The utility model relates to a foundation structure of a marine wind turbine group, in particular to a foundation structure of a gravity type marine wind turbine group. The foundation structure comprises a concrete base and a concrete bearing platform arranged on the concrete base, wherein a plurality of cavities with upward openings are arranged on the concrete base, crushed stones are filled in the cavities, and appearance of the concrete base is in a prismatic table shape with a smaller upper portion and a bigger lower portion. Since the concrete base is in the prismatic table shape with a smaller upper portion and a bigger lower portion, thereby water can flow continuously upwards along the upward slanting side face of a prismatic table without forming direct reflecting wave when the water flows through the base, and simultaneously, after the water flows to the upper surface of the base along the slanting surface, with stones filled in the base, the structure has function of eliminating waves, greatly reducing kinetic energy of water flow, leading the kinetic energy of the water back flowing along the slanting surface to be lowered, and avoiding flushing caused by disturbing sands at sea bottom. Therefore, the foundation structure can replace a single column structure at a flushing type sea bottom and lower investment cost of marine wind power stations.


In a wide class of problems arising in operations research and artiicial intelligence, one searches for an optimal solution among all vectors in a solution space W that satisfy a set of constraints (which deenes a discrete domain X of feasible solutions). The term (discrete) constrained optimization problem will be used to designate this class of problems. The search eeciency is of considerable importance since X is possibly very large and exhaustive search is often impracticable. The method called branch-and-bound is an iterative heuristic tree search algorithm used in this context. In spite of the controversy existing in the literature over which algorithms fall into the category of branch-and-bound, a common feature is that their principle lies in successive splittings of the original problem in smaller subproblems until it is demonstrated that a feasible solution found during the search is optimal. Applying this principle in a na ve way would imply the enumeration of all feasible solutions. The aim of a branch-and-bound algorithm is to limit the number of feasible solutions that need to be explicitly enumerated. Parallel processing has been widely considered as an additional source of improvement in search eeciency, using a set of processors with large computation power and memory storage capacity to concurrently split several subproblems at each iteration (called high level parallelization), as well as other sources of parallelism that may also be explored. The use of parallelism is particularly prootable in two situations. First, even though parallelism will not be able to overdue the assumed worst case exponential time or memory complexity of most of constrained optimization problems (unless an exponential number of processors is used), there are many cases for which the average time complexity of heuristic tree search algorithms is polynomial (eventually nding a suboptimal solution). Consequently, those parallel systems give us the perspective of eeciently solving relatively large instances in these cases. Second, in several industrial, research or other real-world environments, an exact optimal solution of moderate instances is highly desirable, and parallelism can drastically reduce the computation time in these situations. Given the scenario above, the contribution of the work brieey described in this abstract is twofold. Firstly, we implement a library based on an abstractly deened parallel general branch-and-bound, which is formulated as a single meta-algorithm able to express a great variety of heuristic tree search algorithms commonly used to solve constrained optimization problems 2]. The library is organized …


Thomson spectrometers (TS) are designed to detect and distinguish protons from heavier ions in experiments of intense laser-matter interaction. The combination of electric and magnetic field allows for deflecting ion species with different mass-to-charge ratio on different trajectories. However, even small distortions of the internal fields of the device can lead to a degradation of the measurement quality. Hence, TS are sensitive to both high electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) and fields due to static charge accumulation caused by the interaction. Here we report on the analysis of data obtained with a TS designed to have high sensitivity and robustness with, optimized shielding against EMPs, even when the device is placed at short distances from the interaction point, where the electromagnetic radiation is more intense. To test this, the spectrometer was thus placed ∼50 cm far from the target during an experiment at the PHELIX laser at GSI (∼180 J energy, >1020 W/cm2 intensity, sub-picosecond laser pulses on solid targets). Despite the presence of strong EMPs (beyond 100 kV/m at 1 m distance from the target), the tests were successful and the TS was able to retrieve a good-quality signal. Indeed, the close proximity to the interaction point caused a significant number of electrons, produced by the intense laser-target interaction, entering the TS and causing internal electrostatic fields up to tens of kV/m. These induced fields altered the trajectories of the detected ions, making the interpretation and characterization of the particle species not straightforward. This effect was analyzed with ad-hoc particle tracking simulations. This study is of high importance for the effective implementation of this type of high-sensitivity TSs in experiments with PW-power lasers.


One of the most influential tools that the state wields in developing citizenship is public education. The 19 royal commissions and major reports on education completed in provinces across Canada between 1947 and 1994 offer valuable insight into what the Canadian state conceives as ideal citizenship. The following work attempts to answer two research questions: (1) When do provincial governments desire to change the direction of education (and construction of citizens)?; and (2) How do provincial governments define the ideal citizen once reform is initiated? This essay finds that through three eras of reform, the pedagogical focus on citizenship moved from the individual to the community to a diluted form with no unifying vision. The sum of these attempts at change and conceptions of ideal citizenry leads one further from an accepted meaning of the continually elusive notion of Canadian citizenship.


In recent years, the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has produced a large amount of data that needs to be processed in a timely manner. Traditional cloud computing systems can provide us with plentiful resources to process such data. However, the increasing requirements of IoT applications on data privacy, energy consumption savings and location-aware data processing pushes the emergence and the interplay of fog computing and cloud computing. This paper examines the resource scheduling issue under such a system to minimize makespan and energy consumption. A multi-objective estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) as well as a partition operator is adopted to divide the graph and determine the task processing permutation and processor assignment. Single and multiple application simulation were both conducted. The comparative results show that the Pareto set produced by our proposed algorithm is able to dominate a large proportion of those solutions by the heuristic method and the simple EDA under single application simulation. When it comes to multi-application simulation, IoT devices can have a much longer lifetime with our proposed scheduling algorithm as well having similar performance to the other algorithms on fog node energy consumption and much better on makespan.


The plateau environment characterized by hypobaric hypoxia has significant effects on human sleep quality.People who have lived for a long time on the plateau or the short time travelers are disturbed by poor sleep quality.Slow wave sleep of the sleep architecture is reduced and the continuity of sleep process is interrupted.Besides some physical signs during the sleep such as oxyhemoglobin saturation,breathing and blood pressure are also affected.Increased oxygen intaking or some sleeping tablets may improve the sleep quality.


Let F be a family of k-element subsets of an n-set, n > n0(k). Suppose any two members of F have non-empty intersection. Let τ(F) denote min|T|, T meets every member of F. Erdös, Ko and Rado proved and that if equality holds then τ(F) = 1. Hilton and Milner determined max|F| for τ(F) = 2. In this paper we solve the problem for τ(F) = 3. The extremal families look quite complicated which shows the power of the methods used for their determination.


In the traditional subspace speech enhancement algorithm,the bias of the estimated speech eigenvalues leads to speech distortion and residual noise.A new algorithm is advanced to correct them.The algorithm adjusts adaptively coefficient ahead noise eigenvalues jointing masking effect,modifies concurrently the clean speech eigenvalues by wiener filter for its restraint to noise especially music noise,attains the clean speech.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve the higher SNR than the traditional algorithm in the same Gaussian white noise and train colored noise,and reduce speech distortion and residual noise.


module in biology help students learn independently and lead to understanding of concepts and principles of biology. The purpose of this research was produced module of biology based on hybrid learning on locomotion system. Research and development based on Borg and Gall model. The try out of prototype was conducted on 35 students in SMA Negeri 1 Malang. The result shows that hybrid learning module was able to be applied in high school and improve critical thinking skills and learning outcomes of students.


SUBTITLE: A WORKING VERSION OF AUGUST DESIGN'S INTELLIGENT SPREADER BAR IS SET TO BE BUILT AT PORT ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY: THE TRIALS COULD OPEN THE WAY TO THE AUTOMATION OF THE SHIP TO SHORE PORTION OF CONTAINER TERMINAL OPERATIONS.


1. The effect of protein intake on calcium metabolism has been studied in the pregnant ewe. 2. Results suggest that decreased Ca retention in protein-deficient animals was a result of a decreased rate of Ca absorption and not a decreased rate of bone accretion as suggested by other workers.


The present invention discloses a kind of maintenance managing and controlling system and method. The system includes one server, several computers in the maintenance terminals, several scanner, one database, several test work sites and several test data acquiring computers. To no good circuit board product found in the test work sites, site test record including the ID is established in the database, and the site test records constitute one sequence number mapping list. The server includes one sequence number acquiring module, one judgment module and one output circuit board managing module. The present invention can judge the work site finding the no good circuit board product for maintenance, statistics and analysis.


Abstract. Severe winter haze accompanied by high concentrations of
fine particulate matter (PM2.5) occurs frequently in the North China
Plain and threatens public health. Organic matter (OM) and sulfate are
recognized as major components of PM2.5, while atmospheric models often
fail to predict their high concentrations during severe winter haze due to
incomplete understanding of secondary aerosol formation mechanisms. By using
a novel combination of single-particle mass spectrometry and an optimized
ion chromatography method, here we show that hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS),
formed by the reaction between formaldehyde (HCHO) and dissolved SO2 in
aerosol water, is ubiquitous in Beijing during winter. The HMS concentration
and the molar ratio of HMS to sulfate increased with the deterioration of
winter haze. High concentrations of precursors (SO2 and HCHO) coupled
with low oxidant levels, low temperature, high relative humidity, and
moderately acidic pH facilitate the heterogeneous formation of HMS, which
could account for up to 15 % of OM in winter haze and lead to up to 36 %
overestimates of sulfate when using traditional ion chromatography. Despite
the clean air actions having substantially reduced SO2 emissions, the HMS
concentration and molar ratio of HMS to sulfate during severe winter haze
increased from 2015 to 2016 with the growth in HCHO concentration. Our
findings illustrate the significant contribution of heterogeneous HMS
chemistry to severe winter haze in Beijing, which helps to improve the
prediction of OM and sulfate and suggests that the reduction in HCHO can
help to mitigate haze pollution.


