is complex, and the application of conventional target detection algorithms to the underwater environment has yet to provide satisfactory results. Therefore, underwater optical image target detection remains one of the most challenging tasks involved with neighborhood-based techniques in the field of computer vision. Small underwater targets, dispersion, and sources of distortion (such as sediment and particles) often render neighborhood-based techniques insufficient, as existing target detection algorithms primarily focus on improving detection accuracy and enhancing algorithm complexity and computing power. However, excessive extraction of deep-level features leads to the loss of small targets and decrease in detection accuracy. Moreover, most underwater optical image target detection is performed by underwater unmanned platforms, which have a high demand of algorithm lightweight requirements due to the limited computing power of the underwater unmanned platform with the mobile vision processing platform. In order to meet the lightweight requirements of the underwater unmanned platform without affecting the detection accuracy of the target, we propose an underwater target detection model based on mobile vision transformer (MobileViT) and YOLOX, and we design a new coordinate attention (CA) mechanism named a double CA (DCA) mechanism. This model utilizes MobileViT as the algorithm backbone network, improving the global feature extraction ability of the algorithm and reducing the amount of algorithm parameters. The double CA (DCA) mechanism can improve the extraction of shallow features as well as the detection accuracy, even for difficult targets, using a minimum of parameters. Research validated in the Underwater Robot Professional Contest 2020 (URPC2020) dataset revealed that this method has an average accuracy rate of 72.00%. In addition, YOLOX's ability to compress the model parameters by 49.6% efficiently achieves a balance between underwater optical image detection accuracy and parameter quantity. Compared with the existing algorithm, the proposed algorithm can carry on the underwater unmanned platform better.


SUMMARY On November 9, 2017, the Monitoring Group (MG) overseeing international auditing standards issued a request for comment on its consultation paper (CP), Strengthening the Governance and Over...


The simulation of electrical machines connected to electronic circuits by a field circuit coupling enables the consideration of the electric circuit with active components and its influence on the machine. In the computation of the electric domain, the machine is represented by linearized inductances and electromotive force, but after a particular number of simulations of the electronic system, the electromagnetic simulation is repeated to consider the change in the magnetic field, which states a finite-element (FE) problem. To decrease the computational effort of the FE problem the Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) is employed, to reduce the Degrees of Freedom (DOF). The PGD process can be distinguished into two stages: In a first step, the offline phase, the reduced order model is enriched with modes. In the second step, the online phase, the modes, which contain the information about the system in different load conditions have to be assessed to compute characteristic values, such as inductances or torque. By employing the PGD in a numerical weak coupling, the computational effort of the Finite Element computations is reduced.


For 1-D aperture synthesis (1-D AS) radiometers, truncated sampling occurs in the frequency domain due to the system baseline limitation. Therefore, there is an obvious Gibbs oscillation in the reconstructed image. To solve this problem, an imaging method based on a 1-D convolutional neural network (1-D CNN) is proposed in this article. Compared with deep learning methods based on 2-D convolutions, the 1-D convolution not only reduces the amount of computation but also produces further performance improvements. The input data of the network are the 1-D visibility function samples, and the output data are the 1-D brightness temperature (BT) samples. The network learns the mapping relationship from the training of the 1-D visibility function samples and 1-D BT samples to complete 1-D AS imaging without any prior knowledge. To verify the performance of this imaging method, simulations and experiments based on the airborne C-band 1-D microwave interferometric radiometer (ACMIR) system are implemented. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed AS-CNN method achieves higher performance than the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) method in terms of image quality and Gibbs phenomenon suppression. In the case of an antenna failure and missing baseline, the AS-CNN method proposed in this article can still obtain a BT image with high imaging quality, which shows that the robustness of the network is better than that of the IFFT method.


That's more important said than done,while busy,that's nothing."In this situation physical education in higher schools cannot undertake to cultivate qualified students.Just according to reasons why this situation occurs,this article puts forth the importance and urgency of physical education reform.At the same time,it also explores and discusses the detailed reforms.


The fundamental cause of the prosperity of Han school of Qian-jia period in Qing dynasty was learning cause. Though literary inquisition had a strong influence on learning activities, it did not decide the core of Qian-jia period in Qing dynasty. This should be taken seriously by learning field.


The note summarizes the origin and development of CELEHIS (Center of Hispanic American Literature), an agency of the Faculty of Humanities, UNMdP. This institutional area dedicated to research arises at the beginning of the democratic opening (1984) and its three basic areas are dedicated to literature in Spanish language, which subsequently to 1992 the area of literary theory is added. Currently, the growth in human resources and the category reached by a significant number of its researchers, in addition to the number of fellows is one of the elements that made possible the creation of an Institute on the faculty.


The 'Microwave Technology and Telecommunications Encyclopedia' publishing project is proposed. This project is based on many years of our working experience as committee members of 'Microwave and Telecommunications Technology' International Conference (CriMiCo). This edition would be intended mostly for young engineers in the area of microwave technology and telecommunications, as well as for lecturers and students of the respective qualifications. The edition is estimated at 300-350 units of 40,000 ens.


Fuzzy logic control was combined with neural network in this paper.The self-learning advantage of neural network is utilized,and the error reverse promulgation was adopted,and proportional and integral parameters of PI controller were given.Output of fuzzy logic controller was regulated more by the parameters,and the simulation result showed the system have better control effect.


This paper explores the potential for local and regional governments to set environmental policies for air pollution deposition. National-level government agencies have been given responsibility for monitoring and modelling air pollution deposition and for setting policies to ameliorate the problem. Therefore local governments falsely assume that this issue is outside municipal control. A gap exists in the capacity for integrating national polices into local plans affecting air pollution deposition. Using Stockholm, Sweden, as a case-study, the paper demonstrates a method for local governments to integrate local-, national- and international-level air pollution deposition scenarios. A nitrogen load critical model was used to determine the impact of the deposition scenarios. The data show the complexity of potential results that can occur.


An elastic cloud provisions machine instances upon user demand. Auto-scaling, scale-out, scale-up, or any mixture techniques are used to reconfigure the user cluster as workload changes. We evaluate three scaling strategies to upgrade the performance, efficiency and productivity of elastic clouds like EC2, Rack space, etc. We developed new performance models and run the Hi Bench benchmark to test Hadoop performance on various EC2 configurations. The strengths and shortcomings of three scaling strategies are revealed in our Hi Bench experiments: (1). Scale-out overhead is shown lower than that experienced in scale-up or mixed scaling clouds. Scale-out to a larger cluster of small nodes demonstrated high scalability. (2). Scaling up and mixed scaling have high performance in using smaller clusters with a few powerful machine instances. (3). With a mixed scaling mode, the cloud productivity is shown upgradable with higher flexibility in applications with performance/cost tradeoffs.


Segmentation of constituent shapes is a vital yet challenging step in any automated sketch analysis and interpretation system. Conventional stroke level sketch segmentation techniques perform well on a single shape, nevertheless, their performance degrades in a cluttered multi-object sample. On the contrary, object level techniques rely on proximity based perceptual grouping for shapes with disjoint constituent parts, which requires high level semantic knowledge. To overcome these challenges, we propose the use of state-of-the-art convolutional object detectors for the detection and segmentation of hand drawn shapes from offline samples of a neuropsychological drawing test i.e. Bender Gestalt Test (BGT). Experiments with different combinations of convolutional meta-architectures and feature extractors show that such networks can successfully be employed for sketch segmentation purposes even with limited training data and resources. Amongst all network combinations under evaluation in this study, Faster R-CNNs with ResNet-101 as feature extractor, outperform others by achieving precision, recall and F-measure values of 92.93%, 95.24% and 94.07% respectively.


