Digitalization is driving social and economic change – in soccer, too. Artificial intelligence will increasingly solve problems and further intertwine the relationship between people and technology. Largely unexplored – but at the same time significant due to economic, psychological and sporting problems – are digital innovations in refereeing. Gottschalk et al. (2020) showed the potential for artificial intelligence and digitalization in refereeing. In a next step the researchers worked with the refereeing department of the German Football Association (DFB) to gain further insights for digitization in elite refereeing. As a result potential was identified for DOGSO decisions. The researchers conducted various interview rounds with elite referees of the German Football Association to identify all factors of human assessment influencing DOGSO decisions. The objective was to define a criteria system which can be evaluated by technology. As a result, more than 40 factors determining DOGSO decisions have been identified.


We present the latest results from the Mission Program NIRLT (PI: I.Yamamura), the near-infrared spectroscopy of brown dwarfs using the AKARI/IRC grism mode with the spectral resolution of ∼ 120. The near-infrared spectra in the wavelength range between 2.5 and 5.0 μm are especially important to study the brown dwarf atmospheres because of the presence of major molecular bands, including CH4 at 3.3 μm, CO2 at 4.2 μm, CO at 4.6 μm, and H2O around 2.7 μm. We observed 27 sources, and obtained 16 good spectra. Our model fitting reveals deviations between theoretical model and observed spectra in this wavelength range, which may be attributed to the physical condition of the upper atmosphere. The deviations indicate additional heating, which we hypothesize to be due to chromospheric activity. We test this effect by modifying the brown dwarf atmosphere model to artificially increase the temperature of the upper atmosphere, and compare the revised model with observed spectra of earlyto mid-L type objects with Hα emission. We find that the chemical structure of the atmosphere changes dramatically, and the heating model spectra of early-type brown dwarfs can be considerably improved to match the observed spectra. Our result suggests that chromospheric activity is essential to understand early-type brown dwarf atmospheres.


The institutional arrangements of an ethics system serve as the foundation for effective implementation of its core capacities, and therefore, have an outsized influence on the success of any efforts to instill ethics within the public sector. However, it is not the arrangement per se that determines effectiveness. Rather, it is the strength of the underlying core capacities, combined with the political will to allow implementation of an ethics framework throughout the public sector. Through iterative qualitative analysis of eight country contexts, specific areas of implementation emerged as the core capacities of an ethics framework: advisory support, organizational monitoring, training, financial disclosure (including use of technology), interagency collaboration, outreach, and investigations/enforcement. These core capacities serve as organizing principles for the implementation of an ethics system, as well as the areas by which systems can be evaluated. The paper addresses each capacity in turn and provides examples of country implementation.


Abstract We describe a new species of Ecnomiohyla from the vicinity of El Valle de Anton, Cocle, Panama. This is a large species that differs from similar species in the genus by details of the prepollex, webbing, and by the presence of a distinct expanded crista lateralis with medial proximal point. We provide descriptions of the adult and subadult, as well as the tadpole. We provide natural history information including observations of individuals gliding from the forest canopy, reproduction in tree holes, and male territoriality and care of the tadpoles. This species is currently known only from the immediate vicinity of El Valle de Anton, and we have observed numbers of this species in the wild to decrease dramatically following the recent epidemic of amphibian chytridiomycosis in the region.


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The precoder has been shown to be able to provide source diversity and more freedom in design. In this paper we employ precoding techniques for block transmission based on a multirate filterbank structure. To meet multiuser communication requirements for various high data-rates, different filterbanks are used as precoders with corresponding coefficients and up/down sampling rates. However due to high speed communication in the presence of unknown multipath, different interferences exist in the received data such as multiuser interference, intersymbol interference and interblock interference. To estimate the multipath channel for a desired user we generalize the subspace method by employing all signatures associated with this channel in the current system. In this way a better performance for the channel estimate can be achieved. The delay for that user can also be jointly estimated together with channel estimation.


Zimbra mail server is an open source software that distributed files or information in response to a request message is sent via email. Benefits from the mail server so that aninstitution or company has an email domain and mail server itself. The protocol used is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is used to collect and distribute mail and POP3(Post Office Protocol v3) is used to allow users to retrieve and read email remotely. Email data sent from client A and processed into the system's mail server then checks ifthe email is still in its domain or not, if yes, an email message will be sent to the client B that still in the domain. This is because the mail server system that built within the localnetwork.


The use and management of natural resources by prehistoric human groups resulted in a range of materials and scenarios that reveal partly their daily lives. This article aims to present the results of studies developed in the project "Between Rivers Archaeology: From the Urussanga to Mampituba", by the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense Archaeology and Territory Integrate Management research Group, as a way to understand how would have been the interaction between the pre-historic groups lived on their settlement spaces. The study area covers a polygon of 4800 km 2 (80 x 60 km), located in southern of Santa Catarina between the rivers Urussanga and Mampituba and between the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern slopes plateau. The data were obtained from literature sources, the database CNSA/IPHAN and field research. We recorded 116 prehistoric sites of which 44 are associated with hunter-gatherer groups, 16 Sambaqui groups, 52 ceramic potters groups, tree rock art sites and a rock shelter associated with burial. The results allowed us to infer, from a regional perspective, what prehistoric groups occupied the region, as well as its cultural adaptations to pale landscapes, their origins, migrations and the interactions between them.


The present investigation entitled "Effect of Mulching and Hydrogel on Growth, Yield and Quality of Litchi (Litchi Chinensis Sonn.) cv. Muzaffarpur" was carried out in four years old litchi orchard at Fruit Research Farm, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh in the year 2013 – 2014 The experiment was laid out in Factorial RBD with two factors viz. Mulching and hydrogel with four levels and three levels respectively. The mulch treatments were Black polythene, Paddy straw, Dry grasses and control (No mulch) and the hydrogel treatments were 40g hydrogel, 60g hydrogel and control (0g hydrogel) per tree forming twelve number of treatment combinations.


Earth walling clay lump mud walls chalk wychert (chalk cob) pre-cast pugged chalk blocks clunch beer stone ordinary chalk flint pebbles, cobbles and boulder stones lake district masonry carstone stone slab field walling wattle and daub pargetting mathematical tiles heather thatch in England the stobbing method of thatching thatch in Scotland stone roofs oak shingles.


The focus of the East China Sea dispute are vested in the delineation of the principles and the Diaoyu Islands is- sue, China advocates the principles of delimitation of the continental shelf, the Diaoyu Islands are China's inherent territory, while Japan put forward the principle of the median line and occupy the Diaoyu Islands. This paper discusses the content、status and substance of the Sino-Japanese East China Sea dispute , expounds China's position in legal rationality from the history, international law and the logic of the perspective of Sino-Japanese East China Sea dispute , and analysis of the East China Sea oil and gas resources on the significance of China's oil security. Finally,this paper puts forward the East China Sea dispute settlement prospects and ideas.


Here we demonstrate bilayer metasurfaces for narrow, dual and broadband terahertz antireflection on a silicon surface. By stacking multiple metasurfaces, we realize narrow bandpass terahertz filters with an extremely clean background.


Leucorrhea or vaginal discharge is a common symptom among females. It is typically whitish, yellowish, or greenish vaginal discharge in females that may be natural or an infection symptom. It is almost mucus discharge which exhibits vaginal epithelial cell exfoliation due to the influence of estrogen on the vaginal mucosa. Differences between physiological and pathological discharges are necessary to recognize. Leucorrhea is a common disease in Unani System of Medicine (USM) in terms of "Sailan-ur-Rahem". Sailan-ur-Rahem is a chronic inflammatory condition, which primarily involves the mucous membrane (Gisha-e-Mukhati) of the vagina. Ancient practitioners believed that excessive residue (Ghair Tabayi Fuzlat) and digestive deficiency (Zoaf-e-Hazm) were the major causes of leucorrhea. Renowned Unani scholars described various single and compound polyhedral formulations for the management of Sailan-ur-Rahem. Aim of this review is fill the paucity of knowledge among the practitioner and researchers.


Prehospital care of trauma patients remains a particularly controversial issue that still raises a lot of discussion and debates, Schematically, the US system, which is served by paramedics, is based on the « scoop and run » theory, while in some European systems the « stabilise » point of viev is predominant, In fact, in France, Belgium and Germany, for example, the prehospital teams most often include qualified physicians (anesthesiologist, emergency medicine specialist, trauma surgeons), which can provide sophisticated and adapted prehospital care to each patient « in the held ». These two systems are the expression of a completely different conception of the adapted response to life-threatening situations. A review of the advantages and drawbacks of each system is proposed with a focus on volume loading and endotracheal intubation. The importance of the time spent on scene is discussed, and the non medical factors are briefly analysed. The best system of prehospital trauma care is probably not limited to either of these exemples but the international literature remains limited and of poor quality in this area.


AIM: To compare the accuracy of the autorefractometer with traditional retinoscopy as a means of determining the approximate subjective refraction in children after cycloplegia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Prospective observation study carried out in 72 eyes of 72 patients aged 3 to 15 years in upgraded department of Ophthalmology, LLRM Medical College, Meerut between April 2013 to June 2013. The negative spherical power of autorefractometer was higher than retinoscopic group. The positive spherical power was lower in autorefractometer. DISCUSSION: Our observations in this younger age group amply that the inbuilt automatic fogging system of the autorefractometer fails to neutralize adequately the patient's accommodative efforts during manifest refraction. CONCLUSION: Manual retinoscopy is still the most accurate technique to estimate refractive status in children.


Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) induce osteoblastic responses in cultures of pluripotent mesenchymal cells. The effects of chronic treatment of these cells with BMPs and of withdrawal following exposure, however, have not been fully elucidated. Thus, the aim of this study was to obtain information about the duration of exposure to recombinant human BMP‐2 (rhBMP‐2) required for expression and retention of osteoblastic characteristics with subsequent formation of a mineralized extracellular matrix in mesenchymal cell cultures. C3H10T1/2 cells and bone marrow stromal cells were cultured with 1 μg/ml rhBMP‐2 for either 0, 7, 14, 21, or 28 days, with the remainder of the 4 week total culture period in the absence of rhBMP‐2. Growth and expression of osteoblastic characteristics were examined at the end of each week. C3H10T1/2 cells responded to increasing duration of exposure to rhBMP‐2 with increased cell growth. Additionally, the longer the cells were exposed to rhBMP‐2, the more fully they expressed and sustained osteoblastic traits, i.e., they exhibited duration of exposure‐dependent higher levels of alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin and larger total amounts of mineral in the matrix. In comparison, exposure of bone marrow stromal cells to rhBMP‐2 for at least 14 days restrained cell growth and prevented detachment. With respect to osteoblastic traits, stromal cells exposed to rhBMP‐2 also exhibited a dependence on the duration of exposure, however, cultures treated for 14, 21, or 28 days exhibited similar levels of alkaline phosphatase activity and comparable amounts of calcium in the mineralizing matrix. J. Cell. Physiol. 173:93–101, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Cross sections for dissociation from particular vibration–rotation states of H2 on collision with Ne were calculated using the quasiclassical trajectory (QCT) method. An accurate ab initio potential energy surface was used for the Ne–H2 interaction. Two different forms were used for the H2 potential: the ab initio results of Kolos and Wolniewicz and a simple Morse function. Cross sections were similar for both cases and indicated that dissociation occurs from all v states. Both vibrational and rotational energy were shown to enhance the cross sections, and the probability of dissociation was shown to be strongly dependent on the orientation of the collision.


The present invention relates to a computer system remote testing individual inflatable restraint system. System testing a plurality of electronic module assemblies, the electronic module assembly to control one or more of personal restraint systems. A transmission signal processor programmed with a computer system, an electronic module assembly instructions perform a diagnostic self-test. The computer system receives the results from the test, and in a computer-readable memory that stores. In one embodiment, the cabin management computer system is a computer system on the aircraft.


In the Republic of Kazakhstan, diabetes mellitus is one of the socially significant diseases, which causes a high level of prevalence of this disease among the population, as well as high costs for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. Statistical models for predicting the number of patients with diabetes mellitus based on regression analysis using technical and economic indicators in the field of medical services for diabetes have been developed. There was a direct correlation between economic factors and the growth of patients with diabetes in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The analysis of the current state of research on predicting patient growth has shown insufficient elaboration in this subject area. The prevalence of diabetes in the country has the character of an epidemic and leads to large financial costs, thereby increasing the costs of regional budgets for the purchase of insulin and other medicines in the regions.


2087 Background: To evaluate longitudinally the relationship between brain imaging and functional findings in childhood optic gliomas (OG) by comparing over time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with flicker visual evoked potential (FVEP) changes. Methods: Fourteen children (median age 3 yrs, range: 2–7) suffering from OGs involving chiasm and retro-chiasmatic visual pathways underwent serial MRI and FVEP examinations over a median follow-up time of 38 months (range 12–76). FVEPs were monocularly recorded in response to 8 Hz sine-wave flicker stimuli presented in a mini-Ganzfeld according to a published technique (Trisciuzzi et al., Clin. Neurophysiol., 2004). MRI examinations were performed according to standard procedures. Longitudinal results of both tests were examined in a blind fashion by independent evaluators. FVEPs were judged to be improved, stable or worsened if changes in the amplitude and/or phase of the fundamental response component exceeded the limits of test-retest variability (±90th perc...


In the growing population society, the demand of food can only be fulfilled if technology is implemented in agriculture. The development is that farmers should get a very less laborious environment in the field. Since agriculture is the back bone of a country concentration should be
 given in the development of agriculture field. A large number of modern machines and technologies have to be implemented in order to improve the food grain production from small area of land and with the involvement of a smaller number of labours and within a short duration. So, to fulfil
 this, various technologies have been developed. The design and analysis of the hopper blade used in canal making machine was carried out in this work. And the results concluded that the machine provided a good efficiency in the canal making process.


With the development of information resources network and digital information resources sharing,information integrated service based resources integration has been a main trend in modern information services ,which are for innovation platform and facing the public,the enterprises and the departments. In recent years, personalized information service and integrated information service are both attended importance to by the academic and information service industry. Through study review of recent years, this paper analyses the actuality and study development of integrated information service, and explores its development and its operational advance.


Most of the results presented in Chapter 6 have been published as an article of International Journal of Sematnic Computing. Electric version of an article published as International Journal of Semantic Computing, Vol.9, No.2, 2015, pp.143-168, DOI: 10.1142/S1793351X15400012 © copyright World Scientific Publishing Company, http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijsc


Field of wearable computing has great implications for medical applications including early detection, treatment, compliance monitoring, care for the frail and elderly, telemedicine, physical therapy and many others. The proposed system of early warning system for heart disease by smart textile electronics and android application. Generally our normal wearable dresses are act as health recorder devices, it aims to facilitate users to early detect heart disease which can be used independently. To make it easier for monitoring the ECG of their patients outside the hospital. This system designed and developed for ECG monitoring and alarm based on android smart phone. E-textiles are fabrics that feature electronic interconnections woven into them, presenting physical flexibility and typical size that cannot be achieved with other existing electronic manufacturing techniques. ECG sensor interfaces with Lilly pad control unit and normal woven acts as a conducting element. The measured signals are compiled to the controller by CCS compiler and data's are sending via android mobile to the patient and hospital.


Law of the Application of Law for Foreign-related Civil Relations of the People's Republic of China which was put into effect on April,2011 has mad a marked progress on the applicable to foreign marriage relationships.Whereas there still have some disputes about this part which haven't been settled and the controversies will go on in the future,such as whether the adopting of selective applicable rules is proper,etc.The above controversies are discussed here in light of the internal logic requirements of marriage and family relationship.The experience of foreign countries and the applicable practice of China in the this area should be born in mind.


Shape-based registration methods frequently encounters in the domains of computer vision, image processing and medical imaging. The registration problem is to find an optimal transformation/mapping between sets of rigid or non-rigid objects and to automatically solve for correspondences. In this paper we present a comparison of two different probabilistic methods, the entropy and the growing neural gas network (GNG), as general feature-based registration algorithms. Using entropy shape modelling is performed by connecting the point sets with the highest probability of curvature information, while with GNG the points sets are connected using nearest-neighbour relationships derived from competitive hebbian learning. In order to compare performances we use different levels of shape deformation starting with a simple shape 2D MRI brain ventricles and moving to more complicated shapes like hands. Results both quantitatively and qualitatively are given for both sets.


[nBu(4)N][nBu(2)SbCl(4)] (1) is synthesized by reaction of nBu(4)NCl and nBu(2)SbCl(3). [Et(3)ShMe](2)-[MesbCl(3))(2)] (2) is formed from [Et3SbMe]I and Me2SbCl3. The structures of 1 and 2 were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffractommetry.


Based on an integration of information systems and marketing theories, this paper's objective is to show that new information technologies have a structuring effect on buyer-seller relationships. In order to do so, 151 buyers, all members of the French Buying Association (CDAF) have been interviewed in a multi-activities based study. Results confirm that structural dimensions of complexity and formalisation are positively influenced by new information and communication tools. But the hypothesis o f a decentralising effect is not supported. The restrictive operationalization of new information technologies as a set of information and communication tools allows a specification of the structuring effect as a fonction of the nature and type of tools a dopted.


In today's budgetary environment, there is significant interest within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to enable small robotic science missions that can be executed faster and cheaper than previous larger missions. To help achieve this, focus has shifted from using exclusively radiationtolerant or radiation-hardened parts to using more commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for NASA small satellite missions that can last at least one year in orbit. However, there are some portions of a spacecraft's avionics, such as the Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem and the Power System Electronics (PSE) that need to have a higher level of reliability that goes beyond what is attainable with currently available COTS parts. While there are a number of COTS components that can withstand a total ionizing dose (TID) of tens or hundreds of kilorads, there is still a great deal of concern about tolerance to and mitigation of single-event effects (SEE). The Goddard Modular SmallSat Architecture (GMSA) is an initiative at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to address these radiation tolerance and reliability issues, while also minimizing development cost and schedule. The goal of GMSA is to develop a highly reliable, modular, flexible, and extensible small satellite implementation approach that can incorporate spacecraft components and subsystems that either developed within NASA or procured from industry. This paper provides details of a new technology development effort that will implement a miniaturized C&DH and PSE within a 6U (10cm x 20cm x 30cm) satellite. This effort has a goal of enabling ambitious science missions using SmallSats that can operate for longer durations in harsher environments than can be achieved with existing SmallSat technologies. The GMSA PSE uses Direct Energy Transfer (DET) topology with the battery connected directly to the bus. The shunt control technique is a linear sequential full shunt which provides a simple solar array interface and can support both 3-axis stabilized and spinner satellites. The PSE includes all the circuits needed to perform telemetry and command functions using an I2C interface with the C&DH. In addition, the PSE has been designed, tested, and verified to meet launcher vehicle safety requirement. The GMSA C&DH functionality is implemented as a SmallSat Common Electronics Board (SCEB) and an Adapter Board. The SCEB can be configured to implement a variety of serial communication interfaces including RS-422, I2C, SPI, and SpaceWire. There are also a number of available general purpose input/output (GPIO) signals. The SCEB includes a reprogrammable FPGA that contains a soft-core processor running flight software (FSW) based on NASA GSFC's Core Flight System (cFS). Lastly, the SCEB interfaces with an Adapter Board that contains the analog circuitry that converts temperature, voltage, and current data collected from multiple points within 6U satellite to a digital format that can be processed, stored, and downlinked using the front end communication interface.


e12591 Background: Hypoxia is a hallmark of tumors leading to (mal-) adaptive processes, the development of aggressive phenotypes and treatment resistance. Two types of hypoxia have been studied: a...