Signifi cance to Industry: There is confusion among the industry and scientists as to whether H. macrophylla subsp. serrata or H. serrata is the correct scientifi c name for the mountain hydrangea. This study used morphological, molecular and hybridization data to address this issue. While morphological data could support elevating the serrata form to species level, molecular and hybridization data do not support separating macrophylla and serrata into separate species. We recommend use of the H. macrophylla subsp. serrata designation as it is more appropriate from a breeding perspective.


An electronic electroscope has been constructed to update the design of a similar instrument reported in Physics Education several decades ago. The presence of positive or negative charges is easily distinguished with this electroscope and an experiment with a Faraday cup is carried out to show how easy it is to record the accumulation of charge with time.


Abstract The ability of durian peel to remove Cd(II) ions from aqueous solution by biosorption was investigated. The sorption capacities at different solution pH, agitation speed, temperatures, initial cadmium ions concentrations and contact time were evaluated on a batch scale basis. At pH 5 and agitation speed 150 rpm, the cadmium ions removal reached at a maximum value. Increases in cadmium capacity with increasing temperature indicated endothermic nature of the biosorption process. The equilibrium was better described by the Langmuir isotherm model, with a maximum biosorption capacity of 18.55 mg/g. The biosorption was relatively quick about 15 min to reach the equilibrium. Biosorption kinetics followed a pseudo-second-order model. Desorption experiments indicate that the desorption efficiency using 0.1 N HCl, HNO 3 and H 2 SO 4 aqueous solution were 96.58, 89.90 and 85.92%, respectively. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy revealed that carboxyl, hydroxyl, and amide groups on the durian peels' surface involved in the adsorption of the cadmium ions as well as morphological aspects. Biosorption by durian peel has potential to serve as a remover of Cd (II) from wastewater. Keywords : Durian peel, Biosorption, Cadmium ions, Agricultural waste


Induction motors can be decoupled into rotor speed and flux subsystems by the feedback linearing method if the parameters can be precisely obtained. But the parameters are so changeable that they are difficult to obtain. In order to improve the method and the speed regulation property as well, based on ANN (artificial neural network), a new method to obtain inverse system model is proposed to solve the problem. The results of analyzsis and experiment show that the proposed method can decouple the AC variable frequency control system, which is valid, robust and stiff.


(i) if a Borel set A does not belong to A, then A+A contains an interval, and (ii) each disjoint family of Borel sets not belonging to A is countable, it is natural to ask if these properties also hold with A replaced by the class of σ-porous sets. These problems were posed by P. D. Humke [3] and W. Wilczynski at the symposium "Real Analysis" held in August 1982 in Esztergom, Hungary. J. Foran and P. D. Humke [2] showed some "enveloping" properties of σ-porous sets and posed a problem whether there exists a porous set contained in no σ-porous Gδ set. Here we give positive answer to the last question and prove that the class of σ-porous sets has neither of the properties (i) or (ii) even for perfect sets. To construct the corresponding examples we give a general method of the construction of perfect non-σ-porous sets, a special case of which has been used by L. Zajicek [4] in his construction of perfect non-σ-porous set of measure zero. For a subset S of the real line we define the set


Objective- To evaluate the performance of HbA1c as a screening tool for type 2 diabetes among Nigerians with systemic hypertension. Design- Cross-sectional. Setting- Hospital based study. Subjects -Two-hundred and seven subjects were recruited, out of which 131had oral glucose tolerance test done. 2-hour post glucose load plasma glucose assay was used as gold standard for the diagnosis of diabetes, thirty three of the subjects also had HbA1c assayed. Outcome measures- We calculated specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, efficiency of the test and prevalence of the disease using HbA1c. Receiver Operative Characteristic Curve was also plotted and area under the curve determined. Results- The mean age of the subjects that had HbA1c assay was 53.97±6.27years, while those who did not have HbA1c test had a mean age of 52.85±9.32 which is not significant (p=0.53). The subjects that had the screening test were made up of 24(77.4%) females and 7(22.6%) males. Mean HbA 1C was 6.61±1.93% and mean 2hour plasma glucose was 169.48±93.97mg/dl. The sensitivity of the test was 62.50% (CI=24.49-91.48%), specificity was 65.22% (CI=42.73-83.62%), positive predictive value was 38.46%(CI=13.86-68.42%), negative predictive value was  83.33% (CI=58.58-96.42%), positive likelihood ratio was 1.80, negative likelihood ratio was 0.57, efficiency 61.29, prevalence was 25.81(CI=11.86-44.61). The area under ROC was 0.682 which was significant. Conclusion- There is a good correlation between HbA1c and 2-hour plasma glucose, however, the performance of this screening test is low compared to the results of previous Caucasian studies. Keywords: Screening, type 2 diabetes, HbA1c, 2 hour plasma glucose.


This paper focuses on the effects of cationic and anionic surfactants on the photolysis of acetamiprid in water.Cetyl trimethyl amine bromide(CTAB)and sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate(SDBS) were used as the representative cationic and anionic surfactants.Acetamiprid was easily photolysed under mercury lamp irradiation,and the surfactants were not reactants in the degradation process.However they had important inhibiting effects on the photolysis of acetamiprid,and CTAB exhibited a greater inhibiting effect than SDBS.Under the experimental conditions,the photodegradation of acetamiprid was found to fit first-order kinetics.The results indicated that the inhibiting effect increased with the increase of SDBS concentration when it was below 400mg·L-1,and then decreased with a further increase of SDBS concentration.When the concentration of CTAB was 25mg·L-1,the inhibiting effect was strong up to 62.9%,and remained stable at 80.36%~87.03% with CTAB concentrations in the range of 50~150mg·L-1.


Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Committee was charged with examining the Dietary 4 Guidelines for Americans, 2010 to determine topics for which new scientific evidence was likely 5 to be available with the potential to inform the next edition of the Guidelines and to place its 6 primary emphasis on the development of food-based recommendations that are of public health 7 importance for Americans ages 2 years and older published since the last DGAC deliberations. 8 9 The 2015 DGAC's work was guided by two fundamental realities. First, about half of all 10 American adults—117 million individuals—have one or more preventable, chronic diseases, and 11 about two-third of U.S. adults—nearly 155 million individuals—are overweight or obese. These 12 conditions have been highly prevalent for more than two decades. Poor dietary patterns, 13 overconsumption of calories, and physical inactivity directly contribute to these disorders. 14 Second, individual nutrition and physical activity behaviors and other health-related lifestyle 15 behaviors are strongly influenced by personal, social, organizational, and environmental contexts 16 and systems. Positive changes in individual diet and physical activity behaviors, and in the 17 environmental contexts and systems that affect them, could substantially improve health 18 outcomes. 19 20 Recognizing these realities, the Committee developed a conceptual model based on socio-21 ecological frameworks to guide its work (see Part B. Chapter 1: Introduction) and organized its 22 evidence review to examine current status and trends in food and nutrient intakes, dietary 23 patterns and health outcomes, individual lifestyle behavior change, food and physical activity 24 environments and settings, and food sustainability and safety. 25 26 The remainder of this Executive Summary provides brief synopses of the DGAC's topic-specific 27 evidence review chapters. Each of these chapters ends with a list of research recommendations 28 (see Appendix E-1: Needs for Future Research for a compilation of these recommendations). 29 The Committee integrated its findings and conclusions into several key themes and articulated 30 specific recommendations for how the report's findings can be put into action at the individual, 31 community, and population levels. The Executive Summary ends with a brief summary of this 32 chapter. 33 34 35


A simple parametrization of the deuteron wave function is used to make it easy to compute, in closed form, the various quantities appearing in calculations involving the deuteron. Formulae for some of the integrals that appear in such calculations are also given. The parameters of the wave function have been determined for the simplest case.


D idn't you guys ever feel bad about taking three buses to New York City?" my classmate at Princeton asked me following the People's Climate March last September. "Think about all of the greenhouse gas emissions you could have avoided by simply not going." Taken more broadly, his question touches on a seminal dilemma faced by all who care for Mother Earth: should humans retreat from engagement in nature, in an attempt to leave no footprints, or step forward to take action in a mindful way? Though taking mindful action seems like the natural winner between the two, it is not always obvious that this is the case. Many religions preach nonviolence at their core. Yet, the essence of human action is violence — violence in the sense that every action we take has tangible negative consequences for the environment and for our fellow living beings. If we cannot safely traverse the proverbial lawn without inadvertently crushing an ant, why cross it in the first place? Shouldn't we retreat instead of step forward? The environmental movement almost exclusively deals with this question from a utilitarian framework. However, I have always found it instructive to delve into my own religious tradition — specifically, the Bhagavad Gita, an explicitly nonutilitarian text — for answers. In the third chapter, Krishna says to the warriorking Arjuna:


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Abstract. There is ample evidence that cell‐mediated immune mechanisms are crucial in the initiation of insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Therefore, the role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of IDDM was investigated in 51 patients with IDDM, in comparison with 20 normal controls. The patients were divided into three groups, group 1 consisting of 31 newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics, in group 2 IDDM had been diagnosed for between 2 months and 2 years, and in group 3 onset had occurred 2–20 years before. Interleukin 1 (IL 1) activity was measured by the thymocyte co‐stimulator assay, and interleukin 2 (IL 2) using IL 2 dependent cell lines. Peripheral blood monocyte IL 1 production was not altered under basal conditions. However, silica‐stimulated IL 1 release was normal in patients with newly diagnosed or short‐term disease, but was significantly decreased in long‐term diabetics. Peripheral blood T‐lymphocyte IL 2 production at onset of IDDM was normal under basal conditions, and upon optimal stimulation with concanavalin A (ConA) and phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). However, in the two groups with longer standing diabetes, basal and stimulated IL 2 release was decreased. We conclude that monocytes and T‐lymphocytes from patients with diabetes mellitus have a diminished capacity to release IL 1 and IL 2 only later in the course of the disease. At the time of manifestation of disease, IL 1 and IL 2 production is normal in type‐I diabetes mellitus.


