As we know novel coronavirus is an emergent nuisance in this stipulated period. Corona virus is a group of enveloped viruses, with non-segmented, single stranded & positive sense RNA genomes. Human Corona virus is mainly subdivided into four categories such as 229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1. Epidemiologically it has a greater prevalence in the modern era. The features encountered in the clinical course of the disease are multifarious spanning from cough, sneezing, fever, breathlessness. It may take 2-14 days for a person to notice symptoms after infection. Azithromycin and 8 Hydroxychloroquine both plays an instrumental role for management of COVID-19. Azithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic and it binds with a 50s ribosome then inhibits bacterial protein synthesis. On the other hand 8-Hydroxychloroquine was approved by United State in the year of 1955 .Basically it is used as a antimalarial drugs . Briefly, in inflammatory conditions it binds with toll like receptor & blocks them. 8- hydroxychloroquine increases lysosomal pH in antigen presenting cells . In inflammatory conditions it blocks toll like receptors on plasmacytoid dendritic cells. In our review we focused on the role of Azithromycin, and 8-hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19 .


Aluminum alloys, particularly series 2000 (Al-Cu) and 7000 (Al-Zn), are widely used for structural elements in aircraft. Machining processes are frequently applied in manufacturing these parts. The actual trend in the machining of these components is to reduce or eliminate the use of lubricants, due to environmental reasons. Among the different techniques, dry machining is commonly used for aluminum alloys. However, dry machining generates higher severe cutting conditions, which may negatively affect the surface integrity and the mechanical properties of the machined parts. In this regard, fatigue life is one of the most important mechanical properties to take into account. Micro-cracks generation and nucleation strongly depend on the surface conditions of the machined parts. Additionally, the addition of Zn to pure aluminum (7000 series) reduces the corrosion resistance. Despite its importance, there is a lack of research devoted to analyze the cutting parameters influence on fatigue behaviour, before and after corrosion, in dry machining of these alloys. Therefore, in this work, the cutting speed and feed rate influence on fatigue behaviour of the UNS A97075 (Al-Zn) alloy has been analyzed. Several rotating bar bending fatigue tests have been carried out, studying and comparing the fatigue life curves obtained as a function of the cutting parameters, before and after an immersion corrosion process. The experimental results have revealed that an increment in the cutting speed and feed rate gives rise to fatigue life reduction.


Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is an important indicator of the development or reversal of salt marsh due to its absence in arid desert areas. Many studies have emphasized the differences in factors that affect fractional vegetation cover (FVC) in different temporal and spatial scales. However, few studies have reported on the temporal and spatial variations in vegetation coverage and their response to climate and also on the hydrological environment in inland salt marsh wetlands. Accordingly, based on a wetland community survey, different types of data, such as meteorological data, hydrological data, and Landsat remote sensing image data, recorded during the period from 1990 to 2020 were collected. The characteristics of the spatial and temporal distribution of vegetation coverage in the Sugan Lake wetland over the past 30 years were analyzed using a binary pixel model. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis on the response of vegetation coverage to hydrological and meteorological factors was undertaken. The results of the present study showed that the dimidiate pixel model had a high simulation accuracy in retrieving the vegetation coverage in inland salt marsh wetlands. The vegetation coverage of the Sugan Lake wetland increased with each year from 1990 to 2020, and its annual average was 19.34%. The spatial distribution of vegetation coverage was patchy and decreased from the center to the edge of the wetland. Within the same period, the vegetation coverage showed an increasing trend in Quan-shui and He-hong areas and a decreasing trend in the Shan-hong area. Vegetation coverage was mainly affected by various factors, such as precipitation, lake area, surface runoff, groundwater depth, and residential density, respectively. It was significantly positively correlated with precipitation (R2 = 0.56, P < 0.01), lake area (R2 = 0.50, P < 0.01), air temperature (R2 = 0.46, P < 0.01), and river system density (R2 = 0.52, P < 0.01) and negatively correlated with groundwater depth (R 2 =-0.57, P < 0.01) and residential density (R2 = −0.38, P < 0.05). Implicit in these findings are complex mechanisms of change in vegetation coverage that help prevent the degradation of vegetation in fragile ecosystems.


The linear theory for the onset of convection in a rotating layer with an imposed vertical magnetic field is studied for large Taylor (Ta) and Chandrasekhar (Q) numbers. The velocity and magnetic field perturbations are in magnetostrophic balance. For small values of σ = ν/κ and ζ = η/κ, where ν, κ and η are the kinematic viscosity, and thermal and ohmic diffusivities, three oscillatory modes are typically present, and these undergo a complex sequence of transitions as parameters are varied. Two of these modes are related to the MAC (Magneto-ArchimedeanCoriolis) modes discussed by Braginskii, while the third is a magnetoconvective mode. Three different asymptotic regimes are identified in the limit of large Ta and Q, depending on their relative magnitude, and the characteristics of the three modes in each regime are described in detail. Of greatest interest is the regime Ta = O(Q 3 2 ) which captures all the transitions among the three modes including the transition to steady convection.


Abstract The structure and microstructure of laser-deposited La1−xSr x MnO3(x ≈ 0.1) films on SrTiO3(100) single-crystal substrates have been studied by means of electron diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The film–substrate interfaces are found to be perfectly coherent and in particular to be free of interfacial dislocations, the small misfit being accommodated either elastically or by the formation of periodic microtwins. Cross-section as well as plan-view specimens of films of four different thicknesses (9, 50, 100 and 220 nm) were studied in detail. The thinnest films were found to be rhombohedral when present as coherent epitaxial films in cross-section specimens, the misfit being accommodated by periodic microtwinning. When released from their substrate, as in plan-view specimens, films of the same thickness are domain-fragmented orthorhombic. It is suggested that the misfit stresses tend to favour a microtwinned rhombohedral structure, whereas unstressed films of the same thickness, released from the substrate, tend to become domain-fragmented orthorhombic. The observations illustrate in a striking manner the effect of misfit stresses on the microstructure of thin epitaxial films, explaining also the dependence of the physical properties on the film thickness and on the misfit.


This paper systematically introduced the method,in the Chinese WindowsXP operating system,use of the keyboard,just as the phonetic transcription to input the Japanese syllabic scyipt.


This article briefly comments on the European proposals on financial oversight architecture presented by the Commission on 27 May this year, discussing also their legal basis in the Treaty.


Tolerance to the effects of nicotine, a major psychoactive component of tobacco, contributes to escalation in the frequency and quantity of tobacco use. However, mechanisms of tolerance to the effects of nicotine are not well understood. Here, drug discrimination was used to examine the rapid decrease in sensitivity to nicotine (i.e., acute tolerance), including its underlying receptor pharmacology and its relationship to nicotine pharmacokinetics. Rhesus monkeys (n=6) discriminated 0.032 mg/kg of nicotine base administered i.v. under an FR5 schedule of stimulus‐shock termination. Nicotine dose‐dependently increased drug‐lever responding; the ED50 value (95% confidence limits) of nicotine to produce discriminative stimulus effects was 0.012 (0.0077–0.020) mg/kg. The β2‐selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonist dihydro‐β‐erythroidine produced a 4.8‐fold rightward shift in the nicotine dose‐response function. Methyllycaconitine, an α7‐selective nAChR antagonist, up to 10 mg/kg did not antagonize the nicotine discriminative stimulus. The duration of the nicotine discriminative stimulus was less than 30 min; however, concentrations of nicotine measured in saliva were maximal (45–65 ng/ml) 10–30 min post‐injection. Pretreatment with nicotine (0.032 mg/kg i.v.) 30 min before re‐determination of sensitivity to the effects of nicotine resulted in a 3‐fold rightward shift in the dose‐response function. Firstly, these data suggest that the i.v. nicotine discriminative stimulus is mediated by β2‐containing, not α7‐containing, nAChRs. Secondly, decreased sensitivity to the discriminative stimulus effects of nicotine when preceded by an additional dose of nicotine 30 min earlier provides evidence of acute tolerance. That the peak concentrations of nicotine in saliva persist beyond the offset of its discriminative stimulus effects is also consistent with acute pharmacodynamic tolerance. Collectively, these results demonstrate that tolerance to the discriminative stimulus effects of nicotine can be produced by acute exposure to nicotine and suggest that the mechanism underlying acute tolerance may be related to rapid desensitization of β2‐containing nAChRs.


The methodologies of economic valuation of environmental services are still poorly apply (use) in Mexico, in part because of the lack of information systematized on the matter of the reaches and limits of itself. The present carries out a dissertation on some of the methodologies on the matter, analyzing its forms of application and classifying the problems that each technique intends to resolve. In this purpose it is structure: the section the kind of problems that this tecnics try to solve and analyzes the obtaining of the value of the environmental services of extractive direct use; after that, discuss over advantages and disadvantages of applications; next the paper shows a methodology to value the water environmental service focused in some aspects for managenment this natural resourse; finally the discuss about of final consideration for several application.


Promoting and facilitating normal childbirth is considered an essential component of the role of the midwife. However, midwives work within parameters defined not only by the regulatory body, but also national agendas, policy and their employer. Public opinion and media influences on the perception of normal birth can prove challenging in its promotion, yet when care and conditions are optimised, experiencing a vaginal birth is a safe physiological event. With a necessity to be jack-of-all-trades placed upon midwives from so many stakeholders, in this first of a 10-part series, we ask whether midwives can balance these demands and actively work to promote normal vaginal birth.


Abstract This article proposes E-Bayesian and Hierarchical Bayesian estimation method to estimate the scale parameter and reversed hazard rate of inverse Rayleigh distribution. These estimators are derived under squared error, entropy and precautionary loss functions. The definition and properties of proposed estimators are given. The proposed estimators are suitable for all sample sizes and perform better than the existing classical estimator, such as MLE, with high efficiency. Simulated and real data sets are also discussed for studying the performance of the estimators, which shows that the proposed estimators are efficient and easy to use.


