Paul M. Goldfarb, M.D. M Diane J. Fink, M.D. anaged care is the emerging trend in health care today. The American Cancer Society assumes that by the year 2000 in the May L. Sung, M.P.H. western United States 80% of health care will be under the auspices of managed care, there will be a 10% reduction in resources available American Cancer Society, California Division, to deliver the care, and indigent care will be in the managed care Inc. environment administered by the states with minimal federal oversight. The managed care environment is changing rapidly as evidenced in the way alliances are developed, contracts are negotiated and how care is given. Employers want to keep costs down, and contracts are negotiated with providers for the most favorable cost plan. The issue of how to pay for and deliver health care has become a national crisis. The American Cancer Society, California Division, organized the Managed Health Care Conference to gain information and to increase their understanding of the burgeoning managed care environment, its philosophies and activities and to explore its role as an advocate for public health and the cancer patient in this changing health care environment. As a result, an action agenda was developed to meet the needs of the American Cancer Society's constituents.


Aqueous chlorination of 4-methyltrichlorocatechol 2 gave the tetrachlorohydroxycyclohexenone 4, which crystallized as the hydrate 5. Reaction of 4 with aqueous sodium hydroxide resulted in a benzilic acid rearrangement to the tetrachlorodihydroxycyclopentenecarboxylic acid 6. These reactions have important implications with respect to understanding how lignin is removed during pulp bleaching. Crystals of the tetrachlorotrihydroxycyclohexenone 5 are monoclinic, a = 11.4420(6), b = 7.5873(9), c = 12.6443(6) A, β = 101.266(4)°, Z = 4, space group P21/c, and those of the methyl tetrachlorodihydroxycyclopentenecarboxylate 7 are monoclinic, a = 28.447(1), b = 6.929(1), c = 12.597(1) A, β = 103.074(5)°, Z = 8, space group C2/c. The structures were solved by direct methods and were refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.028 and 0.034 for 1716 and 2164 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(I), respectively.


Forward-Backward Time-Stepping (FBTS) technique is used for the detection, imaging and reconstruction of an embedded object which is formulated at the time-domain utilizing Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. In order to solve FBTS inverse scattering problem, edge-preserving regularization is integrated. Image reconstruction results illustrated that the FBTS integrated with an edge-preserving regularization technique has the potential to detect the presence of the embedded object accurately. In this paper, an extended algorithm is shown in time-domain image reconstruction.


In current linguistics, non-objective (i.e. perspectival or construed) facets of linguistic meaning are often explained as properties or correlates of cognitive phenomena. Such outlook, exemplified by Langacker's (1987, 2008) Cognitive Grammar, stands in contrast vis-à-vis the necessary social character of language in general and linguistic meaning in particular. Accordingly, a viable semantic theory should seek to explain non-objective facets of meaning as an intersubjectively valid semantic resource that is an integral part of linguistic meaning at large. In this paper, such theory is proposed based on the phenomenological notions of intentionality and intersubjectivity. I will argue that the non-objectivity of linguistic meaning is most realistically explained as conventionalized intentionality, i.e. object-directedness of conscious experience. The conventionalization of intentionality, in turn, suggests a complex manner in which non-objective meaning motivates the selection of a linguistic expression within an intersubjective context. Finally, this intimate relationship between non-objective meaning and context suggests the feasibility of extending Cognitive Grammar's notion of construal into analysis of non-objective meaning as an intersubjective, context-sensitive facet of interaction (see Etelämäki et al. 2009 for a similar argument).


In this paper, we present radio and high-energy observations of the INTEGRAL source IGR J21247+5058, a broad line emitting galaxy obscured by the Galactic plane. Archival Very Large Array radio data indicate that IGR J21247+5058 can be classified as an Faranoff-Riley type II Broad-Line Radio Galaxy. The spectrum between 610 MHz and 15 GHz is typical of synchrotron self-absorbed radiation with a peak at 8 GHz and a low-energy turnover; the core fraction is 0.1 suggestive of a moderate Doppler boosting of the base of the jet. The high-energy broad-band spectrum was obtained by combining XMM-Newton and Swift/X-Ray Telescope (XRT) observation with INTEGRAL/Image on Board Integral Satellite (IBIS) data. The 0.4-100-keV spectrum is well described by a power law, with slope r = 1.5, characterized by complex absorption due to two layers of material partially covering the source and a high-energy cut-off around 70-80 keV. Features such as a narrow iron line and a Compton reflection component, if present, are weak, suggesting that reprocessing of the power-law photons in the accretion disc plays a negligible role in the source.


Objective:To find a more effectively therapy method for chronic renal Failure patients in maintain dialysis by comparing the effects of ameliorating micro-inflammatory and renal-anemia states with integrative traditional Chinese and western medicine or simple western medicine treatments. Methods:78 patients were divided into two groups averagely ,one group with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and the other with Western medicine treatments respectively for 12 weeks, detection the concentrations of hs-C-reactive protein, leptin, albumin, hemoglobin, red blood cell count, hematocrit, compare the differences between pre-treatment and past. Results:1)The micro-inflammatory and renal-anemia states of two groups were ameliorated, and the integrative traditional Chinese and western medicine was more effectively. 2)The micro-inflammatory index were significance correlated with Hb and Alb(P0.01).3)No severe adverse event was found. Conclusion: Micro-inflammatory state was correlated with Renal-anemia closely, integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine was more effectively than simple western medicine treatments in ameliorating micro-inflammatory and renal-anemia states.


Fucoidan, extracted from Undaria pinnatifida (U. pinnatifida), has been extensively studied because of its wide biological activities. However, antioxidative activities of fucoidan extracted from Miyeokgui have not been yet examined in the zebrafish model. Therefore the present study was designed to evaluate in vitro and in vivo studies on antioxidative activities of fucoidan extracted from Miyeokgui by using 0.1 M hydrochloric acid (MAF). We found that MAF reduced the production of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the 2, 2'-azobis dihydrochloride (AAPH) induced oxidative stress in Vero cells. Furthermore, the protective effect of MAF was examined against AAPH-induced oxidative stress in zebrafish model. MAF possesses a protective effect against AAPH-induced toxicity in zebrafish embryos. In addition, MAF significantly reduced AAPH-induced ROS production and lipid peroxidation in zebrafish embryos. These results proved that MAF has antioxidant activities both in vitro Vero cells and in vivo zebrafish model.


Objective To investigate the value of multislice spiral CT (MSCT) in interventional therapy of the hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) emphasising on transcatheter hepatic arterial chemoembolization (TACE). Methods MSCT were performed in 54 cases of HCC before interventional procedure, CT findings of hepatic artery phase, portal venous phase and hepatic venous phase were observed respectively, among which CTA were done in 12 cases, and the anatomy of celiac artery and its branches were observed. The schemes of interventional therapy were worked out according to the findings of MSCT. Results MSCT showed 225 lesions, 10 cases of tumor thrombosis in portal vein, 1 case of hepatic arteriovenous shunt , and 13 cases of hepatic arterioportal shunt. There was no significant difference between MSCT and DSA in positive rate of in showing number of tumor or tumor thrombosis in portal vein ( P 0.05), but the 3D construction of celiac artery branches in CTA was better than that in DSA, while angles between celiac artery and abdominal aorta in MSCT were more convenient than that in DSA. MSCT showed 5 cases of hepatic artery original abnormality, in according with that in DSA. Conclusion MSCT is of importance for guidance of interventional therapy of the hepatocellular carcinoma.


Differences in the conceptions of time, in the timing, and in the particular tempos of cultural groups are discussed as significant dimensions of intercultural communication. While the time dimensi...


Junctional ectopic tachycardia is a serious tachyarrhythmic complication following pediatric cardiac surgery. It is difficult to manage and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Conventional nonpharmacological and pharmacological measures have shown limited effects. Dexmedetomidine is an α2 agonist which has recently been shown in multiple studies to be effective.


Objective To find out about the allocation of large size medical facilities in Tangshan City so as to make rational use of its health resources. Methods On the spot investigations were combined with surveys through questionnaires to find out about the allocation of large size facilities in second tier hospitals and above in the city. Results There are altogether 109 large size medical facilities in the city, averaging 15.60 per million people. The allocation number is pretty high, and yet the distribution is quite irrational, with the city proper owning 70.67% of the facilities while its population and land area account for only 24.06% and 8.10%. Conclusion The allocation number has been increasing rapidly and the level of grade is rather high, and yet there lacks equity in distribution.


The boundary element method (BEM) to analyze the stress intensity factors for a crack in dissimilar materials is developed using Hetenyi's solution as a fundamental solution of BEM. Since Hetenyi's solution, which is a solution for a point load in an infinite dissimilar plate, satisfies exactly the boundary condition at the interface, this method with use of this solution does not require the discretization of the interface and only require the division of elements on the boundary of a finite plate. Therefore it is expected that this method can give an accurate solution for a crack on and near the interface. Moreover this solution includes Kelvin's solution and Mindlin's solution. After formulating and incorporating this solution in the BEM programmes, several numerical results of the stress intensity factors for a crack in dissimilar materials as well as a homogeneous material are presented. The usefulness of this solution for BEM analysis is discussed.


