Using the semi-tensor product method, this paper investigates the epidemic dynamics on an adaptive network, and presents several new results. First, a formal susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic dynamic model on an adaptive network is given. Second, the dynamics of individual states and the dynamics of network topologies are converted into algebraic forms via the semi-tensor product of matrices, respectively. Third, with the help of the algebraic formulation, all possible final spreading equilibria are obtained for any given initial epidemic state and network topology. The study of an illustrative example shows that the new results obtained are effective.


The term 'strong adjective' usually refers to a special morphological class of adjectives in Germanic languages, which manifest as nominal bases with pronominal endings. This formal feature is likely to be associated with the marking of definiteness, even though the exact function of the opposition between weak and strong adjectives remains unclear. The real raison d'etre of the morphological categories and processes, such as classificational (lexical) and inflectional gender ('controller gender' and 'target gender' in terms of Corbett 1991), definiteness, number, etc., is simply that of keeping the words together in a sentence. In PIE there was no separate morphological class of adjectives, and the quality predicates and modifiers were expressed by stative verbs and nominal epithets (see Alfieri 2011). Therefore, there was no morphological means that kept the words together in an NP. If we consider what I suggest to call "Second generation IE languages" — i.e. the "middle" continuants of the oldest IE languages, such as Middle Indian and Middle Iranian varieties, plus some other groups which lack an "Old" (i.e. contemporary with Old Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek etc.) attestation, for instance Balto-Slavic and Germanic — we can observe a general tendency to create new morphological means in order to mark explicitly the constituency of an NP. The exact outcomes of this diachronic process vary from one language to another. However, if we parametrize the variation, a common pattern becomes clearly observable. In all cases, the pronominal element undergoes the grammaticalization. What can differ is 1) the position of such element with respect to the nominal base (prevs. post-posed); 2) the degree of agglutination (bound vs. free morpheme); and 3) the locus of marking (head vs. modifier). With this approach, a number of, at first glance, unrelated phenomena can be interpreted as different manifestations of the same morphological isogloss. These include: – Germanic and Balto-Slavic adjectives (considered analogous already by Leskien 1876: 130ff); – Persian ezāfe (together with its Old Iranian antecedents, whose similarity to the Slavic adjectives was observed already by Meillet 1934: §509; see also West 2011: §237ff, Nyberg 1900: 105ff); – Greek article (especially in certain positions); – some morphological innovations attested in Pali and Prakrits (for instance, the "infiltration" of pronominal endings into the declension of the NP modifiers, see Pischel 1900: §366a); – Khotanese special adjectival declension, which closely resembles the strong adjectives in Germanic (see Sims-Williams 1990). It is debatable whether this is a natural development or, as I suggest, an areal isogloss.


Clinical outcomes of octogenarians with acute cholecystitis treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy are unclear. This study aimed to compare their outcomes according to preoperative severity and comorbidities.


Abstract From December 2006 to March 2008, 60 specimens of Paralichthys isosceles and 25 specimens of P. patagonicus were investigated for helminths. One hundred and sixty-nine digeneans were recovered and parasites were identified as juvenile didymozoids of two types. Torticaecum and Neotorticaecum were found in 48 of the 60 P. isosceles (80%) and 10 of the 25 P. patagonicus (40%). Torticaecum and Neotorticaecum are reported for the first time in fish in South America (Brazil), found in the Atlantic Ocean. Morphometrics and illustrations are presented.


The utility model discloses a horizontal adjusting instrument capable of measuring ground obliquity. The horizontal adjusting instrument comprises a pedestal, a plurality of pillars and a pallet; the pillars are vertically fixed on the pedestal; the pillars are hollow and filled with liquid; the bottoms of the pillars are communicated with each other; a piston floats on the liquid; each piston is tightly attached to the wall of the corresponding pillar; the top of each piston is rotatably connected with a vertical shaft; and the top of each vertical shaft is connected with a side shaft of the pallet via a universal joint. The horizontal adjusting instrument also comprises a damping ball and an obliquity measuring device; the damping ball is hung under the center of the pallet via a plurality of equilong thin steel wires; the obliquity measuring device comprises a single chip microcomputer and a gyroscope which are disposed in the pedestal, and a gyroscope in the pallet, which are in circuit connection with each other; and the single chip microcomputer is also in circuit connection with a switch, a battery, a display screen and an indicating lamp which are disposed on the pedestal. According to the horizontal adjusting instrument capable of measuring the ground obliquity, the pallet can be automatically controlled to level, and the pallet can be always horizontal; and the obliquity between the ground and the horizontal plane is measured by the obliquity measuring device and displayed, and operating efficiency and accuracy of measurement are improved.


This paper describes physicochemical properties of compounds of the periodic system group IIA elements with singly charged anions in various reference frames. The obtained correlations may be used as a reference material to calculate the selected properties for every point of correlation. It has been additionally suggested, within the scope of the paper, to predict the properties of compounds of an element bearing the atomic number 120 (E-Ra).


I. INTRODUCTION In 1996, a new constitution was passed in South Africa displaying cultural and religious sensitivity in an ethnically-diverse country. The previous constitution entrenched the religious values and moral norms of the mainline churches to the exclusion of the indigenous population. In contrast, the new constitution contains a secular bill of rights that adequately protects religious freedom, but it also addresses real-life inequities in employment, health care, and housing in a way that ecclesiastic rhetoric did not. Despite these benefits, there are challenges to the implementation of the new constitutional provisions of South Africa. The Western orientation of the constitution disregards the collective nature of human rights in the African context. Additionally, the living (i.e. unwritten) law, which underlies traditional African society, does not really feature in the constitution, despite some lip service to it. Finally, the African worldview makes no distinction between the sacred and the worldly (religious and secular). The new South African Constitution permits the secular administration of human rights if the dialogue concerning those rights is sensitive to the challenges presented by the universality of human rights, the living law, and the non-separation of the sacred and the secular in African culture. This Article argues that the bill of rights in the new South African Constitution institutionalizes the moral and judicial rights of human beings in a way that makes far better sense in an African context than the standard Western approach adopted by the South African mainline churches. The approach in the bill of rights is more appropriate in South Africa since African morality and belief systems are essentially secular. Part II of the Article provides a background of South African history and constitutional development. Part III reviews secular and religious human rights, and Part IV examines three problem areas: universal versus contextual rights, living law, and the religious-secular dichotomy. Part V identifies responses to the constitution from a number of religious groups. Finally, Part VI offers a brief conclusion. II. BACKGROUND A. South African History There was a strong alliance between politics, law, Western religion, and Afrikaner civil religion in pre-1994 South Africa. "Afrikaner civil religion, which . . . promoted in particular the three Afrikaans [Reformed] churches, offered religious justification for whites' and Afrikaners' self-assumed position of superiority in relation to the 'non-white' population and thus also for the policy and ideology of apartheid."1 And even today, the country's statutory and common law still show a Christian bias.2 Religion, specifically the Reformed traditions, provided the theological justification to keep discriminatory laws in place, and Reformed churches were favored by the Apartheid government. "Legislation of a not so overtly religious nature, such as the infamous Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the controversial section 16 of the Immorality Act, were enacted at the behest of, amongst others, the Afrikaans churches in an attempt to prevent 'miscegenation.'"3 Some laws had a specifically Christian bias, like the censorship law in the Publications Act,4 which introduced blasphemy as a criterion for censorship; the National Education Policy Act,5 which prescribed a Christian orientation in education; and some Sunday observance laws.6 These laws focused on the ruling white minority and favored their religious and cultural preferences. A section of "the Blacks (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act of 1945 authorized the prohibition of blacks from attending church services and functions in urban areas occupied by 'non-blacks.'"7 White churches did not oppose this law, suggesting that they condoned it. It is important to note that in apartheid South Africa, the religious and secular spheres were closely linked. …


Xiyuan Lu1, 2, ∗ and Kartik Srinivasan1, 3, † 1Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA 2Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics and Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 3Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA (Dated: September 23, 2021)


LINKED CONTENTThis article is linked to Fallahzadeh et al and Asrani & Everson papers. To view these articles, visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16283 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16311


Social pathologist almost generalized, that the one or other way stop the social-institutions development and put in danger the present and future of the community.


Carbon-doped TiO2(C/ TiO2) was prepared by impregnating with sucrose solution.The catalysis activity in oxidative degradation of phenol has been investigated.Effects of carbon content and calcined temperature on activity of the catalyst have been studied.Catalysts were characterized by XRD,BET and diffuse reflection UV/Vis spectroscopy.Studies show that the calcined temperature,carbon content and particle size of catalysts influenced the phenol degradation activity.Among this,carbon-doping would increase the photo-catalysis activity massively,and that with 5% carbon loaded(carbon in sucrose/ TiO2,w/w) and calcined under 500℃ shows the best activity,by which 90% of phenol degraded after 150 min ute,which is more effective than commercial P25.


Selecting team is one of the important issues in football. The role of a coach is selecting players that are formed subjectively without regard to various criteria. Her decision can impact team performance. Thus, this paper presents a new methodology to assess and rank football team based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). The aim is to select the best team for each football game by taking several criteria into account. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is used to determine the weightings for evaluation criteria among decision makers and Case-based reasoning systems to selecting the best team. We test the efficiency of the model using Paris Saint Germain champion's league final.


The invention discloses a three-dimensional face recognition airport security inspection method based on cloud server. The method comprises the following steps: S01, creating a face recognition standard library by a cloud server; S02, establishing a network connection between an airport image acquisition terminal and the cloud server; S03, receiving, by the cloud server, a three-dimensional face image and an identity authentication request which are sent by the image acquisition terminal; S04, pre-processing the three-dimensional face image; S05, extracting the three-dimensional face, extracting the head and the shoulder from an original three-dimensional shaded surface; S06, positioning facial landmark points; S07, registering the three-dimensional face; and S08, returning, by the cloud server, the result of identity authentication to an airport identity recognition terminal. The three-dimensional face recognition airport security inspection method based on cloud server is highly efficient in computing allocation; data information on the cloud server can be quickly searched; the computing and the registering are processed on the cloud server; therefore the method is high in efficiency, quick in response, and able to be popularized.


