Milner's supported (pre)categories have been introduced as the formal framework for the development of the theory of bigraphs and bigraphical reactive systems. We give a new presentation of supported precategories as particular presheaves inspired to profunctors. These presheaf categories are naturally endowed with two monoidal structures, representing composition and tensor product in supported (pre)categories. This new categorical setting allows for new results about compositional graphical structures (not only bigraphs), taking advantage of the well-established theory of presheaf categories. As an application, we show that bigraphs and similar graphical objects can be characterized as free algebras arising from the monoidal structures of the presheaf category. Moreover, we show how sorting disciplines can be expressed formally using the internal language of these topoi.


The microvascular permeability of the endoneurlal vessels of the tibial nerve was investigated in rabbits exposed to 1100-R x irradiation, corresponding to LD/sub 50/. Radiation damage was not detected following the tracer technique per se. The addition of slight ischemic injury, not capable in itself of causing permeability disturbances, revealed vascular damage during the first two weeks following irradiation. (auth)


Summary Since its inception, the discipline of public health has been distinguished by a concern for the environmental and social contexts of disease and the importance of behavior in disease control, as well as by leadership in using data-based approaches for the solution of health and community problems. These characteristics are explicated in the description of two major community health problems that have threatened special segments of the population, albeit nearly a century apart: child health at the turn of the century and the current AIDS epidemic. In both cases, the continuing public health focus on natural support systems and empowerment of clients is richly evident.


In a previous communication (Bross & Zubek, 1976), we have reported that a 1-wk. exposure of subjects with normal hearing to auditory deprivation (silence) resulted in a significant increase in temporal cutaneous sensitivity. Concurrent measures of the absolute pressure sensitivity of the skin using the von Frey hair technique did not show a significant change although a trend toward improvement was evident. As it has been shown that a 2-wk. period of sensory restriction leads to greater increases in sensitivity on crossmodal tasks (Zubek & Bross, 1973; Bross & Zubek, 1975), an experiment was conducted using a 14-day period of auditory restriction (silence) to determine whether any changes in absolute pressure sensitivity would result. The subjects were six male university students (mean age 22 yr., 4 mo., range 20 to 25 yr.) who volunteered and were paid to spend 2 wk. in doubleunit sound-proofed chambers. All subjects had normal hearing and had not previously participated in experiments on deprivation; the auditory restriction and methodological procedures were identical to those described by Bross and Zubek (1976). Pre- and postexposure measures of absolute pressure sensitivity were obtained by means of the von Frey hair technique; see Milstein and Zubek (1971) for details. Analysis showed an increase in absolute pressure sensitivity in all subjects (mean log improvement = 0.115 units), and a t test for correlated measures indicated that this change was significant (t5 = 3.19, p < .05). These findings further strengthen the case for compensatory, cross-modal changes as a function of unimodal sensory restriction and also demonstrate that different sensory measures require different periods of exposure to sensory restriction before these changes become evident.


We propose through first-principles investigation that GaTeCl monolayer is a superior two-dimensional multiferroics with giant mechanical anisotropy. The calculated phonon spectrum, molecular dynamic simulations, and elastic modules confirm its stability, and our cleavage energy analysis shows that exfoliating one GaTeCl monolayer from the GaTeCl bulk is feasible. The energy barriers of the ferroelastic and ferroelectric transitions are 476.2 meV and 754.1 meV per formula unit, respectively, which are the greatest in the two-dimensional multiferroics family so far, and makes the GaTeCl monolayer have robust ferroelasticity and ferroelectricity under room temperature. The in-plane ferroelectric polarization reaches to 578 pC/m and uniaxial stress along the polarization direction can transit the indirect gap to direct band gap. Furthermore, the GaTeCl monolayer has giant optical second harmonic generation which is much larger than those of MoS$_2$ and BN monolayer. These interesting mechanical, electronic, and optical properties of the GaTeCl monolayer show its great potential for multiferroic functional devices and nonlinear optoelectronic applications.


Immunotherapy agents have unique symptomatic side effects; patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can help to characterize the benefits and burdens associated with therapy. Common immunotherapy-associated symptoms include pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, and irregular bowel patterns. The purpose of this study was to assess the severity of symptoms and their association with imaging changes in CNS tumor patients undergoing single agent or combination treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs).

 Patients completed the MDASI-BT or MDASI-SP at baseline and longitudinally (every 8 weeks), and results through cycle 4 are reported. Neuro-imaging was categorized as stable, possible ICI-related pseudoprogression, or progression by clinical team review.

 29 Brain Tumor (BT) and 6 Spinal Tumor patients participated; the majority of which were male (62%) and white (91%), ranging 24-74yo (mean = 46). Glioblastoma was the most common diagnosis (31%) followed by medulloblastoma (16%), with 56% of patients having greater than 2 recurrences prior to the study. At baseline, both brain and spine tumor patients reported moderate to severe fatigue (Brain=4, Spine=6) and pain (Spine=5) with shortness of breath and pain worsening over time. BT patients with pseudoprogression were more likely to report increased fatigue (87%) and pain (63%) compared to those with stable (29%) or true progressive (17%) disease on imaging. BT patients with pseudoprogression also reported worsening of cognitive (43%) and neurologic (57%) symptom burden.

 In contrast to the common pseudoprogression after chemoradiation, treatment-specific symptoms were worse with ICI-related pseudoprogression by MRI where an immunologic reaction was the likely cause of the imaging worsening. These results suggest that commonly used symptom and functional assessments to distinguish true progression from pseudoprogression may not be helpful with immunotherapy. Additional studies including those with pathologic confirmation of progression or pseudoprogression combined with outcomes measures are needed to develop more accurate determinations of disease status.


Gemma Bone, a youth delegate with the UK Youth Climate Coalition reports on the Copenhagen climate summit, and asks why it failed to produce a fair, ambitious and binding global deal.


In this study,real-time PCR was used to detect herbicide tolerant genetically modified soybean A5547-127.The detection accuracy and accuracy indicators of this method were assessed,and the specificity of the detection method and applicability were analyzed.The results showed that the LOD and LOQ of this quantitative PCR method were 1 and 10 copies.μL-1,respectively.And all the deviations were within the permissible range.It indicated that this quantitative PCR detection method could provide scientific basis for genetically modified soybean A5547-127 quantitative detection,and also offered a new detection and identification method for GMOs.


Thomas More's Utopia has long been regarded as the great Northern European expression of Italian civic humanist ideals. This article argues, in contrast, that More's treatise constitutes an emphatic rejection of those values. In support of this claim, the article chronicles the reception of Utopia in Italy; it demonstrates that More's text was taken up, not by the civic humanists, but by their fiercest critics. These early Italian readers recognized in Utopia a repudiation of active citizenship, an assault on private property, a rejection of the Roman cult of glory, and a polemic against Ciceronian humanism. As a result, the reception of Utopia is shown to have opened up a fissure in the republican tradition which would have profound consequences for the subsequent development of European political discourse.


Down's syndrome appears like a chromosomal alteration that comes from the result of excess in genetic material; this includes a variety of physical and mental problems such as: health issues like, ear and eye problems, digestive, also mental illnesses, thyroid mal functioning and esqueletal issues such as: over sized head, or very small, over sized eyes, face and other body parts, sometimes they show hands with very short fingers sometimes they just have a single articulation in the fingers. The severity of these issues is different in every person. The periodontal inflammation is severe in almost every patient with Down's syndrome due to the deficiency of the immune system. In different studies around the world it was probed that the patients with Down's syndrome are more susceptible to present periodontal problems for the deficient immune system which bring this patients for a host more susceptible to all kinds of pathogenic bacteria, that take care of fill the tissues and bring the periodontal disease that ends in the loss of the denture, that's why is recommended the care and control of risk factors of this patients for a professional and also by a person who takes care of this patients to learn and to teach themes to how to do a perfect cleaning.


evidence of a Cambodian translation of any Indian treatise on politics, Indian political concepts were known in Cambodia through, for example, the dharmaiastra and epics; moreover, the Indian terms for these concepts were in current use. Ch. ii is a very detailed account of the royal family with abundant citations. In separate sections the author deals with the concept of the origin of the royal family in the lunar and solar dynasties, found in Cambodia as well as in India; the consecration of the king; the individual interpretation of the Indrabhifeka in Cambodia; the regalia; the qualities and education of the king; the Indian concept of divine kings. The last section is an excellent summary of the various points of view which have been put forward about the devaraja concept. Ch. iii is concerned with the central administration. It includes a discussion of the position and authority of the royal wives and sons and of the hierarchy of ministers, teachers, and holders of various titles. The territorial administration is the subject of ch. iv. As Mr. Sahai himself says, the information available to us on this subject is particularly sparse. Terms such as visaya, praman, grama, and sruk are carefully examined. Ch. v deals with the organization of justice, that is, with the crimes, the punishments, and the judicial officials. Ch. vi brings to life the Angkorian kings' need of financial resources, which they acquired by such methods as taxing the whole people—even the Brahmans, who were theoretically exempt, were in fact obliged to carry out meritorious works—and claiming the assets of deceased persons if no unmarried children were left. The foreign policy of ancient Cambodia is the subject of ch. vii. Mr. Sahai shows from citations of inscriptions that the Indian theory of the six procedures of politics was known in ancient Cambodia. In a section on military organization, the author demonstrates the functions, civil as well as military, of the khlofl vala. The last chapter consists of an interesting comparison of the ancient Khmer system with the feudal system in medieval Europe; the conclusion is that they were broadly similar.