Objective To study genetic mutations of the hemagglutinin gene and molecular epidemiology of influenza in Dalian city during 2005-2009.Methods 28 H1N1,9 H3N2 and 24 influenza B(Yamagata lineage) strains were isolated from MDCK cells.The HA cDNA fragments of them were amplified by RT-PCR,and gene sequences were analyzed on homology and heredity evolution.Results There was a high rate of mutations in H1N1 virus strains isolated from Dalian during 2005-2009.Compared with vaccine strains recommended by WHO,an H1N1 subtype A/liaoningxigang/136/2009(H1) isolated in 2009 had 4 sites mutations on epitope B,which belonged to new variants.H3N2 isolated in 2005 and 2007 showed little degree of variation compared with vaccine strains.Compared with vaccine B / Shanghai / 361/02,Influenza B(Yamagata lineage) isolated during 2007-2008 had 7 amino acids changed sites,two of which were located in the epitope and one new glycosylation on site 196.Conclusion Vaccine strains recommended by WHO and the epidemic strains are not totally consistent.Variable degrees of antigenic drift are caused by annual changes of nucleotide sequences.


Purpose – This paper aims to explore the local knowledge on climate change, its impacts and the responses they are making at the household or community level to deal with the changes on the basis of their experiences and perceptions. Design/methodology/approach – The study was based on household survey conducted with one male and one female respondent in 202 households. Alongside, series of focused group discussions were conducted with local people to capture the perception on about climate change, its impacts and adaptation strategies applied to enhance their resilience capacity to changing climate. Rainfall and temperature data were collected from Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) for seven and four different stations, respectively, within Kathmandu Valley and analyzed to understand the climatic trend. Findings – The perception of most of the local people on changes in temperature was almost in line with the recorded long-term climatic trend both showing an increasing trend, whereas the perc...


Abstract We have studied the behaviour of light with complex statistics (having squeezed, coherent and chaotic features) propagating inside a linear coupler. We show that the squeezed state can be switched from one channel to the other depending on the value of the detuning parameter, and that the squeezing characteristics can be changed.


The impact of a challenge with moderately pathogenic Escherichia coli O128:C6 on the digestive physiology and gut bacterial community of growing rabbits under two feeding programmes was analysed. Upon weaning (28 d old), 180 rabbits were allocated to four groups (9 cages of 5 rabbits per group) for two weeks: group C100 was non-inoculated and fed ad libitum; C70 was non-inoculated and feed intake was limited to 70% of C100; I100 and I70 were inoculated and fed ad libitum or restricted to 70%, respectively. At the age of 31 d (D0), rabbits were orally inoculated with E. coli (2.2×108 colony forming units/rabbit). The effects of inoculation spiked on D4, with a 28% lower growth rate for I100 than for C100. Limited feed intake reinforced the inoculation's effects on growth: I70 had a 66% lower growth rate than C70. The morbidity rate peaked at 42% between D4 and D7 for inoculated groups, without significant effect of the feed intake level. E. coli concentration peaked on D5/D6 in the caecum of the I100 and I70 groups. Inoculation reduced by 30% (P<0.05) the villus height/crypt depth and villus/crypt area ratios in the ileum, with no significant effect of the intake level. Inoculation was associated with a tenfold increase in serum haptoglobin (P<0.001) for both ad libitum and restricted rabbits. On D5, the inoculation modified the structure of the ileal bacterial community (P<0.05), but not that of the caecum. The feed intake level did not affect either the structure or diversity of the bacterial community, both in the ileum and caecum.


The author has identified the following significant results. Visual examination of RB-57F color infrared imagery of range sites within Test Site 313 indicates that early season imagery will show significant differences in appearance of sub-irrigated sites as compared to dry valley sites. Differences appear to be significant also when comparing the previous two sites to sands sites. Comparison of existing soil map soils delineations with vegetative growth patterns shows reasonably good agreement between the two patterns over rather broad areas. Visual examination of ERTS-1 imagery has also shown that rangeland burned by prairie fire within the last six months can be distinguished. Three confirmed fire areas have been shown on the imagery. Since only broad estimates of burned acres are available, more accurate acreage measurements will be attempted. Known acreage of burned areas will be of value to those agencies responsible for deferred grazing payments to land owners. The relative speed with which this acreage information would become available to these agencies through ERTS-1 imagery would be of much benefit.


The purpose of this minor field study, and BA-thesis, is to visualize the situation for Rakhine Buddhists and Rakhine Muslims; both through their stories and through analysing Enemy Imaging within the two researched groups. The research questions posed are "What do the informants emphasise regarding their situation pertaining to the conflict and their everyday life" and "To what extent could the image of The Other be called an Enemy Image". Methods of Thematic Content Analysis and Framing are used to analyse the material and theories of Enemy Imaging and Othering constitute the theoretical base of the study. The analysed material, ten interviews, five with Buddhists and five with Muslims, all identifying as being Rakhine, show that the informants experience feeling threatened and scared as well as to a large extent feeling misunderstood and unfairly treated. There were very few signs of Enemy Imaging among the Muslim group, but far more in the Buddhist group. This thesis calls for further research both within these two groups and extended to other actors identified in the context.


In recent years, communication plays a vital role, whereas the secured communication lags in some other applications. In order to improve the security, the multicast routing protocol is preferred. In multicast routing source based tree is proposed. Source based tree forwarding packets based on shortest path. To calculate shortest path crossover and mutation operation is performed. To reduce the power consumption power aware multicasting is used. Trust management scheme is proposed to improve the security. To reduce the malicious routers which compromises secure routing. In trust management scheme dynamic source routing is used. This Dynamic source routing the routes are created as it required. The source based tree, is to calculate the energy efficiency between the nodes and for calculating Quality of Service (QoS) parameter such as Throughput, average delay and Packet Delivery Ratio. The architecture is developed and implemented using NS 2.35.


In 1918 the authorities of the Enid1 public schools became interested in the idea of the classification of pupils according to mental ability. The superintendent set himself the task of plan ning for the necessary instruction of the teaching force and the needed reorganization. Two years were occupied in prepara tion; and during the time every teacher in the school system became proficient in the use of individual mental tests. All pupils from grades i to ix were tested by the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Test; those from grades ix to xn, by group tests. The entire plan of preparation and organization was pub lished in a bulletin by the Board of Education of Enid in 1921.2 Since the Enid plan of clasification has been operating for three years, it is now possible to present some statistical facts and some observations that should throw additional light upon the general question of classifying pupils according to ability. Some changes have been made in the original scheme of grouping. Two junior high schools have been added, changing the system from the eight-four to the six-three-three plan. All teachers3 who are em ployed now are required to know how to test with the Stanford Revision of the Binet Test before entering upon their work. A complete retesting has not been made, but all pupils new to the system are tested after trial in the schools. Retesting of some pupils has shown that those with low intelligence quotients usually test lower at each successive period. The group names


The purpose of this portion of the project is to link electricity demands with electricity sector emissions, with a focus on NOx. Climate change will alter the level and timing of electricity demands, as well as the thermal efficiency of electricity generating units. With a given capital stock of generating plant (short run analysis), this will change their operations and emissions. Even in the presence of seasonal or annual emissions caps, emissions might then increase during the warmest days when ozone episodes are most likely to occur. In the long run, the mix and amounts of various types of generation technologies will adjust, and if climate change occurs, the resulting generation plant will be different than if climate change does not occur. This has further implications for the timing and amount of emissions. This portion of the research project developed and demonstrated methods for obtaining temporal and spatial distributions of NOx emissions from power plants, and for quantifying the effects of climate change scenarios on those distributions. In Section 1 of this report, we provide background on the analyses, as well as summarize data sources. In Section 2, we describe the methodology used to assess the effects of climate warming assuming short-run (fixed capital) conditions for the power generation sector; this is an emissions- and transmission-constrained representation of the power market for the mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. Generation plant and demand conditions for the year 2000 were used in that analysis. That section also summarizes the results of the analysis. In Section 3, we turn to the issue of interannual variability of climate, electricity demands, and emissions. Most energy models, when used in climate impact analyses, assume a "typical" or "average" year. However, interannual variability is very important; because of the nonlinear relationships between temperatures, emissions, and their impacts, the average impact on air quality over a number of years may be quite different (and higher) than the impact on air quality in an average year. In Section 4, the procedure used to calculate long run (variable generation plant) scenarios that adapt to changing climate is described, along with selected results. Appendix I summarizes the procedure used to translate the hourly emissions outputs from the electricity generation simulation model into the script files that can be used by the SMOKE module of CMAQ. Appendix II lists publications and conference presentations from this portion of the project, and Appendix III summarizes two journal articles resulting from this project that describe the short run models and some analyses of the interaction of oligopolistic generator behavior and emissions.


In a patient material of 640 cases the clinical value of ERCP is evaluated. The frequency of questions yielded by the patients history, biochemical examination and standard x-ray findings were answered in 84.4°/o. Concerningthe clinical question of both duct systems a positive answer was possible in 57.80/o, of the pancreatic duct in 94.2°/o and of the biliary system in 84.70/s. From our results it is proven that the accuracy of visualization the duct system which seems to be needed from the clinical view increased with the experience of the examiner. In many cases the visualization of one of the two ducts is sufficient for a precise diagnosis. In 51.40/o of our cases pathological lesions were found. Summarizing these results, ERCP is a very suitable method to establish an exact diagnosis and the accuracy-rate to answer clinical questions is higher than expected.


In this study, we transform the verification scores of a speaker recognitionsysteminordertostandardizetheimposterscoredis-tribution,thisfacilitatessettingofaspeaker-independentthresh-oldatdesiredFalseAlarm(FA)rates.Impostorscoredistri-butionsareestimatedusingGMMs,andaunivariateGauss-ianization[1]transform(whichisamonotonicallyincreasingmapping)isappliedonthescores.Itisshownthatifamono-tonicallyincreasingmappingisused,theProbabilityofcorrect detection for a given setting of the FA is maintained as before. Hence, the proposed technique performs distribution scaling without affecting the False Alarm to False Reject relationship of the original test statistic. The maximum (relative) mismatch between the obtained and desired False Alarm rates is less than 10% for a wide range of False Alarm rates. When compared to modeling the imposter score distributions using a single Gaussian (Z-norm case), the overall relative mismatch is reduced by an average of 30%. While the application focus is on speaker recognition, the proposed technique can be used for other binary speech classification tasks as well.


