Objective To explore calcineurin role in the change of sphincter of Oddi (SO) at the early-stage after cholecystectomy by investigating the changes of functional proteins and structure of sphincter of Oddi,and detecting the different expressions between the main two catalytic subunits of calcineurin: CnAα and CnAβ.Methods Fifty-two adult New Zealand rabbits were randomized into four groups: A (n=14), B (n=12), C (n=12) and D (n=14). The rabbits in the group A were only subjected to laparotomy and bred for 4 weeks, while those in groups B, C and D were subjected to cholecystectomy and bred for 2, 4 and 8 weeks respectively. All rabbits were sacrificed, and their sphincter of Oddi was taken for electron microscopic examination (2 respectively from groups A and D) and the mRNA and protein expressions of CnAα and CnAβ, as well as MHC protein expression.Results Western blotting results showed the protein expression of MHC increased at the end of 2nd, 4th, 8th week after cholecystectomy (P0.01). Electron microscopic examination showed dense bodies in smooth muscle cells increased in group D compared with group A. RT-PCR results displayed compared with control group, the mRNA expression of CnAβ increased in 4, 8 weeks after cholecystectomy (P0.01), but decreased at 8th week compared with that at 4th week. Western blotting results exhibited the protein expression of CnAβ increased gradually in 2, 4 and 8 weeks after cholecystectomy (P0.01). There was no difference in mRNA and protein expression of CnAα in the whole process.Conclusion The protein expression of myosin heavy chain (MHC) increased and the ultrastructure of SO cells changed after cholecystectomy. The increase of CnAβ might play a role in the increase of MHC after cholecystectomy, which may be one molecular mechanism that sphincter of Oddi dysfunction is more frequently recognized after cholecystectomy.


For the first time in more than 100 years, the governor and the majority in both houses of the legislature are Republican. The 2013–2015 budget signed by the governor in July 2013 implements several changes that are poised to have longterm impacts on the quality and stability of the teaching force and the delivery of public education in North Carolina. The budget incorporates major personal and corporate tax cuts from the Tax Simplification and Reduction Act, which will cost the state $86.6 million in tax revenue in FY 2013–2014 and $437.8 million in FY 2014–2015. This tax plan eliminated the current three-tiered individual income tax structure and sets a flat rate of 5.8% in 2014 and 5.75% in 2015. The act eliminated the personal exemption, but it increases the standard deduction. The corporate income tax will be lowered from 6.9% to 6% in 2014 and to 5% in 2015. The decrease in state revenue brought by the tax rate decrease is balanced by cuts to many programs, including public P–12 and higher education, and a slight broadening of the sales tax base. Higher education will see a 4.7% decrease in state funding and the P–12 public schools, a 1.2% decrease. The budget for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the K–12 administrative agency, will be cut by $780,000. Similarly, the budget for the University of North Carolina (UNC) system, composed of 17 four-year institutions, will be cut by $66 million. The UNC Chapel Hill's medical school budget will be cut by $15 million.


To present the features of human leptospirosis over three time periods (1970–1975; 2000–2005; 2010–2015), to compare the collected data and to determine whether the incidence, seasonal and spatial distribution, prevalence of presumptive infective serogroups and clinical features have changed over the last 50 years.


Background: In this study we cloned a vector based on a self-inactivating lentiviral backbone containing MDR1 (multidrug resistance 1 gene) connected by an ECMV-IRES-element with MGMT P140K (O6-BG-resistant mutant of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase). The chemoprotective potential of this HR′SIN-MDR-IRES-MGMT combination vector was compared to single vectors (HR′SIN-MDR, HR′SIN-MGMT). Methods: HL60 and CD34+ cells were transduced with the various vectors. After chemotherapeutical treatment MTT assays were used to detect chemoresistance levels in HL60 cells, CD34+ cells were held in liquid culture under differentiation conditions and analysed by FACS for MDR1 expression. Results: HL60 cells transduced with the combination vector showed significant chemoresistance to O6-BG/ACNU (IC50 13x higher compared to untransduced control), the IC50 of cells transduced with HR′SIN-MGMT was 35x higher. The IC50 of paclitaxel (MDR1 substrate) was 24x higher in cells transduced with HR'SIN-MDR and 25x higher with HR'SIN-MDR-IRES-MGMT compared to untransduced control. Combined exposure of cells to O6-BG/ACNU and paclitaxel showed a survival advantage of cells transduced with the combination vector (IC50 6.25x higher), for the single vectors the IC50 was 1.63x higher (MDR1) and 2.08x higher (MGMT) compared to untransduced control. Treatment of CD34+ cells with increasing concentrations of doxorubicin (up to 0.8 μM) resulted in a higher fraction of MDR1-positive cells either with HR′SIN-MDR (26.6x) or with HR′SIN-MDR-IRES-MGMT (30.6x) compared to untreated cells. After combination treatment (20μM O6-BG/16μM BCNU and 0.4μM doxorubicin) the fraction of MDR1-positive cells was higher for HR′SIN-MDR-IRES-MGMT (14x) than HR′SIN-MDR (8x) transduced cells. Conclusion: The protective effect of the combination vector is comparable with the single vectors for monotherapy and superior for combined therapy. The combination vector presents simultaneous protective effects of two drug resistance genes, thus reducing the risk of insertional mutagenesis by one transduction process. Consequently our results might help to reduce myelotoxic side effects and increase the chemotherapeutic efficiency.


The aim of this study is to identify the nature of the relationships between financial information, governance mechanisms, web traffic ratios, and the market value of internet companies. We provide empirical evidence regarding (i) the relationship between financial indicators and governance; (ii) the impact of this relationship on internet company stock values; (iii) the impact of financial performance, governance mechanisms and web traffic ratios on Internet stock value. Our results show that accounting numbers continue to be value relevant .When adding governance mechanisms our results show that equity value is negatively related to dependence and duality. Except for the number of visitors, Web traffic ratios are not statistically significant.


One hundred patients with vulvovaginal candidosis were entered in a double-blind trial to compare the effect of six days' local treatment with clotrimazole with that of the same treatment plus 10 days' oral treatment with nystatin. No significant differences were detected in the rate of cure or relapse between the treatment groups. The cure rate was lowest and the relapse rate highest in patients in whom vaginal candidosis had last been diagnosed during the preceding 12 months.


A novel zero-voltage and zero-current- switching (ZVZCS) asymmetrical half-bridges in series hybrid DC-DC converter is proposed. Voltage stress of each main switch in this converter is reduced to half of the input voltage, which makes the converter quite suitable for high input voltage applications. The ZCS condition for lagging switches under wide load range is provided by a secondary auxiliary circuit, and an unbalanced-voltage-division flaw which inheres in ZVS half-bridges in series hybrid DC-DC converter is overcome in the proposed converter, consequently the converter is more practical. Furthermore, the ZVZCS converter's efficiency is enhanced owing to its primary circulating current being eliminated basically. The principle and characteristics of the proposed converter is analyzed, and based this a 240W (24V/10A output) experimental prototype is designed and built. The experimental results are presented.


This paper presents a smart design way for the long-period fiber grating (LPFG) refractive index sensor, which is based on high sensitivity of LPFG near phase-matching turning point (PMTP) to the surrounding refractive index (SRI). On the basis of the coupled mode theory of LPFG, cladding etching and film coating have opposite effects on the shift of the dual peaks. Therefore, an LPFG can be controlled by the cladding etching and film coating successively, until it operates near PMTP. Experimentally, an LPFG operating near PMTP was fabricated, and the glycerol solution concentration monitoring test was performed. The results show that the sensitivity of this LPFG to the SRI is as high as 5602 nm/refractive index unit.


Objectives: To verify whether the first national campaign for poliomyelitis vaccination achieved its objectives. Setting: Al-Khobar area in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Materials & Methods: Randomized samples have been obtained using the Bowleg's proportional allocation scheme. At the first stage, housing blocks of 8-10 houses were selected using random sampling procedure. At a second stage, 2 houses from each block were selected in a 1 or 4 order. Both Saudi and non-Saudi nationals living in these households were screened using pretested questionnaire administered at a face-to-face by trained interviewers. The questionnaire covered areas that included number of children vaccinated, reasons for non vaccination, whether or not the vaccinated child has received certificate of vaccination as well as placement of stickers on the door of the vaccinated households. Result: A total of 107 households were surveyed in Al-Khobar. The total populations surveyed was 527 people including 213 adults and 314 children (152 of the children were aged 5 years or less). In all the households surveyed, all eligible children age 5 years or less were vaccinated. All of the vaccinated children obtained a vaccination certificate. Conclusion: The overall percentage coverage in Al-Khobar was 100%. This denotes the success of the campaign. A nationwide survey is suggested to corroborate these findings.


Using a plurality of drive motors to drive the both side rear wheel of the vehicle, each independently, by controlling so as to be each driven independently both sides the rear wheel, as well as to enhance the longitudinal driving force of the vehicle is in driving stability of the vehicle Improved eco-friendly vehicle the present invention relates to a rear wheel drive system.


This paper explores the organizing elements that foster emergent collaboration within large-scale communities on online social platforms like Twitter. This study is based on a case study of the #BlackLivesMatter social movement and draws on organizing dynamics and online social network literature, combined with the analysis of 2050 tweets collected from days where the movement had high levels of activity. Drawing on the literature review, we propose a framework consisting of three organizing elements: structure, engagement, and communicative content that are essential in analyzing online collaboration. This paper uses this framework to analyze the collected tweets and identify how actors organize and engage in large-scale communities founded by emergent online collaboration. This paper identifies characteristics of how these key elements and a dynamic interplay between the two logics of action foster emergent collaboration in social movements using Twitter.