Content-Centric network (CCN) provides substantial flexibility for users to obtain information. One of the most important commonalities of CCN designs is the universal caching. It is widely accepted that in-network caching would improve performance. In this paper we propose a cache scheme based on popularity and age aiming at reducing network delay and redundancy. Then we implements the CCN network communication model by simulation. Finally, we verified our scheme has a better performance compared with the traditional caching schemes.


What a rapidly moving spring this has been. And it is not all finished. Seed was processed on short notice, fertilizer moved faster during a two week period than any time in recent memory, and feed has continued to be in demand by producers. Producers started with a heavy load of soil samples for our soil testing laboratory to be ready for recommended fertilizer applications. Crop planting was delayed a few days early in the season followed by full speed ahead to get it completed. With recent heavy rains, and many parts of Kentucky flooding, replanting will keep seed moving at a fast pace to fulfill grower needs. Rapid fertilizer movement was confirmed when our inspection staff took some 500 samples of custom mixes moving to producers in the two week period. Certainly, part of the rapid movement of fertilizer was due to having lower amounts applied during the previous fall season. Our inspectors were busy in keeping up with this rapid movement of seed and fertilizer. They view their role of consumer protection seriously in order to maintain high quality products for crop and livestock producers, and other citizens of Kentucky. More products we sample are now being marketed or delivered in larger containers or in bulk. In years past most seed was marketed in one bushel bags that now is marketed in large totes of 2,000 to 2,500 pounds. More fertilizer now moves with trucks, and a large amount of feed is delivered in bulk trucks. Through all of these changes our inspectors have adapted sampling methods to fit these changes in container sizes and delivery methods. This is to ensure that products are labeled correctly, that product quality is maintained in the large containers, and that production methods used for bulk products continue to maintain high quality throughout the batch. The various laboratory facilities in our Division responded to this heavy sample load in order to get analytical results in a reasonable time. Our dedicated lab personnel see the need to perform accurate yet timely analysis on these various samples. In the Division we practice teamwork through


ABSTRACT An inverted repeat corresponding to parts of the centrin gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was placed downstream of the NIT1 promoter, which is induced by ammonium starvation. After induction, transformants developed centrin deficiency as assayed by immunofluorescence, Western blotting, and Northern blotting. The effect was reversible, demonstrating that the NIT1 promoter allowed controlled RNA interference in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.


This book presents a system for automatic determination of parting line for die-casting parts. The system first identifies the parting line regions then it determines the various feasible parting line options passing through these regions. The proposed system is coded using MATLAB. The results from the proposed system are in line with the best industry practices. The book will be beneficial for the researchers in the field of Design-Manufacturing integration of Die-Casting Process.


YANG Wan-li*ss thought on changes occupies an important place in the Song Dynasty. He regards "Zhou Yi" as the book of adaptation for sages. While he was studying "Zhou Yi", he pondered over the existed social problems and the fate of the South Song Dynasty, trying to make the past to serve the present. Meanwhile,by using the history, he tried to prove that changes are heavenly principles. Of course, his view on changes has a strong coloring of inealist philosophy. Sometimes he cited "Zhou Yi" as footnotes of the Confucian political thought. On the whole, YANG Wan-li*ss thought on changes has it*ss specific character in that it lays stress on application and it uses the law of the development of each dynasty to serve the present.


Abstract To deleverage is one of the major tasks for the supply-side structural reform in China, and to steadily deleverage in order is the key to fending off and defusing financial risks. This paper uses the economic statistics of China around 2016 to depict the "expansion–contraction" fluctuations with Chinese macroeconomy during the deleveraging. In this realistic context, it constructs a financial business cycle model based on the financial accelerator theory and attempts to use default cost changes to introduce financial shocks and understand China's macroeconomic fluctuations in the deleveraging context in the perspective of unanticipated and anticipated shocks. Results of the numerical model simulation show that before and after the deleveraging, the fluctuations of credit, leverage ratio, credit spread and other major macroeconomic variables originate not only from the changes with unanticipated default cost. Anticipated changes with default cost can similarly explain the "expansion–contraction" macroeconomic fluctuations in recent years and offer a new perspective into the fluctuations during deleveraging. Accordingly, government, when practicing deleveraging policies, is advised to take into full consideration not only the actual changes with default cost, but also anticipated factors of financial institutions.


This study aims to identify the previous research by analyzing the case data used in the previous studies made so far on the conservation and utilization of historical buildings and use them in future as the basic data for the plan for conservation and utilization of historical buildings. As to the research method, this researcher conducted a re-analysis by recombining the case data collected by each researcher focusing on the dissertations published from 1980s to the present. The 149 buildings collected for investigation were investigated for the year of construction, year of change, functional change, conservation type and utilization type, the SPSS PC+ 18.0 program was used as the analysis tool to conduct a frequency analysis. The research results can be summarized as follows. 1) By country, twenty countries such as South Korea, Japan, China, Iran, the United States, Argentina, Mexico, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Hungary were included in this research, and Asia showed the highest ratio by continent. 2) The most common years of construction of the historical buildings were between 1901 and 1940, the first decades of the twentieth century. The years between 1981 and 1990 and between 2001 and 2010 accounted for more than 50% of the entire years of change. 3) In the functional analysis, the existing function appeared to be in the order of work function, industry function, culture function and public institutions function. 4) In the conservation type, the ratio of improvement and conservation was high, and the ratio of the exclusive use type was high in the utilization type.


The study assessed the carbon sequestration potential of existing fruit farms in Batangas province. A structured questionnaire was used coupled with KII, FGD, desk review of secondary data, farm and community visits, and gathering of geo-referenced points was done to gather the needed data. Data were analyzed in Microsoft Excel. Results show that there are 13 species of fruit trees being grown and the top three most grown are Coconut, Avocado and Langka. As to land cover, in 2010, the majority of the areas in Cahil, Calaca, Batangas are covered with Perennial Crops followed by annual crops. In 2015, a decrease in the areas of Perennial and Annual Crops was observed while there was an increase in the areas covered with brush/shrubs. In Sucol, Balayan, Batangas, the majority of the areas in 2010 are covered with perennial crops, shrubs and annual crops. In 2015, no recorded areas were covered with perennial crops while areas covered with shrubs have increased. Meanwhile, the respondents are highly affected by climate change impacts but fruit farmers have coping strategies to address such impacts. As to carbon sequestration, Mangifera indica has the highest average above-ground biomass (AGB) and carbon sequestration in Cahil with 18,854.95kg and 8,484.73kg, respectively. This is followed by Persia amaricana with an average AGB and carbon sequestration of 14,165.83kg and 6,374.62kg, respectively. Coffea Arabica has the least recorded AGB with 2,669.24kg and the carbon sequestration is 1,201.16kg. In Sucol, M. Indica has the highest average AGB with 55,170.89kg and carbon sequestration of 24,826.90kg. Citrofortunella microcarpa has the least recorded AGB and carbon sequestration with 184.32kg and 82.94kg, respectively. The study necessitates the need to prepare necessary documentation highlighting several success stories in the study sites which could serve as benchmark documents for other greening efforts in the country and abroad.


This paper is concerned on studying various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measures of preservice and in-service training, a rich set of time-varying covariates, and student, teacher, and school fixed effects. Our results suggest that only two of the forms of teacher training we study influence productivity. First, content-focused teacher professional development is positively associated with productivity in middle and high school math. Second, more experienced teachers appear more effective in teaching elementary math and reading and middle school math. There is no evidence that either pre-service (undergraduate) training or the scholastic aptitude of teachers influences their ability to increase student achievement. It is quite obvious that a teacher and a teacher trainer aren't the same and there is a huge difference between them. Consequently, aims, design, materials, methodology and evaluation of teacher training and trainer training programs should be approached methodically based on logical understanding of the nature and the scope of each. This paper examines a one-month trainer training course, arguing that its purpose is compromised due to its resemblance to a teacher training program. It provides suggestions for remedying this situation. First, it sets the scene. Then, it lists the program's gaps, and provides ways of bridging them.


The invention discloses a switched capacitor comparator circuit in an analog to digital converter, which is characterized by comprising a switched capacitor circuit, a pre-amplification circuit, a latch output circuit and an offset calibration circuit; the switched capacitor circuit is connected with an input end of the pre-amplification circuit; the latch output circuit is connected with an output end of the pre-amplification circuit; and the offset calibration circuit is connected with the pre-amplification circuit. According to the switched capacitor comparator circuit in the analog to digital converter provided by the invention, by means of the calibration technology, no parasitic parameter is introduced on a signal node of a comparator, and a response speed of the comparator is improved. The technology is suitable for an application occasion of a high speed ADC (Analog to Digital Converter).