The complexity of an overtaking maneuver on two-lane roads merits a thorough method for developing an assistance system to prevent accidents, thus reducing the number of fatalities and the associated economic costs. This research aims to introduce a new Driver Overtaking Assistance System (DOAS). This system is based on the proactive prediction of the possibility of overtaking any preceding vehicle(s) both accurately and safely. To provide a comprehensive system, different factors related to the driver, the vehicle, the road, and the environment which have an impact on the maneuver have been taken into consideration. In addition to considering the main overtaking strategies including accelerative, flying, piggybacking, and the 2+. The proposed system is a vehicle-based safety system based on the collection of contextual information from the driving vicinity through Hello beacon messages and a set of sensors that are used as part of the reasoning process of the context-aware architecture to safely initiate the overtaking maneuver. A classification model was implemented for both the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning algorithms. A vehicle driving simulator STISIM Drive® was used to conduct driving experiments for 100 participants of different ages, gender, and levels of mental awareness. The results obtained from the DOAS show high accuracy in aiding a safe overtaking maneuver. The classification model shows promising results in the predictions, through perfect accuracy and a very low level of outcome errors.


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t is difficult to obtain high measurement accuracy in online detecting the thermal geometric parameters of hot large forgings, based on machine vision method. In this paper, firstly, a spectrum selective image acquisition method for high-temperature components is proposed, which can successfully reduced the effect of high temperature on image quality. Then, a measurement method based on the coding feature lines for geometric parameters of hot large forgings is employed, which can effectively improve the extraction efficiency of geometry characteristic information of high-temperature components. Experiments on the forging workshop show that measurement accuracy of diameters for cylindrical forging reaches 0.2% and the measurement time is 2.25 seconds; measurement accuracy of lengths for cuboid forging reaches 0.48% and the measurement time is 5.9 seconds. The experimental results have verified the feasibility and high efficiency of the proposed method for measuring the geometric parameters of hot large forgings.


Purchase intentions have a great impact on future purchases and thus can be exploited for making recommendations. However, purchase intentions are typically complex and may change from time to time. Through empirical study with two e-commerce datasets, we observe that behaviors of multiple types can indicate user intentions and a user may have multiple coexisting category-level intentions that evolve over time. In this article, we propose a novel Intention-Aware Recommender System (IARS) which consists of four components for mining such complex intentions from user behaviors of multiple types. In the first component, we utilize several Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and an attention layer to model diverse user intentions simultaneously and design two kinds of Multi-behavior GRU (MGRU) cells to deal with heterogeneous behaviors. To reveal user intentions, we carefully design three tasks that share representations from MGRUs. The next-item recommendation is the main task and leverages attention to select user intentions according to candidate items. The remaining two (item prediction and sequence comparison) are auxiliary tasks and can reveal user intentions. Extensive experiments on the two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our models compared with several state-of-the-art recommendation methods in terms of hit ratio and NDCG.


The present invention relates to the field of plant extracts, particularly relates to a method for extracting ginkgolides isolated. The technical problem solved by the present invention is to provide a method for extracting and separating ginkgolides, the extraction methods available immobilized component ginkgolides. This method has been extracted, extraction, through the column, crystallization, step resulting mixed crystal of ginkgolides, bilobalide containing (C15H18O8) 25.0% ~ 50.0%, ginkgolides A (C20H24O9) 20.0% ~ 45.0%, ginkgo ester B (C20H24O10) 10.0% ~ 30.0%, ginkgolide C (C20H24O11) 5.0% ~ 15.0%, and bilobalide, ginkgolide A, ginkgolide B, ginkgolide C is greater than the total amount of 95%.


The growth characteristics of fouling on the surface of heat exchanger is predicted by means of Kern Seaton's asymptotic model.A criterion which is defined as the ratio of heat transfer efferctiveness before and after fouling is put forward on the basis of the mechanism of heat transfer in heat exchanger.The effect of the fouling time and surface temperature on the heat transfer performance of heat exchanger was discussed.


In the society of quasic-IT,the variation of the mode of cognizance from college students and of their outlook on values gives a challenge to tradition civilization,which constantly weakens the teachers' controls.And the unprecedented Social competition and psychological buraden to the college students causes a series of problems to school management.This paper approaches the subject theoretically,analyses the key issues existing in among the students of Changsha Social work College and puts forwark some solutions for the problems.


Hypothyroidism Is Common In Diabetes Mellitus Patients And Can Produce Significant Metabolic Disturbances Such As Dyslipidemia, Which Commonly Found In Type 2 Diabetes. This Will Further Leads To Increase The Risk Of Cardiovascular Diseases. Based On This We Studied The Thyroid Profile And Serum Cholesterol Level In Diabetes Patients. The Study Comprised Of 50 Patients With Evidence Of Diabetes And 50 Normal Individuals As Control Group. In All The Individuals Fasting Blood Sugar, Hba1c, T3, T4, TSH And Serum Cholesterol Were Estimated. There Is A Significant Increase Of Mean Fasting Blood Sugar And Hba1c In Cases Of Diabetes When Compared With Control. The Thyroid Profile Parameters Such As T3 And T4 Are Significant Decreased And There Is A Significantly Increase Of TSH In Cases When Compared With Control. Finally, The Serum Cholesterol Is Also Significantly Increased In Cases. All Data Suggest That There Is Altered Thyroid Profile And Increased Serum Cholesterol Which Further Aggravates Atheroma Risk. Therefore, Regular Screening For Thyroid Profile In Diabetes Mellitus May Be Helpful For Early Treatment Of Hypothyroidism And Reducing The Risk Of Atheroscerosis. The Throxine Replacement Will Reverse The Dyslipidemia And Further Decreases The Risk Of Cardio Vascular Diseases.


In order to study the influence of the child restraint system's (CRS) design parameters on the child occupant injury, a frontal crash simulation model with an ISOFIX CRS was established under ECE R129 regulation, and the simulation results were verified with sled test. The influences of the friction coefficient between children's safety belt and child dummy, the stiffness of children's safety belt, the location of shoulder strap of children's safety belt and the friction between child seat and car seat on injury parameters, such as head injury criterion (HIC15) values and chest resultant acceleration, were analyzed by using orthogonal experimental design. The hole position of seat belt shoulder strap has greatest effect on the WIC value and head displacement in X direction, it makes WIC value reduced by 7.2% compared with the original scheme, and the head displacement reduced by 1.4%.


Abstract In this paper, we will give sufficient conditions to obtain new estimates about the order of growth and the type of meromorphic functions in the unit disc Δ ={z ∊ ℂ :∣ z ∣ < 1} we give also some examples to explain the sharpness of these estimations.


Procedure for isolation of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) from Rindera umbellata Bunge plant species was optimised. Different extraction media (methanol, ethanol and sulphuric acid), concentration and volume of sulphuric acid, pH of PA solution for alkaline extraction, extraction time and techniques (maceration, ultrasonic and overhead rotary mixer assisted extraction) were investigated. The yields of six PAs (7-angeloyl heliotridane, 7-angeloyl heliotridine, lindelofine, 7-angeloyl rinderine, punctanecine and heliosupine) were monitored by GC–MS/FID. The best results for the isolation all of six PAs were obtained when the extraction was performed with 1 M sulphuric acid (30 mL per 1.00 g of dried sample) by overhead rotary mixer during three days. Optimal pH value for alkaline extraction of PAs with CH2Cl2 was 9, and the extraction should be performed with four portions of 30 mL of CH2Cl2. This procedure could be also useful for a plant sample preparation for GC and LC analyses of PAs.


Medieval religious Drama is generally known as a simple and rough Theatre. The main reason of this misunderstanding may be arisen from the prejudice about the age of Medieval. As a `dark age` it brought us many false political, cultural images. One of this is about the medieval theatre. But the medieval drama was rather a skillful and spectacular than a simple and rough theatre. On this reason, the aim of this study is the clarifying of the staging of Medieval religious drama, especially focusing on the historical development and transfiguration of performance and its stage. There were four different religious plays in the middle ages, that is, Liturgical drama, mystery plays, miracle plays and morality plays. But the stage of these plays might be fixed or movable, and the fixed stage were most common. The plying area of all had two basic components: small scenic structures (variously called mansion, sedes, loci or domi) and a generalized acting area(the platea, playne, or place). Most of the realistic touches in medieval production involved special effects that were `flying` of angels, `trap door` for sudden appearances and disappearances, flood of a continuous rain of five minutes, torture and executions substituted usually effigies for live actors, and many transformation scenes like a changing of Moses` staff into a snake, Lot`s wife into a pillar of salt, water into wine. And its scale were also so gigantic, for example, The Acts of the Apostles, presented at Bourges in 1536 had a cast of three hundred and required forty days to perform, and the passion play staged at Valenciennes in 1547 required twenty-five days. Many of the special effects required enormous skill and ingenuity. Therefore the medieval theatre were a skillful and spectacular theatre, which the church and the other people of those days had produced together.


By using SRAP molecular marker,34 primer pairs were screened from 88 primer pairs,and the genetic relationships between female parent Dangshansu pear and pollination cultivars were analyzed,and the effects of genetic relationship of pollination cultivars on the stone cell content of Dangshansu pear were investigated further.The results indicated that pollination cultivars Zisu,Yali and Matihuang had distant genetic relationships with Dangshansu pear,whereas, pollination cultivars Huashan,Xingshui and Wonhwang had close genetic relationships with Dangshansu pear.The content of the fruit stone cells was 0.61%when Dangshansu pear was naturally pollinated.and when pollinated by Zisu, Yali and Matihuang,the content of the fruit stone cells was 0.34%,0.33%,0.36%,respectively,which was lower than the naturally pollinated one,while pollinated by Huashan,Kosui and Wonhwang,the content of the fruit stone cells was 0.84%,0.70%,0.66%,respectively,which was higher than the naturally pollinated one.It could reduce the content of Dangshansu pear stone sells and improve the taste by pollinating with the cultivars which had distant genetic relationships with Dangshansu pear.