The present experiment was conducted to study effects of Cu, Fe and Zn on activities of digestive enzymes of the hybrid tilapia Oreochromis niloticus×Oreochromis aureus. The acidic protease activities increased 65·5 and 55·1% by addition of homogenates of digesta-containing stomach with copper (75 mg l−1) and zinc (50 mg l−1) respectively. Addition of Cu and Zn increased the activities of protease in the hepatopancreas homogenates by 132·7 and 38·1% respectively, and reduced the activity of protease in the digesta-containing intestine homogenates by 11·0 and 13·8% respectively. Addition of Fe (50 mg l−1) increased the acidic protease activity by 96·7% but did not alter the activities of protease in the intestine and hepatopancreas. Addition of Cu markedly inhibited activities of amylase in intestine and hepatopancreas homogenates, while Zn addition showed no effects. Addition of Fe reduced activities of amylase in the intestine homogenates by 47·9% but had no effect on amylase activities in the hepatopancreas. When Cu (75 mg kg−1), Fe (50 mg kg−1) and Zn (50 mg kg−1) were supplemented to basal diet for 3 weeks, the activities of amylase in hepatopancreas homogenates increased 125·3, 215·6 and 70·0%, respectively, the activities of amylase in intestine increased 79·8, 74·6 and 48·5%, respectively, and the activities of lipase in intestine increased 90·5, 149·8 and 84·0%, respectively. Supplementation of Cu, Fe or Zn into diet had no effects on activity of protease in all digestive organs. Therefore, the results suggest that effects of Cu, Fe and Zn on activity of digestive enzymes in vitro were different from those seen in vivo, and that the positive effects of Cu, Fe and Zn supplemented to fish diet would be valuable information for formulating fish feed.


Ultra-high frequency partial discharge sensors are often deemed to be immune to disturbance, i.e., signals generated by partial discharge sources outside the transformer itself. In this paper, the above claim is investigated resorting to both computer simulations and experimental tests. The results indicate that corona from power lines in proximity of a transformer, or surface discharges on the surface of bushings can provide signals that are comparable with those generated by PD sources. These findings suggest that care must be taken when evaluating data coming from this type of sensors, as false alarms can be obtained.


Rheolaveur has not fully been recognized of its superiority in coal cleaning by engineers in Japan. The cause of leading them to such a misconception is, in the author's opinion, due to the incorrect design of this machine and unreasonable operation resulted from the lack of knowledge about the separation rnechanism by horizontal current. For this reason the author intended to analyse the motion of solid particles in Rheolaveur, in order to establish the reasonable handling of this machine, and illustrated its superiority for fine coal cleaning especially.


In this paper we investigate how the HOG algorithm can be successfully modified to work on binary information. We detail the area and the performance evolution when the standard HOG algorithm is adjusted to work on binary images, and introduce an improved binary HOG algorithm. Compared to the HOG working on grayscale images, the improved binary HOG has an extremely small implementation area. Its performance is practically identical to that of the original HOG working on binary images, but reduced compared to that working on grayscale images. Given its extremely small area, the new algorithm can be acceptable for many applications, or it can be used in more complex systems, as part of a preliminary detection stage.


History of medical education has never been taught to medical students. Ethiopian medical community has little knowledge about the historical developments of medical education in Ethiopia because of paucity of written documents. It is a common occurrence to hear distorted stories which have developed through time from individual ideas rather than research findings. The aim of this review is to document facts as gathered from reliable source documents, living witnesses of the time and personal observations.


The Ancient Celtic images and motifs in the Arthurian novels of an English writer, Mary Stewart, have been revealed and analyzed in this article. The author of the article proves that the Ancient Celtic folk legends have formed the basis of Mary Stewart"s novels about King Arthur.


Over recent decades almost every aspect of daily life, from mobile phones to nuclear power plants, has developed and changed at an incomparably fast rate. But an unknown risk to the natural environment is posed by our constant attraction to new science and technology. The response to this threat needs to be separated into three different strands. First of all there needs to be a new awareness of how society is responsible for controlling its own 'creation'. This new responsibility is often seen as the latest step in environmental ethics. Secondly, further research into the field of ecology is necessary. Ecology has the ability to provide scientific guidance in the future, but only if it is able to eliminate old problems, such as abuse by pseudo-scientists. Last but not least, implementation of the new responsibility (for example, the question of legal instruments) is important. New conventions like Aarhus, Stockholm, and Rio illustrate how society can participate and what legal tools are available. Evaluation of the Prevention and Precautionary Principles, Environmental Impact Assessment ('EIA'), liability and the Polluter Pays Principle, and their implementation, shows that we are on the right path, although there is still a lot of work to be done.


The existence of cooling flows in the center of cluster of galaxies can influence the Sunyaev-Zeldovich diminution of the cosmic microwave background radiation temperature in the Rayleigh-Jeans part of the spectrum by its free-free emission. This may account for the positional discrepancy of the observed peak of the diminution and the expected diminution from modelling with the X-ray observations from clusters without cooling flows. Alternatively, the S-Z effect can be employed to detect cooling flows in distant clusters of galaxies


This paper reports the results of an experiment that investigated the effects different structural characteristics of relational databases have on end-user information satisfaction. The results show that repeating fields and lack of atomicity adversely affect user satisfaction. The results also show that increased fragmentation resulting from higher levels of normalisation significantly improves user satisfaction. Overall the results suggest that higher levels of normalisation reduce task complexity when entering data into databases. This reduction in task complexity culminates in greater end-user satisfaction. The study contributes to the further development of theories of individual adjustment to information technology in the workplace by alerting organisations and database designers to the effects of structural characteristics of relational databases on data input satisfaction of end-users. These issues are of increasing importance because of growth in end-user design and maintenance of their own databases.


This volume assesses the state of the People's Republic of China on its 50th anniversary by asking leading scholars in various fields to give their views of developments since 1949 with emphasis on recent decades. With the exception of the contributions by Bob Dernberger and Michael Sullivan, the papers were presented and discussed at a conference cosponsored with the Centra de Estudos Asiáticos of the Universidade de Aveiro in Aveiro, Portugal from 28 to 31 January 1999. The China Quarterly wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Universidade de Aveiro, its Rector, Júlio Pedrosa de Jesus, and the efforts of the staff of the Centro de Estudos Asiáticos, in particular Pedro Vilarinho, António Miranda and Helena Costa.


In the nations of the developing world, the incidence of skin diseases is especially affected by geography. Epidemiological studies of skin diseases are important in the study of disease pattern, changes in disease pattern. and for planning dermatology services and research for a country. This report records the pattern of skin diseases encountered in Kashmir region of India. The incidence of the noninfectious dermatoses almost approximates that of infectious dermatoses in this Valley.


Based on observation data of suspended sediment and bed sediment grain sizes,suspended sediment concentration(SSC),and tidal current,we have studied the characteristics of suspended sediment transport near Xiaoqing estuary in Bohai Sea. The research results show that the SSC increases gradually from the seashore to the offshore area in the whole research region. The north part is higher than the south,and the northeast of estuary is the highest. The inshore suspended sediment is mainly influenced by local bed sediment,and the offshore suspended sediments possibly come from the suspended particles of the adjacent region. The surface sediment concentration is similar to the bottom in the north,but the bottom one is much larger than the surface in the south. The SSC of spring tides is much larger than that of neap tides,and the SSC increases with tidal current. Sediment is mainly from inshore sediment transport in Xiaoqing estuary.


....................................................................................................................... l Part I 1. The Application of Molecular Orbital Theory to the Diels-Alder Reaction ............. S 2. Semi-empirical Molecular Orbital Methods ........................................................ 27 3. Diastereofacial Selectivity in the Diels-Alder Reaction ..................................... 51 Part II 4. The Application of Molecular Mechanics to Investigate Steric Influences in Determining Facial Selectivity ........................................................................... 87 5. Diastereofacial Selection in Diels-Alder reactions to a Cage Diol.. ....................... 97 6. Diastereofacial Selection in Diels-Alder Reactions of Mono and Dimethylidene Substituted Cage Dienes ...................................................................................... lOS 7. Synthetic Studies on Cage Compounds .................................................................. 115 Part III 8. The Application of Semi-empirical Methods to the Study of Reaction Pathways.127 9. AMl and PM3 Studies of the Diels-Alder Reactions of Acetylene ........................ 133 10. AMl Calculations of Acetylene Additions to Cage-fused Dienes .......................... 147 11. Orbital Mixing in Cage-fused Dienes and the Consequences for Diastereofacial Selection in Diels-Alder Reactions ............................................ 157 12. Cycloaddition Reactions of Diimide ................................................................... 169 13. The "Cieplak" Effect. Direction of Reaction at Facially Dissymmetric 1t Systems by Hyperconjugative Interactions ........................................................ l85 Experimental ........................................................................................................... 197 Crystallography ....................................................................................................... 217 Computer Software ................................................................................................ 227 References ................................................................................................................ 257 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................. 269