Mythology memory of Chinese literature in 20th century is based on the development of mythology gene and modernization of mythology code.It is manifested in the ways of mythology retelling,mythology image,mythology thinking and so on.Mythology memory carries the moral connotation of conventionality and modernity as well as tragic essence of poem.Meanwhile,mythology memory provides the writers of modern and contemporary with specific folk cultural spirit and artistic qualities.


Dr. Berliner demonstrated a large collection of plastic wax prepara- tions, representing various diseases of the larynx. They showed various stages of the pathological changes in larynx and trachea in \he course of tuberculosis and syphilis. These models are very accurate and sur- prisingly true to nature, and form an exceedingly instructive aid to medical teaching.


Mammalian spermatogenesis is a complex process that involves genome-wide deprogramming and reprogramming of DNA methylation at different stages in order to produce sperm that are capable of fertilization and also TO support ongoing embryo development (Webster et al. 2005 PNAS 102, 4068-4073). Embryonic mortality occurs when there is inappropriate expression of developmentally regulated genes of both maternal and paternal origin. DNA methylation is associated with epigenetic regulation of gene expression and it was recently shown that aberrant DNA methylation causes a change in sperm chromatin structure (Webster et al. 2005). Studies, primarily in man, have indicated that sperm chromatin instability, as determined by the sperm chromatin structure assay (SCSA), does not influence fertilization but is linked with early pregnancy failure (Evenson and Jost 2000 Methods Cell Sci. 22, 169-189). The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between chromatin structure and DNA methylation in bull sperm. Chromatin structure was determined using the SCSA that involves the exposure of sperm to a low pH (1.2) detergent solution followed by the addition of acridine orange (AO). When exposed to a 488 nm laser, AO fluoresces green when bound to native (double-stranded) DNA and red when bound to denatured (single-stranded) DNA. The SCSA yields a value for the DNA fragmentation index (DFI), and in men a DFI > 27-30% is associated with early embryonic mortality (Larson-Cook et al. 2003 Fertil. Steril. 80, 895-902). Semen was obtained by electroejaculation from Zebu (Bos indicus) bulls (n = 12) in a subtropical environment; a proportion of bulls had a DFI 27% (n = 8). The DNA methylation pattern, as determined by the amplified methylation polymorphism (AMP) protocol (Webster et al. 2005), appeared to differ between sperm with a DFI 27% when assessed by principle coordinate analysis. Also, sperm with a DFI 27%. These preliminary findings could be interpreted to suggest that methylation status can contribute to chromatin structure in sperm of mature bulls. It remains to be determined whether the environment can influence sperm chromatin status in bulls by altering DNA methylation which then impacts on the conformational changes in DNA that occur during spermiogenesis. This work was supported, in part, by Meat and Livestock Australia.


This paper explores the influence of the Malian diaspora in Lagos on conceptions of wealth among Malians over the last fifty years. In Mali, the dominant household model into the 21st century was the du, or extended family compound. This configuration both reflected and reinforced a communal conception of wealth. The dutigi, or family patriarch, controlled all assets on the family's behalf. No concept of individual wealth separate from the du existed. The threat of community censure ensured that family members acquiring personal assets made such property available to kin upon request. While families encouraged emigration of junior males to increase collective income, it often had the opposite effect. Living in spatially-enforced nuclear-family households, outside the control of the dutigi, and operating within a system of individual entrepreneurs, many Malians in Lagos began conceiving of wealth in individual terms. They diverted earnings from family remittances into personal investments, including houses in the Malian capital of Bamako. Complicating the pattern, other members of the diaspora continued to remit earnings to the dutigi, and sent their children to grow up in the du. This paper examines how competing notions of wealth have coexisted in both diaspora and homeland over the past half-century.


An assumption generally subscribed in evolutionary economics is thatnew technological paradigms arise from advances is science anddevelopments in technological knowledge. Demand only influences theselection among competing paradigms, and the course the paradigm afterits inception. In this paper we argue that this view needs to beadapted. We demonstrate that in the history of computing technology inthe 20th century a distinction can be made between periods in whicheither demand or knowledge development was the dominant enabler ofinnovation. In the demand enabled periods new technological (sub-)paradigms in computing technology have emerged as well.


Welcome to the 8th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDtrust 2009). This symposium brings together academia, government, and industry to explore all aspects of identity and trust. IDtrust is devoted to research and deployment experience related to making good security decisions based on identity information, especially when public key cryptography is used and the human elements of usability are considered. We aim to get practitioners in different sectors together to apply the lessons of real-world deployments to the latest research and ideas on the horizon.

The technical program includes 10 peer-reviewed papers that were accepted from 30 submissions, giving an acceptance rate of 33%. Each paper received an average of 4 reviews by members of the program committee. We especially thank members of the program committee that shepherded several papers during final revisions, continuing our tradition of quality peer review. In addition to the technical papers, the program also includes invited talks, panels, and a work-in-progress (RUMP) session.

The topics in this year's program cover a wide range of timely issues. Federations present challenging identity and trust issues, and we will explore high-level policy creation between organizations, usable technical approaches, and real-world use cases in incident response. We will also explore scalability issues in federations. Panel presentations will include lively discussions that compare alternative approaches to authentication and authorization. We will also explore strategies for designing systems that resist vulnerabilities in the underlying cryptography primitives. The browser has become the de facto client platform, and advances in browser security will be explored.


Design-time power analysis is one of the most critical tasks conducted by chip architects and circuit designers. While computer-aided power analysis tools can provide power consumption estimates for various circuit blocks, these estimates can substantially deviate from the actual power consumption of working silicon chips. We propose a novel methodology that provides accurate, detailed post-silicon spatial power estimates using the thermal infrared emissions from the backside of silicon die. We theoretically and empirically demonstrate the inherent difficulties in thermal to power inversion. These difficulties arise from measurement errors and from the inherent spatial low-pass filtering associated with heat diffusion. To address these difficulties we propose new techniques from regularization theory to invert temperature to power. Furthermore, we propose new techniques to compute the emissivities and conductances required for any infrared to power inversion method. To verify our results, a programmable circuit of micro heaters is implemented to create any desired power pattern. The thermal emissions of different known injected power patterns are captured using a state-of-the-art infrared camera, and then our characterization techniques are applied to invert the thermal emissions to power. The estimated power patterns are validated against the injected power patterns to demonstrate the accuracy of our methodology.


The concept of bidirectional communication between the immune system and neuroendocrine system has now been firmly supported by numerous studies. Many regulatory peptides and their receptors previously thought to be limited to the brain and/or the immune system are now known to be expressed by both. One of the most important observations may be that the immune system can exert a regulatory role over the neuroendocrine system via cytokines that are secreted from immunocompetent cells. The polypeptide cytokines, particularly interleukin 1 (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin 6 (IL-6), have been shown to alter neuroendocrine function either via the central nervous system (CNS) or through direct action on endocrine cells. Thus, the immune system functions as a sensory system and transmits immune signals that cannot be detected by ordinary sensory organs to the CNS via cytokines.' This interaction is most evident in the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal (HPA) axis. An increased secretion of ACTH and glucocorticoids follows inflammation, infection, and tissue injury. The stimulation of the HPA axis is mediated by cytokines, especially IL-1, IL-6, and TNF, which stimulate the release of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and vasopressin from hypothalamic neurons.2 Rats with a genetic defect in the regulation of CRF synthesis in the hypothalamus develop acute arthritis when they are injected with suspensions of streptococcal cell wall, whereas acute arthritis does not develop in rats in which the response of the HPA axis is normaL3 Therefore, activation of the HPA axis by cytokines may be a regulatory mechanism for preventing an overexuberant immune reaction. The nervous system can modulate the immune system in several ways.4 The secretion of anterior pituitary hormones that have either a direct or an indirect effect on the immune response5 is under the neuroendocrine control of the hypothalamus via releasing and inhibiting neurohormones. It is well known that their secretion is regulated by hypothalamic activities that are altered by physical and emotional stress, sleep rhythms, and other environmental signals. The second potential route


The magnetic susceptibility (4.2-300 K) and heat capacity (C) (0.5-20 K) of the alloys, CeNi x Ga 4−x (x=0.5-1.1), exhibit features attributable to the interplay of the Kondo effect and ferromagnetism (T c ≃5 K). The value of C/T (where T is the temperature) shows an upturn below about 10 K for all the compositions; particularly in the case of the x=1.1 specimen, which is found to be nonmagnetic above 0.5 K, C/T increases to about 2.2 J/mol K 2 at 0.5 K, as if this alloy is a giant heavy-fermion material. In addition, the full magnetic entropy (R ln2) is attained only above 10 K in all alloys. This finding suggests either the persistence of the Kondo effect even in the ferromagnetically ordered state or some sort of itinerant magnetism.


We believe that the importance of the epiglottis in speech has been generally underestimated in the phonetic literature. Our evidence leads us to conclude that the epiglottis is an active and independent articulator in the production of pharyngeal consonants and that it is involved in the production of the vowel [a] and in whisper. In earlier phonetic works that we have examined, to the extent that the epiglottis is mentioned at all, it is generally said to have no speech function. An exception to this is the work of Russell (1931), Appelman (1967) and Wilson (1976), where they suggest that the epiglottis is crucial to the production of [a], but because they rely on lateral x-rays, they are unable to complete a convincing case.