The abnormal measurement of the analog input module,of Quantum PLC is analysed,It happens when measuring the negative value. A method to correct it is given.


Abstract The effect of dissociation on the energy of a perfect dislocation in f.c.c. metals is considered using elasticity theory and is compared with the Peierls-model calculations of Prinz, Kirchner and Schoeck (1978). It is shown that the effect, which is significant, largely arises from the elastic energy, and that consequently models of strengthening, etc., can incorporate the influence of dissociation if suitable values of energy and line tension are used. Effective isotropic elastic constants which give these values for real metals are discussed.


The sensitivity analysis of the eigenvectors corresponding to multiple eigenvalues is a challenging problem. The main difficulty is that for given multiple eigenvalues, the eigenvector derivatives can only be computed for a specific eigenvector basis, the so-called adjacent eigenvector basis. These adjacent eigenvectors depend on individual variables, which makes the eigenvector derivative calculation very elaborate and expensive from a computational perspective for problems. We present a new method avoiding passing through adjacent eigenvectors in the calculation of the partial derivatives of any prescribed eigenvector basis. Some examples, including one in the topology optimization, are provided to validate the present approach. The present paper is based on our research [1]


Compatibility tests of lysozyme chloride ointment (Reflap® Ointment) with eleven anti-microbial agents and four disinfectants were carried out. Reflap® ointment was mixed with other ointments and creams in equal weight. A day's dose of anti-microbial injections and 5 ml disinfectant solutions were, respectively, mixed with 30g Reflap® ointment. The mixtures in polyethylene airtight vessels were stored at room temperature for two months. Changes of appearance (e. g., color, odor and bleeding), pH level and lysozyme activity were studied.It was found that the significant reductions of lysozyme activity immediately occured in the cases of the mixture with Chloromycetin® ointment or Isodime® gel. The lysozyme activity were reduced with time in the cases of the mixture with Terra-Cortril® ointment, Fucidin leo® ointment and Lilacillin® injection. No changes were observed in any of the other mixtures.


Secretory diarrhoeal disease caused by enterotoxins produced by pathogenic bacteria is characterised by severe fluid loss into the intestine. A prevalent explanation for such high rates of loss, such as occur in episodes of cholera, is that intestinal epithelial cells (enterocytes) actively secrete chloride ion into the lumen. Fluid is drawn into the lumen because of the osmotic pressure difference that is created across the mucosa. Widely proposed as the cause of many forms of secretory diarrhoea, the enterocyte based paradigm displaced an earlier model of secretion i.e. fluid filtration caused by increased capillary hydrostatic pressure, possibly coupled with increased hydraulic conductivity. This would be aggravated by any concurrent inhibition of fluid absorption if it occurred. In the earlier and alternative paradigm, pathophysiological reductions in smooth muscle tone elevate capillary pressure, thereby increasing the hydrostatic pressure gradient that forces fluid from the capillary into the interstitial space and thence into the lumen. In this review, the present and historical evidence for the vasodilatation view of secretory diarrhoeal disease is presented, together with past challenges of this concept, particularly those involving the erroneous equating of solute permeability with hydraulic conductivity. It can be seen that the physical forces model of altered Starling forces combined with enhanced fluid permeation explains more experimental findings than the cellular based enterocyte model can. Several key past papers advocating enterocyte secretion in which the capillary vasodilatation model was also discounted, were examined for the inherent fallacies within the arguments that were proposed. Where possible, quantitative arguments are proposed that indicate that is it the combination of capillary vasodilatation combined with increased tight junctional hydraulic conductivity that causes profuse secretion, made worse by any concurrent inability to absorb fluid. To assist the general physiological reader, an appendix reviews Bernoulli's principle of flow within tubes and explains the arguably counter-intuitive phenomenon that vasodilatation increases capillary pressure because of a velocity reduction within a dilated segment.


Thirteen dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) collected during 1993-1994 from La Parguera, Puerto Rico, were examined for parasites. Nine species of helminths were identified including 6 trematodes (Dinurus barbatus, D. breviductus, D. tornatus, Hirudinella ventricosa, Stepha.nostornurn coryphaenae, and Tetrochetus coryphaenae), 1 cestode (Tentacularia coryphaenae), 1 nematode (Hysterothylacium pelagicuni), and 1 acanthocephalan (Rhadinorhynchus pristis). Each dolphinfish was infected with at least 2 species of helminths (x = 4.7; range = 2 to 7 species). The most common helminths found were D. barbatus, H. pelagicuni, and Tetrochetus coryphaenae, with prevalences of 100, 92, and 62%, respectively. Each of the 13 hosts had a different composition of helminths. Crustacean parasites included Caligus balistae, C. coryphaena, C. productus, Dysgamus sp., Euryphorus nordmanni, and Pennella varians.


Bumper of a motor vehicle having a U-shaped bumper cross beam (2) having a web (3) and two opposite the web (3) angled leg (4), between the legs (4), a towing sleeve (8, 8a) is arranged which is connected via a retaining plate (7) with the bumper transverse support (2) in contact, the towing sleeve (8, 8a) is connected via two spaced in its longitudinal direction fixtures with the bumper transverse support (2) and the retaining plate (7), wherein a of the attachments is designed cohesively and the other fixing is carried out frictionally and / or positively with the towing sleeve (8, 8a) has a length (B) and a distance (a) between the fasteners 40% to 90% of the length (B) is characterized in that one of the attachments is designed cohesively and the other fixing is carried out frictionally and / or positively by press-fitting.


The author put forward viewpoints on definition of hospital operation management, behavior of hospital operation, relationship and discrimination between operation and management to help the hospital decision-maker and manager finding their positions accurately and adapting the market perfectly while competition in medical market becomes more and more fiercely.


The authors integrate climate variables into an IFAD project impact assessment, discussing in detail the steps taken to determine which climate variables to collect, and from which sources. The impact assessment is based on cross-section data collected ex post, and the impact assessment team carefully selected control areas to implement a propensity score matching procedure to isolate the causal impacts of the project on household-level production and livelihood outcomes. The authors show that incorporating climate variables provides important relevant information in its own right; in particular, findings show that severe saline intrusion – caused by both climate change and land and water use taking place up-and downstream – had significant effects on crop choices, as well as significant negative impacts on a wide range of production and livelihood outcomes. Thus, not including climate variables would lead to a downward bias in the impact assessment estimates, particularly for crop production. Additionally, results show that rice yields for treated households are lower than those for control households, when there is no severe saline intrusion, but are actually significantly higher under severe saline intrusion. This reveals that the project was able to increase "resilience" in the face of an extreme weather-related shock; however, previous research suggests that practices are often disadopted if yields are not also higher in "normal" years, with implications for future programme design. Finally, the paper notes that a very high proportion of the project budget was spent on supra-household-level activities to increase the performance of women's credit cooperatives and to invest in community-level infrastructure designed to build resilience to climate change. However, the authors were unable to assess resilience benefits at those levels, as relevant data were not collected. Collecting those data will be particularly important to inform future projects that explicitly attempt to scale promising pilot projects.


What do we know about the prime minister's Pentecostalism?
In his first major speech as prime minister, Scott Morrison pointed to his heart and told Australians that "I've come to talk to you today about what's in here". Striding the Albury stage, calling for people to love each other and pray for rain, Morrison looked like the Pentecostal pastor he might have become if his father had not counselled against studying at a Canadian Bible college after university. But the truth is that Morrison has told the Australian public almost nothing about what his heartfelt beliefs actually are.


What I would like to do in what follows is to explain how, in my view, realism cannot but engage with perception. But we have to be careful here. I am not saying that reality is nothing other than perceptual experience. That is certainly not how things are: rather, that is precisely the mistake we have to avoid, although this mistake is very often made by the many, and often well-informed, people who dismiss realism as a sort of sensism. The route that leads from aisthesis to realism is more tortuous and goes by way of some matters that are not only central to the history of modern philosophy, but also apt to recur like a persistent disease.


The health state of modern youth and the level of curative and prophylactic aid have been analyzed in the article. Basic disadvantages of rendering medical aid have been revealed. The main points of optimization of prophylactic and rehabilitation aid for students are presented in the study.


This paper discusses how to comprehend the ee nouns according to the root X based on Barker(1998)'s three essentially semantic constraints, namely sentience, episodical linkedness, and lack of volitional control. The root X is divided into 4 categories: transitive verbs, intransitive verbs, verbs that are both transitive and intransitive, non verbs. The analysis suggests that these principles do help in guessing the meanings of ee nouns; however, due to their genuine productivity, the final definition should be found in the context.


The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine for treating cold in children, which is characterized by mainly comprising components of 12g of Bupleurum scorzonerifolium, 12g of radices scutellariae, 10g of chrysanthemum, 9g of radices isatidis seu baphicacanthi, 12g of Matricaria indica, 9g of fructus forsythiae, 9g of balloon flower, 9g of radices stemonae, 9g of raw liquorice, and the like. The medicine is prepared by a preparation method as follows: the components are put in a container, dipped with water for 30min, decocted with slow fire for 30min and filtered to take liquid of 100ml, the liquid is taken after meal and is taken by one dose every other day, and three doses are taken as one course of the treatment of the medicine. The medicine is purely prepared from traditional Chinese medicines by a traditional preparation method, maintains the medicinal properties of the medicines, has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, relieving internal heat or fever, expelling phlegm and arresting coughing, achieves the purpose of treatment and has no side effect.