The role of atmospheric aerosols in modifying the radiation budget of the earth– atmosphere system with implications on regional to global climate is being increasingly understood and recognized . Due to the short residence times, aerosols with varying optical properties are not uniformly mixed around the globe and consequently, their chemical and physical characteristics including radiative properties are subject to significant regional variations. Over land, this arises primarily from the wide variety of source processes, while the transport of aerosols from different source regions on the continents to the remote oceans could play a significant role in the global radiative forcing. Among the various natural and anthropogenic sources of aerosols, man's domestic and industrial activ ities contribute a dominant share of the tropospheric aerosol burden. The major categories include combustion of fuels and incineration, industrial processing and production. Forest, and oil and gas fires continue to contribute to aerosol loading all around the globe. A devastating fire broke out at oil well no. 15 of the Oil India Limited (OIL) at Dikom, Upper Assam on 15 September 2005 and continued to blaze for about three weeks, often reaching a height of about 10 m. There was gas leakage in the area two days ahead of the day of fire at Dikom, which resulted in the major inferno. The sky in the area was black with thick smoke, ash and debris scattered everywhere and a film of crude oil covered the ground. The site of the blaze is about 15 km east of Dibrugarh (27.3 °N, 94.6°E). The area around Dibrugarh is rich in mineral deposits and has large deposits of crude oil and coal. Majority of the oil fields are located to the east and southeast of Dibrugarh town. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is being measured over Dibrugarh since October 2001, at ten narrow wavelength bands centred at 380, 400, 450, 500, 600, 650, 750, 850, 935 and 1025 nm using a Mu lti Wavelength Radiometer (MWR). The MWR works on the principle of filter wheel radiometers 7,8 and is operated from the rooftop of the building of the Physics Department, Dibrugarh University (~ 8 m above ground level) on all days when unobscured solar visibility is available for at least 2–3 h, and AOD is retrieved following the Langley technique. Details of application of this technique to analyse MWR data and the errors involved are described by Moorthy et al.. The experiment conducted during September 2005 is considered to analyse the impact of the fire on AOD over the area. A total of eight days (2, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 26 and 28 September 2005) of MWR data during the period of observation have been analysed and the results are reported here. Variations of daily mean AOD values at 500 nm along with the MODIS (Terra and Aqua satellites)-derived AOD 11 at 550 nm are shown in Figure 1 a. Comparison for the observational period shows a good agreement between the gro undbased and satellite-derived AOD. AOD observed by MWR in the pre-fire days, i.e. first half of September was low and lies between a minimum of 0.06 at 935 and 1025 nm and a maximum of 0.81 at 450 nm, which is about the average September AOD observed in previous years, 2002–04. After two days of fire, on 18 September, AOD increased by 69 to 86%, within the wavelength range. No MWR observation was possible due to cloudy and rainy weather on 16, 17, 19 to 25 and 27 September. Light to moderate rainfall occurred on 19–24 September, which may have washed out the suspended aerosols. Towards the end of the month, the AOD was low as in the pre-fire days. However, on days in which the MWR observations were not available, the MODIS satellite-derived AOD data are available. AOD as observed by Aqua satellite reached a high value (~2.86) just after two days of fire and then gradually decreased towards the end of the month. On 22 September also, the MODIS AOD remained much above the September average at 1.69. Such abnormal increase in AOD is possible only when some external source


Security evaluation is an important approach for the security risk management of the information system. But there are lack of effective methods and tools for security evaluation. To resolve the problem, an object model of security evaluation is established based on the object oriented technology. The concepts of correlation test and dependency test are introduced and a set of tools is also developed according to the model. The practical application indicates that the object oriented technology can improve the efficiency of security evaluation, and the correlation test and dependency test also improve the penetration testing effects.


The development of business-to-business electronic commerce marketplaces (B2B e-marketplaces) has influenced the way businesses are conducted. The emergence of many types of e-marketplaces together with the increase use of e-marketplaces allows many organizations to become e-market makers in the electronic commerce environment. Nonetheless, too many B2B e-marketplaces could become a challenge with e-marketplaces have shown numerous successes and failures since early existence. With this background, this paper discusses the characteristics and success factors of B2B e-marketplaces offered in Malaysia. A content analysis of e-marketplace websites using the integrated model from the Extended Model of Internet Commerce Adoption (eMICA) and the Internet-Based B2B Stages of Growth enabled an examination of type, ownership, B2B features and B2B stages of growth. A few e-marketplaces were then selected as case studies to identify the success factors based on the Framework of the Critical Success Factors Analysis for E-Marketplaces. Overall, Malaysia B2B public e-marketplaces have shown positive growth development stages across time with high adoption of e-commerce website features. In addition, factors of strategic, functional, technology, build liquidity, ISSN 1675-7017 © 2007 Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia.


The Business Meeting was opened by the president, Imants Platais. He presented the agenda which was unanimously approved. This session was attended by 40 participants. The meeting approved Dafydd Evans as secretary of minutes.


This paper presents the structural intervention on the upper-choir of the Pópulo Church in Braga carried out by DREMN – Regional Directorate for Northern Buildings and Monuments of Portugal, under the technical consultancy of NCREP – Nucleus for the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Buildings and Built Heritage of the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (FEUP). Besides describing the intervention, it also shows that renovation works to be carried out in old structures, although previously planned and projected according to the available data, may suffer relevant modifications during the preparation and implementation process, which must be regarded as part of the intervention process. In particular, this work involved the in situ testing of the upper-choir structure to evaluate its vertical loading capacity. 570 Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions 2 PROBLEM PRESENTATION AND STRUCTURE DESCRIPTION During the restoration works that were carried out at the Pópulo Church, important deformations on the upper-choir vault characterized by joints opening that were visible from the vault's inner face, Fig. 2, were observed. These deformations were located between the arch above the main entrance and the ending arch below the upper-choir balustrade. To better understand the structure under analysis, the upper-choir vault is described with more detail, particularly in what concerns its shape and materials. The two arches delimiting the damaged area will be referred to A and B; arch A represents the element bearing the balustrade, Fig. 3, and arch B the element over the main entrance of the church. Both arches are made of regular stone masonry and span approx. 9.70m. Near the columns, the arches follow a narrow curved section, which opens towards the keystone; more than 2/3 of the arch span follows an almost horizontal line, Fig. 3. The church plans illustrated in Fig. 4 show the location of the arches and the structure main dimensions. Figure 2 : Upper-choir vault. Figure 3 : Façade of arch A. Figure 4 : Church plan with the location of arches A, B, C and D. The two arches are 5.60m away from each other. The vault is made of regular stone masonry frames, with approx. (1.70x1.70)m filled in with redbrick masonry. The vault follows the line B A C


Focusing on the developmental process of the brain, we propose a neural network model of functional differentiation including functional parcellation. We explain the emerging process of functional elements, of the system through the constraints, which act on the whole network system. We explain several kinds of differentiation, such as the differentiation of neuronal cells, functional modules, and the sensory neurons, thereby proposing three hypotheses.


Single image super-resolution (SISR) has played an important role in the field of image processing. Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) can achieve excellent results on low-resolution images with small samples. However, there are little literatures summarizing different GANs in SISR. In this paper, we conduct a comparative study of GANs from different perspectives. We first take a look at developments of GANs. Second, we present popular architectures for GANs in big and small samples for image applications. Then, we analyze motivations, implementations and differences of GANs based optimization methods and discriminative learning for image super-resolution in terms of supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised manners, where these GANs are analyzed via integrating different network architectures, prior knowledge, loss functions and multiple tasks. Next, we compare performance of these popular GANs on public datasets via quantitative and qualitative analysis in SISR. Finally, we highlight challenges of GANs and potential research points for SISR.


Abstract : The purpose of this memorandum is to set forth the scope of a reasonable inquiry which would meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act ( CAA ) Title V operating permit program and provide shipyards and their certifying officials with a due diligence standard that will assist them in their review of the permit application. The 1990 amendments to the CAA included Title . V, which imposes procedural requirements on major and certain other sources to obtain a federal operating permit in order to begin or continue operations. The federal permit program, which will be administered by the states, is intended to codify into one permit all applicable federal CAA requirements that apply to an individual source. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) issued its operating permit regulations on July 21, 1992. These requirements, which are codified at 40 C.F.R. Part 70 ( Part 70 ), set forth the minimum requirements that each state permit program must include in order to obtain EPA approval. The states were required to submit their permit programs to EPA by November 1993. EPA is now in the process of reviewing the state submissions. Once a state receives either partial or full approval, sources within the state will have to submit their permit applications according to the time frames established by the state.