Leaf architectural characteristics of 35 taxa from Eurya were examined to discuss the evolution route and the systematic positions of some species within Eurya.The result shows:Venations of leaf in genus Eurya are all brochidodromous and camptodromus,there are little differences among the primary veins,the secondary veins' angle of divergence is acute or nearly right-angle,intersecondary veins are simple or compound;tertiary veins are usually reticulate,the margin ultimate venation are forming into a loop or incomplete;areoles are not uniform in shape and incomplete or imperfect in system development.These distinctive characteristics are different among species,which can be used to identify species.The leaf evolution route in Eurya was also discussed based on the five clades from phenetic analyses of 16 leaf architectural characteristics.The study indicates leaf architecture is very significant for classification and evolution of Eurya.


This article aims to present the results of the critical analysis and interpretation of the debate on the issue of compulsory vaccination conducted in the weekly magazine Polityka in 2012. Based on the analysis of discursive strategies employed in the examined text, the constitutive role of the strategy of authorization has been found, which, because of excessive use of rhetorical devices and the power of "rhetoric of exclusion," paradoxically resulted in "the problem" of authority. The results have been discussed from a pedagogic perspective, which is particularly interested in educational consequences of discursive practices and pedagogy. In view of its particular organizational and ideological dimensions, the analyzed discourse was interpreted through the prism of persuasion and pathos relations in the pedagogy of fear—fear of the discursively constructed ENEMY.


At present,there exist incompatible tax systems,unreasonable tax agencies and unreasonable tax structures in the tax system reform,which make a variety of difficulties in the tax reform.So the reform should start with the following:Carrying out the tax reform with the complete sets of equipment;transfering the financial power to lower levels suitably and controlling administritive power suitably;regulating tax categories;perfecting tax systems and changing tax mechanisms deeply.


The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is the comprehensive regional planning agency and Council of Governments for nine counties and 101 cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay region. ABAG helps members in governance and decision-making about issues such as land use, sustainability, energy efficiency, hazard mitigation, water resource protection, and hazardous waste management. Hing Wong, a planner with ABAG, writes about its history and its important role in regional planning.


Due to the widespread use of a variety of high-power electronic devices, the utility grid by harmonic pollution becomes more and more seriously, leading to the low utilization rate of power factor and energy. In recent years, the power factor correction technology attracts the attention of the public as an effective method to suppress harmonic current and improve the power factor. The paper discusses the definition and meaning of power factor correction(PFC) firstly, and then studies the hard switching circuit - Boost converter, and analyses the role of Boost converter in the PFC, and also gives the parameters of the calculation for Boost converter. At last the paper makes modeling and simulation based on MATLAB/Simulink, and gives the simulation results and prove that Boost circuit has a good effect in PFC circuit design.


In this paper we propose a novel dual regression-based approach for pricing American options. This approach reduces the complexity of the nested Monte Carlo method and has especially simple form for time discretised diffusion processes. We analyse the complexity of the proposed approach both in the case of fixed and increasing number of exercise dates. The method is illustrated by several numerical examples.


The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador establishes various rights protection between the rights of the victim determined are the Art. 78, which guarantees the victim reparation mechanisms for including, without delay be adopted, the knowledge of the true facts and restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, guarantees of non-repetition and satisfaction right violated. It also requires the implementation of a system of protection and assistance to victims, witnesses and procedural participants.
In our country was published in the Official Gazette No. 180 of February 10, 2014 the new Code of Criminal Integral, the same that emerged from the need to unify under a single law the existing punitive legislation, which was dispersed in the national law, this new Code brings a number of novelties in criminal matters, including the incorporation of conciliation as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism.
In the code in question, existing compensation agreements in the previous Code of Criminal Procedure made it the balance, this alternative mechanism for conflict resolution is established in Book II Procedure, Title X Alternative Mechanism for Conflict Resolution within Chapters I and II called General Standards and Conciliation respectively.
Within this research has he made a critical legal studies, which relates to the need to regulate clearly the general rules of conciliation in criminal matters, within the Code of Integral Criminal, Articles 662 to 665, it states with an apparent generality of conciliation, not established how many times an investigated or prosecuted may reconcile with the victims, or the recurrence of crime prevents reconciliation, and determines whether the investigated or prosecuted may again fall if he breached any of the conditions A preliminary settlement, the settlement was created to try to fully remedy the victim, this is intended to seek a restorative justice, because it is useless to punish the offender, whether the victim is not repaired the damage, but occurs in many cases the offender is released and returns to relapse into crime by creating social insecurity.
The problem requires a reform indicated in the Ecuadorian Criminal Code of Integral, in order to protect the rights of the victim to not repeat the offense after making conciliation.
This is how I intend to provide the following investigation, to be reflect the need to regulate is discussed clearly the general rules of conciliation, in order to avoid recurrence and impunity of crime as a result of conciliation, contradictions and loopholes, still my desire to contribute to the proper administration of justice in the country


In rebound jamming circumstance,a significant impact to the jamming signals caused by the change of the location of the jammer is the change of the incident angle and the azimuth angle of the jamming signals.According to the scattering theory of electromagnetic wave,the scattering coefficient of the electromagnetic wave is related to its incident angle and azimuth angle.Based on the scattering theory,the relationship between the spatial location of the jammer and the power of the jamming signal received by the SAR is studied in the paper.The signal to jamming ratio(SJR) is used as the reference in estimating the jamming effectiveness.Then by analyzing the relationship between the incident/azimuth angle and the scattering coefficient of the jamming signal,the change of the SJR of the SAR system responding to the change of the jamming signal' s incident angle is studied.And suitable incident/azimuth angles for the jamming signal in which the jammer could make better interference effectiveness were pointed out.


The article is devoted to a complex research of the topical issues affecting scope of digital transformation of the industry. The reveals the economic content of digital transformation of the industry as the processes of digital transformation of production management by introducing technical and technological means of global megatrends, characteristic for the fourth industrial revolution, and the author also examines the economic aspects of digital transformation of the industry that affect the economic growth of the country as a whole. Based on the results of previous research, the author systematizes the main goals of digital transformation of industrial enterprises, reveals the prospects for the introduction of technical and technological means of global megatrends, characteristic of the fourth industrial revolution, as well as the influence of the institutional environment on the intensity of digital transformation of industry, transformation of industrial production. The article analyzes the existing models of digital transformation of industry as possible standards for digital transformation of an industrial enterprise and suggests an integration model of end-to-end digital transformation of industry based on matrix and industry models that will allow to build an inter-industry digital network in a digital economy. In accordance with the adopted digital agendas of the Republic of Belarus and the EEC, the proposed model is based on the end-to-end interaction between all participants in the value chains of industrial products, which are equally involved in production and economic planning, management, control of the creation and implementation of industrial high-tech products.


The present paper encompasses the scope of positive psychology in coping with several issues prevalent in today's Indian society and education system. With increasing trends of globalisation, modernisation, individualistic survival, materialistic attitude, instability in Indian market and economy, current recession, increase in population, decreasing of resources, wider gap between rich and poor; there is a simultaneous augmentation in depression, anxiety, stress, drug abuse and suicidal rate among Indian youth. Loss of humanity is manufacturing alienated youth in employment market working as machine with machines, day and night. WHO's World Mental Health Survey (27th July 2011) has reported India as the highest among number of depressive cases in world. In education system, approach towards inclusive education, quota to students of economically weaker section, erosion of boards at secondary level, intrusion of grading system without proper mind set-up and preparation is creating an environment of confusion and hallucination. Teachers are not guided and counselled to handle the situation resulting strain and hampered work efficiency. The paper reviews the effective ways positive psychology can introduce in the life of teacher and taught to work efficiently and lead a life full of enthusiasm and happiness.


We construct dense Borel measurable subgroups of Lie groups of intermediate Hausdorff dimension. In particular, we generalize the Erdős-Volkmann construction [6], showing that any nilpotent σ-compact Lie group N admits dense Borel subgroups of arbitrary dimension between 0 and dimN . In algebraic groups defined over a finite extension of the rationals, using diophantine properties of algebraic numbers, we are also able to construct dense subgroups of arbitrary dimension, but the general case remains open. In particular, we raise the following question: does there exist a measurable proper subgroup of R of positive Hausdorff dimension which is stable under multiplication by a transcendental number? Subgroups of nilpotent p-adic analytic groups are also discussed.


Investigations on soil physical and chemical properties were conducted in 15 plots of six different types of ecological forest in Kecheng district,Quzhou city of Zhejinag province.The results showed that total porosity of the soil were high with good-aerated,and the soil had extremely low phosphorus content,low Potassium content,common nitrogen content,and low pH value.Total porosity and organic content in broad leaved forest and bamboo were higher than those in the other types.Besides,broad-leaved forest has better oil fertility with higher contents in term of total nitrogen,total phosphorus,total potassium,and available phosphorus and potassium.


has long been recognized that there is a definite relationship between the sanitarj' condition of any given stream section and the organisms living in that section. This relationship is fairly well known for the larger free-swimming or attached animals. Such a relationship also applies to the microscopic creatures whether living on or attached to the bottom, or composing the assemblage of suspended forms known as rheoplankton. Whipple, Fair and Whipple (1) have summarized the findings of a number of workers and have classified the organisms as to degrees of pollution preferred by them. Such a classification of indicator organisms can be very useful to workers with water supplies, especially if it includes a sufficiently large variety of organisms so that some might reasonably be expected to occur in almost any sample taken at any time. Taking a sample which might contain animals as large as fish or shellfish may not be feasible, but where equipment includes a microscope or access to one, a small sample is easily taken and its microscopic life can either be concentrated by centrifuging, or killed by adding enough formalin to make a 3 per cent solution in which the organisms gradually settle and can be concentrated by decantation. In reservoirs and large streams or streams issuing from lakes, some microscopic forms are found at almost every season of the year. Flood conditions, or excessive turbidity may decrease plankton until no information will be available, but larger forms will likewise disappear under such conditions. If a small stream is under investiga-


A before-after-only health education experiment was conducted by a team of a dozen health educators, nurses, and physicians who were students and faculty of the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM). The experiment ran several months with 162 Moslem farming families in one village. Changes in sanitation-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices were measured and correlated with social class. It is suggested that the most useful sociology in the Third World is: (a) basic general sociological theory including ecosystem as well as social system, (b) multimethological including participant –observation, survey, and field experiment methods. Implications are drawn for graduate curricula in light of the trend toward increasing enrollments from Third World countries.