Several types of sports, like soccer, European handball, and volleyball have expanded their classical fields of activity from indoor surfaces made of wood or synthetic and outdoor turf to sand surfaces. Previous studies reported differences in both body mechanics and energy demands during several types of movement on sand or similar compliant surfaces compared to hard surfaces. Therefore, we investigated the differences in kinematics during spike jumps performed on indoor or sand surface (Tilp et al., 2008).


Infini Band (IB) has become a popular network interconnect for high performance computing (HPC) systems. Many of the large IB-based HPC systems use some variant of the fat-tree topology to take advantage of the useful properties fat-trees offer. The fat-tree routing algorithm is one of the most efficient deterministic routing algorithms for fat-tree topologies. The algorithm ensures that the number of routes assigned to each link are balanced across the fabric. However, one problem with its load-balancing technique is that it assumes uniform traffic distribution in the network. When routes towards nodes that mainly consume large amount of data are assigned to share links in the fabric while alternative links are underutilized, sub-optimal network throughput is obtained. Also, as the fat tree algorithm routes nodes according to the indexing order, the performance may differ for two systems cabled in the exact same way. In this paper, we propose wFatTree, a novel fat-tree routing algorithm, which considers node traffic characteristics to balance load across the network links more evenly, and with predictable network performance. Our experiments and simulations show an improvement of up to 60% in total network throughput on large fat-tree installations when using wFatTree routing. Furthermore, wFatTree can also be used to prioritize traffic flowing towards the critical nodes in the network.


Risk assessment models (RAMs) have been developed to predict which medical patients are at high risk for venous thrombosis (VT) and hence, should receive pharmacological thromboprophylaxis. Possibly due to the limited performance of the current models, guidelines differ on thromboprophylaxis regimens.


Resistive switching (RS) devices are being studied exhaustively for multiple applications such as information storage and bio-inspired computing, but some reliability problems are still hindering their massive use. Among them, random telegraph noise (RTN) is one of the phenomena that still needs to be understood. In this work, we develop a general model to describe RTN in RS devices by demonstrating the existence of coupling effects between multiple traps, and their effect in the current amplitude deviation. We accurately describe anomalous RTN signals observed in high resistive state (HRS) and low-resistance state (LRS) of RS devices based on TiO2 and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN).


The focal points of project management in creation of budgeting system of "Zorya"-" Mashproekt", a large Ukrainian manufacturer of gas turbine machinery, and position of such instrument as budgeting in factory strategic management are the goal of the article


In the present communication a modelling methodology for non-conventional sampled-data systems based on the external representation is proposed. This technique permits the consideration of any cyclic sampling pattern on the sampled process. Non-conventional modelling is required when, due to several aspects (resource sharing, task priorities, etc), delays appear in a real-time control system. Then, these delays can be considered in the modelling step, and, in a later one, a non-conventional controller can be designed, which generates correct control actions according to the time instant in which they arrive to the process.


Stream management is a novel air traffic control operational concept in which controllers control streams of aircraft that are functionally equivalent, rather than being responsible for "aircraft in airspace." One possible benefit of stream management is workload reduction for the same number of aircraft handled. An adaptation of the dynamic density workload measure is used to evaluate stream management operations against current sector based operations within a TRACON environment. This evaluation is completed utilizing FACET software and ASDI data. Preliminary data analysis demonstrates advantages in shifting to stream operations. Input from TRACON controllers demonstrates that this shift cannot be achieved without fully understanding the nuances specific to each TRACON.


Abstract : The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought with it the end of Turkey's traditional security role of defender of NATO's southern flank. To redefine the Turkish-U.S. security relationship, President Bill Clinton announced in 1999 that the United States and Turkey had a "strategic partnership." The hollowness of that pronouncement became apparent on 1 March 2003 when the Turkish Parliament decided to deny the U.S. military access to Iraq from Turkish territory. That decision has thrown into question the nature as well as the importance of the U.S.-Turkish strategic partnership. This paper explains the post-Cold War internal and regional changes affecting Turkey's current and future security decision making. The paper also argues that Turkey will remain central to U.S. security goals in the Middle East. This is primarily due to the NATO initiatives Turkey has adopted and Ankara's economic and security influence in its region. Finally, the paper recommends that an enduring strategic partnership with Turkey be built upon effectively addressing Turkey's number one security concern: the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) safe areas in northern Iraq.


This study discusses Joko Widodo's utterance in several moments. Jokowi is the president of the Indonesian Republic. He would like to participate in the reelection of the presidential election in April 2019. Many statements of him make public perceptions appear different. In this case, there is two big points of research that can be famous dictions in this era. 'sontoloyo' and 'genderuwo' are two interesting dictions to discuss. As a popular person, Jokowi's utterances occur as public discourses. Many perspectives are produced by many analysts in multidiscipline views. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used as a framework to analyze the utterances related to many perspectives of language. Fairclough model is a choice for analyzing in depth of the research. It states in three big points; text analysis (description), processing analysis (interpretation) andsocial analysis (explanation). The researcher uses a qualitative method. The data related with the sontoloyo and genderuwo utterance comes from news online the Jakarta Post. By using Fairclough theory, the researcher explains the text in the relationship with the situation of political moment, the speaker as government and candidate of the presidential election. The text gives many interpretation and relationship with the social condition.


Californium-252 emits neutrons and gamma-rays and has a potential use in radiotherapy as a replacement for radium. There is no single value for the relative biological efficiency (RBE) of radiations from californium and radium. At high dose rates, the RBE for killing of mammalian cells usually varies with the degree of injury, being highest at low doses. At low dose rates, the RBE is more likely to be constant at all levels of injury but will vary with dose rate and distance from the californium. The RBE (Cf neutrons/Ra gamma rays) is ∼5 for killing of intestinal crypt cells when the dose rate from radium is 160 rads/hour. At the lower dose rates used in radium therapy (30-70 rads/hour), the RBE (for Cf neutrons only) may be greater than 5. If the total dose (neutrons + gamma rays) from californium had been used in calculating the RBE at a source distance of 2 cm, the value would have been about 3.2. However, the better way of determining radium-equivalent doses is to apply RBE values separately to the ne...


The Fourth Gospel is inordinately involved with places and spaces, valuing some but dis- valuing others. The task of interpreting all such references is greatly aided by the use of the anthropological model of "territoriality" which shows how all peoples 1) classify space, 2) communicate this and 3) control access to or exit from this territory. The classifications might be as follows: public/private, sacred/profane, honorable/shameful, clean/unclean, fixed/fluid, center/periphery and the like. Where appropriate these classifications are used to interpret the Johannine data on spaces and places, particularly 1) Galilee/Judean, 2) public/in secret, 3) not on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, 4) whence/whither, 5) in my Father's house there are many rooms, 6) "indwelling" and "being-in" another; and 7) two different worlds.


In order to understand why Orlando was not published in Spain until 1977, almost forty years after the original publication in England, the Francoist regime context is analyzed in this reflection paper, as well as the editorial censorship and self-censorship procedures. It is assumed that this novel by Virginia Woolf is an example of the latter, based on the censorship criteria established by Abellan, since the text transgressed at least three of them. Moreover, the first translation of Orlando in Spain (1993), carried out by Enrique Ortenbach, is analyzed and compared to the one by Borges (1937), not only the first translation of this novel to Spanish, but also the most popular and commercial to date, in order to determine the motivations to commission this retranslation to Ortenbach and the features of this text, in the light of the changes in the Spanish social context. To this end, the paper also draws from the concepts and practices of paratexts, retranslation, and translation criticism. It is concluded that the retranslation by Ortenbach is active, according to Pym's proposal, and that it could have been dictated by the commercial (and momentary) success of the film adaptation of the novel in 1992. Also, although the translation decisions are not linked to the Spanish social changes, Ortenbach retrieves from the original the feature of Orlando's gender distinction, through the use of the personal pronouns she/he when alluding to the character.


An extractfiom white bean seeds was prepared using 80% (v/v) acetone. Fourfractions (I-W) were separatedfiom the crude extract on a Sephadex LH20 column using methanol as the mobile phase. The antioxidant activity of fractions was investigated in a /%carotene-linoleate model system. For individual fractions, UV spectra were recorded and the content of total phenolics was determined. Fractions were also characterized based on the number of phenolic compounds, and their antioxidant activity determined by TLC analysis. The presence of caffeic, p-coumaric, ferulic, and sinapic acids in the form offree and estrified compounds was found in fraction IV. One dominant phenolic compound was present infraction 111 a@er acid hydrolysis with a maximum absorption at 278 nm. Results of the pcarotene-linoleate model system indicated that antioxidant activity of separated fractions did not


A propos de : Bruce Ackerman, Revolutionary Constitutions. Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press


Classical virtue theory has received limited attention in economics. The paper demonstrates its fruitfulness for economic and legal analysis by linking the traditional ethical literature with modern law and economics. Virtues are interpreted as a theory of moral psychology, and applied to economic theory, with comparisons against other behavioral models in economics. It is found that the virtue factor has major significance in economic life.

The paper also outlines a general framework for the analysis of law from a virtue-based perspective, showing how optimal legal design depends on the level of virtue of the citizens. Six general principles are identified: (1) virtue goes together with more freedom, while lack of virtue calls for more legal and regulatory constraints; (2) virtue goes together with more demanding law, while lack of virtue calls for less demanding law; (3) virtue goes together with more precise laws, while lack of virtue calls for less legal precision; (4) virtue goes together with broad standards, while lack of virtue calls for narrow rules; (5) virtue goes together with lighter enforcement and sanctions, while lack of virtue calls for harsher punishments; and (6) virtue goes together with more participation in law-making and law-enforcement, while lack of virtue implies less participation.