Aims: Evidence suggests that platelets are involved in acute rejection and long-term renal allograft dysfunction. We hypothesised that immunosuppressive drugs play a role in activating platelets and therefore allograft dysfunction. We studied the effect of varying doses of cyclosporin A and tacrolimus on platelet activation and degranulation. Methods: Using a standardised phlebotomy technique, blood samples were collected from 20 patients with chronic renal failure and incubated with physiological high and low doses of cyclosporin A (CyA) and tacrolimus. Unstimulated platelets and those stimulated with endogenous agonist ADP were analysed by flow cytometry for P-selectin expression and fibrinogen binding as measures of platelet degranulation and activation, respectively. Results: Relative to control samples, resting platelet degranulation (expression of P-selectin) was increased by both high-dose CyA (17·5%, P = 0·0003) and highdose tacrolimus (23·3%, P < 0·0001). Activation of resting platelets, as measured by fibrinogen binding, was not increased by any of the drug regimes (P > 0·19 for all). However, stimulation of platelets with 10−6 M ADP caused a significant increase in fibrinogen binding in those platelets incubated with drugs relative to control (high-dose CyA 25·4%, P < 0·0001; low-dose CyA 4·15%, P = 0·045; high-dose tacrolimus 15·3%, P = 0.0001 and low-dose tacrolimus 14·0%, P = 0·0094) and CyA also demonstrated a dose effect (P < 0·0001). Conclusions: CyA and tacrolimus increase resting platelet degranulation and increase fibrinogen binding in platelets stimulated by physiological agonists in a dose-responsive manner. These properties of calcineurin channel inhibitors may have a role in the pathogenesis of chronic allograft nephropathy. Moynihan Prize 02


Oxide‐insulated stripe‐geometry double‐heterostructure lasers have been lifetested continuously for periods up to 25 000 h. Degradation occurred in two stages, an initial stage lasting several thousand hours and a final stage, characterized by rates of threshold increase of 0–6 and 1–2%/kh, respectively. The dominant stress in these lasers is caused by the insulating oxide film. The magnitude of the stress was found to vary considerably depending on the detailed shape of the oxide profile and thickness. Good correlation was found between stress magnitude and initial residual degradation rate. It is concluded that for reliable laser performance processing stresses must not exceed 1×108 dyn cm−2 in the active region.


Four einkorn wheat accessions with similar total protein content and contrasting breadmaking characteristics were studied. The two high-quality accessions contained a large amount of glutenin polymers of high molecular size compared to the two poor quality accessions. SDS-PAGE fractionation of total protein did not show a clear relationship between glutenin subunit composition and flour properties. Moreover, High Molecular Weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) showed complete immunological identity with those of common wheat. The predominant x-type HMW-GS and the minor y-type HMW-GS showed four and six SHgroups, respectively. The present results suggest that variation in breadmaking quality between the einkorn wheats analysed is due to factors other than HMW-GS composition.


PURPOSE: A method and a device for transmitting video data to a terminal are provided to display the high resolution video data on a two-level black and white monitor by encoding the video data in various resolutions. CONSTITUTION: A video data transmission method comprises the steps of obtaining high resolution bit streams by encoding high resolution video data to transmit(41), converting the high resolution video data into low resolution video data(42), obtaining low resolution bit streams by encoding the converted low resolution video data(43), and transmitting the high resolution bit streams and low resolution bit streams to a receiver terminal(44). Since high resolution video data are transmitted to a low resolution terminal after being converted into low resolution video data, video data are transmitted to terminals of various resolutions.


Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks, in the main, are concerned with the accurate generation of one of a number of different types of music metadata – beat onsets, or melody extraction, for example. Almost always, they operate on fully mixed digital audio recordings. Commonly, this means that a large amount of signal processing effort is directed towards the isolation, and then identification, of certain highly relevant aspects of the audio mix. In some cases, results of one MIR algorithm are useful, if not essential, to the operation of another – a chord detection algorithm for example, is highly dependent upon accurate pitch detection. Although not clearly defined in all cases, certain rules exist which we may take from music theory in order to assist the task – the particular note intervals which make up a specific chord, for example. On the question of generating accurate, low level music metadata (e.g. chromatic pitch and score onset time), a potentially huge advantage lies in the use of multitrack, rather than mixed, audio recordings, in which the separate instrument recordings may be analysed in isolation. Additionally, in MIR, as in many other research areas currently, there is an increasing push towards the use of the Semantic Web for publishing metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Semantic Web technologies, though, also facilitate the querying of data via the SPARQL query language, as well as logical inferencing via the careful creation and use of web ontology language (OWL) ontologies. This, in turn, opens up the intriguing possibility of deferring our decision regarding which particular type of MIR query to ask of our low-level music metadata until some point later down the line, long after all the heavy signal processing has been carried out. In this thesis, we describe an over-arching vision for an alternative


N this article there is a speech about that that purposeful and systematic application of means of physical preparation has multilateral and very deep impact on physical development, promotes strengthening of health of employees and serve as the base of their high general and office and professional performance, and also the important precondition of increase of level of their physical readiness.


The present invention relates to an electric machine, comprising; a first magnetic pole (2), a first magnetic pole arrangement comprising a plurality of layers, arrangement of these active layers comprises a magnetic layer (3) having a total volume of Va; a second magnetic pole (4) wherein the first pole (2) and the second magnetic pole (4) movable relative to each other; and an air gap (5), which is a layer in the direction parallel to the layers from the first magnetic pole (2) of the air gap air gap (5) delimiting an end portion of the second pole (4) (5) delimiting an end portion having a length lS; as a coupling element between a current loop (7) and a magnetic circuit (8) of the electrical conductor (6), wherein at run time a magnetic circuit (8) comprises a first magnetic pole (2), has a length lS air gap (5) and a second magnetic pole (4), which are common for the effective magnetic flux flows through the electrically mechanical energy conversion, wherein the arrangement comprises a non-magnetic active layer (9) has a total volume Vi, which is less than the active magnetic layer (3) average mass density, and by repeating substantially given period p to the magnetic layer inactive sequence arrangement (9) and the active magnetic layer (3), A series of magnetic cycle having an active layer (3) and a non-magnetic active layer (9) is determined, wherein the spatial components of k satisfies the condition 0.5≤k≤0.8. Further, the present invention relates to a magnetic pole member, a tool and a wind power generation apparatus and a method for manufacturing a driving motor.


The articles in Modern Philology, III, 267 ff., VI, 331 ff., VII, 145 ff., on the source of Chritien's Yvain, may be taken to indicate a general trend of opinion, outside of Germany at least,' toward the view that Chr6tien borrowed the entire scenarwo of his Yvain from a Celtic fairy-mistress story. To this view Professor Nitze, who must be judged by his second article, "The Fountain Defended,"2 and not by his first, "A New Source of the Yvain,"3 now gives entire adherence. The title of his first article, as well as a good deal of the text, was so worded as to seem incompatible with the theory of one coherent source for Chritien's romance. But the careful reader of his second article, "The Fountain Defended," will perceive that Mr. Nitze now concerns himself only with the ultimate origin of the theme, and scarcely touches the question of the immediate source employed by Chritien. That this immediate source is to be sought in a coherent Celtic fairy-mistress tory was urged by the present writer, in 1903 and


System for providing electrical isolation while transmitting electrical signals may include a first circuit and a second circuit that is electrically isolated from the first circuit. The first circuit may result in a first electrical signal path for transmitting the electrical signals of the transmission, including the first EHF communication unit. First EHF communication unit receives the electrical signals of the transmission may be an electromagnetic EHF signal representative of the electrical signal to transmit electromagnetically. The second circuit may result in a second electrical signal path includes a second EHF communication unit. Second EHF communication unit, an electromagnetic EHF signal transmitted received electromagnetically, received by extracting received electrical signals from the electromagnetic EHF signals, to apply the received electrical signal into a second electrical signal path It may be configured. Dielectric elements, the electromagnetic EHF signals may be conducted between the first EHF communication unit and the second EHF communication unit.


To calibrate the Actigraph GT3X+ accelerometer for wrist‐worn placement in young preschoolers by developing intensity thresholds for sedentary, low‐ and high‐intensity physical activity. Furthermore, to cross‐validate the developed thresholds in young preschoolers.


Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the clinical outcomes of Direct True Lumen Cannulation (Samurai Technique), axillary artery cannulation and femoral artery cannulation techniques used in aortic dissection surgery.
Materials and methods: The data of 124 patients who underwent surgical treatment for acute aortic dissection between February 2018 and December 2022 were analyzed rectospectively. Patients were divided into Group 1 (samurai technique cannulation group) and Group 2 (axillary and femoral cannulation group).
Results: When the results were analyzed, preoperative personal and clinical characteristics were found to be similar between the groups. In the inoperative period, the time from skin incision to CPB, hypothermic circulatory arrest time, and time for cooling were shorter in group 1. While there were no cannulation-related complications in group 1, axillary artery dissection developed in two patients in group 2. No significant difference was observed between the groups in postoperative results.
Conclusion: Although there were similar results in the groups in the preoperative and postoperative periods, the more positive results in the surgery show that cannulation with the samurai technique is a preferable method.


The authors describe the operation of lever-operated systems of an axial bearing which automatically equalizes the load on the pads when the fulcrum of the lower levers are moved out into the plane of conjugation of the upper levers with the lower levers.


This study intends to investigate the effect of option framing and its balancing role for car-buyers and how it can affect the optional decision of...


The article presents the conceptual model of process of training of future experts of the socionomic sphere for working in the polycultural environment. Requirements imposed by society and state standard for vocational training, the main ideas of the practical-focused training of cadets are proved. The directions of organization and content of process of training and development, both personal and professional are presented.


The title complex, (Sr(C68H106O16)(H2O)), forms a pseudo-centrosymmetric monomer complex, in which one aquo (or water) ligand bridges three O centres of the first lasalocid anionic ligand (Lasa 2) and in which this ligand is tridentate and bonded to just one Sr atom, and the other lasalocid ligand (Lasa 1) is pentadentate and bridges the Sr centre within the monomer. The monomeric unit is stabilized by intramolecular C⎯H O and O⎯H…O type-hydrogen bonding interactions.