In recent study has found that high-precision monitoring, big data, and medical diagnosis continue to be hampered by transit delays. We designed and implemented an unique fuzzy logic-based method to help with this problem. Currently, a high-accuracy automated approach for detecting anomalies in X-ray images is being developed. Pre-processing image technologies are used to improve the quality of medical pictures in order to achieve high accuracy while utilizing a small number of system resources. Noise reduction and contrast enhancement are two procedures engaged in image pre-processing that assist to the delivery of a rapid anomaly detecting system. We suggested a Fuzzy Net model Classification Based on GLCM Feature and particle swam optimization technique in this study. This method categorizes the X-ray pictures. The musculoskeletal radiographs (MURA) dataset is classified as normal or abnormal. We also examined at performance indicators and loss over epochs, which we compared using a confusion matrix and displayed plots of the model's learned membership functions.


Five field isolates of Pasteurella multocida from poultry in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India were serotyped as Heddeleston serotype 1 (three isolates) and Heddeleston type 1 with weak cross reactivity to 4 and 14 (two). The pathogenicity of one isolate has been studied and a killed vaccine was developed. The vaccine provided good homologous protection.


Summary Cerebral aneurysms result from a complex interplay between mechanical stresses and pathophysiological changes occurring in the arterial wall. In order to reduce the hemodynamic forces acting on the aneurysmal wall, new endovascular treatments have been developed involving the exclusion of the aneurysm from the intracranial circulation. A comparative study of the performance of three of these techniques is reported here. Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) is used to perform in vitro measurements of the velocity and stress fields inside a model of cerebral aneurysms. Cerebral aneurysms result from the abnormal dilatation of one of the large blood vessels that supply the brain. They pose a health risk from the potential for rupture and subsequent bleeding into the brain and/or the fluid-filled space that surrounds the brain. In fact, these aneurysms are the most common cause of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (the deadliest form of stroke) in the adult population, with a maximal incidence (80%) in the 4th and 5th decades of life [1]. The great majority of cerebral aneurysms arise at bifurcations, usually at an acute angle, at the origin of small branches from larger arteries, or on the side wall of a vessel with sharp curvature. They are consistently found in certain positions on the Circle of Willis (circulus arteriosus cerebri) and the arteries that supply it: the two internal carotid and the basilar arteries. Approximately 85% of all cerebral aneurysms arise on the anterior (carotid-artery derived) circulation, the rest lie along the posterior half of the circle of Willis. The most common position in the posterior half of the circle of Willis is the tip of the basilar artery. This distribution seems to be due to unbalanced hemodynamic stresses resulting from the fact that approximately 80% of the blood supply to the brain comes from the internal carotid arteries, whereas only 20% comes from the basilar artery. The Circle of Willis does not have a fixed anatomy; on the contrary, it exhibits anatomic variations from one individual to another. These variations may range from un-closed circles to non-symmetric shapes, to multiply-connected branches. It has been postulated that these variations could play a role in the development of intracranial aneurysms due to the changes in the distribution of stresses that they generate [2]. Although genetic factors are known to play a key role in the etiology of cerebral aneurysms, the prevailing hypothesis is that the origin, growth, and eventual rupture of cerebral aneurysms is a result of abnormal hemodynamic stresses on the walls of large cerebral arteries [3, 4].


The results of a search for metastable dissociations of ${\mathrm{Ar}}_{2}$${\mathrm{}}^{+}$ produced in an ion source via associative ionization are presented. The metastable fragmentations were studied with a double-focusing mass spectrometer by decoupling the acceleration and analyzer fields. The number of metastable transitions occurring in the observable time window between 3.1 and 7.9 \ensuremath{\mu}s after ion formation increases with electron energy in the ion source and is \ensuremath{\approxeq}100 times larger than the number of metastable transitions observed previously for ${\mathrm{Ar}}_{2}$${\mathrm{}}^{+}$ produced by electron ionization of ${\mathrm{Ar}}_{2}$. Decomposition pathways consistent with ab initio potential diagrams are presented.


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In Piszczek proved that "tameness always implies quasinormability" in the setting of Frechet spaces. In this paper we present an alternate proof of this interesting result.


Objective:To study the relation between the causes and malnutrition in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for improving nutrition of the patients and promoting rehabilitation.Methods:72 cases of acute exacerbation of COPD were divided into 2 groups.The treatment group was given nutrition support treatment and the control group was given ordinary treatment.The body weight,effective rate,FEV1/FVC,hospitalization days were observed before and after treatment.Results:There was significant difference before and after treatment in the two groups.Conclusion:Nutrition support is helpful to recovery of acute exacerbation of COPD.


Since the 1980s, higher education has been transformed from being elite education to public education in many countries [1]. Thus, people regard higher education as an important public service. Therefore, apart from its traditional functions of instruction and research, higher education should gradually strengthen its level of service to society [2]. Since the quality of national policies is under the evaluation and supervision of the people, the quality of higher education that offered to the public is certainly under public supervision as well. Besides, higher education should also comply with the demands of the stakeholders of education. The prevalence of higher education implies the advent of a new era of market-oriented education. Higher education institutions undertake the responsibility to assure the quality of educational performance offered to the public. They have to pay attention to how higher education contributes to the demands of the country, society and the economy. In the past few decades, education quality, education quality assurance and education accountability have been considered as the top main international issues of higher education. Due to such demands, A Performance-Based Evaluation Model for Engineering Education Programmes


ABSTRACT This Media Field Lecture took place at Panti Waluyo Hospital with the purpose of knowing, learning, and understanding the activities of Public Relations in the workplace. How the strategy of Public Relations in coping with the problems occur was. A hospital is an integrated health service provider which cooperates with BPJS Kesehatan to create an affordable service for all society levels with the applied terms and conditions. The impact of the cooperation made the hospital rather overhelmed due to the increase in the amount of patients which had not been accompanied with the addition of workers quantity. Panti Waluyo Surakarta Hospital as a private hospital of type C which is responsible to be the reference I after the health facility I, together with the management and public relations made strategy on the service acceleration in the section of outpatient through an online registration system which aimed at reducing the patient queue, therefore, it is able to support the service acceleration that will have impact on the service quality. The service quality will form the patients' trust which will influence the image of Panti Waluyo Surakarta Hospital.


The article describes the sources of banking law and the basis of legislative regulation of credit operations, the credit system of the state is shown schematically, its components and aspects are considered.


For the conformally flat spherically symmetric static space–time we obtain the most general solution for Brans–Dicke field equations for a vacuum. By coupling the electromagnetic field to Brans–Dicke theory and imposing the condition of asymptotical flatness we obtain the most general solution for the space–time. We also present some other solutions of Brans–Dicke field equations with the conformally flat condition but without any particular symmetry. Finally, we give the transformation for generating solutions of Brans–Dicke field equations with or without electromagnetic field for ω = −3/2 from purely vacuum solutions of Einstein's field equations.


An impact fracture test was performed on S 45 C near the transition temperature. The impact fracture test showed that a brittle fracture was always accompanied by a preceding ductile crack. The generation of the ductile crack occupied the majority of the absorbed energy in the impact test. Therefore, the generation of a ductile crack by an other pre-loading process was considered to be harmful for the impact strength. In this report, tests were performed to investigate the effects of preloading such as pre-impact, large straining and low cycle fatigue on the absorbed energy. Test results showed that a ductile crack deeper than 0.15 mm generated by pre loading substantially reduced the absorbed energy.


The highest tide line was determined for the area between Candelillas de la Mar and Salahondita, located on the southern Colombian Pacific littoral (CPL). The study was made by means of a harmonic analysis, time series of sea level measured in-situ, and the series that were generated from numerical modeling (considering the limited information available of sea level in this area). The meteorological tide was simulated using statistical Montecarlo techniques; considering the stochastic character of this variable. The behavior described for the series measured in-situ and modeled. It was analyzed with a normality test (Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk test), these were subsequently correlated through the Spearman Correlation Method, where the geomorphological changes in the coast and the limited bathymetric information in some areas, conditioned the behavior of the coefficients obtained. For the calculation of the average and extreme regimes, standard methodologies were applied, based on the coefficients obtained by Otero (2005). From this results, the highest flood levels for each study points were determined, which served to draw the highest tide line in this zone.


S. Andrew Starbird raises some interesting questions and valid points regarding agribusiness management graduate programs. However, there are several additional issues that should be considered in this debate. In particular, we offer two counterpoints to those raised by Starbird. First, Starbird focuses primarily on supply issues and ignores demand for graduate agribusiness management programs. Second, we question the argument that private school adoption of graduate agribusiness management programs is a measure of program success or quality. Lastly, we believe the more important issue is how should graduate agribusiness management programs "fit" into traditional agricultural economics departments and the agricultural economics profession?