The effectiveness of two conventional techniques to evaluate the surface qualities of silk fabrics, the ranking method and the paired-comparison method, was studied. The mutual correlation and the effects of the differences in color and weave on the accuracy of the evaluation were analyzed. Eight types of silk fabrics were compared; each type had the same material, weave density, and count of the weaving yarns, but each had a different weave. They were visually evaluated as to luster, quality of texture, and attractiveness for two cases: in one, the sample were white, and in the other, they were dyed black. The obtained data showed that the correlation between the two techniques was high. For both sample colors, the paired-comparison method was somewhat superior to the other in the accuracy of determination. For some of the items compared (luster and attractiveness), evaluation was appreciably affected by color, but for others (surface roughness and thickness), this was not so.


BACKGROUND
The chronic and relapsing nature of vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS) represents a challenge for its long-term management after an effective treatment with topical corticosteroids.

OBJECTIVE
To compare the effect of topical vitamin E with that of an emollient in reducing the risk of VLS relapse over a 52-week maintenance treatment.

METHODS
156 patients with VLS were enrolled in a 12-week active treatment phase on topical 0.1% mometasone furoate ointment once daily. Those who achieved disease remission entered a 52-week maintenance phase in which patients were randomized to apply either an emollient or topical vitamin E once daily.

RESULTS
80 patients entered the maintenance phase. At 52 weeks, for the vitamin E maintenance group, the cumulative crude relapse rate was 27.8% and the cumulative modified crude relapse rate was 55.6%. For the emollient maintenance group, the cumulative crude relapse rate was 22.7% and the cumulative modified crude relapse rate was 50.0%. The median time to relapse was 20 weeks for the vitamin E group and 18.7 weeks for the emollient group.

CONCLUSION
Once VLS has been stabilized with topical corticosteroids, long-term treatment with both vitamin E and emollients may be considered in maintain LS remission.


Keçi E., Trajçe A., Mersini K., Bego F., Ivanov G., Melovski D., Stojanov A., Breitenmoser U., von Arx M., Schwaderer G., Spangenberg A. & D. C. Linnell J. (2008): Conflicts between lynx, other large carnivores, and humans in Macedonia and Albania. Proceedings of the III Congress of Ecologists of the Republic of Macedonia with International Participation, 06-09.10.2007, Struga. Special issues of Macedonian Ecological Society, Vol. 8, Skopje. One of the most activities of the Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme in Albania and Macedonia was the completion of a baseline survey in both countries, to assess the ecological conditions for the Balkan lynx and the main threats to its survival. The area selected for conducting the survey covers northern, eastern and southeastern Albania, and western Macedonia. In addition to information on species distributions, the baseline survey gathered information concerning the conflicts between humans and large carnivores. The questionnaire developed for the baseline survey also included aspects of human-wildlife relationships. In total, 553 people from 154 different villages were interviewed in Macedonia, 320 people from 91 villages were interviewed in Albania. Information concerning conflicts was obtained on different levels: general information about damages in the village, direct personal losses due to large carnivore attacks, details of animal husbandry, response/prevention methods of humans towards attacks on livestock, cases of attacks on humans, and general fear level towards large carnivores. The survey uncovered a lot of conflict between livestock herders and wolves and bears, although the traditional husbandry methods appear to be relatively intact. For lynx, there were very few incidences of conflict with human interests, and most probably conservation measures will not be opposed by conflicts. Nevertheless, we encountered many cases of lynx being illegally killed and reasons for that should be properly evaluated and taken into consideration.


A hydroponic experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of exogenous 24-epibrassinolide(EBR)on the mitochondria antioxidant system and cellular ultrastructure in seedlings roots of cucumber(Cucumis sativus L.'Zhongnong 6')under hypoxic stress. Under the stress,the superoxide anion()production rate,contents of hydrogen peroxide(H2O2)and malondialdehyde(MDA) were significantly enhanced,while the root activity was decreased,and the root tip cells were damaged. Compared with the control,the activities of SOD,POD and CAT were induced and were higher at 3 d, but significantly decreased at 6 d by hypoxic stress. However,EBR treatment could keep higher activities of SOD,POD and CAT for a longer time,reduce the generation of ,H2O2 and MDA contents,increasethe root activity,and release the damage of root tip cells. The results suggested that exogenous EBR could play a positive role in regulating the mitochondria antioxidant system and keeping cellular ultrastructure of cucumber seedling roots,and alleviate the damage of hypoxic stress.


A straightforward and concise approach is proposed to analyze the Saint-Venant's torsion of a circular shaft containing multiple holes or cracks based on a complex variable method.The semi-analytic solutions for shear stresses and torsional rigidity are first given by introducing the Faber series expansion,Fourier series expansion and conformal mappings.Then,when the elliptical holes degenerate into cracks,the expression for the stress intensity factors of cracks is also derived.Finally,the effects of the parameters on the holes stress concentration,torsional rigidity and the stress intensity factors are studied through several numerical examples.It is shown from the obtained results for special examples that the method presented in this paper has many advantages such as high accuracy and good convergence.


Deterioration of reinforced concrete infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels, and buildings represents one of the major challenges currently facing developed countries. This deterioration leads to economic costs for maintenance and replacement, environmental impacts such increased global warming potential as a result of cement production and traffic emissions, and social costs related to traffic congestion and human health concerns. While engineering tools and methods for structural modelling and design of new reinforced concrete infrastructure are mature, the methods and tools for modelling decades-long deterioration and maintenance are much less developed. An approach for modelling structural deterioration of reinforced concrete components due to reinforcement corrosion is presented and a procedure is introduced to estimate the time-dependent structural response, described using time-dependent seismic fragility curves. The approach is part of a multi-disciplinary framework which includes physical, chemical, and electrochemical processes at the meso-scale coupled with mechanical deterioration processes, which are modelled using finite element methods, at the macro-scale. While not detailed in this paper, when the time-dependent assessment of structures is integrated with life cycle assessment models that quantify the economic, environmental, and social impacts of infrastructure, the result is a comprehensive assessment methodology for the sustainability of deteriorating reinforced concrete infrastructure.


One reason for the importance of understanding the hadits is talking about the existence of the problems associated with exploring hadits aspect such as wurud aspect, dalalah aspect, and comprehensive aspect. This paper will elaborate on how the urgency of Sirah Nabawiyah for understanding the hadits through three aspects. Through this study of literature was found few things. First, the urgency of Sirah Nabawiyah in uNabawiyah in understanding Prophetic Hadits can be seen through three problems of understanding hadits such as wurud problem, dalalah problem and comprehensive problem. In the wurud problem of Prophetic hadits, the urgency of Sirah Nabawiyah shown as one of the benchmark of matan criticism in its position. In the dalalah problem of prophetic hadits, the urgency of Sirah Nabawiyah shown in its position as a provider of data of contextual hadits which is more extensive than Asbab al-Wurud al-Khassah and also clearer and more valid than Asbab al-Wurud al-'Amma . Thus, Sirah Nabawiyah is a solution to the drawbacks faced by Asbab al-Wurud al-Khassah and Asbab al-Wurud al-'Ammah. In the comprehensive problem of prophetic hadits, the urgency of Sirah Nabawiyah shown in its position as a partner for the prophetic hadits in providing complete data about the Prophet Muhammad SAW. This is reflected in three ways such as Sirah Nabawiyah provides data that has not been included in the collection of prophetic hadits ( al-Ziyadah ), fulfills the incomplete material presented in the collection of prophetic hadits ( at-Takmil ) and explores the material systematically.


This investigation examined whether teacher practices, as measured by the Classroom Strategies Assessment System (CSAS), were associated with students' proficiency and gain scores, as measured by the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP), in 13 high-poverty charter schools in New Jersey. Results from two-level hierarchical linear models, fitted to a sample of 2,188 Kindergarteners through eighth-grade students in 110 classrooms, revealed that instructional and behavior management strategies on the CSAS were associated with (a) MAP gains in mathematics but not in reading and (b) MAP Rasch Unit (RIT) (proficiency) scores in mathematics and reading. The relationship between CSAS scores and student achievement did not differ across grade levels. In general, students in classrooms with higher quality use of classroom strategies exhibited higher gains in mathematics and proficiency scores in mathematics and reading. Implications for research and educational practices are discussed.


Smilax auriculata produces a subterranean rhizome system and an aerial vegetative branching system. Three intergrading types of stems (types 1, 2, and 3) compose the aerial branching system; these types are identified primarily according to prickle concentration, but also differ from one another in additional ways. Type-3 stems are determinate and either proleptic or precocious. Between growing seasons a foliage leaf of a type-3 stem may subtend either a solitary vegetative bud (or an expanded vegetative branch) or an inflorescence superposed over a vegetative bud (or expanded vegetative branch). Occasionally, an inflorescence terminates a type-3 stem. Whereas, rhizomes exhibit solely scale leaves, the aerial vegetative branching system manifests scale leaves, transitional leaves, and foliage leaves. On many type-3 stems the foliage leaves become oriented skyward, by bending of their leaf sheaths and petioles. The aerial vegetative branching system manifests bilateral symmetry and mirror-image symmetry. The inflorescence is a pedunculate umbel. The peduncle culminates in a torus which bears a peripheral whorl of bracts, centripetally situated bracteoles, and pedicellate flowers. Type-1 stems exhibit numerous prickles, which vary from unbranched to branched and from solitary to basally connate in rows.


