Conclusiones: Todas las personas con lupus eritematoso sistémico que participaron en este estudio manifestaron dolor en los pies, aunque no existió un trastorno biomecánico que se diera de forma predominante en los sujetos incluidos en este estudio. Abstract Objective: To describe the foot characteristics in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as foot posture, type of foot, presence of deformities and whether they suffer from pain or not. Patients and methods: This is a cross-sectional observational study. Foot pain is quantified using the Numeric Pain Rating Scale 11 (NPRS-11) and the days of pain in the last week. Foot type was classified using the Foot Posture Index. Footprints were obtained by pedigraphy; and they were visually classified in the plantar arch as normal, high or low. Results: The sample was made up of 66 patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Regarding the level of pain that the participants experienced in their feet, a value of 6.67 ± 1.93 points was observed on the NPRS-11 scale. And the variable "days of pain" took a value of 5.22 ± 2.18. According to the Foot Posture Index, most feet examined would fall into the category of neutral feet. The categorization of the plantar footprints, the predominant group of footprints was that of footprints with a normal arch, followed by those with a high arch. Conclusions: All people with systemic lupus erythematosus who participated in this study reported foot pain, although there was no biomechanical disorder that occurred predominantly in the subjects included in this study.


Background: Balance deficits are often overlooked, or missed all together, in children. Catching these deficits early could potentially reduce the number of injuries these individuals may incur, without intervention. The miniBEST test is a well-regarded, psychometrically robust balance assessment, used to establish the origins of impairments in adults. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine normative values for balance using the Mini-BESTest in typically developing children aged 7-17. Methods: One hundred and one typically developing public school participants between the ages of 7-17 participated in this normative cross-sectional study. Age, gender, anthropometric measures, and activity levels were documented. Participants were assigned to groups by age; 7-10 years, 11-13, and 14-17. Results: A significant difference was found between groups for total mean score from group one, (the youngest), when compared to groups two and three. The means based on group age are 23.84, 24.97, and 25.43 respectively; mean scores are similar to adult normative values. The standard error of the mean (SE) assessed for these scores was .177 with a SD of 1.78 95% CI= .17-.52. The standard error of measurement (SEm) was calculated at 1.42 points, 95%CI = 22.22 27.78 points. There were no significant differences between total scores for subjects of normal weight vs. overweight/ obese. Gender was also not a significant score factor. A miniBEST item analysis found that 83.92% of subjects were unable to achieve a full score on item 14 the TUG with cognitive dual task. Conclusion: The Mini-BESTest is an appropriate balance assessment tool for typically developing children aged 7-17.


With the emergence of virtual social networks, the relationship of consumers with companies and their brands and companies with their consumers is intensified. The virtual social networks create groups of actors that are formed through the interaction mediated by computers, cell phones and electronics with Internet access. These interactions are able to establish new social groups and virtual communities, which encourage the participation of actors, creating relationships that may be lasting and relevant between consumer and brand. This article had the objective of study the use of virtual social networks in strategic marketing planning of Brazilian companies. The aim here is to understand whether the company's marketing decisions are taken from virtual social networks and how they happen. The research was exploratory and qualitative, through case study. The data come from interviews with marketing managers of two companies: CVC Turismo and Peixe Urbano. The main contributions were the companies that really are very interested in being on virtual social


[Objective]To analyze the current situation and key influencing factors of clinicians'health in grade 3-A level hospitals of Chongqing and provide to health management department a basis for effective promotion of clinicians'health. [Methods]Using a self-made questionnaire for clinicians'health,sample survey on 353 clinicians in grade 3-A level hospitals was conducted in Chongqing.4-dimensional data of the questionnaire were analyzed by multiple regression and so on,which included workload,occupational hazards,health investment,and current situation of health.[Results]Totally,83.29%of the 353 investigated clinicians had heavy workload,more than 90%of them had experienced hospital workplace violence, more than half of them felt lack of personal care,and 76.20%of them were suffering from physical and mental diseases. Multiple regression analysis showed that six factors were found to influence the number of clinicians'diseases,which included age,gender,hospital workplace violence,hospital protection,personal health care,current working state of clinicians. [Conclusion]Currently,the physical and mental disease prevalence of clinicians is comparatively high in grade 3-A level hospitals of Chongqing.Health management department should put more effort to this phenomenon and take effective measures for its prevention and intervention.


This study examines several important practical issues concerning nonparametric estimation of the innovation variance for the Phillips-Perron (PP) test. A Monte Carlo study is conducted to evaluate the potential effects of kernel choice, databased bandwidth selection, and prewhitening on the power property of the PP test in finite samples. The Monte Carlo results are instructive. Although the kernel choice is found to make little difference, data-based bandwidth selection and prewhitening can lead to power gains for the PP test. The combined use of both the Andrews (1991, Ecpnometrica 59, 817–858) data-based bandwidth selection procedure and the Andrews and Monahan (1992, Econometrica 60, 953–966) prewhitening procedure performs particularly well. With the combined use of these two procedures, the PPtest displays relatively good power in comparison with the augmented Dickey-Fuller test.


Hydrolases, particularly proteases, are among the most widely sold enzymes [1]. These enzymes represent approximately 60% of the enzymes sold worldwide [1]. Proteases can be used in different industrial sectors, such as food, detergents, leather, medicines [2], bioremediation [3], and in production of bioactive peptide by enzymatic proteolysis of milk proteins [4]. Bioactive peptides are peptides that have activities similar to drugs or hormones, modulating physiological functions by interacting with specific receptors on target cells inducing answers [5]. Bioactive peptides have emerged on the market in the 70s, when Novartis launched Lypressin®, an analogue of vasopressin. Hypertension affects about one quarter of the world population, it is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and related complications [5,6]. The angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) catalyses the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II, a potent vasoconstrictor and has an important role in regulating blood pressure in mammals [6]. Inhibitor peptides of ACE were released from milk casein and whey proteins from goat milk by use of two commercial enzymes subtilisin (Alcalase 2.4 L FG, EC 188.8.131.52) and pancreatic trypsin (PTN 6.0 S Salt free; EC 3.4. 21.4) [7]. The aim of this study was to obtain peptides produced from egg albumin, casein and whey protein, by action of two microbial enzymes and a commercial enzyme, and to evaluate the inhibition of angiotensin I-converting enzyme using fluorescent substrate (Abz-FRK(Dnp)P-OH) in the presence of these hydrolysates.


Research on teacher talk has shown that many different teaching behaviors between native English speaking teachers and non-native English speaking teachers may result form their different English proficiency. This paper aims to examine the differences between Australian English teachers (AETs) and Chinese English teachers (CETs) in an Academic English Writing course in ELF classrooms in China in terms of language use, linguistic complexity, and linguistic variety. Two university teachers (one AET and one CET) were recorded and observed for two weeks in October of 2017 in SHU-UTS Business School of Shanghai University. Data were collected via classroom observation and analyzed by a qualitative research method. The findings revealed although there are some differences in language use, linguistic complexity and linguistic variety, both teachers are highly aware of the marking criteria for the writing task of the academic English writing course and emphasize their teacher talk quality input for their students. The results, therefore, can help teachers from Australian and Chinese cultures to continuously work on high quality teacher talk and facilitate the development of a specific language skill-academic English writing for English learners in EFL Chinese classrooms.


Bulk ceramic materials based on B4C–ZrB2 systems have been produced by means of pressure-assisted Self-propagating High temperature Synthesis (SHS) using a mixture of elementary powders B, C and Zr. Reactant mixture compositions were chosen based on thermodynamic calculations to obtain synthesis regimes with the formation of a liquid phase, ensuring proper compaction. The liquid phase in the SHS products consisted from molten B4C. The influence of a "chemical oven" on densification of the SHS-products was studied. Significant reducing of ceramic residual porosity was obtained at mass ratio of the reaction mixture and the "chemical oven" 1 : 4. The minimum residual porosity of SHS composites obtained by a "chemical oven" is 1.7 %. X-ray analysis showed that SHS products were equilibrium and contain refractory compounds ZrB2 and B4C, which formed a dispersed phase and a ceramic binder. The influence of the composition of the reaction mixture on the formation of the microstructure and phase composition of ceramic composites was studied. It is established that microstructure of SHS-composites depends on the B4C content. At the B4C content less than 10 % wt. the B4C–ZrB2 ceramic composite has uniform microstructure with ZrB2 grain sizes of 10 – 20 μm. Increasing of the B4C contents up to 20 % wt. leads to decreasing of the ZrB2 grain size up to 2 – 5 μm. Vickers Hardness of the SHS composites are 21 – 24.5 GPA.


nian ' inexactly. As for ' Graeco-Iranian ', the misunderstanding there is mainly verbal, since ' Iran ' has traditionally in Western languages a vaguer cultural and ethnic sense, and in popular speech ' Persia' still denotes the nation-state, whilst in Persian and Tajik the opposite situation prevails. Once we are duly forewarned, such terminological niceties will not obscure comprehension of the growing structure of Soviet archaeological discovery in Asiatic territories. Dr. Frumkin has carried out a labour of formidable industry to provide us with this comprehensive, and indeed essential guide for its thorough exploration.