Physical activity has declined further during the COVID-19 pandemic. Physicians are at the front lines of proactively educating and promoting physical activity to patients; however, physicians do not feel confident and face numerous barriers in prescribing exercise to patients. Exercise referral schemes, comprised of collaborations with qualified exercise professionals, represent a fruitful option for supporting physicians hoping to promote physical activity to more patients. Herein, we provide practical suggestions for establishing and creating a successful referral scheme. Ultimately, exercise referral schemes offer an alternative to help physician burnout and mitigate patient physical inactivity during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.


The so-called hyperaccumulator plants are capable of storing hundred or thousand times bigger quantities of heavy metals than normal plants, which makes hyperaccumulators very useful in fields such as phytoremediation and phytomining. Among these plants there are many serpentinophytes, i.e., plants that grow exclusively on ultramafic rocks which produce soils with a great proportion of heavy metals. Even though there are multiple classifications, the lack of consensus regarding which parameters to use to determine whether a plant is a hyperaccumulator, as well as the arbitrariness of stablished thresholds, bring about the need to propose more objective criteria. To this end, plant mineral composition data from different vegetal species were analysed using machine learning techniques. Three complementary case studies were established. Firstly, plants were classified in three types of soils: dolomite, gypsum and serpentine. Secondly, data about normal and hyperaccumulator plant Ni composition were analysed with machine learning to find differentiated subgroups. Lastly, association studies were carried out using data about mineral composition and soil type. Results in the classification task reach a success rate over 75%. Clustering of plants by Ni concentration in parts per million (ppm) resulted in four groups with cut-off points in 2.25, 100 (accumulators) and 3000 ppm (hyperaccumulators). Associations with a confidence level above 90% were found between high Ni levels and serpentine soils, as well as between high Ni and Zn levels and the same type of soil. Overall, this work demonstrates the potential of machine learning to analyse data about plant mineral composition. Finally, after consulting the red list of the IUCN and those of countries with high richness in hyperaccumulator species, it is evident that a greater effort should be made to establish the conservation status of this type of flora.


A fast-melting pharmaceutical tablet comprises a porous, plastic substance, a water penetration enhancer and a binder. One or more drugs can be incorporated into the formulation at different stages of the process so as to afford a pharmaceutically active tablet. Methods of making the pharmaceutical tablet entail combining the porous, plastic material, the water penetration enhancing agent, and the binder so as to form highly plastic granules, which are compressed into tablets. The resulting tablets dissolve rapidly in the mouth and have good hardness with low brittleness. The tablets are particularly valuable to those who have difficulty swallowing conventional pills.


A mathematical model is established for parallel connected deaerators and factors that influencie parameter variation of the controlled objects are being analyzed in the paper. Moreover, a coordination self-adaptive rule for the model referred control system is designed according to both pressure and water level deviations resulting from differences and variations of the controlled objects' parameters, to keep them in agreement with those of the selected reference model. Simulation results show that the control system is able to effectively overcome variations of the controlled parameters, eliminate pressure and water level deviation among various deaerators and realize a satisfactory control. Figs 6 and refs 7.


The progress of science and technology is an important support to promote the development of ecological agriculture. At present,Chinese effective supply of ecological agriculture technology is not enough; Ecological agricultural technology promotion and service is difficult; Application of ecological technology power is short; Therefore agricultural science and technology is difficult to play its supporting role. We should promote the development of ecological agriculture by following measures,such as increasing the effective supply of ecological agriculture,strengthening the cultivation of technical training for farmers to ecological technology,and improving the ecological technology investment and guarantee system of laws and policies.


Low-frequency measurement applications where low power, high dynamic range and high linearity are important naturally migrate toward oversampling converters. Measuring seismic activity is one such application that requires at least 120 dB S/D. The switched-capacitor delta-sigma modulator presented in this paper achieves the above goals with single-ended linearity in excess of 120 dB. Various distortion mechanisms in switched-capacitor topologies are explained along with solutions.<<ETX>>


[{Pd(μ‐OH)Cl(IPr)}2] [IPr=N,N‐bis(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)imidazol‐2‐ylidene] was found to be a highly efficient precatalyst for Suzuki–Miyaura coupling that is able to act under base‐free conditions.


This case study consists of four conversations between Lori, an elementary teacher, and myself, district resource person and researcher. The conversations focused on environmental education, particularly teaching the Port Study Program for Grade 7 students in the Coquitlam School District #43 in British Columbia. The literature review develops a theoretical framework on teachers' learning as the phenomena of coming to "see" and understand events of teaching in new ways. After detecting reflection in the conversations, the content of these conversations is described and compared to illustrate our changing understandings of teaching events, as well as shifts in our views on teaching about environmental education, generally. Finally, I interpret the role that these conversations played in developing our pedagogical understandings. At the outset, we identified a mutual perception of lack of student enthusiasm and pcarticipation during the Port Study. Segments of conversation, called "reflective moments," repeatedly returned to this concern. We reframed the problem of students' lack of enthusiasm and participation to being one of students' lack of learning to appreciate nature, to being a problem of students' lack of passion, or strong desire, to explore and understand nature. Furthermore, we realized our difficulty in assessing students' affective responses to outdoor experiences. As a result, our implications for teaching environmental education changed from demanding participation of students by way of, for example, asking questions, to believing that our role was to provide experiences for children in which they can develop an affinity toward, and understanding of, environmental matters. Also, students need ample time to feel comfortable in the outdoors, to explore the outdoors, and to repeat experiences. Then, I identified and analysed the role of conversation in our reframing and shifting views as providing opportunities for us to act as a sounding board, to respond to triggers in the environment, to think aloud, to open up to other perspectives, to reconstruct shared experiences, to integrate prior experiences, and to process experiences. This thesis showed that reflection can be detected in conversations and supported the role of these conversations in our deepening understandings of environmental education.


The photodissociation of dimethylsulfoxide [(CH3)2SO] at 193.3 nm has been investigated using the molecular beam time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometric technique. In addition to CH3 and SO, CH3SO is also observed as a stable primary product, indicating that CH3SO+CH3 is an important product channel for the 193.3 nm photodissociation of (CH3)2SO. The analysis of the TOF data provides evidence that SO is formed via a stepwise mechanism: (CH3)2SO+hν (193.3 nm)→CH3SO+CH3→2CH3+SO. The analysis also indicates that ≈53% of the primary CH3SO radicals undergo further dissociation to produce CH3+SO, yielding a quantum yield of ≈1.53 for CH3. Within the sensitivity of our experiment, the product channel of CH3SCH3+O is not found. The angular distribution for the formation of CH3SO+CH3 is found to be isotropic, an observation consistent with a predissociation mechanism, in which the dissociation of photoexcited (CH3)2SO is slow compared to its rotational period. The energetics for selected dissociation reactions of ...


The arrival of the welfare state in Western Europe brought with it a vast expansion in the role of government. That expansion led to fears that the increased expectations of citizens would lead to government overload and `ungovernability'. This book sheds new and surprisingly light on the whole idea of a crisis of ungovernability. It begins by examining the expanding scope of government in the post-War period. Drawing on a vast data set stretching back over the last two decades and right across Europe, the book reveals public attitudes towards the range and extent of government activity. Changes in the public's political agenda are identified, along with attitudes towards the size of government, taxation, and the equality and security goals of the welfare state. Attitudes towards government intervention in the economy, the environment, and the media are also examined. The final chapters assess the significance for governments of beliefs about the scope of government. Series description This set of five volumes is an exhaustive study of beliefs in government in post-war Europe. Based upon an extensive collection of survey evidence, the results challenge widely argued theories of mass opinion, and much scholarly writing about citizen attitudes towards government and politics. The series arises from a research project sponsored by the European Science Foundation. Reviews of the series: `The quality of the empirical analysis is consistently high...[an] important collection of empirical studies addressing the debate about the "crisis of representation" in Europe.' Journal of Public Policy `These volumes contain the work of many of the most important scholars in the field of public opinion in Europe today...These five volumes represent a major contribution to comparative politics, especially the study of mass politics. The chapters provide a wealth of information about public opinion in contemporary Europe and the relationship between state and society...The volumes clearly will be read by all students of European politics...' Times Educational Supplement `The Beliefs in Government series is a monumental achievement. It tells us at least everything we want to know about the structure of European public opinion'. The Good Society


This study was to analyze relationship of conflict resolution strategy and related variables( subject of family leisure activity, decision-maker of family leisure activity, type of family leisure activity, and parent-child communication). The data were collecting by survey questionnaire, which were family leisure activity, parent-child communication and conflict resolution strategy . The research questionnaire modified using for the actual research. This study used 230 questionnaires of students who study in middle school in Daejeon through December 12 to 21, 2018. This study's findings were as follow; first, there was significant difference between subject of family leisure activity and parent-child communication. Second, there was no significant difference among subject of family leisure activity, decision-maker of family leisure activity, type of family leisure activity and conflict resolution strategy. Third, parent-child communication was significantly correlated with conflict resolution strategy. Fourth, parent-child communication was significantly predicting variable in conflict resolution strategy.