Deucravacitinib is a first-in-class, oral, selective, allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor approved in multiple countries for the treatment of adults with plaque psoriasis. Deucravacitinib suppresses signaling of cytokines involved in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated diseases including psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. Deucravacitinib was efficacious compared with placebo in phase 2 trials in psoriatic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.[1,2]In two phase 3 trials in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis (POETYK PSO-1 [NCT03624127], PSO-2 [NCT03611751]), deucravacitinib showed superior efficacy versus placebo and apremilast.[3,4]Upon completion of either psoriasis trial, patients could enroll in the POETYK long-term extension (LTE) trial (NCT04036435).To evaluate the incidence rate and severity of adverse events (AEs) due to COVID-19 with deucravacitinib treatment in the POETYK PSO-1 and POETYK PSO-2 trials and open-label POETYK LTE trial.In PSO-1 (N=666) and PSO-2 (N=1020), adult patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis were randomized 2:1:1 to deucravacitinib 6 mg once daily, placebo, or apremilast 30 mg twice daily. At Week 16, placebo patients in both trials switched to deucravacitinib. Based on their Week 24 PASI response, apremilast patients continued with apremilast or switched to placebo or deucravacitinib. In PSO-1, patients randomized to deucravacitinib continued treatment for 52 weeks; in PSO-2, some patients randomized to deucravacitinib had a randomized treatment withdrawal period. At Week 52, patients could enroll in the open-label LTE and receive deucravacitinib. Incidence rates and severity of COVID-19–related AEs in the POETYK trials (n=1364; 2076.7 person-years [PY] of follow-up) were compared with the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine trial placebo group (n=19,544; 3096.1 PY of follow-up). This reference population was selected due to the study design and timing of the trial, which occurred when variants were in circulation.As of October 1, 2021, 1519 patients received ≥1 dose of deucravacitinib over a 2-year follow-up period; 1364 patients met criteria for this analysis, with deucravacitinib exposure since the pandemic onset (estimated to be January 1, 2020). In total, 153 deucravacitinib patients reported a COVID-19–related AE, for an overall exposure-adjusted incidence rate (EAIR) of 7.4/100 PY (95% CI, 6.2–8.6). Serious COVID-19–related AEs occurred in 43 patients (EAIR, 2.1/100 PY; 95% CI, 1.5–2.8), including 30 with COVID-19 and 13 with COVID-19 pneumonia; this rate was within the margins of those for moderate to severe COVID-19 reported in the reference population (EAIR, 16.5/100 PY; 95% CI, 15.0–17.9). Deaths due to COVID-19 occurred in 6 patients (EAIR, 0.3/100 PY; 95% CI, 0.1–0.6), with the COVID-19–related mortality rate being consistent with the reference population (EAIR, 0.23/100 PY; 95% CI, 0.1–0.5). Treatment was discontinued due to COVID-19 or COVID-19 pneumonia in 7 patients, including the 6 patients who died due to COVID-19.COVID-19 was among the most frequently reported AEs during the 2-year period of the pooled PSO-1, PSO-2, and LTE trials due to the temporal overlap of the pandemic with the trials. However, COVID-19 infection and death rates did not differ from the reference population; most infections were not serious and did not lead to treatment discontinuation. Based on this analysis, deucravacitinib did not appear to increase the risk of COVID-19 nor its progression to severe outcomes.[1]Mease PJ, et al.Ann Rheum Dis. 2022;81:815-822.[2]Morand E, et al.Arthritis Rheumatol. 2022; Nov 11 (Epub ahead of print).[3]Armstrong A, et al.J Am Acad Dermatol.2022;S0190-9622(22)02256-3.[4]Strober B, et al.J Am Acad Dermatol.2022;S0190-9622(22)02643-3.These clinical trials were sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb.Diamant Thaçi Speakers bureau: AbbVie, Almirall, Amgen, Biogen Idec, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Galapagos, Galderma, Janssen-Cilag, Leo Pharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Regeneron, Roche, Sandoz-Hexal, Sanofi, Target Solution, and UCB, Consultant of: AbbVie, Almirall, Amgen, Biogen Idec, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Galapagos, Galderma, Janssen-Cilag, Leo Pharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Regeneron, Roche, Sandoz-Hexal, Sanofi, Target Solution, and UCB, Grant/research support from: AbbVie, Almirall, Amgen, Biogen Idec, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Galapagos, Galderma, Janssen-Cilag, Leo Pharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Regeneron, Roche, Sandoz-Hexal, Sanofi, Target Solution, and UCB, Kenneth B Gordon Consultant of: Amgen, Almirall, Dermira, Leo Pharma, Pfizer, and Sun Pharma, Grant/research support from: Amgen, Almirall, Dermira, Leo Pharma, Pfizer, and Sun Pharma, AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Novartis, and UCB, Melinda Gooderham Speakers bureau: Glenmark, Actelion, AbbVie, Galderma, Leo Pharma, Pfizer, and Regeneron, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Novartis, Sanofi Genzyme, and Valeant, Consultant of: Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Novartis, Sanofi Genzyme, and Valeant, Andrew Alexis Speakers bureau: Pfizer, Regeneron, and Sanofi Genzyme, Consultant of: AbbVie, Allergan, Almirall, Amgen, Arcutis, AstraZeneca, Bausch Health, Beiersdorf, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dermavant, Galderma, Janssen, Leo Pharma, L'Oreal, Pfizer, Sanofi-Regeneron, Sol-Gel, UCB, Valeant, VisualDx, and Vyne, Grant/research support from: Almirall, Amgen, Arcutis, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cara, Galderma, Leo Pharma, Menlo, Novartis, and Valeant (Bausch Health), Varsha Lalchandani Shareholder of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Employee of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Julie Scotto Shareholder of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Employee of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Lauren Hippeli Shareholder of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Employee of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Matthew J Colombo Shareholder of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Employee of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Subhashis Banerjee Shareholder of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Employee of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Tamara Lezhava Shareholder of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Employee of: Bristol Myers Squibb, Mark Lebwohl Consultant of: Aditum Bio, Almirall, AltruBio, AnaptysBio, Arcutis, Arena, Aristea, Arrive Technologies, Avotres, BiomX, Boehringer Ingelheim, Brickell Biotech, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cara, Castle Biosciences, CorEvitas' (Corrona) Psoriasis Registry, Dermavant, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Evelo Biosciences, Evommune, Forte Biosciences, Helsinn Therapeutics, Hexima, Leo Pharma, Meiji Seika Pharma, Mindera, Pfizer, Seanergy, and Verrica, Grant/research support from: AbbVie, Amgen, Arcutis, Avotres, Boehringer Ingelheim, Dermavant, Eli Lilly, Incyte, Janssen, Ortho Dermatologics, Regeneron, and UCB.


Situational awareness is a key concept in cyber-defence. Its goal is to make the user aware of different and complex aspects of the network he or she is monitoring. This paper proposes PERCIVAL, a novel visual analytics environment that contributes to situational awareness by allowing the user to understand the network security status and to monitor security events that are happening on the system. The proposed visualization allows for comparing the proactive security analysis with the actual attack progress, providing insights on the effectiveness of the mitigation actions the system has triggered against the attack and giving an overview of the possible attack's evolution. Moreover, the same visualization can be fruitfully used in the proactive analysis since it allows for getting details on computed attack paths and evaluating the mitigation actions that have been proactively computed by the system. A preliminary user study provided a positive feedback on the prototype implementation of the system. A video of the system is available at: https://youtu.be/uMpYCJCX95k.


OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of quetiapine vs. haloperidol in the treatment of mental behavioral symptoms in patients with senile dementia. METHODS: A total of 164 patients with senile dementia complicated by mental behavioral disorder who were seen in our hospital between July 2012 and August 2013 were randomly assigned to receive either quetiapine at a dose of( 145 ± 50) mg / day or haloperidol at a dose of( 4. 5 ± 1. 5)mg / day,of 82 cases in each group. After treatment of two weeks,the pathological score for dementia,the curative efficacy and safety in the two groups were followed. RESULTS: Both groups showed significantly reduced pathological score for dementia after treatment compared with before treatment( P 0. 05) with that in quetiapine-treated group significantly lower than in haloperidol-treated group( P 0. 05); the incidence of adverse reactions in quetiapinetreated group was significantly lower than in haloperidol-treated group[31. 3%( 26 /82) vs. 46. 9%( 35 /82),P 0. 05]. CONCLUSIONS: Compared with haloperidol,quetiapine is more safe and effective and it can promote the rapid recovery of mental behavioral symptoms in patients with senile dementia.


In a series of articles dating from 1903 to 1906, Frege criticizes Hilbert's methodology of proving the independence and consistency of various fragments of Euclidean geometry in his Foundations of Geometry. In the final part of the last article, Frege makes his own proposal as to how the independence of genuine axioms should be proved. Frege contends that independence proofs require the development of a 'new science' with its own basic truths. This paper aims to provide a reconstruction of this New Science that meets modern standards and to examine possible problems surrounding Frege's original proposal. The paper is organized as follows: the first two sections summarize the main points of the Frege–Hilbert controversy and discuss some issues surrounding the problem of independence proofs. Section 3 contains an informal presentation of Frege's proposal. In section 4 a more detailed reconstruction of Frege's New Science is set out while section 5 examines what is left out. The concluding section is devoted to a discussion of Frege's strategy and its significance from a broader perspective.


It appears possible that cosmic ray excitation of the Lyman and Werner systems of the hydrogen molecule could maintain a chemically significant level of UV photon flux in the interior of dense clouds where interstellar UV radiation may not reach. This conclusion is based upon a simplified treatment of the radiative transfer problem, which actually tends to underestimate the radiation field. In particular, the predicted radiation field seems capable of recovering carbon from the CO reservoir by photodissociation at an order of magnitude faster rate than that possible via dissociative charge transfer from He/sup +/ followed by neutralization of the C/sup +/ ion. This is noteworthy in the context of high N(C)/N(CO) ratios recently reported for several dense clouds. Furthermore, this radiation field may also provide a potentially viable means of releasing molecules from grain surfaces inside dark clouds.


A new measurement method for deep levels in semiconductors is demonstrated, by which the measurement of the transient change of capacitance is performed under an isothermal condition (Isothermal Capacitance Transient Spectroscopy). The method allows us to construct a precise measurement and analysis system by a programmable calculator. Detailed experiment and analysis by the method in the case of Au-doped Si in dicate that the method is one of useful tools for spectroscopic analysis of deep levels in semiconductors.