The objective of the CSR Data Collection effort is to collect and deliver a large corpus of continuous speech data to support ARPA research efforts in continuous speech recognition (CSR).


Garbage disposal is a challenging problem throughout the developed world. In Cyprus, as elsewhere, illegal ``fly-tipping"is a significant issue, especially in rural areas where few legal garbage disposal options exist. However, there is a lack of studies that attempt to measure the scale of this problem, and few resources available to address it. A method of automating the process of identifying garbage dumps would help counter this and provide information to the relevant authorities. The aim of this study was to investigate the degree to which artificial intelligence techniques, together with satellite imagery, can be used to identify illegal garbage dumps in the rural areas of Cyprus. This involved collecting a novel dataset of images that could be categorised as either containing, or not containing, garbage. The collection of such datasets in sufficient raw quantities is time consuming and costly. Therefore a relatively modest baseline set of images was collected, then data augmentation techniques used to increase the size of this dataset to a point where useful machine learning could occur. From this set of images an artificial neural network was trained to recognise the presence or absence of garbage in new images. A type of neural network especially suited to this task known as ``convolutional neural networks"was used. The efficacy of the resulting model was evaluated using an independently collected dataset of test images. The result was a deep learning model that could correctly identify images containing garbage in approximately 90\% of cases. It is envisaged that this model could form the basis of a future system that could systematically analyse the entire landscape of Cyprus to build a comprehensive ``garbage"map of the island.


Considering the global outcry over climate change and the need for increased penetration of clean forms of energy in ever-increasing aspects of the modern economic sphere, wind power installations, particularly offshore, are expected to rise in the next decades. However, the main obstacle to this trend will be represented by the high installation costs. In order to reduce these costs, the wind turbines generators require to be manufactured to yield higher torque density with lower material input in terms of weight. One way to pursue this requirement is to employ high-temperature superconductor (HTS) technology for the rotor windings and/or the stator windings, making it possible to design cheaper generators for 10-MW applications. This work considers the impact of HTS conductors in wind turbine generators to complement material research work at the University of Houston HTS material research work. Four topologies of generators were investigated: two partially superconducting generators employing YBCO and MgB2 as conductor for the rotor windings and two fully superconducting generators employing MgB2. The electromagnetic physics governing the machine was simulated by finite-element analysis software, i.e., FlexPDE; then, a numerical analysis of thousands of models was realized by Python. An exploration of the results was carried out making use of an optimum criterion considering a simple aggregation of the generator mass active, the copper, ac stator windings losses, and the amount of superconductor needed. Trends of these optimization criteria with reference to design parameters are shown in detailed plots. According to the specific aims of the designer, the investigation provided interesting clues regarding, among others, the number of pair of poles and the amount of superconductor employed characterizing the best models.


The total ethanolic extract, different fractions and crude polysaccharides of leaves of Abutilon hirtum (Lam.) Sweet, were evaluated for their antimicrobial and antiparasitic activities. The antimicrobial activity was determined using the disc diffusion method against Staphylococcus aureus (Gram-positive, Facultative anaerobic bacteria), Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Gram-negative, Facultative anaerobic bacteria), Candida albicans, C. krusei (Diploid fungi) and C. glabrata (haploid fungus). The antimalarial activity was examined on chloroquine-sensitive (D6, Sierra Leone) strain of Plasmodium falciparum protozoan and the antileishmanial activity was tested against Leishmania donovani. The results of the present study showed that the total extract exhibited the lowest MIC (11.8 μg/ml) against P. aeruginosa. While, the chloroform fraction showed low MIC (59.03, 181.72 and 364.03 μg/ml) against S. aureus, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa, respectively. The petroleum ether fraction exhibited the lowest MIC value (3.00 μg/ml) against C. albicans, while the total extract showed the lowest MIC (33.11 μg/ml) against C. glabrata. A. hirtum leaves extract and fractions showed a weak antimalarial activity. On the other hand, the chloroform fraction of A. hirtum leaves exhibited a potent antileishmanial activity with the highest percentage of inhibition (78%) against Leishmania donovani AMASTTHP_Pinh.


The investigations on the quality status of the sediments in the German Baltic Sea coastal waters focused on the natural background as assessment basis. On this basis, the chemical sediment quality can be evaluated. Furthermore, the decision about the relocation of dredged material from federal waterways depends on this assessment. The sediment quality of the German Baltic Sea coastal waters between the Kiel Bay and the Stettin Lagoon has been analyzed in order to obtain guide concentrations of the natural level. Relevant parameters had been selected according to the Helcom Liste of priority harmful substances e.g. metals (Hg, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Ni, Zn and As), PAHs, MHC, PCBs and nutrients. The results show that regional differences exist, so that a regionally differentiated assessment is required. With regard to the removal of dredged material, a hierarchical decision support system for the re-use of that material was developed, including the disposal on land and in water. Ecological and economic conditions have to be compared in this decision making process. This procedure is illustrated at the example of the enlargement of the harbour access in the Wismar Bay. 1 Baltic Sea Coastal Waters – Study area The Baltic coast has manifold features, including boddens (land-locked coastal waters) and haffs. The bottom of the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea is characterized by Holocene deposits, especially late glacial marly till, which, in the deposition zones, is covered with recent, terrigenous silt. Compared with the North Sea, the Baltic Sea has less interaction with the Atlantic Ocean, lower salinity, heavily reduced tidal effects, and a higher eutrophication potential. As a result, differentiated ecosystems have emerged along the Baltic coast (Müller and Heininger 1999). Anthropogenic impacts at the German coast are caused by the shipyard and seaport cities of Kiel, Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Wolgast, and Szczecin also by agriculture, which is a major sector of the economies in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The conditions of the rivers Trave, Peene, and Oder, for instance, reflect the industrial and agricultural activities in their catchment areas. The quantification of the input of harmful substances into the Baltic Sea requires the consideration of the complex hydrological conditions of some of the estuaries (HELCOM 1993). In terms of quality, however, the anthropogenic impacts can be shown by the condition of the sediments in the coastal areas selected for examination: Kieler Bucht, Lübecker Bucht, Wismar Bay, Warnow Estuary, DarssZingst Chain of Boddens, Rügen Boddens, Strelasund, Greifswald Bodden, Peenestrom and Stettin Lagoon. The contaminant parameters were select from the lists of priority substances which are covered by special provisions of the Helsinki Convention (HELCOM 1993). Heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Cu, Cr, Ni, Pb, Zn) and arsenic (As) are given as concentrations in the fine particle-size fraction of less than 20 μm. The organic contaminats include mineral oil hydrocarbons (MHCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), chlorinated pesticides (HCHs, DDTs), hexachlorbenzene (HCB), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PAHs, chlorinated pesticides, and PCBs are discussed in terms of their total amounts represented by the sums of 16 individual PAH-compounds according to EPA 610, of αand γ-HCH, of o,pand p,p-DDT and its DDD and DDE metabolites, and of the PCB-congeners 28, 52, 101, 138, 153, 180, respectively. The results for organic contaminants refer to the whole sample (<2 mm). __________________________________ German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG); Schnellerstrasse 140, 12439 Berlin; firstname.lastname@example.com Structural Properties In the study areas, the percentage of silt (< 63 μm) varies between 20 and 65. In terms of mean values, the sediments in the Strelasund and in the Greifswald Bodden have the highest percentage of silt. The sediments in the Darss Chain of Boddens, in the Rügen Boddens, in the Peenestrom, and in the Stettin Lagoon have a mean silt content of 60 %. The sediments in the Wismar Bay and in the outer region of the Warnow Estuary contained the lowest percentage of silt of only 10 %, respectively. The mean TOC varies between minimum 2.4 mg/g in the Warnow Estuary and maximum 70 mg/g in the Peenestrom. Nutrients If the examined coastal areas were classified by their nutrient status, the outer Warnow Estuary, the Rügen Boddens, the Wismar Bay, the Darss Chain of Boddens, and the Strelasund would rank in one group of comparable nutrient concentrations. Compared with these coastal sections, the Stettin Lagoon and the Peenestrom have exceptionally high concentrations of nutrients. Heavy metals For a comparative consideration of the pollution with heavy metals, the mean concentrations in the fine particle-size fraction (< 20μm) were used. Obviously, the examined coastal areas can be divided into three groups; first, the Wismar Bay, the Darss Chain of Boddens, the outer estuary of the Warnow, and the Peenestrom; second, the Rügen Boddens, the Strelasund and the Greifswald Bodden; and third, the Stettin Lagoon, which because of its significantly higher concentrations has a outstanding position. The heavy metal concentrations, especially as far as Hg, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn are concerned, tend to be lower in the western coastal sections and higher in the eastern ones. Organic contaminants The total content of PAHs is less than 1 mg/kg in most of the coastal areas. The total range is 0.2 to 3.3 mg/kg. Clearly higher concentrations were found in the eastern areas Strelasund, Peenestrom, and Stettin Lagoon. A comparative statement can also be made for the content of MHC. Here the range of variation is 10 120 mg/kg, while the highest concentrations appear again in the three areas mentioned above. Low concentrations for PCBs, DDTs and HCHs, were found. In the case of HCB, the mean concentrations are also low. The data suggest that with respect to organic contaminants there is one group with comparable low pollution (outer estuary of the Warnow, Wismar Bay, Greifswald Bodden; Rügen Boddens, and Darss Chain of Boddens) and another group with higher pollution (Strelasund, Peenestrom, and Stettin Lagoon). 2 Enlargement of the Harbour Access in the Wismar Bay The access channel to the harbour Wismar had to be widened from 60 to 120 m at a depth of 9 and 6 m respectively over a length of 6 km. In total, a volume of approximately 600 000 m material had to be dredged (Müller and Nöthel 2001). The investigation of the material showed that at the surface there is a layer moderately polluted by heavy metals Hg, Cu, Cd, Zn, and MHC, PCBs and PAHs. Additionally, mobilization of nutrients was observed. The decision about the disposal of the material on land or in the sea was related to the background concentrations of the Wismar Bay. In order to prevent further inputs of pollutants and additional eutrophication in the coastal waters, disposal on land of the moderately polluted material, in total 80 000 m, was decided. For the predominantly sandy material disposal in the sea, which is also the most cost effective approach, was accepted. The aim of this study was to ensure the ecological disposal of the material, to protect the aquatic organisms, the fishery and recreation in the Wismar Bay during dredging and disposal. Treatment Investigation and decision Assessment basis of dredged material Representative Assessment of status Natural background sampling according to morphological, chemical, biological, ecotoxicological studies