We study a simple antiplane fault of finite length embedded in a homogeneous, isotropic, elastic solid in order to understand the origin of seismic source heterogeneity in the presence of nonlinear rate-dependent friction. All the mechanical properties of the medium and friction are assumed to be homogeneous. Starting from a heterogeneous initial stress distribution, we apply a slowly increasing uniform stress load far from the fault and we simulate the seismicity for more than 20,000 events, in some cases. The style of seismicity produced by this model is determined by a control parameter which measures the degree of rate dependence of friction. For classical friction models with rate-independent friction, no complexity appears and seismicity is perfectly periodic. For weakly rate-dependent friction, seismicity becomes slightly nonperiodic but most events are still characteristic earthquakes. When friction is highly rate-dependent, seismicity is completely irregular and ruptures of all sizes occur inside the fault. Highly rate-dependent friction destabilizes the healing process, producing premature healing of slip and partial stress drop. Premature healing causes rupture to take the form of narrow, propagating slip episodes, the so-called Heaton's [1990] pulses. Partial stress drop produces large variations in the state of stress which, in turn, produce earthquakes of different sizes. We make the conjecture that all models in which static stress drop is only a fraction of the dynamic stress drop produce stress heterogeneity.


Environmental protection is one of the global problems of modern times. It is a complex of problems and is closely associated with the rational use of natural resources. Economic activity is expanded and intensified in the course of the scientific-technical revolution, and more and more natural resources of all kinds are drawn into production, thereby significantly increasing the strain on the environment.


Aim To investigate the changes of [Ca2+]i in the pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells of PAH rats induced by MCT.Methods PAH rat model was established by MCT intraperitoneal injection.The PASMCs were primarily cultured and loaded with Fura-2/AM.Effects of Ryanodine receptor agonists on intra-cellular calcium were measured by Fluorescence microscopy Results After being given 10 nmol·L-1 Ryanodine,the concentration of [Ca2+]i in control group increased by(93.31±12.41)nmol·L-1;and the concentration in PAH group increased by(141.71±13.59)nmol·L-1(P0.01);10 mmol·L-1Caffine could increase [Ca2+]i in control group by(149.02±13.02)nmol·L-1,and increase [Ca2+]i in PAH group by(191.2±21.26)nmol·L-1(P0.01).Conclusion The results demonstrate that the sensitivity of PASMCs of PAH rats to RyR agonist increase markedly,and suggest that the RyR Ca2+ release probably is abnormal in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells of PAH rats.


Handwalking is a skilled movement that many, if not most, individuals never master. However, mastery of handwalking is critical to successfully compete in gymnastics. Understanding the patterns of movement employed to achieve handwalking may provide insights into the coordination of handwalking and strategies that may be effective for improving handwalking performance. The aim of this study was to characterize the spatiotemporal features of handwalking in gymnasts, compare these features to those of typical walking, and determine how these features vary as a function of skill level. Nineteen gymnasts performed handwalking and bipedal walking trials on a computerized walkway. Participants used nearly identical cadences for handwalking and bipedal walking. Differences between handwalking and bipedal walking included shorter strides, a wider base of support, and more time spent in double support during handwalking. The increase in double support time may be a strategy adopted to enhance stability, as level of gymnastics skill was positively correlated with the amount of time spent in double support, i.e. with both hands in contact with the ground, during handwalking. Coaching strategies that encourage increasing the amount of time spent with both hands in contact with the floor may be advisable to improve handwalking performance.


In order to solve the problem that encryption files can not benefit from the data deduplication technology, a novel encryption scheme is proposed. According to the method, the basic encryption unit is transformed from the file to the chunks; and the chunk contents are used to generate the symmetric keys, which ensure the determinate mapping between plaintext and ciphertext of data. The data can be stored and transmitted in security as long as the adversary does not acquire a user's private key and identification password simultaneously. This scheme can mitigate the contradiction between traditional encryption method and deduplication technology well; and is suitable for the application of disk-based, data deduplication system which has the requirement of confidentiality.


With widespread antiretroviral therapy (ART) accessibility and uptake, HIV has transitioned in many ways to a chronic condition marked by heightened risks of non-communicable diseases. Several clinical and epidemiological studies over the past two decades have demonstrated elevated risks for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among people with HIV. These risks appear to be particularly elevated among people with histories of long periods of uncontrolled viremia and CD4 lymphopenia, and dovetail with traditional risk factors (such as smoking) that are common among people with HIV. This chapter presents a discussion of the evolving epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and putative mechanisms of CVDs among people with HIV.


The present application relates to a lid (3) for the food processor (1). The lid (3) is detachable from the container (2), the drive unit (5) closing the food processing tool unit to be operated (4) by. The lid (3) is mounting element for attachment to a drive unit mounting portion for mounting to be capable lid and remove the drive unit (5) (3) (28), allows the container and remove the lid (3) (2) and a drive unit (5) has a locking element which serves to engage the container (2) which is mounted when mounted on the lid (3) in the lid (3). As a result, the drive unit (5) is when mounted on the lid (3), the separation of the lid (3) from the container (2) is prevented by the locking element. The present application also relates to the food processor (1).


Professional managers are supplied from both the inner professional manager and the outer professional markets. The supplying index system of the professional manager market is constructed. The smoothing and moving method to predict the managers' income in the market is anticipated and analyzed. A linear regression prediction model to study the supply of the manager market is studied. Meanwhile, tactics of combining the professional managers in various environment is presented.


Objective: Cancer patients experience many negative psychological symptoms including stress, anxiety, and depression. This distress is not limited to the patient, as their partners also experience many psychological challenges. Mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) programs have demonstrated clinical benefit for a variety of chronic illnesses, including cancer. This is the first study to report MBSR participation with partners of cancer patients.


In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid uplink-downlink non-orthogonal multiple access scheme (HUD-NOMA) for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) networks. By using NOMA technology and network coding for effective interference control, the proposed HUD-NOMA scheme improves the transmission rate of edge users. Although there is a slight decrease in signal reception reliability to the users with strong received signals, the sum rate of the whole system is increased. Since the intended interferences are effectively manageable by the legitimate users, the HUD-NOMA scheme is resistant to eavesdroppers. Then, by using a stochastic geometry approach, we further analyze the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the CoMP network applying the proposed HUD-NOMA. Numerical results verify that our scheme outperforms the existing method in terms of higher transmission rates and lower SOP.


Two-phase sampling, also known as double sampling, can be a cost-effective technique in large-scale surveys. By first selecting a large sample, observing cheap auxiliary variables and then by properly incorporating the auxiliary variables into the second phase sampling design, we can produce estimators with smaller variances than those based on a single phase sampling design for the same cost. In one of the common procedures of two-phase sampling, the second phase sample is selected using stratified sampling where the strata are created after observing the first phase.


We all know about major Christian pilgrimage sites such as Jerusalem, Rome, Compostela, Lourdes, and Canterbury. These are concrete destinations, existing in a material universe a field of time and space. Yet they also exist in literary realms, as conceptual as well as physical places. Since pilgrimage itself has never been a strictly materialist notion, cannot such sites equally exist in imagined realms, places out of time and space, such as the Heavenly Jerusalem? And since it has long been recognized that real-world pilgrims sometimes undertake pilgrimages with secular as well as spiritual motives, can there even be corresponding lay pilgrimage sites, including imagined ones? Might we not consider King Arthur's Court as such a site? In our mundane world, where exclusionary and essentialist religious ideas clash daily with surrounding secularized cultures to murderous effect, these questions are perhaps less lightly proposed and more problematic than they may at first appear. Nevertheless, this essay proposes that the primary features defining religious pilgrimage are also fundamental to secular circumstances, that we may therefore grant a serious secular analogue to religious pilgrimage, and that such analogy extends to imaginary routes and places, including Camelot. Let's begin with two well-known examples---0ne from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the other from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morie Darthur. In one recent study treating pilgrimage from medieval to modem manifestations, Michael York states, "A general purpose ... is the acquisition of merit. It is most often thought to consist in the movement of focused people to a revered place" (137). Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight, fresh (or rather disheveled) from his most recent campaign, is bound with his frolicsome Squire son to Canterbury. On the initial level of the text he is no less fictional than any knight of King Arthur's court. 1 His reasons for joining the pilgrimage are to live his life according to a chivalric ideal that includes devout faith, and to demonstrate that faith not only on the battlefield but in every social venture. For him, chivalry and faith are united. His objectives include


We have studied the behavior of a low molecular mass organosiloxane ferroelectric liquid crystal at the air−water interface. Data obtained with Langmuir isotherms, surface potential measurements, and Brewster angle microscopy are presented and discussed. The compound forms films on the Langmuir trough, with phase transitions to multilayers upon compression. As seen with Brewster angle microscopy, the monolayers are optically isotropic whereas striking birefringent structures develop in the multilayer films. These periodic structures result from a surface elasticity phenomenon.


Scabies is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by Sarcoptes scabiei mite. The mite commonly infests skin of goat. Control scabies using synthetic drugs have limitation because of the expensive price, negative effect to environment, emerging problem of drug resistance and also unavailability in the rural area. Therefore, it is needed to develop a botanical acariside research as an alternative drug which are cheap and accescible for farmer. The aim of the invitro study was to investigate the potency of bengkuang Pachyrhizus erosus seeds against S. scabiei collected from goat skin. The extraction was performed using acetone and water. Two hundred and seventy mites were used in this study and divided into two groups e.g. water (1, 2.5, and 5% concentration), and acetone extracts group (2.5; % and 10%). Cypermetrin 25% was used as positive control. Six extract solutions were tested to mite mortality (LT50 and LT95) in incubation chamber and observed every hour for 6 hours. The mortality data analysed using probit analisis with 95% significant level. The result demonstrated that active coumpound of bengkuang (Pachyrhizus erosus) seeds (rotenone) had effectively contact toxic property for S. scabiei at 5% concentration both in water and acetone extract. Water extracts have LC50 and LC95 for 8.5 and 0.8 and acetone extract for 2,3 and 11.3 respectively on 5 hours. The lethal concentration of acetone extract were lower than water extract on 5% concentration e.g. 1.8 hours (LT50); 4.8 hours (LT95) and 2.5 hours (LT50); 5 hours (LT95) respectively. Five percent of water extracts Pachyrhizus erosus seed concentration was applicable for farmer in the rural area since it was cheap and practical and also effective to kill mite.