Recent advances in wireless, communication systems have led to important new applications of Moving object databases (MOD). Typical application examples of moving object databases (MOD) might include mobile computing, mobile E-Commerce, Traffic police, taxi dispatchers and weather reporting services. The mobile computing capabilities allow users to manage their work while they are moving. In order to manage such moving objects in database management systems (DBMS) an updating strategy for moving object is required. In the literature there are many location updating polices. The dead-reckoning policy is the most common updating strategy for moving object. This policy can be divided into two major classes, namely the plain dead-reckoning (pdr) and adaptive dead-reckoning (adr). In this paper the problem of maintaining the current location of moving object in databases and the required updating strategy for moving object will be investigated. An implementation of deviation updating strategy will be introduced. This implementation is based on the generation of spatial-temporal data for the moving objects (e.g. cars).Where the moving objects are moving through a network street. Finally a complete comparison of the predicted moving object path and the actual path is given. Keyword: moving object databases (MOD), location management.


1-Substituted diazen-1-ium-1,2-diolates, a class of nitric oxide (⋅NO) donor compounds that spontaneously release⋅NO at different rates, were used to investigate the effect of⋅NO release rate upon the oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL). All donor compounds conferred an inhibitory effect upon the oxidation of LDL; however, the effect exhibited a biphasic dependence upon the rate of ⋅NO release. The ⋅NO release rate that maximally inhibited oxidation was dependent upon the rate of oxidation. When LDL was rapidly oxidized by copper(II) sulfate, a faster release rate was more effective. In contrast, when LDL was oxidized slowly by 2,2′-azobis-2-amidinopropane hydrochloride, a slower release rate was most effective. This biphasic relationship between ⋅NO release rate and the duration of inhibition was also demonstrated when LDL oxidation was initiated with 5-amino-3-(4-morpholinyl)-1,2,3-oxadiazolium, a peroxynitrite generator. We conclude that the antioxidant ability of ⋅NO is dependent not only upon the rate of its release from ⋅NO donors, but also upon the rate of oxidation. This conclusion is supported by a kinetic model of LDL oxidation in the presence of ⋅NO.


Phoenix dactylifera belongs to the family Arecaceae. The current aim of our research work is to isolate bio-material from the fruit pulp of Phoenix dactylifera and evaluate its mucoadhesivity. The bio- material was isolated by simple economical process. The isolated biomaterial was subjected for determination of solubility, colour changing point, viscosity, surface tension, pH and chemical tests. The mucoadhesivity of the biomaterial was assessed by shear stress method and rotating cylinder method using Capra aegagrus labium and intestine as mucosal substrates. The results were compared with HPMC and sodium CMC. The research study revealed that the biomaterial from Phoenix dactylifera exhibits promising inbuilt mucoadhesivity. So it can serve as a powerful natural mucoadhesant and may be used to develop mucoadhesive transmucosal drug delivery systems. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/icpj.v1i8.11251 International Current Pharmaceutical Journal 2012, 1(8): 205-208


Introduction: To compare and evaluate the mean duration of surgery, postoperative patients discomfort and efficacy of two surgical techniques for the management of primary pterygium. Material & Method: A prospective randomized clinical trial. The study included 100 eyes of 100 patients with primary pterygium. Simple excision under local anesthesia was performed by closure of bare sclera by sutureless and gluefree conjunctival autograft in 50 eyes of 50 patients (Group 1) versus conventional method of a sutured conjunctival autograft in 50 eyes of 50 patients (Group 2). Results: The Mean duration of surgery came out to be 16 minutes in Group 1 and 25.5 minutes in group 2.The postoperative discomfort, inflammation, subconjunctival haemorrhage was significantly less in group 1 as compared to group 2 at postoperative day 2 and 1 week follow-up. Graft stability and recurrence was found to be similar in both groups, which were statistically insignificant. Conclusion: Sutureless and gluefree conjunctival autograft technique is easy, safe, effective, prevents potential adverse reactions and discomfort encountered with the use of sutures to fix the conjunctival autograft with acceptable pterygium recurrence rate as compared conventional sutured autograft technique.


The temperature structure of the upper 500m was resolved with an average station spacing of 29 km along 11°15′S across the Atlantic in March 1983. To the east of 5E, an intense thermocline was observed with 18C to 24C isotherms lying within 20 m of 45 m. Elsewhere, the temperature distribution was consistent with a pattern of southward flow above 300 m at the South American Coast as well as southward flow in intermediate waters (10-12C) to the east of 5E and in the region between 32W and 34W; from 34W to Brazil, northward flow was indicated for intermediate waters. Mesoscale variability was not observed.


The most frequently voiced concern in recent years regarding scientific publishing is the increased amount of information that must be handled. As information is generated faster and faster, especially in the classical areas of science and engineering, the burden of keeping up with it becomes greater each year. Recognition of this problem, coupled with recent advances in publishing technology, has led to increasing efforts to develop new services that would publish information more rapidly, provide faster and easier access to information already published, and package information in forms that are used more easily and efficiently. New technology now has the potential of achieving these advantages while keeping costs to a minimum. Two main approaches can be taken to develop new information services. Most frequently, the kinds of information available and the ways in which it can be published and distributed are assessed and then the services that can be developed from available resources are marketed. ...


Video deblurring methods, aiming at recovering consecutive sharp frames from a given blurry video, usually assume that the input video suffers from consecutively blurry frames. However, in real-world blurry videos taken by modern imaging devices, sharp frames usually appear in the given video, thus making temporal long-term sharp features available for facilitating the restoration of a blurry frame. In this work, we propose a video deblurring method that leverages both neighboring frames and present sharp frames using hybrid Transformers for feature aggregation. Specifically, we first train a blur-aware detector to distinguish between sharp and blurry frames. Then, a window-based local Transformer is employed for exploiting features from neighboring frames, where cross attention is beneficial for aggregating features from neighboring frames without explicit spatial alignment. To aggregate long-term sharp features from detected sharp frames, we utilize a global Transformer with multi-scale matching capability. Moreover, our method can easily be extended to event-driven video deblurring by incorporating an event fusion module into the global Transformer. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art video deblurring methods as well as event-driven video deblurring methods in terms of quantitative metrics and visual quality. The source code and trained models are available at https://github.com/shangwei5/STGTN.


ABSTRACT Museums are discovering their role relative to health literacy. The growing number of mental health exhibitions may preface a "golden age" of museums advancing mental health by addressing stigma and fostering education with credibility, resources, and infrastructure. This paper provides a typology of mental health exhibitions and examines visitor responses to Mental Health: Mind Matters, adapted for North America by the Science Museum of Minnesota. Our research examined Mind Matters while on display at Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Colorado, during 2020-2021. Data regarding visitor-level impacts were collected using index card responses to an open-ended prompt and via survey, and were analyzed using a hierarchical open coding strategy. Our research identifies how mental health exhibitions can impact sense of community/isolation among people with existing mental health conditions; understanding and empathy among other visitors; and, openness to help-seeking. Findings suggest museums can help reframe and repair what is possible with mental health.


With a 256x256 pixel matrix on a 300μm thick silicon sensor, placed parallel to the particles in the CERN H6 beam, it proves possible to record electronically in real time the microscopic details of particle trajectories and interactions. The Medipix2 readout chip, matched to this matrix of 55μm square pixels, contains a tuneable discriminator and a pulse counter in each pixel. The noise of the signal processing chain in each pixel is on average 135e (equivalent electrons) r.m.s. A threshold not much higher than 800e allows discrimination of full signals ~3800e as well as partial signals from a minimum ionizing particle in adjacent 55μm thick pixels. With binary pixel information, exploiting charge diffusion and redundancy in the large matrix, the vectors of trajectories can be reconstructed with angular accuracy <1mradian and positions with respect to the detector coordinates often with sub-μm precison. Close tracks can be resolved down to 100μm distance. The width of the trail in the matrix sometimes can provide information on the energy deposition as well. A variety of applications can be imagined, the more so if several such detectors could be stacked to create a true 3-dimensional position-sensitive volume. submitted to Nucl. Instr. Meth. A Elsevier * Corresponding author, firstname.lastname@example.com


An experiment was conducted to determine the magnitude of genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance as per cent of mean among fifty-five genotypes of pea using eleven quantitative characters viz., days to 50% flowering, plant height, number of first fruiting node, length of first fruiting node, number of pods per plant, length of pod, width of pod, number of seeds per pods, green pod yield per plant, seed yield per plant and shell weight per plant. The results of ANOVA showed significant differences among the genotypes for all the characters indicating the existence of wide spectrum of variability among the genotypes. The phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) was quite higher than the corresponding genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV). High value of GCV and PCV was recorded for seed yield per plant, number of pods per plant, shell weight per plant, green pod yield per plant, plant height, length of first fruiting node and number of first fruiting node. All the characters showed high magnitude of heritability in broad sense (>60%) ranged from 83.91% (width of pod) to 98.84% (number of pods per plant). Further, high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percentage of mean (>20%) was observed for all the characters except days to 50 % flowering suggesting that these characters are genetically controlled by additive (heritable) gene action and can be utilized for pea improvement through selection. The genotypes which showed superior results for the objectives under study were VRP-383, VRP-311, VRP-320 and Kashi Shakti and can be utilized for further breeding programme of pea.


A rational analysis procedure for the calculation of tendon forces in prestressed beams with unbonded tendons is discussed. The prestressing tendon is analyzed as a tight-string which carries a portion of the external load. Further development of the method is in progress.


The analysis of 29Si MAR-NMR spectra of micas and vermiculite shows that the two main factors that govern the Si, Al distribution in the tetrahedral sheet of these minerals are: (i) Loewenstein's rule (avoidance of Al-O-Al linkages), and (ii) local balance of charges. In muscovite, phlogopite and vermiculite, Al is randomly distributed in hexagonal ring sites (meta and para dispositions equally favoured), but complying with the two above restrictions. In margarite Si and Al are observed to alternate strictly, in agreement with previous X-ray diffraction analysis.