In recent years, multi-label learning has been used to deal with data attributed to multiple labels simultaneously and has been increasingly applied to various applications. As many other machine learning tasks, multi-label learning also suffers from the curse of dimensionality; so extracting good features using multiple labels of the datasets becomes an important step prior to classification. In this paper, we study the problem of multilabel feature selection for classification and have proposed a method based on single label feature selection ReliefF, termed ML-ReliefF, to select discriminant features in order to boost multi-label classification accuracy. Compared to other multi-label feature selection methods that only consider the relationship between pairwise classes, the proposed method introduces the concept of label set to further consider the relationship among more than two labels, modifies the regulation of the nearest neighbors computation reflecting the influence between samples and multiple labels, and considers and adds the similarity between samples to reinforce the effect. With the classifier, MLkNN, experiments on five different datasets show that the proposed method is effective in removing irrelevant or redundant features and the selected features are more discriminant for classification.


The present study is dealt with the formation of a mathematical model of atherosclerotic plaque evolved through the interactions among various cellular species in the biochemical process causing concern of health hazard for impairment of the cardiovascular system. Of many participating species several important species like LDLs, HDLs, radicals, oxidized LDLs, chemo-attractants, monocytes, macrophages, T-cells, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and the necrotic core are selected to interact in the process. As the proposed model admits global stability, it can cater for larger range of parameter values towards acceptability for in silico studies on atherosclerotic plaque formation. The large system of differential equations (ODEs) emerging from the dynamics of all the cellular components forming plaque in the arterial lumen is reduced to smaller system for an in-depth study on the characteristics of the participating cellular species including their individual contributions to the association or dissociation of plaque. The quasi steady state approximation theory (QSSA) is inducted for the purpose of reduction of the primal system into a smaller ones (Model A and Model B) by way of protecting contributions of those nonexistent species in terms of the concentrations of the participating species in the reduced system. The present model system experiences bifurcation with respect to a couple of parameters of significance. The applicability of the proposed plaque model is validated through a comparison of the present results with those of the existing experimental data.


Fabrication of nanostructures on a surface of p-aminoazobenzene polymer film illuminated by 400 nm and 800 nm femtosecond laser was studied.Ripples with periods of 210 nm and 500 nm were produced by linearly polarized 400 nm and 800 nm femtosecond laser pulses,respectively. The periods of the ripples increase with increasing the intensity of incident laser pulses. The interference of this diffracted optical wave with the incident beam gives rise to optical interference ripples.Gradient of surface tension is induced by the surface temperature gradient caused by the interfered light.The gradient of surface tension gives rise to the periodical ripple structures.Thick polymer film was made and illuminated by 400 nm femtosecond laser,and periodic nanostructures were also been observed.


Protests surrounding the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC) resulted in over 1,800 arrests. Scholarship on repression is divided about the likely impacts of arrests on subsequent activism. Interviews with RNC arrestees are used to examine potential effects. Findings offer twists to social movements and socio-legal hypotheses: (1) while many arrestees were less willing to protest after their arrest, for many of these individuals deterrence was selective, not wholesale; (2) many factors that were expected to neutralize repressive impacts either resulted in deterrence or set the stage for radicalization; and (3) individuals who were radicalized shared strong preparation for their arrest experience.


Summary The results of the 2 tests, precipitation and complement-fixation, paralleled one another so closely with this highly purified soluble specific substance of Type I pneumococcus that the reactions appear to represent union of the same antigen and antibody. The comparative titration of complement, however, is the more sensitive measure of the specific activity of an immune serum. Within the zone of optimum reactivity the amount of complement fixed was directly proportional to the amount of immune serum present.


It is great important fields of the exclusive leaching-ore bacteria on the biooxidation and bi- oleaching of sulfides in biohydrometallurgical industry.The advances of the biological characteristic and molecular genetics of main leaching-ore bacteria and their interactions were reviewed with 43 references in the paper.The new trends in the future were also pointed out.


According to the characteristics of coal industry,based on the computer test item response theory.Experiment chooses two parameters of logistic model,USES BILOG to simulate data and parameter estimation.Choose one 30 for exam results for analysis,that the average value of 1.2666 positively ability,modal partial,and compared with the traditional yi distribution test the length has been shortened 39.00%,average difficulty coefficient 0.5241 belong to slant b-easily.Combination,and three indicators,are performed well,basically comply with expectation.


Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced by all aerobic cells. Neuronal cells, because of their high rate of oxidative metabolism and low levels of antioxidants, are quite susceptible to oxidative DNA damage, which often leads to DNA double strand breaks and mutation and further disease development1. Among DNA damage causing disorders, approximately 80% of the damage is caused by ROS such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), singlet oxygen, and hydroxyl radical.Furthermore, persistent oxidative DNA damage can alter signaling cascades and gene expression, induce or arrest transcription, and increase replication errors and genomic instability, all of which have been described in the progression of disease2. Even though the cells are equipped with efficient defense mechanisms to remove this kind of damage by various DNA repair pathways, the causes of these diseases are not fully prevented, and it is believed that such diseases are affected by multiple factors including over expression of ROS. This type of damage that occurs in neuronal cells is playing a critical role in neurodegenerative diseases3,4. Thus, identification of agents conferring neuroprotection could lead to potential therapies that could slow or ameliorate the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, intake of antioxidants of natural origin with less in relation to human health could be useful. For keeping our brains young, in recent years, study of phytomedicine is receiving increasing attention and suggested that some traditional herbs with anti-aging propertiesare potential candidates in treating chronic and age-related diseases.


This is a guide to silviculture only; it must not be confused with a management plan, for which it is no substitute. In this guide we attempt to specify only the method of treatment that should lead to the most efficient production of timber within the relatively small area of timber stand. We do not consider here other land uses nor important questions of timber management such as regulation of area or allowable cut, except where these factors influence silvicultural decisions.


A large number of automatic face recognition systems have been reported in the literature. Many of them are robust to within class appearance variation of subjects such as variation in expression, lighting and pose. However, most of the face identification systems developed, are sensitive to changes in the age of individuals. In this paper we demonstrate that automatic age simulation techniques can be used for designing face recognition systems, robust to ageing variation. In this context, the perceived age of the subjects in the training and test images is modified before the training and classification procedures, so that ageing variation is eliminated. Experimental results demonstrate that the performance of our face recognition system can be improved significantly, when this approach is adopted.


A new non-metallic organophosphate salt nucleating agent,ammonium 2,2'-methylene-bis(4,6-di-t-butylphenyl) phosphate was synthesized and characterized.The results of element analysis,FT-IR,and31PNMR indicated that the characterization of synthesized product was consistent with objective product.The melting point of An was tested by means of DSC,and result showed that the melting point of An was 262 ℃,which was lower than that of sodium 2,2'-methylene-bis(4,6-di-t-butylphenyl) phosphate(NA-11) obviously.Further,the nucleation properties of An on isotactic polypropylenel(iPP) was investigated,the result showed that An had an significant effect on the crystallization of iPP.When 0.15 % An was added in the polymer,the crystallization peak temperature of nucleated iPP was increased from 111.4 ℃ to 129.5 ℃.Compared with NA-11,the decreased haze value of nucleated iPP with An was better than NA-11.As a result,An was a new and effective nucleating agent for iPP.


Abstract Several lines of evidence suggest that the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) may be involved in the pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive behavior in humans and repetitive grooming behavior in animals. Trichotillomania (TTM), which is characterized by chronic hair pulling, may be conceptualized as a disorder of pathologic grooming. To investigate the role of OT in TTM, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of OT in nine women with TTM and nine healthy female controls were measured. Early findings from this ongoing study fail to demonstrate a significant difference in CSF OT levels between women with TTM and healthy female controls.


This study aimed to determine the necessities of applying the target costing approach in industrial public shareholding companies in Jordan and to identify thedifficulties restricting the use of this approach. To achieve the purpose of this study, a researcher-designed questionnaire was distributed to financial, production, and sales managers in 45 industrial public shareholding companies in Jordan. Each company was allocated three questionnaires. One sample T-test was used to test the hypothesis of the study. The empirical results showed the urgency of applying a target costing approach in industrial public shareholding companies in Jordan to provide flexibility in pricing policies, reducecosts, improve and planprofitability, keepup with the latest developments, narrowthe problems of designing, setthe lowest price, manage cost in a competitive environment, and reduce the rate of defective products. In addition, the possibility of applying target costing approach in industrial public shareholding companies in Jordan can be implemented through several requirements. The industrial public shareholding companies in Jordan have the desire to apply the target costing approach. However, difficulties were identified, and the results of the study revealed the most important determinants. These results are consistent with the findings of emerging market studies. The study is useful to authorities and organizations for identifying the necessities of applying the target costing approach. This approach paves the way for industrial public shareholding companies in Jordan to access the global market through a distinguished quality of production, high-quality productivity, low costs, and other benefits. The findings can assistin understanding the difficulties that restrict the use of modern productive systems. Keywords: target costing approach, industrial public shareholding companies


The reduced magneto-hydro-dynamical (MHD) equations show that the pressure gradient together with the magnetic-field curvature as a force drives the plasma short-wavelength MHD instability in a toroidal system. This paper discusses the role of magnetic curvature of tokamak plasmas in some detail. It is found that the region of bad magnetic curvature is enlarged due to the presence of poloidal magnetic curvature. Especially, there exists a strong MHD instability in the upside or the downside of tokamak.


The 1930s, a decade Labour in Scotland could have done without, ended appropriately. On Sunday, 3 September 1939, hours before war was declared, police closed down a Labour party meeting on Glasgow Green. The Glasgow left-wing weekly Forward, reporting this, concluded gloomily: 'It is doubtful whether any other meeting will be allowed during the war period.' Labour's fortunes in 1939 were mixed, and it did not regard the imminent prospect of an election with enthusiasm. In Scotland it had recovered from the nadir of 1932, when after the secession of the Independent Labour party (I.L.P.) it was left with only three M.P.s out of the seven who had survived the 1931 election. But its gains in 1935 still gave it only 20 out of 74 seats, well short of its 1929 level of 37. It later won two by-elections, and acquired George Buchanan M.P. from the I.L.P. in 1938, but by then its municipal successes of 1932—5, when it took over most of the larger Scottish towns, had been checked. In November 1936 it lost Dundee. There was some recovery in 1937, but a net gain of only one seat in 1938. It had yet to take control in a single Scottish county.