Mountain garbage pollution in the province's economic, safety, feasibility as the goal, make full use of the space advantage mountainous rural areas, labor advantage and grassroots organizational advantage, raised in rural garbage collection and disposal countermeasures and suggestions; GIS and multi-objective decision-making as the core technology designed particles and waste disposal lines, to optimize garbage collection and disposal in the region of space network, and propose specific support measures and policy recommendations.


the paper discusses approaches to enhancing learning and creative activities of students, the characteristic of the basic concepts of "creativity", "professional creativity", "creative workers", "educational-creative tasks." Presents professionally-oriented situations on the basis of technology the role of interaction in ensuring the effectiveness of future professional activity


Objective:To evaluate the effect of β 1 selective blocker bisoprolol on the QT dispersion in patients with chronic heart failure and to compare the responses to bisoprolol in patients with different etiologies. Method:81 patients with heart failure secondary to ischemic heart disease (n=47) or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (n=34) were stratified by etiology and then randomly assigned to the bisoprolol and blank control group on the top of the conventional treatment. QT dispersion was calculated by subtracting the shortest QT from the longest QT, in absolute value (Qtmax Qtmin). Result:After 6 weeks treatment, QT dispersion were significantly decreased in the bisoprolol group (P 0.01 ) , but there was no significant decrease of QT dispersion in control group. Linear regression analysis showed that patients with ischemic heart disease tend to have lower 6-week QT dispersion than patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (coefficient = -0.283 , P= 0.009 ) after controlling for their baseline values in the bisoprolol group. Conclusion:This paper finds that bisoprolol reduce QT dispersion in patients with chronic heart failure,and patrents with iachemic heact disease respond to bisoprolol better than those patients with idiopathetic dilated carsdiomyopathy.It suggets that QTd may be a predictor as an end point for treating CHF with β receptor.


The mutant C-2A'of the unicellular green alga Scenedesmus obliquus accumulates the chlorophyll-precursors protocbloropbyllide and the already eslerified protochlorophyll when grown heterotrophically in the dark. Two derivatives of protochlorophyll. monovinyl protochlorophyll (MV-PChl) and divinyl protochlorophyll (DV-PChl), were isolated from dark-grown cells of mutani C-2A'and characterized by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. Their molecular masses were determined by plasma desorption mass spectrometry. Both MV- and DV-PChl were mainly esterified with geranylgeraniol. However, some esterification with the more saturated alcohols dihydrogeranylgeraniol. tetrahydrogeranylgeraniol and phytol could also be detected.


The operation of extirpation of the tear sac is a very satisfactory one, from a surgical standpoint, and so is the removal of the inferior turbinate a satisfactory surgical procedure; but today there are very few rhinologists who will consent to remove an inferior turbinate. In both these operations, the after-results are far from satisfactory. In the extirpation from 30 to SO per cent have epiphora. I am quoting from a recent telegram received from Dr. Mosher of Boston. He states, "Tearing after excision of sac in 30 to SO per cent." About 90 per cent of the people that have had their inferior turbinates removed regret the operation the rest of their lives. I have done the usual number of extirpations that a fairly busy ophthalmologist and rhinologist does. I was not duly disturbed about the complaints that were made to me in regard to epiphora. I told most of my patients that they were better off than before the operation and that their epiphora was not dangerous to the eye. Unfortunately, or perhaps in the end fortunately, I had done an extirpation on a hospital superintendent. I still have the most vivid picture of her in my mind. Every morning she seemed to be waiting for me, and there she stood dabbing at her eye. Occasionally her greetings were not altogether pleasant. I had seen Dr. West demonstrate his intranasal tear sac operation in London in 1914. It seemed somewhat risky and uncertain, and did not appeal to me at the time, but later the persistence of epiphora in my own tear sac extirpations caused me to decide that if there was an operation that would be more certain of relieving epiphora than the extirpation, I was going to master its technic.


This chapter discusses the recent research carried out in last fifteen years in the natural products research exclusively in peptic ulcer disease. Health and medicine importance has been realized from evolution. From ancient times natural products have been utilized by our family tree. The recent research focuses on the scientific validation of our traditional natural source. The ancient medical practice in traditional alternative medical system includes Ayurveda, Unani, and Siddha, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Chinese traditional medicines, Native American medicine and African traditional medicine. The rate of curing diseases without adverse effect is the significance of natural products research. The common vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants and its phytochemicals have been reviewed in this chapter.


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Our purpose is to discover and discuss allergic accidents during the course of general anaesthesia.

PRINCIPAL POINTS
We have discussed the mechanisms involved, the principal agents, their character as allergens and diagnostic means.

EVALUATION
We highlight the role of plasmatic tryptase in immediate diagnosis and that of cutaneous tests for aetiological diagnosis.

CONCLUSIONS
In accordance with the tests discussed, we propose a few lines of action to be taken.


In Brazil, one of the most important telecommunications systems is broadcast television. Such relevance demands an extensive analysis to be performed chasing technical excellence in order to offer a better digital transmission to the user. Therefore, it is mandatory to evaluate the quality and strength of the Digital TV signal, through studies of coverage predictions models, allowing stations to be projected in a way that their respective signals are harmoniously distributed. The purpose of this study is to appraise measurements of digital television signal obtained in the field and to compare them with numerical results from the simulation of the Dominant Path Model. The outcomes indicate possible blocking zones and a low accumulated probability index above the reception threshold, as well as characterise the gain level of the receiving antenna, which would prevent signal blocking.


In Prosopis caldenia forests, currently, the main activity is cattle rearing. Almost all research focuses on the herbaceous component, losing sight of the value of the forest resource and the implications of its management on the forage resource. The objective of this work is to evaluate forage availability based on forest cover, apply a model of diameter classes that allows predicting the evolution of forest mass and establish the relationship between the evolution of forest cover and forage availability. For this, forage availability was measured under and outside the projection of woody canopies, in two covers: open (10-15 m2 ha-1) and closed (25-30 m2 ha-1). Afterwards, through a model of diameter classes, it was sought to predict how the parameters of forest mass would evolve. The results of the herbaceous component showed that, up to 15 m2 ha-1 of basal area (BA), there is no significant decrease in forage availability (approximately 2,700 kg ha-1). Regarding the forestry component, in a projected period of 10 years, 6.68 m3 ha-1 would be obtained, representing 9.61 % of total standing volume. The relationship between canopy coverage and BA showed increase of 3.18 % per BA unit (R2 = 0.96). This would allow projecting their participation by diameter class to propose improvement cuts that allow conducting these systems at coverage levels that do not significantly affect forage yield.


Raster map is an image that has been discretized in space and brightness, and it is an important carrier of geospatial data. With the rapid development of Internet and big data technologies, preserving the privacy of raster map has become an urgent task. To solve these issues, we propose a novel extended visual cryptography scheme to securely store a raster map into other two meaningful halftone maps in the paper. The scheme avoids the random-looking shares of visual cryptography schemes which are vulnerable and hard to manage. We first apply the halftone and color decomposition methods to transform a color secret map into halftone images. After that, we encode the secret map block by block to avoid pixel expansion. At last, by optimizing the selection of encrypted blocks, we achieve a high-quality secret recovery from generated multiple equal-sized shares. The technique used is to employ a versatile and secure raster map exchange. Experimental results show that, compared with previous work, the proposed scheme significantly improves the performance of recovered raster maps.


In this paper, stress and magnetostriction induced by flux pinning are studied numerically for a long elliptic cylinder superconductor. The cylinder is placed in a parallel magnetic field. Based on the critical state Bean model and variational formulation, critical current and flux distributions are obtained for zero field cooling process first. Then, the mechanical response problem of the elliptic cylinder is investigated using the finite element method, and the problem is assumed to be plane strain case. The results show that the stress depends on magnetic field and aspect ratio of ellipse. In addition, the maximum stress of semi-major axis is different from that of semi-minor axis. The aspect ratio has different effects on the stress distribution for semi-major and semi-minor axes.


The role that local community sectors play in area-based regeneration policy raises important issues for social policy. First, community groups are playing an increasingly important role in delivering services to local people, thereby complementing and, in some cases, replacing statutory services. Second, the participatory nature of community groups is increasingly associated with the development of what has come to be termed 'social capital' and the promotion of volunteering as an antidote to poverty and social exclusion. Third, community groups are increasingly involved in multi-agency partnerships that are designed to bring a holistic and integrated approach to anti-poverty work at the local level. Cý t. 7 0 These three roles and associated theoretical frameworks underpin the empirical work on which the thesis is based. This thesis has two main aims. First, to explore the assumptions that underpin these three roles for community groups in deprived areas and to examine empirically how community groups operate in such localities. Second, to consider the impact of area-based regeneration policy on the way that local community sectors operate. To examine these issues two case study areas in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, were the subject of in-depth fieldwork. The two localities were in receipt of Single Regeneration 1-1) ZP Budget Challenge Funding and represented different kinds of urban areas. One is an inner 4D Z) C) city area with a high proportion of ethnic minorities living in owner occupied housing tenure and the other is made up of three peripheral housing estates with a high proportion of white 0 residents living in social housing. The fieldwork included in-depth investigation of sixty four 0 r. ) community groups. In depth interviews were conducted with a total of 50 individuals involved in these groups. Interviews were also conducted with 20 residents who were not actively involved in volunteering for local community groups. This thesis raises implications for the contribution that the community sector can make to area-based reaeneration policy. In addition, the study raises questions regarding the ways in which the role of the community sector is linked to wider social, political and economic trends. Ultimately there is a need for policy makers to be more aware of the limitations of the local community sector as a route to solving social problems. This thesis provides a Z: ) theoretical and empirical basis for such questions to be more fruitfully explored in future.