Attenuated salmonella have been reported to be capable of both selectively growing in tumors and expressing exogenous genes for tumor‐targeted therapy. As 6‐methoxypurine 2′‐deoxyriboside (MoPdR) is similar to 6‐methylpurine 2′‐deoxyriboside in structure, we aimed to evaluate the antitumoral effect of the Escherichia coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase (ePNP) gene, using an attenuated salmonella‐mediated delivery system, in combination with MoPdR. A novel mutant serovar Typhimurium (SC36) was used to carry the pEGFP‐C1‐ePNP vector that contains an enhanced green fluorescent protein and an ePNP gene under the control of the cytomegalovirus promoter. The function of the ePNP expression vector was confirmed in vitro using the enzymic conversion of MoPdR into methoxypurine. We also observed a high bystander effect induced by the ePNP/MoPdR system with a very low proportion (1%) of ePNP‐positive cells and 5 µg/mL MoPdR, although the growth of parental cells was affected appreciably by MoPdR. The killing effect and increased apoptosis induced by SC36 carrying the ePNP expression vector (SC/ePNP) were detected by cytotoxicity assay and propidium iodide staining flow cytometry analysis, in combination with MoPdR. SC/ePNP was given orally to mice bearing mammary carcinomas, and its antitumor effect was evaluated. SC/ePNP plus MoPdR significantly inhibited tumor growth by approximately 86.6–88.7% and prolonged the survival of tumor‐hosting mice. Our data support the view that MoPdR combined with the ePNP gene could be used in gene‐directed enzyme prodrug therapy. Attenuated salmonella could be a promising strategy to improve ePNP/MoPdR bystander killing due to its preferential accumulation and anticancer activity in tumors. (Cancer Sci 2008; 99: 1172–1179)


There are drawbacks about crime of holding a huge amount of private property with unidentified sources in criminal law,especially in legislation reason and objective aspects of crime. Based on scientific legislation, we propose we amend the term of holding a huge amount of property with unidentified sources, name the crime as rufusing to report or falsely reporting the amount of private property in criminal law. We propose consummating the system of report the amount of private property about the government staffs. In this way will criminal law be more perfect.


【Aim】Cannibalism could facilitate the infection of certain pathogens that can be transmitted by feeding on infected conspecifics. This may have potential applications in the control of pests by entomopathogens. Our study aims to explore the relation between cannibalism and age and nutrition in larvae of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera. 【Methods 】 We estimated the incidence of cannibalism of H. armigera larvae by feeding different concentrations of sodium to a laboratory population and a wild population,and examined whether dietary sodium had any effects on the cannibalism.【Results】The survival rates of the larvae of H. armigera were the lowest when the tests were initiated at the beginning of the 3rd and 4th instars,statistically significantly increased when the experiments were carried out at the beginning of the 5th instar,and further raised when the experiments were performed at the beginning of the 6th instar. Moreover,the survival rates of the larvae fed on normal diet prior to experiment were the highest,and slightly but distinctly decreased when the larvae fed on sodium-deficient diet. In addition,the pupation rates of the larvae were similar,irrespective of whether the larvae fed on normal or sodium-deficient diets,and whether the experiments initiated at the beginning of the 3rd,4th,5th or 6th instar. 【Conclusion】The results demonstrate that for H. armigera larvae cannibalism highly occurs in the 4th and 5th instars rather than the 3rd and 6th instars,and to some extent,sodium deficiency enhances cannibalism. This study provides a basis for further work in this field.


Global preservation and the creation of a pest : marine mammals and local response to a moratorium in arctic Iceland


Describes the changes in cultural land scape in the Costieres du Gard since 1945, - with sepcial focus on the evolution of the agricultural geography of the commune de Generac.


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By measuring parameters of influencing combustion noise of a diesel engine with and without turbocharger under transient and steady conditions,the combustion noise of the engine with and without turbocharger were comparatively analyzed and the variation of combustion noise in the diesel engine with and without turbocharger was clarified.The result shows that the combustion noise of DI-diesel with turbocharger is reduced,the reduction of combustion noise of the engine with turbocharger under steady condition is more obvious than that under transient condition,the combustion noise can be better controlled at intermediate speed and middle load when the engine is turbocharged.The test result was thoroughly analyzed through the combustion chamber's wall temperature,aerodynamic load and high-frequency oscillation of combustion pressure.The difference of combustion noise of the engine with and without turbocharger is caused by the difference of the combustion chamber's wall temperature.


Background and Objectives: Since the introduction of the first flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope by Shigeto Ikeda in 1966, Fibreoptic bronchoscopy has been a valuable tool in the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases. Flexible bronchoscopy is very safe and has a high diagnostic yield. The objectives of this study were to analyze the spectrum of diseases diagnosed on bronchoscopy in our hospital during the designated study period and compare our findings with those reported in literature. Design and setting: This is a retrospective study of Fibreoptic bronchoscopy performed at King Abdul Aziz Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia during the eight year period from 1420-1427AH (April 1999 to Jan 2007). Material and Method: In addition to demographic data, we collected, in each case, information regarding indication of the procedure, clinical features, radiological findings and the results of bronchoscopy, including analysis of bronchial aspirate and histopathology of biopsy specimen. Results: A total of 399 patients underwent the procedure during the study period. All FOBs were performed without premedication and were free from any complication. A specific diagnosis was obtained in 101 (25.2%) patients. Bronchial biopsy and washing confirmed the diagnosis of bronchial carcinoma in 64(16%) patients. Small cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma had almost similar incidences with large cell carcinoma relatively uncommon. 37(9.3%) patients were diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis, 22(5.5%) showing caseating epitheloid granuloma on biopsy and 15(3.7%) positive for acid fast bacilli in the bronchial aspirate. Biopsy and histopathology confirmed 2(0.5%) cases of sarcoidosis. Conclusion: Diagnostic bronchoscopy is a useful and safe tool for the diagnosis of pulmonary lesions particularly bronchogenic carcinoma and pulmonary tuberculosis. It has a good positive diagnostic yield and should be used liberally wherever indicated.


We present an in-memory computing SRAM macro that computes XNOR-and-accumulate in binary/ternary deep neural networks on the bitline without row-by-row data access. It achieves 33X better energy and 300X better energy-delay product than digital ASIC, and also achieves significantly higher accuracy than prior in-SRAM computing macro (e.g., 98.3% vs. 90% for MNIST) by being able to support the mainstream DNN/CNN algorithms.


In this study, a novel strategy is proposed for synthesis of sparse concentric ring arrays composed of uniformly excited elements. The synthesis problem herein is aimed at determining the sparse ring radii and the corresponding number of elements equally spaced on each ring simultaneously in order to produce circularly symmetric patterns. By using the proposed method, the above synthesis problem can be simply transformed to a single-type-variable optimisation problem since the relationship between the sparse ring radius and the element number is derived according to the properties of Bessel function. The proposed method is very efficient and flexible for synthesising direct radiating arrays and/or the scanned ones. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with other methods, the proposed method can obtain circularly symmetric patterns using fewer elements. On this basis, the comparison of sparse array and thinning array is given through numerical experiment. Meanwhile, a scanned sparse array of 908 elements is synthesised in a circular aperture of 25λ diameter with invariant peak sidelobe level of −28.9 dB, which can steer the beam from 0° to 30° in elevation and from 0° to 360° in azimuth.


Chapter 3 considers the myriad nature of southern memoir, with particular focus on the anti-racist work of Lillian Smith. Published in a decade replete with southerners writing about the South, including W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South, William Percy's Lanterns on the Levee, and Richard Wright's Black Boy, Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream confronts southern paternalism in a stark, direct manner. Specifically, Smith responds to many of her contemporaries by presenting the South not as a romantic site of gentility, but rather as a psychologically traumatizing hellscape, one replete with specters of violence perpetrated against blacks as well as paternalistic control levied against women and poor whites. This chapter contextualizes Smith alongside these other writers, with primary focus on Percy's nostalgia and romanticization of southern gentility, as well as his disdain for poor whites, whom he derides as scoundrels and markedly inferior versions of whiteness.


Experiments with a curved thi pinch show that the application of an oscillating axial current suppresses the usual toroidal drift of the plasma column and allows a stable, dynamic equilibrium to be established.