The Contradictory Hadith is a branch of Hadith Sciences that deals with the methods to solve the contradictions between two or more narrations of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Mulla Ali Qari is the author of a detailed commentary on the famous Hadith compilation Mishkāt al-Masābīh named Mirqāt al-Mafātīh. In this commentary, Mulla Ali Qari has focused on such narrations and provided all possible solutions to such narrations. This article is designed to explore his method in this regard. The author, at first، has brought the principles set by the adapts of hadithic scientists (Muhadithīn), and then the examples from the said commentary have been brought under discussion. This research concludes that Mulla Ali Qari has not only provided all the interpretations described by his predecessor scholars but has also introduced many new interpretations himself.


Surveillance of DM status, type, and date of diagnosis requires chart review. We previously showed that ≥ 2 international classification of diseases (ICD) DM codes predicts DM status well. This project aimed to derive an EHR-based algorithm to predict diagnosis date. Youth ( Disclosure K.M. Lenoir: None. L.E. Wagenknecht: None. J. Divers: None. R. Casanova: None. J.M. Lawrence: None. D. Dabelea: None. C. Pihoker: None. S. Saydah: None. A.D. Liese: None. D. Standiford: None. B.J. Wells: None. Funding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (5U18DP006131-05-00)


Abstract This article provides abstracts and author/subject indices for the scholarly articles in the journal specializing in the culture and prehistory of Easter Island. The index and abstracts that follow are the third in a series that begins with Rapa Nui Journal's inception in 1988: Index for 1988–1996, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 16, no. 2 (1998), 27–53; Index for 1997–1998, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 18, no. 1 (1999), 57–70.


In this paper the results of the researches of switching power supply on magnetic amplifier and with power factor correction are given.


The aim of this study was to analyze the angular amplitudes of the attacker over the defender along the series of practice, trying to see if this parameter contributes to the breakdown of the stability of the attacker-defender dyad. In the study participated 11 players (17.91 ± 1.04 years old) with 8.6 ± 1.52 years of practice. In order to understand the position relationship between the attacker and defender, we calculate the angular positioning between them. For this purpose we considered the 0o angle as the angle between the striker and the defender when they form a perpendicular line to the edge of the field where staying the goal. The results show a regular oscillation by the attacker to seek to unbalance the opponent and that through this action-reaction the attacker tries to find new solutions resulting from the exploitation of the environment and the opponent.


Michael addition of nitroalkanes to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds occurs in the presence of KF/AI_2O_3/PEG4000 without solvent.Yields are fair to good and work-ups are easy.


Purpose:  Mutations in the SCN1A gene, which encodes the α1 subunit of voltage‐gated sodium channels, cause generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) and severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI). N1417H‐Scn1a mutant rats are considered to be an animal model of human FS+ or GEFS+. To assess the pharmacologic validity of this model, we compared the efficacies of eight different antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for the treatment of hyperthermia‐induced seizures using N1417H‐Scn1a mutant rats.


Previous measurements in lymph and adipose tissue have indicated that interstitial insulin concentrations are ∼40% lower than in plasma. Measurements of insulin in human muscle interstitial fluid have not been performed yet. We developed a new external reference technique for calibration of microdialysis catheters in situ. This technique allows correct assessments of interstitial peptide concentrations and was employed to estimate the insulin concentration in medial quadriceps femoris muscle in 11 individuals (age: 37 ± 3 yr; body mass index: 25.2 ± 1.2 kg/m2) during a two-step euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp. At steady-state insulin and glucose infusion, plasma glucose was 5.9 ± 0.2 mmol/l, plasma insulin was 155 ± 17 mU/l, and interstitial muscle insulin was 67 ± 19 mU/l ( n = 9; P < 0.01). At a higher insulin infusion rate, the steady-state plasma insulin concentration was 379 ± 58 mU/l, and interstitial insulin concentration was 180 ± 40 mU/l ( P < 0.01). The data show for the first time that high physiological and supraphysiological plasma insulin levels give 30-50% lower interstitial concentrations of insulin in the muscle. The importance of capillary delivery as a rate-limiting step for the insulin effect is suggested.


This paper attempts to point out and amend an incorrect discussion of Baranzini (1975), "The Pasinetti and the Anti-Pasinetti Theorems: A Reconciliation" in the Oxford Economic Papers. According to Baranzini (1975), Samuelson-Modigliani (1966) argue that if P/Y


Objective To understand the status of HBV and HCV in heroin-dependents and their related cognition,so as to facilitate the making of coping tactics,conducting effective preventions and health publicity and education.Methods HBV and HCV tests were conducted on 98 heroin-dependents undergoing maintenance treatment at the outpatient department from December 2007 to February 2008,and they were requested to complete the questionnaire concerning their knowledge of the harm of drug abuse,contagious diseases and prevention of them.Results Of the 98 subjects,those infected with HBV numbered 21,accounting for 21%;those catching HCV totalled 79,accounting for 81%;and the ones infected accounted for 96%(77/80).The rate of understanding of the harm of drug taking was high,whereas the knowledge of the realted infectious diseases and prevention was scarce.Conclusion The rate of infection of HBV and HCV among heroin-dependents is high,but their knowledge of related infectious diseases and prevention awareness is lacking.Publicity and education on drugs and prevention of the related infectious diseases needs to be strengthened.


FreightLink, the operator of the new Alice Springs-Darwin line in Australia's Northern Territory has seen a steady increase in tonnage since it opened in mid January. A shift of traffic from road to rail between Adelaide and Darwin has given a promising start to new services using the line. The company had hauled 134,815 revenue tonnes by the end of April - a figure that puts FreightLink on track to achieve the target of 350,000 tonnes of domestic freight within the first year of operation, rising to 800,000 tonnes in three years.


Changnienia amoena Chien is a monotypic species and endemic to China, and was listed on the Chinese Red Book in 1992. The species was once abundant but has become rare and endangered in recent years because of the habitat fragmentation and unduly commercial collections. Previous observation showed that this species has very low and even no fruit set, and the pollinators are not observed before this report. The present observation was conducted at the Shennongjia, Hubei Province during the spring of 2002. The results showed that Bombus (Diversobombus) trifasciatus Smith¡, B. imitator Pittion and one species of Apis visited the flowers of the orchid, but only B. trifasciatus could carry pollinaria on its body and was the legitimate pollinators of C. amoena. During 113 h of observation, only nine visitations were recorded. The bumblebees mainly appeared during 12:00-15:00 during the day. Bumblebees stayed in a flower only a few seconds and never more than ten seconds. The flowers would persist in fresh for about three weeks when they were not pollinated, but 3 or 4 d after pollinated, the pollinated flowers underwent a series of color and morphological changes including stalk elongation and ovary swelling. Therefore, stalk elongation can be considered an index of fruits set. Artificial pollination indicated that C. amoena is a highly self-compatible and outcrossing species, but dependent on pollinators for fruit set. Based on the field observations, we concluded that pollination system of C. amoena is deceptive. The fruit set in nature is not very low (26.98% on average) compared to other deceptive orchids, which may be related to small population sizes. The number of pollinia removal is much higher than that of fruit set, indicating that there are some degrees of pollinia wasting in C. amoena.


2′-hydroxyflavanone (2HF) is a dietary flavonoid with anticancer activity towards multiple cancers. Here, we report that topically applied 2HF inhibits the growth of intradermal implants of melanoma in immunocompetent mice. 2HF induced apoptosis and inhibited the growth of the human SK-MEL-24 as well as murine B16-F0 and B16-F10 melanoma cell lines in vitro. Apoptosis was associated with depletion of caspase-3, caspase-9, and PARP1 in B16-F0 and SK-MEL-24 cells. Caspase-9 and MEKK-15 were undetected even in untreated B16-F10 cells. Signaling proteins TNFα, and phospho-PDGFR-β were depleted in all three cell lines; MEKK-15 was depleted by 2HF in SK-MEL-24 cells. 2HF enhanced sunitinib (an MEK and PDGFR-β inhibitor) and AZD 2461 (a PARP1 inhibitor) cytotoxicity. 2HF also depleted the Ral-regulated, stress-responsive, antiapoptotic endocytic protein RLIP76 (RALBP1), the inhibition of which has previously been shown to inhibit B16-F0 melanoma growth in vivo. Functional inhibition of RLIP76 was evident from inhibition of epidermal growth factor (EGF) endocytosis by 2HF. We found that topically applied 2HF–Pluronic Lecithin Organogel (PLO) gel inhibited B16-F0 and B16-F10 tumors implanted in mice and caused no overt toxicity despite significant systemic absorption. 2HF treatment reduced phospho-AKT, vimentin, fibronectin, CDK4, cyclinB1, and BCL2, whereas it increased BIM and phospho-AMPK in excised tumors. Several cancer signals are controlled by endocytosis, a process strongly inhibited by RLIP76 depletion. We conclude that 2HF–PLO gel may be useful for topical therapy of cutaneous metastases of melanoma and could enhance the antineoplastic effects of sunitinib and PARP1 inhibitors. The mechanism of action of 2HF in melanoma overlaps with RLI76 inhibitors.