In a post hoc analysis of the Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) immunization Trial in Adults the model-predicted 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine efficacy for preventing vaccine-type specific CAP and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease declined from 65% to 40% for subjects being 65 and 75 year olds at the time of vaccination, respectively.


Background : Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most frequent site of health care- associated infections (HAIs). Surgical incision breaks the protective barrier of the skin and causes bacteria to enter; therefore, pre-operative procedure is very important to reduce the risk of SSI. This study aimed to identify any bacteria in skin swab of pre-operative closed fracture during elective orthopedic surgery patients. Methods : This was a descriptive laboratory study, conducted in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran in October to November 2012. Samples were taken from skin swab of patients with closed fracture taken before elective orthopedic surgery. Samples were cultured on blood agar, then incubated in an aerobic condition for 24 hours at 37°C. The bacteria were then identified, including the type and the number of the bacteria colonies, using microscopic gram staining and by biochemistry testing using coagulase, novobiocin, and catalase test. The bacteria colonies formed on blood agar were counted using CFU/mL. Results : Of 24 samples taken, 14 (58.3%) were positive for bacteria, 7 negative and 3 were excluded due to dead bacteria. The bacteria identified in the samples were all staphylococcus species and the colony counting was lower than 10⁵ CFU/mL. Conclusions : Bacteria staphylococcus are detected from more than half of skin swab during pre-operative closed fracture orthopedic surgery patients. Thus, it is important to apply a proper antiseptic procedure before making a surgical incision to reduce the risk of SSI.


In medaka fishes, the family Adrianichthyidae, tropical species are known to be sexually more dimorphic than temperate species. If this reflects that tropical species are exposed to stronger sexual-selection pressures than temperate species, mating behaviors may also differ between tropical and temperate species. Our mating experiments revealed that males of Oryzias woworae, a tropical species of the family, perform "chasing" another male more frequently than males of O. sakaizumii, a temperate congener, and that male–male "combats" of O. woworae tended to be followed by chasing compared with combats of O. sakaizumii males, indicating that O. woworae males are more aggressive in male–male interactions than O. sakaizumii males. Males of O. woworae also performed "approaching" a female and "mating dance" more frequently than O. sakaizumii males, indicating that O. woworae males are also more active in courting females. Males of O. sakaizumii often omitted "mating dance" in their mating sequences, supporting this view. Moreover, O. woworae females tended to reject male "wrapping", an attempt for fertilization, more frequently than O. sakaizumii females, suggesting that O. woworae females are choosier in mating than O. sakaizumii females. These findings are concordant with the view that O. woworae is exposed to stronger sexual-selection pressures than O. sakaizumii.


The invention discloses a synthesis method of imino butylated amino resin. The synthesis method comprises the following steps: adding butyl alcohol and tetramethylol melamine into a reaction kettle according to a certain ratio, adjusting the rotating speed of a stirrer of the reaction kettle to 50-120r/min, adding acid to adjust the pH value to 3.0-5.0, raising the temperature to 80-95 DEG C and reacting for 30-60min while preserving the heat; adding alkaline to adjust the pH value to 8.0-10.0, gradually raising the temperature to 90-120 DEG C, and dealcoholizing and dehydrating at normal pressure; starting a vacuum pump, dehydrating under a vacuum condition for 1-3h; and filtering to obtain a colorless thick liquid product. The method is applied to the industrial production of the imino butylated amino resin, is simple in process, capable of saving energy, simple and convenient in aftertreatment, low in production cost and little in discharged wastewater and conforms to the concepts of environment friendliness and resource saving.


Abstract Virtual Teams (VTs) are increasingly being adopted by companies. Being geographically and time dispersed, human resources of VTs are totally dependent upon the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support their communicational success. Although much research has already been done on several aspects of Virtual Teams, very little has focused on the relation between the virtual team communication performance and the selection of tools available to the team members. Additionally, most of the theories related to tool selection concentrate in the combined characteristics of task and technology, disregarding human factors based in personal characteristics, comfort and preferences. To detect which technology workers of Virtual Teams prefer for accomplishing each one of their communicational needs and to analyze the impact of personal characteristics based technology choice, on cohesion, leadership, knowledge share and trust, leading to virtual team performance, an electronic questionnaire has been sent to members of virtual teams in several companies from different sectors of activity, and 79 valid answers were received. The analysis looked at the data from different perspectives: Is there, globally, a preferred technology? Do personal characteristics of workers - Gender, Age Group, Education Level and IT use Proficiency – influence the choice? And, does the choice of the preferred technological tool that best suits each of the four HRM themes – Trust buildup, Management, Knowledge Share and Cohesion – follow the global preference? The results have shown that e-Mail is the preferred technology choice and that this choice is not influenced by gender. The other three sets of personal characteristics influence the choice. For building Trust and Cohesion, the preferred technology is videoconference, contradicting the global tendency whereas for Knowledge Share and for Management activities e-Mail is again the preferred technology, in line with the main choice. Keywords: virtual teams, communication technology, channel selection, human resources, cohesion, trust, performance Resumo A adocao de Equipas Virtuais pelas empresas tem vindo a aumentar. Encontrandose dispersos, geograficamente e no tempo, os recursos humanos das equipas virtuais dependem totalmente da utilizacao de tecnologias de informacao e comunicacao (TIC) para suportar as suas necessidades comunicacionais. Embora exista muita investigacao efetuada sobre inumeros aspetos das equipas virtuais, muito pouca se focou na relacao entre o desempenho comunicacional destas e a selecao das ferramentas disponiveis para os membros. Alem disso, a maior parte das teorias relacionadas com a seleccao de ferramentas concentra-se na combinacao de caracteristicas tarefa/tecnologia, descurando factores humanos baseados nas caracteristicas pessoais, no conforto e nas preferencias. Com o fim de detetar qual a tecnologia preferida pelos trabalhadores das equipas virtuais para a satisfacao das suas necessidades comunicacionais e ainda para analisar o impacto da escolha tecnologica - baseada em caracteristicas pessoais - na confianca, coesao, lideranca e partilha de conhecimento foi enviado um questionario eletronico a membros de equipas virtuais de empresas operando em diferentes sectores, tendo sido recebidas 79 respostas validas. A analise dos dados centrou-se em diferentes perspetivas: Existe uma tecnologia preferida? As carateristicas pessoais dos trabalhadores – genero, faixa etaria, escolaridade e capacidade de utilizacao de tecnologia – influenciam a escolha? A escolha da tecnologia que melhor se adapta a cada um dos 4 temas de GRH - confianca, coesao, lideranca e partilha de conhecimento – segue a preferencia global? Os resultados mostraram ser o e-Mail a tecnologia preferida e que esta escolha nao e afetada pelo genero. Os outros tres tipos de carateristicas pessoais mostraram ter influencia na selecao da tecnologia. Para o estabelecimento de confianca e coesao, a tecnologia preferida foi a video-conferencia enquanto para a partilha de conhecimento o e-Mail voltou a ser a escolha principal. Palavras chave: equipas virtuais, tecnologia de comunicacao, selecao de canais, recursos humanos, coesao, confianca, performance


Thiry-four surface soil samples from different altitnde representing Entisols, Inceptisols and Ultisols and one representative profile from each of the soil orders and samples of another Ultisol profiles from Jhum area collected before and after burning of the slash were studied. All the soils were acidic and about 57 per cent of Entisols, 42 per cent of Inceptisols and 77 per cent of Ultisols were high in available N. About 71 per cent of Entisols, 100 per cent of Inceptisols and 77 per cent of Ultisols were high in available K, rest being medium in K. All the soils were low to very low in available P and fixed on an average 82.6 to 96 per cent of added P (1000 ppm). Phosphate fixation was positively related with clay, organic carbon and Fe and Al oxide contents of soil and negatively with pH. Phosphorus appears to be the most limiting nutrient for plant growth. These soils have adequate supply of plant available Mn, en and Fe but, 71 per cent of Entisols, 33 per cent of Inceptisols and 20 per cent of Ultisols were deficient in zinc (<0.8 ppm DTPA extractable Zn). Total soil acidity varied from 8.6 to 16.3 cmol(p+)kg−1. The mean contribution of pH-dependent and exchange acidity to total acidity was 88 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively and exchangeable A13+ constituted 81 per cent of exchange acidity fraction. The Al saturation of soil based on effective CEC was 43.0 per cent at pH 4.5 and was essentially zero at pH 5.6. These soils have low permanent negative charge (σp) and most of the CEC of soil is due to pH dependent charge. Burning of slash under Jhum cultivation significantly increased the pH, available P, exchangeable bases and ECEC but decreased exchange acidity, organic carbon, mineralisable-N and NO3-N content of soil. The SMP-single buffer method was found to be the best for predicting the lime requirement of soils of Mizoram. Highest soybean yield was obtained when lime at the rate of 5.4 t CaCO3 ha−1 (in the form of dolomite) was applied. Highest benefit to cost ratio of 1.69 was obtained at this level of lime application.


We characterize the weighted weak and strong type inequalities for the Hilbert and Calderón multilinear operators. As applications, we characterize a weighted multilinear Hilbert's inequality and extend to the multilinear setting some results on singular integrals due to F. Soria and G. Weiss. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 26D15, 42B20.


This article presents GISMO, a novel, open source, graphic student-tracking tool integrated into Moodle. GISMO represents a further step in information visualization applied to education, and also a novelty in the field of learning management systems applications. The visualizations of the tool, its uses and the benefits it can bring are illustrated through adetailed case study of an online course. GISMO provides visualizations of behavioral, cognitive and social data from the course, allowing constant monitoring of students' activities,engagement and learning outcomes.


