In this article by using G-type domains, we introduce strong G-type domains and locally countable quotient rings(lcqr). Mo- rover, G-type ideals are classified. Finally some relations between prime ideals and G-type ideals in valuation rings have been investigated. AMS Subject Classification: 13E05; 13A18; 16P50; 16P99 Keywords and Phrases: G-type domain, G-type ideal, strong G- type domain, countable quotient ring domain, locally countable quotient ring domain.


The paper is aimed at a critical review of the literature dealing with text mining and sentiment analysis for stock market prediction. The aim of this work is to create a critical review of the literature, especially with regard to the latest findings of research articles in the selected topic strictly focused on stock markets represented by stock indices or stock titles. This requires examining and critically analyzing the methods used in the analysis of sentiment from textual data, with special regard to the possibility of generalization and transferability of research results. For this reason, an analytical approach is also used in working with the literature and a critical approach in its organization, especially for completeness, coherence, and consistency. Based on the selected criteria, 260 articles corresponding to the subject area are selected from the world databases of Web of Science and Scopus. These studies are graphically captured through bibliometric analysis. Subsequently, the selection of articles was narrowed to 49. The outputs are synthesized and the main findings and limits of the current state of research are highlighted with possible future directions of subsequent research.


The aerodynamic characteristics of a blended wing body aircraft, constructed using selective laser sintering (SLS), were assessed in the AFIT low-speed wind tunnel. The scaled- down model (Rec ~ 10 5 and M = 0.10 to 0.20) of a strike tanker consisted of a shaped fuselage and sweptback wings. The model evaluation and analysis process included force and moment measurements acquired from a wind tunnel balance, pressure sensitive paint (PSP) measurements, and a comparison to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions. One of the most interesting results was the striking difference in the force and moment measurements before and after the paint was applied to the surface. The average surface roughness, Ra, was measured and was found to have increased from approximately 0.3μm to 0.7μm when the paint was applied. Although this value is well below the roughness threshold suggested by 2-D boundary layer theory, the effect was clear and repeatable. Force and moment coefficient data suggest that the onset of wing stall was sudden across the entire wing for sufficiently smooth cases but occurs gradually for rougher surfaces. Interestingly, the CFD results compared well with the experimental data corresponding to the measurements of the rougher, painted model. Both the PSP data and the CFD results indicated that the primary mechanism of lift transitioned from leading-edge suction along the wing to vortex lift near the wing-body junction as angle of attack increased. Taken as a whole, the data suggests that, for the range of conditions tested, submicron roughness has a pronounced effect on the transition to the vortex lift mechanism for increasing angle of attack.


History of art and pathologic anatomy: autopsy in modern art.This work addresses the complex issue of art in its connection to the issue of cadaver aesthetics. As it would be incommensurable to write about art in general in a single specialized paper, it will narrow its focus on the differences in modern and contemporary art, where some relationships between art and medicine may be are established. Within this framework, some representative autopsy pictorial representations are commented. At last, we explore on the future developments of such pictures.


Varicella pneumonia is a serious complication of varicella infection. It occurs more often in adults than in children, although it is now infrequently seen since the introduction of the chickenpox vaccines. In immunocompetent adults, varicella pneumonia has a reported incidence of about 1 in 400 cases of varicella infection and it also carries significant mortality. Here, we report a case of varicella pneumonia in a young male who was immunocompetent and had no comorbidities. This case teaches us to be always careful and thorough with our clinical assessment and to think about the alternative etiologies for the cause of atypical pneumonia even during the times of the COVID-19 pandemic and not get swayed by the sheer numbers of coronavirus infections.


Alexander Zemlinsky's one-act opera A Florentine Tragedy (1917), based on Oscar Wilde's play of the same title, features an erotic triangle – a woman, her husband and her lover – that erupts into violence, murder and a shocking dramatic reversal at the end. Throughout the drama, the character of the woman is a passive mirror in whose eyes the male characters see their own idealised images. The marginalised subject-position of the woman, however, reveals the pivotal role of the feminine in the narcissistic constructions of male desire and the male self. At the same time, however, this reading enables an interpretation of the drama as a project for conceptualising another marginal subjectivity: that of the homosexual male. Drawing on Eve Sedgwick's and Kaja Silverman's theories, the article explores first the complex dynamics of the triangle at the centre of the drama, and then the implications of a Freudian triangular model of male homosexual subjectivity as constituted through narcissistic object-choice. The homoerotic subtext of Wilde's play is revealed partly through the ambiguities of the woman's position in her connections with each of the men, a role that is seen more clearly in terms of their bonds with each other. This subtext is also implicit in the typically Wildean eroticisation of commerce and commercialisation of eros, through which the men engage in relations highly nuanced by erotically inflected language. Most intriguing is the way the male homosocial reading of the drama is supported by the motivic-dramatic structure of Zemlinsky's opera, as suggested by a new interpretation of the ambiguous musical motifs of 'love' and 'death' that permeate the opera's most crucial scenes.


Kuala Lumpur is a historical city with heritage significance for tourism destination. However, the heritage significance of the city may be challenged by several issues. One of which is the number of immigrants who have manipulated business activities in the busy street which is known as Silang Street. The issue of immigrants at Silang Street is not only on the matter of licence to operate business, but also involved the immigration aspect. This paper highlights the challenges faced by the stakeholders in regulating business activities conducted by the immigrants at Silang Street and possible improvements are suggested.
Keywords: heritage; Kuala Lumpur; legal issues; tourism destination.
eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5iSI1.2321


Optimizing the operation mode of steam turbine\'s hot terminal(inlet part) and cold terminal(exhaust part) can remarkably improve unit\'s comprehensive operational economy.The factors that affect the turbine efficiency in all load ranges are analyzed deeply in this paper.In the analysis of hot terminal,the method of adopting sequence valve mode during higher load and sliding pressure mode with the least valve admission during lower load is the best choice for the turbine performance.In the analysis of cold terminal,the mode of regulating the back pressure according to the load is suggested.It is beneficial to the performance of efficiency.


Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, coronary heart disease remains as one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is associated with the highest mortality and is an indication for emergent reperfusion therapy. Current guidelines for emergent reperfusion not only include ST segment elevations but also consider evidence of a new onset Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB). However, accumulating evidence indicates that RBBB is also associated with poor outcome in coronary artery disease. To-date, guidelines do not comment on the urgency of reperfusion therapy with sole evidence of a new onset Right Bundle Branch Block (RBBB). Particularly we question whether clinicians should focus on new-onset RBBB as a ST-segment elevation equivalent. If so, appropriate management of patients with the new onset RBBB during cardiac ischemia can have a significant impact on cardiac function and outcomes. In this series, we present four cases of new-onset acute RBBB associated with chest pain in the setting of acute myocardial infarction with critical lesions of the left anterior descending artery. We also highlight the need to consider new RBBB as an additional indication for acute reperfusion therapy in acute myocardial infarction. This will call for revision in the current guidelines by American Heart Association following the initiative recently implemented by the European Society of Cardiology 2018.


Coir is a ligno-cellulosic fibre, cheap and abundantly available in Sri Lanka as a by product of the coconut industry. Coir-geotextiles, which are manufactured from coir, have been identified as good geotextile material to be used for soil reinforcement in soil erosion problems until sustainable vegetation is established. Because of this reason coir based geotextiles have the potential to be an exportable product. It has become necessary to scientifically study the properties of coir fibres and coir-geotextiles in great detail to meet the suitability requirements of the export market as well as the local market. Mechanical and physical properties including tensile properties, initial modulus, length, mass and diameter of brown and white coir fibre obtained from Kurunegala District have been used in the evaluation. Moisture absorption characteristics of coir fibres were also evaluated. Results show that there is a direct relationship between the length and tenacity as well as extension at break of retted brown coir fibre. This relationship is not significant in unretted white coir fibre, which is a longer fibre with a higher in tenacity and extension at break. Wet tensile strength and wet extension at break of coir fibres were found to be greater than the tensile strength in the conditioned state. In seawater immersion, coir fibres did not lose strength after 24 hours at room temperature. During a 24 hours period coir fibres did not lose strength significantly in the pH 5-9 range at ambient temperature. At different NaOH concentrations and different time periods at 25°C, coir fibres were immersed in alkaline medium to find out whether the strength was affected. After 30min in 10 % NaOH brown coir showed highest strength but white coir fibre showed highest strength in 25% NaOH concentration after 30min immersion. It was attempted to apply the idealized staple fibre yarn model to coir yarns. For this purpose coir-yarn initial modulus was calculated using results of strength tests for coir


In the present paper we introduce a new method to improve common force fields with respect to realistic modeling of the amorphous polymer bulk. To this end various force-field parameters are adjusted to results from ab initio calculations. Parameters for both intra- and intermolecular interactions are optimized for the first time using methods on an appropriate theoretical level. We derive a force field which is "tailor-made" for polypropylene and applicable to polypropylene chains of any tacticity. This new force field is used in subsequent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of atactic polypropylene in a cubic box with periodic boundaries. We simulated an isothermal−isobaric (NpT) ensemble at p = 1 bar to predict characteristic bulk properties at temperatures above and below the glass point. Simulated densities and cohesive energies are in excellent agreement with experiment. Chain dimensions are characterized by the end-to-end distance and radius of gyration. The pair correlation function calculated fo...