The thermal oxidation of a film of isotactic polypropylene was studied using by infrared spectroscopy. Reaction temperatures varied from 120°–150°C. and oxygen concentrations from 7–100%, by volume. A reaction scheme was postulated and kinetic expressions were developed therefrom. These expressions could explain very well the experimental results obtained. An activation energy of 31 ± 1 kcal./mole was obtained for the initiation process whereas a value of 22 ± 1 kcal./mole was obtained for the process involving the formation of non-volatile oxygenated substances.


The invention of each new communications technology has brought new opportunities for understanding the self by blending our vague, diffuse notions of self over time with our notion of self as a user of the technology. These technologies include semaphore signaling systems, signed language, telegraphy, personal letter writing, telephony, radio, television, e-mail, and chat rooms. We know our technologies better than we know ourselves. Our communications technologies are designed to operate at human scale and are therefore at the center of what we know best. Accordingly, we think of ourselves in terms of them, by blending our general concept of ourselves with our understanding of how the communications technology works.


The impact of the new rules for the conduct of business in Europe has not yet been felt in the United States. Beginning in 1993, however, when the European Community institutes more firm and potentially restricting rules, US companies need to be aware of the changes that will be taking place. Such factors as costs, the time that it takes, and other general startup information in the registration process are addressed. The process known as third party registration is discussed, and the possibility of the registration processes being self-regulated is raised.<<ETX>>


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Face recognition has become an important issue in our current life and it is a fundamental task for applications such as face tracking, red – eye removal, face recognition and face expression recognition.In this paper we present a hybrid approach based on combination of local binary pattern (LBP)and Histogram of Oriented Gradient(HOG). LBP algorithms, which works with the shape and texture information are taken into consideration for representing the facial image. The hog algorithm of descriptor attributes is used to detect the object. It is computed using a dense grid of uniformly spaced cells and uses overlapping local contrast normalization for improved accuracy.The ORL database was used to test each algorithm for a set of images. The efficiency of the LBP algorithm is evaluated by distinguishing a group of face images from 80%. The HOG algorithm achieved 90% classification accuracy obtained, while the hybrid method 94.25%.


In this study, women"s golf T-shirts patterns for an age group of after forties were collected and compared to conduct an evaluation of appearance and movement by trying clothes made for this research. The golf T-shirts patterns of 4 highly preferred brands were used which were selected through the preference test beforehand. For the items for testing fashionable aspect and movement adaptability, the previous researches were referred to, and 5-point likert scale was used for the evaluation. One-way ANOVA was carried out by SPSS 21.0 for window. The result shows that B brand scored the highest on the appearance test, and A brand the lowest. Also B brand displayed the highest score on the movement test, and the lowest score for A brand. There appeared the agreement between the appearance and movement tests. This result clearly indicates that the brand which highly satisfies the fitness also performs the best on the movement test.


The great expansion of southern women's history over the past half century has been fueled in part by the pioneering archival projects launched by women historians and other specialists. The SAWH became an important resource for growing the field. A steady parade of researchers stopped begging for crumbs and began to make demands. These demands included marching right up to the front door, ringing the bell and refusing to be denied entry. The creation of guides to resources and digitization of resources has advanced research and writing in the field, transforming archives and collections by including issues of gender and sexuality. By applying pressure in a positive and persistent manner, historians and activists pushed ahead and created the framework for southern women's history to flourish. A flurry of handbooks emerged as librarians and archivists began to amass new materials, to prepare and publish elaborate and engaging guides, and to connect these resources to larger questions in the field. The project of southern women's history has become less about gatekeeping and more about raising the roof. The SAWH stimulated the expansion of southern history to be collected, recorded, sorted, and digitized for public consumption.


ABSTRACT Large-scale inter-city infrastructure projects are proliferating across the Global South as industrial policy-makers have used spatial planning to purposefully transform regions' economic and urban geographies. The Make in India policy and its promotion of industrial development corridors is emblematic of these trends, and this paper explores the relationship between this emergent national spatial vision and the subnational governance restructuring necessary for its implementation. We present primary research surrounding the implementation of the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) in Gujarat, and demonstrate that megaprojects present challenges that require subnational governments to act in altered ways. They must be adept in the assembly and delivery of significant parcels of land, and in handling any political fallout this generates. They must also make new arrangements and acquire competences to meet 'scaled up' developmental ambitions. Finally, they need to harness the legitimating power that corridors represent through their promises of connection, integration and growth. The Government of Gujarat has enthusiastically embraced the concept of the DMIC, turning spatial planning into a series of externally marketed infrastructure investment opportunities. In pushing its pro-growth agenda, it has overwritten earlier institutions focused on small-scale industrial development, but has not resolved underlying contradictions around land acquisition, or building consensus in support of its entrepreneurial vision. By focusing on this 'limiting case', we highlight the crucial role of the subnational state in implementing infrastructure-led development, and the importance of building a contextually rich understanding of its responses to the scaled-up demands megaprojects place upon it.


Partner selection is a fundamental issue in supply chain management as it contributes significantly to overall supply chain performance. However, such decision-making is problematic due to the need to consider both tangible and intangible factors, which cause vagueness, ambiguity and complexity. This paper proposes a new fuzzy intelligent approach for partner selection in agile supply chains by using fuzzy set theory in combination with radial basis function artificial neural network. Using these two approaches in combination enables the model to classify potential partners in the qualification phase of partner selection efficiently and effectively using very large amounts of both qualitative and quantitative data. The paper includes a worked empirical application of the model with data from 84 representative companies within the Chinese electrical components and equipment industry, to demonstrate its suitability for helping organisational decision-makers in partner selection.


Ozone has been found to be a substantial part of the oxidant characteristic of Los Angeles' smog. Since automobile exhaust gases are capable of forming ozone in the air, they are considered a definite cause of smog. In studies reported here, ozone was produced in the laboratory and measured by rubber cracking and chemical tests. Exhaust gases from cruising and accelerating phases of automobile operation were irradiated to form ozone. Exhaust gas from idling and deceleration produced ozone photochemically after addition of NO/sub 2/.


The marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus) is a valuable model for developing assisted reproductive technologies in humans and endangered primate species. Calcium ionophore treatments have been used to induce parthenogenetic activation in a number of species, but the effectiveness of this reagent in initiating marmoset embryo development has not yet been reported. The aim of this study was to determine the developmental potential of in vitro matured (IVM) marmoset oocytes, following treatment with calcium ionophore. Immature oocytes from large (LA; >1.5 mm) and small (SA; 0.67–1.5 mm) antral follicles were isolated from the ovaries of FSH-primed animals and cultured in modified G2 medium for 26–30 h at 37.0°C in 6% CO2 in air. Meiotically mature oocytes were sequentially incubated with 5 μM ionomycin for 5 min and 2 mM 6-dimethylaminopurine for 3 h and cultured in G1/G2 sequential medium at 37.0°C in 5% O2, 6% CO2, 89% N2 for 10 days. Cumulus cell expansion associated with LA oocytes (n=118) was greater than that of SA oocytes (n=212), as determined using well established classification criteria (2.7±0.1 v. 1.8±0.2; P<0.01). A greater proportion of LA oocytes completed meiosis to the metaphase-II stage compared with SA oocytes (85±7% v. 63±7%; P<0.05). Pronuclear formation was induced at similar rates in mature oocytes of both groups, but the rate of cleavage was higher for LA oocytes compared with SA oocytes (93±6% v. 66±5%; P<0.05). The number of cells per embryo was not different between the groups.This is the first study to demonstrate that calcium ionophore effectively induces parthenogenetic activation in IVM marmoset oocytes. However, the development of parthenotes was limited beyond the 8-cell stage. Further studies are needed to determine the cause of the developmental block.


Composition comprising a polyaniline, an aqueous dispersion of the colloid-forming polymeric acid is provided. Film from the composition of the present invention is useful as a buffer layer of an organic electronic devices, including electroluminescent devices such as organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. The films cast from compositions of the present invention, in combination with a metal metal wires or carbon nanotubes, the drain of the thin film field effect transistors, are useful in applications such as the source or gate electrode.


A survey is presented of the variety of echolocation behavior in bats.A survey is presented of the variety of echolocation behavior in bats.


We report on the application of graphene (Gr)/copper (Cu) shell/core nanowires (NWs) as a transparent conducting electrode (TCE) for optoelectronic devices. First, we optimize the synthesis conditi...


behavioural alternatives, thereby producing inflexible behaviour and stereotypy at one extreme and poverty of behaviour at the other'. Future research needs to understand the ways in which motor stereotypies can be environmentally modulated to improve the functioning in affected individuals. For example, parents of autistic children often report that when their child runs they appear like 'Forrest Gump', inconsistent, and awkward. However, when the child's focus shifts from the task of running (hence, the motor response occurs automatically and below the level of conscious control and awareness), such as when the young man becomes fixated on his brother who has run away with his ball, he 'suddenly appears smooth and fluent' in his movement. Huntington patients show a similar contextual modification in stereotypical behaviour, e.g. movement chorea is reported to reduce when patients are engaged in an attentional task. The author's comment that 'parents, teachers, and therapists expend major efforts at suppressing stereotypies, especially hand flapping, because they consider them as disrupting and stigmatizing voluntary mannerisms rather than as temporarily suppressible movement disorders' is an important point which needs to be echoed in this commentary. While the management practices associated with children affected by Tourette syndrome takes a 'neurological' 'disability' perspective, e.g. letting the child out of the classroom briefly to 'let out' the tics, or allowing extra time for the child to perform motor-related tics, the management practices associated with the stereotypies of autism less often take this 'neurological' 'disability' perspective. This may involve leaving a child to sit for long periods in a classroom having to suppress stereotypies and experience rising stress levels. The 'psychiatric' sequale to this 'neurological' suppression may be the emotional 'meltdowns' which autistic children so often experience at the end of a school day. With autism, diagnosis management and treatment need to continue to be informed by a synthesis of a multi-disciplinary perspective to provide the best practices in management and treatment options.