It is shown that there are several ways of gathering information about the level of virtue in society, and that laws and regulations may be designed in ways that account for the moral heterogeneity of the citizens. Finally, it is found the law plays a significant role in promoting and safeguarding virtues, but legal perfectionism may be counterproductive.


The invention relates to a method for receiving data messages in communication systems with redundant network paths. The reception data of the peripheral image are directed to a node on at least two different network paths. Characterized a consistent peripheral image can be stored in a memory (13) of the node, even if the data transfer is disturbed on a network path.


It is estimated that 70% of emerging infectious diseases in humans are related to exposure to wild
animals. Studies involving infections in nonhuman primates and their role in the epidemiology of
leptospirosis are scarce. A normative statement of the Ministry of the Environment (179 of
25/06/2008) recommends the use of microscopic agglutination test (MAT) for antibodies binding
anti-Leptospira in wild species reintroduction programs in the wild. Positive tests indicate the
need for quarantine and antimicrobial treatment. In this context, this project proposes to
investigate the evidence of prior exposure and the occurrence of carrier status of pathogenic
Leptospira in wild primates living in the Parque Vargas Zoobotânico Salvador (PZBGV) and
received by the Center for Wildlife Screening Chico Mendes (CETAS). We analyzed 42 serum
samples and 42 whole blood PZBGV primates and 16 sera from 16 primates CETAS by
microscopic agglutination test (MAT) and PCR respectively. Urine samples of 3 primates
PZBGV CETAS and 13 were also subjected to PCR. The seroprevalence in PZBGV was 2%
(1/42) while the CETAS was 31% (5/16). The only positive was a primate Allouata caraya (black
howler monkey) female, adult, which showed mixed reaction to serogroups Australis and
Icterohaemorrhagiae. The five samples positive from CETAS occurred in monkeys (Cebus sp.)
And were divided into serogroups: Ballum (1:100), Semaranga (1:200), Grippotyphosa (1:100),
Cynopeteri (1:100) and mixed reaction Tarassovi / Autumnalis (1:100). All blood samples and
urine samples were analyzed by PCR negative. It is concluded that the seroprevalence of anti-
Leptospira antibodies was low in the Zoo of Salvador, despite the high frequency of rodents in
the area and endemicity of leptospirosis in Salvador. The high prevalence was observed among
the animals rescued from the illegal trade in the state of Bahia and serologic evidence of this
exhibition suggests a potential risk of transmission of leptospirosis by adopting these primates as
pets


Objective To compare the clinical efficiency of laparoscopic right hemicolectomy through medial access with conventional open right hemicolectomy. Methods The clinical records of 30 patients who underwent laparoscopic right hemicolectomy through medial access( the laparoscopy group) and 27 patients who underwent conventional open laparoscopic right hemicolectomy( the open group) were analyzed. The operative time,blood loss,numbers of lymph nodes harvested,time of passage of flatus,time of postoperative stay,and postoperative complications were compared. Results There were no significant differences in operative time,numbers of lymph nodes harvested and postoperative complications. Blood loss was significantly less in the laparoscopy group than in the open group[( 47. 1±45. 8) ml vs( 90. 3 ±50. 7) ml]( P0. 05). The postoperative time of passage of flatus and postoperative stay in the laparoscopy group were respectively significantly shorter than those in the open group( P0. 05). Conclusion Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy through medial access might be a safe and feasible procedure,with excellent minimally invasive effect and radical resection principle of malignant tumor.


Background: This study aimed to examine the changes in height, weight, and bone age between pre- and post-intervention when using a BEG-100 massage chair daily.Methods: Thirty-five children aged 11 years who were close to the average height (145-155 cm) were included in the study. There were 34 participants who used the BEG-100 massage chair for 24 weeks. Daily intervention consisted of 20 minutes of lower body massage and 10 minutes of whole-body massage. Height, weight, and adverse events were checked every five visits, while a hand X-ray was used before and after massages. The height percentile and height standard deviation score (SDS) were calculated using the 2017 Korean growth chart. The bone age and predicted adult height using radiographs were computed using the Tanner-Whitehouse method. The paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used according to normality of data to determine statistical significance.Results: A total of 31 children were included in the final analysis. The height percentile and height SDS significantly increased after BEG-100 massage chair use (2.39; p = 0.032, and 0.07; p = 0.036, respectively). However, these changes were not significant in children whose baseline height was shorter than the average. There were no significant differences in bone age, height for bone age, predicted adult height, or sitting height/height ratio. None of the participants complained of adverse events.Conclusion: The height percentile and SDS of teenagers increased after use of massage chair therefore, it is necessary to perform larger randomized controlled clinical studies. Trial registration: KCT0004673.


In this paper we mainly study the design and computational performance of tensor method for the solution of systems of nonlinear equations which occur frequently in signal and image processing on massively distributed memory computers. We propose a new method, namely hybrid GMRES method, to solve the large and sparse linear system arising in the linearization process. In this paper, we apply tensor-GMRES method for solving the large and sparse nonlinear systems which arise frequently in signal and image processing. In many situations, the rst derivative of functions is ill-conditioned or singular. In such situations, tensor method is especially intended to improve upon the eeciency of standard algorithms based on Newton's method. Tensor method for large and sparse systems of non-linear equations was introduced in 3]. This method bases each iteration on a quadratic model of F(x) that has the form: M(x c + d) = F(x c) + F 0 (x c)d + 1 2 T c dd; (1) where x c is the current iterate, and T c is the tensor term at x c. The tensor term is selected so that the model interpolates a very small number, p, of function values from values iterations. This interpolation process results in T c being a rank p tensor, which is crucial to the eeciency of the tensor method. After the model (1) is formed, the problem d 2 R n ; minkM(x c + d)k 2 ; (2) is solved; that is, at each iteration of tensor methods, a minimizer of the model is used if no root exists. Methods of forming the tensor term and solving the ten-sor model for sparse systems of nonlinear systems are reviewed fully in 3]. The tensor method requires no more derivative or function information per iteration than Newton's method, and its storage requirement is not appreciably more than for Newton's method. One of the major contributions of tensor method is its great robustness. In 3], they have conducted several tests and from the experimental results, it seems that the tensor method virtually never is less eecient than a standard method based upon a linear (Newton) model, and usually is more eecient. And the tensor method solves a considerable number of problems that the standard Newton method does not, and the reverse is virtually never true. The tensor method for large, sparse nonlinear systems described in 2] use sparse direct methods for …


Effect of admixtures such as black gram pulse (BGP) and sulfonated naphthalene based superplasticizer (SP) on the hydration of Portland cement has been studied. The hydration characteristics of OPC in the presence of BGP and SP were studied with the help of non evaporable water content determinations, calorimetric method, Mossbauer spectroscopic and atomic force microscopic techniques. Results have shown that both BGP and SP get adsorbed at the surface of cement and its hydration products. The hydration of Portland cement is retarded in the presence of both the admixtures and nanosize hydration products are formed.


The invention discloses a plasma collecting device adopting a centrifugal separation method and relates to the field of medical instruments. The device comprises a centrifuge, a centrifuge bin arranged at the first half part of the centrifuge and a control circuit arranged in the centrifuge, wherein a centrifugal cup, a plasma layer and a blood cell layer which are connected sequentially from inside to outside in a wrapping manner are arranged in the centrifuge bin, the centrifugal cup is connected with a centrifugal cup blood feeding pipe, the plasma layer is connected with a centrifugal cup plasma discharging pipe, a blood cell detector is arranged in the middle of the centrifugal cup plasma discharging pipe, the other end of the centrifugal cup plasma discharging pipe is connected with a plasma collecting bag, a bowl photoelectric sensor is fixed on the inner wall of the centrifuge bin and located in front of the blood cell detector, the control circuit consists of a control module, a debugging module and an alarming module, and the alarming module is connected with the control module and the alarming module and electrically drives and controls an audible and visual alarm. Modular and multi-channel design is adopted, the system response time is short, processing of abnormal information is timely, and the function is advanced.


The contemporary workplace appears to be a prime source of fear for many Australians. Over the course of the last decade, large-scale workplace change has rendered many workers redundant, leaving them with the problem of working out who they are and what they are to do in the future. I suggest in this article that such changes have increased workers' awareness of time, and that they, either implicitly or explicitly, use this awareness to manage their levels of fear and anxiety. Using empirical material from an in-depth experiential study of a small group of workers who had survived large-scale downsizing, I outline two different kinds of temporal strategy, or ways of manipulating the subjective experience of time, that these workers appear to engage in as a way of minimizing felt levels of fear and anxiety. Whilst these strategies seem to be successful in minimizing the emotional impact of workplace change, some evidence suggests that these strategies as coping mechanisms may, in the longer term, reduce levels of workplace engagement and social connection.


The article in the first part outlines the current discussion of the state of training under cultural intelligence, including definitions and examples of possible interdictions of the bad players. The second part describes the attributes and attitudes of Border Guard and Police officers after cultural intelligence courses, defining and applying the concepts towards internal security with a focus on Cultural Identity, "what makes a person tick." An empirical study consisting of written reports was conducted over a three-year period and compiled to reflect attitudes towards immigration and radicalization in the EU.


This paper presents the application of a combined control strategy grounded in a basic Model Predictive Control (MPC) structure, but using a Discrete Fuzzy Model (DFM) of the process in the state space domain. In order to overcome the drawback of the non-convex optimization problem generated when a non-linear model is used, two methods of optimization are tested. The first one is the traditional sequential method where the model is solved at each iteration before performing the optimization. The second is the simultaneous method, which integrate the solution of the model into the optimization problem, provided the fulfillment of some conditions in the DFM. A particular DFM that fulfill such conditions is presented. The advantages and disadvantages of the two methods are exposed in accordance with the results of simulation tests. Finally, some conclusions and future research topics are given. Author to whom correspondence must be addressed. Av. L. San Martín (O) 1109, 5400. San Juan. República Argentina.