According to the construction of Yichang Highway Bridge over the Changjiang River, the influencing factors for the key location of quality of the large span suspension bribge are analyzed, and the major technical measures and methods for quality control are studied.


As globalization intensifies and regional culture and features are slowly fading out, environment design in rural areas will be the last front to maintain these culture features in China. To this end, this paper makes the protection of intangible cultural heritage in rural areas, excavation of regional cultural characteristics and improvement of the characteristics of happy village environment its main objectives of study. It first looks at the connotation of regional culture and happy rural environment, briefly discusses the relationship between the design of happy rural environment and regional cultural characteristics of intangible cultural heritage, puts forward the construction of an evaluation index system of the carrying capacity of the happy rural environment, and uses City A as an object of empirical analysis. It provides some reference and ideas for the design and study of happy rural environment in China.


Chemical investigation of the EtOAc-soluble extract of the leaves of Apocynum venetum allowed the isolation of seven flavonoids including a new compound named 4′-hydroxy-7-O-(4-hydroxybenzyl)-3-methoxy-6-prenylflavone (1) and six known compounds (2–7). The structures of these compounds are elucidated by spectroscopic and physico-chemical analyses. All the isolates are evaluated for in vitro anti-inflammatory activity by measuring their inhibitory activities on nitric oxide and tumor necrosis factor-α production in lipopolysaccharide-induced mouse peritoneal macrophages (RAW 264.7). Among them, 5 exhibits significant inhibitory activity toward nitric oxide and tumor necrosis factor-α production with IC50 values of 9.0 ± 0.7 and 42.1 ± 0.8 μM, respectively. In addition, 1 also shows moderate inhibitory activity toward nitric oxide production with an IC50 value of 17.2 ± 0.9 μM.


ABSTRACT To the Editor.— Binkley and Stigler (228:1228, 1974) have suggested an interesting maternal-fetal relationship in regard to transfer-factor deficiency in neonatal infectious disease. However, they have neglected to mention the role of IgA, the major immunoglobulin coating mucous membranes.IgA provides a primary defense mechanism against bacterial and viral infections. It has been shown that the transfer of specific immunity via milk will prevent diarrhea caused by pathogenic types of Escherichia coli (Adv Immunol 9:1, 1968). Furthermore, Campbell et al (Science 125:932, 1957) have shown that immunization of the mammary gland to bacteria in the infant's mouth can induce specific antibody in milk within eight hours. Although transfer factor may possibly be transferred via the placenta or colostrum, the role of IgA in providing protection to the neonate should not be overlooked.


Two hundred Chinese and 160 German college students completed two surveys about their self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies learning English in China and Germany. All participants took an English language test to measure their English proficiency. Cronbach's alpha was used to check the internal consistency of the surveys, and confirmatory factor analysis was employed for the construct validity. Factorial invariance of the self-efficacy survey was tested between Chinese and German students. Both surveys turned out to be reliable and valid with satisfactory goodness-of-fit indices. The self-efficacy survey was found to have the same latent structure between Chinese and German students. The SRL strategy survey, however, was found to have a different latent structure. Mean differences between Chinese and German students were compared with multivariate analysis of variance, and relationships between self-efficacy, SRL strategies, and English proficiency were examined with structural equation modeling. Chinese students reported a lower level of self-efficacy beliefs but their English proficiency was not significantly different in comparison to German students. Their use of SRL strategies was not significantly different, either. Statistically significant relationships were noted between self-efficacy, use of SRL strategies, and English language test scores. Female students reported higher levels of self-efficacy beliefs but gained lower scores on the English language test in both countries. Implications of the results are discussed for English language instruction in both countries. Future studies are recommended to use the same English language test in two countries and to use a balanced sample between male and female students.


The paper analyses cultural characteristics of Japanese catering.It illustrates that Japanese food is exquisite and tastes delicate.Japanese attaches great important to table manners,the appearance and container of food as well as the dining environment which reveals delicate Japanese culture and exemplifies Japanese's aesthetic awareness and respect to hierarchy.


Films deposited onto glass and flexible substrates from commercially available graphene platelets mixed with dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid are characterized by means of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Raman and DC and AC electrical measurements in dry condition and under moisture, and as a function of temperature. The material, found to be electrochemically active, has been applied on the top of gold electrodes vacuum deposited on flexible substrates, in order to develop electrochemical cells, using nafion as the solid state ion conducting medium. Sensing tests performed in water show that the cells are able to detect the presence of hydrogen peroxide, at concentrations in the micromolar range, with linear response, and in a reversible way.


Background: Background: The conditioning regimen of haematopoietic stem cell trans-plantation (HSCT), a treatment common to haematological diseasesand malignancies, involves chemotherapy and/or total body irradiation. These treatments affect the patient profoundly due to theiradverse effects.monitor the dynamic changes of symptoms, analyze the cluster phenomenon, and explore the dynamic changes of symptom groups and their correlation with quality of life(QOL), in order to provide reference for medical staff to formulate efficient symptom management strategies. Aims: Aims: To investigate symptom clusters and in the HSCT patients at different time points in the early stage of transplant,and QOL. the correlation between was analyzed to provide the basis for clinical nurses to implement symptom manangement and improve the QOL. Methods: Methods: A total of 110 patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from August 2020 to February 2021 in a class Ⅲ hospital were selected as the study subjects.there were four times:on the day of admission,Pretreatment period(-4 to -3d),Myelosuppression(lowest count of WBC),Hematopoietic reconstitution period. The M.D.Anderson Symptom Inventory Blood and Marrow Transplantation (MDASI-BMT) module measured symptom severity. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bone Marrow Transplant (FACT-BMT) measured QOL. Results: Results: The main symptom clusters of hematopoietic stem cell transplantion patients in the early stage of transplantation mainly included somatic symptoms,gastrointestinal symptoms,psychological and emotional symptoms,and neurological symptoms.the composition of these symptoms was different at each time point.and


The nasobiliary drainage (NBD) was applied transpapillary via duodenoscope to 25 patients with obstructive jaundice. The success rate was 84%. Four patients with complete obstruction of lower bile duct were technical failure. Sixty seven percent of patients could maintain adequate drainage and finally received definite or palliative management. In all cases of obstructive jaundice with adequate drainage, the average daily volume of bile output was around 200-300 ml in benign diseases and 400-600 ml in malignant diseases. The serum bilirubin levels decreased in 50% of cases within one week and continued to decrease in the late period. No change or increase in serum bilirubin level was noted in the 7 cases with inadequate bile drainage. After NBD, 9 patients had transient hyperamylasemia, 3 patients had sore throat; 2 patients had secondary infection; 3 patients had obstruction of NBD and 1 patient had dislodgment of catheter. In 95.7% of cases, the first bile culture yielded growth of bacteria but only two of them were identical with blood culture. The nasobiliary drainage is a safe procedure and provides another effective approach to relieve obstructive jaundice. We also found that the serum bilirubin level and daily volume of bile drained might reflect the response of adequate drainage.


Processor cores are divided into two categories: fast and power-hungry out-of-order processors, and efficient, but slower in-order processors. To achieve high performance with lowenergy budgets, this proposal aims to deliver out-of-order processing by software (SWOOP) on in-order architectures. Problem: A primary cause for slowdown in in-order processors is last-level cache misses (caused by difficult to predict data-dependent loads), resulting in cores stalling. Solution: As loads are non-blocking operations, independent instructions are scheduled to run before the loads return. We execute critical load instructions earlier in the program for a three-fold benefit: increasing memory and instruction level parallelism, and hiding memory latency. Related work: Some instruction scheduling policies attempt to hide memory latency, but scheduling is confined by basic block limits and register pressure. Software pipelining [3] is restricted by dependencies between instructions and decoupled access-execute (DAE) [1] suffers from address re-computation. Unlike EPIC [2] (evolved from VLIW), SWOOP does not require hardware support for predicated execution, speculative loads and their verification, delayed exception handling, memory disambiguation etc.


Just before the end of the Holocaust, Dr. Josef Mengele made "the last selection." Goldie Szachter Kalib, then a 13-year old Jewish girl from Bodzentyn, Poland, and her mother were part of that selection. In The Last Selection: A Child's Journey through the Holocaust, Goldie describes her life during World War II. She includes accounts about her charming childhood in Bodzentyn, Poland, her experiences hiding with a Polish Christian family, her time in the slave camp and then Auschwitz, life in the gas chamber, her experiences in Bergen-Belsen, and finally liberation. Portions of The Last Selection: A Child's Journey through the Holocaust were used in the ABC Daytime Emmy-Award winning movie on children in the Holocaust.