This paper, analyzes the undermining on the human rights of the Warao people in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, due to the epidemic existing during 2019 and 2020 among them, which was also confirmed on the context of the pandemic generated by COVID-19. This is a documental investigation with a qualitative approach, checking doctrine, law and jurisprudence to gather useful information. It was concluded that the Warao ethnic group has been abandoned in the middle of the generation of the HIV, compromising their rights to life, health, etc. It was also observed that these people were ignored because a lot of resources are being redirected to fight the coronavirus, so the Venezuelan State is responsible to correct this situation as a guardian of the fundamental rights.


findings in MSS including atrophy of the cerebral cortex and the brainstem. A 20-year-old man, born from healthy, consanguineous parents, was admitted to the hospital. Developmental delays of motor and language had been apparent early in childhood (head control at 8 months of age, crawling at 2 years, standing with support at 3 years, speaking meaningful words at 3 years). Bilateral cataracts were first seen when the patient was 4 years old and were surgically removed when he was 5 years old. From ages 10 to 20 years, cerebellar ataxia decreased and muscular weakness increased slowly. On admission, he had short stature ( 3 SD) with kyphoscoliosis. His genitalia exhibited postpubertal features. H e had moderately decreased muscle mass and weakness, dysarthria, and truncal instability with mild limb ataxia. Patellar tendon reflexes were brisk while the other reflexes were normal, and plantar responses were extensor. Laboratory studies showed normal results except for ser u m creatine kinase (776 IU/L; normal, 7-80 IU/L). His IQwas 24 (Tanaka-Binet test). Electroencephalography and auditory brainstem responses were normal. Electromyographic patterns were consistent with myopathy, and motor nerve conduction velocities were normal. Cranial computed tomography (CT) revealed mild cerebral cortex and marked cerebellar atrophy with an enlarged fourth ventricle. In addition to cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, MRI showed atrophy of the brainstem (Figure). A biopsy specimen from the biceps muscle of the arm showed marked variation in fiber diameter, scattered necrotic and regenerating fibers, and some rimmed vacuoles. The pathological features in the muscle of our patient are similar to those reported in MSS by others 11-41. The myopathic changes were already present in early infancy {I, 31 and appear to be slowly progressive 11-41. Descriptions of cranial CT in MSS are limited 12, 41 and have been reported to show cerebellar atrophy. In addition to marked cerebellar atrophy, the present case showed atrophy of the cerebral cortex and brainstem on MRI, which, to our knowledge, are previously undescribed features. A 4year-old Iranian boy with MSS showed marked atrophy of the cerebellum and pons at autopsy 151. There was marked nerve cell loss and gliosis in the pontine nuclei and the inferior olives of the medulla. These findings account for the cranial CT and MRI findings in the present case. The variation of tendon reflexes (brisk to absent), and extensor-plantar responses 11, 2 , 4 5 1 may reflect involvement of the cerebral cortex and the brainstem. In summary, MSS shows a wide spectrum of multisystem degeneration, including not only abnormalities of the cerebello-lental, skeletal, and autonomic systems, endocrine organs, and voluntary muscle {l-41, but also the cerebral cortex and the brainstem.


The previously anonymous Jesus healing the sick is here restored to Denis Calvaert, and linked for the first time to its preparatory drawing in the Louvre. The author likewise establishes that the painting, thought to have been lost, came from the Bolognese monastery of San Michele in Bosco, where it had been admired as one of his most beautiful works.


In his foreword to this rather unusual study of Russia's earliest history, Herman von Skerst points out that his book was written entirely in line with the teaching of his "master," Rudolph Steiner, and the latter's theories on the spiritual evolution of Europe. Like his master, von Skerst considers that beginning with the ninth and tenth centuries in a certain region of Europe (he means Russia), the possibility developed for a genuine Christnation (Christus-Volk)—2L nation with a particular gift for carrying the revelations of Christ into the following centuries. In his study von Skerst applies Steiner's basic ideas and indicates that, according to the "master," there developed in the Christian West three distinct types of Christianity. The first is the Christianity of Russia: "Thanks to the historical and geographical circumstances, it happened that in the Russian land the 'Impulse of Christ' (Christus-Impuls) was able to develop with a particular intensity and genuineness." Rudolph Steiner even speaks of Russia as a nation of Christ where, up to the present, Christ continues to influence the development of the country. A very different type of Christianity—that of a churchnation—arose in Western Europe, where Rome was instrumental in developing primarily the organizational forms of Christianity. Finally, in northern Europe and the United States, in the world of the Reformation, the moralistic and didactic aspects of Christianity have overshadowed its other features (p. 78). Since Rudolph Steiner is now rather forgotten, some explanation of the origin of Steiner's interest in Russia may not be amiss. Traveling by train in the summer of 1911 from Oslo to Bergen, this master and founder of anthroposophic teachings met Andrei Bely, a leading Russian symbolist poet and writer. The encounter had considerable influence on the entire further intellectual development of both men, Bely subsequently becoming Steiner's disciple. After spending two years in Dornach, where he participated in the construction of Steiner's anthroposophic temple dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, Bely left his teacher, but the effect of Steiner's "diamond eyes" and personality was never entirely effaced from Bely's mind. "From him," Bely wrote later, "emanated fluid storms and tempests which always hypnotized those surrounding h i m . . . . I, myself, was thrown out of my usual life." But Steiner, likewise, borrowed many ideas from the Russian symbolist, who had just recently published his novel The Silver Dove, which dealt with the Russian mystical Christ-seeking sects, and the "Great Master" of anthroposophy became convinced that Russia had a particular role to play in the destiny of Christianity. According to him, there developed a special Johannine style of Christianity, and finally, there, on the Russian land, all the mysteries of the Apocalypse and the inner truth of the original teaching of Jesus Christ will be revealed. According to von Skerst, who in almost all respects exactly follows Rudolph Steiner's doctrine, the spiritual history of Russia begins with the Scythians, "warriors of mother earth." Steiner and von Skerst believe that in the Golden Era of religion and philosophy—that is, in the seventh to fifth centuries B.C.—when Buddha, Zarathustra, Confucius, Jewish prophets, and


The inner mechanism of technological innovation such as the diffusion process and diffusion model and so on is analyzed, and the diffusion model of technological innovation is studied to determine the most rapid innovation time or period of the diffusion of technological innovation. This will serve as the basis to formulate an industry policy, forecast the economic development and make better enterprise technological decisions.


A one-dimensional hydrodynamic model coupled with a chemical kinetic model has been developed to study arc extinction in a low-voltage circuit breaker (LVCB). In this second part, the calculation assumptions and the fundamental equations of the stationary and transient hydrodynamic models and of the kinetic module are presented together with the boundary and initial conditions. Radial temperature profiles and radial velocity profiles obtained from the model are shown during arc decay. The influence of the mixture (in particular the presence of copper and organic vapours due to electrode and wall erosion) and of the effect of chemical non-equilibrium on the interruption ability are highlighted through the calculation of the conductance. As departures from chemical equilibrium are weak, they have no significant effect on the conductance evolution of the decaying arc. In contrary, the presence of metal and especially organic vapours (respectively, responsible for an increase in the electrical conductivity and for the appearance of dissociation peaks in the thermal conductivity at low temperatures) has a significant influence on the conductance of the extinguishing plasma.


With large amounts of human-generated spatial-temporal urban data (e.g., GPS trajectories of vehicles, passengers' trip data on buses and trains, etc.), human urban strategy analysis has become an important problem in many urban scenarios. This problem is hard to solve due to two major challenges: (1) data scarcity (i.e., each human agent can only provide limited observations) and (2) data heterogeneity (i.e., having mixed observations from many different human agents). Most of the existing works on this problem usually require a large amount of historical observations aiming to correctly infer a human agent's urban strategy and thus fail to properly address both challenges at the same time. To solve the human urban strategy analysis problem in case of data scarcity and data heterogeneity, we design a novel learning paradigm — Spatial-Temporal MetaGAIL (STM-GAIL), which can successfully learn diverse human urban strategies from heterogeneous human-generated spatial-temporal urban data. STM-GAIL models the human decision processes as variable length Markov decision processes (VLMDPs) and incorporates the surrounding spatial feature patterns (e.g., traffic volume patterns, etc.) into states to better capture the spatial-temporal dependencies of human decisions. Besides, STM-GAIL learns diverse human urban strategies from the meta-learning perspective, and can distinguish various human urban strategies by adding an inference network on top of the standard GAIL. STMGAIL can be quickly adapted to a new human expert's urban strategy with a single trajectory. Extensive experiments on real-world human-generated spatial-temporal dataset are


City Emergency Hospital No 2, Kazan Interregional Clinical Diagnostic Center, Kazan Kazan State Medical Academy Kazan State Medical University This article describes an effective method for thrombolytic therapy, sets new selective thrombolysis at thrombosis of lower extremity arteries, bypass grafts and prostheses. Analyzing the results of this study, the authors concluded that the selective thrombolysis is highly effective treatment of these pathologies and may be recommended as a method of choice in the treatment of thrombotic occlusion of arterial grafts (prostheses), previously operated segments of arteries, as well as the defeat of the distal arterial bed.