The present study on "Potential use of shoddy yarn for development of textile products" was carried out in six shoddy units, three each in Ludhiana and Amritsar districts of Punjab through probability proportional to size sampling technique. It was observed that maximum number of shoddy units started during 1980-1990 with an initial capital investment of 5-10 crores. All units in Ludhiana were having proprietorship; whereas two third units were private limited in Amritsar. The socio personal profile revealed that all the respondents were graduates in both districts. Maximum number of units had employed 1-15 numbers of managers and supervisors at both places. There were 435 workers in shoddy units of Ludhiana and majority of them were males and only eleven per cent were females; whereas in Amritsar only nine per cent were females. In shoddy units of Ludhiana, 38 per cent polyester textile waste was used as raw material followed by wool (32%) and acrylic (30%); whereas in Amritsar majority of the units were using woollen waste (60%) as raw material followed by acrylic (30%) and polyester (10%). Only blankets were woven in both districts and yarn was spun on worsted spinning system. Physical or mechanical properties were analyzed for 8Nm, 10Nm and 12Nm shoddy yarn.10Nm and 12Nm shoddy yarn was used during study for developing different textile products. These yarns were found to be significant at 0.05 per cent level of significance in both districts. Preferences were taken and twenty four designs were developed for preparing four prototype samples each in cushion cover, table mat, carry bag, wall hanging, stole and muffler. Weaving method of fabric construction with 10Nm of yarn was found to be suitable for cushion cover, carry bag, table mats and wall hanging but crochet method of fabric construction with 12Nm of yarn was found to be suitable for muffler and stole. Preferences were taken from a sub sample of 60 women in the age of 25-35 years to assess consumer acceptability. According to the preferences of the respondents, cushion cover obtained first rank for its innovativeness, embellishments, colour combination and texture. Suitability to utility for carry bag was considered best. Cushion cover was given highest rank for the overall appeal. The quoted prices were considered adequate with a profit margin ranging from 25 to 50 per cent. Cushion cover and carry bag had significantly high commercial viability. The developed textile products from shoddy yarn were highly appreciated, thus these products were highly accepted by the consumers.


The Abstract: The paper proposes the use of tactical and strategic management of the educational process, which provides the motivation of students to self-development as traditionally important condition of realization of any educational model. Optimal combination of traditional and innovative methods is a prerequisite for the development of the student.


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Abstract : This paper analyzes the strategic implications of leveraging the commercial capabilities already in place across the globe to facilitate logistics/sustainment support for regional joint operations. The paper will provide a review of current joint doctrine on logistics sustainment and the use of commercial industry to satisfy warfighting sustainment requirements. Additionally, it reviews existing vehicles used by the various Services and/or the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) along with other initiatives underway to expand the practice. In assessing strategic implications, the paper examines the impact to both U.S. domestic and international policy when pursuing commercial logistics contracts with non-U.S. commercial entities as a tool for the Combatant Commander's Theater Security Cooperation Strategy.


A Novel Technique to Prevent Head and Neck Injuries during Prone Positioning Gyanesh Jain1, Amit Sharma2*, and Lalit Gupta3 1Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Primus Super speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India 2Senior Resident, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India 3Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India


Geophysics
Certain strike-slip faults do not have the expected number of microearthquakes between larger earthquakes. Jiang and Lapusta suggest that this behavior is down to what the last big earthquake looked like. They found that microseismicity turns off if an earthquake's rupture runs deeper than the fault's locking depth. This appears to be the case along the famous San Andreas Fault and also along other strike-slip faults around the world. The discovery may allow for better estimates of historic earthquake magnitudes and improve hazard assessments.

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A photonic bandgap fiber was designed based on the novel Terahertz low-loss material Topas cyclic olefin copolymer.Fiber cladding was formed by arranging hexagonal air holes with rounded corners in triangular lattice pattern in the background of Topas.A rhombic hollow-core with rounded corners was formed by omitting four central air holes of the cladding structure.Propagation properties in the terahertz band of the fiber were investigated by using the finite element method.Numerical results indicate the fiber has a photonic bandgap within a broadband area about 0.3THz around 1.5THz,and THz wave is welled confined in the air core.Birefringence of the order of 10-3 was obtained.Loss of the x-and ypolarized fundamental modes is less than 0.1cm-1 within 1.4~1.6THz,and reaches the minimum value of 0.029 1cm-1 and 0.028 7cm-1 at 1.53THz and 1.5THz,respectively.Structure of designed terahertz Topas photonic bandgap fiber is simple,feasible for fabrication and bendable because of the relatively small diameter.


We analyze the anisotropy signature expected if the high-energy (>1019 eV) cosmic-ray (CR) sources are extragalactic and trace the distribution of luminous matter on large scales. We investigate the dependence of the anisotropy on both the relative bias between the CR sources and the galaxy distribution and on the (unknown) intrinsic CR source density. We find that the expected anisotropy associated with the large-scale structure (LSS) should be detected once the number of CR events observed above 1019 eV is increased by a factor of ~10. This would require ~30 observation-years with existing experiments, but less than 1 year with the proposed ~5000 km2 Auger detectors. We find that the recently reported concentration of the Haverah Park CR events toward the supergalactic plane is not consistent with the known LSS. If real, the Haverah Park result suggests that the CR sources are much more concentrated toward the supergalactic plane than the known LSS. Our results are not sensitive to the number density of CR sources. We show that once the number of detected events is increased by a factor of ~10, the number density would be strongly constrained by considering the probability of having repeating sources.


Quantitative Analysis of Latently Infected Resting CD4+ T Lymphocytes in Children with Perinatally Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Infection ♦ 888


In a 1-fault tolerant minimal broadcast network, a node of a network, called the originator, has a message which is to be transmitted to all other nodes of the network in minimum time regardless of the failure of a single communication line. In some instances, it is advantageous to use time-relaxed broadcast networks that require slightly more than the minimum transmission time, but have sparser edge sets. This paper presents a general compounding algorithm to construct sparse, time-relaxed, 1-fault tolerant broadcast networks. In the algorithm, copies of a broadcast network without faults are interconnected with additional edges according to the structure of a 1-fault tolerant broadcast network with two special properties. Both the 1-fault tolerant broadcast network and the broadcast network without faults may be time-relaxed. Computational results show that the algorithm yields sparser networks by allowing additional time units.


A vehicle rear monitoring system (1) includes a camera (40) that captures an image of an area to a rear of a vehicle, and a processing unit (10) that processes the image captured by the camera. The processing unit (10) creates a first vehicle rear image that is displayed in a first display area (22A) that is a portion of a display area of a display device, when traveling forward, and creates a second vehicle rear image that is displayed in a second display area (22) that is within the display area of the display device and that is an area that includes the first display area and is larger than the first display area, when traveling backward.


The unique and attractive properties of the II-VI compound semiconductors have triggered an enormous incentive among the scientists to explore the possibilities of using them in industrial applications. Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is one of the compound semiconductors of the II– VI family with a direct band gap of 3.37 eV at room temperature, and a large excitation binding energy (60 meV). ZnO is low cost and easy to grow. It is also sensitive to the UV region because of its ultra violet absorbance and has high photoconductivity (Young et al., 2006). These properties make ZnO a promising photonic material for several applications, such as transparent conducting electrodes, surface acoustic wave filters, gas sensors, light emitting diodes, laser diodes and ultraviolet detectors (Kumar et al., 2009; Lim et al., 2006; Janotti et al., 2009; Bang et al.,2003). ZnO is of value and importance due to wide chemistry, piezoelectricity and luminescence at high temperatures. In industry, it can be used in paints, cosmetics, plastics and rubber manufacturing, electronics, and pharmaceuticals [http://www.navbharat.co.in/Clients.htm].


Based on the capillary pressure curves measured at lab, the pore structures distribution features were analyzed for cores with several permeability. The comparison between methods of the single-line and two-line fitting indicated the multi-fractal characteristics of the heterogeneous pore distribution. The study shows that the fractal dimension could be used to describe such characteristics. The greater the pore structure heterogeneity of a core, the bigger the fractal dimension calculated by single-line fitting, and the larger difference between the two fractal dimensions calculated by the two-line fitting method.


In recent years, public bicycle systems are widely spread over the world according to the development of ICT technology. Since the public bicycle systems in large cities need to secure both publicity and convenience for citizens, analysis of various their issues from introduction to operation is required. In addition, it is also necessary to prepare for various scenarios for coexistence with the PM business, which is recently in the spotlight as a last mile means and normally managed privately. This paper introduces modeling and simulation for efficient operations of public bicycle systems. In particular, the proposed method was developed in a form that can be easily used in other cities by modeling the general structure and behavior of the public bicycle system, and it was developed to facilitate modification and expansion of the future model with a component-based model configuration. This paper provides a case study of the propose method, which is the public bicycle simulation in Sejong City. The simulation results were derived by applying the data from the public bicycle system of Sejong City, and they were verified with the associated real data of Sejong City. Using the verified model, it is expected that it can be used as a tool to design and analyze various services on the public bicycle systems, which were especially suitable for Sejong City.


ABSTRACT Measure while drilling (MWD) data collected from production holes can provide information on the location of stratigraphic units in banded iron formation-hosted iron ore deposits. Stratigraphic modelling in these deposits is typically based on data from exploration holes, and adding more densely spaced production data can potentially increase model detail at the bench scale. Previous MWD classification methods struggle to differentiate between neighbouring ore units. In this paper, multivariate Gaussian Processes (GPs) were applied to locate the contact between two iron ore units in the Dales Gorge Member in the Brockman Iron Ore Formation. Production MWD points were then labelled based on the GP output. By altering parameters of the labelling process, 24.4–49.4% of the test data were labelled, with accuracies from 81.4 to 86.8%. Classifications from the same hole were compared to ensure MWD label consistency. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can improve geological unit classification from MWD data.