ABSTRACT Domestic violence (DV) survivors are susceptible to traumatic and anoxic-hypoxic brain injury, collectively referred to as brain injury (BI). This study characterized: 1) provider perception of the impact of BI on DV survivors' experiences with advocacy services and 2) survivors' reported exposures that can lead to BI. Data were collected at five advocacy organizations in 2017: 11 focus groups were conducted with service providers (n = 45 staff & 17 administrators) and interview administered surveys were completed with survivors (n = 49). Our findings indicate a discrepancy between providers' perception of the potential impact of BI on survivors' presentation and ability to access services, and survivors' pervasive exposure to incidents that can cause BI. Over 81% of survivors reported having been hit in the head or been made to have their head hit another object at least once, and over 83% of survivors reported ever having been strangled. Raising organizational capacity to serve DV survivors with BI is necessary. Intervention suggestions are provided.


T he rehabilitation of edentulous anterior maxillary defects with implant-supported prosthesis remains a challenge, since loss of teeth can lead to extensive vertical and horizontal bone resorption, compromising the aesthetical and functional results. Vertical alveolar defects higher than 5 mm are the most difficult to restore with high incidence of failure mainly due to either resorption or dehiscence. Several modalities of treatment have been proposed, such as autografts from distinct donor sites, allografts, xenografts, osteogenic distraction, and titanium meshes among others. Although autografts are considered the gold standard based on their osseoinduction, osseoconduction, and osteogenesis properties, some disadvantages like morbidity, time consuming and cost should be taken onto consideration before selecting this technique. In this context, alveolar osteogenic distraction (AOD) is a good alternative to gain both bone and soft tissue augmentation and fresh-frozen bone allograft (FFBA) has been successfully grafted to reconstruct bone defects in oral implantology. Beyond the unlimited availability, FFBA avoids the morbidity commonly associated with autograft harvesting. The selection of treatment should be based on adequate quality and amount of hard and soft tissues to get a suitable rehabilitation. U-shaped defects, usually present in the anterior maxilla area, are characterized by lack of structures that prevents initial soft tissue closure over a large bone graft. Considering that a tension-free closure must be performed to prevent incision breakdown on a large onlay bone graft, strategies to increase the soft tissue drape over a bone defect include free grafts, tissue expanders, and the use of gradual distraction of the residual bone. The purpose of this letter is to report a case presenting clinical, histological, and cellular evidences to support the combination of AOD and cortico-cancellous FFBA as a good alternative for reconstructing a vertico-lateral maxillary defect, allowing implant-supported rehabilitation.


From the classic Karl Mannheim distinction between ideology, which seeks to preserve the existing order and the revolutionary utopias, the essay emphasizes that the desire to change reality is fueled by the union of two reasons of clear Jewish legacy: social discrimination and both prophetic and messianic tradition. In Eastern and Western Europe many thinkers of Jewish origin are, in fact, among the revolutionary, both nationalist and internationalist, both Zionist and Marxist. In all activities resonate interest in secularized Messianic work. The reflections of Martin Buber and Erich Fromm are an exemple of that.


This paper presents predictions of air pollutants (dust, SO2, NOx and CO) emitted from a cement plant that will be constructed in Wadi Alabyad area located about 100 km south of Amman, Jordan. The Gaussian air pollution model is used and the predicted concentrations of the air pollutants are compared with the Jordanian air quality standards (JS 1140/2006). It is found that the month of September represents the worst-case scenario where the atmospheric stability condition is classified as A and the average wind speed is 1.7 m/s. The predicted SO2 hourly and the 24-hour concentrations -when using fuel oil- reached 0.8 ppm and 0.42 ppm, consequently, at a distance of 750 m from the plant, which exceed the standard values of 0.3 ppm and 0.14 pmm, consequently. In case of natural gas as source of energy, the SO2 concentration is predicted to be negligible. The hourly concentration of NOx is 0.32 ppm at a distance of 750 m from the plant exceeding the standard limit of 0.21 ppm. It is found that the maximum TSP 24-hour concentration will be expected to reach 359.61 μg/m3 exceeding the standard value of 260 μg/m3. The TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations exceeded the values set by the standard near the vicinity of the cement plant at a distance closer than 300 m. The proposed mitigation measures should limit the ambient air pollutant concentrations to be in compliance with the standard values.


The assessment and management of dysphagia is a rapidly growing part of speech pathology clinical practice for both adult and paediatric populations, yet there is limited information available regarding the epidemiology of dysphagia. Very few studies have defined the characteristics of the disorder, its incidence/prevalence in various populations, the natural history of the disorder or the relative risks, co-morbidities and outcomes associated with dysphagia. The current paper will identify some fundamental questions that as yet remain unanswered and highlight areas of future research that are required in order for us to have a better understanding of dysphagia and inform assessment and management. In conclusion, the authors propose an epidemiological framework and highlight information needs in the field of dysphagia. This framework urges future dysphagia research to be informed and underpinned by sound epidemiological principles.


This paper presents the PERCEPTRON LASAR System which is based on light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology. Non-contact laser datacameras provide true 3D images, which eliminate depth ambiguities and make previously difficult or even impossible robot guidance applications feasible.


Household wastewater generally consists of gray water and black water. Gray water or used water comes from used water in households, such as water used for bathing, washing, cleaning the house, and so on; while black water comes from excreta which has been mixed with toilet rinse water. Domestic wastewater, both gray water and black water, contains pollutants, both physical, chemical and biological pollutans. Physical pollutants, including suspended solids (TSS), clarity, odor and color; chemical pollutants, including pH, BOD, COD, NH3-N and fat; and biological or microbiological pollutant is Total Coliform. This research will specifically discuss BOD as a pollutant in household wastewater. BOD is the amount of oxygen needed by microorganisms in water to break down or degrade organic waste material in the water. The decomposition of organic waste through oxidation by microorgan isms in water is a natural process that can easily occur when water contains sufficient oxygen. Water pollution load is the amount of a polluting element contained in water or waste water. So the BOD pollution load is the amount of organic material contained in household wastewater which can be biologically decomposed by microorganisms. This study aims to determine the BOD pollution load from households before and after processing. The data obtained from the results of this study can be used to design a ho usehold wastewater treatment plant that is suitable for the characteristics of households in Makassar City. Based on the research results, it was found that the waste water generation per person per day was 90.96 liters with a BOD concentration of 45.63 mg /liter and a pollution load of 0.016 kg/person/day. The pollution load contained in household wastewater after being treated through the wastewater treatment plant has decreased to 0.007 kg/person/day.


This paper focuses on an innovative low‐complexity modeling method for virtual reality. Voxels are the basic unit of pixels in 3D (three dimensions), and when stored and processed in a computer, they contain more data redundancy than the demand for actual human vision presentations. This excess is known as voxel redundancy. The reason for the redundancy is that infinite‐dimensional expansion and heterogeneous voxel features have merged in modeling methods. The major voxel compressions and human factors correlations are important to consider. Therefore, we propose a novel low‐complexity virtual reality based on ontology grid sparsity. The redundancy performance of the existing virtual reality modeling methods is first analyzed. The high‐dimension modeling method is designed to describe the base elements that are needed for humans to distinguish what is actually perceived. Based on the ontology theory, grid sparsity is exploited to construct the correlation model. We set up the relevant degree and sensitivity level calculations to classify the correlations between ontology features and other features. The features with weak sensitivity are ignored or merged, which successfully reduces the dimensions and redundancy that are needed to represent virtual items. Visual feature integration combines human factors into a voxel model. Finally, we build the virtual laboratory as a test case in the Unity 3D and 3DMax environment. The tests demonstrate that the new modeling method offers 21.2% and 34.7% of presentation delay and redundancy improvement, respectively.


Three species of sea turtle, all internationally classified as endangered species, nest on the beaches of St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis. These are the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), green (Chelonia mydas), and leatherback or river turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). In addition to seasonal nesting, hawksbills and green turtles of varying sizes can be seen throughout the year feeding in shallow waters. The leatherback is not resident; gravid females arrive each year for a summer nesting season. A fourth species, the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), is occasionally observed offshore.


We present theoretical models of the composition, the relative abundances, and the stability of hydrated salts on the surface and in the icy shell of Jupiter's satellite Europa and discuss whether those salts have an oceanic origin. The evaluations were done with thermodynamic calculations of (1) salt dehydration equilibria at the conditions of the surface of Europa and its icy shell, (2) chemical equilibria involving solids and water vapor in the Na-K-Mg-Ca-S-Cl-H2O system at surface temperatures and variable partial pressures of water vapor, and (3) changes in aquatic chemistry and sequences of salt precipitation from freezing oceanic water, using cosmochemical, mass balance, and physical-chemical constraints on the elemental and ionic composition of the ocean. Mass balance calculations of total or partial extraction of elements into an ocean from a carbonaceous chondrite type mantle show that magnesium and sulfate rather than chloride and sodium could be the most abundant solutes in the ocean. Freezing oceanic water of this composition leads to brines that differ in composition from the original water and to deposition of ice and highly hydrated sulfates of Mg, Na, and Ca as well as alkali chlorides. After freezing is complete, highly hydrated salts remain stable in ice-bearing surface materials and throughout the icy shell. For hypothetical surface salt lag deposits, formed through sublimation/sputtering of ice and dehydration of salts, we predict hydration stratification with depth, approaching the highest hydration states in ice-bearing materials in the lowest parts of the deposits. We discuss the effects of fast disequilibrium freezing and variable dehydration rates of salts on the predicted mineral assemblages at the surface. All of our models, which are independent of observations, predict the predominance of Mg and Na sulfates in surface salts, in agreement with spectroscopic models for the nonicy surface material in the near infrared spectral region.