PURPOSE: To provide a switch control system for a packet switching device where the operation of a switch core section is not in interlocking with decision contents of an arbiter section and the entire switch is configured with a simple control structure. CONSTITUTION: The arbiter section providing an output permission performs output destination adjustment processing (step A2) that gives output permission to an output port to an input buffer section in a way of no duplication and open port adjustment processing (step A3) where an idle output port not shared by any input buffer section is assigned to the idle input buffer section not acquiring output permission. The input buffer section to which the output port is assigned by the output destination adjustment processing outputs a packet whose destination is the output port and the input buffer section whose output port is assigned by the open port adjustment processing generates and outputs a dummy packet whose destination is the output port.


In this article, we apply the improved (G'/G)-expansion method to construct the exact solutions of the nonlinear fractional partial differential equations (PDEs) in the sense of the modified Riemann-Liouville derivative. Based on a nonlinear fractional complex transformation, certain fractional partial differential equations can be turned into other nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of integer orders. For illustrating the validity of this method, we apply it to four nonlinear fractional PDEs equations namely, the space-time fractional Potential KadomtsevPetviashvili (PKP) equation, the space-time fractional Symmetric Regularized Long wave (SRLW) equation, the space-time fractional Sharma- Tasso-Olver (STO) equation and the space-time fractional Kolmogorov-PetrovskiiPiskunov (KPP) equation. This method can be applied to many other nonlinear fractional PDEs in mathematical physics.


Abstract : Whether the previously reported underutilization of standard-of-care medications in the management of acute myocardial infarcton (AMI) persists in more recent years or differs by ward of admission has not been reported. We performed a cross-sectional study of patients admitted with initial episodes of AMI to a Department of Defense (DOD) hospital system from 2001 through 2004. Use of beta-blockers (BB) and aspirin (ASA) at the time of discharge after AMI was assessed according to serum creatinine level, stratified by admission to the coronary care unit (CCU) vs. other wards. Adjusted odds ratios for discharge BB and ASA were calculated by logistic regression. Among 453 patients, overall use of BB was 84.5% and ASA 83.7%, both significantly higher after CCU admission than admission to otherwards (90.1% ASA and 91.0% BB use; P <0.001 and P <0.001). Among CCU patients with the highest quartile of serum creatinine (%1 .6 mg!dl), SB use was 93.3% and ASA use 87.3%. Among non-CCU patients in the highest quartile of serum creatinine, SB use was 68.5% and ASA use was 71.2%. In logistic regression, the log-transformed serum creatinine was significantly associated with BB and ASA use only among non-CCU patients (p=O.035). Contraindications to ASA, but not BB use, were frequent among patients admitted to other wards and with serum creatinine %2.5 mg!dl. In the DOD health system in recent years, admission to the CCU for AMI was not associated with significant underutilization of SB and ASA among patients with renal insufficiency.


Abstract There is a critical need to develop our gerontological-sensitive workforce. Social workers (SW) frequently provide services to older adults yet there are few opportunities for them to train as gerontological clinicians and/or researchers. To provide an opportunity for SW students to gain gerontological knowledge, clinical practice, and research skills, we developed, and pilot tested the "Anti-Oppressive Practice and Research with Diverse Older Adults" virtual training program at a major medical facility in Manhattan, NY. We explored the feasibility, implementation, and impact of this novel program. The 21-hour weekly MSW field placement program followed an anti-oppressive framework and included: 1) supervision and training sessions; and 2) direct clinical and research practice (e.g., theory, funding, assessment, data collection etc.) and aging topical seminars (e.g., depression, loneliness, pain etc.). Racially diverse supervisors and graduate SW students engaged in reflective writing exercises, iterative discussions (recorded & transcribed) and a thematic analysis of data. All interns successfully completed the program and reported enhanced skills related to SW core competencies and research (e.g., standardized assessments), research and practice gap awareness (e.g., minority aging) and plans to pursue advanced research training and/or gerontological clinical work. Intern challenges included: 1) disconnect between MSW curricula and research placements; and 2) managing minority and contextual stressors (e.g., imposter syndrome, covid-19, civil unrest). Supervisory challenges included: 1) humanizing sensitive discussions via virtual communication and 2) resource constraints. Future research should systematically assess program effects (e.g., SW core competencies) and how to facilitate interprofessional collaborations to develop diverse gerontological SWs and researchers.


The Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) created by Mixed Reality (MR) technologies have been classified as symmetric and asymmetric CVEs, where the latter aim to provide different authorities for different collaborator roles utilizing heterogeneous techniques that cover the full gamut of Milgram's Mixed Reality continuum. The Light Field Display (LFD), as a new type of MR display that generates auto-stereoscopic viewing experience without head-mounted devices, has been incorporated with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headsets to create remote and co-located asymmetric collaborative environments. In previous asymmetric CVE research, LFDs were adapted to simultaneously render multi-contents for multiple students to lower down average device costs for the MR vet training. However, multiple students sharing one LFD to interact with the teacher may weaken the teacher's understanding of individual student's current learning progress, which may make teaching decisions even harder. Therefore, this paper presents an enhanced solution that supports teaching decisions targeted at each student without increasing the device costs. The context-aware LFD student clients, which render a dynamic viewing zone for each student by face encoding tracking, are implemented and applied for anti-cheat quiz support. By synchronizing each student's tracking data with a Local Area Network (LAN) middleware, the AR teacher client can distinguish different students to in-situ superimpose the quiz progress and targeted-explainable teaching decision support over each corresponding student's head. Ten University vet/anatomy teachers participated in the remote expert review study to provide professional feedback. According to the questionnaire results, they think the designed collaborative learning tool will be helpful for both teachers and students.


The SARS-CoV-2 virus triggered a never-before-seen scenario worldwide. Ecuador declared a state of emergency to contain coronavirus transmission by applying social isolation policies and mobility limitations. During this period, noise pollution decreased in Guayaquil city. This study proposes the use of smartphones to collect noise data and generate soundscape maps of Guayaquil during different time slots. The results revealed traffic as the predominant type of noise, followed by vehicles, buses, and people´s voices. This article demonstrates the feasibility of crowdsourcing for the collection of environmental variables. © 2022 National Institute for Space Research, INPE. All rights reserved.


This Article examines the positive and the negative forces of eugenics and of genetics in health care management. Unrestricted uses of modern eugenics through scientific efforts of genetic enhancement and engineering must be monitored and restricted. Indeed, scientific advancement must not be pursued blindly. Yet, this Article contends that limited and specific case genetic planning and screening are humane alternatives to the tragedy of infertility in family planning and to the regulation of the population through premature death, famine, and war.


Over the last decades, different polymers have been employed as a material for fabrication of selective membranes for gas separation. Today, some of these membrane materials have been commercially consolidated as polymer-matrix; however, the need to improve the performance of polymeric gas separation membranes above Robeson's upper bound has conducted the development of mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). One of the most recent approaches is the use of polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIM), which seem to provide high permeability using different composites as fillers dispersed into the polymer matrix. The aim of this work is to provide a brief overview of the current studies on developments of new MMMs by using PIMs. These recent studies are also summarized and discussed according to the main applied filler, techniques used for characterizing the membranes, and the highlighted remarks in the studies. Finally, it denotes the prospects and future trends of membrane applications in this field.


1. Mansa Krishnamurthy, MD*
2. Belinda Chandra, MD*
3. Maria Henwood-Finley, DO†

1. *Department of Pediatrics,

2. †Section of Pediatric Endocrinology, Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC

A 7-month-old girl underwent a Nissen fundoplication for severe gastroesophageal reflux. On postoperative day 5, she was found to be sweating profusely, and her hands and feet felt moist. Her blood glucose level at the time was 32 mg/dL (1.8 mmol/L). Serial measurements of blood glucose levels before and after meals over a 48-hour period demonstrated preprandial hypoglycemia (blood glucose level, 32 mg/dL [1.8 mmol/L]) and postprandial hyperglycemia (blood glucose level, 233 mg/dL [12.9 mmol/L]) (Fig 1). When hypoglycemia recurred, a critical sample was collected to rule out possible etiologies of hypoglycemia, including congenital hyperinsulinism, growth hormone deficiency, cortisol deficiency, fatty acid oxidation defects, organic acid disorders, and iatrogenic causes.

Figure 1.
Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels.

Our patient's pattern of postprandial hyperglycemia followed by hypoglycemia suggested dumping syndrome. The diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory testing, which showed a rise in insulin levels from 2.4 μIU/mL (16.7 pmol/L) at baseline to 13.7 μIU/mL (95.2 pmol/L) 30 minutes after a feeding followed by a decline to 2.3 μIU/mL (16.0 pmol/L) 90 minutes after a feeding while her postprandial glucose readings increased to 190 mg/dL (10.5 mmol/L) …


This study set out to determine the stage of gestation at which maternal constraint on fetal growth occurs and whether pregnancy nutritional level could alleviate that constraint. One-hundred and thirty-eight Cheviot (C) and 114 Suffolk (S) ewes were split into two groups and bred with either 12 S or 12 C rams to generate four ewe/fetal groups CC (C dam and C sire), CSinC (crossbred fetus in C ewe), CSinS, and SS. At Day 21 of pregnancy (P21), half of the ewes in each of the four groups were randomly allocated to either a maintenance (M) or ad libitum (A) nutritional treatment, under pastoral grazing conditions. At P100, a subgroup of singleton-bearing ewes including ewes from all four groups (n = 55 in total) were euthanised (Study 1). Maternal, placental and fetal weights and sizes were recorded. The remaining ewes were fed to appetite from P140 and were allowed to lamb (n = 114 in total, Study 2) and lamb liveweights were recorded within 12 h of birth and at average days 30 and 100 (L30, L100) of lactation. In both studies, M ewes were lighter (P 0.05) on fetal bodyweight although fetuses from A ewes had heavier (P 0.05). Combined, these studies indicate that maternal nutrition may have little impact on singleton-offspring development until late gestation while, in contrast, dam size affected fetal size by the end of the second trimester. These data suggest that the C ewe constrains the growth of the crossbred fetus well before a 'physical' constraint would be expected.