Independent mood traits comprise three primary components – pleasure, arousal, and dominance (Mehrabian, 1996). Forecasting these traits is beneficial for several subjects, such as behavioral science, cognitive science, decision making, mood disorders treatment, and virtual character development in artificial intelligence. In this study, an extended model is proposed to predict independent mood components based on the emotion and mood history of 108 individuals with different backgrounds and personalities. Emotion history of all these individuals was recorded hourwise for six days, and their daily mood history obtained. The proposed model consists of various types of statistical forecasting methods, such as HoltWinter's additive model and seasonal time series model, by integrating current known appraisal theories and aided by mood history probability distribution. The predicted values for the seventh day and the trend of the outcome results reveal that: (1) Pleasure mood trait trend varies significantly between individuals, but it can be considered as predictable; (2) Arousal mood trait is unpredictable for a short time interval; however, it is possible to have close predictions over long time intervals. (3) Dominance mood trait can be predicted for a short time interval, but not for a long time interval. These findings can shed light on the way mood states and behavior of human beings can be predicted.


Isolation and identification of two of the metabolites excreted in the urine of workers exposed to carbon disulfide, which cause the iodineazide reaction (IAR), have been performed. After concentration of the urine, thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was applied giving three zones with different Rf values and showing positive IAR. The urine was concentrated by vacuum distillation and extracted by ethyl acetate. Extract was evaporated to dryness and put on a silica gel (Silica Gel G) column. Elution with various organic solvents was performed, but water eluate produced the strongest IAR. Evaporation of the water eluate produced white crystals. By TLC, determination of melting point, mass spectra, and infrared spectra, it was established that this metabolite showed the structure of thiocarbamide. The quantity of thiocarbamide is much greater than that of the first metabolite in the urine of exposed workers.


What acoustic cues contribute to the perception of foreign accent? While many previous studies have explored this question for a single foreign accent, few have simultaneously considered several foreign accents in a single language. In this perception study, ten American English listeners rated 360 stop‐vowel sequences extracted from English words produced by L1 American English, L1 Hindi, L1 Korean, and L1 Mandarin talkers on a continuous scale of degree of foreign accent. Despite this minimal input, listeners robustly rated Korean‐ and Mandarin‐accented productions as having a higher degree of foreign accent than native productions, and Hindi‐accented productions as having a higher degree of foreign accent than all other productions. Acoustic cues of the stimuli were measured, and stepwise linear regression models revealed that vowel quality and VOT contributed significantly to the ratings. These cues collectively accounted for 26% of the variance in the ratings of all stimuli and for 38% of the varianc...


Abstract Background Reports of clinicopathologic features of bronchomalacia (BM) differ because of inconsistent definitions and frequent prevalence of comorbid cardiopulmonary disease. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) secondary to BM is poorly described. Objectives Dogs with BM will be older but of any somatotype, and increased expiratory effort, ≥1 comorbid disease, and PH will be more common than in dogs without BM. Animals Client‐owned dogs (n = 210) evaluated for respiratory signs. Methods Medical records of dogs with paired inspiratory: expiratory‐breath‐hold computed tomography, tracheobronchoscopy, or both between January 2016 and December 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Comparisons between dogs with and without BM using Mann‐Whitney rank sum or χ 2 tests (P < .05 significant were made). Because of high numbers of variables, criteria with high prevalence (>25%) were identified (n = 10) for univariate analysis (P < .005 significant). Significant variables were submitted for multivariate analysis. Results Bronchomalacia was identified in 41% of dogs of all sizes/somatotypes; 38% were >10 kg. All dogs with BM had ≥1 comorbid cardiopulmonary disorder. Dogs with BM were significantly older (P < .001), smaller (P < .001), and were more likely diagnosed with tracheal or mainstem bronchial collapse (P < .001) or bronchiectasis (P < .001). Multivariate analysis confirmed associations with age, tracheal or mainstem bronchial collapse, and bronchiectasis. In dogs with BM, PH was more prevalent. Conclusions and Clinical Importance Although significantly more common in older, smaller dogs, BM occurs in dogs of all sizes and in all instances with comorbidities. Echocardiography should be considered in dogs with BM to identify PH.


Acting as consultants the authors developed a process by which leadership teams in Alpha Medical's many business units could develop an organization capable of implementing strategy and learning. Leadership teams of twenty units implemented the self diagnosis and redesign process between 1988 and 1994. The process was designed to achieve systemic as opposed to programmatic change, to surface undiscussible data about barriers, and to develop a partnership with employees. Research aimed at understanding what process and management context are required to institutionalize an alignment and learning process was conducted by the authors with the assistance of a researcher uninvolved in the intervention. The research, funded by Harvard Business School, relied on the following methods: content analysis of barriers identified, interviews, questionnaires and management's reactions to findings. The process succeeded in making previously hidden barriers discussible, and resulted in significant changes. Reasons for its failure to develop a partnership with employees or an organizational learning capability are discussed.


With the use of bibliographic metrology,and the 35 papers published in Column "Quantum Optics Quantum Information Studies" between first issue of 2000 and second issue of 2007 in Journal of Shangluo University as the statistical sample,the related information of the publications are statistically analyzed and studied.The result shows that Column "Quantum Optics Quantum Information Studies" is successful,with relatively stable writers,core writers and excellent writers.The columnists have high professional titles and high educational background.They have good academic ability and good academic accomplishment.The column publications are of great academic importance with high rate of fund assistance and high citation,which extend the influence of the Journal.Therefore it is necessary to stick to the idea that the journal can get strong with the construction of column,the construction of the column should go on.The deficiency of the local journals can be gapped through the column advantage and thus to improve the general influence of the Journal.


Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a very special and dangerous form child abuse. It is characterized by a child with symptoms and signs of an illness that have been fabricated by an adult, usually the mother. Fabrication of those signs and symptoms leads to perform many unnecessary and painful investigations and treatments on the victim. Although many physicians are familiar with the sexual or physical abuse of children, they are unaware of this particular form of child abuse. Fortunately, as more cases are shared in the literature, awareness among pediatricians will though to increase. Difficulties remain in defining the condition, as well as in detection and differentiation from other illness. Although it is a relatively rare form of child abuse, pediatricians need to have a high index of suspicion when faced with seemingly inexplicable findings or treatment failures. Diagnostic strategies should be case-specific and a multidisciplinary approach, like the "Child Protection Team" is crucial for proper management and effective treatment planning of these cases. This review will discuss the epidemiology and diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, as well as the role of the physician in sorting out these cases.


Proton number, Z, and mass number,A, assignments for newly discovered heavy element nuclides have historically been made by observing decay to a daughter with well-established Z and A, and then observing the well-know decay of that daughter. For all of the new superheavy element isotopes observed in 48Ca irradiations of actinide targets, this correlation technique has not been possible, because the -decay chains end in spontaneous fission of previously unknown isotopes. Consequently, Z and A assignments have been made by less-direct means. The superheavy element Z and A assignment methods are summarized, and possibilities for how they may be incorrect are explored. While it is highly likely that most of the superheavy element Z and A assignments are correct, there is a real need for a direct proof. 1. History about heavy element Z and A assignments For the discovery of elements 104–113 [1–12] proton number (Z) and mass number (A) assignments have been made by observing the decay of the parent (new element) nucleus followed by the decay of daughter nuclei with well-established Z and A. These daughter decays have characteristic decay energies and half-lives. With the assumption of no intervening, unseen decays (such as electron-capture or decay), the parent Z and A assignment was made by adding two to each of the Zand A of the first daughter. The assumption of no intervening decays could be supported by observation of a smooth trend in the -decay energies, matching that expected by well-established -decay systematics [13]. For all of the superheavy element (SHE) isotopes produced by 48Ca irradiations of actinide targets [14, 15] the series of decays ( -decay chains) terminate with spontaneous fission (SF) of the last chain member. The SF decay mode provides little information, other than half-life, to identify the Z and A of the decaying nucleus. SF lacks the characteristic decay energy seen in decay. Thus, the Z and A of the -decay chain members cannot be "anchored" by identification of the later chain member. 2. How SHE Z and A assignments have been made For the SHE isotopes produced in 48Ca irradiation of actinide targets, and all of the daughter isotopes resulting from successive -decays, experimenters have resorted to lessdirect means of Z and A assignment. These less-direct means are excitation functions, cross bombardments, and decay systematics. a e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com C © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). EPJ Web of Conferences 131, 06002 (2016) DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201613106002 Nobel Symposium NS160 – Chemistry and Physics of Heavy and Superheavy Elements 2.1 Excitation functions An excitation function for formation of superheavy element isotopes by compound nucleus formation followed by de-excitation by evaporation of neutrons is a record of the production cross section for evaporation residue (EVR) formation as a function of projectile energy. Projectile energies are chosen from near the Coulomb barrier between projectile and target nuclei to a few tens of MeV above the barrier. The production cross sections are typically modelled as a three-step process, EVR = cap · PCN · Px · x ∏


Home Care: A Unique Nursing Specialty. An Overview of Documentation. Frequency and Length of Service Considerations. Medical-Surgical Care: Clinical Guidelines for Care and Documentation. Hospice Care. Maternal/Child Care. Medicare Home Care Guidelines and Conditions of Participation. Home Care Definitions, Roles, And Abbreviations. NANDA-Approved Nursing Diagnoses. Guidelines for Home Medical Equipment and Supply Considerations. Resources.