Abstract : This report deals with an asymptotic high frequency analysis of the radiation patterns of a magnetic line source, or a magnetic line dipole, located on a uniform impedance surface patch which partly covers an electrically large perfectly conducting convex cylinder. This work is relevant, for example, to the analysis of fuselage mounted airborne antennas for satellite communication purposes. In the latter application impedance surface patches may be employed to increase the radiation intensity near the horizon over that which would ordinarily exist in the absence of any such impedance loading. In the present analysis, the impedance surface patch is represented as an equivalent aperture in the rest of the perfectly conducting convex cylinder. Approximate asymptotic expressions for the 'equivalent aperture distribution;' i.e., for the 'currents on the impedance surface patch' are developed in this work for the two source types; these expressions for the currents are valid in the neighborhood of the source. The radiation pattern of this configuration is then found in a straightforward manner by numerically integrating this current distribution in conjunction with a simple and accurate asymptotic high frequency form of the perfectly conducting, convex cylinder Green's function. Radiation pattern calculations based on this analysis are found to compare quite well with a numerical moment method type solution, a previous GTD solution for those impedances which support an Elliot mode, and also with some presently available experimental results.


On the basis of factors such as ideology, the degree of populism, political leadership and form of the government a complex comparativeanalysis of the formation and development of the party system in Lithuania and Russia in the post-communist period wascarried out. Summing up, it should be noted that both Russian and Lithuanian party parliamentarism are being progressively consolidated.At the same time they continue to suffer from many shortcomings owing to negative historical heritage, characterized byauthoritarian single-party system, cult of the leader, ideological populism and undeveloped civil society, and also because of theprolonged transition period of young democracies. Speaking about the prospects of the development of the party systems of twocountries, it can be assumed that in the medium term the current situation should not change dramatically. On the basis of factors such as ideology, the degree of populism, political leadership and form of the government a complex comparativeanalysis of the formation and development of the party system in Lithuania and Russia in the post-communist period wascarried out. Summing up, it should be noted that both Russian and Lithuanian party parliamentarism are being progressively consolidated.At the same time they continue to suffer from many shortcomings owing to negative historical heritage, characterized byauthoritarian single-party system, cult of the leader, ideological populism and undeveloped civil society, and also because of theprolonged transition period of young democracies. Speaking about the prospects of the development of the party systems of twocountries, it can be assumed that in the medium term the current situation should not change dramatically.


This text combine forming terms, fail reason, calculation person of fountain experiment, have carried on the preliminary discussion to how students have innovated educating and studying study, have received better result.


In Information Systems (IS) research, emotions are primarily measured using facial expressions of participants or self-reported survey results. To unite both measurement foci, we analyze the impact of facial emotional reactions to computer-induced stimuli on self-reported evaluations towards the respective stimulus by using a multi-method experimental approach with multi-channel analysis. We collected emotional expressions of happiness of 176 participants using eye-tracker and webcam technology together with a post-experimental survey. We contribute to IS research by supplementing self-reported measures of emotion with a physical emotional measure in response to a system's feature, and by relating these measured emotional physical responses to individual behavior.


Abstract Radiation-driven mass-loss is an important, but still highly debated, driver for the evolution of massive stars. Current massive star evolution models rely on the theoretical prediction that low luminosity massive stars experience a sudden increase in mass loss below a stellar effective temperature of about 20 000 K. However, novel radiation-driven mass-loss rate predictions show no such bi-stability jump, which effects the post main-sequence evolution of massive stars. The ULLYSES data set provides a unique opportunity to investigate the theoretical bi-stability jump dichotomy and may help to assess the existence of the bi-stability jump in massive star winds. By utilising UV spectra from ULLYSES combined with X-shooter optical data we obtain empirical mass-loss rate constraints, that are no longer degenerate to the effects of wind clumping, and derive novel empirical constraints on the mass-loss behavior across the temperature range of the bi-stability jump. Current preliminary results do not show a clear presence of a bi-stability jump.


In the present study 12 canine lungs perfused in a BELZER perfusion unit for 17 hours using Albumine solution were homotransplanted. Bronchospirometric evaluation up to the 21st postoperative day have shown sufficient function. There is no remarkable difference in minute ventilation, alveolar ventilation and oxygen uptake when compared with non-stored lung homografts.


This paper discusses the use of Universal Dependency for annotations of a Native North American language Arapaho (Algonquian). While some relations of the universal dependency perfectly correspond with those in Arapaho, language specific annotations of verbal arguments elucidate problems of assuming certain syntactic categories across languages. By critiquing the influence of grammatical structures of major European and Asian languages in establishing the UD framework, this paper develops guidelines for annotating a polysynthetic agglutinating language and sets a path to developing a more comprehensive cross-linguistic approach to syntactic annotations of language data.


The invention provides a gate driver and a display panel. The gate driver comprises at least one shift register group; the shift register group includes N stages of cascaded shift register units; the shift register units receive first input signals, second input signals and clock signals, and provide an output signal according to the first input signals, the second input signals and the clock signals; a first input signal received by the m-th stage of shift register unit is the output signal of the m-1-th stage of shift register unit; a second input signal received by the m-th stage of shift register unit is the output signal of the m+1-th stage of shift register unit, wherein m is a positive integer, and is larger than 1 and smaller than N; the first input signal received by the first stage of shift register unit is a first initial signal; the output signals of at least shift register units from the first stage of shift register unit to the N-1-th stage of shift register unit are all adopted as effective gate scanning signals; and the first initial signal is utilized to provide an effective gate scanning signal. According to the gate driver of the invention, the number of the shift register units is reduced.


Aim: To analyse behavioural characteristics of infants who cried more versus those who cried less, in a sample of low‐risk premature infants. Methods: Participants were 63 low‐risk healthy premature infants. At term age, the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) was administered, and a 1‐d diary for crying was recorded starting on the following day. Infants were categorized into two groups: those with "high level of crying" (≥75th percentile) and those with "less crying" (<75th percentile), based on the total amount of crying time. Results: Some individual NBAS scores and "habituation" and "regulation of state" cluster scores were lower in the high‐level‐of‐crying group. Infants in the group with a high level of crying had lower thresholds for response in the "peak of excitement", "rapidity of build‐up", "irritability" and "general irritability" items. Logistic regression analysis revealed that lower "habituation" and "regulation of state" cluster scores were significantly associated with lower thresholds for crying.


Major MOSFET manufacturers have recently introduced innovative packaging options to achieve the next level of breakthroughs in electrical and thermal performance. Some of the innovations involve replacement of wire-bonds with solder-bumps for device interconnections in power devices and reduction in number of interfaces/paths for heat dissipation. The overall goal is to achieve small form factor MOSFET packages with significant improvements in electrical and thermal performance. This paper outlines the recent trends in MOSFET packaging and provides package-level thermal modeling results of wire-bond, strap bond, flipchip, ball-grid-array, and micro-lead-frame based packages. It also highlights the critical issues related to the processing, cost and reliability of such packages, which must be addressed before the conventional lead-frame based discrete solutions can be replaced with the new ones. Fundamental cooling mechanisms associated with different packaging technologies for MOSFETs are investigated. The impact of the internal package design on thermal performance is discussed in detail. The role of underfill materials in flip chip and BGA applications is also addressed.


Abstract North Kaipara Barrier is formed by sediments, mainly estuarine and dune sands of the Kaihu Group, deposited in a major cyc1e of transgression (subsidence) and regression (uplift) during the Quatemary. Hautawan, Okehuan and younger lignites along with terrace surfaces at 105 m, 67 m, 40 m, 24 m, 8 m and 4-2 m a.s.l., which can be correlated with dated surfaces elsewhere in the North Island, provide chronologie control. Five units, the Hautawan DargaviIle Formation, Nukumaruan- Castlec1iffian Rototuna Formation, Castlec1iffian- Hawera Pareotaunga Formation, Hawera South Head Formation, and the Hawera Shelly Beach Formation, are present. The barrier has changed littie since the end ofOkehuan time when the major existing valleys were cut in Rototuna sediments.Upper Pleistocene terrace surfaces are locally preserved within these valleys.Undifferentiated Hawera and Holocene deposits are also present on the barrier.


It is very important for us to train the junior female basketball player because of the junior period is "gold period" We research the sense perception feature, the purpose is how to train improve their sport achievement, and to provide some theorical method for selecting the junior female basketball player.


Technology has increasingly become a more dominant force in the social lives of adolescents. With unlimited access to electronic forms of communication, adolescents are at an increased risk for experiencing cyberbullying. Similar to traditional bullying, Cyberbullies have 2 intent to threaten, halm, humiliate, and/or create fear in a victim. Cyberbullies often use email, instant messaging, social networking sites, chat rooms, websites, blogs, and text messages, pictures, or video clips via cellular phones to attack victims While social media may provide a way for students to keep in continuous contact with others, information may be shared that is inappropriate or has the potential to cause hann to others. Parents and teachers may find it more difficult to respond to cyberbuUying as they may lack knowledge regarding technology, be unable to identify the attacker, or be unsure and illprepared in how to pursue a cyber attack. Without immediate consequences for the cyberbully, the behavior is more likely to continue and possibly become more harmful. The Graduate School University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie, WI Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Carol Johnson, for her supp0l1, patience, and guidance during throughout the process of this literature review. I attribute my success in this process to your positive attitude and encouragement Your enthusiasm and positive outlook have made this process, as well as my graduate experience, extremely enjoyable. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the UW-Stout School Counseling Program, professors and students. Thank you to the exemplary professors, Dr. Barb Flom, Dr. Carol Johnson, and Dr. Denise Zirkle-Brouillard. With your instruction, guidance, and encouragement, I feel confident in becoming a successful school counselor. Thank you to my peers who have made this challenging journey very rewarding. 3 Most importantly, thank you to my family and friends. Thank you to my husband, Peter, who has shown endless hours of patience, flexibility, and support. Thank you to my parents and siblings for being my number one supp0l1ers in every aspect of my life.