In this correspondence, we present 129 new linear codes over F8 and F9 based on the construction by Xing and Niederreiter using algebraic function fields and places of small degrees. In addition, we construct some global function fields in which the number of rational places improves the lower bounds given by van der Geer and van der Vlugt.


Formulations of the governing equations for burning air/fuel spray mixtures are discussed. The subsystem of equations describing liquid properties is formulated in three ways: Eulerian description, Lagrangian description, and probabilistic or distribution function description. The relationships among these approaches and the relative advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The reduction of numerical error, the ability to resolve multivalued solutions, and the ability to achieve resolution a scale smaller than droplet spacing lead to a preference of the Lagrangian method over the Eulerian method. However, when resolution is desired on a scale smaller than the average droplet spacing, the location of each droplet is known only in a statistical manner. The advantages of a probabilistic formulation in this case are evaluated.


As a rare cause of acute abdominal pain in children, omental torsion (OT) refers to omental twisting around a pivotal point, usually in a clockwise direction, causing omental edema, ischemia and eventual necrosis.Up to 80% of OT cases presented with right-sided abdominal pain and tenderness.It is frequently misdiagnosed in children due to similar symptoms and signs.Furthermore, radiology and ultrasound have poor sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of diagnosing.On computed tomography (CT), a whirl sign of a fatty mass with concentric linear strands in greater omentum highly hints at a diagnosis of OT.With a wider application of high-quality ultrasound, CT and CT MPR, OT is increasingly diagnosed by imaging examinations.However, operation has remained an important method for diagnosing OT.Predominant treatments include conservative medical treatment and laparoscopic surgical intervention.Laparoscopic resection of OT is vital for diagnosing and treating OT.Due to the risk of recurrence and a lack of conclusive diagnostic method, conservative treatments require extended follow-ups.If the diagnosis remains inconclusive or conservative treatments fail, laparoscopic removal surgical intervention should be performed immediately.

Key words:
Omental torsion; Acute pain; Greater omentum


The present invention relates to a harvesting machine (1) for receiving crop material (20) having a a closable filler neck (25) container (21) for receiving a fluid (11, 12), which is accommodated by the harvesting machine (1) crop ( 20) can be fed by a feed system, wherein the container (21) has at least one further closable opening (27) through which at least one (with a fluid 11, fillable 12) additional container (22) (in the container 21) can be introduced fluid contained in the contents of the container (21) (11, 12) is miscible.


The World Federations of Non‐Destructive Evaluations Centers (WFNDEC) has proposed two studies for 2008 Benchmark problem. The first study deals with surface curvature effects across fluid‐solid media to evaluate immersion transducer's P‐wave response from Flat Bottom Holes (FBH) situated in the solid medium. The second study pertains to pulse echo response from Side Drilled Holes (SDH). We report the results for P‐wave response from a FBH due to a transducer placed above a curved interface using the frequency domain Patch Element Model (PEM), developed at CNDE at IITM. The assessment employs an optimized algorithm to determine the points of reflection/refraction on any planar or curved interface between two media and incorporates the Divergence Factor (DF) to account for curvature effects on the field assessment. We also report results on the 2007 benchmark problem dealing with the response from FBH which has two parts: One is model based study and the other is comparison of model with experiments. The P...


Objective To explore operative methods and clinical therapeutic effects of replacement of aortic and mitral valves.Methods All operations were performed under the conditions of general anesthesia,low temperature and cardiopulmonary bypass.Heart-beating inhibition solution was infused into the root of aorta and screw ice was placed into pericardial cavity.Mitral valves were replaced through right atria and atrial septum.Aortic valves were replaced through transverse incision in the root of aorta.18 cases with tricuspid insufficiency received Devega operations.9 cases with left atrial trombus underwent trombectomy.1 case with patent arterial duct was treated with arterial duct suture.Results Low cardiac output syndromes occurred in 6 cases,secondary hemostasis was made in 5 cases.Cardiac pacemakers were placed in 2 cases.Other 2 cases(4.16%) died.Conclusion The key factors in replacing aortic and mitral valves in cases of rheumatic heart disease are the effective perioperative treatment,improved operative skills,good myocardial protection,stable perfusion,appropriate treatment of tricuspid valve lesions and the preservation of thestructures below mitral valves.


To the Editor—The novel coronavirus pandemic accelerated the development of overdue health care solutions in the United States. Proposals have included a new public insurance program, a plan to permanently shore up the national equipment stockpile, and new funding for rural hospitals, among many others. But a glut of interest groups has lobbied aggressively to shape the pandemic response [1, 2]. As future practitioners of public health, bioethics, and medicine, we know that one principle is clear: students should lead the charge in this critical moment to enact lasting federal, state, and local policy improvements for all Americans. Ultimately, students are best positioned to advocate for the most important stakeholder: the patient. The best public health practice uses a moment of crisis as an opportunity for long-term change. This is the "triple axel" of public health practice: establishing credibility, explaining a problem, and fighting for a realistic solution [3]. Academics, reporters, and others have established credibility at a moment when messaging from government officials is confused and sometimes contradictory. Experts have also explained the overflowing cornucopia of latent problems in our health care system that COVID-19 brought to the fore: underfunded rural hospitals, treatments that patients cannot afford, and dismantled city and county public health infrastructure [4]. The American public now deserves public policy solutions to support population health—Medicaid and Medicare expansion, surprise billing regulation, and appropriately funded public health agencies. But the third element of the triple axel, fighting for realistic policy solutions, is the most difficult to land. It is here that students and student groups should lend their voices to guide elected leaders' actions. To the public, students are unsullied by negative behaviors that are often a result of training and practicing in our health care system, and they are less likely than other groups to face conflicts of interest [5]. Additionally, in the last decade advocating through social media became increasingly common, and students are using social media platforms to more actively work toward social justice causes [6]. Recently, the American Medical Association formally left a lobbying group preventing Medicare expansion [7]. The decision came after the AMA's Medical Student Section introduced a resolution demanding the organization change its position [8]. More advocacy efforts like this one from students could increase health care access and affordability for all Americans. It has been said that one should never let a serious crisis go to waste. By any measure, the novel coronavirus pandemic is the largest public health crisis of our lifetimes. In this moment, students should trust in their unique ability to advocate for the public. It is their voices that are so often lost.


In the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) communication scheme in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), there exist inherent tradeoffs among conflicting objectives in event publication. To address this issue, this paper investigates pub- /sub middleware for WSNs, called TinyDDS. With its self-configuring event routing protocol, TinyDDS adaptively performs event publication according to dynamic network conditions and autonomously balances its performance among conflicting objectives. TinyDDS leverages an evolutionary multiobjective optimization mechanism to seek the optimal tradeoffs among objectives and adjust parameters in its event routing protocol. Simulation results validate the ability of TinyDDS to tune its event publication against dynamic network conditions. TinyDDS is implemented lightweight and efficient enough to run on resource-limited nodes.


We study the effect of universities and colleges on the local economy using administrative data from Germany. Our empirical approach proceeds in two steps: first, we exploit college openings in order to identify the shortand medium-run effects on regional development. Second, we combine a matching procedure with a time-varying difference-in-differences approach to find suitable control regions for regions with a college opening. The results indicate that a college opening increases the share of high-skilled workers without reducing high-skilled wages which is consistent with shifts on the demand side. We will next investigate the potential sources of these demand shifts: changes in the output mix, technology, innovation or local multipliers.


ABSTRACT A new conjugated ionic polymer, poly(N-bromo-2-ethynylpyridinium bromide) (PBEPB) was applied for a quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and compared the device performance with poly(N-bromo-2-ethynylpyridinium iodide) (PBEPI) as reference cell. The polymer was prepared by the spontaneous polymerization of 2-ethynylpyridine using bromine. The PBEPB was completely soluble in such organic solvents as DMF, DMSO and NMP etc. The photoluminescence peaks of PBEPB was observed at 407 nm and 516 nm, which corresponds to the photon energy of 3.15 eV and 2.41 eV, respectively. Quasi-solid-state DSSCs with a SnO2:F/TiO2/D719 dye/solid-state electrolyte/Pt device was fabricated with an ionic conjugated polymer with pyridinium substituents, which shows the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.95%.


Segmentation is an important application in the analysis of gray level and color images numerically. The task of image segmentation is to separate a given image into different regions having homogenous properties. Although the most basic segmentation is thresholding, this method has been insufficient in time. In this paper, the segmentation of color texture images is carried out with the approach of wavelet transform and artificial bee colony algorithm. Through this approach, the segmentation of typical natural scenes, including no uniform statistical color and texture characteristics is achieved. The superior and weak points of the developed method are evaluated.


In this study, Ramie Cellulose Nanofiber (CNF) and CaCO3 were used as a reinforcement of composite with Unsaturated Polyester Resin (UPR) matrix. Ramie CNF was prepared by HEM (high energy milling) and dried in drying oven at 50 °C for 24 h. It mixed with UPR matrix by hand layup casting method. Methylethylketone peroxide (MEKPO) and CaCO3 were added in the mixture solution with the amount of 1wt% and 2wt% respectively by stirring manually. The tensile test was carried out to know the mechanical properties of biocomposite. The fracture surface was observed by using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) were also performed to know the functional group and thermal stability, respectively. The result shows that the addition of CNF and CaCO3 able to increase thermal stability and mechanical properties of biocomposite.