The structure of the title compound, C(15)H(27)N(2)(+).ClO(4)(-), consists of a monoprotonated sparteinium cation and a perchlorate anion. The two tertiary N atoms of the cation, one perchlorate O atom and a H atom form a bifurcated hydrogen bond, the four hydrogen-bonding atoms being nearly in the same plane.


Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, and although the prognosis for patients has improved, it is still poor in a significant proportion of cases. Complex and inconclusive approaches to anticancer treatment in the human body motivate the search for new ways to create an anticancer environment. Studies have shown that probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics and postbiotics are effective in their use as adjunctive therapy in cancer treatment. Postbiotics, from the biotic family, are health-promoting microbial metabolites offered as a functional food or dietary supplement. They directly affect the body's signaling pathways or indirectly manipulate the metabolism and composition of the intestinal microflora. Administration of postbiotics is an effective complementary strategy to fight cancer. In this review, studies including the antitumoral effects of postbiotics and their role in metastatic cancers were examined and the main findings showing the usefulness of postbiotic sources in tumor cells were summarized. Postbiotics can be considered as adjunctive therapy in cancer treatment and may help reduce the side effects caused by treatment methods. In addition, more in vivo and in vitro studies are needed to evaluate the effects of postbiotics on cancer in detail.


Terzaghi's (1946) rock load classification developed from tunnels excavated by conventional drill and blast method and supported with steel arches has been evaluated in the light of measured support pressures from 23 tunnel sections with widths varying from 2 to 14 m and 4 sections from 21 to 23 m wide caverns. The study shows that the support pressure in rock tunnels does not increase significantly with the excavation width. This experience has been used to propose another simple classification system for both roof and wall support pressures in tunnels and caverns. The suggested vertical support pressures stand corroborated with field measurements in India. The paper also provides data on extensive tunnel performance studies in poor rock conditions.


The results of combined simulation of physical processes in a medium power gyrotron of 4-mm wavelength range are presented. The methods of improving the quality of helical electron beam and the electron efficiency of the gyrotron, based on the optimization of electric field distribution in the near-cathode region, are realized. The design of the collector with 4-stage recovery of residual beam energy, based on the method of spatial separation of electrons in crossed azimuthal magnetic and axial electric fields, was developed. The value of total efficiency of the gyrotron equal to 71.8 % was achieved by improving the quality of the electron beam and by efficient energy recovery in the collector region.


A major challenge in the recently awarded River Corridor Closure (RCC) Contract at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Site is decontaminating and demolishing (D&D) facilities in the 300 Area. Located along the banks of the Columbia River about one mile north of Richland, Washington, the 2.5 km{sup 2} (1 mi{sup 2})300 Area comprises only a small part of the 1517 km{sup 2} (586 mi{sup 2}) Hanford Site. However, with more than 300 facilities ranging from clean to highly contaminated, D&D of those facilities represents a major challenge for Washington Closure Hanford (WCH), which manages the new RCC Project for DOE's Richland Operations Office (RL). A complicating factor for this work is the continued use of nearly a dozen facilities by the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Most of the buildings will not be released to WCH until at least 2009--four years into the seven-year, $1.9 billion RCC Contract. The challenge will be to deactivate, decommission, decontaminate and demolish (D4) highly contaminated buildings, such as 324 and 327, without interrupting PNNL's operations in adjacent facilities. This paper focuses on the challenges associated with the D4 of the 324 Building and the 327 Building.


This article presents a summary of the results of an experimental program on high strain rate tensile tests on small diameter reinforcing bars tested at low temperature conditions. The main objective of the experimental work was to observe the effect that the practice of bending, straightening, and strain aging had on the tensile behavior of the bars. The experimental work was conducted on New Zealand manufactured reinforcing bars.


It has become increasingly common for health care workers in elderly care to work in difficult conditions, such as staff shortages, workloads and stress. The nursing staff manages various intercurrent difficulties in their work and these difficulties they face lead to mistakes which affect the safety for the elderly. The main purpose of the study was to investigate and analyze the nursing staff working environment by studying what deficiencies they experience in their work and how this impacts the safety.The research questions for this study were: 1. What situations create stress among health care staff? 2. How does this affect the health care staff perceptions of their work situation and the idea of occupant safety? To answer to these questions, a semi-structured interview guide with the following themes was performed: environment and occupant safety. The interviews were conducted with six nurses at two different homes for elderly in Gothenburg. Data was analyzed and processed from the interviews to identify themes that were essential to the subject by a thematic analysis. Themes that emerged were the following; stress, staff shortage, policies and actions of managers. Even some subthemes emerged in some of the major themes that were identified. Based on the study we can conclude that the management has the obligation and a vital role when it comes to providing a safe working environment for health professionals and residents.


This study analyzes the problem of multi‐commodity hedging from the downside risk perspective. The lower partial moments (LPM 2 )‐minimizing hedge ratios for the stylized hedging problem of a typical Texas panhandle feedlot operator are calculated and compared with hedge ratios implied by the conventional minimum‐variance (MV) criterion. A kernel copula is used to model the joint distributions of cash and futures prices for commodities included in the model. The results are consistent with the findings in the single‐commodity case in that the MV approach leads to over‐hedging relative to the LPM 2 ‐based hedge. An interesting and somewhat unexpected result is that minimization of a downside risk criterion in a multi‐commodity setting may lead to a "Texas hedge" (i.e. speculation) being an optimal strategy for at least one commodity. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 30:290–304, 2010


In the current work, the notion of 3-homomorphism amenability of Banach algebras is introduced. The hereditary properties of this new concept for Banach algebras are investigated and the relations between 3-homomorphism amenability of a Banach algebra and its ideals are found. The equivalence of 3-homomorphism amenability and the concept of the (right) character amenability is proved. As a consequence, 3-homomorphism amenability for either of the group algebra L 1 (G) or the Fourier algebra A(G) is equivalent to the amenability of the underlying group G.


The complex Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak{g}$ of type $D(2,1;a)$ - also denoted by $\mathfrak{osp}(4,2;a) $ - are usually considered for "non-singular" values of the parameter $a$, for which they are simple. In this paper we introduce five suitable integral forms of $\mathfrak{g}$, that are well-defined at singular values too, giving rise to "singular specializations" that are no longer simple: this extends the family of simple objects of type $D(2,1;a)$ in five different ways. The resulting five families coincide for general values of $a$, but are different at "singular" ones: here they provide non-simple Lie superalgebras, whose structure we describe explicitly. We also perform the parallel construction for complex Lie supergroups and describe their singular specializations (or "degenerations") at singular values of $a$. Although one may work with a single complex parameter $a$, in order to stress the overall $\mathfrak{S}_3$-symmetry of the whole situation, we shall work (following Kaplansky) with a two-dimensional parameter $\boldsymbol{\sigma} = (\sigma_1,\sigma_2,\sigma_3)$ ranging in the complex affine plane $\sigma_1 + \sigma_2 + \sigma_3 = 0$.


Complex evidence theory is regarded as the extension of traditional evidence theory to address uncertainty problem. The evidence evaluation for complex basic belief assignments (CBBAs) is still an open issue. This research defines a novel distance to quantify similarity degree in the framework of complex intuitionistic fuzzy set (CIFS). Base on the newly defined distance, a new evidence evaluation method is proposed. Then, a novel combination method for CBBAs is presented. A numerical example is introduced to verify the performance of the proposed method.