The excitation and demagnetization responses of SMCR(Separate excitation Magnetic Control Reactor) are slow,which limits its application. The structure and working principle of SMCR are introduced and the factors influencing its response are analyzed. An improved winding structure of SMCR is proposed to eliminate the DC circulation in its working winding loop,which effectively enhances the response of its working current. The working current reaches the stable status if once the control current is stable. The improved SMCR has the same output current of the traditional SMCR under the same AC working voltage. The experimental results verify that the structural improvement is rational and effective.


Materials and Methods: We followed rigid criteria in order to select adults with hyperthyroidism (n=71) and hypothyroidism (n=300), together with healthy age-matched controls (n =300), and applied a series of statistical analysis strategies to the datasets acquired. Results: Univariate statistical analysis strategies of the SBP:DBP ratio by ANOVA and ANCOVA revealed that its mean value was significantly greater in hyperthyroid patients than those of healthy control and hypothyroid subjects (p˂0.0001). Body mass index (BMI) was significantly elevated in hypothyroid patients over those of healthy control and hyperthyroid subjects (p˂0.0001); healthy controls had a significantly greater BMI value than that of hyperthyroid patients (p˂0.0001). Multivariate (MV) analysis [redundancy analysis (RDA), canonical correlation analysis (CCorA), and principal component analysis (PCA)] demonstrated powerful relationships between all blood pressure components and thyroid disease classifications, together with their biomarker indices and further patient-related parameters. Conclusions: Since thyroid dysfunctional status is associated with elevated BP, and increasing BP is positively-correlated with elevated serum thyroid biomarkers, hyper and hypothyroid disorders should be recognized and treated early in order to avoid critical hazards presented by high BP.


Abstract Semen samples were extended in citrate-yolk-glycerol (CYG), Tris-yolk-glycerol (TYG), and skimmilk-glycerol (SMG), frozen in a dry ice-alcohol bath and transferred to liquid nitrogen for storage at −196 C. Glycerol levels (v/v) of 4.0, 5.6, and 7.2% in CYG, 6.4, 8.8, and 11.2% in TYG and 9.0, 13.0, and 17.0% in SMG, the addition of 1.0% fructose, equilibration times of 1, 6, and 18 hr, freezing rates requiring 4, 8, 16, and 34 min, and storage for 1, 7, or 40 days were studied. The TYG extender consistently resulted in a higher percentage of sperm surviving freezing than did the CYG or SMG extenders (P


A method for determining isotacticity of polypropylene is proposed, which is based on the measurement of the ratio of the optical density of the 1000 (isotactic) and 1460 cm.−1 ("internal" standard) bands (D1000:D1460). The method has been compared with the extraction method and the other infrared methods. It has been shown that the other infrared methods are unreliable, either because of the failure of the 975 cm.−1 band to behave as a true "internal" thickness band, or because of the wrong assignment of the isotactic band.


This article examines the everyday impact of the West Bank wall by considering how Palestinians have used it as the medium for an art that enhances and enriches their strategies of resistance. As I explore the art inscribed on the wall, I parse the many meanings generated by the graffiti of this occupation.


Complex linear differential equations with entire coefficients are studied in the situation where one of the coefficients is an exponential polynomial and dominates the growth of all the other coefficients. If such an equation has an exponential polynomial solution $f$, then the order of $f$ and of the dominant coefficient are equal, and the two functions possess a certain duality property. The results presented in this paper improve earlier results by some of the present authors, and the paper adjoins with two open problems.


There is a need for accurate crowd counting, crowd control or similar security services. We propose a solution in the form of a congested scene analysis tool or Congested Scene Recognition (CSRNet) that performs a data-supported and deep learning-enabled operation to count the number of people in a crowd and also to generate a high-quality density map. Density map is extremely useful as a simple count is not enough as the same number of people could have dissimilar crowd density. The proposed CSRNet is composed of two major components a convolutional neural network (CNN) as the front-end for 2D feature extraction and a dilated CNN for the back-end, which uses dilated kernels to deliver larger reception fields and to replace pooling operations. Handwritten Digits Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network Team Name Technocrats Raaghav Mathur (44614802716), Bhavya Grover (60196402716), Anuj (01614802716) Abstract Recent advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence are pushing the frontier of what machines are capable of doing in all facets of business and the economy. Handwritten digits recognition is a complex task that is central to a variety of emerging applications. It has been widely used by machine learning researchers for implementing practical applications like computerized bank check numbers reading. In this project, we will use a convolutional neural network (CNN) which will be implemented using Keras library. CNN is a class of deep neural networks which is commonly applied for evaluating visual images. The testing will be conducted from the publicly available MNIST handwritten dataset which contains 60,000 training images and 10,000 testing images. The data will be pre-processed using matrices of size 28 X 28 with varying values. The optimizer used will be RMSProp while the activation function will be rectified linear unit (RLU). Through this project, we aim to achieve high accuracy in recognizing handwritten digits using machine learning. Recent advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence are pushing the frontier of what machines are capable of doing in all facets of business and the economy. Handwritten digits recognition is a complex task that is central to a variety of emerging applications. It has been widely used by machine learning researchers for implementing practical applications like computerized bank check numbers reading. In this project, we will use a convolutional neural network (CNN) which will be implemented using Keras library. CNN is a class of deep neural networks which is commonly applied for evaluating visual images. The testing will be conducted from the publicly available MNIST handwritten dataset which contains 60,000 training images and 10,000 testing images. The data will be pre-processed using matrices of size 28 X 28 with varying values. The optimizer used will be RMSProp while the activation function will be rectified linear unit (RLU). Through this project, we aim to achieve high accuracy in recognizing handwritten digits using machine learning. Animated Character Face Generation using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks(DCGANs) Team:GAN Vipin Bhardwaj(11314802716 ), Bittoo Aggarwal(02914802716), Savitoj Singh (09514802716) Abstract: Face generation in the animation industry is a lot harder work to do and involves lots of human intervention and creativity. It is very time consuming and also required lots of research for the creator to understand the previous used animated character in the series which also increases the cost as well. We are trying to make this thing autonomous, using DCGANs i.e (deep convolutional generative adversarial Network ) With the recent development in Generative adversarial network(GAN) we feel that we can produce exceptionally accurate animated visual images. In the project, we will use ―ANIMATED CHARACTER DATASET ― from kaggle and will get the bottleneck features extractions of the characters using auto encoders and finally we will train these features to GAN to produce accurate visual animated images. Face generation in the animation industry is a lot harder work to do and involves lots of human intervention and creativity. It is very time consuming and also required lots of research for the creator to understand the previous used animated character in the series which also increases the cost as well. We are trying to make this thing autonomous, using DCGANs i.e (deep convolutional generative adversarial Network ) With the recent development in Generative adversarial network(GAN) we feel that we can produce exceptionally accurate animated visual images. In the project, we will use ―ANIMATED CHARACTER DATASET ― from kaggle and will get the bottleneck features extractions of the characters using auto encoders and finally we will train these features to GAN to produce accurate visual animated images.


Abstract To understand the mechanism of aluminium nitride (AlN) film growth is of great importance for its potential applications. In this paper, we investigate the growth behaviour of the AlN film by using the computational fluid dynamics program FLUENT. It is found that the gas flow has a great impact on the temperature field. By equipping the aluminium boat area with a graphite ring and adjusting the heating power appropriately, the desired temperature field can be achieved. The simulation also shows that the V/III can have a significant impact on the deposition behaviour. With a V/III of 10, the trend of the curve is abnormal which is significantly different from the other curves. The distance between the inlet and the substrate is changed. It is found that with the increasing distance, AlN deposition rate decreases and the uniformity becomes better. Besides, when the operating pressure is changed, it is found that the operating pressure can also greatly affect the temperature field.


Singapore has been trying hard to elevate it's economic value by fusing culture and arts into development strategy. Singapore, that has swiftness and driving forces as a city state, has been propelling 'culturenomics' enthusiastically. Economic Review Committee of Singapore recommended that it should shift strategic focus to development with soft power such as creativity, culture and arts from 'manufacturing-driven development'. Major achievements Singapore has done are as follows; first, Singapore begins to be widely accepted as an attractive city resulting from successful implementation of the "Renaissance City Project", second, it could enhance economic competitiveness by cultivating creative industries, third, it could raise proud and sense of community of Singaporean, in turn, achieve social integration. This paper includes (1) the background of Singapore's Renaissance Project, (2) the role and key success factors of the project, (3) enhancing competitiveness of enterprises with design capabilities, (4) the economic impact of creative industries, (5) comparative analysis with other countries and (6) lessons and implication to Korea.


AbstractWhile the total snowfall produced in lake-effect storms can be considerable, little is known about how clouds and snow evolve within lake-effect boundary layers. Data collected over Lake Michigan on 10 January 1998 during the Lake-Induced Convection Experiment (Lake-ICE) are analyzed to better understand and quantify the evolution of clouds and snow. On this date, relatively cold air flowed from west to east across Lake Michigan, creating a quasi-steady-state boundary layer that increased from ≈675 to ≈910 m in depth over a distance of 80 km. Once a cloud deck formed 14–18 km from the upwind shoreline, maximum cloud particle concentrations and liquid water content increased from west to east across the lake. Correspondingly, maximum ice water contents, snowfall rates, and maximum snow particle diameters also increased across the lake. Maximum particle concentrations were found below the mean top of the boundary layer and above the cloud base for both cloud and snow particles.Surprisingly, snow par...


Synopsis: When isolated attosecond pulses are reconstructed from an ideal streaked spectrogram, the relative intensity of accompanying satellite pulses can be identified from interference. However, the interference pattern can be distorted by variation of the streaking laser intensity in the focal volume or by the use of large delay steps in acquiring the spectrogram. We investigate these effects on the reconstruction of satellite pulses with fulland halfcycle separations and find that satellite pulses with full-cycle separation are largely unaffected by these issues.