In this study, a total of 36 soil samples from the most common soil series of the Harran Plain were taken and analyzed for agregat stabilities using wet sieving method. The results were compared with the finding obtained from the same soil series using the same methodology prior


Disclosed is a negative-pressure suction device. The negative-pressure suction device comprises a negative-pressure suction source, a suction bottle, a support seat and a support column. The support seat is in a five-pointed star structure; the lower end of the support seat is provided with wheels; the lower end of the support column is connected with the support seat; the upper end of the support seat is provided with a split rack side cover which is provided with a suction bottle fixing seat and a snapping slot, wherein the slot is snapped with a snapping head on the suction bottle fixing seat; the suction bottle fixing seat is provided with the suction bottle; a liner is arranged inside the suction bottle and provided with a matched end cover; the end cover is provided with a main pipe joint which is connected with one end of a vertical inserting pipe on the suction bottle fixing seat, and the other end of the vertical inserting pipe is connected with a suction main pipe; the suction main pipe is connected with the negative-pressure suction source. The negative-pressure suction device is simple in installation.


In the paper we proposed improved technique of three-dimensional waveguides writing with direct femtosecond laser inscription technology. The technique allows, for the first time of our knowledge, production of waveguides with mode field diameter larger than 200 μm. This result broadens field of application of femtosecond writing technology into bulk laser schemes and creates an opportunity to develop novel amplifiers with increased efficiency. We proposed a novel architecture of laser amplifier that combines free-space propagation of signal beam with low divergence and propagation of pump irradiation inside femtosecond written waveguide with large mode field diameter due to total internal reflection effect. Such scheme provides constant tight confinement of pump irradiation over the full length of active laser element (3-10 cm). The novel amplifier architecture was investigated numerically and experimentally in Nd:phosphate glass. Waveguides with 200 μm mode field diameter were written with high frequency femtosecond oscillator. Proposed technique of three-dimensional waveguides writing based on decreasing and compensation of spherical aberration effect due to writing in heat cumulative regime and dynamic pulse energy adjustment at different depths of writing. It was shown, that written waveguides could increase optical efficiency of amplifier up to 4 times compared with corresponding usual free-space schemes. Novelty of the results consists in technique of femtosecond writing of waveguides with large mode field diameter. Actuality of the results consists in originally proposed architecture allows to improve up to 4 times optical efficiency of conventional bulk laser schemes and especially ultrafast pulse laser amplifiers.


Objective To explore the effect of Ginseng Polydsaocharides(GPS) on the inducement culture and proliferation of dendritic cells from cord blood in vitro. Methods Cord blood was collected and mononuclear cells were isolated from cord blood by centrifugation.After these cells had been cultured for 3 hours to be adhesive to the well in media with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum,media were replaced of the fresh media containing GPS(0 μg/ml,50 μg/ml,100 μg/ml,200 μg/ml respectively) and cytokines(GM-CSF/IL-4/TNF-α).形态 of cultured cells were observed and numbers of survive cells were calculated by trypan blue.CD80、CD83、CD86 positive cells were detected on 12 th by flow cytometry in cultured cells labeled with monoclonal antibodies by immunology fluorescene. Results The survive numbers of cultured cells induced by GPS were enhanced markedly and proliferation was the most significant at the concentration of 100 μg/ml on 12 th day.The cells appeared typical morphotype,and CD80,CD83 and CD86 were significantly highly expressed among DCs(P0.01). Conclusion Our findings suggest that cord blood mononuclear cells be induced into DCs conformed by the morphologic feature and phenotypic expression with GPS.


Objective To provide anatomic data for avoiding damage the extraocular muscular nerves during the intraorbital operation.Methods Microanatomic method was used to observe the location, course and syntopy of the oculomotor, trochlear and abducent nerves on 30 adult cadaveric heads (60 sides of orbits). Results (1)The trochlear nerve entered into the orbital side of one third of superior oblique muscle, it was neighboring frontal nerve when it crossed superior levator muscle; (2)There were arteries where the abducent nerves went into lateral rectus muscles (86.67%). If the belly of lateral rectus muscle was divided into three superior-inferior parts, nerve entered into middle one third commonly;(3)Superior division of oculomotor nerve coursed between optic nerve and superior rectus muscle after it left zinn ring, its branches entered into the superior rectus muscle and levator muscle. Inferior division of oculomotor nerve branched into medial rectus, superior rectus and superior oblique muscles. The branches which entered medial rectus muscle went under the optic nerve. There were 2~5 branches which entered inferior rectus muscle. Entering muscle point was on middle and posterior one third of muscle. Inferior oblique musclar branches were located at superior-lateral inferior rectus muscle. Conclusions The trochlear nerve should be protected through the space between superior oblique and the superior levator, rectus muscles into the optic and orbital apex. The oculomotor and abducent nerves should be protected during the operation of orbital apex.


Classification The major morphological classifications (WHO/ AFIP; modified Mainz classification, and the Heidelberg classification) discriminate eight sub-types of renal cell tumors related to the basic cell types of the nephron from which they are derived, and in line with the genetic facts as presently understood: 1) metanephric adenoma and metanephric adenofibroma, 2) papillary adenoma, 3) renal oncocytoma, all three benign parenchymal neoplasms Malignant parenchymal neoplasms are: 4) common or conventional (clear cell) renal carcinoma, 5) papillary (formerly chromophilic or tubulopapillary) renal carcinoma, 6) chromophobe renal carcinoma, 7) collecting duct carcinoma, and 8) renal cell carcinoma, unclassified.


With Volume 1, Issue 1, we proudly launch Qualitative Inquiry, the first interdisciplinary, international journal to provide a forum for qualitative methodology and related issues in the human sciences. QI seeks cutting-edge manuscripts on qualitative research that transcend disciplinary, racial, ethnic, gender, national, and paradigmatic boundaries, including manuscripts that experiment with nontraditional forms, content, and modes of representation. Over the past decade, the field of qualitative research has mushroomed in the social sciences, the professional disciplines, and, to a lesser extent, the humanities and the arts. Qualitative research has become an umbrella term encompassing a wide range of epistemological viewpoints, research strategies, and specific techniques for understanding people in their natural


Hypertension has become a big problem, because the prevalence is high and likely to increase, estimated worldwide prevalence of hypertension in approximately 15-20%. This study aims to determine the risk factors of hypertension in the Work Area Health Center Bangkala Jeneponto in 2012. This type of research is analytic observational case control study design. The study population was all patients who visit the health center Bangkala Jeneponto in 2012 and recorded in the medical record books. Sample of this study is that patients who do not suffer from hypertension and hypertension with a 1:1 ratio of cases and controls consisting of 82 cases and 82 controls. Data analysis was performed with CI=95% and using test odds ratio (OR). Results of this study showed that family history (OR=4,36, 95% CI 2,09-9,10), smoking (OR=2,32, 95% CI 1,24-4,35), physical activity (OR=2,67, 95% CI 1,20-5,90), and salt consumption (OR=4,16, 95% CI 2,16-8,00) were risk factors of hypertension. While coffee consumption in this study with (OR=1.56, 95% CI 0.52-4.60) were not significant risk factors on the incidence of hypertension. Based on the results of this study suggested for routine control of blood pressure, have a diet and a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, avoiding tobacco, reduce the consumption of coffee and eat foods low in salt and high in fiber such as vegetables and fruits.


A low-cost urban storm-water sampling device (culvert composite sampler) has been designed, developed, and field tested. The device provides an economical alternative to current procedures used for collecting flow-weighted composite samples required for NPDES monitoring, assessing urban storm-water inputs, and evaluating the effectiveness of best management practices. The composite sample volume collected during a runoff event is used to estimate the total runoff volume transported by a culvert during the storm. The sample is easily transferred to a laboratory bottle for chemical analysis that, with the total culvert flow estimate, is used to determine the pollution loading contributed by a drainage area to a receiving water body. The device costs less than $100, has no moving parts, and uses gravity flow. Initial studies of the proof of concept compared the performance of the culvert composite sampler against that of a flowsplitter composite sampler and manual sampling during three storm events at an established monitoring site. Tests were also performed in the controlled conditions in a laboratory hydraulic flume. The chemical results indicated that the culvert composite sampler closely approximated the flow-weighted composite collected with the flowsplitter (a true flow-weighted sampler). The culvert composite sampler estimated total culvert flow within 12% of the flow calculation based on manual sampling field measurements. Additional tests are in progress to observe the performance of the culvert composite sampler in a greater number and variety of storms events.