Dipole coupled bunch oscillations were observed at an early stage of LEP commissioning for currents above about 150 /spl mu/A per bunch. An improvised feedback system, acting on the phase of some of the accelerating cavities was developed and has been in operation for about three years. However, due to the small bandwidth of the RF cavities this system can only be used with four bunches or less per beam. With plans for eight bunch operation (the Pretzel scheme) the construction of a dedicated longitudinal feedback system was approved in 1991. The system operates at 999.95 MHz with phase modulation of a 200 kW klystron feeding four seven-cell cavities. The necessary bandwidth of 260 kHz is obtained by heavy over-coupling. With a total cavity voltage of 1.9 MV a damping rate of about 450 s/sup -1/ is obtained with phase excursions of one radian. The system has been in routine operation since July 1992 with a feedback cavity voltage of 1.2 MV and a damping rate of about 100 s/sup -1/. Longitudinal feedback eases operation and usually increases the maximum currents which can be accumulated.<<ETX>>


Different formulas relating measurable fragment isotopic observables to the symmetry energy of excited nuclei were proposed and applied to the analysis of heavy ion collision data in the recent literature. In this article, we examine the quality of the different expressions in the framework of the McGill canonical thermodynamic model (CTM). We show that even in the idealized situation of canonical equilibrium and in the absence of secondary decay, these formulas do not give a precise reconstruction of the symmetry energy of the fragmenting source. However, both isotopic widths and isoscaling appear very well correlated to the physical symmetry energy.


In the city of Vicosa, Minas Gerais, a resistance study was performed on a typical sandy soil to determine the effects that would occur when it was stabilized with residue industrial waste grits, improved by lime addition, and experienced unconfined compression (RCNC). Three conditions were considered: soil in its natural state, soil stabilized with the industrial waste grits, and soil stabilized with industrial waste grits and improved with lime. The method had two stages. The first determined the optimal grit content calculated by comparing dry soil weight with that obtained by using compaction energy, according to AASHTO standards, and modifying the humidity content. Compaction was dynamically performed, after which, there was a seven-day period of curing in a wet chamber period, which involved . The second analyzed the results for the effects of the lime to the stability and the resistance of the mixtures to unconfimed compression. The results demonstrate that lime addition solves some of the problems occurring in soil-grit mixtures, making the mixture more stable and resistant to compression.


We report the experimental results which show that the far- field correlation function is sensitive to a small local change of the rough surface geometry, where the speckle spatial correlation is adopted rather than the sample ensemble average. The angular cross-correlation function of the far field speckles scattered by one-dimensional random rough surfaces is measured, when a polarized beam of light is incident on the rough surface from vacuum, where one part of the surface used is a thin dielectric film deposited on a glass substrate and the other part is identical to the first one except for a localized defect on it.


The outlook of multi-functional assembling grandstand was systematically addressed as well as its characteristics for energy-saving and environment protecting system.An emphasis was placed on the design keys to some makeshift blenchers,so that a solution to the design steps and calculating methods would be put forward for the newly-developed stands design.


We study the decoherence of a qubit weakly coupled to frustrated spin baths. We focus on spin baths described by the classical Ising spin glass and the quantum random transverse Ising model which are known to have complex thermodynamic phase diagrams as a function of an external magnetic field and temperature. Using a combination of numerical and analytical methods, we show that for baths initially in thermal equilibrium, the resulting decoherence is highly sensitive to the nature of the coupling to the environment and is qualitatively different in different parts of the phase diagram. We find an unexpected strong non-Markovian decay of the coherence when the random transverse Ising model bath is prepared in an initial state characterized by a finite temperature paramagnet. This is contrary to the usual case of exponential decay (Markovian) expected for spin baths in finite temperature paramagnetic phases, thereby illustrating the importance of the underlying nontrivial dynamics of interacting quantum spinbaths.


We propose a gauged two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) featuring an anomalous PecceiQuinn symmetry, U(1)PQ. Dangerous tree-level flavour-changing neutral currents, common in 2HDMs, are forbidden by the extra gauge symmetry, U(1)X . In our construction, the solutions to the important issues of neutrino masses, dark matter and the strong CP problem are interrelated. Neutrino masses are generated via a Dirac seesaw mechanism and are suppressed by the ratio of the U(1)X and the U(1)PQ breaking scales. Naturally small neutrino masses suggest that the breaking of U(1)X occurs at a relatively low scale, which may lead to observable signals in near-future experiments. Interestingly, spontaneous symmetry breaking does not lead to mixing between the U(1)X gauge boson, Z ′, and the standard Z. For the expected large values of the U(1)PQ scale, the associated axion becomes "invisible", with DFSZ-like couplings, and may account for the observed abundance of cold dark matter. Moreover, a viable parameter space region, which falls within the expected sensitivities of forthcoming axion searches, is identified. We also observe that the flavour-violating process of kaon decaying into pion plus axion, K → πa, is further suppressed by the U(1)X scale, providing a rather weak lower bound for the axion decay constant fa.


Three methods of Bjerrum's formation function,including direct calculation formation function, piecewise fitting formation function and semi-integer formation function,were applied to the determination of stability constants of 8 complexes of neutral amino acids and copper,including serine,alanine,threonine,proline, methionine,leucine,valine and phenylalanine.Hydrogen ion selective electrode was used as indicator electrode,and sodium hydroxide solution was used as titrant.The results obtained were in conformity with those reported in literature.


Stephen Ortega's work concentrates on Ottoman Muslims who visited Venetian territories and their "transcultural" relations with Venetian authorities as well as Christians living in those territories.


Within a period of 8 months from February to October 1986 345 Patients with suspected clinical mycotic lesions in the region of groin were referred to the Medical Mycology Department of the School of Public Health of Tehran Medical sciences University. Out of 345 Patients, 111 (9652%) Tinea cruris, 2 cases (1.74%); Tinea cruris associated with candidiasis, 1 case (0/87%);Tinea cruris associated with Erythrasma, 1 case (0/87%); Tinea crusis associated with Tinea versicolor were Observed. Agents which were isolated contained, E. flocosum 399 cases (11.11%) new species which are intermediate between T.mentagrophytes and T. rubrun 4 cases (4.94%), M.canis 3 cases (3.71%).T.violaceum 1 case (1.23%) and 1 case (1.23%) of Chrysosporirm.


Hunting for jack rabbit-quick responsiveness in your key markets? Aconsortium called Textile/Clothing Technology Corporation [TCP offers a working model of agile, quick response (QR) manufacturing. [TCP shared their "lessons learned" about moving away from large-scale production toward more competitive ways to meet changing customer demands during a recent North Carolina workshop (see the box, "About [TCP ." [TCP 's vision is to be the technological focal point for the soft goods industry, from the retailer's cash register to the fiber manufacturer. The consortium intends to playa pivotal role in transferring applied technologies to the sewn products sector through demonstration, education, and research and development (R&D) projects. [TCP is concentrating first on reducing the non-value-added handling costs in the apparel industry. These costs account for 27 percent of each sales dollar (labor accounts for only ten percent).


4 single floor single span RC frames are strengthened with external tendons and then vertically and horizontally loaded in experiment. The carrying capability and stress distribution of RC frame, the stress change of reinforced bar and external tendons are described.


The generation of waves in the eight-millimeter range in a one-section superdimensional slowing system (SS) close to π-type oscillations of the E 01 mode is investigated experimentally depending on the system length and the electron beam geometry. A two-section multiwave Cherenkov oscillator (MCO) is optimized using the obtained experimental results. The radiation at the wavelength 8.84 mm is generated; the power radiated to the atmosphere amounts to 500-600 MW, It is shown that linearly polarized radiation with the power up to 150 MW can be generated in a one-section SS using a tubular electron beam with an ellipsoidal profile.