The development of internet information technology has encouraged the presence of various application platforms that can be used for multiple needs. One application that is very widely used socially is the social media application. Through social media applications, users can share information according to their needs. The use of the internet also supports the use of streaming technology that makes it easier to carry out activities to watch movies online. The availability of information technology facilities and infrastructure makes it easier for people to get films. This study aims to study the influence of electronic worth of mouth on online customer loyalty through information sharing, perceived ease of use, and intention to use. This study collected data using questionnaires as many as 378 respondents of streaming technology users obtained from the spread of 1237 questionnaires, which means a response rate of 30.55%. Data analysis uses the partial least square technique to test the study's hypothesis. The results showed that electronic word of mouth directly affects perceived ease of use, intention to use, and information sharing. Perceived ease of use is based on the intention to use, information sharing, and customer loyalty. Information sharing directly affects the intention to use and online customer loyalty. The results also showed that intention to use impacts increasing customer loyalty. In addition to direct influence, the study's results showed that electronic worth of mouth indirectly affects online customer loyalty through information sharing, perceived ease of use, and intention to use. This research enriches the field of technology acceptance model with perceived ease of use, intention to use, and information sharing. Contributions to the theory of marketing behavior are related to electronic word of mouth and online customer loyalty. A practical contribution to companies engaged in the cinema and internet technology infrastructure providers is to sustainably apply streaming technology as a form of business that society uses.


A heterodimeric complex comprised of the highly variable T-cell receptor (TCR) alpha and beta chain proteins, which are linked by interchain disulfide bonds. This membrane bound complex is expressed on the surface of most T-lymphocytes and is involved in the recognition of peptide antigens that are presented by major histocompatibility (MHC) proteins. The alpha/beta dimer is non-covalently associated with the CD3 complex, which promotes ligand-dependent signaling.


ARBITRATION FINANCE By now, in spring 2017, we can all agree that third party litigation and arbitration finance is firmly established globally and recognised as an accepted and valuable tool for facilitating litigation risk sharing and providing better access to justice. Recent, and very welcome, developments in the world of international arbitration are further evidence of litigation funding's move into the global legal mainstream. In recent months, Singapore has passed legislation to permit third party funding in arbitration, with Hong Kong likely to follow suit shortly. Each of these jurisdictions believes that it would be at a significant competitive disadvantage in the international dispute resolution market if it did not. Indeed, arbitral bodies – including the ICC's International Court of Arbitration – have clearly signalled that third-party funding is a positive force in dispute resolution. These unambiguous endorsements have been applauded by the entire funding community. The litigation and arbitration finance market has matured, and begun to expand its investor base beyond its historical reliance on high-net-worth individuals and one or two funds. Today, banks and hedge funds are far more willing to invest in litigation than previously. Many now regard litigation funding as a relatively low-risk asset class, given its potentially impressive, non-correlated headline returns. The growing willingness of additional sources of finance to enter the market is, in turn, enabling the litigation funding market to expand. Given that litigation funding allows both firms and their clients to effectively manage and mitigate risk, there is now growing evidence that at least some managing partners, corporate chief financial officers and general counsel 'get it'. Law firms benefit from the finance, which enables them to take on more contingency fee work. In the corporate sector, litigation funding allows businesses to run claims that they otherwise would not, because they lack either the legal budget or the risk appetite. For corporates, litigation funding also has an advantage over selffinancing from an accounting perspective. Under standard accounting rules, any additional legal expense will be clearly recognised, while the proceeds of any successful claims may well be treated as 'exceptional items'. Litigation funding can remove significant costs from the balance sheet while delivering a steady stream of risk-free returns, explaining why it is increasingly viewed as corporate finance for law. Litigation funding clearly has much to offer the legal and corporate sector. But we should not lose sight of the important role that litigation funding plays in improving access to justice, ensuring that claimants who may not otherwise have the resources for litigation are able to pursue their case. Litigation and arbitration should not just be the preserve of the wealthy and well-resourced. In fact, litigation and L IT IG A T IO N F U N D IN G A P R IL 2 01 7


The present study aims to enhance the bioavailability of Blueberry by formulating it as nanosuspension. Blueberry mainly consists of anthocyanins which have strong antihyperlipidemic activity but suffers from low bioavailability which causes hindrances in its therapeutic activity to treat hyperlipidemia. Hence to improve its bioavailability, nanosuspension of blueberry was prepared. Box-Behnken design was applied to predict the effect of independent variables namely concentration of chitosan and concentration of tripolyphosphate (TPP) and stirring speed on two responses namely particle size and entrapment efficiency. The design suggested that a formulation having a particle size of 205.05nm and entrapment efficiency of 76.60 % will be an optimized formulation if it has chitosan, TPP,and stirring speed of 0.5%, 0.05%,and 1050 rpm respectively. The formulation suggested by design was prepared and it was found that particle size and entrapment efficiency of nanosuspension 198.5 nm and 75.14±0.56 % respectively. In addition, it was found to have polydispersity index, refractive index, zeta potential of 0.351, 1.33, 21.08mv respectively.SEM analysis showed the droplet size under 200nm.When compared towards blueberry nanosuspension with drug extract release it shows the controlled release of drug up to 8 hrs which enhances the bioavailability of drug and drug extract suspension showed the maximum release in 2hrs which shows the immediate release of the drug. As a result, our research shows that nanotechnology might be utilized as an effective approach increasing the bioavailability of blueberry nanosuspension and this article also focuses on the antihyperlipidemic activity of anthocyanin.


This paper describes the implementation of a platform for simulating the robot soccer game based on the use of reconfigurable architectures. In this case, a FPGA-PCI board was used (based on Stratix II device, from Altera) in which the strategy of the game for approaching issues (namely, the player approaching the ball) is developed. A game simulator environment was also developed using the OpenGL–Graphics Library, which runs in the PC. A communication protocol was defined and implemented in order to support the communication between the FPGA embedded system and the software application. The FPGA embedded system consists of a NIOS embedded processor, in which was implemented a controller system, a memory block, a clock synthesizer (PLL), a timer and a PCI-bus driver. The communication between the simulator and the FPGA-PCI board is achieved by the PCI bus, in which case a communication protocol was defined. The communication among the different FPGA-embeddedhardware blocks was accomplished by means of the Avalon-Bus. The NIOS processor executes several functions for robot soccer game strategy implementation, which were written in C language. These functions are responsible for executing several mathematics operations in order to define the different situations of the game in real time. As far as the authors know, there are no systems in the literature with the similar characteristics (involving reconfigurable architectures, a FPGA-PCI board and a complex embedded system for solving the strategy planning subject for the robot soccer game problem).


Dry mass production and leaf area in relation to leaf injury and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were evaluated for eggplant (Solarium melongena L.) and pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) seedlings grown in continuous light at different intensities with metalhalide and high-pressure sodium lamps. Continuous light-induced leaf injury occurred in eggplants even at 50μmol m-2 s-1 PPFD. When the 2nd leaf unfolded under daily 12h light-12h dark cycle, the eggplants were transferred to three levels of light intensity; 100(low), 250(medium), 480(high) μmol m-2 s-1. After 8days, the SOD activity in the 3rd leaves showing no leaf injury at low light intensity was higher than that showing chlorosis or necrosis at high light intensity. However, after 16 days when the seedlings grown at low light intensity developed leaf-necrosis, SOD activities decreased to a low level, similar to those at medium and high light intensities. SOD activity increased gradually with time under continuous light up to the point of leaf injury, and decreased rapidly thereafter. These results suggest that the superoxide radical is associated with leaf injury. In contrast, pepper plants grew vigorously without any leaf injury, and the dry weight was the highest at a light intensity of 300~400 μmol m-2 s-1 and the largest leaf area at 150~200 μmol m-2 s-1. SOD activity in pepper plants was relatively lower and more stable compared to that of eggplants, and the pepper plants also seemingly well adapted to continuous light at an optimum intensity of 300 μmol m-2 s-1 for dry mass production in a closed environmental system.


Interactions of abiraterone and galeterone with steroid-metabolizing cytochrome P450 (CYP51A1) was studied. Binding of substrate type was observed, which indicates possible metabolism of abiraterone and galeterone by CYP51A1, however electrocatalytic reaction only towards abiraterone was observed.


This paper points out the peer review which aimed at serving publishing has evolved to aim at serving social academic assessment based on the research of the editing peer review.The author believes that since publishing has the function of social academic assessment,it should undertake the responsibility of academic assessment to promote the development of scientific research cause and editing publishing.


OBJECTIVE:To study the protection of Flastem milkvetch seed extract(FMSE) on the genetic damage of bone marrow lymphocyte induced by mitomycin C(MMC) in mice.METHODS:100 Kunming mice were divided into 5 groups at random,normal saline in control group and 2 mg/kg MMC were taken model groups.FMSE 20,40 and 80 mg/(kg ? d)were given daily in the low,medium and high dose groups for 10 d.12 hours before the last gastric gavage,the mice received intraperitoneal MMC(2 mg/kg) except for normal group which received NS.Then the mice were killed by cervical dislocation.The bone marrow lymphocytes suspension was prepared.Comets electrophoresis, formation of micronucleus of polychromatic erythroblasts(PCE),chromosome aberration test in bone marrow lymphocytes of mice and mitotic index(MI) were determined to study the protection of FMSE on the genetic damage of bone marrow lymphocytes induced by MMC.RESULTS:After using MMC alone in model group,rates of tailing,tail length,micronucleus and chromosome aberration of the bone marrow lymphocytes were significantly enhanced(P0.01) compared with those of normal group.Meanwhile MI of model group was significantly lower than that of normal group (P0.01).After using different concentrations of high,medium and low FMSE combined with intrapertioneal MMC,rates of tailing,tail length,micronucleus and chromosome aberration of the bone marrow lymphocytes were significantly decreased compared with those of control group(P0.01).MI of model group was dramatically higher than that of normal group(P0.01).CONCLUSION:FMSE could significantly protect the genetic damage of bone marrow lymphocytes induced by MMC in mice.