Edge image is one of the most important information,which make it possible to express enormous information with less data quantity of images.Kirsch operator has good effect,good antinoise ability while edge detection.But the edge of image got is not thinner enough,and the threshold value is a changeless value,so its adaptability is a little poorer.Due to the problems above,according to the average of gray of target points around the neighborhood,combined with the human eye's sensitivity to different gray,based on the experimental data,this paper proposes a method of generating adaptive threshold,and propose an improved algorithm to get the edge of to thick.And through this method the good results were obtained.


RUBUS ROSAEPOLIUS Smith is a plant of wide distribution in the tropics and has become established in more temperate climates. Rydberg (1913) states that the species is "native of southern and eastern Asia," and that the type locality is the "'Island of Mauritius,' although it was introduced there from the Malay Isles. There is contradiction in the literature as regards the duration of life of the canes. Focke (1911, p. 149) places the species under "Caules annui" in his key to the section Rosaefolii. Rydberg (1913, p. 441) begins his description of the species with "stems perennial, erect. Bailey (1923, p. 149) describes the plant as "a vigorous evergreen species. . . .,' and again (1925, p. 3028) as "erect and tall-growing, evergreen in warm countries...." No reference is made to the duration of the canes. The keys included in these publications do not use the annual or perennial nature of the canes in the identification of the species. In his manual, however, Bailey (1924) separates' R. rosaefolius from R. illecebrosus on the basis of the biennial or perennial canes of the former and the annual canes of the latter species. Dr. H. St. John of the Botany Department, University of Hawaii, called my attention to this taxonomic discrepancy when I inquired into the growth habit of R. rosaefolius. The following is a report of the investigation that resulted. INVESTIGATION.-Rubus rosaefolius, known locally as thimbleberry, is now abundant in Hawaii, especially at altitudes above 300 meters. It spreads rapidly by seeds and by horizontal roots. In outward appearance the colony is evergreen, but closer inspection reveals a mat of prostrate, dead and dying canes, effectively hidden from casual sight by the ascending2 vegetative and fruiting canes. Flowers and fruits are produced throughout the year, but more abundantly during the spring and summer months. Flowers, and later the fruits, are produced on a stem in basipetal succession (table 1). On October 10, 1943, eight vigorous canes were labeled with paraffined, metal-rimmed tags on Mt. Tantalus, Oahu. These plants were not checked again until March 9, 1944. Growth had been unexpectedly rapid (although it appears that the plants grow least rapidly in the winter months), and a few of the labels could not be found. Some labels had rotted owing to the fact that heavy rainf all is characteristic of the locality. Since it appeared that the life of canes was of short duration, a closer series of observations was instituted. Those tagged plants that could be found, and some new ones, making a total of fourteen, were labelled by tying strong cords, identified by knots, on the chosen, 1 Received for publication April 1 , 1945. 2 The terms ascending, arched, and prostrate are used in accordance with those of Bailey (1932). ascending canes. The ends of the cords were brought together at a convenient spot and the plants were easily found at subsequent periods of observation.


In this paper, we study the existence of renormalized solutions for the nonlinear parabolic problem: ∂b(u) ∂t − div(a(x, t, u,∇u)) + div(φ(x, t, u)) = f ,where the right side belongs toL(Ω× (0, T )) andb(u) is unbounded function of u, the term−div(a(x, t, u,∇u))is a Leray–Lions operator and the function φ is a nonlinear lower order and satisfy only the growth condition.


Abstract The thermal oxidation process of γ-TiAl is discussed regarding kinetic and thermodynamic aspects. A simple thermodynamic model allows the calculation of diffusion paths and leads to a better comprehension of the role of thermodynamic and kinetic factors in diffusion processes. The calculations allow a reproduction of the experimental results. Moreover, it is possible to predict results in regions not yet experimentally determined. The advantage of potential phase diagrams compared with concentration phase diagrams is discussed for diffusion processes using the Ti–Al–O system as example.


The problem of asymptotic behavior of solutions of an nth order linear differential equation is reconsidered, and a result obtained by Hartman and Wintner under integral smallness conditions on the perturbing terms which require absolute integrability is shown to hold under weaker integrability conditions requiring only ordinary (perhaps conditional) convergence of some of the improper integrals that occur. The estimates of the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the perturbed equation are also sharper than in the classical result.


Possible effects of kiore (Rattus exulans) on selected indigenous tree species in coastal forests ot northern New Zealand are surveyed from recent field sampling and a literature review Recruitment rates are compared on islands with and without kiore (i) on the same island before or at the time of rat eradication compared with recruitment some years later, and (II) on geographically separated islands with and without kiore In addition kiore‐proof exclosurcs enabled some comparisons to be made of seed germination and survival in the presence and absence of kiore There is evidence that kiore have substantially reduced recruitment of Pittosporum crassifohum, Poutena costata Streblus banksu, and Nestegis apetala by eating the seed Seed consumption and/or depressed recruitment is demonstrated for Rhopalostyhs sapida, Vitex lucens and Pisoma brunoniana, but the extent ot recruitment reduction is not yet clear No depressive effect by kiore on the recruitment ot some species, including Dysoxylum spectabde Beilchm...


EC: Recently, in writing a chapter on predictive uncertainty for a forthcoming edition of the Handbook of Hydrology, I have listed, including the UNEEC approach (Solomatine and Shrestha, 2009), up to 10 alternative ways for assessing predictive uncertainty. Some of these approaches, the Hydrological Uncertainty Processor (HUP) (Krzysztofowicz,1999; Reggiani et al., 2009), the Quantile Regression (QR) (Koenker, 2005; Weerts et al., 2011), Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) (Raftery,1993; Vrugt and Robinson, 2007), the Model Conditional Processor (MCP) (Todini, 2008; Coccia and Todini, 2011) have been extensively applied on theoretical as well as on real operational cases. AC: We have checked if the mentioned references to other methods have been adequately cited in the manuscript, and indeed, the relevant ones are. We have updated the way how the BFS (HUP) and MCP are cited (being now attributed to the "first group" of methods). However, since the mentioned methods have been extensively covered in the suggested papers, in this paper we are not giving a review of the known popular methods and have chosen to stay with the "second group" of methods which are used less (to which QR and UNEEC belong).


This document mainly analyzes the key revocation issue with host
identities (HIs) in the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), which has not
attracted enough attention from the HIP community yet. As a key
functionality of key management mechanisms, key revocation is critical
for security systems especially which are expected to operate for a
long period. Apart from that, this document also discusses the
potential challenges that the designers of HI revocation mechanisms
have to encounter and propose candidate solutions.


Gourlay SG, Stead LF, Benowitz NL. Clonidine for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004;(3):CD000058.

 Q Is oral or transdermal clonidine more effective than placebo for achieving long term smoking cessation?

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Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group trials register, Medline, and PsycLIT (up to May 2004); and the email newsgroup of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco for unpublished studies.

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randomised, placebo controlled trials that compared oral or transdermal clonidine (maximum daily dosage ⩾0.2 mg) with placebo. Methodological quality of individual studies was assessed for randomisation procedure and blinding.

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smoking cessation at ⩾12 weeks (biochemical verification of sustained abstinence assessed ⩾12 wk after the end of treatment).

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The "neoclassical synthesis" sticky price model exhibits strange behavior when augmented with markets for durable goods with flexible prices. While in the data the output of durable goods responds strongly and positively to a loosening of monetary policy, in dynamic general equilibrium models a monetary expansion causes the output of flexibly priced durables to contract. In an instructive special case in which the only sticky prices are those of nondurables, the negative co-movement of durable and nondurable output exactly offsets and the behavior of aggregate output in the model is very similar to that of a model with fully flexible prices. This neutrality result is special, but the perverse response of durables to monetary policy is highly robust. The reason for the comovement problem is the combination of a naturally high intertemporal elasticity of substitution for the purchases of durables and temporarily high factor prices associated with an economic expansion.


Generation Z youth, born from 1995 to 2010, are national assets that need attention, especially regarding their growth and development (Dewi and Ulfah, 2021). Early marriage is a formal or informal marriage where one of the bride and groom is less than 18 years old (Kemen PPPA, 2020). In 2018, an estimated 1,220,900 children were married before the age of 18 (BPS, 2020). This type of research is a quantitative descriptive which was carried out in October 2022. Data was obtained by distributing online questionnaires to respondents (students) at SMAN 1 Ngadiluwih, Kediri, East Java. Univariate data analysis was carried out to determine the frequency and percentage of research variables. There were 236 respondents involved where 51.69% (122 respondents) were able to answer questions correctly. Adolescent knowledge related to early marriage for Generation Z youth at SMAN 1 Ngadiluwih is in the less category, so it needs to be increased by conducting outreach activities and providing information related to early marriage, especially for Generation Z youth.


Biodiesel from used cooking oil (UCO) is one of the most sustainable solutions to replace conventional fossil fuels in the transport sector. It can achieve greenhouse gas savings up to 88% and at the same time reducing the disposal of a polluting waste. In addition, it does not provoke potential negative impacts that conventional biofuels may eventually cause linked to the use of arable land. For this reason, most policy frameworks favor its consumption. This is the case of the EU policy that double-counters the use of residue and waste use to achieve the renewable energy target in the transport sector. According to different sources, biodiesel produced from UCO could replace around 1.5%–1.8% of the EU-27 diesel consumption. This paper presents an in-depth thermoeconomic analysis of the UCO biodiesel life cycle to understand its cost formation process. It calculates the ExROI value (exergy return on investment) and renewability factor, and it demonstrates that thermoeconomics is a useful tool to assess life cycles of renewable energy systems. It also shows that UCO life cycle biodiesel production is more sustainable than biodiesel produced from vegetable oils.