The first issue of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (JPICT) draws on scholarly and professional work currently being conducted by academics at Macquarie University, Sydney, the location for the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, from which the journal is published. The five articles presented here reflect the overarching aims of the Centre to build an interdisciplinary community of academics and professionals working in these three areas, both at Macquarie and more widely, regionally and internationally. The scope of the Journal across these areas is intentional as it seeks not only to bring them together in ways that are not normally anticipated, but also to extend their horizons through complementary perspectives and contributions.


The 14th Electromagnetic and L ight Scattering Conference(ELS-XIV) was held at the Universite de Lille 1, Villeneuved'Ascq, France on 17 –21 June 2013 ( Fig. 1). This conferencebuilt on the success of the previous meetings held inAmsterdam (1995) [1],Helsinki(1997)[2],NewYorkCity(1998) [3],Vigo(1999),Halifax(2000)[4], Gainesville (2002)[5],Bremen(2003)[6],Salobrena(2005)[7], St. Petersburg(2006) [8],Bodrum(2007)[9],Hatfield(2008)[10],Helsinki(2010) [11], and Taormina (2011) [12],aswellasthework-shops held in Bremen (1996, 1998) and Moscow (1997). Themain objective of all these meetings has been to bringtogether scientists, engineers, and Ph.D. students researchingvarious aspects of electromagnetic scattering and to provide arelaxed and stimulating atmosphere for in-depth discussion oftheory, measurements, and applications.The conference was attended by 200 scientists from26 countries. The scientific program included one plenarylecture, 12 invited reviews, 100 contributed oral talks, and86 poster presentations. The program, the abstracts, andthe slides of the oral presentations are available at theconference web site http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/ELS-XIV.To highlight one of the traditional ELS themes, the ELS-XIV featured a special session on "Remote sensing ofaerosols and clouds using polarimetric observations". Thissession was sponsored and co-organized by the Frenchspace agency CNES and attracted representatives fromnearly all research teams word-wide involved in thedevelopment and active use of space-borne, in situ, andground-based polarimetric observations.Following the well-established ELS practice and withElsevier's consent, we solicited full-size papers for aspecial issue of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopyand Radiative Transfer (JQSRT). The result of this endeavoris now in the reader's hands. As usual, all invited reviewsand regular papers included in this special issue haveundergone the same rigorous peer review process as anyother manuscript published in the JQSRT.2013 Van de Hulst AwardAn essential part of the ELS-XIV agenda was thepresentation of the second Hendrik C. Van de Hulst Award.This major distinction is granted by Elsevier for exceptionalresearch contributions in the field of Electromagnetic Scat-tering and is administered by the JQSRT via an AwardCommittee appointed by Elsevier. The 2013 Van de HulstAward Committee was chaired by Professor James Hough ofthe University of Hertfordshire and was composed of dis-tinguished world-renowned experts.The 2013 Van de Hulst Award was presented to Dr.Michael I. Mishchenko "in recognition of eminence inscience and for landmark contributions to electromagneticscattering by particles and its applications." An integralpart of the official award ceremony at the ELS-XIV was theplenary Van de Hulst lecture given by Michael on June 20.That lecture formed the basis of the traditional Van deHulst Essay which opens this special issue [13].2012 and 2013 Waterman AwardsStarting in 2012, the Elsevier/JQSRT Young ScientistAward in the category of Electromagnetic Scattering isnamed after the eminent scientist and giant figure in thisfield Peter C. Waterman [14]. This award is administeredby the JQSRT via an expert Committee appointed byElsevier.The 2012 Waterman award was presented toDr. Antti Penttila of the University of Helsinki for hisoutstanding contributions to the field of electromagneticscattering by particles and particulate surfaces. The 2013Waterman Award was granted to Dr. Fabien Waquet of theUniversite de Lille 1 for his profound research in the fieldof polarimetric remote sensing of tropospheric aerosols.Both Awards were presented by Peter Waterman'swidow Karen Waterman during the conference banquetteon June 19.ConvenersOleg Dubovik, CNRS/Universite de Lille-1, FranceLaurent Labonnote, Universite de Lille 1, FranceContents lists available at ScienceDirectjournal homepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/jqsrt


The quality tracing of KI50X and KI50GX transformer oils in Lingbao back-to-back HVDC system which is the first complete localization project was carried out,so as to monitor the status and changes of the domestic oil closely.The results show that the quality of KI50X and KI50GX transformer oils in Lingbao converter substation can meet GB 7595 specification of transformer oils in service after three years' operation.Characteristics of the oil in service are at the same level as the ones of the new oil,with stable performances,good electric properties and oxidation stability.


Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power In an Amazonian Society. Jonathan D. Hill. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. xix. 245 pp., index, bibliography, notes, glossary, figures.


We consider the design of efficient algorithms for the sensor broadcast problem. In this problem, sensors are deployed on a field, and they collect (correlated) samples of a stochastic process that unfolds over the field—the goal then is for each sensor to broadcast a rate constrained encoding of its sample to every other sensor, so that all nodes are able to form an esti- mate of the entire field, to within a prescribed distortion value. In previous work, we established the existence of solutions to the sensor broadcast problem. In this paper, we present distributed algorithms for computing linear signal expansions that form the core of a sensor broadcast protocol. Fundamental to our claim of practicality is the use of compactly supported wavelets: com- pact support for the basis functions translates into localized com- munication patterns—to decorrelate, sensors only need access to samples from a few nearby sensors, irrespective of network size.


Party sizes of transient Trichoglossus were recorded during six months at an urban location. Mean party sizes for T. haematodus, T. chlorolepidotus, and indeterminate Trichoglossus were 2.00, 2.62 and 3.22 respectively, whereas median and modal scores for all groups revealed values of 1. It is concluded that the pair was the basic social entity in observed transit parties, and implications of this are discussed.


Thisapplied researchwascarried out bycollecting f ield data based on structural equation modelling. In the study total, 350 employees from the f ive selected hospital were considered and all were provided, a set of questionnaires. Data were analysed by SPSS 18 and LISREL and the f inal model and the model verif ication evaluated on the basis of conf irmatory factor analysis. Perceived organisational Support has been found to relate with qualityof working life (job satisfaction), its related dimensions such as fairness and satisfactory payment, a safe and hygienic working environment, continuous security and growth opportunities. Perceived organisational support is correlated with the working life. Conclusively, with the increase of perceived organisational support of staff could improve thequalityof theirworking life. Abstract


Climate change and rising greenhouse gas emissions are the greatest concerns facing humankind today. The year 2019 was a particularly bad year for Planet Earth. The exceptional rise in atmospheric temperatures and raging heat, led to unprecedented and prolonged wildfires–the amazon rainforest fire, the Australian bushfire and a series of wildfires in the Arctic region. Recognising the urgency, the international community has agreed to act collectively. As part of the Paris Climate Agreement, most countries have undertaken carbon reduction targets. As the overall mitigation targets under the Paris Agreement appear inadequate, countries have been exploring additional approaches for carbon mitigation. One option that certain WTO Members have been considering is to impose a price on carbon in the nature of a Pigouvian tax. In the present case, it will be a tax on carbon emissions. However, imposing a carbon tax only on domestic goods will result in issues of carbon leakage as well as decreased competitiveness of the domestic industry. Therefore, WTO Members (such as the European Union) are proactively considering imposition of equivalent taxes on imports also. Such equivalent taxes will essentially be in the nature of a border adjustment taxes under the GATT 1994. This Article examines the compatibility of the border tax adjustments on carbon under the relevant provisions of the GATT 1994, in light of the jurisprudence developed so far. The Article also assesses the possibility for Members to have a recourse to general exceptions under Article XX of the GATT, were a border tax adjustment measure held inconsistent with the substantial obligations under the GATT 1994. In addition to the popular alternatives available under Article XX(b) and Article XX(g) of the GATT 1994, the article has explored the possibility of resorting to Article XX(a), in light of the recent findings in United States - Tariff Measures on Certain Goods from China . Finally, the Article highlights that in order to ensure the overall social and political acceptability of a potential border carbon measure, WTO Members need to be mindful of the multilateral mandate developed in the Paris Agreement.


With the passage of time, many problems associated with frequent use of synthetic drugs become prominent, like severe side effects and resistance of microbes against these drugs. On the other side, these drugs are expensive and a large population cannot afford these drugs. In recent times, research on medicinal plants has been intensified all over the world. Kidney stone formation (Urolithiasis) is a complex process that includes many chemical events such as super saturation, nucleation, growth, aggregation and retention of urinary stone constituents within the renal tubules. The currently employed medical management of urinary calculi includes lithotripsy and surgical procedures are expensive and complete recurrence is rare. In this respect, it was noted that there was little attempts reported on in vitro crystallization, growth and dissolution studies of Strychnos potatorum L.f. Strychnos potatorum L.f. is a dry deciduous tree and coming under the family Loganiaceae. Mainly four parts of the plant were taken for the study, leaf, stem, bark and seed. The four parts were extracted with petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and water in the increasing order of polarity. The treatment of urolithiasis is mainly considered with the dissolution of existing stones and preventing recurrence of stones. The per cent inhibition of turbidity increased with concentration of extract and methanol extract of seed showed maximum dissolution of calcium oxalate stones in vitro.