The effect of erythrocyte deformability is discussed in three types of flow situation (continuous situation continuous but non uniform situation, and two phases situation), in which the length scale (diameter of the vessels) is similar or not to the diameter of the red cell.


A patient is described with an unusual skin eruption associated with bacterial overgrowth in jejunal diverticula and malabsorption. The initial skin changes were frankly vasculitic with 'target' lesions, whilst older lesions showed a psoriasiform scale and a tendency to central clearing. The illness was associated with raised levels of IgM and IgG containing circulating immune complexes and deposition of IgM and IgG in the dermis. It was suppressed by oral antibiotic therapy. There are similarities between the findings in this patient and those described in the intestinal bypass syndrome.


Much has been written in the past few years on customer satisfaction. Traditional approaches to customer satisfaction, however, have been too narrow in scope in the way satisfaction is measured. Most instruments to measure customer satisfaction are not sensitive to the fact that a customer's voice has a wide spectrum and goes beyond the single note of satisfaction or happiness. Most approaches fail to link customer satisfaction to drivers of loyalty and market share and to processes that contribute to pro® tability. Traditional approaches to customer satisfaction also do not oVer a comprehensive way to measure the range of perceptions that in ̄ uence customer behaviour. Organizations that want to improve quality signi® cantly by aligning internal processes to the voice of the customer must look beyond customer satisfaction to market-oriented measures for gauging progress. This requires shifting attention away from customer satisfaction to the more comprehensive concept of customer loyalty. Loyal customers stick with their suppliers or service providers over the long run. They also express their loyalty by giving a greater share of their wallets to their high-value brands or service providers and by generating word-of-mouth referrals. All of these behaviours will directly aVect pro® tability. But it takes a lot more than customer satisfaction to make a customer loyal and to make internal processes truly responsive to customer needs, market share opportunities and pro® t objectives. Recent studies have demonstrated mixed results in analysing the relationship between satisfaction and loyalty. Several studies have indeed found satisfaction to be a (and often the) leading factor in determining loyalty (e.g. Anderson & Fornell, 1994; Oliver & Linda, 1981; Pritchard, 1991). Other studies, however, suggest satis® ed customers may not be suYcient to create loyal customers (e.g. Cronin & Taylor, 1992; Fornell, 1992; Oliva et al., 1992). These studies tend to support Reichheld's (1993) argument that customer satisfaction is not a surrogate for customer loyalty, and thus increasing customer satisfaction does not necessarily lead to increased customer loyalty to a product, service or organization. To gain further insight into the development of customer loyalty toward a service or product, this study looks


This research tells about female vocational school in the press. The premise of the investigation is that the binomial citizenship-education made possible the right to vote for women in Rio Grande do Norte. The methodology followed theoretical references of the dialectical historical method. The sources of study include messages from state governors, speeches delivered, educational legislation, and the press. The analysis of these sources followed a theoretical-methodological and dialectical reference. The results point to the articulation between the professional preparation of the female school and the female suffrage in Rio Grande do Norte, with emphasis on the Domestic School and the change of the female office.


The diffusion of Pb through Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3(PZT)/Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si thin film heterostructures is studied by using time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectrometry depth profiling. The as‐deposited films initially contained 10 mol% Pb excess and were thermally processed at temperatures ranging from 325 to 700°C to promote Pb diffusion. The time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectrometry depth profiles show that increasing processing temperature promoted Pb diffusion from the PZT top film into the buried heterostructure layers. After processing at low temperatures (eg, 325°C), Pb+ counts were low in the Pt region. After processing at elevated temperatures (eg, 700°C), significant Pb+ counts were seen throughout the Pt layer and into the Ti and SiO2 layers. Intermediate processing temperatures (400, 475, and 500°C) resulted in Pb+ profiles consistent with this overall trend. Films processed at 400°C show a sharp peak in PtPb+ intensity at the PZT/Pt interface, consistent with prior reports of a Pt3Pb phase at this interface after processing at similar temperatures.


This paper presents an adapted version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model to be utilised as a validation tool of captured user needs and requirements of particular interactive software technologies, within the framework of Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS). In particular, this model is used to assess the users' acceptance and technology adoption of specific CTMS modules of the electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) Clinical Trial Management Framework System. We present modifications on the variable of the key constructs of UTAUT, while we introduce our own moderating factors for the model in the context of validating an eligibility criteria tool for primary care and community-based clinical research.


Sustainable construction is hardly practised in Africa, despite the consistent campaign for its adoption. This study investigates the drivers and effects of sustainable construction in South Africa. The quantitative survey research design was adopted for the study and the respondents were the construction organisations in Johannesburg, South Africa. The study identified 17 significant drivers of sustainable construction, with construction cost as the dominant variable. The important environmental (8), economic (12), and social benefits (7) of sustainable construction were also determined. The challenges (24) of sustainable construction were also identified. The study recommended that measures for low construction cost should be put in place, and awareness campaigns should be enhanced. Economic benefits are still behind environmental benefits, and this could affect some prospective adopters. Lack of knowledge and weak economies were prevalent challenges that underscore the need for Western support for African nations to comfortably adopt sustainable construction.


Children undergoing treatment for malignancy have excellent survival rates which now approach 75%. In most cases, children who die following treatment for cancer do so of their disease, but despite huge improvements in supportive care, one in six of the deaths within 5 years of diagnosis are due to the complications of therapy. One such life-threatening complication remains infection, frequently presenting as the occurrence of fever with neutropenia. This paper explores the issues around prevention of febrile neutropenia and risk stratification of new episodes, reviews recent advances in the field of febrile neutropenia and highlights current research which may directly improve patient care.


SUMMARY Objective A: Condition, status and trends and projected futures of the dugong in the Northern Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait; including identification and evaluation of the key threats and evaluation of available management options to improve its status.


Correspondence to Li-Ta Keng, M.D. Tel: +886-3-5326151 ex. 2000 Fax: +886-3-5326151 ex. 2004 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com A 39-year-old woman with no known systemic disease presented to the respiratory clinic for a routine chest radiography examination. She had no respiratory symptoms such as cough, sputum, dyspnea, or chest pain. Physical examination revealed bilaterally symmetrical lung sounds without crackles or wheezes. Chest radiography revealed diffuse osteosclerosis in the thoracic cage, bilateral clavicles, and scapulae, and cortical thickening of bilateral ribs (Fig. 1, arrows). Computed tomography of the chest at the mediastinum window (level 40 and width 350 Hounsfield units) revealed diffusely homogenous marked hyperdensities of all bony structures (Fig. 2). Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry revealed a T-score of 5.6 (normal range, −1 to 1), obtained from L2 to L4 spines. Detailed anamnesis disclosed that her father had had a history of bilateral hip fractures and been told that he had dense bones on radiographic examination. A diagnosis of Albers-Schönberg disease or autosomal dominant osteopetrosis was made. She was advised to avoid strenuous exercise for prevention of Albers-Schönberg disease


Older readers will remember using a slide rule to carry out multiplication and division in the days before calculators. There was also a graphical tool called a nomogram, which was used for evaluating certain functions. Although such devices have little practical use nowadays, I was interested in investigating which classes of functions with two independent variables could be calculated using this type of device. Figure 1 shows how a slide rule was used to multiply 3 by 4 (or equivalently to divide 12 by 4). To do this, you align the 1 on the upper scale with the 3 on the lower scale and then read off the value below the 4 on the upper scale to get 12 (or, for division, you line up the 4 above the 12 and read off the answer 3 on the lower scale).


Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex and heterogeneous trait in which multiple molecular pathways are disrupted in different cell‐types culminating in disease. Genetic variants in TREM2, a gene expressed in microglia, have been associated with high‐risk with AD, and similarly soluble TREM2 (sTREM2) levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been associated with AD. In a previous Genome‐wide association study (GWAS) of CSF sTREM2 levels, a genetic variant near the MS4A gene cluster accounted for 6 percent of the protein's variance (rs1582763 p = 1.15 × 10−15). This finding suggests that TREM2 is involved in AD risk in the general population, beyond TREM2 risk‐variant carriers, as the minor allele frequency of rs1582763 > 0.30. rs1582763 is also a cis‐eQTL for both MS4A4A and MS4A6A genes in bulk RNA‐seq of blood.