The development and progression of colorectal cancer(CRC)is a process that accumulates the driver somatic mutations elicited by chronic inflammation.Epigenetic modifications and genetic mutations play key roles in the whole evolutionary process of chronic inflammation-induced CRC. Adenoma gradually progresses into adenocarcinoma via accumulating genetic mutations stimulated by cancer promoting stimulations.The next generation sequencing technology provides an effective way to identify the"driver"mutations and fusion genes in the carcinogenesis,providing molecular evidences for cancer evolution.The most significant genetic changes during malignant transformation from adenoma to adenocarcinoma are the significant increases in microsatellite instability and chromosome instability.The main purpose of investigating the evolutionary process of CRC,especially somatic mutations,is to identify the related signaling pathways,which are the key steps to explore early effective intervention strategies and targeted therapies for CRC.


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The ability to develop resources for moral ed uc ation is an important part of a teacher's abilities. It consists of the ability to evaluate resources, the ability to tap the latent power of the resources a nd the ability to use the resources efficiently. The three conditions for the fo rmation of the ability include teachers' related prerequisite knowledge, their introspection in the practice of moral education and their experience.


"A Locational Approach to Providing HIV-Testing Services: S~o Paulo, Brazil" by Steven M. Schall Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of City Planning The city of Sio Paulo, Brazil presents an interesting case for the study of location. Previous works on industrial location in Sio Paulo (Hamer 1985; Hansen 1983, 1987), Brazil's varied geography (Dickenson, 1978), classical location theory (Losch, 1959; Weber, 1929), and non-traditional theories of location (Rothenberg, 1987) have highlighted the importance of space in a city like Sdo Paulo. These works, as well as my own research in Sio Paulo, have neatly complemented my commitment to planning for effective AIDS service-delivery programs. Slo Paulo (city) currently has seven free HIV-testing centers. They are located around the city center, without regard to disease pattern or public accessibility. They are, understandably, located at seven of the best-equipped public hospitals in Slo Paulo. The city of Sio Paulo is a region in which space matters, and in which the quality and consistency of transport systems, electrical power, water and sewage, and existing health clinics over that space varies significantly. A person on the periphery of Slo Paulo, as compared to a person on the periphery of one of New York City's outer boroughs, experiences a much greater opportunity cost in getting to the city center. A strategy that moves voluntary HIV-testing closer to the "market" (of potentially HIV-infected people), without sacrificing adherence to standards of confidentiality, counseling, education, and informed consent would be an invaluable strategy for Slo Paulo. Furthermore, an HIV-testing technology with increased mobility would provide a necessary requirement for such a strategy. There are currently several new HIV-testing technologies either about to enter the market or already on the market. Many of them utilize a "card" on which a drop of blood can be placed. One such test in the final FDA review stage, the Latex Agglutination Test (developed by Cambridge Bioscience in Worcester, MA), appears to have mobility representative of "card tests", in general. The test requires only a refrigerator, sterile needle-pricks, and the latex agglutination cards themselves. The per-test cost has been estimated to be about US$2.00. Given the test's portability, its potential for providing HIV-testing closer to the market in a city like S~o Paulo is great. HIV-testing can have many purposes: (a) to screen the blood supply; (b) to estimate seroprevalence rates in the general population or in specific risk groups; (c) to attempt to effect behavior change in those tested. The proposed plan is to increase the availability and accessibility of HIV-test sites where 4 people can be tested voluntarily, in order to accomplish (c) and assist epidemiologists in (b). The voluntary participation of those choosing to be tested is a key ingredient in this strategy. People must perceive their costs of voluntary participation to be very low (short travel and waiting times, assured confidentiality, quality counseling). But home-testing, for instance, is not acceptable because of the complete lack of counseling involved. Thus, a balance between the desire to move HIV-testing closer to the market and the need to adhere to public health and civil rights standards must be struck. This thesis proposes a locational strategy (using the Latex Agglutination Test as an example) for the city of Sio Paulo that will: 1) maximize the potential of a "card test" for HIV-antibodies--that is, allow HIV-testing to occur as close to the market as possible--and; 2) provide the strongest programmatic components of a comprehensive HIV-testing program. Thesis Supervisor: Alan Strout Title: Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning


Fractional partial differential equations (FPDEs) can effectively represent anomalous transport and nonlocal interactions. However, inherent uncertainties arise naturally in real applications due to random forcing or unknown material properties. Mathematical models considering nonlocal interactions with uncertainty quantification can be formulated as stochastic fractional partial differential equations (SFPDEs). There are many challenges in solving SFPDEs numerically, especially for long-time integration since such problems are high-dimensional and nonlocal. Here, we combine the bi-orthogonal (BO) method for representing stochastic processes with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for solving partial differential equations to formulate the bi-orthogonal PINN method (BO-fPINN) for solving time-dependent SFPDEs. Specifically, we introduce a deep neural network for the stochastic solution of the time-dependent SFPDEs, and include the BO constraints in the loss function following a weak formulation. Since automatic differentiation is not currently applicable to fractional derivatives, we employ discretization on a grid to to compute the fractional derivatives of the neural network output. The weak formulation loss function of the BO-fPINN method can overcome some drawbacks of the BO methods and thus can be used to solve SFPDEs with eigenvalue crossings. Moreover, the BO-fPINN method can be used for inverse SFPDEs with the same framework and same computational complexity as for forward problems. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the BO-fPINN method for different benchmark problems. The results demonstrate the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed method, especially for inverse problems.


China is a multi-ethnic,multi mixed,diverse and multicultural society.Based on an objective and factual description of Tibetan folk life changes in Han and Tibetan mixed villages Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous county,this article attempts to change the national spirit of integration and cultural integration of the search may refer to provide information on the case.


The airworthiness of aviation equipment is very important for ensuring the safety of civil aviation operations. This paper discusses and analyzes the status quo of airworthiness management and traceability of domestic aircraft equipment, and points out the problems still to be solved. Through the research on the status quo of IoT technology and blockchain technology in the civil aviation field in Europe and the United States, the Internet of Things technology has been relatively mature, but the application research of blockchain technology in the management of aircraft equipment is still in its infancy. Only the concept stage. This paper mainly studies how to build a full supply chain traceability model for the airworthiness of aircraft equipment based on blockchain technology combined with Internet of Things technology.


The article provides an analytical overview of massive open online courses (MOOCs) devoted to William Shakespeare, as well as to England of his times or the historical England he described. We look at courses in either English or Russian which appeared on mainstream MOOC platforms (FutureLearn, edX, Coursera) in 2014–2015. The rising practice of Shakespearean MOOCs is a reflection of new dimensions of the Shakespearean sphere as a field of phenomena in the global culture, local cultures and subcultures which are in this or that way linked to the name and works of William Shakespeare.


We present a reinforcement learning approach to learning a single, non-hierarchical policy for multiple targets. In the context of a policy search method, we propose to define a parametrized policy as a function of both the state and the target. This allows for learning a single policy that can navigate the RL agent to different targets. Generalization to unseen targets is implicitly possible while avoiding combining local policies in a hierarchical RL setup. We present first promising experimental results that show the viability of our approach.


Medical imaging systems are commonly assessed by use of objective image quality measures. Supervised deep learning methods have been investigated to implement numerical observers for task-based image quality assessment. However, labeling large amounts of experimental data to train deep neural networks is tedious, expensive, and prone to subjective errors. Computer-simulated image data can potentially be employed to circumvent these issues; however, it is often difficult to computationally model complicated anatomical structures, noise sources, and the response of real-world imaging systems. Hence, simulated image data will generally possess physical and statistical differences from the experimental image data they seek to emulate. Within the context of machine learning, these differences between the sets of two images is referred to as domain shift. In this study, we propose and investigate the use of an adversarial domain adaptation method to mitigate the deleterious effects of domain shift between simulated and experimental image data for deep learning-based numerical observers (DL-NOs) that are trained on simulated images but applied to experimental ones. In the proposed method, a DL-NO will initially be trained on computer-simulated image data and subsequently adapted for use with experimental image data, without the need for any labeled experimental images. As a proof of concept, a binary signal detection task is considered. The success of this strategy as a function of the degree of domain shift present between the simulated and experimental image data is investigated.