Anchored on Teresa Amabile's componential theory of creativity, the organizational creativity model was investigated. The primary goal was to investigate the interrelationship of variables in the organizational creativity model such as domain-relevant skills, creative-relevant skills, intrinsic task motivation, work environment, and organizational creativity using 133 respondents from micro, small and mediumscale restaurants inside and outside the National Capital Region (NCR) in the Philippines. Results of the partial least squaresstructural equation modeling revealed that only creative-relevant skills and work environment predicts significantly organizational creativity, while work environment significantly affects creativerelevant skills, intrinsic task motivation, and domain-relevant skills. Implications for work environments, as in the case of Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) and directions for future research are provided.


The invention provides a web page classifying method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of: analyzing a plurality of web page elements from a to-be-predicted web page; predicting candidate web page classifications to which the to-be-predicted web page belongs according to the web page elements respectively; and comparing the candidate web page classifications predicted by the web page elements respectively, and determining final web page classification of the to-be-predicted web page. According to the method, a full-automatic classifying process is realized, the manual operation is not required, the web page classifying efficiency is greatly improved, especially massive web pages of the whole network and web pages newly generated in the internet can be quickly and effectively classified, and the web page classifying timeliness is ensured.


The children subjected to this investigation were the patients who were mainly inpatients in our Hospital and partially outpatients in 1958 and 1959. The youngest patient was one year and two months old. The procedure to obtain A-, B and C-biles was the same as previously reported.1) For the determination of pH pieces of test paper (the Toyo Roshi Company) were used; for the determination of bile pigments concentration the method by Meulengracht; for the determination of amylase the method by Wohlgemuth; and for the determination of lipase by Okabe's alkaline titration method were used, as was previously reported.


1. Abstracts are to be submitted in English. 2. Abstracts can be sent by email as a file attachment in 'Microsoft Word' format or by airmail. Please use Times Romans font, 12 point. 3. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or mail to: Conference Secretariat 16th Asia-Pacific Social Work Conference c/o Dept of Social Work & Psychology National University of Singapore AS6, 4th Floor, 11 Law Link Singapore 117570


the creation of optimized data for manufacturing (MAM). These data are generated from static modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT). This document addresses improved medical image data, and medical image data acquisition processing and optimization approaches for accurate solid medical models, based on real human and animal data. Contrast resolution: Ability to distinguish between and image similar tissues, in Variations in the value of TR and TE have an important effect on the control of image contrast characteristics. Short values of TR (less than e.g. 1 000 ms) and TE (less than e.g. 25 ms) are common in images exhibiting T1 contrast. Long values of TR (greater than e.g. 1 500 ms) and TE (greater than e.g. 60 ms) are common in images exhibiting T2 contrast. Middle TR values (e.g. from 1 000 ms to 1 500 ms) and middle TE values (e.g. from 25 ms to 60 ms) are common for density weighted contrast.


While in the past women had lower educational attainment than men, women in recent years have caught up to and passed men in educational attainment. Lower occupational aspirations for women compared to men contributed to lower educational attainment in the past. In this article, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to consider whether occupational aspirations still act to lower educational attainment for women compared to men or whether occupational aspirations are currently an advantage for young women. We find that occupational aspirations are an advantage for women for high school graduation but not for college graduation.


Summary Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) is among the most iconic and economically important fish species and was the first member of Salmonidae to have a high‐quality reference genome assembly published. Advances in genomics have become increasingly central to the genetic improvement of farmed Atlantic salmon as well as conservation of wild salmon stocks. The salmon genome has also been pivotal in shaping our understanding of the evolutionary and functional consequences arising from an ancestral whole‐genome duplication event characterising all Salmonidae members. Here, we provide a review of the current status of Atlantic salmon genetics and genomics, focussed on progress made from genome‐wide research aimed at improving aquaculture production and enhancing understanding of salmonid ecology, physiology and evolution. We present our views on the future direction of salmon genomics, including the role of emerging technologies (e.g. genome editing) in elucidating genetic features that underpin functional variation in traits of commercial and evolutionary importance.


The fair value of common stock in a dissenting shareholders' rights case has often been examined within the Delaware Block framework since its creation by the Supreme Court of Delaware over 60 years ago. While the use of the Delaware Block framework is no longer commonly relied on in Delaware Chancery Court decisions, it has not disappeared in some other jurisdictions. The traditional Delaware Block framework, however, may need to be modified to incorporate the current generally accepted valuation methods.


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In the present study experiments were made on rats to demonstrate by means of radioactive phosphorus the phosphate turnover in the tuber cinereum, adenohypophysis and ovaries during the phases of the reproductive cycle. The following results were obtained.

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Tuber cinereum. The phosphate turnover reaches its peak during prooestrus. During the following phases it is markedly depressed.

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Adenohypophysis. The phosphate turnover is considerably greater than in the tuber cinereum. Also in the adenohypophysis maximum metabolic activity was observed during prooestrus.

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Ovary. The phosphate turnover is most intense during prooestrus and dioestrus.

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These observations lend further support to the assumption that, from the functional point of view, the hypophyseal and diencephalic systems should be looked upon as a unity.


Influence of adsorption of n-alkyltrimethylammonium bromides (C8, C12, C16) and formation of motion induced dynamic architecture of adsorption layer (DAL) over surface of the colliding bubble on kinetics of three-phase contact (TPC) formation at mica surface was studied. The dynamic phenomena occurring during the bubble collisions were monitored using a high-speed camera of frequency 1040 Hz. The effect of solution concentration and the DAL formation, due to the bubble motion, was determined. It was showed that stability of the wetting film formed between the colliding bubble and mica surface was governed by the electrostatic interactions between the film interfaces. It was found that when the distance covered by the bubble (i.e. the distance between the capillary and the mica surface) was L=3 mm (location "close") then the time of the three phase contact formation (tTPC), was significantly shorter than for the L=100 mm (location "far"). The differences between the tTPC for the locations "close" and "far" were the largest at lowest concentration. The mechanism responsible for significant differences in the tTPC values for the location "close" and "far" is described..


From the beauty of traditional art form, traditional patterns, traditional characteristics of color and the application of calligraphy and natural materials in packaging design, the values of traditional designing elements which is rich in characteristics of national culture were analyzed.


Off-axis holographic optical elements can be used for collimation of optical beams from edge emitting diode lasers. Such a single element collimator can simultaneously compensate large elliptic cross-section and considerable astigmatism of that beams and also reduce two selected lower aberrations. Beside a current transverse diffraction pattern in the focus also patterns in the vicinity of the focus should take attention. Diffraction patterns due to an elliptic aperture of such a collimator are very complicated and for their theoretical description sophisticated methods must be used. This contribution involves some preliminary results of the study. Theoretical transverse diffraction patterns in the vicinity of the focus have been mainly presented and their description analyzed.


For bystander-witnessed cardiac arrests, some experts debate the value of the mouth-to-mouth ventilation component of conventional CPR, and many witnesses are reluctant to perform the ventilation. In a prospective, multicenter, nonrandomized study from Japan, researchers examined 30-day neurologic outcomes among 4068 adults who experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrests witnessed by bystanders: …


The invention relates to a device for preventing the explosion of an electrical transformer (1) comprising a vessel (2) which is filled with a combustible coolant. The inventive device comprises a decompression element (15) which is used to decompress the vessel (2), a container (18) which is disposed downstream of the decompression element (15) and at least one plug (20) for hermetically sealing the container (18) in order to collect a fluid that passes through the decompression element (15).


FeVO4‐based catalysts with a wide temperature window and high SO2 tolerance have attracted increasing attention for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3. However, the alkali‐resistance of FeVO4‐based catalysts is still challenging. In this study, the K‐resistance of FeVO4/TiO2 was markedly improved via the Nb modification. It was demonstrated that the adsorption and reactivity of NH3/NH4+ and NOx species on K poisoned FeVO4/TiO2 both decreased, which restrained the process of Langmuir‐Hinshelwood reaction path. As a comparison, more adsorption of NH3/NH4+ species and the higher reactivity with gaseous NO maintain the process of Eley‐Rideal reaction path, leading to a satisifactory SCR activity. This work demonstrated an effective route to improve alkali‐resistance via modulating reactivity and reaction path of adsorbed NH3/NH4+ and NOx species over Nb modified vanadate catalysts, which presented a new point for the development of high‐performance alkali‐resistant SCR catalysts.


The increase in inverter-based resources associated with the increased installation of PV sources is a concern because it reduces the inertia of the power system during peak PV generation periods. As a countermeasure to reduce grid inertia, the addition of pseudo-inertia using virtual synchronous machines can be selected, and PV generation can cooperatively contribute to the stable operation of the power system by using the suppressed output as reserve power. However, few studies have analyzed VSMs that do not use batteries and use PV as a resource (PV-VSM) in simulations, including grid interconnection and solar radiation fluctuations, and it is necessary to clarify the issues and discuss countermeasures. In this study, electromagnetic transient response analysis was applied to a VSM connected to a two-generator system, simulations were performed, and the following findings were reported and countermeasure methods for the problem were proposed. When the PV capacity is insufficient for the output required by the VSM inverter, the PV-VSM control system may become unstable. This is caused by a drop in the capacitor voltage of the DC/DC converter due to insufficient PV output. The limiter control system is designed to address this problem by combining the headroom estimation system with the current limiting algorithm. The proposed limiter control system is validated on solar radiation ramp fluctuations as a test case and found that the system was effective in supressing PV-VSM instability. In our simulation case, the PV-VSM with our limiter control can continue to operate stably even if the PV available power is 0.03 [p.u.] short of the inverter's reference power by the solar power ramp fluctuation, as long as the inverter installation rate is less than 50%.