One can hardly read the discussion with which Gilbert accompanies his publication of Polypodium vulgare var. Churchiael without noticing his lack of certainty as to its status and the feeling that he had assigned his variety to that species partly because no more satisfactory disposition of it seemed possible. His description was based on a plant with two fronds, one of which he preserved as the type. Unfortunately, his herbarium was left to a high school, where, according to report, it has been lost or destroyed, and a reference to. his type is therefore impossible. No other example of the variant was known until three years ago, when Miss Elsie M. Kittredge found a specimen near Florence, Vermont.2 It was taken up and transplanted to Mrs. Chisholm's garden in Proctor. In September, 1931, Miss Kittredge brought one of its fronds to the Fern Society's meeting at Brown's Mills, N. J., where it excited much interest and surprise, and later she very kindly contributed it to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. With stalked pinnae and a stipe abundantly clothed with scales, it looked more like a form of Polystichum acrostichoides than a polypody, and the more attentively one examined it, the more difficult became the acceptance of Gilbert's identification of it as a variety of Polypodium vulgare. Last August Dr. E. T. Wherry and I visited Mrs. Chisholm and had the satisfaction of seeing the curious and puzzling little plant alive and growing in her fasci-


Abstract Marques, DL, Neiva, HP, Marinho, DA, and Marques, MC. Velocity-monitored resistance training in older adults: the effects of low-velocity loss threshold on strength and functional capacity. J Strength Cond Res 36(11): 3200–3208, 2022—This study analyzed the effects of velocity-monitored resistance training (RT) with a velocity loss of 10% on strength and functional capacity in older adults. Forty-two subjects (79.7 ± 7.1 years) were allocated into an RT group (n = 21) or a control group (CG; n = 21). Over 10 weeks, the RT group performed 2 sessions per week, whereas the CG maintained their daily routine. During RT sessions, we monitored each repetition's mean velocity in the leg press and chest press exercises at 40–65% of 1 repetition maximum (1RM). The set ended when a velocity loss of 10% was reached. At pretest and post-test, both groups were assessed in the 1RM leg press and chest press, handgrip strength, medicine ball throw (MBT), walking speed (T10), and 5-repetition sit-to-stand (STS). After 10 weeks, the RT group significantly improved the 1RM leg press (p < 0.001; Hedge's g effect size [g] = 0.55), 1RM chest press (p < 0.001; g = 0.72), MBT 1kg (p < 0.01; g = 0.26), T10 (p < 0.05; g = −0.29), and STS (p < 0.05; g = −0.29), whereas the CG significantly increased the T10 (p < 0.05; g = 0.15). Comparisons between groups at post-test demonstrated significant differences in the 1RM leg press (p < 0.001; mean difference [MD] = 14.4 kg), 1RM chest press (p < 0.001; MD = 7.52), MBT 1kg (p < 0.05; MD = 0.40 m), T10 (p < 0.001; MD = −0.60 seconds), and STS (p < 0.001; MD = −1.85 seconds). Our data demonstrate that velocity-monitored RT with velocity loss of 10% results in a few repetitions per set (leg press: 5.1 ± 1.2; chest press: 3.6 ± 0.9) and significantly improves strength and functional capacity in older adults.


Abstract:Epode 16, Horace's famous decline poem about Rome before Actium, has long been viewed as a cynical response to Vergil's prophecy of a returning Golden Age in Eclogue 4. In this article, I argue that there is another, unrecognized intertext for Epode 16—Pindar's Olympian 2—to which Horace's bleak poem alludes in a "window reference" refracted through Vergil's bucolic. As such, Horace's cynicism represents, in fact, a lament over the lost simplicity and timelessness of Greek oral poetry, and an attempt to reclaim for his listeners/readers the originary experience of listening. In so doing, Horace takes up the Pindaric mantle of poet-prophet.


This paper carries on the calculation of the basic thermal properties of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) and comparative analysis with the same thing of R22 to the need of studying to the refrigerant of environmental protection at present.According to basic rule substituted to irritate directly,discusses the feasibility of LPG as the substitute of R22.Through calculating and analysis showed that LPG can be the substitute of R22,but can't be filled and irritated substituting directly.


PURPOSE: To remove contaminants effectively both at the starting period when an engine is cold and after warmed up without using a by-pass valve in an exhaust gas conversion system. CONSTITUTION: In this exhaust gas conversion system 40, an exhaust gas in undiverted flow is brought into contact with a zeolite 42 suitable for adsorption of hydrocarbons and with a main catalyst 46 suitable for conversion of NOX, CO, and hydrocarbons to innocuous products. Conversion occurs when the temp. of the main catalyst 46 is suitable for conversion. The zeolite is selected from the group consisting of Y zeolite, Beta, ZSM-5, and combinations thereof, and has a SiO 2 to Al 2 O 3 molar ratio of no greater than about 200. The zeolite is ion exchanged with a metal selected from the group consisting of rare earth, chromium, and combinations thereof. COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO


Cartel Theory (and partisan theory more generally) expertly explains the functioning of the U.S. Congress. However, as a theory originally developed to study a single legislature where the institutional context differs greatly from that found in other presidential democracies, its applicability to these democracies has been questioned. Between one extreme represented by the United States (where legislators control their own political future) and the other represented by centralized party systems (where the national party leadership controls legislators' future) exists an intermediate group of democracies where subparty bosses are the key actors, controlling the future of subsets of a party's legislative delegation. We analyze one of these intermediate democracies, Argentina, and demonstrate the general applicability of Cartel Theory to an institutional context that differs notably from that found in the United States. We highlight how the theory can be adapted to a political system where subparty bosses, not individual legislators, are the most relevant political actors.


Van der Waals attraction between helium atoms can lead to the formation of weakly-bound He2 diatomic molecules stable at temperatures in the millikelvin range. Helium dimers were first detected experimentally in 1993 and 1994. Sophisticated quantum-mechanical computations confirm that the He–He bond is the weakest known, with a binding energy corresponding to 1.176 mK, about 10-4 eV. The average internuclear distance is computed to be in excess of 50 A, which makes He2 the largest known diatomic molecule as well. The authors have introduced an idealized deltafunction model for the helium dimer that succinctly represents its remarkable properties. Despite the weakness of each individual He–He bond, an intriguing mechanism exists for helium to form trimers and larger clusters with much greater binding energies.


This paper provides a characterization of viability kernels and capture basins of a target viable in a constrained subset as a unique closed subset between the target and the constrained subset satisfying tangential conditions or, by duality, normal conditions. It is based on a method devised by Helene Frankowska (1987, 1989, 1991) for characterizing the value function of an optimal control problem as generalized (contingent or viscosity) solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations. These abstract results, interesting by themselves, can be applied to epigraphs of functions or graphs of maps and happen to be very efficient for solving other problems, such as stopping time problems, dynamical games, boundary-value problems for systems of partial differential equations, and impulse and hybrid control systems, which are the topics of other companion papers.


We carried out dynamic mechanical measurements to investigate three different examples of block copolymers: styrene–isoprene diblock copolymers and styrene–butadiene–styrene and styrene–(styrene butadiene)–styrene triblock copolymers. Isochronal and isothermal measurements of the real and imaginary parts of the complex shear modulus were performed over wide ranges of temperature and frequency. The measurements showed the presence of an additional relaxation process appearing at temperatures higher than those of the glass relaxation of the polystyrene phase, which has been misinterpreted by some authors as an order–disorder transition. The frequency dependence revealed that this process was a relaxation process and did not belong to a first-order transition. Moreover, the influence of crosslinking via dicumylperoxide was measured, and we constructed complete master curves to confirm the presence of two relaxation processes. The high-temperature relaxation process was strongly suppressed by crosslinking. Therefore, it was possible to detect the glass relaxation process of the polystyrene phase in a precise manner. The results were compared with those of homopolymers. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 39: 2198–2206, 2001


Kamloops Lake in central British Columbia is a deep, intermontane lake fed by the strong and seasonally variable flows of the Thompson River. Considerations of lake-river interaction, supported by physical and geological evidence, suggest that sediment transport and deposition within the lake is controlled by three interdependent but distinct processes: delta progradation at the lake-river confluence which results in delta topset and foresee bedding; sediment density surges originating along the delta face which result in turbidite sequences lakeward from the base of the delta; and dispersal by the interflowing river plume which, due to Coriolis effects, results in a higher sedimentation rate and greater fraction of coarser material along the right-hand side (Northern Hemisphere) of the lake in the direction of flow.


Perpetrator typologies have been useful in understanding other crimes, such as domestic violence, and serve a similar purpose in enhancing our knowledge base about human trafficking. Typologies of human traffickers can be useful in improving our understanding about elements needed for successful investigations and prosecutions; developing appropriate services for victims and survivors; preventing human trafficking; and increasing community awareness.


In March 2000, 1 million litres of raw sewage was released into the water system of Maroochy Shire on Queensland's sunshine coast. This environmental disaster was caused by a disgruntled ex-contractor using a radio transmitter to illicitly access the electronically controlled pumps in the control system. In 2007 CNN screened video footage of an experimental attack against a electrical generator. The attack caused the generator to shake and smoke, visually showing the damage caused by cyber attack. These attacks highlight the importance of securing the control systems which our critical infrastructures depend on. This thesis addresses securing control systems, focusing on securing the communications for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. We review the architectures of SCADA systems and produce a list of the system constraints that relate to securing these systems. With these constraints in mind, we survey both the existing work in information and SCADA security, observing the need to investigate further the problem of secure communications for SCADA systems. We then present risk modelling techniques, and model the risk in a simple SCADA system, using the ISM, a software tool for modelling information security risk. In modelling the risk, we verify the hypothesis that securing the communications channel is an essential part of an effective security strategy for SCADA systems. After looking at risk modelling, and establishing the value of securing communications, we move on to key management for SCADA systems. Appropriate key management techniques are a crucial part of secure communications, and form an important part of the contributions made in this work. We present a key management protocol that has been designed to run under the constraints specific to SCADA systems. A reductionist security proof is developed for a simplified version of the protocol, showing it is secure in the Bellare Rogaway model.


Experimental results using Liquid-Crystal Variable Retarders (LCVRs) to measure the four Stokes parameters of a light beam simultaneously are presented. We use known waveplates (half-wave and quarter-wave) as known sources to provide controlled polarization states to the Stokes polarimeter, and we use the measured Stokes parameters as functions of the orientation of the axes of the waveplates as an indication of the quality of the polarimeter. The effects of errors in optical alignment and nonlinearity of the retardance variation on the results are presented and discussed. We also present results of simulations for comparison. Finally, we present the advances obtained in the development of a Mueller matrix polarimeter for use in a goniometric scatterometer.


Fit of fire boots are one of the most crucial factors in firefighters' safety and mobility. However, it is challenging to investigate the internal dimension of the fire boots which is the primary factor of the fit. We scanned the boots using a medical computerized tomography (CT) scan facility and also feet of a local firefighter using a portable 3D surface scanner. The scanned feet were arranged into the boots in 3D space, and the gap between the skin and the lining of the boots were visually investigated and also quantified. In addition, the size of the firefighter's foot and the internal dimension of the boot were measured in the virtual space for comparison. Lastly, the 3D model of the boots was imported into CLO 3D fit simulation software for dynamic fit simulation using a 3D avatar.