In the era of media convergence, tremendous changes have taken place both in the forms of media communication and representation. Management and utilization of massive, heterogeneous media content becomes increasingly important. The explicit and implicit information embodied in the media content, especially for the video content, has not been fully exploited yet. Great value can be developed with the correlated information among various media contents and user demands. This paper firstly introduces the necessity of media content information association and related technologies. Then discusses the details of establishing semantic information database and enriching metadata description of cataloged video content. In the final, a service platform for video content association and aggregation is presented, which can help provide an innovative business model about TV interaction service.


The purification effect of heavy polluted river water by combined process of ecological aeration floating bed and permeable reactive barrier (EAFB-PRB) was investigated in a pilot study. The results show that the combined process has high removal efficiencies of COD,TN,NH+4-N and TP,with the average removal rates of 79.5%,27.9%,36.8% and 87.0%,respectively. The concentration of DO increases from 0.09 mg/L to 1.7 mg/L. Moreover,the average removal rate of total suspended solids (TSS) can reach 95.4%. The outflow is clear and transparent. It is obvious that the combined process is an effective method for improving heavy polluted river water quality.


A basic goal of biophysics is to quantitatively understand cellular function as the consequence of the fundamental laws of Physics governing a system of extreme complexity. For this, detailed spatial information about the nanostructures involved is necessary. For example, the nanostructure of the chromatin (DNA + specific proteins) is of essential importance for the way the activities of the thousands of genes in the cell nucleus are regulated. A serious problem to analyse such cellular nanostructures by far field light microscopy has been the conventional optical resolution restricted to about 200 nm laterally (ca. 1⁄2 of the wavelength used) and 600 nm axially ("Abbe/Rayleigh-limit"). For about a hundred years, the Abbe/Rayleigh limit (1873/1896) based on the nature of electromagnetic waves was thought to pose an absolute, unsurmountable limit for any attempts to lightoptically analyse the nanostructure of intact cells, the basic units of life. Although imaging methods based on ionizing radiation such as electron microscopy have partly filled this gap of resolution, improved lightoptical approaches remained of utmost importance. A first successful attempt to overcome this barrier at least in one direction was confocal laser scanning fluorescence 4Pi microscopy. In 2005, such a "superresolution" 4Pi microscope manufactured by the Leica Company has been established at the KirchhoffInstitute and since than has been used for cellular bioimaging at the 100 nm axial optical resolution level (about 6 times beyond the conventional limit). Simultaneously we developed various other laseroptical methods of far field fluorescence microscopy to realize


The management of degraded lands to improve farm income in Kandi (less water) areas is quite challenging due natural calamities. Under such brittle environment sustaining the livelihoods of these resources poor farmers become a real challenge both for technology developers as well as strategy makers.


This paper examines the development of feeling norms underlying romantic love among early adolescent females. On the basis of data from in-depth interviews, transcriptions of naturally occurring discourse, and field notes, we find that girls not only acquire cultural knowledge about romantic love, but also develop several feeling and expression norms to deal with their own concerns about romance. These norms involve the relative importance of romantic relationships and the appropriate object of romantic feelings. Girls also use a variety of discourse strategies to communicate normative information and to reinforce feeling norms to friends, ranging from playful language activities to more serious modes of discourse. Yet, even though girls obtain normative information about romantic love, they do not always abide by feeling and expression norms


Electromagnetic simulation is increasingly used in automotive industry to generate radar data in virtual scenarios instead of actual measurement campaigns. Objects in the scenario are usually converted into triangular facets before the simulation. This paper studies the effect of facetization criteria on the RCS accuracy of an object with curved surface.


Considering the requirement of recovering iron minerals from the lead and zinc flotation tailings of Huangshaping Mine,based on the detailed analyzing the mineral property and process,the rougher magnetic separator for tailings was designed specially,and a magnetic separator was invented to improve the recovery of magnetic iron.The application result indicates that the special magnetic separator can reduce the iron grade in the tailings and increase iron recovery.


Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common metabolic diseases characterized by increased blood glucose levels either due to insufficiency/absence of insulin or due to decrease in the insulin sensitivity. The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with type 2 diabetes is three times higher than in non-diabetic population and majority of people developing end-stage renal diseases (ESRD) have Type 2 DM. The objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of CKD, mean GFR and associated factors of CKD, in diabetics coming to a primary health care setting in Central Kerala.Methods: A cross-sectional study among all patients attending the NCD clinic of Health Centre, Ettumanoor with confirmed diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus was done between February 2017 and April 2017.Results: The prevalence of CKD among the study population was 45.3%. The proportion of CKD was 34.9% among those with nil urinary protein, 57.1% among those with 1+ urinary protein, 88.9% for those with 2+ and 87.5% among those with 3+ urinary protein. Among those with CKD mean duration of diabetes was 121.92 months against 92.72 months among those without CKD. There was statistically significant difference between RBS values of those with CKD and without CKD (238.49 mg% versus 199.41 mg%). The proportion of CKD was found increase with duration of diabetes 5 years (31.2%), 5-10 years (47.8%), 10-15 years (52.6%) and >15 years (55%).Conclusions: The study showed high prevalence of CKD among diabetics. The duration of diabetes, urinary protein levels and RBS value were found to have strong association with CKD in diabetics.


Apparatus and methods for improving treatment uniformity in a plasma process. The sacrificial body (104), which is extends about an outer peripheral edge (31) of the workpiece (30) during plasma processing, is composed of a plasma-removable material. The sacrificial body (104) may include multiple sections (168, 170) that are arranged to define a circular geometrical shape. The sacrificial body (104) functions to increase the effective outer diameter of the workpiece (30), which operates to alleviate detrimental edge effects intrinsic to plasma processing by effectively reducing the etch rate near the outer peripheral edge (31) of the workpiece (30).


It is a hot topic to construct honesty and trust system of medical professional.This system should consist of five parts:economic foundation,laws and regulations,good moral environment,personal quality and medical regulations.Economic foundation is a prerequisite for the system, good moral environment is the major means of the system and medical institution is an important guarantee.


Based on the 1990 to 2005 E601 evaporation data and related conventional meteorologic observation information of Qieme Hydrological Station,we analyzed the influence of each meteorologic factor to the water evaporation by using the gray relation analysis,the result showed that the influence capacity level from large to small were: saturated vapour pressure deficittemperaturewind speedrelative humidity.Hope from the meteorologic factor, to supply the theoretical reference for the optimization of the water resources in river basin.


Since the beginning of 2020, media around the world have started and intensified their TikTok activity to gain notoriety and reach young people, their main user group. However, as with other previously popularized social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, the platform's logic is different from that traditionally employed by the media system when developing information products. The objective of this paper is to analyze the degree of adaptation to the logic of this network for the activity developed on it by the Spanish media. For this purpose, a combined methodology of quantitative and content analysis was applied to 446 videos posted by the official user accounts of 20 Minutos, Antena 3 Noticias, El Diario, El Mundo, and El País –the five media outlets with the largest online audience in that period –from the time the accounts were created until January 31, 2022. Specifically, we studied the activity developed, the notoriety achieved, and the interaction obtained, as well as the most common formats, topics, protagonists, and brand identity elements. The results show that the main Spanish media have tried to adapt to the entertainment logic of the platform both with the use of native editing resources as well as through the creation of original materials, predominantly soft news, about entertainment, celebrities, and lifestyle. The videos that gain more notoriety are those that are more adapted to this logic. However, the Spanish media analyzed post less frequently than international media, obtain fewer views, and register lower engagement levels; in addition, they do not use their presence on this social network to promote their other editorial products.


In order to establish a fast detection method for distinguishing dead bacteria and live bacteria of Salmonella from samples, EMA and PCR were combined, meanwhile invA gene of Salmonella was taken as target gene, and then amplification was carried out by taking pure culture cells of Salmonella as template, furthermore sensitivity, specificity, exposure time and EMA concentration test were carried out. Results showed that: the sensitivity was 14 CFU/mL; the optimal exposure time was 2 min; when the concentration of EMA was less than 18 μg/mL, EMA had no obvious inhibition to the amplification of live bacteria′ target gene, while EMA at final concentration of 1 μg/mL could effectively inhibit the amplification of dead bacteria at 1×108CFU/mL. So EMA-PCR could effectively decrease false positive rate in the detection of Salmonella.