This book and the following volume (1188: Controlled Radical Polymerization: Materials) are addressed to chemists and polymer scientists interested in radical processes, and especially in controlled/living radical polymerization. The chapters in this first volume summarize the most recent advances in the field, including mechanistic, materials, and applications aspects. Controlled/living radical polymerization (CRP) or reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP, as recommended by IUPAC) is among the most rapidly expanding areas of chemistry and polymer science. This first volume provides an overview of the current status of controlled/living radical polymerization (CRP) systems, and also discusses important issues relevant to all radical polymerization methods. The mechanistic and kinetic aspects of ATRP are also covered, as well as more complex mechanisms such as "hybrid" processes. Thirty-seven chapters published in two volumes show that there have been significant developments in CRP over the last 15 years. New systems have been discovered; substantial progress has been achieved in understanding the mechanism and kinetics of reactions involved in all CRP systems. As a result of these advances, significant progress has been made towards developing a comprehensive relationship between molecular structure and macroscopic properties. Several commercial applications of CRP have been announced and it is anticipated that new products made by CRP will soon be on the market.


The development of the livestock sector is of prime importance in Bhutan, where more than 80% of the population is involved in agriculture in some way, but only 8% of the land area is suitable for arable production. As in other parts of the Himalayan region, fodder is a significant limiting factor, and research into fodder development has long been a major component of the government research programme.


For a company in the field of calculating the pricing of the essentials, it is the right and rational thing. This pricing is done with the primary goal for optimal profit. The purpose of this research is to use the full costing method at Roti Pelangi Nusantara Kota Metro Factory.The method used in this research is explanatory survey method. This research type is quantitative research with method of full cost price. Data collection using interviews, and documentation. The analytical tool used is a full cost measurement method.The resulted of the analysis of 25% accurate price obtained cost for full costing method of Rp. 7,250 per pack for the company method of Rp 7,100, the difference between the full costing price with the company method Rp. 150 per pack.Keywords: cost of production method of full costing


At present, lots of software don't have an authorization mechanism for the user's private data, especially the user's private information is often leaked by the application on mobile terminal. This project intends to allow users to manage their own private information. It can remind users when application call sensitive information. It can inform users the kind of information which is called by the manufacturer of the application. It shows the dangerous level of the application which is rendered from our algorithm by chart. And users can control the privacy-access permission of application.


39 Metastasis of melanoma to the distant organs is a multistep process 40 in which the tumor microenvironment (TME) may play an important role. 41 However, the relationship between metastatic progression and TME is 42 intricate. In the present study, using melanoma derivative cell lines OL 43 (oligometastatic) and POL (polymetastatic) that differ in their metastatic 44 colonization capability, we have elucidated a new mechanism involving 45 "SEC23A-PF4-MAPK/ERK axis" in which PF4 transported by COPII 46 hinders metastasis through inhibition of MAPK/ERK signaling pathway. 47 Furthermore, SPARC can act cooperatively to enhance the inhibition of 48 Pf4 on ERK phosphorylation and melanoma cell metastasis. Our findings 49 show the possibility of targeting cancer cell secretome for therapeutic 50 development. 51 52


Photovoltaic systems are widespread renewable energy sources that can be installed at a variety of locations (private houses, residental or nonresidental buildings, factories, warehouses…). Because of their sun dependance, they can provide more than enough energy during the day, but no energy during the night. Having a battery energy storage system can ensure that the excess of energy is stored and used later to avoid selling the energy at low price and then buying the energy at higher price. Not only that a photovoltaic system in a combination with battery energy storage system reduces monthly electricity bill for a consumer, it also contributes to environmental protection in terms of reduced CO2 emissions and increased usage of renewable energy sources. To maximize the contributions while minimizing the price of the installations, this paper introduces a procedure to find the optimal sizing parameters of a photovoltaic and a battery energy storage system for a site.


Objective: By means of investigating the sub-health and sports condition of Chengde university administrative personnel,discuss the relationship between them and provide basis for intervention strategy and measures which proposes for sub-health. Methods: Random sampling. Make questionnaire survey and analyze the sub-health and sports condition of 200 Chengde university administrative personnel. Results: The incidence rate of sub-health of Chengde university administrative personnel is 23. 5%. There is no significant difference in the sub-health incidence between men and women( P 0. 05),different ages( P 0. 05); Through statistical analysis,there is also no significant difference between sub-health incidence and sports time,sports frequency,sports strength( P 0. 05); It is good for keeping normal BMI index and blood pressure by regular exercise. Conclusion: The sub-health incidence of Chengde university administrative personnel is high. There is no significant difference between men and wemen. 40-50 is the ages for high incidence of sub-health. Sports condition can affect the sub-health incidence.


12 Paleoflora studies suggest continental drying associated with the Early Permian deglaciation 13 in southern North America, but not in North China. Both regions occupied tropical latitudes 14 during the Early Permian, but were separated by the Tethys Ocean. To further constrain the 15 tropical paleoclimate conditions during the Early Permian glacial to deglacial transition, we 16 undertook a weathering geochemistry study on Early Permian mudstone and siltstone 17 samples from southeastern North China and evaluated the climate impact on regional 18 weathering patterns. Whole-rock major and trace element geochemistry, and XRD 19 mineralogy data, suggest that sample compositions, and resultant calculated values of most 20 weathering indices, are dominated by chemical weathering from a source akin to the average 21 upper crust of the adjoining southern North China craton. Values of the chemical index of 22 alteration (CIA) and other well-correlated weathering indices, including the index of sodium 23 depletion fraction (τNa), indicate high chemical weathering intensity (e.g., CIA > 80 and τNa < 24 -0.80) in the southern North China craton source region related to intense climate forcing. 25 Based on modern surface weathering data from granitic landscapes, we propose that the 26 dependence of land surface soil chemical weathering intensity on the air temperature can be 27 described by a τNa-MAT (mean annual temperature) transfer function, where humidity control 28 is demonstrated by the consistently high τNa values of surface soils on sites with small annual 29 Manuscript Click here to download Manuscript P11MS-Weathering Geochemistry-2015-10-9.doc


The present invention relates to a method for reducing the area of optical media which are used by the control procedure (OPC) of the optimum writing parameters, and to apparatus for performing such a method. The method utilizes a measurement data pattern written using the reference data pattern written using a reference set of write parameters, and measurement set of write parameters.


Many works that apply Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) use single datasets or train and evaluate the models separately when using multiple datasets. Those datasets are constructed with specific guidelines and the subjective nature of the labels for SER makes it difficult to obtain robust and general models. We investigate how DNNs learn shared representations for different datasets in both multi-task and unified setups. We also analyse how each dataset benefits from others in different combinations of datasets and popular neural network architectures. We show that the longstanding belief of more data resulting in more general models doesn't always hold for SER, as different dataset and meta-parameter combinations hold the best result for each of the analysed datasets.


This research gives a brief discussion on work done in the formation of bioethanol from rice straws using physical and chemical methods. The physical methods include washing, air air drying, cutting, autoclave. The rice straws are cut into fine pieces and washed thoroughly under tap water and then air dried. The chemical methods include pre-treatment and fermentation. The pretreatment is basically done in order to extract the reducing sugarfrom the lignin components of the rice straws by cellulase enzyme obtained from fungus grown over breads. The pre-treatment is done for about 48 hoursunder room temperature. The fermentation is done with the help of yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) in order to extract ethanol from the pre-treated solution.The extracted ethanol was characterized by FT-IR and H NMR analysis. The bioconversion offers a cheap and safe method of disposing agricultural waste and conversion of lignocellulose into ethanol.


Alfven eigenmodes may be important in driving fast particle transport in magnetic confinement fusion devices, with potentially deleterious results. To explain and predict this behaviour, numerical simulations are necessary. In order to predict transport, modes must be simulated through to their nonlinear saturated state. In this work, the first simulations of non-linear wave-particle interaction between an energetic particle population and a Toroidal Alfven Eigenmode are performed in which fluctuations responding self-consistently to modification of the fast particle profile are calculated with gyrokinetic treatment of all plasma species. Results from two such gyrokinetic codes are compared with new results from non-perturbative and perturbative fluid-gyrokinetic hybrid codes. There is a power-law relationship between the saturated magnetic perturbation amplitude, δB∕B0, and the linear mode growth rate, γL. All models show a transition from a higher to a lower exponent regime with increasing γL. Measured ...


Concentrations of gibberellin-like substances and inhibitors were determined in different organs from Iris hollandica cv. Prof. Blaauw during cold treatment and during growth in the greenhouse. Barley-aleurone, dwarf pea and Avena coleoptile straight growth bioassays were used to determine the activity. Developing bulblets contained the highest level of gibberellin activity followed by that in floral organs. During the development of the plants quantitative changes occurred both in the non-acidic, free, and bound pools of gibberellins.

Two kinds of inhibitors, "acidic" and "non-acidic", have been found in the extracts. Most of the non-acidic type were present in the roots. The acidic inhibitors were present in scales and sheath-leaves and disappeared with cold treatment.