The presentation will be focused on the fundament and application of nano-related science and technology in the fields of catalysis, with an emphasis on the electron properties of the confined systems and the synergetic confinement effects between the encapsulated metallic nanoparticles inside carbon nanotubes as well as the effect of quantum well states at 2D nano-film. (1) The effect of electron quantum confinement on the catalytic activities of 2D ultra-thin metal films is explored by comparing the work function change and the initial reaction rate of atomically flat films of different thickness on silicon surfaces, using complementary microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. The obvious oscillations of the oxidation rate of lead films are observed, which are attributed to be a manifestation of the Fabry-Pearot interference modes of electron de Broglie waves (quantum well states) in the films. The modulation of the electron density of states near the Fermi level opens a new demission for tuning the catalytic performance of metal systems via size- and thickness-dependent quantum size effects, which will be illustrated through two examples.(2) Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have well defined hollow interiors and exhibit unusual mechanical and thermal stability as well as electron conductivity. This opens intriguing possibilities to introduce other matter into the cavities, which may lead to nanocomposite materials with interesting properties or behavior different from the bulk. Two unique properties concerning the redox and catalysis of the CNT-encapsulated metals and metal oxides have been recognized. The auto-reduction of the encapsulated Fe2O3 is significantly facilitated inside CNTs with respect to the outside nanoparticle, and it becomes more facile with decreasing CNT channel diameter as evidenced by temperature programmed reaction. A striking enhancement of the catalytic activity of Rh particles confined inside nanotubes for the conversion of CO and H2 to ethanol has been found. These unique behaviors of transition metal nanoparticles inside CNTs have been attributed to a particular electronic interaction of encapsulates with the interior CNT surface.


This study examines the effect of types of investor investment flow on Thailand Stock Market Index returns. Daily data on investment types, namely, foreign investors, institutional investors, proprietary investors, and�retail investors from the Stock Exchange of Thailand for the period 2015 to 2020 is used. The results from the OLS model show that proprietary investors dominate the SET index. We also conduct a Granger causality test to understand the relationship between the SET index and investor investment flow. This study also examines the relation between SET volatility and investor behavior. The result shows that when the SET index has high volatility investors more actively participate in the market.�


The study was designed to show the changes in plasma amino acids in relation the response of blood glucose to glucagon infusion / 0.2 ug/kg/min for 4 hrs /in 7 non-hypoglycaemic /NHSGA/ and 7 hypoglycaemic /HSGA/ newborn infants. In the NHSGA group blood glucose increased from 66±12 mg% to 136±16 mg % by 120 minutes, and thereafter it declined rapidly. In HSGA infants it rose from 22-2 mffH to 69-13 mg % which was maintained during the test period. The unopposed glycaemic action of glucagon suggested a difference in the interaction of hormones between the two groups of neonates. This dirference was also indicated by the observation, that while in the NHSGA group a progressive and significant decline occured in the mejority of amino acids, in the HSGA infants neither the glucogenic, nor the branched chain amino acids were significantly affected by glucagon. This unresponsiveness raises the guestion whether the sustained rise in blood glucose entirely resulted from glycogenolysis, or it could also attributed to stimulated gluconeogenesis, It is not unrealistic to suppose that under the metabolic conditions associated with hypoglycaemia hepatic uptake and intrahepatic disposition of accumulated amino acids, for a period of few hrs,may not necessarily respond simultaneously to glucagon.


As a perfect economic development model in modern society, circular economy can alleviate the pressure on natural resources and strengthen environmental protection, therefore it is a necessary choice for human economic sustainable development. The formulation of circular economy including the use of natural resources and the discharge of polluted and waste has externality, which needs the government' s support and instruction . It is imperative to actively play the government' s role to create good internal and external situation for circular economy in order to advance the development of circular economy.


We study the impact of double and triple scattering contributions on coherent backscattering of laser light from saturated isotropic atoms, in the helicity preserving polarization channel. Using the recently proposed diagrammatic pump-probe approach, we analytically derive single-atom spectral responses to a classical polychromatic driving field, combine them self-consistently to double and triple scattering processes, and numerically deduce the corresponding elastic and inelastic spectra, as well as the total backscattered intensities. We find that account of the triple scattering contribution leads to a faster decay of phase-coherence with increasing saturation of the atomic transition as compared to double scattering alone, and to a better agreement with the experiment on strontium atoms.


Nanometric aluminum oxide particles were modified by phosphonic acid-based oligomers of aromatic polyester, polyether, or polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The grafting process was characterized by FTIR spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) showing that covalent bonds must have formed between the oxide and oligomers. The highest yield of grafting was achieved in dichloromethane (CH2Cl2) solvent. Then, nanocomposites were prepared by melt-blending in a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) matrix. The best results in terms of thermal stability and flammability were obtained with the bis-phosphonicpolydimethylsiloxane-based formulation. With this latter, the peak of heat released rate (pHRR) decreased during the combustion, whereas PyGC/MS experiments led to the conclusion that PDMS-covered nanoparticles played a role in the composition of the gaseous phase as well. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Forest recreation industry is the emerging industry of economic development in China.In this paper,with reference to the main source of forest recreation revenue of Sichuan province,we uses shift-share analysis,selected four sources of income in 2006 and 2010 of Mianyang as the research object——the ticket income,accommodation income,entertainment income and other income.It makes a comparative analysis of the source of forest recreation revenue of Mianyang on the shiftshare component,structure deviation component and competitiveness deviation component.The paper concludes:(1) the forest recreation industry of Mianyang developed well,which is slightly higher than the average development of Sichuan province on growth rate;(2) the regional economic structure was better than the overall competitiveness on forest recreation in Mianyang,the economic structure made a larger contribution to the growth;(3) accommodation income and entertainment income increased slowly and the regional competitiveness was weak.Finally,corresponding suggestions are given according to the results of analysis.


Executive Summary A number of developments within the last 12 months promise to bring changes to the upper layers of the Domain Name System. In combination, these changes have the potential to radically transform the DNS root zone. DNS-OARC has, under a contract with ICANN, studied the impact of these proposed or imminent changes to the root zone. One of these changes is the increasing deployment of IPv6 in both the root zone and the TLDs. ICANN has been offering AAAA record publication in the root zone since 2004; however, uptake has been somewhat slow. Five years later (July 2009), 169 TLDs have AAAA records while the other 111 do not. Another significant change is the advancing deployment of DNSSEC. At present, 10 full-production TLDs are signing their zones. The root zone remains unsigned, though, and DNSSEC-related records have yet to be added to it. However, parties responsible for the management of the root zone say they expect it to be signed by the end of this year. The final – and perhaps most significant – change addressed by this study is the possibility of introducing new gTLDs. ICANN has proposed a new gTLD program under which the root zone could grow by orders of magnitude.[1] In this study, we undertake a number of simulations and measurements with BIND and NSD server software and varying zone sizes to better understand how these changes may affect the performance of, and resource requirements for, the root DNS server infrastructure. Our analysis looks at five key areas that would have an impact on operations: zone size, name server reload and restart times, DNS response latency, inter-nameserver bandwidth utilization, and potential increases in TCP usage. Our analysis of zone size focuses on memory usage. As expected, we find that memory requirements increase linearly with zone size. We also find that, for a given number of TLDs, signing the zone increases the memory requirement by a factor of 1.5—2. Additionally, we find that 32 GB of memory is insufficient for serving a very large root zone (e.g., a signed zone with 10 million TLDs), particularly when using NSD. The response latency measurements find negligible increases (typically less than one millisecond) with NSD. For BIND (9.6.0-P1), however, we find some response time degradation with a large signed root zone (e.g., greater than 100,000 TLDs). With a 100,000 TLD signed zone, BIND drops nearly 30% of all …


This paper presents a stochastic multi-agent model of stock market. The market dynamics include switches between chartists and fundamentalists and switches in the prevailing opinions (optimistic or pessimistic) among chartists. A nonlinear dynamical system is derived to depict the underlying mechanisms of market evolvement. Under different settings of parameters representing traders' mimetic contagion propensity, price chasing propensity and strategy switching propensity, the system exhibits four kinds of dynamic regimes: fundamental equilibrium, non-fundamental equilibrium, periodicity and chaos.


Acknowledgements Introduction How to use this book Part One: Contextualizing Theology in a Media Age 1. Theology in a Chaotic Climate 2. Doing Theology in a Media Age 3. Theology and the Christian Religion Part Two: A Systematic Theology through Film 4. God 5. Human Being 6. Spirit 7. Redemption 8. Sacraments 9. Church 10. The End 11. A Christological Postscript Part Three: Christian Theology in Practice 12. Theology and Life 13. Theology and God Index of Films Index of Names and Subjects


The outstanding properties of synchrotron radiation (SR) allow manifold investigations of materials and processes which are not possible with conventional X-ray sources. Its high brightness allows extremely precise or time/spatial resolved measurements. In combination with its high collimation extremely high angular resolution is achievable. The white spectrum of SR allows tuning of the wavelength for spectroscopic applications or optimization according to the requirements of the experiment.


This report discusses an unusual case of bilateral chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) of the lower leg, a syndrome found mainly in young athletes. Pathophysiology includes exercise-induced muscle expansion against noncompliant fibro-osseous membranes separating compartments of the lower leg. A 24-year-old female distance runner with a history significant for misdiagnosed shin splints and tibial stress fracture presented with acute-on-chronic right lower leg pain. History revealed exertional pain and numbness, alleviated by rest. Subsequent MRI found no tibial abnormalities, and intracompartmental pressure testing demonstrated four compartment pressure elevations, confirming a CESC diagnosis. A minimally-invasive four compartment fasciotomy was performed in the operating room. Two months after return to running, symptoms were improved in the right leg, but appeared in the left leg. Subsequent pressure testing on the left revealed CESC, and four compartment fasciotomy was performed. Her symptoms significantly improved and she returned to running at six weeks without pain bilaterally.