Estrogen receptors (ER (cid:1) /ER (cid:2) ) are expressed in neuronal cells and exhibit a variety of activities in the cen- tral nervous system. ER activity is regulated in a ligand-dependent manner and by co-regulatory factors. Caveolin-1 is a recently identified co-activator of ER (cid:1) mediating the ligand-independent activation of this ste- roid receptor. Here the influence of ERs on caveolin expression in human neuroblastoma SK-N-MC cells as well as in rodent brain was investigated. We found that ectopic expression of ER (cid:1) in SK-N-MC cells (SK-ER (cid:1) ) leads to a ligand-independent transcriptional suppres- sion of caveolin-1/-2 genes. This suppression is specifi-cally mediated by ER (cid:1) and not ER (cid:2) because ER (cid:2) counteracts the observed caveolin-silencing process. Interestingly, decreased caveolin expression in SK-ER (cid:1) is accompanied by changes in the methylation pattern of caveolin promoters. The analysis of selected promoter regions of the human caveolin-1 gene showed that cer- tain CpG dinucleotides were hypermethylated in SK-ER (cid:1) cells, whereas the same sites were unmethylated in control, ER (cid:2) -, and ER (cid:1) / (cid:2) co-expressing SK-N-MC cells. of 10 m M dNTPs (peqLAB), 0.5 (cid:3) l of 15 pmol sense and antisense primers, and 0.5 units of DNA Taq polymerase (Invitrogen). The sequences of PCR primers for the amplification of caveolin-1 cDNA were 5 (cid:3) -GACTTTGAA-GATGTGATTGC-3 (cid:3) (sense) and 5 (cid:3) -AGATGGAATAGACACGGCTG-3 (cid:3) (antisense). This primer pair amplified a 254-bp product, corresponding to a part of exon 3 within the human caveolin-1 cDNA. Caveolin-2 cDNA was amplified with use of the sense primer 5 (cid:3) -GACGTACAGCTCT-TCATGGAC-3 (cid:3) and antisense primer 5 (cid:3) -GGCTGACAGAAGAGAAG- CATC-3 (cid:3) , resulting in a 446-bp PCR product. The following primers were used for the detection of ER (cid:1) transcripts: sense 5 (cid:3) -AGATCTTC- GACATGCTGCTG-3 (cid:3) and antisense 5 (cid:3) -CACTTCATGCTGTACAGATG-3 (cid:3) , this primer set amplified a 323-bp product within the ER (cid:1) steroid binding domain. The primer pair 5 (cid:3) -GAGGCCTCCATGATGATGTC-3 (cid:3) (sense) and 5 (cid:3) -TCTCCAGCAGCAGGTCAT-AC-3 (cid:3) (antisense) was used for detection of ER (cid:2) mRNA and generated a 611-bp product corresponding to a part of the ER (cid:2) steroid binding domain. Primers for (cid:2) -actin were used as control for the quantity of the RNA used. The (cid:2) -actin-specific primers amplified a 275-bp product and were composed of the following sequences: 5 (cid:3) -CTACAATGAGCTGCGTGTGGC-3


Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 10-Dec-2013 Effectiveness Date: 30-Nov-2013 Original Closing Date: 15-Dec-2016 Revised Closing Date: 30-Dec-2019 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The development objective for the proposed project is "to facilitate increased civil society engagement in Nile Basin cooperation programs, processes and dialogue." This would be achieved through targeted technical assistance to strengthen the Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) as a sustainable network that stakeholders and member organizations recognize as providing value towards the goal of sustainable, equitable, climate resilient growth in the Nile Basin. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No


The two molecules of 2-(2-aminophenyl)-1,3-benzoxazole in the asymmetric unit feature an intramolecular N—H⋯N hydrogen bond, which closes an S(6) ring and therefore establishes a syn relationship for the N atoms. In the crystal, molecules are linked by N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds, generating [100] chains containing alternating A and B molecules.


In India Panchayat existed since earlier. This is the oldest system of local government. In this village elders or religious leaders used to discuss and sort out their problems. This practice of finding solutions to local problems collectively, has found mentioned in ancient texts like Kautilya's "Arthshastra", Manusmiti and in Mahabharata also, and they are still prevalent in different forms all over the country. But with the interruption of British along with centralization policy, the panchayats suffered a temporary setback. But in the late twentieth century India has returned once again to the concept of politics and this gave once more birth to panchayat. This paper attempts to explain the history of panchayats in India and in Karnataka.


In the paper a numerical analysis of an autoparamet ric system is presented. The two main elements of a tested system are the pendulum (tuned mass absorber) and a n energy harvester. The electromechanical model tak s into account these both effects. Numerical simulati ons are made in a MATLAB software environment. The obtained results allowed estimation of influence of the system parameters on efficiency of energy harv esting.


We present a framework for the verification of the numerical algorithms used in Ariadne, a tool for analysis of nonlinear hybrid system. In particular, in Ariadne, smooth functions are approximated by Taylor models based on sparse polynomials. We use the Coq theorem prover for developing Taylor models as sparse polynomials with floating-point coefficients. This development is based on the formalisation of an abstract data type of basic floating-point arithmetic . We show how to devise a type of continuous function models and thereby parametrise the framework with respect to the used approximation, which will allow us to plug in alternatives to Taylor models.


We show that a black hole surrounded by scalar dark matter develops scalar hair. This is the generalization of a phenomenon pointed out by Jacobson [1], that a minimally coupled scalar with a non-trivial time dependence far away from the black hole would endow the black hole with hair. In our case, the time dependence arises from the oscillation of a scalar field with a non-zero mass. We systematically explore the scalar profile around the black hole for different scalar masses. In the small mass limit, the scalar field has a 1/r component at large radius r, consistent with Jacobson's result. In the large mass limit (with the Compton wavelength of order of the horizon or smaller), the scalar field has a 1/r3/4 profile yielding a pile-up close to the horizon, while distinctive nodes occur for intermediate masses. Thus, the dark matter profile around a black hole, while challenging to measure, contains information about the dark matter particle mass. As an application, we consider the case of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, recently imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope. Its horizon size is roughly the Compton wavelength of a scalar particle of mass 10−20 eV. We consider the implications of the expected scalar pile-up close to the horizon, for fuzzy dark matter at a mass of 10−20 eV or below.


Using advanced depth-sensitive hardness measurements, the homogenous nucleation of dislocations has been observed in dislocation-free single crystals. This process is related to a sudden displacement jump in the force-displacement curve. The mechanical stress for the set-in of this pop-in effect has been estimated with the Hertzian elastic contact theory. Experimental results of dislocation loop nucleation show good agreement with the continuum theory of dislocations. Electron microscopy provides a direct proof of dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation.


Single-cell intracellular delivery is a booming field of interest with the various challenges faced due to the impermeability of cargo to the cell membrane barrier. The idea is to locally disrupt cell membrane for allowing cargo passage into the cytosol such as to create its therapeutic effect. Till to date, most of the intracellular delivery is performed in bulk approaches, which provides an average ensemble data, losing low-frequency rare information. Besides, reliable results require huge data from multiple cells. Hence, to ensure huge data on individual cells it becomes necessary to carry out delivery experiments on a large number of single-cells simultaneously. This ensures the same experimental conditions conserving heterogeneity in the cell population. The collection of data from individual cells provides information about rare low-frequency alleles in the cell population. Massively parallel delivery ensures such uniform experimental conditions with uniform cargo delivery to a large number of individual cells. The proposed device platform is an array of photothermal Micro-dish patterned with fibronectin protein to obtain specific Single-cell attachment. The device can deliver 10,000 individual cells with 97% efficiency and 95% cell viability simultaneously.


Population-based meta-heuristic is a high-level method intended to provide sufficient solution for problems with incomplete information among a massive volume of solutions. However, it does not guarantee to attain global optimum in a reasonable time. To improve the time and accuracy of the coverage in the population-based meta-heuristic, this paper presents a novel algorithm called the raccoon optimization algorithm (ROA). The ROA is inspired by the rummaging behaviors of real raccoons for food. Raccoons are successful animals because of their extraordinarily sensitive and dexterous paws and their ability to find solutions for foods and remember them for up to three years. These capabilities make raccoons expert problem solvers and allow them to purposefully seek optimum solutions. These behaviors exploited in the ROA to search the solution spaces of nonlinear continuous problems to find the global optimum with higher accuracy and lower time coverage. To evaluate the ROA's ability in addressing complicated problems, it has been tested on several benchmark functions. The ROA is then compared with nine other well-known optimization algorithms. These experiments show that the ROA achieves higher accuracy with lower coverage time.


In this paper,on the basis of verification requirements of target areas delineated by prospection for ore deposits in large scale,characteristics of some anomalies such as geological anomaly,geophysical anomaly,geochemical anomaly and remote sensing image interpretative anomaly are discussed and analysed in detail Meanwhile,by using of recent theory and technique for metallogenic prognosis,some thoughts are proposed for the ore prospecting


AT FIRST glance this book appears to be just one of the many recently published advocating a conservative conomic and social policy that would return us to the world of a hundred and fifty years ago. Friedman, in fact, states that he wishes to be called a "liberal" in the sense in which that term was used during the early nineteenth century. He classifies himself with the Philosophical Radicals who learned their economics from Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo and their politics from Bentham. The essence of his theory, therefore, is that laissez faire should be the means of reducing the role of the state in economic affairs and thereby enlarging the role of the individual. The list of present-day governmental activities that he would discard as violations of individual freedom and as unwarranted encroachments by the state is impressive, to say the least. Among the programs he would eliminate immediately are farm price supports, legal minimum wages and maximum prices, the progressive income tax, peacetime conscription, national parks, fair employment practices acts, rightto-work laws, public schools, and the monopoly of the post office in carrying the mail. Perhaps as a fillip to social workers, he emphasizes the need to abolish public housing and all social security programs, especially Old Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance. Many of the programs that Friedman would so nonchalantly give up are dear to the hearts of all modern progressives. This reviewer, after reading the Introduction and a few chapters, made ready for battle and even looked forward with pleasure to refuting each ancient argument. But when he came across this statement he had some second thoughts: "The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights, subject only to the proviso that he not interfere with the freedom of other individuals to do the same." That is, of course, the basis of Western political philosophy. It is identical to the premise on which we base many of the programs that Friedman would eliminate. The temptation is to accuse Friedman of laying an ideological smoke screen to hide a Spencerian contempt for the underprivileged and dispossessed. But it soon becomes apparent that such an accusation would be entirely false. This book is written by a man of good will who has a strong social conscience and who believes sincerely that attempts at reform during the past fifty years have done more harm than good. His approach is positive instead of negative. He is not sug' By Milton Friedman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).