Background : the aim of this study was Compare sensory status of children 5 to 11 years in Tehran, according to the age and gender based on sensory profile questionnaire. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 2191 children from 5 to 11 years in Tehran were selected using random cluster sampling. The survey questionnaire was used in sensory profile. Information collected from these children using statistical methods, Kolmogorov - Smirnov, Mann Whitney Welch and ANOVA were used, in all testes less than or equal to 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Most of the people involved in sensory processing disorder, sensory sensitivity factor and lowest factor involved in fine movement/perception. The results of Mann Whitney showed that the middle of the factor of sensory sensitivity, emotional reaction, and oral sensory sensitive, inattention and destructibility, sensory sensitivity and fine movements / perception both males and females differ significantly (P < 0.001). the findings of this research also showed that the age and the factor of sensory seeking, low muscle tone and endurance, oral sensory sensitive, inattention and distraction, poor sensory registration, sedentary, fine movements / perception there is a significant relationship (P <0.001). Conclusion: This study is the first evidence of significant differences in the pattern of sensory processing in children without disabilities provides and according to the impact of the disorder on the quality of life of children and their adverse effects on the children's personal and social life, Screening school-aged children and trying to treat it is necessary. Declaration of Interest: None.


Background and Objectives: The use of composite material for posterior teeth due to the esthetic demands of patients is increasing. One of the major problems of composites is the polymerization rate. Inadequate polymerization due to improper curing will result in less hardness. As a solution the best light curing system can be considered. The aim of this study was to comparate the hardness of resin composite samples with three different curing methods with LED curing and QTH equipments. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study 100 sample composite (valux plus 3M, USA) was fabricated by stainless steel mold (thickness 2mm, diameter 6mm). The teeth were divided into 4 groups of 25 (one control and 3 experimental groups). Each of the experimental group was exposed to one of the curing protocols of LED (conventional, stepped, ramped) for 20s and control group for 20 s was cured by QTH. The samples were stored at room temperature in the dark for 24 hr, then Vickers micro hardness testing was performe on the upper and lower surfaces of all samples. Results: Significant differences were demonstrated between the different LCUs in lower and upper surfaces (P 0.05). Conclusion: Between the two sets of LED and QTH, the role of LED curing in all modes is superiorly effective in promting more hardness. ►Please cite this paper as: Zakavi F , Bahram Nezhad F , Ghanatir E, Behzadian M. Comparation of Hardness of Resin Composite Samples with Three Different Curing Methods with LED Curing and QTH Equipments. Jundishapur Sci Med J 2015;14(1):57-64


In order to lower the operating voltage of molecularly doped electroluminescent (EL) devices using a low-molecular-weight liquid crystal (LC), we added a small amount of electrolytes (tetrabutylammonium bromide: TBAB) to the EL devices. The addition of TBAB decreased the driving voltages by one order of magnitude. Furthermore, the EL devices containing TBAB could be operated under not only a dc mode but also an ac mode.


Levels in ${}^{40}\mathrm{Sc}$ below 2.5 MeV excitation energy have been populated in a high-resolution study of the ${}^{40}\mathrm{Ca}{(}^{3}\mathrm{He}{,t)}^{40}\mathrm{Sc}$ reaction. Three new states have been observed at energies ${E}_{x}=1703,$ 1871, and 1925 keV. Correspondence of the observed ${}^{40}\mathrm{Sc}$ levels with known $T=1$ states in ${}^{40}\mathrm{K}$ and ${}^{40}\mathrm{Ca}$ are based on predictions provided by the isobaric multiplet mass equation. Our results confirm recently estimated stellar reaction rates for proton capture on ${}^{39}\mathrm{Ca}.$


Objective Observing the clinical curative effect of methotrexate in severe psoriasis. Method Selected 50 cases of patients with severe psoriasis in our hospital, randomly divided them into each 25 cases of the treatment group and control group. the patients in the treatment group had oral administration of methotrexate, the patients in the control group had oral administration of compound amino-polypeptide tablets, at the same time, two groups of patients external using vaseline ointment to proceeded the adjuvant therapy. Result In the treatment group, the clinical total effective treatment rate was 84.0%, which was significantly higher than patients in the control group-60.0%(χ2=4.0 922, P0.05). The treatment group had 1 case of patient had adverse reactions of poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, moderately elevated alanine aminotransferase, the control group had 2 cases of patients who had adverse reactions of nausea, vomiting(P0.05). Conclusion Methotrexate has advantages of quick effect, curative effect, low price and so on in moderately and severe psoriasis treatment, it is one of the effective drugs for the treatment of moderately and severe psoriasis.


n this paper, I want to examine two claims found in Aristotle's Metaphysics: (A) the claim that notions like being and unity do not constitute genera and (B) the claim that such notions are not univocally predicable of all things. I want, in particular, to consider the view (expressed by Porphyry, William of Ockham, and J. L. Ackrill) that (A) entails (B). I shall argue that the alleged entailment cannot hold since while (A) is true, (B) is false.


The simplicial volume is a homotopy invariant of manifolds introduced by Gromov in his pioneering paper Volume and bounded cohomology. In order to study the main properties of simplicial volume, Gromov himself initiated the dual theory of bounded cohomology, which then developed into a very active and independent research field. Gromov's theory of bounded cohomology of topological spaces was based on the use of multicomplexes, which are simplicial structures that generalize simplicial complexes without allowing all the degeneracies appearing in simplicial sets.

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The third and last part of the paper is devoted to the study of locally finite chains on non-compact spaces, hence to the simplicial volume of open manifolds. We expand some ideas of Gromov to provide detailed proofs of a criterion for the vanishing and a criterion for the finiteness of the simplicial volume of open manifolds. As a by-product of these results, we prove a criterion for the

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Current data on salt tolerance of field crops are scattered, partly conflicting, and not well defined. This paper describes a field test facility designed to test the salt tolerance of crops under well drained irrigated conditions. Irrigation is provided to groups of 8 replicas of test fields, at seven different levels of salt concentration expressed in electrical conductivity (EC) ranging from 1.7 dS/m to 35 dS/m. A unique feature of the system is that each of the 56 test fields is equipped with one or two dielectric sensors to allow quasi continuous monitoring of soil volumetric water content (VWC) and bulk electric conductivity (ECb). The aim is to provide a preliminary assessment of the added value of the sensors, based on two consecutive years of testing. Sensor calibration was performed in the laboratory, and different models to relate bulk EC to pore water EC in dependency of the VWC or dielectric permittivity as measured by the sensor were tested and parameterized. Overall, the root mean square error of the tested models with one or two parameters did not differ very much, and was in the range of 0.57-0.59 dS/m in terms of soil bulk EC. However, the models differed in their robustness against inversion to obtain pore water EC from measured bulk EC. A simple one-parameter model was preferred, showing a ratio between bulk EC and pore water EC that is proportional to the VWC as measured by the sensor. The laboratory calibration was then cross validated by comparing sensor EC readings with the EC of pore water extracts obtained from suction cup samples in the field. It appears that the laboratory calibration formula overestimates the pore water EC at low EC (5 dS/m), and underestimates it at high EC (25 dS/m). The extensive data of 2013 revealed that a simple direct proportionality between pore water EC and sensor bulk EC, without any correction for VWC, can circumvent the difficulties with the calibration. This result must be treated with care as in the current field tests the soil water content was always very high. In addition, such relationship can be used only when actual pore water samples are taken, which is not always Received date: 2014-XX-XX Accepted date: 201X-XX-XX * Corresponding author: Prof. G. van Straten, Emeritus Professor of Systems and Control, Department Bio-refinery and Process Dynamics, Bornse Weilanden 9, 6708 WG Wageningen, The Netherlands. Email:email@example.com. Tel:+31317483331, Fax:+31317484957. Paper – 18 World Congress of CIGR – Beijing – September 2014 practical.Overall, there is a good correlation between the time trajectories of the suction cup samples and the sensor time series, while the latter provide much more details about the dynamic behavior. Fairly large differences in bulk EC between different fields within the same irrigation treatment group were observed in both the sensor readings as well as the samples, suggesting that these differences are real. Also, within a field, sensors my differ, but the time trajectories are very similar. In the drained conditions used here the average pore water salinity was largely imposed by the irrigation EC, despite variations in rainfall and evapo-transpiration over the season. Despite the difficulties with the laboratory calibration, the higher temporal detail provided by the sensors offers excellent opportunities for advanced control of soil salinity to support crop salinity tolerance tests.