0018-9162/06/$20.00 © 2006 IEEE 30 Computer P u b l i s h e d b y t h e I E E E C o m p u t e r S o c i e t y Broadgate development around London's Liverpool Street station. In designing pervasive systems as an integrated facet of urban design, we're interested in designing not only the architectural space in which people move, behave, and interact but also the interaction spaces2 for information and services they discover and use and that support their movements, behaviors, and interactions in combination with architectural space. Bringing these systems into the public realm of the city raises questions of public—and private—access to the information and services and appropriate interfaces that support such forms of access. Previous research focused largely on developing technical solutions for enforcing the privacy of data held within the system and securing interactions between devices. But this doesn't adequately address issues of trust in the security and privacy of interactions between people and information and services, although more recent work has begun to address these challenges.4 The foundation of our approach to the design of pervasive systems is a conceptual framework relating degrees of publicness to three aspects of pervasive systems: the interaction spaces that the artifacts create, the architectural spaces in which they are situated, and the information they access or exchange. The result is a 3 3 matrix, illustrated in Figure 1. We use the conceptual framework that this matrix provides to analyze and evaluate existing systems and to identify implications for the design of new pervasive systems. A conceptual framework for designing and analyzing pervasive systems describes three


A management research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements of the degree of Master of Business Administration,
Facuity of Commerce
 University of Nairobi


In this work, were studied the non-trivial topological phases present in systems formed by deposition of atoms in graphene. We found that when an atom hybridizes strongly with graphene, has a magnetic moment and a strong spin-orbit it is possible the formation of a "hexagonal network of barycentres"that e ectively generates a structure band characteristic of a quantum anomalous Hall e ect. Speci cally, we determined that Ru satis es these characteristics. When this metal is deposited in a triangular con guration in graphene, peaks occur in the density of localized states in the geometric center (centroid) of the triangles formed by Ru. These peaks are distributed in a hexagonal structure and e ectively generates a band structure that near the Fermi level has a spin con guration characteristic of the spin quantum Hall e ect anomalous. Additionally, we found that the system composed by the adsorption of Ba or Sr in graphene, promotes the formation of spin quantum Hall e ect. In this system, the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) generates a gap more than 1000 times grater that predicted in pristine graphene. To study these systems, we implemented in the code SIESTA the on-site approach of the spin-orbit coupling through the formalism of norm conserved relativistic pseudopotentials. Our implementation was tested from the study of phenomena already known: i) the strong spin-splitting generated in graphene by adsorption of Au, ii) the quantum spin Hall e ect in quantum well of HgTe / CdTe and , iii) the formation of topological states in the surface of Bi2Se3 and the magnetic of this material with Mn atoms adsorbed.


RS virus was isolated from 10·5% of the specimens examined in the MRC/PHLS hospital survey and from 0·9% of those in the general practice survey. The highest isolation rates were in infants with lower respiratory tract infections. Dyspnoea, wheezing and cough were the predominant clinical features. The differences in the rates between hospital and general practice and newer methods of diagnosis of RS virus infection are discussed.


The present study deals with the 'image of society' of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). Kuyper was a Dutch theologian, founder of the Free (Calvinistic) University, leader of the Antirevolutionary Party and editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper (De Standaard). In our study we try to find answers to the following questions: 1. What is the societal value-orientation of Kuyper and what valueorientation does he reject? 2. What is the meaning of this value-orientation for Kuyper's religious-political movement? (with reference to the Calvinistic section of the population). 3. What are the consequences of this value-orientation for the relation between the Dutch society as a whole and the Calvinistic section which is a part of it? The following diagram may serve as an illustration of this relation. ... Zie: Summary


In the period from 1999 to 2019, the eye department at the Clinical Hospital in Shtip is taking a serious step towards applying the most modern working protocols on the one hand and introducing new, modern methods for treating patients.It can be rightly said that in this period of time a step is taken in the application of modern ophthalmology. Prior to 1999, the cataract was operated on by the method of ICCE and the cornea was sewn with threads of bio-material that we had prepared on our own. In our department we had about 20 patients with ulcers and iridocyclitis and if I remember that period the main treatment was sub subconjunctival drug application. In 2001/2002 part of the ward was renovated and mainly renovated the operating room which we had previously shared with our colleagues at ENT and finally in 2002 we received two operating rooms only in the eye department one for cataract surgery and a smaller one for small interventions. From that moment on, conditions have emerged for the introduction of eczema as a method of choice in cataract treatment. Access to the equipment is completed and the instrument and with the help of the Clinic for Eye Diseases in Skopje will be the first ECCE to be started in 2004 by Dr. Zlatko Arnaudov. During this time the eye department will be regularly assisted by Dr. Karolina Blazevska Buzarovska, Dr. Violeta D. Josifovska and Dr. Dejan from Prilep. At this moment I would like to thank my colleagues for the unselfish help and patience they have put in to teach us to operate on our own in Stip. So in the distant 2005, the first ECCE was done by a home doctor and immediately after that the method became routine by all eye doctors.But collaboration with the Skopje Eye Disease Clinic does not stop there and soon, trapantrabeculotomy will be introduced as a method of treating glaucoma patients by Dr. Kaolina B. Blazevska. In the period of 2009/2011 the eye department is intensively equipped with the help of the Ministry of Health and by donations so on 24.10.2011 the first faco cataract surgery will be performed by Dr. Dejan Stavrik. Soon afterwards, Prof. Stefanovik from Belgrade comes to Belgrade as an educator and with his enormous help we begin to become independent in the challenge called Chaco Operations. Soon after completing the training at the Tokuda Hospital in Sofia, Dr. Alek Topov will come as an educator who will come to Shtip for a longer period of time and will help a lot in our independence as a cataract surgeon. At that time, Dr. Polidovitz from New Jersey, USA, will be the guest of the Eye Department, who will also donate a Faco and Lomb Millennium and very fine instrumentation in addition to operating with us. Next year 2014 and in 2015 more eye-popping guests will be more US operators from Sand Lake City.


Effects of enhanced ultraviolet radiation (UV-B radiation, broad band with 280~400 nm) on the flowering process and seeding were investigated. The result showed that the enhanced UV-B radiation significantly affected the flowering process and greatly decreased the number of the differentive and propagative floweret. The reduction of the number of propagative floweret resulted in decrease of the differentiae floweret, but no decrease of the percentage of floweret deterioration. In addition, the seed set propagation coefficient was not significantly affected by the enhanced UV-B radiation.


Kanazawa (2007) offers an explanation for the variation across countries of average intelligence. It is based on the idea human intelligence is a domain specific adaptation and that both temperature and the distance from some putative point of origin are proxies for the degree of novelty that humans in a country have experienced. However the argument ignores many other considerations and is a priori weak and the data used questionable. A particular problem is that in calculating distances between countries it implicitly assumes that the earth is flat. This makes all the estimates biased and unreliable.


This article examines the kind of leadership our new president may reasonably be expected to provide with respect to the looming problem of global climate disruption. After an overview of recent scientific findings respecting the causes and the present and potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, the piece identifies a set of politically unique aspects of climate change that present unique challenges to a president's ability to lead. Following a survey of the writings of a selected set of presidential scholars who have examined the ways in which American presidents can and do set and influence national policy, the article suggests that our 44th president should attract a top team of advisers, fashion a practical, workable program to address global warming, take the diplomatic initiative on the issue, coordinate his efforts with those of influential members of Congress, employ effective public persuasion, and carefully craft unilateral actions that will dramatize the climate change problem and take at least modest steps to eliminate it. The article further concludes that although these steps may be effective at moving policy forward, there remain practical constraints on presidential power that limit the extent to which any president can tackle climate change issues.


The quality of concrete of the most of Algerian construction sites is often low. In the case of low compressive strength results, non-destructive tests such as rebound hammer and ultrasonic pulse velocity are performed to check these results. Correlations curves from either equipment manufacturers or from the literature are used by quality control laboratories in order to estimate concrete strength. The estimation of strength based on these correlations is often subject to confusion and contradictory results when compared with the core test results. This clearly shows the need for appropriate correlations for concrete made with local materials and under local environmental conditions. The main objective of this paper is to propose appropriate simplified correlations for concretes made by local materials and for compressive strength levels reflecting the conditions and current practices on building sites in Algeria. This study presents some models established between destructive and individual or combined nondestructive tests (Rebound hammer and ultrasonic pulse velocity) in order to obtain a better estimation of concrete strength on site. The results show the reliability of the combined methods and the important difference in concrete strength estimation as compared to the models available in the literature.


The motivation of the study is to gauge the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), knowledge spillover (KS), and climate change (CC) on green economy (GE) transition in BRIC nations for the period from 1991 to 2018. The study applied several unit root tests, including DF-GLS and Zivot–Andrew, for ascertaining the stationarity properties of variables. The long-run association between variables was detected by employing ARDL bound test, tBDM test, and Bayer and Hanck combined cointegration test. Furthermore, the asymmetric effects of EPU, KS, and CC on GE were examined by implementing nonlinear ARDL (NARDL), and finally, directional causal effects were evaluated with the Toda–Yamamoto causality test. In addition, the long-run coefficient's robustness was assessed by applying fully modified OLS, dynamic OLS, and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR). ARDL bound testing confirms the long-run association in the empirical model for all countries with negative statistically significant effects from EPU and CC to the green economy and positive statistically significant impacts from KS to GE. On the other hand, asymmetric assessment established both long- and short-run asymmetry between EPU, KS, CC, and GE. Finally, directional causality establishes feedback hypothesis holds for EPU and GE in Brazil, India, China, KS, and GE in Brazil, Russia, and China. Thus, study findings established that EPU and KS might influence the transition to the green economy in BRIC nations. Thus, for policy formulation targeting green economic development, it is imperative to put extra effort into understanding the role of EPU and knowledge spillover in the economy.


The atomic asymmetry, left- or right-handedness, that is present in macromolecules and that was first described by Pasteur in his experiments with tartaric acid is evident even in complex molecular assemblies such as amyloid fibrils. Here, using the cryo-EM method MicroED, it is shown that a segment from the ice-nucleation protein InaZ assembles into homochiral and racemic water-binding amyloid protofibrils.