The present study validly connects modern scientific research & the subjective truth. The rich Indian knowledge system's 'Chaitanyatma Research Levels Model' is constitution of the manifest plus un-manifest Brahman in a single, reality based iconic infographic- The Shivalinga. By knowing the simplistic hierarchical model of creation & evolution in the first place, modern researchers may be able to position & correlate their research in the backdrop of the whole universe.

Similar to Maharishi Kanad, the Set theory to classify the multi-level & multi-dimensional elements was adopted, & the Shivalinga shape derived based on the ellipsoid formula. Mathematical modelling method used to construct the empirical model. It resulted in the research based & scientific form of Shivalinga. Bit similar in use to Mendeleev's periodic table for Chemistry, yet, additionally, the proposed model extends to the broader research fields to specify, order, categories, & acknowledge them. The taxonomy generated in the study can facilitate many integrated researches. Few examples of using the resultant model & the latent connection of researches also explained here. It can be orienting the research to be more meaningful, precise, & worthy to cherish the ideal of 'science for the society'.


This article was inspired by Arno Mayer's magisterial work on the French and Russian revolutions. It is Mayer's thesis that two social forces with irreconcilable political views and objectives fought to the finish in both revolutions. Violence and terror were inevitable. In Ethiopia, the deadly conflict that metamorphosed into the Red Terror was not between conservative and radical forces, but between two modern political organizations which shared the same ideology and strategic goals – but used different tactics. Terror, the article argues, was avoidable. The intent is not to test the validity of Mayer's theory, but to show the peculiarity of the Ethiopian experience.


One of the most challenging procedures during maxillary osteotomy is pterygomaxillary suture (PMS) separation, due to the difficulty of directly inspecting this suture and the anatomical complexity of the adjacent structures. Knowing the precise anatomical dimensions and the position of the PMS, namely, the angle at which to approach this structure, may help in determining the proper osteotome. It will also help the oral and maxillofacial surgeon to perform this sensitive procedure more precisely and to minimize surgical complications (e.g., internal maxillary artery injury and unfavorable fracture during separation). The current study aimed to evaluate the morphology of PMS in an adult Israeli population using CBCT scans of the maxilla. Fifty CBCTs of healthy males (n = 27) and females (n = 23) were collected and analyzed. The vertical height, maximal thickness, and angulation of the PMS relative to the midsagittal plane of the skull were evaluated on both the right and left sides of the patient. An independent samples t-test was carried out to determine PMS morphological differences between males and females. A related samples t-test was conducted to determine the PMS morphological differences between the right and left sides. No significant differences in PMS parameters were found between sides in males and females (p > 0.225). Both males and females exhibited similar height and angulation of the PMS (p > 0.486). Interestingly, the PMS thickness was statistically greater in males (p = 0.029); however, this difference was clinically insignificant. The mean dimensions of the PMS in a healthy Israeli adult population are presented and discussed, as well as the clinical and methodological implications.


The heat transfer characteristics of phase change material(PCM) affect the energy management in the process of latent heat thermal energy storage.Based on a physical model of paraffin in a hollow cylinder,two mathematical models of paraffin melting process were established by considering the ventilation of liquid state of paraffin and ignoring the effect of ventilation,and numerical simulations were performed by FLUENT software.The temperature distribution,flow distribution in the cylinder,the position and form of the melting layer at different moment were simulated and analyzed under different conditions.Simulation shows that when the thickness of paraffin is more than 40?mm,the ventilation of liquid state of paraffin has more influences to the melting process considerable.


The purpose of this study was to describe the problem-solving ability of eighth-grade junior high school students in terms of cognitive style in solving two-variable linear equations. This research is a descriptive study using a qualitative approach. The subjects of this study were students of class VIII SMPN 1 Senduro, namely four students from each of two different types of cognitive styles. Collecting data using questionnaires, test methods, and interview methods. According to Polya, there are four steps in the problem-solving ability of students, namely understanding, planning, implementing, and re-checking. The results showed that students with a field-dependent cognitive style had difficulty in analyzing a problem because they could not apply the four Polya problem solving while the field independent type cognitive style was very able to apply the four problem-solving steps according to Polya, namely, understanding, planning, implementing, and doing recheck.


The life of "physical education" lies on whether there are people doing it,practicing it,it's hard for us to describe its nature with words.The high paradox between the practicalness and literal expression,is the speciality of "physical education" among different fields of human civilization.I prefer to express its nature this way: the essence of "physical education" is physical activity,in another sentence,"physical education" treats physical activity as its own purpose.Thus in technical criteria we can exclude passive activity,self-sufficiency,work,etc which are non-physical-education,and in the criteria of axiology we can purify sports thinking in modern world,keep "physical education" as refined as possible.In philosophy,we should cope well with two pairs of dilemmas: First,between the body and soul within a man,which puts as the first? The second,between human and material,which puts as the first? Through thinking it over and over,we will gain some wisdom from the sports reality of our society.


As scaling of the critical transistor dimensions below 65 nm has been slowed down, the implementation of novel materials, especially high mobility channel materials is most attractive to boost the transistor performance. Applying strain to silicon has become a successful route. The electron mobility can be enhanced by biaxial strain introduced into Si by epitaxial growth of Si on a strain relaxed SiGe layer or by so called process induced methods applied directly on transistor level. The combination of strained Si and SOI is particularly promising due to the combination of the enhanced mobilities and the inherent advantages of SOI. First long channel n-MOSFETs with gate lengths of 5 to 50 mum and a 6.6 nm thick SiO2 gate dielectric were fabricated. For comparison, devices on unstrained SOI were made. The transfer characteristics of a fully depleted sSOI-MOSFET with a gate length of 5 mum and a gate width of 20 mum indicating an inverse sub-threshold slope of 75mV/dec.


As the most foundation of market orientation, which is the cornerstone of modern marketing thought, customer orientation is the focus in theory and practice. This study reexamined the direct relationship between customer orientation and business performance from a cultural perspective, and showed the moderating effects of manufacturing versus service firms non-nation-own versus nation-own firms and small versus big firms. Based on the scales of customer orientation and performance, a research questionnaire was developed for the study and data were collected from 116 firms. The result showed a significant positive relationship of customer orientation and business performance. And the relationship between customer orientation and business performance is stronger in non-nation-own firms than in nation-own firms. So did in manufacturing firms and service firms; small firms and big firms. Research limitations and agenda are also mentioned at the end of the paper


The utility model discloses a sewer well cover which comprises a sewer well sleeve. The whole sewer well sleeve is of a hollow tube structure. The top end surface of the sewer well sleeve extends outwards to form a circle of flange concentric with the sewer well sleeve. A circle of spigot concentric with the sewer well sleeve is welded to the inner wall of the sewer well sleeve. A filter plate is supported by the seam allowance. A fixed disk is welded on the circle center of the filter plate. An inserting hole is formed in the middle of the fixed disk. The top of the filter plate is covered with the sewer well cover. An inserting column is arranged in the inserting hole in the fixed disk and matched with and connected with the inserting hole in an inserted mode. An inserting pipe is fixed at the top end of the inserting column. The sewer well cover is simple in structure and convenient to use. When water drainage is needed, the sewer well cover is directly lifted. Due to the fact that the opening edge of a lifted sewer well is provided with the filter plate, falling down can be avoided effectively. When the sewer well is lifted, the inserting column can be inserted in the inserting hole in the fixed disk, a warning sign can be inserted in the inserting pipe of the inserting column, and therefore the hurt to passengers during water discharge can be further avoided.


Parenting is a crucial factor in child outcomes, so parenting support is a core responsibility for health visitors. Parenting styles have traditionally been categorised as authoritative, authoritarian, permissive or neglectful, but contemporary research has moved away from fixed categorisation. Support for parenting may be informal, semi-formal or formal, and can be delivered in a variety of methods and locations. There is evidence to suggest that approaches that combine different strategies for intervention in parenting are most likely to be effective in improving outcomes for the child.


The method and the process of development visualization platform on virtual warship based on HOOPS were presented.The way to build and optimize the warship 3D model and the step of exchanging to HSF format were introduced in detail.The communication of warship 3D model with the database system and the interaction were achieved.


The air-borne microbial numbers including enteropathogenic bacteria above Ling-shan Island are determined by use of gravity plate.The obtained result shows that the outdoor air of the island is contaminated with microbes in a light-medium degree,and it is mostly of a light contamination with common bacteria including a little enteropathogenic bacteria.The air-borne microbes have their spatial-temporal variability,being mostly related to air temperature,human activities,and other factors.It is estimated that the fragile eco-environments on the island might be easily influenced by external factors,and it is better to pay more attention to it.


To enforce the sludents' role as main body in PE teaching,stimulate their motive and interest in study, fosler and utilize their interest in sports activities in the PE teaching will bring unexpected results to the teaching and thus build up their physical and mental health and lel them develop in all the aspecls of morality, wisdom,PE and asthetics and fulfil PE teaching and training task better.