BACKGROUND
The fenestration function is by allowing a right-to-left shunt resulting in an increased cardiac index, associated with mild arterial oxygen desaturation. Subsequent transcatheter fenestration closure can be performed after haemodynamic assessment. The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes of extracardiac connection (EC) with or without fenestration.

METHODS
Ninety-five consecutive patients diagnosed with univentricular heart disease underwent EC using Gore-Tax conduits at the Department of Children's Heart Center, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Germany from June 1996 to July 2007. According to EC with or without fenestration, the patients were assigned to two groups (group A with fenestration and group B without fenestration). Mortality, effusions, postoperative mean pulmonary artery pressure, postoperative oxygen saturation, postoperative thrombosis, postoperative neurological problems, and the postoperative loss of sinus rhythm were compared. In group A, 23 patients had fenestration closed interventionally after a mean time of 20-22 months.

RESULTS
Mortality and postoperative mean pulmonary artery pressure in group B (3 and (15.1 +/- 3.4) mmHg, respectively) were significantly higher than group A (0 and (13.2 +/- 2.8) mmHg, respectively). Postoperative oxygen saturation, postoperative thrombosis, postoperative neurological problems, and the postoperative loss of sinus rhythm did not differ between cohorts.

CONCLUSIONS
Fenestrating an extracardiac tunnel seems to improve acute postoperative mortality by rising cardiac output. The induced right-to-left shunt shows no morbidity postoperatively. If a stabilized chronic hemodynamic situation is achieved, an interventional closure of the fenestration can be performed to advance the arterial saturation and improve the exercise tolerance of the patients.


A compact 2 Transistor (2T) radiation sensor with a tunable measurement sensitivity was implemented in a 65nm LP bulk process. Alpha radiation tests show a 117X higher cross-section area per cell for the proposed sensor as compared to a 6T SRAM test structure. The critical Linear Energy Transfer (LET)of the proposed 2T sensor was estimated to be 3.4x–4.2x lowerthan that of an inverter cell or SRAM cell for supply voltages 0.75V to 1.5V. The proposed sensor can facilitate the development of radiation models and hardening techniques by enabling a statistically significant number of events from a small silicon area using inexpensive radiation sources.


s, Pecha Kucha Presentations Listed alphabetically by last name of presenting author Creating Collaborative Partnerships in Learning Using CMM Lydia Forsythe, Londes Strategic Healthcare Consulting/Walden University To create robust learning experiences students need to have collaborative mentoring relationships with faculty. In particular as adults return to the academic setting they require nurturing relationships, which enhance scholar-practitioner development. This takes additional time and intent to support students as they matriculate through a variety of educational levels and programs using online learning platforms. With the use of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) using the Lived stories-Untold storiesUnheard stories-Unknown stories-Untellable storiesstories Toldstories Telling (LUUUUTT) and Daisy models and conversation triplet we can explore the dynamics of the mentormentee relationship to understand the complexities and bifurcations points, which propel students towards potential innovation, successful knowledge synthesis and the ability to take positive relationship development into their professional environments. Health Advocacy By Proxy: An Institutional Ethnography of Healthcare Work in Special Education Stella Ng, Centre for Faculty Development, St. Michael's Hospital/University of Toronto Lorelei Lingard, The University of Western Ontario Shanon Phelan, University of Alberta Kathryn Hibbert, The University of Western Ontario Sandra Regan, The University of Western Ontario Rosamund Stooke, The University of Western Ontario Christine Meston, The University of Western Ontario Silke Dennhardt, The University of Western Ontario Catherine Schryer, Ryerson University Farah Friesen, St. Michael's Hospital Lindsay Baker, St. Michael's Hospital Children with disabilities often require health-related support at school, which draws health professionals into the context of special education. This study set out to explicate healthcare work in special education settings in order to facilitate school-based health support for children with disabilities and/or chronic illness. The intent of this explication was to uncover invisible work and hidden coordinators of work, thus informing health professional education and practice. We approached this inquiry through institutional ethnography, a strategy that maps and makes visible hidden social coordinators of work processes, with a view to exacting change. Families and professionals from Southwestern Ontario served as informants. Of 36 consented informants, 26 were interviewed and 15 observed. Documents were collected from the micro-level (e.g. clinician reports) and macro-level (e.g. policies). Ruling texts, like competency frameworks, formally define ?health advocacy? as a role clinicians should perform competently. Indeed, we identified health advocacy as a primary work process, specifically: spotlighting invisible disabilities and orienteering the special education terrain, albeit without a map. Clinicians Abstracts, Pecha Kucha 467s, Pecha Kucha 467 advocated indirectly, by proxy, with proxies being documents and parents. Advocacy by proxy often resulted in conflict and inefficiency, although these negative consequences often remained unknown to the clinician. This study offers the potential to inform health professions' competency frameworks, as well as pediatric professional development initiatives, by exposing everyday actualities of practice. For example, refining the health advocate role to be amenable to the actualities we identified could help practitioners be strategic about by proxy practices and consider potential consequences, like caregiver burden. Awaiting Diagnosis: A Pecha Kucha Employing Poetic Inquiry and Visual Representation Joe Norris, Brock University Employing both poetic inquiry and visual representation a series of 20 slides will represent one person's experience of awaiting a diagnosis. The left column will provide the text/poem and the right, photographs taken in the actual location long after the experience. Acting as an exemplar, the presentation will demonstrate the concepts of representation, intertextuality, autobiographical phenomenology, readers' response theory and contexture. The last slide concludes with the methodological questions: How do words and images interface? How do the images inform the words and the words, the images? How do images foster/impede readers? interpretations? Could the photos or words stand alone? What would change? How does one mediate self through autobiographical poetic inquiry? How does one publish such a piece? Interviews as Validation Mary Alice Varga, University of West Georgia Barbara Kawulich, University of West Georgia The process of interviewing, particularly of interviewing participants about topics that are emotion-laden, can serve as a cathartic experience for interviewees. The authors suggest that interviewing in qualitative research may help participants validate their feelings as they retell their stories. Just being able to tell someone else about their experiences sometimes acts as the means through which they begin to feel that they are not alone, that someone understands their feelings, or that their actions are appreciated. In this presentation, we present two such studies in which participants shared their stories. In the first study, participants shared their experience with grief and dying. At the end of their heart-rending narratives, they expressed deep-felt emotion about having someone listen to their stories of grief and stated that they could not believe that someone actually wanted to hear about the deep loss they felt in response to losing a loved one. In the second study, Native American women veterans retold their lived experiences of serving our country in the Armed Forces. At the end of each interview, these women stated that this was the first time Abstracts, Pecha Kucha 468s, Pecha Kucha 468 anyone had ever asked them about their service or had acknowledged that time of their lives. They conveyed deep emotion over the gratitude expressed to them for that service. Being able to tell their stories gave them a sense of relief that they were not alone in their feelings, thereby deriving therapeutic benefit from having someone else relate to their experience.


The invention discloses a wireless background music control system and relates to a music playing system. The system comprises a controller, a home gateway, a human body detector, a background music host and an audio device, wherein the controller, the human body detector and the background music host are respectively connected to the home gateway; the background music host is connected to the audio device. The wireless background music control system disclosed by the invention can cover a whole house seamlessly, different music can be listened in different rooms by means of dividing areas, and on the same music can also be shared in different rooms. The system can also detect the human body position through the human body detector to automatically switch music in different rooms, for example, when a host moves to a kitchen from a dinning room, the background music in the dinning room is turned off automatically, while the background music in the kitchen is turned on automatically. The system has a plurality of control ways, including a mobile phone, a computer, a remote controller and a local control panel.


This report provides background information on the regional geochemical data provided by the US Geological Survey to the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP). This report is one in a series of digital maps, data files, and reports generated by the US Geological Survey to provide geologic process and mineral resource information to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosytem Management Project. The various digital maps and data files are being used in a GIS-based ecosystem assessment including an analysis of diverse questions relating to past, present, and future conditions within the general area of the Columbia River Basin east of the Cascade Mountains.


Abstract : Progress in research on coordination in distributed decision making organizations with variable structure is reported.The focus of this report is on CAESAR II (for Computer Aided Evaluation of System Architectures) which is a suite of algorithms, interfaces, and COTS software for the design, analysis, and evaluation of decision making organizations. The suite has four major modules: Requirements Generation; Decision Making organization architecture generation; Selection and analysis of decision making organization; and Performance evaluation. Theoretical and empirical results of this and previous research efforts%have been integrated in CAESAR II.


Despite the fact that modified theories of gravity, in particular the f(R) gravity models have attracted much attention in previous years, the problem of the energy localization in the framework of these models has not been addressed. In the present work the concept of energy–momentum complexes is presented in this context. We generalize the Landau–Lifshitz prescription of calculating the energy–momentum complex to the framework of f(R) gravity. As an important special case, we explicitly calculate the energy–momentum complex for the Schwarzschild–de Sitter metric for a general f(R) theory as well as for a number of specific, popular choices of f(R).


SummaryA study was made on the effect of the position of the apple on the tree, its size and colour on maturation and quality at the post-harvest ripe stage. Position influenced the rate of maturation. Fruits at the bottom of the tree matured earlier than those at the middle and top. There was also a variation in maturation rate between full coloured and less coloured, interior and exterior fruits, and small and large ones on the same bunch and on separate stalks. Post-harvest ripened bottom apples had a poor colour but good eating quality whereas top fruits had a better colour and poorer aroma and taste. For better storage and organoleptic quality it is desirable to harvest apples from the bottom half of the tree earlier than from the top with a gap of 7–10 days between harvests.


In 21 cases the court proceedings against men ended with convictions for (attempted) murder, in seven cases for manslaughter. In seven more cases the psychiatric expertise attested that the perpetrator had been mentally disturbed to an extent that required his internment. Three other men were found guilty of less severe offences, and a young man committed suicide before the court proceedings were closed.