Two novel holographic recording media based on silica gel methyl methacrylate (MMA) and hydroxy ethyl methacrylate (HEMA) organically modified ceramics (ORMOCERS) are presented and its holographic properties, inferred from the experimental data, are discussed. The recording of holographic gratings of both low-spatial frequency (50 lp/mm) and high-spatial frequency (1400 lp/mm) in a bulk ORMOCER matrix is reported. The gratings were recorded by UV irradiation-induced photopolymerization of the MMA or HEMA monomers embedded in the silica matrix. The Bragg gratings were successfully recorded by interference of two coherent beams of 351.1 nm wavelength. A linearly polarized He-Ne laser beam (632.8 nm) was used for continuous monitoring of the recording process by measurement of the diffraction efficiency and for enhancement of the grating creation process. High diffraction efficiencies (93%) and low absorption and scattering coefficients were measured during the holographic reconstruction by He-Ne laser beam. The most important holographic parameters of the gratings were inferred from the experimental data: diffraction efficiency, angular selectivity, refraction-index modulation amplitude, spectral sensitivity, the Klein-Cook parameter, and the environmental stability of the gratings.


Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) has become a bestseller in the world. Two month after its publication, it had sold more than 200.000 copies, and this success will surely continue for a long time. Piketty has established a new platform to discuss political economy.


The outdoor environmental background radiation level in normal area of Bangladesh ranged between 110 and 445 nGy.h"1 was observed in a countrywide background radiation survey using P-y radiation survey meter. The United Nation Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) reported to the united Nations General Assembly in its 1988 report that the outdoor country averaged environmental background radiation level in air in 23 countries representing about one half of the world population were found to range between 24 and 85 nGy.h"1, with a mean value of 55 nGy.h'1, which is one fourth of the radiation dose Jevel of Bangladesh. In the present study, activity concentration of radium and radon radionuclides was measured in the soil samples of the country and measured their radon emanation coefficient, and radon mass exhalation and radon area exhalation rates with an aim to evaluate the cause of high background radiation level in Bangladesh. The result shows that the concentration of 226 Ra in most of the soil samples was higher than that of world average value, and the concentration of ^Ra, a daughter of U2 Th-series, is more than two times higher than the world average value. The activity of 40K was found higher than both the range and average world value in most of the samples. The results of m Rn emanation coefficients, 222 Rn mass and area exhalation rates are very significant. Values of radon emanation coefficients for the soil samples in a number of locations were found in excess of world average value. The m Rn emanation coefficients was found in the range 3.10 - 44.68%, the mass exhalation rates was found in the range 2.50 - 27.84 uBq.kg"'.sec"', and the area exhalation rates was found in the range 3.15 - 38.15 mBq.m"J.sec"'. Due to high concentrations of radium and potassium in soil and the high radon exhalation rate the external and internal doses are also higher. The total external dose from soil was found higher than the reported results of most of the countries of the World. This result would be helpful to assess the radiation exposure to human, animal and plants, and radiation related cancer risk.


Enrollment Logics and Discourse: Toward Professionalizing Higher Education Enrollment Management. (August 2010) Monique LaVette Snowden, B.B.A., Texas A&M University; M.S., Texas A&M University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Marshall Scott Poole Dr. Barbara F. Sharf Enrollment management is an organizational phenomenon that emerged in the mid-1970s and has since developed into a pervasive structure and practice at colleges and universities. The purpose of this study is to identify and trace the development of the underlying organizing principles (enrollment logics) that institutionalize enrollment management practices and professionalize the chief enrollment manager position. This study focuses on how discourses among members of a prominent professional association establish, diffuse, and sustain knowledge that promotes certain expertise, assumptions, beliefs, and shared understandings of enrollment management. This is qualitative study that uses first-person accounts of 18 chief enrollment managers, authoethnographic reflections, and historical texts to reveal the regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive elements (symbols, relations, routines, and artifacts) that signify enrollment management as an institutionalized and professionalized phenomenon. Crystallization is used as the analytical approach for discourse analysis. Institutional Theory and Structuration Theory form the theoretical and analytical frameworks for this study.


Continuing progress and integration levels in silicon technologies make possible complete end-user systems consisting of extremely high number of cores on a single chip targeting either embedded or high-performance computing. However, without new paradigms of energy- and thermally-efficient designs, producing information and communication systems capable of meeting the computing, storage and communication demands of the emerging applications will be unlikely. The broad topic of power and thermal management of massive multicore chips is actively being pursued by a number of researchers worldwide, from a variety of different perspectives, ranging from workload modeling to efficient on-chip network infrastructure design to resource allocation. Successful solutions will likely adopt and encompass elements from all or at least several levels of abstraction. Starting from these ideas, we consider a holistic approach in establishing the Power-Thermal-Performance (PTP) trade-offs of massive multicore processors by considering three inter-related but varying angles, viz., on-chip traffic modeling, novel Networks-on-Chip (NoC) architecture and resource allocation/mapping.


Gallstone ileus is an unusual cause of intestinal obstruction. It is caused by impaction of one or more gallstones that enter the intestinal lumen via a cholecystoenteric fistula. Gallstone ileus is sometimes a challenge clinically and delayed diagnosis could carry a significant rate of complication and mortality. Resolution of gallstone ileus by spontaneous evacuation of gallstone is extremely rare. We present a case of gallstone ileus patient with a severe co-morbidity, treated with conservative treatment successfully by spontaneous evacuation of gallstone.


Questions about migration in 1991 Demographic Census. Innovations introduced in the 1991 Brazilian Demographic Census, relating to questions about migration, are analysed in this work, stressing their analitical potential as well as the comparability of data from the last two censuses.


In this paper the consequence of germplasm enhancement to maize hybrid production in China was discussed. Some effective methods and paths in germplasm enhancement were explored. These included population improvement, the theory of heterotic groups and patterns, the utilization of local germplasm, the introducing and utilization of tropical and subtropical germplasm.


Purpose: Creatine kinase (CK) and hexokinase (HK) play a key role in energy homeostasis of cardiomyocytes. Mitochondrial sarcomeric CK (mtCKs) and two hexokinase isoforms (HK1 and HK2) highly support mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by increasing the availability of ADP for complex V of the respiratory chain. Besides the mtCKs, there are two cytosolic CK isoforms (CKM and CKB) present in cardiomyocytes that help to maintain energy homeostasis.

Aim: We determined CK and HK isoforms expression, enzyme activity and HK colocalization with mitochondria in more ischemic tolerant chronically hypoxic rat hearts and normoxic controls.

Methods: Male Wistar rats were adapted to chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia (IHH) (7000 m, 8 h/day). Real Time-PCR, Western blot and quantitative immunofluorescence technique were used to assess the expression of CK and HK isoforms and changes in HK isoforms localization with respect to mitochondrial compartment.

Results: IHH increased CK activity by 30%, which was consistent with elevated protein expression of mitochondrial mtCKs (by 30 %) and cytosolic CKB (by 50%). After adaptation to IHH, HK activity increased by 20%, whereas protein expression of HK1 and HK2 nearly doubled. Colocalization of HK1 with mitochondria increased significantly (p<0.03), but HK2 did not reached statistical significance (p<0.06) in hypoxic rats.

Conclusion: Up-regulation of mtCKs and HK isoforms and increased colocalization of HK1 may stimulate the respiratory chain and help to maintain energy homeostasis of chronically hypoxic myocardium. Our results suggested that CK and HK enzymes can participate in the induction of ischemia more resistant phenotype in rat hearts adapted to IHH.

This work was supported by the the Czech Science Foundation P303/12/1162 and 14-04301P.


First, I explain and defend Langton's theory of illocutionary disablement, corroborate some of the base principles, and introduce a useful vocabulary through the lens of autonomy and oppression. I then address the objection that agreement with her thesis would entail lesser or no moral responsibility accorded to the individuals who did not understand ''no'' as refusal (and acted in subordinating ways accordingly), and could not have, since no refusal would have taken place. I argue along the lines of Kevin Timpe's solution to the tracing condition problem for moral responsibility, in order to maintain that oppressors are culpably ignorant, and thus blameworthy. Finally, I broaden the scope from individual moral responsibility for wrong actions within an oppressive society to the moral-political responsibility we all have towards our society to question the status quo and fight systemic oppression, based on Iris Marion Young's theory about our responsibility for justice. I then explain how these considerations relate back to the autonomy framework by tying in Carol Hay's work on women's moral obligation to confront sexual harassers, and explain what this would mean if we take Langton's illocutionary disablement seriously.


Aim. This paper presents research aimed at testing the mathematical self-efficacy of mathematics and computer science student teachers. The aim of the presented phase of the research was to verify the effectiveness of the chosen research instrument after translation into Czech, its applicability within the specific environment of the preparation of future teachers and the design of a shorter version of the questionnaire.
Methods. 97 students of the first and second year of Bachelor's degree studies at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, specialising in mathematics and computer science, were interviewed either in a single-subject form or in combination with a second subject. Subsequently, the data was processed and evaluated using quantitative methods.
Results. The results confirmed that the test, even when translated into Czech, fully met the claim of high reliability (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.965). Using the Principal Axis Factoring method with Varimax with Kaiser Normalisation in 11 iterations, convergence to the four basic components, which were characterised as Motivation and Enjoyment, Anxiety, Self-confidence and Value, was achieved.
Conclusion. The research has shown that the chosen research instrument, the ATMI questionnaire, is fully functional after translation into English and use in the environment of preparation of future mathematics and science teachers. The first measurement data also confirms that attitudes towards mathematics are very different among future mathematics and science teachers. It also confirmed the assumption that the questionnaire has the potential to identify students who have problematic attitudes towards mathematics and are therefore at risk of dropping out.