As urban populations continue to grow and road traffic congestion worsens, traditional ground logistics has become less efficient. This has led to longer logistics times and increased costs. Therefore, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) logistics has become increasingly popular. However, free-planned routes cannot meet the safety and efficiency requirements of urban airspace mobility. To address this issue, a public air route network for low-altitude logistics UAVs needs to be established in urban areas. This paper proposes a public route network planning method based on the obstacle-based Voronoi diagram and A* algorithm, as follows: Firstly, construct a city airspace grid model in which the characteristics of the airspace are mapped onto the grid map. Introduce an obstacle clustering algorithm based on DBSCAN to generate representative obstacle points as the Voronoi seed nodes. Utilize the Voronoi diagram to establish the initial route network. Then, conduct an improved path planning by employing the A* algorithm for obstacle avoidance in route edges that pass through obstacles. To ensure the safe operation of drones, set constraints on the route safety interval. This process will generate a low-altitude public air route network for urban areas. After considering the flight costs of logistics UAVs at different altitudes, the height for the route network layout is determined. Finally, the route network evaluation indicators are established. The simulation results demonstrate that compared with the city road network planning method and the central radial network planning method, the total route length is shortened by 7.1% and 9%, respectively, the airspace coverage is increased by 9.8% and 35%, respectively, the average network degree is reduced by 52.6% and 212%, respectively, and the average flight time is reduced by 19.4s and 3.7s, respectively. In addition, by solving the network model using the Dijkstra algorithm, when the energy cost and risk cost weights are 0.6 and 0.4, respectively, and the safety interval is taken as 15 m, the total path cost value of the planned trajectory is minimized.


When most authors write about fracture problems, it is usually understood that such problems do not pertain to children's fractures which, in general, have a good reputation for healing quickly and being forgiving of minor variations in management. However, when the term "unsolved fracture" is used to describe hip fractures, no one would exclude children's hip fractures. In reality the problem of hip fractures in children may be even more resistant to solution since they are rare, and thus there is insufficient opportunity to study our treatment and results. Since these fractures are so rare, it also takes a long time to accumulate any meaningful series. An example of how this translates into reality is that there is no large series today consisting of cases that are treated with optimum fixation methods. Despite the problems of hip fracture common to children and adults, it would probably be a mistake to transfer our knowledge gained from adults directly to children, because so many differences do exist (Table 1). Most obvious will be the several anatomic differences between the proximal femur of the child and the adult. As is found in other bones of children, the periosteum of the femoral neck is thicker and stronger than in the adult. This may, in part, explain why approximately 50% of all hip fractures in children remain undisplaced-the bone in


Xplorah is a spatial decision support system. Its adoption by the Puerto Rico Planning Board (PRPB), legally in charge of planning the regional land use and economic development of the Island, sets the stage for formally discussing transportation-land use regional issues in a systematic fashion for the first time in a planning context. The adoption and implementation of the system Xplorah, is a project that started two years ago. Xplorah has a strong land use modeling platform linked to a conventional, simplified four-step urban transportation model, together with demographic and economic models. The project was adopted with the PRPB's leadership expectations for a more informed, integrated and credible decision making process. This has been a major step that has opened a window for institutional transformation and provides an opportunity to change how land use and transportation planning will be advanced in the coming future. This paper outlines the project, its context and lessons learned.


The statistic method in Chinese character frequency study is an important method on measuring the value of Chinese characters.It is also applicable to the standardization of Chinese characters,the Chinese language teaching,the relevant dictionary compiling,the information management in Chinese,and the development of Chinese character theory.However,we have problems in the traditional method:the lack of statistic unit made the outcome difficult to explain,and the corpus error caused it unreasonable.This article hence heads to solve these problems by building up a proper Chinese character form database and a statistical unit system.


Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Theory of Diffusion Through Democratic Mechanisms Chapter 3: How Americans View Foreign Models Chapter 4: National Health Services Across OECD Countries Chapter 5: Health Reforms in the UK, Spain and Greece Chapter 6: Family Policy Diffusion Across OECD Countries Chapter 7: Family Policy Developments in Greece and Spain Chapter 8: Conclusions and Implications Acronym Table


A key component in the usage of Industry 4.0 arrangements is the up and coming age of system network, LTE/LTE advanced today, and 5G, later on. Industry 4.0 is conveying private LTE arranges today, as they trust it will give them an upper hand and a solid head start when 5G opens up. LTE uses multiple input multiple output (MIMO), a promising technique to accomplish the necessary data rate. This article presents consequences of 8x8 MIMO framework in fading channel utilizing V-BLAST by means of zero-forcing (ZF) with standard ZF. The relative investigation in the fading channel on account of symbol error proves V-BLAST by means of ZF has predominant execution than standard ZF finder. In addition to this, in order to support adaptive modulation, various M-QAM modulation schemes for these detectors are compared. This comparison shows 128-QAM performs superiorly to staying two. This investigation is carried out to help utilization of MIMO in LTE to support Industry 4.0.


Results of a Population Center study of the demographic impact and economic implications of the family planning program in Uttar Pradesh are presented. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India (110.8 million population with a 2.5% annual growth rate) and the performance of its family planning program is popularly regarded as discouraging. In the 1971-79 period Uttar Pradesh averaged 23.63/1000 equivalent sterilizations placing it 20th in rank among the 29 states and territories of India. When peak years are excluded however the performance of the state was 1.20-2.39 sterilizations/1000 population. In 1980-81 this rate was 1.33/1000. The cost/birth averted varied extensively but reached Rs. 1696 in 1980-81. Cost-benefit ratios for 1975-76 (considered to be a normal year) in the various districts and divisions of Uttar Pradesh ranged from 1:5 to 1:10 (1:8 for the state as a whole). This cost benefit analysis suggests that the family planning program has been advantageous with savings of Rs. 3000-4000 for every birth averted. Greater commitment to the program on the part of residents will improve the programs performance and the states economy.


By post-Newtonian (PN) expanding the well-known, factorized and resummed, effective-one-body energy flux for circularized binaries, we show that (i) because of the presence of the resummed tail factor, the 4.5PN-accurate tails-of-tails-of-tails contribution to the energy flux recently computed by Marchand et al. [Classical Quantum Gravity 33, 244003 (2016)] is actually contained in the resummed expression; this is also the case of the next-to-leading-order tail-induced spin-orbit term of Marsat et al. [Classical Quantum Gravity 31, 025023 (2014)]; (ii) in performing this expansion, we also obtain, for the first time, the explicit 3.5PN leading-order tail-induced spin-spin flux term; and (iii) pushing the PN expansion of the (nonspinning) EOB flux up to 5.5PN order, we compute 4PN, 5PN, and 5.5PN contributions to the energy flux, though in a form that explicitly depends on, currently unknown, 4PN and 5PN non-test-mass corrections to the factorized waveform amplitudes. Within this (parametrized) 4.5PN accuracy, we calculate the Taylor F2 approximant. Focusing for simplicity on the nonspinning case and using the numerical-relativity calibrated IMRPhenomD waveform model as a benchmark, we demonstrate that it is possible to reproduce the derivative of the IMRPhenomD phase (say up to the frequency of the Schwarzschild last-stable-orbit) by flexing only a 4PN ``effective'' waveform amplitude parameter. A preliminary analysis also illustrates that similar results can be obtained for the spin-aligned case provided only the leading-order spin-orbit and spin-spin terms are kept. Our findings suggest that these types of EOB-derived, parametrized, higher-order, PN approximants may serve as promising tools to construct inspiral-merger-ringdown phenomenological models or even to replace the standardly used 3.5PN-accurate TaylorF2 approximant in searches of small-mass binaries.


The importance of team building and teamwork cannot be over emphasized as more work is increasingly performed in teams. The success of teams can be influenced by the makeup of the team and the working relationship between team members. A group of individuals with the same perceptions and team values can form a more effective team with more effective teamwork activities resulting in more successful outcomes. The purpose of this research is to examine the perceptions of international students on teams and determine if culture is related to their perceptions of teams. The international students in a project management course were surveyed, and the findings suggest significant difference in perception of international students about the importance of team building skills and teamwork.


As mobile nodes frequently switch between FAs, the frequent registration processes are required. It is im- portant to reduce the registration delay for decreasing the packet delay and loss ratio. Taking advantage of the rapid forwarding feature of MPLS, this paper gives a new mobile IP registration method that can reduce the registration de- lay. This method forwards mobile IP signaling messages through signaling LSP between GFA and HA.


Hemangiopericytoma of the bone is a rare malignant tumor, which usually originates in the femur and the pelvic bone of the adult. Hemangiopericytoma is often not a primary tumor but a secondary tumor associated with extraskeletal metastasis. We experienced a case of hemangiopericytoma, which originated from the retroperitoneum and had multiple metastasis to the scapula, proximal femur, cervical spine, and which converted from low grade to high grade.


The critical current density, Jc, of Er0.5Y0.5Ba2Cu3O7-y was investigated in relation to its microstructure. An increase was observed in the Jc of a sintered sample prepared from a mixture of YBa2Cu3O7-y and ErBa2Cu3O7-y with sintering time of up to 10 h at 930°C. The insufficiently sintered sample had a BaCuO2 network in the grain boundaries possibly caused by partial melting of the 1:2:3 compounds. This phase disappeared with increased sintering time, which relates to an endothermic reaction. It is considered that the increase in Jc is due to an increase in the degree of sintering and to the disappearance of the highly resistive phase from the grain boundary.


This paper reports on the effect of solid cylindrical rod diameter and pulse electric current on joule heating for flash graphene methodology from graphite using a finite element method. Thermal and heat flux distribution of graphite rod cells were carefully analyzed and simulated by three-dimensional finite element modeling. Interestingly it was found that the diameter of the graphite and the pulse electric current affected the temperature generation occurring within the graphite. The temperature at the middle point of the graphite was approximately 8.46 % higher than the graphite-copper junction.


The article contains a forecast of the economic trend in Russia in 2020 based on the analysis of consumer and business confidence indices and an assessment of its impact on the level of economic security.