This paper considers the opportunity for academic-industry collaboration that arises when a proportion of engineering students ina cohort are part-time students with current industry experience. It describes a study that took the opportunity of probing theresponse of these students to aspects of course design, using their perspective to answer the questions: 'How successful are we inour attempts to create realistic project work for students, and what improvements should be made?' The consensus from semi-structured group interviews with 52 students is that the project work they have experienced is generally realistic from a technicalpoint of view, enhanced by basing projects on a real site, using real data, and working with a realistic brief. Some studentsconsidered the briefs to be too open-ended to be realistic, but others relished the opportunity this presented. Team-working aspectsof university group projects were not considered realistic by the students; they pointed out that the environment in engineeringpractice is very different because it is moderated by the management structure and professional expectations of staff. The role of aclient figure was identified as important in creating realism. The paper considers the potential conflict between some aspects ofrealism in project work and educational benefit.


The Tusi system in China,which was a special political system that emerged in the process of constructing a multi-ethnic country,deserves more studies.Though the previous studies had made some achievements in terms of the borderland administration and individual Tusis,the author of this paper holds that some macro-theoretical problems need further studies.This paper discuses the relevant problems from three perspectives,the special administration of the Jun-County system,the Tusi administration as a ruling system and the unavoidable trend of the the power shift from the local Tusi to the Han official in the process of constructing a multi-ethnic country.


Many papers recently published in top international management journals focus on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms in host countries in the developing world (see, for instance, Liu et al., 2000, 2001; Chung et al., 2006; Meyer, 2004; Buckley et al., 2007; Tian 2007). Some papers found positive FDI productivity spillovers through a competition effect, a linkage effect and an employment effect while others found negative FDI productivity spillovers in the form of 'market stealing' and 'skill stealing'. All the studies have no doubt made significant contributions to the understanding of the interaction between transnational companies (TNCs) and local firms in host countries. However, the studies have so far exclusively examined FDI productivity spillovers at the national level or FDI productivity spillovers within a region in a host country. No effort has been made to look at possible FDI productivity spillovers across regions within a host country. The widening of regional disparities found in developing countries that have recently opened up to FDI indicates a possibility of cross-region FDI productivity spillovers that are to the disadvantage of the poor region within the host countries. Since China opened up to FDI in the late 1970s, for instance, it has witnessed a remarkable widening of the disparities between the advanced coast region and the backward interior region, although the nation, as a whole, has seen phenomenal economic growth


Motion information is an important cue for insects to perceive the surrounding environment. Flying insects, demonstrate extraordinary capability in locating and detecting visual objects in a cluttered moving background. Utilizing insect vision in computational models is an intriguing challenge. We inherit the two-dimensional elementary motion detector model and improve the small-field model for video applications, which effectively suppresses the disturbance of the moving background directly in front of cameras. And then we propose an object detection method using peak, thresholding and direction voting, which locates the uncertain targets by detecting peaks in the modulus matrix, coupled with thresholding and then removing false targets according to the consistency of the argument matrix within the region of uncertain targets. We use the ObjectVideo Virtual Video visual-surveillance-simulation test bed to evaluate our detection results. Our methods produce robust target discrimination against the moving cluttered background.


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We mainly studied shooting effectiveness of GI/FT/m antiaircraft system with waiting mechanism,using relevant knowledge of queuing theory and stochastic operation research.Under the hypothesis of model,some probable characteristics such as transition probability,stationary distribution,staying time distribution were discussed(To date,we have not seen the application of the model in shooting effectiveness being discussed in Any public references).


This paper focuses on an approach to estimate the symbolic "state" and detect the attentional tunneling of a human operator in the frame of a human-robot mission. The symbolic "state" results from a fuzzy aggregation of the operator's gaze position and heart rate.


In the past 6 yr, widespread use of well-stimulation techniques has been made in the gas wells of the southern North Sea Basin. Generally speaking, wells in the Indefatigable and Leman fields (Rotliegendes Formation) require a treatment for formation damage removal only. West Sole field (Rotliegendes Formation) wells require fracture stimulation; Hewett (Bunter and Hewett Sandstone) and Viking field (Rotliegendes Formation) well achieve optimum production without stimulation or a treatment for damage removal. Well stimulation practices in the North Sea are surveyed. Matrix acidizing and fracturing with a seawater-based fluid are described. In many cases, a productivity increase of several hundred percent has been achieved at under 7% of the well costs.


Aim: to verify knowledge ascribing grandparents in the Family Health Strategy on breastfeeding. Method: descriptive and exploratory study in a quantitative approach on 34 grandparents linked to a Family Health Unit in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Data were collected in August and September 2013, using structured form, treated with descriptive statistics and discussed based on the scientific literature about the theme. Results: 50% of grandparents understand that breastfeeding should be exclusive to the sixth month of the child's life, 85.9% recognize the need for the provision of this food by spontaneous demand and 38.3% know that breast milk protects against various diseases. Conclusions: the need to involve grandmothers in health promotion actions to expand their knowledge about breastfeeding to demystify beliefs about it is in evidence


Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) is a familial heart disease partly caused by impaired desmosome turnover. Thus, stabilization of desmosome integrity may provide potential new treatment options. Desmosomes, apart from cellular cohesion, provide the structural framework of a signaling hub. Here, we investigated the role of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in cardiomyocyte cohesion. We inhibited EGFR under physiological and pathophysiological conditions using the murine plakoglobin knockout AC model, in which EGFR was upregulated. EGFR inhibition enhanced cardiomyocyte cohesion. Immunoprecipitation showed an interaction of EGFR and desmoglein 2 (DSG2). Immunostaining and AFM revealed enhanced DSG2 localization and binding at cell borders upon EGFR inhibition. Enhanced area composita length and desmosome assembly were observed upon EGFR inhibition, confirmed by enhanced DSG2 and desmoplakin (DP) recruitment to cell borders. Erlotinib, an EGFR inhibitor, activated ROCK. Erlotinib mediated desmosome assembly and cardiomyocyte cohesion were abolished upon ROCK inhibition. Thus, inhibiting EGFR, thereby stabilizing desmosome integrity, might provide new treatment options for AC. Summary Shoykhet et al. show that EGFR inhibition led ROCK activation enhances cardiomyocyte cohesion via enhanced desmosomal assembly which is evidenced by enhanced DP/DSG2 localization at cell borders. It is the first step towards a novel therapeutic approach for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.


In this work the performance improvement of a one-word-based writer discrimination system is described. This is achieved when decision fusion is employed to combine the classification results (decisions) from N words. Only the binary classification problem (discriminate between two persons) is examined. In the proposed approach the randomized Neyman-Pearson (N-P) test is applied. A special case of feature statistics is considered in order to fit the randomized N-P test and simultaneously achieve minimum classification error for each separate decision. Using only a few words the performance of the discrimination system is radically improved as far as the maximum classification error is concerned.


High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using gel permeation columns seems to offer a practical alternative for asphalt characterization because analyses can be performed quickly. The technique shows a unique molecular size distribution for each asphalt and this profile have been correlated with results of performance of pavement from which asphalt was extracted. Conclusions have shown that a larger quantity of larger molecular size materials are present in asphalts from roadways which exhibit cracking than in those from old, uncracked pavements. The effects on asphalt of a variety of treatments have been initiated. One method includes heating asphalt for 1 h at 163/sup 0/C in the presence of oxygen or nitrogen. The asphalt is mixed with lime and various aggregates and/or fly ash, as well. The mixture is then cooled and extracted with benzene. Once the solvent has been removed, the sample is redissolved in tetrahydrofuran and analyzed by HPLC. Results show that heating this particular asphalt with an aggregate with or without lime results in a 20% increase of large-sized molecules. Use of both fly ash and aggregate increases the total effect to 34%. The HPLC method can be used to substantiate new asphalt blends. 5 figures, 1 table.


Fading envelopes generated under constant velocity and constant acceleration conditions, modeling mobile communication scenarios, are predicted with a time-varying recursive linear predictor. The envelope prediction is used in an automatic gain controller with the idea of compensating for the amplitude distortion of a flat fading channel. Assuming that the difference between the phase distortions of two consecutive symbols is very small, the effect of the phase distortion is removed using a differential modulation scheme. Simulations show that, with fading envelope compensation, highly bandwidth efficient modulation schemes such as QAM can be used even in a flat fading environment.


The gene regulatory functions of the human IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) were reconstituted in transiently transfected hepatoma cells. The combination of IL-2Rβ and - mediated a strong stimulation via the cytokine response element of the α1-acid glycoprotein gene and the hematopoietin receptor response element, but none via the IL-6 response element or the sis-inducible element. IL-2Rα enhanced 10-fold the sensitivity of the IL-2Rβ• complex to respond to IL-2 or IL-15, but did not modify the specificity or the magnitude of maximal gene regulation. A homodimerizing chimeric receptor G-CSFR-IL-2Rβ could mimic the IL-2R action. The IL-2R-mediated gene regulation was similar to that seen with receptors for IL-4 and IL-7, but differed from that for IL-6 type cytokines, thrombopoietin, erythropoietin, and growth hormone. The activation of STAT proteins by the IL-2R was assessed in transfected L-cells and COS-1 cells. Although IL-2R subunits were highly expressed in these cells, no STAT protein activation was detectable. Transient overexpression of JAK3 was unable to change the signaling specificity of the hematopoietin receptors in rat hepatoma, L-, and COS cells, but established a prominent activation of the IL-6 response elements by the IL-2R and IL-4R in HepG2 cells. The data support the model that the IL-2R and related hematopoietin receptors produce at least two separate signals which control gene expression.