To study the properties of Higgs, scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics have proposed to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) and published a conceptual design report in 2018. In order to improve the collision luminosity of CEPC, the upgrade of the final focus system in the interaction region is on-going. According to the latest physical requirements of superconducting magnets in the CEPC interaction region, a high gradient, double-aperture quadrupole magnet Q1a is required, which is 1.9 m from the interaction point. In this paper, we present the magnetic design of superconducting quadrupole magnet Q1a, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the three kinds of quadrupole coil structures, including cos2θ coil, CCT coil, and racetrack coil. Low-temperature superconductor NbTi is used in our magnet design process. In addition, optimization is performed to greatly reduce the weight of the magnet.


High current discharge channels are a promising option for the final stage of beam transport in a heavy ion fusion reactor. The creation and the properties of the channel are studied at the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung accelerator facility. This article discusses a diagnostic technique to determine the neutral gas density channel created by a laser in a neutral gas. The concept is to measure the spreading of an ion beamlet due to collisional scattering with the gas, and thereby deduce the average line-integrated gas density. The results show a density reduction near the axis, which compares favorably with one-dimensional code calculations.


The study and measurement of psychological resilience (PR) is increasingly of interest to interdisciplinary audiences focused on successful aging across the life course. Though existing nationally representative datasets have not directly measured PR previously, recent advances have produced two novel measures showing promise among older and younger adults, respectively. We examine whether these measures capture similar internalized resources and if they effectively measure PR across race/ethnicity, gender, SES, and age. Analyses use two PR measures: the Simplified Resilience Scale (SRS) created in the 2006/8 Health and Retirement Study (N=14,064), and the Add Health Resilience Scale (AHRS) created in Wave 4 (2008) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N=4,936). Both scales reflect Wagnild and Young's (1993) conceptualization of PR as an internalized, multidimensional psychological resource that is protective for health and wellbeing. Confirmatory Factor Analyses suggest that both measures capture a single construct of PR well, on average (one-factor structure; CFI >.95, RMSEA <.06). These measures also perform similarly across social groups; we observed configural, metric, and at least partial scalar invariance across race/ethnicity, gender, education, and age. Assessing the validity of these measures across diverse US populations at various life stages is critical to understanding how PR shapes aging processes over the life course, and for promoting successful aging throughout mid and later life. Future research can advance understanding of PR and its measurement by leveraging intersectional combinations of social statuses including race/ethnicity, gender, education, and age.


Abstract : The British military has a well earned reputation for success in counter-insurgency operations since 1945, but the collective British experience of conducting such campaigns goes back well into the colonial era over a period of the last 200 years. This experience has tended to be ignored when setting the historical context for modern British doctrine. While the doctrine is still fit for its purpose now, has sufficient account been taken of the whole of British imperial and post-colonial historical experience when reviewing doctrine to counter the counter-insurgency challenges of the twenty-first century, particularly in the case of a global insurgency? This paper considers the future environment and strategic challenges, the myths of the approach behind the current British doctrine, themes from British colonial history and their relevance today, and the realties of the British approach to counter-insurgency. The conclusion reached is that study of the whole of Great Britain's colonial and post-colonial counter-insurgency experience is relevant and yields 16 premises that, taken together, constitute a theory that outlines how success can be pursued and when success may no longer be possible when countering an insurgency.


Coordinated health coaching is associated with improved diabetes outcomes with lower cost vs. traditional diabetes management. Diabetes Health Partnership (DHP) is a telephonic coaching program designed to empower individuals with diabetes. This 12-month, observational, self-controlled multi-site study combined retrospective (6 mth pre-baseline) and prospective (6 mth post-baseline) data to assess the impact of the DHP program on A1C among 57 individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Mean change from baseline A1C (8.4±1.1%) was significant (-0.5 ± 0.9%, 3 coaching sessions focused on diet/nutrition (9 vs. 3, respectively). Participation in the DHP program was associated with clinically-significant improvements in glycemic control in many individuals with suboptimally controlled diabetes. Disclosure W.C. Biggs: Consultant; Self; Roche Diabetes Care. Research Support; Self; Dexcom, Inc., Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals, Mylan, Novo Nordisk A/S, Sanofi US. A. Buskirk: Employee; Self; Roche Diabetes Care. L. Borsa: None. M.R. Lyden: None. C. Parkin: Consultant; Self; Abbott, CeQur Corporation, Dexcom, Inc., DreaMed Diabetes, Novo Nordisk Inc., Onduo, Roche Diabetes Care, Valeritas, Inc. B. Petersen: Employee; Self; Roche Diabetes Care.


Neural networks are a powerful means of classifying object images. The proposed image category classification method for object images combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and support vector machines (SVMs). A pre-trained CNN, called Alex-Net, is used as a pattern-feature extractor. Alex-Net is pre-trained for the large-scale object-image dataset ImageNet. Instead of training, Alex-Net, pre-trained for ImageNet is used. An SVM is used as trainable classifier. The feature vectors are passed to the SVM from Alex-Net. The STL-10 dataset are used as object images. The number of classes is ten. Training and test samples are clearly split. STL-10 object images are trained by the SVM with data augmentation. We use the pattern transformation method with the cosine function. We also apply some augmentation method such as rotation, skewing and elastic distortion. By using the cosine function, the original patterns were left-justified, right-justified, top-justified, or bottom-justified. Patterns were also center-justified and enlarged. Test error rate is decreased by 0.435 percentage points from 16.055% by augmentation with cosine transformation. Error rates are increased by other augmentation method such as rotation, skewing and elastic distortion, compared without augmentation. Number of augmented data is 30 times that of the original STL-10 5K training samples. Experimental test error rate for the test 8k STL-10 object images was 15.620%, which shows that image augmentation is effective for image category classification.


We present the case of a 66-year-old male patient, hypertensive, with diffuse gastric adenocarcinoma stage IV and malignant tumor of right orbit. The patient consulted for loss of consciousness and incoherent language. Physical examination revealed meningeal signs. Lumbar puncture showed elevated opening pressure, pleocytosis, hypoglycaemia, hyperproteinorrachia, high lactate, with negative microbiological examination.
These clinical data and CSF analysis initially determined acute meningitis. However, the neurological service proposed as a diagnostic impression meningeal carcinomatosis, which required three lumbar punctures to confirm it. Meningeal carcinomatosis is a differential diagnosis that must be considered in a patient with tumoral pathology and meningeal signs. Clinical suspicion, cytochemical findings, and cytology by CSF cyto-centrifuge are important.


Through analyzing the surface microstructure of counter-cavitational material and the factors of affecting cavitation, on the basis of material mechanical properties, metallurgical parameters and fluid mechanical conditions, the paper presents cavitation erosion mechanism in multitude fluid medium, whereby offers references for calculating erosion rate.


Morphology of pulp significantly affect the paper properties and many researchers have made efforts to evaluate their relationship to control the paper properties. In continuation of the studies by the authors, relationship between the physical strength properties and morphological characteristics of E. tereticornis was evaluated. In order to develop the relationship between morphological characteristics of bleached chemical pulps, the changes in fiber morphology of E. tereticornis after beating to different levels was estimated. The handsheets prepared from the pulps beaten to different levels were tested for changes in strength properties. Multiple linear regression (MLR) & artificial neural networks (ANN) analysis were used to develop relationship of strength properties with the morphological characteristics of the pulp fibers. Studies have revealed that all four strength properties studied (tensile index, tear index, burst index and double fold) correlate significantly with the change in the morphological characteristics on beating. The results indicate that the MLR and ANN can be successfully used as tools to reveal the relationships between strength properties with fiber morphological characteristics in E. tereticornis pulp.


The problem with shotcrete on rock subjected to vibrations has previously been studied in place and through numerical modeling. Within the present project, an elastic finite element model is presen ...


The term "science-based targets" has gained recent popularity. It is used to refer both to overall science-based targets (established through intergovernmental treaties), and to their disaggregation into specific science-based targets (determining contributions of individual actors). Biophysical achievability, measurability, and underpinning rationale are requirements for considering a target to be "science-based".


One of the most significant shifts in Psalms scholarship in recent years has been the emergence of a new interest in tracing how early religious communities interpreted this religious poetry within the context of an emerging scriptural canon. Whereas the form-critical studies that dominated much of the twentieth century concentrate on recovering the original Sitz im Leben (or "life setting") of the liturgical compositions collected in the Psalter within Israel's religious cult, the recent scholarly turn emphasizes how these prayers and praises came to be reread in light of narratives and other material found elsewhere in the Bible. In point of fact, the earliest evidence for this practice of canonical relecture is preserved within the Book of Psalms itself, where historical superscriptions correlate a number of psalms with specific events in King David's life. Through the addition of superscriptions, the moving penitential prayer found in Psalm 51 becomes "A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba" (compare 2 Samuel 11-12), the lament of an individual surrounded by threatening enemies found in Psalm 3 becomes "A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son" (compare 2 Samuel 15-18), and so forth.


Wehave described the purification and some properties of an a-D-xylosidase from Bacillus sp. No. 693-1.1>2) In our previous study, it was observed that the a-D-xylosidase, like most other /?-D-xylosidases,3 ~5) had transfer activity at a high substrate concentration (5%). This paper describes the transxylosylation activity of Bacillus a-Dxylosidase using O-a-D-xylopyranosyl-(l ->6)-D-glucopyranose (isoprimeverose) as a substrate, and the formation and isolation as well as identification of the main transfer product. A reaction mixture which contained 5%of the substrate (isoprimeverose, a-l,3-xylobiose prepared in our labo-