A flash memory having a function in the VRAM, the circuitry within the unit without increasing the number of array increases only relatively simple, good noise immunity potential conversion circuit can also be sufficiently reliable so that when the low power supply potential in a bit line short precharge. Characterized in that: the bit lines via the bit line transfer gate Q1, Q2 of the memory cell array is divided into a first bit line pair and a second pair of bit lines corresponding to the second bit line of the bit line is connected to a flash each end of the stored first and second 2MOS transistor, the potential conversion circuit 16 by the potential of the other end of each thereof is set to the bit line precharge potential VBL or a predetermined reference potential VSS.


Oil palm is an important tropical woody tree species for biomass energy.It possesses the characteristics of long fruiting stage,high yield and oil content.With the increase of crude oil prices,the development of biodiesel is receiving more attention.Palm oil is a very promising and competitive raw material for producing biodiesel due to low production cost.In this paper,we summarize the main characteristics of oil palm including palm oil production,trade,consumption of the world and in China.The importance,feasibility and prospects of developing an oil palm industry in China is also discussed.


Levetiracetam [Keppra] is reported to have a relative risk of 3.3 for drug induced violence. Common side effects are due an extension of its mechanism of action however the way it leads to homicidal and suicidal behaviors remain poorly understood. There have been several reports of suicidality, aggressiveness, mood lability, hostility but rarely intense homicidal ideation in patients on Keppra.We present a patient who had persistent homicidal thoughts and plan towards his wife while on Keppra.Suicidal symptoms, psychosis, aggression and hostility are significantly more common in epilepsy patients treated with Keppra and generally about 8-13.3% would have psychiatric symptoms of some sort compared to placebo groups, the incidence of aggression and hostility appears to be beyond the average incidence in patients with epilepsy.Some authors have linked aggression and hostility to genetic variation in dopaminergic activity. There is a need to further explore homicidal ideation and related factors in patients on Keppra


The genus Aphelenchoides (Fischer, 1894) includes a diverse group of species, some of which are of economic importance. A. bicaudatus (Imamura, 1931) Filipjev and Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1941 is reported for the first time from South Korea, with a detailed redescription of the species. Specimens were collected from chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) leaves and shoot tips in South Korea. The species was identified by morphological traits and molecular sequencing. A bifurcated tail distinguishes A. bicaudatus from its congeneric species. To confirm species identification, we determined the partial 18S ribosomal DNA sequence of the specimens and compared with those obtained from other Aphelenchoides species available on GenBank.


Summary The nongenetic effects of ionizing radiation upon Paramecium, when many bacteria are present during irradiation, are not influenced or perhaps are slightly increased by hypoxia. However, when few bacteria are present, these effects are decreased by hypoxia. The latter finding is in accord with the previously obtained evidence that much of the nongenetic damage produced when few bacteria are present is due to H2O2 formed outside the cell. The former finding suggests that H2O2 formed inside the cell is not of importance in producing nongenetic damage. On the other hand, genetic damage is consistently less under hypoxia. Previous evidence has shown that this kind of damage is not produced by H2O2 formed outside the cell. However, it seems quite possible that H2O2 or HO2 produced locally within the nucleus is of importance in producing genetic damage; but the evidence from Paramecium does not rule out other interpretations; e.g., an effect of oxygen itself upon the recombination of broken chromosomes.


Stanley Cohen's influential studyFolkDevilsand~YloralPanics: TheCreation oftheulods and Rockers is an important landmark in youth culture research. It was in 1972 that Cohen published his study of English youth culture and the construction of deviance. This book was an empirical case study of the mods and the rockers; but also, and more importantly, it was a theoretical study of the construction of images of you th and of deviance. The most significant characteristic of a moral panic is that it tends to distort and grossly exaggerate the seriousness and importance of certain events. Through sensational headlines in the mass media, a melodramatic vocabulary and the construction of 'folk devils' that is, groups of mostly young people who threaten societal values and are considered to be violent and dangerous to 'ordinary people' -


The bio Matter industry directly relates to the three major themes of "sannong" ,energy and environment. It has a bright development future. Therefore,Handan City government convenes a "Special Symposium for Developing Bio Matter Industry" ,plans and drafts a layout scheme to speed the development of bio matter industry. In 2008,Agriculture Resources and Regional Planning Office of Handan City carried out investigation and studies on the important significance of developing bio matter industry in Handan City,development basis and conditions, present utilization status,and existing problems. This paper expounds in detail the aims of optimizing allocation of agriculture resources,pushing ahead new rural area construction,and providing new economic growth point for constructing regional economic center at boundary areas of Handan City.


The report describes an initiative to introduce MATLAB to the students of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department (MAE) at University of Florida. It contains a comparison of the effectiveness of a tutorial series open to students in all years versus an incorporation of the material in the 1-credit EML 4920 Professional Orientation course (incoming freshmen and transfer students section). The topics covered in both Fall and Spring semester 2005 are presented, followed by student population information, student opinions and instructor recommendation.


The expertise at the heart of localized agri-food systems serves to underline the fact that a product is anchored in territory. It constitutes a complex resource which, when activated, causes the technical, relational, and cultural elements to interact. This paper analyzes the expertise associated with cheese production in Corsica and proposes the concept of territorially anchored collective expertise in order to better understand the knowledge encapsulated in interactions, the complexity of which results from both the ecological dimensions of the natural resource (including the physical environment, pastures, and livestock) and the human dimensions capable of activating these resources. The main hypothesis is that the knowledge related to cheese production in Corsica is balanced between anchoring and globalization. It is at the heart of this dynamic, situated between specific traditional knowledge and generic industrial and commercial techniques that new forms of expertise emerge, which are key to heritage building for Corsican cheese.


The series connection of insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)/diode devices allows the operation at voltage levels higher than the rated voltage of one IGBT/diode. However, due to individual parameter differences of the series-connected IGBT/diodes, it is difficult to ensure a proper voltage balance between them, and transient or steady-state voltage unbalances could cause the failure of these devices. This paper presents an active gate driver developed by the authors that is suitable for the series connection of IGBTs. The proposed active gate driver achieves the transient and steady-state voltage balance between the series-connected IGBT/diode devices. The effectiveness of the gate driver and the active gate control method has been experimentally validated, and promising results have been obtained.


A coordinated control strategy of PV inverters is proposed to keep voltages within the specified limits in distribution grids. The proposed method consists of a local volt-VAr control and a centra coordinating control to manage reactive power outputs of PV inverters efficiently. The local control embedded in the inverter controller is operated based on the local measurements in order to improve the voltage quality. The central coordinating control collects measurements throughout the grid to control the voltages inside limits and coordinate the PV inverters' contributions. In the long term, the aim is then to obtain an optimum distribution of their contributions to voltage quality between the different PV inverters. To this purpose, volt-VAr set-points are sent from a central coordinating control to the local one of PV inverters through communication, forcing them to change their reactive power output based on the local measurement voltage and thereby improving the voltage quality. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated on an actual Danish grid.


First of all, we have an objection regarding the title. As you may be aware, periostitis is not a physiologic process but it is absolutely a pathologic process, which means inflammation like tonsillitis, appendicitis, etc. The medical description of periostitis is "Inflammation of the periosteum, leading to tenderness and swelling with aching pain. Often striking bone proliferation is noted. Periostitis may involve only a limited region, or may be diffuse"1.


Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed behavior disorder among children in the United States. A frequently used and effective intervention for ADHD involves parent training for behavioral management. While parent training improves child compliance, parent-child interactions, and parenting skills, the effects of behavioral parent training on school behavior remain unclear. This study examines the effects of behavioral parent training on the behavior of ADHD children and their parents. The study sought to know whether conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) enhanced behavioral parent training effects. Fourteen sets of parents with ADHD children participated in a 7-week behavioral parent training class. After the training class, four parent-child-teacher triads took part in follow-up CBC. All parents reported improved parental ratings of their own parenting skills as well as increased compliance in their children. Results also indicated that the addition of CBC, following behavioral parent training, resulted in further positive behavioral changes. The study draws three general conclusions: (1) behavioral parent training improves the behavior of ADHD children in the home; (2) behavioral parent training effects do not generalize.to the school setting; and (3) CBC can promote generalization across settings as well as foster closer home-school collaboration and cooperation. (RJM) ********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * ***********************************************************************


Three methods of determining urinary oestrogens are compared. Manual methods are better for intermittent demand but an automated method is desirable when more than 50 analyses per week are required.


Single piece arbor pivotable timepiece component (10) (1). This single part of the arbor (1) is fabricated by one or more of the aligned parts (2), arbor of the single piece (1) is a magnetic heterogeneous. .FIELD 6


Since the 1990s,there has been the important progress in the research on the consumer confidence.The paper selects some representative thoughts to outline the progress and results of the ongoing research work.This paper lists the conflicting viewpoints of forecasting capabilities of consumer confidence index involving consumer expenditure.It also discusses the effect of consumer confidence and prices expectations to household borrowing behavior.


We examine how quickly lithium-ion technologies have improved and find that previous metrics can underestimate improvement rates for stationary storage applications.


The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of in ovo injections of albumin, amino acid and dextrose into the amnion on the hatchability, growth performance and slaughter yield of Ross 308 broiler chicks. Fertile eggs (n=360) were assigned to 6 treatment groups (4 replicates of 15 eggs each) including: non-injected eggs (control), and eggs injected with 0.7 ml distilled water (sham), amino acids, albumin 20%, dextrose 20% and dextrose 10% . The injections were made on d 17.5 of the incubation period, and the hatch rate of fertilized eggs were recorded. Post-hatch performance of was determined weekly up to day 42. On d 42 of age, the weight of carcasses, thighs, wings, breast muscle, back and neck were determined. The results showed that in ovo injection of albumin increased body weight (P<0.05) on the first day of hatch compared to the control and shame groups. There were no significant effects of treatments on feed intake, feed conversion ratio, carcass characteristics and slaughter yields.