The aim of this paper is to question a view which is usually taken for granted, namely that the Marshallian partial equilibrium and Walrasian general equilibrium analysis stand in a relationship of continuity. It will be claimed that the contrary is true : the generalisation of the Marshallian market does not lead to a Walrasian economy or, conversely, the Walrasian economy is not composed of Marshallian markets. To bring this point home, the basic methodological choices underpinning the analysis of the Marshallian market and of the Walrasian economy will be compared. The issue of why no full-fledged Marshallian representation of the economy has arisen which might stand as an alternative to the Walrasian account will also be investigated and a series of reasons for this lack of generalisation of the Marshallian market will be considered. It will be shown that the very assumptions which serve to make the market equilibrium result tractable constitute the stumbling-blocks to its generalization. Finally, it will be claimed that if the Marshallian economy concept has no explicit existence, it has nonetheless an implicit one. It forms the background against which a series of reasoning about the working of the economy as a whole, which cannot fit the Walrasian economy framework, are developed. No less prestigious names than those of Keynes, Hicks, Patinkin, Friedman, Clower and Leijonhufvud will be adduced as witnesses.


Dear Editor, We would like to share our thoughts on the publication "A case of a very large haemorrhagic pericardial effusion in an adolescent patient with COVID-19 infection.1"Gokalp et al noted that "a large pericardial effusion may complicate COVID-19 in children and should be considered in acute decompensation.1" Cardiac complications are possible in COVID-19. Pericardial effusion has been observed in patients with COVID-19, but it is typically not a hemorrhagic effusion.2 Further in pericardial effusion, the hemorrhagic effusion in the present case might or might not be associated with COVID-19. Bleeding is a possible problem in COVID–19.3 A hemopericardium could occur if there is severe coagulopathy, but the patient would be expected to have other bleeding problems. Whether the patient has an underlying hemostatic disorder requires a complete laboratory work-up. Finally, the pericardial effusion might be a coincidence. In a developing Asian country, there are many underlying conditions such as tuberculosis that can cause pericardial effusion and concurrent COVID–19 and tuberculosis infections have been reported in the literature.4


This paper describes a sensitivity analysis for dimensionality reduction and the effect of Lp error norm on the performance of the Multi-layer Perceptron Neural Network (MLP NN). If the effect that each of the network inputs has on the network output after training a neural network is known, then some of the network inputs can be removed from the network. Consequently, the dimensionality of the network, and hence, the connectivity and the training time can be reduced. Sensitivity analysis, which extracts the cause and effect relationship between the inputs and outputs of the network, has been proposed as a method to achieve this and is investigated for sonar and radar ionosphere databases. Simulations demonstrate the validity of the method used.


from the students' use of the buildings, and from fees to pay the annual charges and to amortize the principal at maturity. The annuity board of the state retirement system, upon its application, proposed to lend to the building corporation certain sums of money at given rates of interest for a period of fifteen years upon the leasehold security which the corporation had in the buildings. A contributing member of e state retirement system who also was a rea estate owner, taxpayer, and teacher in the public schools brought an action to restrain the annuity board from completing the loans.


The electrical,structural,and functional adaptations of myocytes in response to injury constitute ventricular remodelling,resulting in a predisposition to an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias.Recent finds have suggested a mechanical link between ventricular remodelling and the development of ventricular arrhythmias.Ventricular remodelling plays a key role in the pathophysiology of ventricular arrhythmias.Therapies confronting ventricular remodelling may represent more effective treatment and prevention strategies.


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We present measurements the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) onboard the CAScade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE) performed during the August 21, 2017 eclipse. CASSIOPE transited across the path of totality of the eclipse within 10 minutes after totality over Idaho. The spacecraft was moving along a north-south track at an altitude of approximately 650 km. In this presentation, we outline results from 2 of e-POP's 8 instruments: the Radio Receiver Instrument (RRI), and the GPS Attitude, Position and profiling experiment – Occultation (GAP-O) instrument.


R egional anesthesia has been used increasingly for postoperative analgesia in infants and children over the past 15 years. With the introduction of any treatment to new populations, safety concerns are prominent. The French-Language Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists (ADARPEF), as reported in this issue of Anesthesia t? Analgesia, examined the safety of pediatric regional anesthesia in a prospective, uncontrolled, multicenter study (1).


Helicobacter pylori is the single most important pathogen in peptic ulcer disease since its eradication leads to cure.1 As a result, a National Institutes of Health consensus meeting in 1994 recommended giving anti- H pylori treatment to all patients with active peptic ulcer disease or a history of it and proved infection.2 In 1996 the consensus meeting of the European Helicobacter Study Group in 1996 made similar recommendations and added bleeding peptic ulcers and low grade MALT lymphoma to the list.3 Eradication for other indications remains more controversial. What therefore is the current best evidence on managing H pylori infection, and which is the best treatment?

Though the need for eradication in peptic ulcer disease is agreed, there is also evidence for eradicating H pylori in patients with advanced and progressively worsening forms of gastritis such as intestinal metaplasia, glandular atrophy, and erosive or hypertrophic forms of gastritis, and after resection for early gastric cancer.3 A recent prospective study, however, showed that the degree of intestinal metaplasia and atrophy remained unchanged despite successful eradication.4 This finding should temper the belief that …


. Children's social-emotional abilities are influenced by parenting styles. Children with democratic parenting tend to be able to express their emotions appropriately and recognize the emotions of their friends. This research aims to develop the interactive games for early childhood. The method used is 4D (Diagnose, Design, Develop and Dessiminate). The results of this research, was found that 40% of children were authoritarian, 30% were with permissive parenting and 30% were with democratic parenting. Sex differences do not affect children's psycholinguistic abilities. What distinguishes only children who are well stimulated, the child's psycholiguistic abilities will develop well. Most of the children come from the lower middle class economy. Availability of digital facilities determines the level of digital literacy skills of children. Children who are accustomed to technology can easily run RPG games.


IntroductionHanging is the most common suicide method in the world, and the discrimination of antemortem-postmortem hanging must be done at autopsy. The aim of this experimental study was to examine the immunohistochemical expression of IL-1&bgr; antibody at the hanging mark skin samples of rats to discriminate antemortem and postmortem hangings. Materials and MethodsA total of 20 Wistar albino rats were used for this study. The groups were as follows: A-1, antemortem control group; A-2, antemortem second-hour hanging mark skin samples; A-3, antemortem 24th-hour hanging mark skin samples; A-4, antemortem 72nd-hour hanging mark skin samples; B-1, postmortem control group; and B-2, postmortem second-hour hanging mark skin samples. Interleukin-1&bgr; immunostaining was performed to all tissue samples. ResultsFor epidermal cells, group A-1 samples did not show IL-1&bgr; immunostaining, group A-2 samples were severely immunostained, and groups A-3 and A-4 samples' staining were slightly decreased. There was no IL-1&bgr; antibody staining in groups B-1 and B-2 samples. For adnexal cells, groups A-1 and B-1 samples did not show IL-1&bgr; immunostaining, staining of group A-2 samples was mild to severe, and groups A-3 and A-4 samples' staining were slightly decreased. Half of the group B-2 samples did not show IL-1&bgr; immunostaining. For subepidermal cells, most of the samples of groups A-1 and B-1 showed slight immunostaining, groups A-2 and B-2 samples' staining were mild to severe, and there were slight immunostaining in groups A-3 and A-4 samples. The majority of vascular structure cells did not show IL-1&bgr; immunostaining. ConclusionInterleukin-1&bgr; immunostaining of epidermal cells can discriminate antemortem-postmortem hangings, but vascular structure cells and subepidermal cells cannot discriminate vital hangings.


Preface Environmental Friendly Methods for the Extraction and Determination of Organophosphorus and Organochlorine Pesticides Characterisation and Quantification of in situ Biodegradation of Groundwater Contaminants Using Stable Isotope Fractionation Analysis: Advantages and Limitations A Review on Dry Spells Statistics in Catalonia (NE Spain) Determination of Chromium in Seawater by Minicolumn Field Sampling Technique Spatiotemporal Distribution of Soil Nematode Communities Along A Chronosequence of Vegetation Restoration in Horqin Sandy Land Phytoremediation of Mercury-Contaminated Mine Wastes The Use of Animals as Indicators of Human Mercury Exposure Environmentally Friendly Refrigerants: HFC Refrigerants' Condensation Profiling the Implementing of Product Stewardship: A Case Study of Some Chemical Industries in Germany Analytical Method Optimisation and Monitoring of Priority Organic Pollutants In Urban Air Characteristics of Red Rain in the Cilician Basin, North-eastern Mediterranean Development of Forecasting Models for Predicting Hourly Ozone Concentrations and Exceedances for Dayton, Oh, Using Mm5 Real Time Forecasts On the potential high surface ozone concentrations in Shanghai, China Toxicity of smoke in an Amphibian Mollusc from India A Spatial Econometric Approach to Measuring Damage to Health Associated to the Forest Burning in Brazilian Amazon Local assessment of VOCs and PAHs in the air: Samplings, distributions, and risks A Retrospective Environmental Analysis, Modelling and Prediction of Impacts in Connection with Infrastructural Developments in sub- Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Two Dams in Kumasi, Ghana Biosynthesis of Poly(y-L-glutamic acid) and Comparative Studies on the Biodegradability of the Y- and Alpha - enantiomeric Forms of the Poly(glutamic acid) by Bacillus Licheniformis NCIMB 11709 Index.