Based on a lot of sandy soil liquefaction data obtained during Tangshan earthquake in 1976, selecting different combinations of 11 indexes as input variations, the faster algorithm of BP and LM algorithm are adopted to construct the BP neural network model for liquefaction potential estimation of saturated sand. The 11 indexes are earthquake intensity, the epicenter distance, peak ground acceleration for describing the earthquake ground motion characteristics, and the depth of underground water, the depth of standard penetration test point(soil layer), the thickness of the covered non-liquefied soil layer, effectively overlaying pressure describing the embedding environment of soil layers, and standard penetration blow-count, mean diameter, nonuniformity coefficient, modified standard penetration blow-counts for denoting the sandy soil feature. Through the practice and verification of the model, it shows that: (1) constructed 14 types of BP neural network model are effective, and evaluating accuracy depends on different combinations of the model input variations; (2) increasing nodes of the neural network model not always improve the evaluating accuracy, instead, increases the neural network model's complexity and learning time; (3) two algorithms of the BP neural network model both have the higher accuracy for liquefaction potential estimation of sand and LM algorithm is faster than the BP algorithm, but needs more EMS memory in the process of calculation, and therefore, LM algorithm is recommended in this paper; (4) the liquefaction potential estimation for other samples under using the weights and thresholds of the BP neural network model presented in this text, the evaluated result maybe conservative; (5) considering the main factors to affect sand liquefaction potential, the difficulty of acquiring the indexes, and under the condition that the indexes selected are consistent with those in Code for seismic design of buildings in China,M4 or M5 a neural network model is recommended in this paper. These models are (very) easy in application, moreover, the accuracy of the models for liquefaction potential estimation of sand is higher than that in Code for seismic design of buildings in China. hmsoftheBPneur LMalgorithmisfa fore,LMalgorithm


The primary aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of integrating TQM and LO into a coherent vision for the purpose of maximizing advantages of both initiatives for better understanding and effectively planning educational change. Part one of the review of the literature analyzes two bodies of literature concerning TQM and LO in terms of their definitions and critical success factors. As a result, seven factors including systems thinking, shared vision, teamwork, continuous improvement, professional development, shared leadership, and commitment are identified to establish an integrated framework that is compatible with TQM and LO. Part two of the review of the literature aims at examining the dynamic interrelationships between TQM and LO, which convincingly argues that TQM and LO are mutually dependent and complement each other. This paper concludes by discussing its implications for educational theories and practices, and recommending an empirical study for testing the present integrated framework.


BACKGROUND
The Physician Charter on medical professionalism has been endorsed by professional organizations worldwide, yet it is unclear if this Western framework of professionalism is applicable in non-Western countries.

OBJECTIVE
This study examines how physicians practicing in a Middle Eastern context perceive the terms, principles, and commitments outlined in the charter.

METHODS
In May 2013, the authors conducted 6 focus groups with 43 clinician-educators practicing at Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the applicability of the Physician Charter in a local context. The research team coded and analyzed transcripts to identify sociocultural influences on professionalism.

RESULTS
Participants generally expressed agreement with the applicability of the charter's principles to physician professionalism in Qatar. However, 3 contextual factors (religious beliefs and practices, family-centered decision making, and multinationality) complicated the application of the core principles of patient autonomy and social justice. Islamic beliefs reinforced the importance of professional values such as altruism, but presented a barrier to the principle of self-determination for female patients. The family-centered culture in Qatar called for enlarging the scope of patient-centered decision making to include the patient's family. Qatar's multinational population prompted debate over equal treatment and how to conceptualize and implement the principle of social justice.

CONCLUSIONS
Several sociocultural contexts influence the conceptualization of the principles of medical professionalism in Qatar. The findings suggest that contextual factors should be considered when developing or adopting a professionalism framework in an international setting and context.


A new kind of magnetic switch was developed based on Giant Magneto-impedance effect(GMI)of Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9 amorphous ribbon annealed under the stress of 17.8MPa and at 540 ℃,which has wide platform and steep decline of the GMI characteristics.This paper introduces the GMI characteristics of magnetic materials and the circuit principle of magnetic switch.In addition,the magnetic characteristic and temperature characteristic of the magnetic switch has been measured.The results showed that the sensor had good repeatability,almost no hysteresis,low temperature drift.


In this article, a novel hyperspectral image (HSI) classification method based on fusing multiple edge-preserving operations (EPOs) is proposed, which consists of the following steps. First, the edge-preserving features are obtained by performing different types of EPOs, i.e., local edge-preserving filtering and global edge-preserving smoothing on the dimension-reduced HSI. Then, with the assistance of a superpixel segmentation method, the edge-preserving features are further improved by considering the inter and intra spectral properties of superpixels. Finally, the spectral and edge-preserving features are fused to form one composite kernel, which is fed into the support vector machine (SVM) followed by a majority voting fusion scheme. Experimental results on three data sets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over several state-of-the-art classification approaches, especially when the training sample size is limited. Furthermore, 21 well-known methods, including mathematical morphology-based approaches, sparse representation models, and deep learning-based classifiers, are adopted to be compared with the proposed method on Houston data set with standard sets of training and test samples released during 2013 Data Fusion Contest, which also shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.


This article describes a control circuit and a method for control of a control circuit. The control circuit is connected to the at least two electrical loads connected in parallel. Electrical fuse metal fuse connected in series with the electrical load. Said method comprising the steps of: monitoring the total current supplied to the electrical load; and if the total current exceeds the nominal control circuit preset current limit in normal operation, the following items one of: the preset the first predetermined time period higher than the nominal current limit of the current supplied to the first electrical pulse power load, and a second electrical pulse for a preset period of time to a second electrical load, wherein said second electric current pulse is higher than the current in the first electrical pulse, and wherein said second time period is shorter than the first time period.


The coupling model of semiconductor laser is established for optical port components. The decoupling controller is designed by PIDNN, which enables the controller to response quickly and set parameter. The initial value of PID parameter is optimized by CPSO, and the appropriate initial value can make the system stable and reach expected value. CPSO can effectively prevent weight parameter search from falling into local optimal, and has a fast search speed.


ABSTRACT This work reviewed the maternal and child folate status and the strategies used to tackle health disorders related to folate deficiencies in Africa. Published surveys conducted between 2005 and 2018 were considered. Criteria for establishing folate deficiency are variable (folate intake or serum folate concentrations). Folate deficiencies were frequent among the 11 countries with available data, prevalence of folate adequacy was very low and coverage of strategies used to fight deficiencies is limited. To overcome folate deficiencies, fortification of staple foods is an option, but finding ways to make new folate-rich food available for the poorest is a must.


The paper presents the results of an algorithm for data processing. In the initial data omissions may occur due to different control discreteness of input and output variables. The paper proposes a non-parametric algorithm for filling gaps. The basic idea is to calculate the non-parametric estimate of the regression function from observations obtained from the object. This allows using all available measurements. Numerous computational experiments have shown that the use of the proposed algorithm has improved the quality of the resulting model several times. The algorithm is influenced by such parameters as the total number of omissions in the sample of observations, measurement interference in communication channels, and the type of object. It should be noted that the developed algorithm is universal and does not depend on the type of equation of the object.


Engaging youth in civic life yields long term benefits for meaningful participation to sustain our democracy. In this essay, we report on how a critical service-learning model of communication activism inspired university and high school students to secure more area bus benches and shelters. We suggest and demonstrate that improving quality deliberative practices can awaken a social justice sensibility in our youth so that they can adequately address the political, economic and cultural forces at work in the community.


One recent trend in research on surfactant-templated meso-porous silica thin film involves its application for nanofluidic systems based on characteristics of uniformity of molecular dimensions for the pore diameter. [1–4] In general, mesoporous silica thin films have been synthesized by utilizing a sponta-neous organization of silica-surfactant nanocomposite at solid/ liquid interfaces. [5–9] Since the development of mesoporous silica thin film, much efforts have been made to develop a meso-porous silica thin film with 1-dimensional (1D) alignment of the surfactant-templated silica-nanochannels oriented perpendicular to the film surface. However, the channel direction of the resulting mesoporous silica films is usually oriented parallel to the substrate surface, making regulation of the channel orientation an important issue to be resolved. Recently, our and several other research groups succeeded in controlling the perpendicular orientation by forming mesoporous silica inside columnar pores of an anodic alumina membrane. [2,4,10–17] Here-after, we call the alumina membrane with mesoporous silica "a hybrid mesoporous membrane". Since the growth of the meso-porous silica inside a columnar alumina pore sometimes re-sults in 1D alignment of the surfactant-templated silica-nano-channel along the columnar alumina wall, [2,13–15] the orientation of the silica-nanochannel is perpendicular to the membrane surface. The resulting 1D hybrid mesoporous membrane has a potential use for nanofluidic systems. [2–4] Several methods have been proposed to form mesoporous silica inside columnar alumina pores; they are roughly classified into three types. The first type


Modes of pasteurization of raw milk, which are used in the production of hard rennet cheeses, do not destroy all microflora. Even pasteurization of milk at a temperature of 75...76 °C for 20-25 seconds, which corresponds to the upper limit of heat treatment of raw milk in the production of hard rennet cheeses, provides only 94.6% efficiency of heat-resistant bacteria.
Adopted modes of short-term pasteurization for most rennet cheeses at the level of 72...76 °C with a holding time of 20-25 s allow to achieve the residual amount of bacterial contamination of milk at 72 °C pasteurization mode - 3.2%, at 76 °C pasteurization mode - 0.7 %


Modern automobiles incorporate increasing amount of electronic systems, many with vehicle safety concerns, working in a harsh electromagnetic environment. The vehicle components immunity to electromagnetic interference is fundamental and is covered by international standards like ISO 11452-x and SAE J1113-x series for automotive EMC immunity testing. Also, each automobile manufacturer has its own EMC immunity requirements covering the different types of disturbances: radiated, conducted and ESD. Usually, the uncertainty related to the determination of the applied immunity level is not considered in the automotive EMC standards, but it is an important issue in test reliability and repeatability. We describe a methodology for uncertainty assessment in EMC immunity tests particularizing it on the bulk current injection test.