Normalization of blood pressure cannot be achieved in about 5% of patients with chronic renal insufficiency by fluid and sodium extraction on dialysis. An accompanying high plasma renin activity has, until now, been an indication for bilateral nephrectomy. In a group of 8 patients, treated since 1974 by hemofiltration, 3 had been originally considered for bilateral nephrectomy. However, through this treatment their blood pressure was normalized. The extraction of large quantities of fluid was tolerated by the patients; they did not have side effects such as muscle cramps or vascular collapse. Large quantities of fluid can also be removed by hemofiltration from hyperhydrated normotensive patients without hypotensive reactions. The present results show that the response of blood pressure to the extraction of a definite amount of fluid by hemofiltration is dependent upon the starting blood pressure: the higher the blood pressure value at the start of hemofiltration, the greater is the effect of dehydration o...


BIM surveys, and other evidence, suggest that managers are reluctant to take full and direct advantage of online services. The reasons for this are examined and set within the general framework of the implementation of information technology by British management.


The Mycobacterium leprae and M. tuberculosis 10 000 MW heat‐shock protein homologues of GroES have previously been identified as major immunogens for human T cells. We used synthetic peptides to characterize the determinants recognized by murine T cells. The findings suggest that, despite 90% sequence identity between these two proteins, T cells recognize prominently the species‐specific determinants localized within amino acid residues 21–40 and 49–72. Analysis of the molecular determinants of species‐specificity for the M. leprae GroES sequence 25–40, using T‐cell hybridomas and major histocompatibility complex (MHC)‐binding assays, led to the identification of epitope cores and critical residues. Interestingly, closely overlapping epitope cores were found to be restricted by either H‐2Ad (24–34) or H‐2Ed (28–34). Furthermore, the site recognized by the M. leprae‐specific monoclonal antibodies ML06 and ML10 was also localized in the overlapping sequences 25–31 and 25–29. In conclusion, we demonstrated that immunodominant species‐specific T‐ and B‐cell epitopes can be found in a mycobacterial heat‐shock protein despite its highly conserved amino acid sequence. This finding suggests the feasibility of identifying a sufficient number of M. leprae‐specific determinants for a composite T‐cell immunodiagnostic reagent for tuberculoid leprosy.


Abstract In Sri Lanka tremendous expertise is employed in thinking and manoeuvring around the personalities that shape the outcomes that beset the country. Such expertise is the bread and butter of the political and business circles, which is equally well reflected in the media and realistically respected in the NGO and international circuit. What is disconcerting however is the almost oblivious attention paid to matters of structure and functionality. Yet Sri Lanka is rife with structural and functional anomalies, which is positioned to terminally gnaw at advantages gained by changes in governments, peace talks, poverty reduction, etc. Using the example of the Public Administration System and the democratically elected Presidential and Parliamentary process explained is the structural and functional impediments that are crying out for serious remedy. There is a vital homeostatic balance that is exercised between the parliament and the Public Administration System as a result of the former being elected and the latter employed on tenure. This translates to the Public Administration System being able to afford to think long term (since their tenure is secure) whilst being tempered by parliament's shorter range thinking occasioned by the politician's need to show results to entice its next bout of votes. In essence, this twofold structure serves to foster the seeking of a homeostatic balance between the long-and short-term needs of the country. In Sri Lanka by constitutional and other legislative enactments various homeostatic relationships between races, languages, time spans etc. have been (un)wittingly flouted. These aspects are diagnosed using the cybernetic concepts of homeostasis and ultrastability.


This study was undertaken to investigate the challenges experienced, coping mechanisms employed by, and opportunities for possible intervention schemes to help science teachers in their pedagogical integration of ICT in their classroom instruction. This study was conducted in Magsaysay North District of the Division of Davao del Sur last August through October of 2019. This was participated by 10 science teachers, 4 science coordinators, and 1 district science coordinator. Data collection was done through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions using a semi-structured interview guide questionnaire. Colaizzi's method was used for qualitative data analysis. Responses show that teachers' challenges in integrating ICT were classified as either self-level or institution-level barriers. Teachers' coping mechanisms include self-training and support, collaboration with colleagues and knowledgeable others, as well as, time management and self-organization. Opportunities for possible intervention schemes provided by the focus group include inclusive teacher training and professional development, procurement of sufficient ICT infrastructure, installation and updating of relevant educational software. Science teachers undeniably experienced challenges in their utilization of ICT in their instruction but were also able to employ strategies to circumvent such setbacks. With further significant interventions, they can be helped to improve their practice.


Takayasu arteritis (also known as pulseless disease, aortoarteritis, and aortic arch syndrome) is a chronic, inflammatory and occlusive vasculitis of the aorta and its primary branches as well as the pulmonary arteries. It predominantly affects young females, particularly from India and South East Asia.Subclavian steal syndrome secondary to takayasu arteritis occurs when there is severe stenosis or occlusion in subclavian artery which usually causes symptoms of vertebrobasilar territory. A case of Takayasu arteritis with thrombosis of bilateral subclavian arteries with subclavian steal syndrome affecting right subclavian artery is being reported here.


We propose a new modeling methodology using deep learning techniques for generating timing models for Static Timing Analysis (STA). Current device behavior is non-linear, non-monotonic and exhibits high sensitivity to (Process Voltage Temperature) PVT variation which imposes a myriad of design challenges including the need for analysis at several PVT corners. While complete PVT coverage is crucial for detecting design issues early and achieving time-to-market goals with improved predictability, the number of PVT corners are growing exponentially and library generation has also become a significant bottleneck in current design cycles. To this end, we have developed a novel methodology for timing library generation that uses data from sparse characterization in PVT space and generates delay models at required sign-off corners. We have employed deep neural nets with residual connections for delay modeling and our methodology enables a 'single model' to fully comprehend multiple cell types, PVT corners and generate required PVT timing libraries. The proposed library-generator uses a novel inter-corner model to generate delay tables at 17 test corners using 7 corners as reference. In addition, we have developed an intra-corner model, to generate dense 8x8 delay tables using delays from 10 slew/load points as reference. The results show that, using these models, we are able to achieve key improvements with over 98.7% of calculated delays within acceptable tolerance while reducing characterization run-time for early milestones by upto 60%.


The memoir of an ARVN Liaison Officer to United States Forces in Vietnam who was imprisoned in Communist re-education camps and then escaped.


First Century: External Sovereignty and International Law, 18 FORDHAM TNT L .U. 1685 (1995) (redefining the concept of sovereignty in the realm of international law); Robert Brown & Michael Alexander, Sovereignty in the Modern Age, 20 CAN.-U.S. L.J. 273 (1994) (pointing out the limits of sovereignty in today's "global village"); Winston P. Nagan, Strengthening Humanitarian Law: Sovereignty, International Criminal Law and the Ad Hoc Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 6 DUKE J. COMP. & INT'L L. 127 (1995) (discussing the implications of sovereignty in international criminal law); Joel P. Trachtman, Reflections on the Nature of the State: Sovereignty, Power and Responsibility, 20 CAN.-U.S. L.J. 399 (1994) (examining sovereignty from an international economic law perspective); Eric Husby, Comment, Sovereignty and Property Rights in Outer Space, 3 J. INT'L L. & PRAc. 359 (1994) (discussing the issues of state sovereignty and private property rights in outer space).


A chemical exchange method is provided for separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 comprising contacting a first phase containing UF6 with a second phase containing a compound selected from the group consisting of NOUF6, NOUF7, and NO2 UF7 until the UF6 in the first phase becomes enriched in the U-235 isotope.


PURPOSE: A semiconductor memory device is provided to improve operation reliability and voltage stability by securing a constant internal voltage with a target level. CONSTITUTION: An initialization signal generator(100) changes an external voltage level enabling a power-up signal in response to a sensing signal. A pulse generator generates a pulse when a power-up signal is enabled. A variable voltage divider changes the voltage distribution ratio in response to the sensing signal and generates the divided voltage by dividing the external voltage with the voltage distribution ratio. A signal generator enables the power-up signal when the division voltage is above the specific level. An internal voltage generator(200) is initialized in response to the power-up signal and generates the internal voltage. A sensing signal generator(300) generates the sensing signal in response to the internal voltage level.