SUMMARY It is not immediately straightforward to extend canonical correlation analysis to the context of functional data analysis, where the data are themselves curves or functions. The obvious approach breaks down, and it is necessary to use a method involving smoothing in some way. Such a method is introduced and discussed with reference to a data set on human gait. The breakdown of the unsmoothed method is illustrated in a practical context and is demonstrated theoretically. A consistency theorem for the smoothed method is proved. In an increasing number of problems in a wide range of fields, the data observed are not the univariate or multivariate observations of classical statistics, but are func- tions observed continuously. Ramsay and Dalzell (1991) give the name functional data analysis to the analysis of data of this kind. In most cases, the observations will be functions of time, or a closely related variable, but there are clearly applications where the functions are surfaces observed over two- or three-dimensional space. The motivating example for the present paper is a set of data on children's gait collected by the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Children's Hospital, San Diego, California; see Olshen et al. (1989) for full details. For each of a number of children, several angles made by the child's joints (knee, hip, etc.) are observed during the child's gait cycle. One aim of the study is to gain understanding of the gait cycle of a 'normal' child to make comparisons with children suffering from walking diffi- culties. These data motivated Rice and Silverman (1991) to discuss the extension of principal component analysis to the functional setting, and to explain how smoothing can be incorporated into the analysis in a natural way. In a substantial complemen- tary paper, Ramsay and Dalzell (1991) discuss different approaches to regression and principal component analysis in functional data analysis, illustrating their work by a meteorological example. The insights of functional data analysis may be helpful in chemometrics; for instance a standard chemometric problem is the analysis of spectra observed in chromatography, and these are to all intents and purposes functional observations. Another obvious area of potential relevance is the analysis of growth curve data. The focus in the present paper will be on canonical correlation analysis (CCA). In the gait example, one might ask how variability in the knee angle cycle is related to


Sustainable Growth requires participation of all segments of society. Financial Inclusion is a drive towardsattaining inclusive growth and sustainable development and plays a major role in driving away the povertyfrom the country. The primary purpose of financial Inclusion is to deliver and spread awareness regardingbanking and financial services at affordable costs to the unbanked sections of disadvantage and low incomesections of society so as to unlock their savings and investment potential. The objective of the study is toexamine the major problems and hurdles in accessing financial product and services of the study area and to justify the role of government for opening bank account, accessing loan facility, and services offered by bank. The study was conducted through collection of primary data from 400respondents in rural household in the in their respective blocks in the Varanasi district. By analyzing the data it was identified that the rural people are unaware about the financialinstruments and hurdles in accessing the banking services.The calculated value of Chi-square test and p-value for the economic indicators were significant. The data analysis reveals hurdles in accessing the financial services, the importance of financial inclusion and it gives us an insight to strengthen the functioning of financial inclusion in Varanasi district. Inclusive financial system helps the deprived section of people to getaccess to formal credit, saving products and other services which help them to overcome poverty and toreduce income inequality existing in the Indian economy. Government of India and Reserve Bank of Indiashould make efforts to reach the rural population through the expansion of banking services.


In Karen Patel's The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labor: Arts, Work, and Inequalities readers are posed with the question of how to value or appraise artists' expertise and how, in turn, artis...


A novel tomographic screening reader for 3-dimensional cell cultures is described. The method is based on structured illumination and permits imaging with high axial resolution and 3-D reconstruction of single cells or clusters.


Mucin is a glycoprotein present in the mucous membrane of digestive organs and respiratory organs, and plays a role in protecting their epithelial tissues. It has so far been determined that the structure of mucins consists of many O-linked chains, and recently, the glycoprotein is also noted in relation to metastasis and specific antigens of several tumor cells secreting the glycoprotein. It has been shown that Olinked chains of mucin are closely involved in the viscosity, the tertiary structure, and tissue-specific antigens, and moreover, in this paper, the effect of those on the activity of angiotensinconverting enzyme(ACE) is reported. ACE, a metal protease, is a dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase


The title compound, [Ag(C8H10NO3S)(C18H15P)2]·CH3CN, has a mononuclear structure, where the AgI cation is three-coordinated by two triphenylphosphine ligands and one N atom from the 2-amino-3,5-dimethylbenzenesulfonate anion in a distorted trigonal-planar AgP2N arrangement. A network of N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds helps to consolidate the packing.


The purpose in this article is to investigate the implications of a non-linear supply curve for the standard discretionary inflation outcome obtained when the central bank has quadratic preferences. Some implications for the optimal output target and degree of conservativeness of the central banker are derived.


A cylindrical capacitive sensor (CCS) is developed and applied to several rotating machinery applications due to its merit of accurately measuring the spindle error motion without a significant effort. So far, analysis and design were performed using a linearized approximate model of the CCS. This paper presents a nonlinear analysis of the CCS. First, a nonlinear mathematical model of the measuring process of the CCS is derived, and it is shown that the nonlinearity is affected not only by the rotor position but also by the angular size of the CCS. Second, odd harmonic errors are found to exist in the measured rotor displacement through a power series form derivation of the measuring process. Among various harmonic errors of the nonlinear gain, the third harmonic error is found to be largest one and this error can be removed by using an eight-segment CCS with 120° sensor angular size. Third, a nonlinear analysis of the effect of geometric errors is performed and the analysis result shows that the harmonic geometric error of a rotor is transmitted into different harmonic errors and its transmitability increases as the normalized eccentricity increases. The nonlinear analysis in this paper will give us useful information for the design and application of the CCS.


Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used experimentally in cancer patients since 1976, with an estimated 3,000-4,000 patients treated world-wide, most since 1982. Phase III, comparative randomized clinical trials are under way for regulatory approval of Photofrin® II, a purified version of hematoporphyrin derivative (Hpd). Several recent advances in both the clinical application of PDT and basic understanding of mechanisms are noteworthy. For example, it is now recognized that the photosensitizer undergoes photobleaching during treatment which may provide a therapeutic advantage in treatment. Clinical trials using lower drug doses seem to be consistent with this expectation. Advances in light delivery systems and dosimetry have also been achieved. It is now clear that in at least some experimental animal tumors, destruction of the vasculature system in both the tumor and surrounding normal tissue is necessary for 'cure', a process which may involve release of inflammatory and other factors. It is unclear if this is relevant to humans. Because of the problem of cutaneous photosensitivity and other factors, a search for other photo-sensitizers is being carried out by several groups, with early encouraging results being reported for certain phthalocyanines, purpurins and others.


The present paper reports on the application of Risk Based Inspection (RBI) planning as conducted on a recent project for Pemex Exploracion y Produccion. The project considers the engineering assessments required for a possible service life extension of 23 fixed steel jacket structures located in the Bay of Campeche. In the project RBI plays an important role as this quantifies the relation between the overall performances of the platforms in their present condition with their future deterioration and facilitates the identification of strategies for cost efficient condition control by means of targeted inspection and maintenance activities and if necessary repair and strengthening. For the purpose of facilitating efficient RBI for larger number of structures of more or less similar characteristics, a generic scheme for RBI is pursued. The specific aspects of the generic RBI for the considered group of structures in regard to risk acceptance criteria, modeling of inspection qualities and the probabilistic fatigue and fracture mechanical modeling are outlined. Finally also a study is reported whereby the benefit of the RBI approach is assessed as a means of risk control in comparison to standard code based requirement for inspection planning.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


Abstract: Naval ships and maritime vessels employ both non-combustible and combustible materials and components. One recent trend is the use of fibre reinforced plastics (FRP). Materials technology, in some limited sense, is driving the next generation of light weight and fast moving naval and maritime vessels. The use of plastics and polymer composites in maritime and naval vessels also raises the issue of the inherent vulnerability of plastics to common fire threats found in maritime operations. This chapter will review potential fire threats, fire safety regulations, relevant fire test methods, and approaches to material flame retardancy and fire protection. This chapter also provides flammability data for several conventional and advanced polymer composite materials including flame spread, smoke generation, heat release rates, fire resistance, and structural integrity.


The ongoing community service program has not provided optimal and sustainable outcomes that can improve the creative economy sector as a partner, especially in the era of technological disruption. This study describes the importance of setting up a creative economy clinic at the university, which is based on the needs of upscaling local micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs') performance. The discussions presented in the paper arise from a qualitative conceptual study using an instrumental case study approach, linking insights from theoretical perspectives and works across disciplines that concern the development of a creative economy clinic. The results of the discussion highlight the potential outcomes of establishing an on-campus creative economy clinic, ensuring the business sustainability of MSMEs in the era of disruptive technology. An initial assessment related to the needs of MSMEs is required as a strategic step in the development of the ecosystem of related creative economy clinics using each university's competitive advantage.


The paper analyses the origin of the climate change,makes discussion about the rising and importance of climate change communication research,introduces the current research of climate change communication both at home and abroad,and clarifies the basic notion and way in the research.It defines the climate change communication as such a commutative activity which promotes the climate change information and related scientific knowledge to be understood and mastered by the public then to seek the solving of climate change problems as the target via changing the public's attitude and behavior regarding the climate change.While the paper also points out the meaning of this research lies in:to make theory summary and systematic explanation of the climate change communication phenomena, to do the mass dissemination and popularization work of such kind of knowledge,and to provide academic supports for those stakeholders including the government,media,business and NGO of climate change.