A field experiment consisted of four intercropping systems, viz. winter maize (sole), potato (sole), winter maize + potato (additive series) and winter maize + potato (replacement series) and six sub-plot treatments comprised of weedy check, weed free, alachlor as pre-emergence at1.5 kg/ha, atrazine as preemergence at 0.5 kg/ha, early post-emergence alachlor at 2.0 kg/ha and atrazine as post-emergence at 0.75 kg/ha was laid out in split plot design with three replications. Results revealed that Medicago sativa, Anagallis arvensis and Cyperus rotundus recorded highest relative weed density and dry weed weight. The values of weed smothering efficiency were numerically higher in additive as compared to replacement treatment. Maximum yield loss was in weedy check in comparison to weed-free plots. Preemergence application of atrazine 0.5 kg/ha resulted in significantly lower dry-matter accumulation of all the weed species and highest weed-control efficiency which lead to significantly higher crop productivity.


In this paper, we present an agent architecture/active vision research tool called the Active Vision Shell (AV-shell). The AV-shell can be viewed as a programming framework for expressing perception and action routines in the context of situated robotics. The AV-shelf is a powerful interactive C-shell style interface providing many capabilities important in an agent architecture such as the ability to combine perceptive capabilities of active vision with capabilities provided by other robotic devices, the ability to interact with a wide variety of active vision devices, a set of image routines and the ability to compose the routines into continuously running perception action processes. Finally, we present an application example of AV-shell.


Introduction The Slave Narrative Genre The Narrative of Recursion: Slave Marriage and Henry Bibb The Narrative of Collaboration: Slave Marriage and William and Ellen Craft Ante-bellum African American Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index


The growth of online services has created the need for duplicate elimination in high-volume streams of events. The sheer volume of data in applications such as pay-per-click clickstream processing, RSS feed syndication and notification services in social sites such Twitter and Facebook makes traditional centralized solutions hard to scale. In this paper, we propose an approach based on distributed filtering. To this end, we introduce a suite of distributed Bloom filters that exploit different ways of partitioning the event space. To address the continuous nature of event delivery, the filters are extended to support sliding window semantics. Moreover, we examine locality-related tradeoffs and propose a tree-based architecture to allow for duplicate elimination across geographic locations. We cast the design space and present experimental results that demonstrate the pros and cons of our various solutions in different settings.


GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT ABSTRACT A series of novel ethyl 2-(5-methyl-3-arylisoxazole-4-carboxamido)-4-alkylthiazole-5-carboxylates I-1-6 were synthesized. The structures of all target compounds were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR, MS and elemental analyses. Their fungicidal and herbicidal activities were evaluated. The results of preliminary bioassays show that the title compounds I-4 possess 20–50% inhibition against most of the tested plants at the dosage of 150 g ai/ha, while the title compounds I-1-5 possess 32–58% inhibition against FusaHum graminearum, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Botrytis cinereapers and Fusarium oxysporum in vitro at the concentration of 100 mg/L.


Malignant pericardial mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare tumour that arises from the mesothelial cells of the pericardium. No standard treatment has been established owing to a poor treatment response; therefore, MPM has a poor prognosis. We herein report a rare case of MPM in a 70‐year‐old man that was diagnosed immunohistopathologically using cell block sections of pericardial fluid and in which long‐term survival for more than 3 years was achieved with only periodic pericardial drainage. Immunohistopathological staining investigations, especially BRCA1‐associated protein 1 (BAP1) immunostaining using cell block sections of pericardial effusion, are effective in making a diagnosis of MPM. Well‐differentiated papillary mesothelioma (WDPM) with BAP1 loss progresses to MPM in the long term, showing that BAP1 loss may induce phenotypical evolution of WDPM. BAP1 loss may also progress to malignant mesothelioma in situ and then to invasive mesothelioma. BAP1 immunohistochemistry should be considered for the early diagnosis of MPM.


JOYDEEPA DARLONGa, PITCHAIMANI GOVINDHARAJb,c, BHABANANDA MAHATOd, DIANAN. LOCKWOODe & STEPHEN L. WALKERe aHead Knowledge and Management, The Leprosy Mission Trust India, New Delhi, India bPhysiotherapist (at time of study), The Leprosy Mission Hospital, Purulia, West Bengal, India cLecturer, Department of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India dPhysiotherapy Department, The Leprosy Mission Hospital, Purulia, West Bengal, India eFaculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK


AbstractTwenty-five patients of ages 39–72 years, with a maximum ventilatory capacity (MVVF) of ≤35% of the predicted values, were classified into a respiratory insufficiency (R) and a comparison (C) group according to the clinical progress of the disease. With the patients in their habitual state, the total haemoglobin (THb, g), the pulmonary and systemic pressures, cardiac output (Q, 1/min) and pulmonary (PVR) and systemic (SVR) vascular resistance in (mmHg/1)ċmin were measured at rest and during work.The mean values and S.E.M. in groups R and C were as follows: for THb 7.4±0.3 and 8.6±0.5 g/kg, blood volume 59.1±2.0 and 64.9±2.8 ml/kg, SaO2 86.2±2.2 and 90.4±1.4%, aO2 48.5±2.5 and 53.2±2.6 ml/l, pulmonary arterial mean pressure 31±2 and 26±2 mmHg, PVR 4.7±0.5 and 3.2±0.3 (mmHg/l) ċ min, arterial mean pressure 105±4 and 102±4 mmHg, SVR 23.1±1.2 and 23.9±1.8 (mmHg/l) ċ min. Q was 4.5 ± 0.2 in the R-group male patients and 4.7 ± 0.3 l/min in the females, and 4.5 ± 0.3 in the C-group male patients and 3.5 ...


Gel polymer electrolytes synthesized from Poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) as the host, ethylene carbonate (EC)/propylene carbonate (PC) as plasticizer and LiCF3SO3 (LiTf) as a salt has been prepared using solution casting technique. X-ray characterization confirms the complete dissociation of the LiTf salt in the gel polymer. The effect of LiTf  salt on ionic conductivity, ionic transference number (tion) and  mechanical characteristics were investigated. The ac impedance has been studied to evaluate the ionic conductivity. It was observed that the ionic conductivity of the prepared gel reached the highest value of  6.60 x 10-5 S/cm at 10.2 wt.% (1M) of LiTf salt. The temperature dependence studies showed that the samples were ionic conductors and seemed to obey the Vogel–Tamman–Fulcher (VTF) rule.  Dynamic mechanical  analysis (DMA) indicates that  the LiTf salt induces a remarkable increase in the storage modulus of the matrix at temperatures above the glass transition (rubbery plateau region).


The architecture is the core of grid technology. This article explains in detail the five levels hourglass model architecture and open grid services architecture (OGSA). Furthermore,the other architectures are also introduced briefly,such as Tsinghua CAI system,vega grid,Legion system and GIS grid. Finally,the prospect for grid architecture is briefly given.


Abstract : Thin films of InSb were prepared by the vacuum evaporation of the compound onto glass substrates. Irreversible changes which took place in the electrical conductivity and Hall coefficient during film annealings, and differences between the diffraction patterns of annealed and unannealed films were examined in detail. Surface replicas of both annealed and unannealed films were photomicrographed. Galvanomagnetic properties of annealed films -- notably the temperature dependence of the conductivity, the Hall coefficient, and the mobility -- were compared with the same properties in bulk material. (Author)


Objective\ To evaluate the pulpal healing of different development stage and the survival rate of different extra alveolar t ime on replanted teeth.\ Methods\ Seventy replanted teeth of 56 cases were followed up for 2-5 years , their clinical data were reviewed and analyzed.\ Results\ The total survival of the teeth replanted was 56.6%. The difference of survival of the replanted teeth was related to the stage of develo pment ( P =0.014) and also related to different extra alveolar time ( χ 2=7.976, P 0.05).\ Conclusion\ To obtain higher survival rate, it is important to red uce the extra alveolar duration. The replanted teeth with open apical pole shou ld be closely monitored.


objective The objective of this study was to assess the relationship of different doses of a long‐acting bromocriptine preparation (Pariodel LAR) to the degree and duration of PRL suppression. We also measured circulating bromocriptine levels and altered tolerability of the drug


Objective: To determine diagnostic accuracy of breast MRI in the workup of mammographic BIRADS 4 and 5 microcalcifications.
Methods: 101 patients (age range 30 - 74 years) with 114 areas of mammographic BIRADS 4 or 5 microcalcifications were enrolled in the study. All patients underwent US, MRI and, when indicated, second-look US. Histopathological diagnosis, obtained by US guided CNB or surgical excision, was used as a reference standard for diagnostic accuracy calculations. Analysis of prevalence of different mammographical, sonographical and MRI BIRADS descriptors was performed, with calculations of PPVs for each descriptor.
Results: Sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV of MRI were: 100 %, 59,1 %, 69,5% and 100 %, and of US: 87,8 %, 59,1 %, 66,7 % and 83,9 %. Second-look targeted US visualized all microcalcifiactions which were not visible sonographically prior to MRI, and revealed carcinoma in 23,6 % of those cases.
Conclusions: MRI can confidently exclude malignancy in mammographically suspicious microcalcifications. The negative MRI finding allows the decision not to biopsy microcalcifications. US cannot reliably exclude cancer, neither confidently differentiate benign from malignant microcalcifications. However, due to high rate of visualization of microcalcifications, US is modality of choice for the CNB guidance or preoperative wire localization.