"Nordic Satellite Cases"* During the later part of 1998 and most of 1999 the Commission examined a series of notifications involving agreements relating to satellite transponder capacity in the…


Lu Xun's Poem Farewell to the Shadow manifests the poet's heavy sense of inferiority in his love affairs by relating "the shadow" to "the body", with the former hinting at the poet himself and the latter at Xu Guangping, his sweeheart. As a farewell speech of 'the shadow" to "the body", the whole poem expresses the poet's mental conflicting, agony, anxiety and hesitation while the poet was facing the surging currents of love.


The objective of the investigation is to find the applicability of a convergent-divergent column as an extractor. Experiments have been carried out to extract aromatics from simulated light petroleum fraction in a convergent-divergent column and two straight columns.


. A property of smooth convex domains Ω ⊂ R n is that if two points on the boundary x,y ∈ ∂ Ω are close to each other, then their normal vectors n ( x ) ,n ( y ) point roughly in the same direction and this direction is almost orthogonal to x − y (for 'nearby' x and y ). We prove there exists a constant c n > 0 such that if Ω ⊂ R n is a bounded domain with C 1 − boundary ∂ Ω, then equality if and only domain convex.


Electronic systems and components contain large numbers of elements and have a complex non-linear response to ESD; thus, passing ESD qualification on the first pass is unlikely to occur unless the robustness is verified by means of simulation prior to manufacturing. For component-level ESD verification, the primary challenge is in regards to computational efficiency; for system-level ESD verification, component and test bed modeling present major challenges.


Several kind of main types and functions of thermal gas welder and their applications at present were summarized in this article.


Abstract Replacement names are proposed for three primary junior homonyms within the hemipteran family Plataspidae: Coptosoma parapallens replacing C. dilutum Linnavuori, 1977, C. cachani replacing C. transversa Cachan, 1952, and C. jensonhaarupi replacing C. pygmaeum Jensen-Haarup, 1926.


Objective To layout the storage of hospital Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) in long term. Methods As an example for updating the PACS storage in our hospital, the scheme for PACS storage was presented to show how to improve the storage layout using the existing network topology and hospital information system for future update of storage. Results The selection and determination of scheme for PACS storage is relative to the long-term layout on hospital information construction. Conclusion Reasonable storage of PACS is an essential step in hospital digitization.


This paper proposes an intelligent rear vehicle approach intimation system for motorcycles based on AI edge computing technology. The proposed system is composed of an ultrasonic sensing module, an image sensing module, an AI edge computing module, and a Bluetooth earphone. The proposed system is installed in a motorcycle. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can recognize rear-approaching large vehicles within 5 meters in real time.


The struggle for transitional justice to " take place " in the aftermath of armed conflict is by nature a spatial activity. This common insight holds particular value in Colombia, where academics and policy-makers alike coincide on the position that building peace must consider the geographies of violence. What follows takes the reader on a journey through spatial conceptions of the Colombian-Venezuelan border region Catatumbo, and argues that spatial imaginaries are complicit in the suspension of justice. Departing from the narrative of my participation in the "peace tribunal, " organized by civil society in the small town of El Tarra, I reflect on how the imagination of the borderland as a " wild zone " of unleashed warfare feeds into state abandonment. Here, the " necropolitics " of the sovereign right to kill took the place of biopolitical care, deferring the provision of justice — transitional, social, or otherwise defined — indefinitely. Nevertheless, in the end the " peace tribunal, " as a performance of " justice in the borderland, " escapes its hegemonic spatial imaginary, contesting and — at least temporarily — re-appropriating space to make way for social leadership. restricted space have


The extrinsic sugars, sucrose and fructose, have been implicated in the accumulation of liver fat, insulin resistance and formation of an atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype (ALP). A dietary-exchange model was developed as part of a metabolic tracer study to investigate the influence of these sugars on the formation of an ALP in men with low (<5%) and moderately high (>10%) liver fat. The model was tested in two, 12-week diets, high and low in extrinsic sugars, that were delivered in a randomised cross-over design. All male participants (n 18, aged 40–65 years), expressed increased cardio-metabolic risk. The dietary model was based on NDNS data from an average intake of men aged 35–64 years. It aimed to exchange two-thirds of dietary carbohydrate (CHO) in six portions of food, containing approximately 30 g CHO per portion. Supermarket foods, with either a high (>40%) or low (<10%) sugar content, were selected to achieve target ratios of starch to sugar of 1:1.2 and 5:1, respectively. The diets were designed to be matched for total energy, CHO, fat, protein and fibre content. Participants received weekly home visits for the delivery of foods and dietary counselling. Dietary intakes were measured by 3-d food diaries and 'DietPlan6' (version 6.5). The test diets achieved significant changes in the relative proportion of sugars via the exchange of staple foods (bread), snacks (crisps, biscuits, cakes), cereals (Frosties, cornflakes) and drinks (high sugar only), and were well tolerated by the participants.


The quantum Zeno effect of a single system is the effect of a series of measurements on the unitary time evolution of the system and on the ability to monitor this time evolution using the measurement results. This effect is shown to be equivalent to that of the indetermination of the quantum state of a single system @Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4106 ~1995!#, in which one considers the statistics of the results of a series of measurements performed on a single system, with no time evolution in between successive measurements. @S1050-2947~97!51204-2#


A child seat apparatus (1) The present invention discloses a method for use by children, so that the child spine upright, prevention and treatment of childhood scoliosis (scoliosis); comprises a chair half (2) and a lower seat part (3), wherein the seat part (2) on both sides are provided with a support (8), said support (2) is designed and installed in accordance with half the seat so that when a child seat stand of the child seat device (1), the support (8) around the upper body of the child from the front armpit, thereby limiting lateral children's activities; wherein said child seat device (1) is part of a child car seat or child car.


Those who have difficulty walking are eligible for a 'blue badge', which gives extra parking rights. An evidence-based assessment was introduced to assess applicants' eligibility for this badge. The assessment consisted of an interview, symptom scaling, falls risk assessment (including functional reach) and a walk test. In total, 226 assessments were carried out in a 6-month period. The discriminant analysis using all parts of the assessment gave 95% compliance and a cross validation value of 88%. Post-assessment, awards of badges decreased by 12% and appeals decreased by 25%. All parts of the assessment were found to be useful in helping to make a decision. Answers from the assessment could predict the eligibility for 88% of the time. Consequently, therapists' knowledge and experience is still necessary. Using a face-to-face evidence-based assessment reduced the potential for abuse, decreased the amount of appeals and made the decision-making process more transparent.


The purpose of this sourcebook is to enrich and inform the dialog on intergovernmental finance issues in Central and Eastern Europe. The sourcebook facilitates direct access to the wealth of knowledge and information on intergovernmental finance issues in Central and Eastern Europe by providing direct electronic links to a large number of documents on the subject. The documents discuss the basic concepts and principles of intergovernmental finance and describe the evolution of intergovernmental finance in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The sourcebook serves as a roadmap to help readers explore the documents and find relevant materials on specific intergovernmental finance issues.


Put some quantity of NH4NO3 fertilizer in water,confect fertilizer liquor,the NO3——N density is 258 mg/L,use the fertilizer liquor to do fertigation test,the distributions of water and NO3- N in Lou soil were investigated under the controlled condition such as dripping end rate at 2,4,6 L/h and fertigation volume at 8,16,24 L/h.The results showed that as fertigation volume was 8 L/h,with dripping rate increased,surface catchment radius around tip increased and more water transported horizontally,while less water transported vertically.As dripping rate was 2 L/h,with irrigation volume increased,dripped water transporting to horizontal and vertical direction are all increased.But water increased more in horizontal direction than in vertical direction.NO3——N moving belongs to "convection control"style; as the level distance increased,NO3——N density decreased,as the soil layer depth increased,NO3——N density increased firstly,and then reduced later,cumulate NO3——N emerged round soil wetness peak in vertical;dripping end flow increased,NO3——N moving distance in horizontal in soil increased,NO3——N density increased in level of 25 cm and 0~25 cm in vertical in soil;irrigation and fertilization volume increased,NO3——N density increased in the scope of 15cm in level and 0~15 cm in vertical,decreased in the scope of 30 cm in level and 17.5~30 cm in vertical,fertigation increased more,NO3——N around soil wetness peak would shower and leakage down.


Yellow River Delta,Lobe,Division,Recorgnition Abstract Eight delta lobes have been constructed in the Modern Yellow River Delta since 1 855,asa result of frequent shifting of the distributary channdls. The average acting time of the lobeis 16 years,The delta deposits formed in 1904-1929 are consisted in one of the delta lobe,Thedelta deposits formed in 1934-1938 and 1947-1964 make up another delta lobe,Delta depositsin the drill core are commonly composed of those from several lobes.The boundary betweentwo lobes is mot obvious,being short of relatively coarse deposits,However,diffrent lobesstill can be recorgnized based on sedimentary texture and structure,microfossils, ̄(210)Pb datingand historical documents.Coarse silt is deposited in the middle part of the river mouth and clayey silt is accumulat-ed in the lateral parts at the depth of 0-1 2m in water.The migration of the river mouth re-sults in abrupt change in lithology,which often shows the boundary of two delta lobes.The clayey silt is in abundance of foraminifera in protelphidium tuberculatum assem-blages,although the deposits are not coarse silts or fine sands.


Objective To explore the effects of urokinase thrombolysis start time on left ventricular systolic function in patients with acute myocardial infarction.Methods Selected 60 patients with acute myocardial infarction,divided them by Start time of urokinase Thrombolysis(3h,6h,12h) into 3 groups,20 patients in each group.On 7th day after invasion,test left ventricular systolic function through cardiac ultrasonography and make comparision.Results Comparative difference of 3 groups data,There was statistically significant(P0.05).LVEF of 3h group,LVFS,LVPWae,IVSae was obviously higher than other 2 groups,index above among 3 groups was different(P0.05).Conclusion Patients with acute myocardial infarction should receive treatment of urokinase thrombolysis within 3h after invasion,ventricular systolic function can be improved by medication.