Background & objective: All students and, especially medical students, due to deal with more stressors and the need to appropriately adaptation must have more mental health and self-reliance, till would be successful in their study and job.Determining psychological status and its problems can be effective in the development of policies and strategies of universities.This study was aimed to determine mental status in the students of Urmia University of Medical Sciences at arrival to University in 2009. Methods : In this descriptive study, 321 students in Urmia University of Medical Sciences were studied using SCL90-R questionnaire consists of 90 questions, including 9 dimensions (anxiety, aggression, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, somatic complaints, obsessive-compulsive, phobic anxiety, paranoid psychosis) on first University semester for one month. and the relationship between mental health score with some socio-demographic variables of students was examined.The data were analyzed using SPSS v.16. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Results: The majority of students studied medicine, environmental health and nursing.301 persons (93.8%) were in normal mental health. 295 persons (91.9%) of them had no anxiety disorder, 308 persons (96/1%) were without serious disturbance in the obsessive mood, 298 persons (92.9%)had nodisturbance dumps and 291 persons (90.7%) were without the paranoid thoughts. There was a significant difference between mean score of the mental health in students with concern about the future of their career, and the ones that had no concern. Conclusion: The results showed that a number of students seriously suffer from mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, obsessive and paranoid thoughts. Identification severity and types of the disruptions can be effective in prevention and treatment of these disorders.


Very large number of power semiconductor devices(switch) are used in power electronics systems such as AC adapters for PCs, DC-DC converters for CPU, motor driver systems and induction heating systems for home appliances. This paper describes the possibility of GaN-HEMT for power electronics applications. The key design issue is to obtain high breakdown voltage of 600V with the HEMT structure. We employed the field plate structure to relax the electric field peak at the gate electrode edge. A high voltage DC-DC converter operation was also experimentally demonstrated showing possibility of the GaN-HEMT for power electronics applications.


This paper aims a reading of L'Ecole des indifferents, one of Giraudoux's most outstanding novels, defining it as a modernist's lyrical novel. For this purpose it will first draw the concept of lyrical novel, paying attention to the birth of this narrative genre and its later development. Afterwards, it will show the features of this genre in the novel, pointing out the traits of Giraudoux's writing; in whose delicate style, full of poetical resources, stamps the boldness of his work.


The evaluation of cement placement and zonal isolation in deep water environments is increasingly challenging. Traditional wireline evaluation methods rely on contrasting attenuation rates of sonic or ultrasonic waves to discriminate between cement and fluid behind pipe. In today"s deepwater environment, heavy synthetic based drilling fluids can have properties that render the evaluation of the typical lightweight cements extremely difficult. In addition, cement evaluation logs are often run within 48 hours of pumping the cement which results in lower acoustic impedance at the time of logging. This further reduces the contrast in acoustic impedance between the cement and heavy synthetic based muds that are used in this environment. As a result, traditional cement evaluation logs can be ambiguous and difficult to interpret which has led to industry suspicion regarding the application of these measurements. A recently developed ultrasonic measurement called flexural attenuation combined with traditional measurements addresses these uncertainties, and results in more accurate cement evaluation under these difficult conditions.


An alternative has been developed to direct measurement for determining the density of the atmosphere of the Saturn moon Titan as a function of altitude. The basic idea is to deduce the density versus altitude from telemetric data indicative of the effects of aerodynamic torques on the attitude of the Cassini Saturn orbiter spacecraft as it flies past Titan at various altitudes. The Cassini onboard attitude-control software includes a component that can estimate three external per-axis torques exerted on the spacecraft. These estimates are available via telemetry.


Summary The effect of mild hyperthyroidism upon mammary gland growth has been studied by injection of exogenous T4 into normal pregnant rats at levels of 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 μg/100 g BW/day. Normal pregnant rats showed mean total of DNA of 7.63 ± .39 mg/100 g BW. Group of 45 pregnant rats injected with T4 showed a mean DNA of 9.07 ± .25 mg/100 g BW, an increase of 22%. It is suggested sub-optimal T4 secretion may be one of the limiting factors in attainment of maximum mammary gland proliferation.


The interaction between a father and his disabled child deserves attention and needs further investigation. This study described characteristics of the fathers of mentally disabled children, aged between two and four years old, in terms of stress, empowerment, social support and quality of the environment. Thirteen fathers answered the following tools: Characterization of Family System Questionnaire, Questionnaire on Resources and Stress - Short Form, General Guide to Transcription of Interview Data, Interview in respect of the Characterization of the Role of the Father in the Education of the Mentally Disabled Child, Family Empowerment Scale, Parent Sense of Competence Scale and Early Childhood - The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment. Results pointed to fathers of low socio-economic and educational levels, traditional role, presence of stress, adequate self-esteem and high percentages of empowerment, while the home environment failed to stimulate the child. The participants ranked themselves as good fathers and important figures in the child's life, spending many hours interacting with the child. It can be seen that there is a need for further studies using different methodologies as well as for the father's involvement in professional services for their children.


As a distributed problem-solving model based on human-machine integration, crowdsourcing has attracted wide attention in industry and academia with the development of Internet technology. There are many prominent problems on the crowdsourcing platform, for example, the task can't be noticed by users and the users are not competent for the task, resulting in huge waste of time and economy. If we can make coping recommendations according to the characteristics of the tasks, the operational efficiency of crowdsourcing platforms will be greatly improved. Therefore, this paper proposed a new task oriented recommendation method based on Hungarian algorithm in crowdsourcing platform. Aiming at the problem that the new users and tasks on the crowdsourcing platform have low matching degree, we establish the multi-objective optimization model of task recommendation with the aim of maximizing quality, time and cost efficiency. Then, the model is solved by the Hungarian algorithm through appropriate transformation. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the recommendations accuracy of new tasks, and therefor effectively improve the operational efficiency of crowdsourcing platforms.


Under UV light irradiation with a medium pressure mercury lamp at 313 nm, a gaseous mixture of butyl azide (BAz) and acrolein (AC) produced sedimentary aerosol particles only. The nucleation process during aerosol particle formation was investigated by measuring the He-Ne laser light intensity scattered by the aerosol particles formed under light irradiation at 313 nm. The induction period to detect scattered light became longer with increasing partial pressure of BAz of up to 5 Torr and then became shorter with increasing partial pressure of BAz at above 10 Torr, showing that the photochemical reactions of BAz of lower than 5 Torr decelerated the nucleation reaction of AC molecules whereas those of BAz at above 10 Torr accelerated the nucleation reaction. The chemical process during aerosol particle formation was studied by measuring the FT-IR and GC-MS spectra of the gaseous mixture after UV light irradiation. The results showed that chemical reactions of BAz took place in different ways depending on the partial pressure of BAz, and butyl nitrene and butyl radicals originating from BAz were incorporated into the nucleation and propagation processes of the aerosol particles.


Objective To investigate an effective treatment of endophthalmitis caused by Bacillus cereus.Methods Five cases(six eyes)diagnosed as bacillus cereus endophthalmitis secondary to trauma in our hospital from 2005 to 2008 were included.Corneoscleral debridement and suture + vitrectomy + silicone oil filling was performed,and broad-spectrum antibiotics were Combinated.retrospective analysis the impact of Surgical timing and drugs on prognosis.Results Of the five cases(six eyes),two eyes were removed,three eyes were no light perception,the best corrected visual acuity of one eye was 0.1.Conclusion Lens extraction,vitrectomy,antibiotic washing and silicone oil filling should be Quickly performed on the infected eyes with intraocular foreign body.Local and systemic application of broad-spectrum antibiotics postoperative and vancomycin,Lincomycin,amikacin,ciprofloxacin and other sensitive drugs shoud be applied to improve the cure rate.


AT one period not long past in the listory of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, a discussion of any question of reform would lhave left those concerned with the study of natural science and nmedicine, as suclh, cold and unresponsive, for they would have held that the questions involved affected m-iathematics, philosophy, theology, or classics mainly, though they might have entered witlh enthusiasm into a discussion as to the place and value of these subjects in a university curriculum. Medicine and natural science then played so small a part in the work of the universities that any question of university reform could have had little interest for medical meni. This attitude is no longer tenable, and is not maintained by those interested in medical education, for both Oxford and Cambridge are now thie seats of medical schools possessing an importance not to be measured adequately merely by the nuinber of students attending themn. At neither school has the clinical portion of the curriculum been greatly developed, though facilities for a more or less complete medical curriculum have for some time past been in existence at both. With the developmnent of the study of the natural and physical scienices, and in proportion to the number of mlen studying at each university, the application of these sciences to mnedicine has come to be a very important factor in the work of its students, and it is now recognized that both at Oxford and Cambridge the schbools have assumed the function of providing a thoroughly scientific foundation for those students who intend to study and to practise medicine. "At a university," said Von Humboldt, " kniowledge is fermenting in a large lnumber of powerful, active, youthful heads. Its progress is quieker and


A special DNA calliper made of a split G-quadruplex was constructed to measure the length of DNA in a single-digit base number range between two selected sequences. The enhanced fluorescence of PPIX changed with the distance between two G-rich segments.


Site-selective spectroscopy reveals that Nd3+ ions occupy more than 40 different crystal-field environments in Sr,(V04),F. Preferential energy transfer to the site responsible for 1 pm lasing occurs but becomes less complete with increasing temperature. The 41 and 4F3/2 Stark levels of the lasing site have been determined and an analysis of the crystal field performed. From the crystal-field fitting parameters Bkq, cm-r a calculated energy-level spectrum is determined up to 17 500 with a rms deviation from the available experimental levels of 6 cm-'.


To evaluate the stability of a LLR-Hochi Reassortant rotavirus vaccine strains LH9 from Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products.The LH9 strain generated from Vero cell was tested by electron microscopy analysis,virus titration,RNA electrophoretic pattern,DNA sequencing,the determination of serotype and the examination of biology.The experimental results showed that LH9 strain belonged to group A rotaviruss,The hereditary character of LH9 is comparatively stable and there is no difference among the different generations,The results obtained provide significant basis for the development of vaccine.