Computer Information Systems (CIS) are broadly applied to many areas via internetworking computers. Among them Algorithmic Trading via Electronic Communication Networks (ECN) represents a new direction toward which CIS is applied to the stock exchange in an automated way. This paper presents a Novel Architecture Framework for Algorithmic Trading Information Systems (NATIS) with emphasis on its scalability, flexibility, and generality for Algorithmic Trading (information) systems via ECN with emphasis on such views as strategic view (activities through cognitive processes of decision-making), managerial view (activities to accomplish desired goals), and operational view (activities to produce profit) in order to support sound features: scalability, flexibility, and generality. A case study is also given to specify how NATIS flexibly accommodates Day Trading Business through strategic, managerial and operational activities in an automated way. As a result, flexibly constructing automated stock trading is made not only feasible via ECN, but also possible when trading strategies need to alter to take advantage of various situations.


Abstract The present study describes the results of a pilot study to carry out the initial development and testing of a new class of high-pressure all thermoplastic pipe, using recycled PET as reinforcement. A prototype pipe design has been manufactured and initial qualification testing carried out demonstrating a new high added value product application for recycled materials.


In this article, the low-frequency linear and angular vibration sensors have been gradually used in many applications of vibration monitoring because they can measure dynamic displacement and angle. These sensors must be calibrated before they are used and after they have been used for a period to ensure their measurement accuracy. Currently, the laser interferometry (LI) and sensor-based comparison method are commonly used to calibrate their sensitivities. However, the former suffers inevitably drawbacks in low-frequency range, while the latter usually has only a limited range, these undoubtedly limit their wide application. In this article, a new monocular vision-based multiparameter calibration method is investigated, which can determine the sensitivities of these sensors in a broad low-frequency range. The monocular vision method with improved line segment detector is applied to measure the linear and angular vibration excitations by extracting the motion feature edges with subpixel accuracy. This investigated method strongly promotes the perfection and unification of linear and angular vibration calibration. Many comparison experiments with the LI, the Earth's graviation method, and the circular grating-based method confirm that the investigated method gets the satisfactory accuracies in the linear and angular vibration calibration with an efficient, flexible, and low-cost system in the low-frequency range.


Statins present a number of beneficial effects on endothelial function and atherosclerotic plaque, modulating oxidative stress and inflammation. The benefits of long-term statin treatment in the entire spectrum of atherosclerotic vascular disease can largely be explained by its cholesterol-lowering effects and the associated reduction of the progression of atherosclerosis. The short-term benefits of statins use are most likely due to their non-lipid, pleiotropic effects. Myocardial injury during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) occurs in 10-40% of cases and is often characterized by a slight increase in the markers of myocardial necrosis, sometimes without symptoms, electrocardiographic changes or impairment of cardiac function. Periprocedural myocardial infarction is associated with a worse outcome on long term follow-up. Several randomized trials have suggested a beneficial effect of pre-treatment with statins in the outcome of the procedure. Myocardial protection by statin pre-therapy in PCI has been studied in several trials published over the last decade. The mechanisms underlying the beneficial pleiotropic effects of statins may be an anti-inflammatory action reducing myocardial injury necrosis due to microembolization, an improvement in endothelial function on microcirculation, and direct myocardial protection. This article reviews the major randomized trials which have studied the use of statins as pre-treatment in PCI and explores future perspectives. Key words: statins, percutaneous coronary intervention, acute coronary syndromes


Background: Some AML patients, particularly those relapsing rapidly, may not get a chance to receive a potentially curative stem cell transplant (SCT) due to early death, among other reasons. This study compares the differences in characteristics and survival of relapsed AML patients with and without SCT, as observed in a real-world setting.
 Methods: Relapsed AML patients aged 66-75 years were identified from the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database by medical claims associated with ICD-9 code 205.02 (2009-2014). Patients were followed from relapse to the earliest of death, SCT, or end of follow-up. Baseline characteristics were compared between relapsed AML patients with and without SCT. The SCT rates were estimated after adjusting for the competing risk of death. The Fine and Gray method was used to identify predictors of receiving SCT and were reported in terms of sub-distribution hazard ratios (SHR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Kaplan-Meier estimates (reported in terms of median and 6-, 12-, and 24-months survival rates, tested with a log Rank test statistic) and a Cox proportional hazards model adjusting for age, sex, race, Census region, marital status, urban location, Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), and diagnosis year (reported in terms of hazard ratios (HR) and 95% CI) was used to assess the difference in survival between patients with and without SCT.
 Results: Of the 474 relapsed AML patients (median age, 70 years, median follow up, 4.4 months, male, 55%) included in the study, 8% received SCT, 80% died without having SCT and 12% were administratively censored. Patients were less likely to receive SCT if they were 71-75 years old (SHR 0.28, 95% CI (0.19 to 0.41; P <.001) and had higher comorbidity with CCI >3 (SHR 0.16, 95% CI (0.06 to 0.44; P <.001). The median overall survival was 16.1 months for patients with SCT vs. 4.1 months for those without SCT (log rank P <.001; adjusted HR 0.52, 95% CI (047 - 0.57; P <.001)). The 6-, 12-, and 24-month overall survival for all relapsed AML patients was 42%, 26%, and 12%, respectively. For patients with SCT, the 6-, 12-, and 24-month overall survival was 84%, 59%, and 43%, respectively. For patients without SCT, the 6-, 12-, and 24-month overall survival was 39%, 23%, and 12%, respectively.
 Conclusions: Relapsed AML patients who received SCT experienced significantly longer survival compared to those who did not receive SCT in this elderly study population. However, only 8% of all relapsed AML patients received SCT. Therapies that bridge more patients to SCT are expected to improve overall survival in this high unmet need population.

 Aly: AstraZeneca: Research Funding; Celgene: Research Funding; BMS: Research Funding; Pharmerit International: Employment, Research Funding; Daiichi Sankyo Incorporated: Research Funding. Ray:Daiichi Sankyo Incorporated: Employment, Equity Ownership. Shah:Celgene: Research Funding; Pharmerit International: Employment, Research Funding; Daiichi Sankyo Incorporated: Research Funding; BMS: Research Funding. Botteman:Daiichi Sankyo Incorporated: Research Funding; BMS: Research Funding; Celgene: Research Funding; Pharmerit International: Employment, Equity Ownership, Research Funding; Bioverativ: Consultancy, Other: Provided consulting to Bioverativ, Research Funding.


The first season's work of the Harvard Expedition to Samaria closed in the latter part of August. In consequence of various delays and interruptions incident to the beginning of the undertaking, the actual digging covered only nine or ten weeks in all. Doctor Gottlieb Schumacher, who has had the direction of the work, surveyed the ground, tracing the remains of the city wall, the circuit of which is about two miles and a half, and made a plan of the site.


Based on trials, the reasons and regulations of loss of weight of viscose fiber under different concentration and temperature in alkali were explored. Thus, the errors arising from loss of weight of viscose fiber during quantitative analysis and their solutions were presented.


The paper is dedicated to analysis of the best practices and planning paradigms for IoT systems, which are aimed, especially, to Smart Office deployment. The mostly important requirements are as follows: energy efficiency and energy harvesting; cost reduction; data security and privacy.


Monte Carlo calculations of dilute and more concentrated polymer solution systems in a simple cubic lattice have been performed for different values of the polymer length and solvent (or temperature) conditions. The following properties have been obtained: dimensions, single-chain scattering form factors, diffusion coefficients in dilute solution with hydrodynamic interactions (via the Kirkwood formula), and end-to-end distribution functions. These results are analyzed in light of theoretical predictions and experimental data


The first essay of the quality control of vegetal drugs from pharmacopoeias consists of their identification, based on macro and microscopic descriptions in monographs. When those descriptions are accompanied by illustrations of the material, the vegetal structures are easily recognized. Therefore, this work has aimed to supply an additional resource for the characterization of two vegetal drugs from pharmacopoeias: Echinodorus macrophyllus (Kunth) Micheli, Alismataceae and Ruta graveolens L., Rutaceae. The botanical material was fixed, embedded in glycol methacrylate, sectioned by microtome and stained. Among the illustrated anatomical characters, in E. macrophyllus it is emphasized amphistomatic leaf, homogeneous mesophyll and secretory ducts. In R. graveolens glabrous leaf, dorsiventral mesophyll and secretory cavities are evident. The indicated characters favour the identification of these vegetal drugs


The orders from forty-nine of fifty-nine University of London libraries were collected for a period of six months. A stratified sample of the orders was recorded on card and filed by country of publication. Coded details on each card gave the title and author of each order, the library making the order, the week of ordering, the publication date and the country of the publisher. Altogether 40000 orders were collected and 5000 were recorded and filed. Orders for the same publication were stapled together and placed in the duplicate file. About half the orders received were for BNB material; a third of the orders were for current BNB material. The results revealed comparatively little duplication even over a period of six months. An examination of the change of duplication with time showed that most publications were ordered on a random basis even over the six-month period. From the data received it was possible to give maximum estimates for the overlap in a twelve-month period and the eventual catalogue overlap of 1970 material.