Background: Mycobacterium avium subspecies avium ( M. avium ) is frequently encountered in the environment, but also causes infections in animals and immunocompromised patients. In contrast, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis ( M. paratuberculosis ) is a slow-growing organism that is the causative agent of Johne's disease in cattle and chronic granulomatous infections in a variety of other ruminant hosts. Yet we show that despite their divergent phenotypes and the diseases they present, the genomes of M. avium and M. paratuberculosis share greater than 97% nucleotide identity over large (25 kb) genomic regions analyzed in this study. Results: To characterize genome similarity between these two subspecies as well as attempt to understand their different growth rates, we designed oligonucleotide primers from M. avium sequence to amplify 15 minimally overlapping fragments of M. paratuberculosis genomic DNA encompassing the chromosomal origin of replication. These strategies resulted in the successful amplification and sequencing of a contiguous 11-kb fragment containing the putative Mycobacterium paratuberculosis


The efficiency of cellular networks can be improved in various aspects such as energy consumption, network capacity and interference between neighboring cells. This paper proposes a high capacity energy efficient scheme (HCEE) for data transmission in cellular networks in a country area. In this paper, the authors obtain a new equation to characterize the minimal required output power for traffic transmission between a base station (BS) and a mobile user (MU) based on the MU distance from the BS. Also, the cells boundaries (the boundary of overlapping areas of neighboring cells) by two static and dynamic approaches are specified. This work helps for better frequency allocation to MUs and allows increasing network capacity. In this paper, the analytical modeling in order to formulate the HCEE algorithm and evaluate its performance is used. The performance evaluation results show the simplicity of the HCEE algorithm and its effect on energy consumption decline, network capacity enhancement and the interference reduction. Keywords—cellular networks, energy efficiency, frequency assignment, interference avoidance, transmission power control.


A resident, while remaining in their dwelling units, by omitting the face-to-face with people, to purchase goods needed, to provide a rental apartment that can be received quickly. A building in the transport device is equipped with rental apartments, it has become can be transported individually goods to each dwelling unit. When resident to purchase goods via the touch panel, building transfer device is actuated, purchase goods, passed from vending machine type product supply device to the building transfer device, by building carrying device is transported to residents of dwelling units that (STEP101~104). Purchased product arrives as soon as the residents of the dwelling unit, will be charged the price of the purchased product to the resident, at a later date, and billing along with the rent, etc., receive payment (STEP105,106). .BACKGROUND 9


1Student of Computer Engineering, Pune University VPKBIET, Baramati, India 2 Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Pune University VPKBIET, Baramati, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide free learning occasion for worldwide learners. In MOOCs each student or learner complete interaction with the course material takes on the web. The xMOOCs can eliminate teacher student interaction and involve limited student student interaction. The xMOOCs use automated testing to check students understanding. The students can face problem during learning process like they could not be solved any problem or difficulties by discussing with classmates. The task of study partner recommendation for students based on both content information and social network information they help for improving the completion rate. By analyzing the content of messages posted by learners in course discussion, help to investigate the learner behavior features. The proposed topic model used to measure learners course knowledge responsiveness and to compute similarity over topics among learners. The recommendation of study partner depends on the high topic similarity and high relationship strength to target learner. The recommendation will help to improve the chance to solve problems which encounter during learning process and keep their learning interest.


The invention is applicable to the technical field of printing display, and respectively provides a method for manufacturing a pixel defining layer structure and an OLED device. The method for manufacturing the pixel defining layer structure includes providing a TFT backboard, coating a negative photoresist layer on the anode of the TFT backboard, pre-baking, impressing and rear-baking the negative photoresist layer to obtain a negative photoresist layer with recessed impressing patterns, fixing a masking plate on the negative photoresist layer, placing the light transmission channel of the masking plate right above the recessed impressing patterns, allowing the light passing through the light transmission channel to enter into the negative photoresist layer via the recessed impressing patterns, exposing, developing and etching sequentially to obtain a trapezoid pixel defining layer structure in an inverted trapezoidal pixel area. The size of the light transmission channel of the masking plate is no greater than that of the recessed impressing patterns.


Electrical assembly (1) comprising - a circuit carrier (2, 23) with at least one electrical circuit (21), the at least one on a surface portion (237) of the circuit carrier (2, 23) arranged electrical component (22, 221), and - at least one additional circuit carrier (3, 33) with at least one further electric circuit (31), wherein - the circuit carrier (2, 23) and the further circuit carrier (3, 33) are arranged to each other such that - an intermediate space (6) between the circuit carrier (2) and the further circuit carrier (3) is present and the power semiconductor component (221) in the space (6), - the circuit (21) and the additional circuit (31) via at least one electrical connecting line (5) are electrically conductively connected to one another, - that on the surface portion (237) of the circuit carrier (2, 21) disposed component (22, 21) to the further circuit carrier (3, 33) is disposed opposite, - the component (22, 221) and the further circuit carrier (3, 33) with ...


An engine control system to adaptively adjust the spark timing values in spark timing tables to achieve a mean best torque. The engine control system utilizes a spark timing module that contains spark timing values as a function of one or more operating conditions of an engine. An ignition module can command spark timing based on the timing values in the spark timing module. The ignition module can adjust the spark timing during engine operation within a predetermined operating window. The spark timing values in the spark timing module can be changed based on changes in engine operation as a result of the adjustment to the spark timing. The adjusting of the spark timing and the replacing of the spark timing values in the spark timing module can allow the spark timing in the spark timing module to be optimized.


Abstract:
 Chromosome numbers are determined for 514 individuals belonging to 119 taxa within Cactaceae. Nineteen taxa have chromosome numbers reported for the first time. Based on geographic, morphological, and cytological data, three new nomenclatural combinations are made: Cylindropuntia ×cardenche (GRIFFITHS) PINKAVA & M. A. BAKER, Cylindropuntia imbricata (HAWORTH) F.M.KNUTH var spinitecta (GRIFFITHS) M.A.BAKER, and Echinocereus bonkerae THORNBER & BONKER ssp apachensis (W.BLUM & RUTOW) A.D.ZIMMERMAN. Four species are here newly published as interspecific hybrids based, in part, on several character states intermediate of their respective sympatric putative parents: Cylindropuntia ×cardenche (GRIFFITHS) PINKAVA & M.A.BAKER (pro. sp) comb. nov., Cylindropuntia ×pallida (ROSE) F.M.KNUTH (pro. sp), Opuntia ×charlestonensis CLOKEY (pro. sp), and Opuntia streptacantha LEMAIRE × O. tomentosa SALM-DYCK.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify an optimal heart rate phase to an electrocardiograph synchronizing reconstruction in an X-ray computer tomographic imaging system which reconstructs image data under an electrocardiograph synchronizous reconstructing method based on data which is acquired by scanning a subject. SOLUTION: This X-ray computer tomographic imaging system comprises an X-ray tube 101 and an X-ray detector 102 for collecting projection data from the subject. Then, the X-ray computer tomographic imaging system forms an image in the subject based on the acquired projection data and heart rate information. The X-ray computer tomographic imaging system is equipped with a phase determining section 207 which respectively acquires movement amounts corresponding to a plurality of heart rate phases, acquires a movement amount between heart rate phases by performing a summation process to the projection data, and thus, performs a process for determining a heart rate phase having less movement based on the movement amount. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT


The PPVT-R and WISC-R were administered to 30 learning-disabled and 29 referred students. Form M of the PPVT-R correlated significantly with all WISC-R measures for both groups. The PPVT-R also yielded significantly lower scores than the WISC-R for both groups. The learning-disabled group scored significantly lower on all measures than did the referred group. Due to a determined high degree of commonality between the PPVT-R and WISC-R verbal IQ, an ANOVA was conducted with verbal IQ covaried. Results indicated that the two groups no longer differed significantly on PPVT-R scores.


The present investigation was carried out in San Joaquin's community, canton Bolivar, county of the Carchi, located to 2530 msnm among the coordinated 0o 29 ` 09 `` of North Latitude and 77°75´09" of Longitude West.
The objective of this work was to evaluate the yield of the improved varieties of frejol (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Centennial, Red of the Valley, and Andean Paragachi with application of N-P - K in dose of 20-30-00 and 20-60-00comparados with the respective witness without the application of fertilizers.
The Design of Complete Blocks was used at random (D. B.C.A.) in factorial arrangement (2 +1) 9 treatments and three repetitions, the significance test, Tukey was applied to 5%, for the comparison of the stockings of treatments


ABSTRACT We studied the diversity of Limnohabitans using reverse line blot hybridization with Limnohabitans lineage-specific probes in the freshwater canyon-shaped Římov reservoir (Czech Republic). To examine the succession of distinct lineages, we performed (i) a study of an intensive spring sampling program at the lacustrine part of the Římov reservoir (from ice melt through a phytoplankton peak to the clear-water phase), and (ii) a seasonal study (April to November) when the occurrence of distinct Limnohabitans lineages was related to the inherent longitudinal heterogeneity of the reservoir. Significant spatiotemporal changes in the compositions of distinct Limnohabitans lineages allowed for the identification of "generalists" that were always present throughout the whole season as well as "specialists" that appeared in the reservoir only for limited periods of time or irregularly. Our results indicate that some phytoplankton groups, such as cryptophytes or cyanobacteria, and zooplankton composition were the major factors modulating the distribution and dynamics of distinct Limnohabitans lineages. The highest Limnohabitans diversity was observed during the spring algal bloom, whereas the lowest was during the summer cyanobacterial bloom. The microdiversity also markedly increased upstream in the reservoir, being highest at the inflow, and thus likely reflecting strong influences of the watershed. IMPORTANCE The genus Limnohabitans is a typical freshwater bacterioplankton and is believed to play a significant role in inland freshwater habitats. This work is unique in detecting and tracing different closely related lineages of this bacterial genus in its natural conditions using the semiquantitative reverse line blot hybridization method and in discovering the factors influencing the microdiversity, subtype alternations, and seasonality.