Native American and First Nations (herein collectively referred to as Indigenous) women college students are faced with the challenge of balancing their cultural imperatives and the demands of the dominant Western culture in family, school, and work/employment roles. In order to explore these women's experiences and perspectives, this study analyzed unstructured qualitative interviews of 11 Native American and 9 First Nations female college students. The themes that resulted from the hermeneutic analysis were (a) honoring Indigenous culture and community, (b) living in two worlds, (c) pursuing individual fulfillment and goals, and (d) acknowledging the importance and influence of family.


In this paper, we describe the concept of firstoccurrence and present a web access pattern mining algorithm based on it using a novel first-occurrence linked WAP-tree (FLWAP-tree). The first-occurrences of all symbols in the base WAP-tree of the database can be found by a pre-order traversal of a portion of the WAP-tree. The frequent patterns and their projection databases can be found quickly by following the first-occurrence links rather than following the links of the whole WAP-tree as in the PLWAP-tree mining [1]. The performance evaluation shows that our FLWAPtree mining outperforms the PLWAP-tree mining [1] consistently and significantly.


Given the emerging pivotal roles of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) in host pathogen defense and immune‐oncology, STING is regarded as a promising target for drug development. Cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) are the first‐generation STING agonists. However, their poor metabolic stability and membrane permeability limits their therapeutic application. In contrast, small‐molecule STING agonists show superior properties such as molecular weight, polar character, and delivery diversity. The quest for a potent small‐molecular agonist of human STING remains ongoing. In our study, through an IRF/IFN pathway‐targeted cell‐based screen of a natural products library, we identified a small‐molecular STING agonist, Ziyuglycoside II, termed ST12, with potent stimulation of the IRF/IFN and NF‐κB pathways. Furthermore, its binding to the C‐terminal domain of human STING, detected by bio‐layer interferometry, indicates that ST12 is a human STING agonist. Further Tanimoto similarity analysis with existing small‐molecule STING agonists indicates that ST12 is a lead compound with a novel core structure for the further optimization.


Comparative analysis of Federal State Educational Standards for secondary and higher professional education for the major Chemical technology showed succession of general cultural and professional competences of future chemical-process engineers on every level of vocational education. Competences that start to form on the college stage and than continue to develop at the institution of higher education are presented by the case of the course General and non-organic chemistry for the technological college students studying the specialty Technology of plastic material and elastoplastic production and processing. Establishing of links between secondary and higher professional education competences promotes consistency and effective mastering of basic Bachelor and Master educational programs and acts as a factor of continuity of chemical training in the system college-institution of higher education.


Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is an obstruction of the lumen of the pylorus by muscular hypertrophy of the pyloric sphincter, more common in boys. We report the case of a male newborn at 13 weeks of life, born at term with a birth weight estimated at 2900 grams without any particular history. Clinically he had an increased frequency of sputum and postprandial jet vomiting, dehydration and weight loss. Abdominal ultrasound found a lengthening of the pyloric canal measuring 22 mm in length associated with a thickening of the muscularis of the pyloric region measuring 4 mm forming a "pyloric olive" 13 mm in diameter. There was also significant gastric stasis upstream of the hypertrophic stenosis. The examination was carried out at the reference health center of commune III in the district of Bamako. The objective of this work was to provide our experience on the ultrasound semiology of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis with a review of the literature.


This paper draws on theories of new institutionalism to examine the consequences of partnership working for the community sector. Three normative practices which are associated with partnership working—representativeness; consensus-based decisionmaking; and bureaucratic styles of working—are examined in relation to the experiences of two UK case-study localities in receipt of Single Regeneration Budget funding. The findings reflect a complex interaction between acceptance and noncompliance with these norms by community organisations which leads to a variety of outcomes for individual community representatives and for relations between community groups and regeneration partnership boards. In conclusion, it is argued that protecting the independence of local organisations can allow for opposition to partnership-based decisions but that this risks undermining holistic or strategic approaches to social problems. The actions of some community organisations in these two localities suggests that, although some aspects of partnership working are increasingly institutionalised within community sectors, organisations remain alert to opportunities to subvert these norms to further their own aspirations.


Abstract : Many on-board ship operations demand full radio coverage over the entire ship, not only indoor, but also from the interior spaces to the other decks. Onboard a ship, specifically in the upper decks, radio wave propagation is subjected to fading that would impede the quality and reliability of data links and communication. One example is the performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data and communications links. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze, model, and simulate some communication scenarios that occur on naval ships using Urbana. Starting from known inputs (frequency, ship compartment geometry, material properties, propagation computation model, and antenna type), analytical results reflecting the propagation mechanisms and coverage area are presented. Variable inputs can then be optimized to achieve a desired signal distribution for a specific shipboard environment. The ship models were created by Rhino, a well-known Windows-based computer drawing software. The values of the signals received on the different points in the main deck are computed for different frequencies and powers. The results are used to draw conclusions of the deployment of antennas on the ship as well as operational aspects such as UAV flight paths.


A base $\Delta$ generating the topology of a space $M$ becomes a partially ordered set (poset), when ordered under inclusion of open subsets. Given a precosheaf over $\Delta$ of fixed-point spaces (typically C*-algebras) under the action of a group $G$, in general one cannot find a precosheaf of $G$-spaces having it as fixed-point precosheaf. Rather one gets a gerbe over $\Delta$, that is, a "twisted precosheaf" whose twisting is encoded by a cocycle with coefficients in a suitable 2-group. We give a notion of holonomy for a gerbe, in terms of a non-abelian cocycle over the fundamental group $\pi_1(M)$. At the C*-algebraic level, holonomy leads to a general notion of twisted C*-dynamical system, based on a generic 2-group instead of the usual adjoint action on the underlying C*-algebra. As an application of these notions, we study presheaves of group duals (DR-presheaves) and prove that the dual object of a DR-presheaf is a group gerbe over $\Delta$. It is also shown that any section of a DR-presheaf defines a twisted action of $\pi_1(M)$ on a Cuntz algebra.


Aiming at the disadvantages of traditional wire fingerprint attendance system,this paper presents a design method of wireless fingerprint attendance system based on ZigBee technology.The system includes fingerprint acquisition terminal module and attendance management module,which can realize automatically fingerprint acquisition,processing,wireless transmission,feature extraction,fingerprint matching,and attendance management.It provides a low-cost and high-performance wireless fingerprint attendance method for enterprises and institutions.


Summary A highly sensitive and rapid assay for γ-glutamyl hydrolase (EC 18.104.22.168) was developed. It utilizes synthetic p-aminobenzoylpolyglutamates (pABGlun ; n = 2 - 6) as substrates for rat serum enzyme, an efficient method of pABGlun extraction from the reaction mixture and their thin-layer chromatographic separation followed by quantitation using fluorescamine. In the studies of substrate specificity, pABGlu2 was found to be more active than derivatives containing longer γ-glutamyl chain (p < 0.001). From detailed studies with pABGlus enzymatic hydrolysis, we concluded that the rat serum enzyme acts as an endopeptidase.


Bhagat & McQuaid (1982) advanced that "undoubtedly, the most significant cross-cultural study ofwork-related values is the one carried out by Hofstede". There has been interests on the influence ofculture be it national or corporate on organisations and with growing national diversity in today'sbusinesses, culture remains an important dimension. Hofstede's landmark study of IBM (Hofstede1980 has highlighted some essential facts about culture that impact on organisational performance.Preceding Hofstede's study was the work of Bartels (1967) who was one of the first to relate theimportance of culture, illustrating the concept in decision-making and business ethics.


Prolactin is the most versatile of pituitary hormones in both the number and diversity of physiologic processes it regulates (107). In mammals, prolactin plays a decisive role in the preparation and maintenance of the mammary gland for milk secretion during lactation. Indeed, prolactin is essential to the survival of most mammalian young after birth. During lactation, the stimulus for prolactin secretion is triggered as the young suckle the mother's nipple. Neural impulses generated by suckling are conveyed to the central nervous system and impinge upon specialized neurons located in the hypo thalamus. From the nerve endings of such neurons the hypophysiotropic hormones are released that reach the anterior pituitary via the hypophysial portal vessels. Thus the neurogenic message of suckling is finally conveyed to the pituitary by the action of hypophysiotropic hormones that in the classical sense stimulate or inhibit prolactin secretion. Here we consider recent developments in our understanding of the pituitary gland with par ticular regard to the hypophysiotropic control of suckling-induced prolac tin secretion. Earlier authoritative accounts of the literature are available (85, 103, 104).


In the practice of govern the country by lew , china should not only make a point of the progress and perfect of legis lation , but also notice the law as long as tenatizes and the law normalizes at the same time . It making the law for the society's and citizen's value repuest had been realizes comepletly came ture.


The widespread public and political impetus, in the United States and elsewhere, to revamp social security to incorporate some form of individual accounts creates a time of opportunity. It is a time when people want to see the better exploitation of the available trade-off between risk and return and a time to reconsider the foundations of the social-security system so that it can much better serve its intended purpose as a manager of risks. As I argue in my new book, The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century (Shiller, 2003), the time when we redesign social security ought to be a time when we carefully consider the fundamental intergenerational risk-management problem and define choices in individual accounts that reflect the true problem. It is also a time when we must make creative use of insights from behavioral economics that have emerged over the years. Finally, it is a time for an expanded exploitation of our new electronic information technology. We should not miss this opportunity. This means we must work now toward solving a complex constrained optimization problem where the objective is to maximize a social welfare function involving all generations and the constraints reflect the varying degrees of individual optimization ability, psychological underpinnings of human behavior, and modem information technology.