Objective: To approach the use of hormones and antibiotics in the production of animal origin food, mechanisms of action, toxicity, regulations in Brazil and worldwide and methods for residues detection in food. Data source: For this review, articles were searched using databases indexed in MEDLINE, LILACS, PUBMED and SciELO, using the key words: residues, antibiotics, hormones, meat, milk, eggs, in addition to their translations in Portuguese and Spanish. Data synthesis: We considered publications in the last 10 years, including 28 articles. Conclusions: The consumption of foods containing antibiotics and hormones residues is a problem to be considered, therefore, it is necessary to develop better methods of compounds detection and invest in food inspection


We report our work in real-time detection of goal-mouth appearances in MPEG soccer video. Processing on sub-optimal quality images after MPEG-decoding, the system constrains the Hough Transform-based line-mark detection to only the dominant green regions typically seen in soccer video. The vertical goal-posts and horizontal goal-bar are then isolated by color-based region (pole)-growing. We demonstrate its application for quick video browsing and virtual content insertion. Extensive test over a large data set of about 15 hours of MPEG-1 soccer video @1.15Mbps, CIF-resolution, shows the robustness of our method.


Ayas NT, McCool FD, Gore R, Lieberman SL, Brown R. 1. Prevention of human diaphragm atrophy with short periods of electrical stimulation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999;159: 201820. Knisely AS, Leal SM, Singer DB. Abnormalities of diaphrag 2. matic muscle in neonates with ventilated lungs. J Pediatr 1988; 113:10747. Sztark F, Thicoïpé M, Lassié P, Petitjean ME, Dabadie P. Mito 3. chondrial energy metabolism in braindead organ donors. Ann Transplant 2000;5:414. Stevens RD, Dowdy DW, Michaels RK, MendezTellez PA, 4. Pronovost PJ, Needham DM. Neuromuscular dysfunction acquired in critical illness: a systematic review. Intensive Care Med 2007; 33:187691. Kerbaul F, Brousse M, Collart F, et al. Combination of histo 5. pathological and electromyographic patterns can help to evalu ate functional outcome of critically ill patients with neuromus cular weakness syndromes. Crit Care 2004;8:R358R366.


In recent years,the most remarkable phenomenon emerging in the field of international finance is financial globalization.In the global information technology,electronic background,a big trend in the international financial development is the increasing process of financial globalization,which reduces the cost of financial transactions,promoting the flow of international capital.At the same time,it also increases the financial risk in all countries and regions and makes the international financial market competition increasingly fierce.How to improve the financial supervision of our legal system,how to deal with financial globalization challenges in the 21st century will be a critical and pressing problem facing our financial supervisory authorities.Therefore,this study is of great theoretical and practical significance.


Established in 1889, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (Corps) is one of the seven uniformed services and is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Corps is committed to protecting, promoting and advancing the health and safety of the nation with a history that dates back over two centuries, beginning as the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. Today, the Corps responds and serves in many areas impacted by natural disasters, disease outbreaks, terrorist attacks and public health emergencies. Corps officers have deployed to provide assistance during national public health emergencies (e.g., hurricanes, bombings, flooding and wild fires); to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa; and to provide humanitarian assistance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Corps deployments impact not only service members but also their families. This article offers a brief overview of the Corps and discusses how deployments impact families. Family resiliency and future implications for research and practice will also be examined.


. Abstract Hepatocellular carcinoma represents a health problem around the world. It is the third leading cause of death related to cancer and it's the sixth most frequent cancer. The coexistence of liver disease, most commonly cirrhosis, in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma makes treatment of this disease a real challenge. That is why multidisciplinary groups should be made in order to get appropriate outcomes for these patients. Recently multiple guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma have been published. This review describes the most important aspects of diagnosis and treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma.


Abstract Objective: To assess, on the basis of the perspective of nursing professionals, the structure, process, and results of a screening system, Embracement with Risk Classification, that was integrated in some Brazilian emergency services.Methods: This cross-sectional study included 151 nursing professionals who completed the Instrument for Assessment of Embracement with Risk Classification. We measured the mean ranking of each item and representativeness of the structure, process, and result dimension.Results: Only the dimension "result" of a single emergency service was evaluated as fair. The remaining dimensions, for all other services investigated, were considered poor.Conclusion: Results indicated improvements in the quality of care delivered and prioritization of severe cases. However, improvements in the flow of against-reference system are still needed. Descritores Gerenciamento de seguranca/classificacao; Servico hospitalar de emergencia; Acolhimento; Equipe de enfermagem; Avaliacao em enfermagem


Three of five sibfings developed a steroid-resistant syndrome with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis within a four-month period. Two of the siblings with nephrotie syndrome (Patients 1 and 2) also have sickle cell anemia," the third (Patient 3) carries the thalassemia trait. The dizygotic twin brother of Patient 2 has sickle cell anemia, but does not have the nephrotie syndrome. The nephrotic syndrome of Patient 1 Was resistant to corticosieroid and cyclophosphamide therapy and she developed Severe renal failure 14 months after onset. The nephrotic syndrome of Patients 2 and 3 was steroid resistant but was partially responsiv e to cyclophosphamide therapy. They have persistent proteinuria with mild elevation of serum creatinine concentration and hypertension 5�89 years after diagnosis. In this family, the nephrotic syndrome appeared unrelated to the specific hemoglobinopath% HLA type or mixed lymphocyte culture responsiveness despite the similarity of the renal disease.


A study of 44 relatives of 19 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus showed that 11 per cent had clinical evidence of a collagen disease. The sera of one third of the asymptomatic relatives contained rheumatoid factor, while the incidence of hypergammaglobulinemia, biologic false positive tests for syphilis and antinuclear antibodies was lower but significantly greater than in the control population. Three quarters of the patients had at least one relative with clinical and/or laboratory abnormalities.

Un studio de 44 consanguineos de 19 patientes con systemic lupus erythematose monstrava que 11% de illes exhibiva signos de un morbo de collageno. Le seros de un tertio del consanguineos asymptomatic contineva factor rheumatoidic, durante que le incidentia de hypergammaglobulinemia, de tests biologic falsemente positive pro syphilis, e de anticorpore antinuclear–ben que plus basse que le incidentia de factor rheumatoidic–esseva plus alte que in le population de controlo. Tres quartos del patientes habeva al minus un consanguineo con anormalitates clinic e/o laboratorial.


With the development of automation, Unmanned Vehicle will play a more and more important role in the future industrial production field, and omnidirectional wheeled robots will be widely used in mobile platforms. The omnidirectional AGV trolley has the unique characteristics that the ordinary wheeled mobile robot is irreplaceable, and has great significance and effect for exploring the free walking of the moving mechanism. This paper mainly describes the layout and principle of the omnidirectional moving mechanism based on the Mecanum wheel.


Objective To evaluate the surgery and its effect on aneurysmal bone cyst in extremities.Methods Summarize 20 cases with aneurysmal bone cyst in extremities treated with surgery at our hospital from Feb.1991 to Feb.2004.There were 12 males,8 females,with an average age of 22.1 years(range from 11 to 44 years).All patients underwent curettage,combined with a high-speed burr,cauterization of interior wall of the cyst using phenol and ethanol.Bone defect were filled with autogenous bone(10 cases),decalcified allogenous bone(2 cases),artificial bone(4 cases),bone cement(4 cases).After surgery all patients in whom pathological fractures had existed or might occur were treated with internal fixation.Five patients who had small lesions with no influence on skeleton strength were not treated with internal fixation.Fifteen cases were treated with internal fixation.Results After surgery no complications such as infection, skin edge necrosis were found in all patients.An average 2.6 years' follow-up(range from 2 to 5 years) was carried out in 11 cases.In these cases bone graft of lesion eventually healed with satisfactory function of affected extremities,without recurrence.Conclusion Aneurysmal bone cysts treated with curettage,combined with a high-speed burr,cauterization of interior wall of the cyst can lower local recurrence rate.


Abstract THE paper lists the flora of Open Bay Islands, South Westland, New Zealand, and describes the vegetation. Brief ecological notes are given for the terrestrial vegetation. The importance of seals, in particular, in affecting the vegetation is described. Notes about colonisation of the islands by plants are included and there are five appendices. The first describes small plots installed to exclude seals, the second describes the soils, the third describes glacial deposits on the islands, the fourth includes notes about some of the animal life and the fifth, by Dr and Mrs D. S. Horning, lists additional cryptogams collected by them.


Six color images of Saturn and four of her moons, acquired by Voyager 2, are presented. A brief narrative and explanatory captions, including explanations of the planet's atmosphere and rings, are presented.


The electric field to invert the domain in doped near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 varies with Zn concentration. Inversion is accomplished with low field of 1.4kV/mm at 2mol% doping where the optical damage resistance of the crystal enhances


Abstract Cooking quality of five grain legumes: Broad bean (Vicia faba L.), Soybean [Glycine max (L) Merr], white dry bean (Phseolus vulgaris), lupine (Lupinus termis) and Lentils (Lens culinaris) were tested. For each legume, 50 sites (each of 2 m x 2 m = 4 m2) of the cultivated fields were subjected to this study. Representative samples of the grains from each site were subjected to the tests of: cooking time, relative density (seed size and weight), percentage of hulls, hydration coefficient, swelling coefficient, color, percentage of germination, texture after cooking, and properties of the stewed liquor and flavor. Representative soil samples from the same site under each of the tested grain legume plants were analyzed before and after the harvest for: particle size categories (clay, silt, and sand), saturation percentage, electrical conductivity, soluble salts [sodium (Na), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and potassium (K)], available phosphorus (P), and organic matter contents. Meanwhile, some agricu...