Background
 Following activation by recognition of foreign antigens, human T-cells alter their metabolic pathways to meet the increasing energetic demands for efficient immune response. Like cancer cells, alloreactive T-cells show a preference for aerobic glycolysis rather than oxidative phosphorylation, which is referred to as "Warburg effect". Until recently, it has been thought that extracellular fatty acid (FA) uptake and β-oxidation are severely reduced in alloreactive T-cells; however, some studies have indicated that lipid metabolism is rather increased in alloreactive mouse T-cells, and that metabolic pathway of FA can be a promising target for GVHD. To determine the role of lipid metabolism in human alloreactive T-cells after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, we investigated the metabolic changes in human T-cells in vivo using human-into-mouse xenogeneic GVHD models.
 Methods
 NOG mice received 250cGy of total body irradiation (TBI) and were subsequently injected intravenously with human pan T-cells. All mice developed severe GVHD and died within 2 weeks, while mice that received TBI only survived without any symptoms of GVHD. Cells were harvested from GVHD target organs of mice at day 9 after transplantation. For the measurement of glucose and fatty acid (FA) uptake by flow cytometry, cells were stained with fluorescent-labeled deoxyglucose analogue (2-NBDG) and long-chain fatty acid analogue (BODIPY 500/510 C12), respectively. PCR array and extracellular flux analysis were performed according to manufacturer's instructions.
 Results
 Glucose uptake, determined by flow cytometry, was significantly increased in human T-cells obtained from GVHD mice. Extracellular FA uptake was also increased in human T-cells in GVHD mice, and was associated with cell proliferation rate. Effector memory T-cells followed by central memory T-cells showed a higher FA uptake than did naive T-cells. These findings were similarly observed in both human CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells. Robust T-cell proliferation was observed even in MHC class I/II deficient (MHC−/−) NOG mice after transplantation, although to a lesser extent than MHC+/+ NOG mice, in a process known as homeostatic proliferation. Extracellular uptake of FA as well as glucose in T-cells was significantly decreased in MHC−/− NOG mice. Of note, even when compared among only fully proliferated T-cells between MHC+/+ and MHC−/− NOG mice, FA uptake was still significantly decreased in MHC−/− NOG mice, suggesting that the recognition of host MHC molecules by allogeneic T-cells accelerate this process.
 To compare the ability of human naive and memory T-cells to incorporate extracellular FA, we isolated human naive (CD45RA high) and memory (CD45RA low) T-cells and separately injected into NOG mice. Although it has been shown that memory T-cells exhibit different effector functions, the FA uptake in memory T-cells was comparable to that in naive T-cells. This suggests that memory T-cells can also alter their lipid metabolism following encounter with alloantigens.
 Finally, we assessed the expression of genes associated with lipid metabolism in human T-cells obtained from GVHD mice. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis detected up-regulation of mRNAs encoding the enzymes involved in FA transport including carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT1B), fatty acid binding protein (FABP1-4, FABP6, and FABP7), and β-oxidation pathway including acyl-CoA synthase (ACSBG2) and acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACAD9-11, ACADS, and ACADL) when compared with T-cells in MHC−/− NOG mice. Similarly, the expression of genes encoding the enzymes in triacylglycerol metabolism such as glycerol kinase (GK, GK2) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) was up-regulated in GVHD mice. Furthermore, the expression of genes associated with mevalonate pathways such as HMG-CoA synthase (HMGCS1, HMGCS2), was also upregulated. These observations suggest that T-cells activated by alloantigens in vivo promote lipid hydrolysis, mitochondrial FA transport, and β-oxidation, resulting in greater utilization of free FA.
 Conclusion
 Human alloreactive T-cells increased extracellular uptake of FA as well as glucose, and intracellular lipid metabolism in response to alloantigens (summarized in the graphical abstract). Therapeutic effects of specific inhibition of lipid metabolic pathways by pharmacological inhibitors including etomoxir are now being investigated in this model.
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Mesoporous carbons with different textural properties were prepared with gelatin by hard templating process. The effect silica removal condition (time and acid concentration) on the nanocomposite properties was studied during synthesis process. 1, 6, and 24 h silica removal times and 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% HF concentraton were chosen. Textural properties and microstructure of the nanocomposites were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDAX), and N2 adsorption– desorption. Results showed that removal silica time process led to mesoporous nucleation and growth on the surface of mesoporous carbon. At decreasing of removal silica time and HF concentration the surface area and total pore volume increased from 410 to 760 m2/g and 0.14–0.99 cm3/g with almost same of the average pore diameter considerably at 4.1 nm. Furthermore, it was observed more homogeneous pore distribution with decreasing the silica removal time dan HF consentration. In conclusion, the silica removal time and acid concentration play an important role on textural properties of mesoporous carbon which could have a major effect on adsorption properties of sulfuric compound in the fuel.


This paper concerns the development of a method adapted for constructing reduced models in the medium-frequency range to a general three-dimensional dissipative structure consisting of an anisotropic, inhomogeneous, viscoelastic bounded medium coupled with an internal acoustic cavity. The reduced models are obtained using the Ritz–Galerkin method for which the projection subspace corresponds to the dominant eigensubspace of the energy operator of the structure in the medium-frequency band of analysis. Two fundamental cases are considered: (1) both the structure and the internal acoustic cavity have a medium-frequency behavior in the frequency band of analysis; (2) the structure has a medium-frequency behavior in the frequency band of analysis while the internal acoustic cavity has a low-frequency behavior.


As in wireless networks, communication happens through open air, nodes are more vulnerable to attacks and hence security becomes a major concern. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has many different applications in today's world, but at the same time it is also open to many security threats. Sybil Attack is one of these attacks, where a node illegitimately claims multiple identities and uses those identities in the network. These Sybil nodes obtains multiple fake identities, and pretends to be multiple, distinct nodes in the network. A Sybil node can disrupt the functioning and operation of network and may cause damage to the system if not detected. This paper analysis the existing detection schemes of Sybil attack in wireless networks, and the analysis and conclusion would be helpful in for obtaining a method that could detect Sybil attack overcoming all the existing scheme's limitations.


Background: Sympathetic postganglionic neurons in distal cauda epididymis (CE) release noradrenaline (NA) to contract the smooth muscle layer through alpha-1 adrenoceptors (alpha-1-ARs) activation during ejaculation. As acute epididymitis has been associated to damage of CE smooth muscle, the aim of this study was to investigate the alpha-1-ARs in CE in an experimental model of epididymitis induced by the injection of LPS from E.coliinto the lumen of the vas deferens. Methods: adult male Wistar rats were used. In ketamine/xylazine-anesthetized rats, an intravasal retrograde injection of 25μg of LPS from E. coli or 25μl of sterile saline solution was performed to induce inflammation in the CE, and after 6h (LPS25_6h; Sal_6h) animals were euthanized. Epididymal ducts were isolated, mounted in organ baths and cumulative concentration-response curves (CRC) to agonists NA, buspirone or oxymetazoline were obtained in the absence and presence of prazosin and BMY7378 (non-selective alpha-1 and selective alpha-1D-ARs antagonists, respectively). In addition, segments of distal CE were incubated in a solution with 300ng/ml of LPS or sterile solution during 4h (LPS300_4h; Sal_4h), followed contraction studies as described above. Results : the NA-induced contractions of CE were competitively antagonized by prazosin with similar affinities (pA 2 =9.0) in LPS25_6h and Sal_6h. subtype. LPS25_6h alpha-1D agonist 3-fold pA 2 to the 2 LPS300_4h,


- Banking industry is a fast growing sector in which technology adoption is at a high pace. The role of employees is shrunk to value added services and customer care. This paper analyses the effect of emotional intelligence on their performance. The study was conducted among bank employees from NBFC , Scheduled banks, Nationalized banks and private banks. Descriptive analysis is used in this research and used raking method based on weighted mean to understand the effective emotional intelligence factors that affects performance. Self awareness, self regulation, self motivation, empathy and social skills are tested using a tool based on emotional intelligence of Daniel Goldman. The results shows that the employees have long service and happy in continuing in Banking sector. The employees are interested in delivering customer based value services though personal interest is low in tasks, but deliver for completing tasks.


Hollywood movies are popular in Uganda. This paper reports a study that investigated access to English-language Hollywood movies in Uganda, by way of an ethnographic audience study carried out in slum areas of the city of Kampala. The researchers visited and participated in the watching and reviewing of English-language movies in makeshift video hall shacks, where interpretation of the films into Luganda, the most common local language, took place simultaneously with the viewing of the films. By way of unstructured conversational interviews, descriptions of events, photographs and reviews of movies, the paper examines the practices of interpreting and localising carried out by the hired interpreters (known as Vee-Jays). In particular, it describes how the interpreters operate as mediators who provide access to these English Hollywood movies and examines how the global gets infused into the local through processes of contextualisation of the films. The paper contributes to our understanding of how new forms of cultural representation are created, consumed and shared through digital and other media, and the effects digital technology has on the local movie entertainment industry.


Myths of Dental Surgery in Patients Receiving Anticoagulant Therapy. M.J. Wahl. Journal of the American Dental Association 2000; 131: 77-81. Management of Anticoagulation in Patients with Prosthetic Heart Valves. K. Webster and J. Wilde. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2000; 38: 124-126.