Threats to religious freedom change over time. In the early modern period, the dominant threat was imposed religious orthodoxy. Although the First Amendment religion clauses were a good response to this threat, by the time they were adopted the threat had already receded, to be replaced by a different challenge that we might call democratic disregard. The Sherbert "compelling interest" test was a plausible response to that newer threat, except that by the time Sherbert was decided the problem of democratic disregard had likewise declined. Consequently, the doctrine had little occasion for application, and Smith's rejection of Sherbert was no big deal at the time. Today, though, the most serious threat to religious freedom comes from the cultural and legal ascendency of secular egalitarianism – a development that in many ways parallels the classical phenomenon of imposed religious orthodoxy. The Sherbert doctrine, if it were still in force, might be of some help in protecting religious freedom against the demands of secular egalitarianism. Hence, Smith's repudiation of Sherbert is a more serious loss now than it was at the time.


The bachelor´s thesis is focused on the restoration of a part of a ceiling painting depicting Ascension of Christ. The painting is located in the chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows in a part of Broumov called Olivětin. There were two layers of paintings from different periods of time. The original painting from the Baroque period (from the 18th century) was restored and it is probably executed by Josef Hager(17261781). During the restoration the painting from the 19th centurywas removed, which is probably created by the painter Adolf Tinzmann (sen./jun.) The thesis is composed of restoration research and documentation of the treatment, which is complemented with photographic, graphical and textual supplement. An extended chapter of thethesis deals with the author of the overpainting from the 19th century by Adolf Tinzmann (sen./jun.). It contains biographical data of the painters and documentation of other discoveredexecutions and their state of preservation.


Use  of  faunal  wealth  for medicinal  purposes  have  been  employed  since  dawn  of civilization  for protecting  life of man  by combating  various  ailments.  Ancient  tribal  societies  around  the  world  have  learned  to utilize  their neighbourhood  wealth  for  curative  as  well  as  offensi ve  purposes.  The  knowledge  developed  in  their  human laboratori es  through  ce ntury's  perfe ctly  documented  from  generation   to  gene ration  as  domestic  practi ces. The  present  investigation  deals  with  study  of  ethnomedicinal   use  of  Mutella  occidentales  an  insect  from  order hemipte ra.


The dispersion characteristic for a microstrip line on an isotropic magnetic substrate is calculated by the t.l.m. method. The results indicate how errors obtained using approximate TEM analysis vary with frequency. The results also serve to demonstrate the versatility of the 3-dimensional t.l.m. program.


A Gabor filtering method for texture based classification of color images is presented. The algorithm is robust and can be used with different color representations. It involves a filter selection process based on texture smoothness. Unichannel and interchannel correlation features are computed. Two types of color representations have been considered: (1) computing chromaticity values from xyY, HIS and RGB spaces and (2) using the 3 channels of the perceptually uniform color spaces L*a*b* and HSV. The RGB space universally used in image processing can be used for colortexture based classification by computing the rgb chromaticity values which yield higher classification accuracies than the direct use of R, G and B values. Computationally the Gabor method is fast and efficient.


Objectives In a national perspective, to describe survival among patients found in ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia witnessed by a bystander and with a presumed cardiac aetiology and answer two principal questions: (1) what are the changes over time? and (2) which are the factors of


Although my two epigraphs are not from plays or even from critical writings about the theatre, I think that they proffer significant critical currency for this special issue on rethinking the real. Speaking in the voice of a fictive visual artist, Henry James in 1892 makes a strong case, I would argue, for the power of theatre. James's artist inverts the conventional relationship between the real and representational by claiming that the real was not enough, that the real was the site of falsity and that he as a result preferred the represented subject. Correspondingly, in the world of the theatre, the real constantly proves insufficient or at the very least ambiguous. We must continuously reimagine what constitutes the real and negotiate how we understand the real through representation. In the theatre, as in the James quote, it is ironically through "appearance" that we are made sure, that we can reach for more profound meanings. In our postmodern age when appearance has become valued as all the more substantive and phrases such as "keeping it real" have become the vogue, the James quote is remarkably prescient. While James values appearance, "being," the Sartre quote puts the emphasis on the doing and performance is just that: a doing and a thing done. Performance, as it is often understood, functions as representation without reproduction. Its actual doing is what produces the "reality" of performance. Always at issue in the active engagement of performance is how we sight and cite the real. Consequently, what these quotes suggest and what the five papers contained in this issue contest is this relationship between the real and the representational. In diverse ways, they consider how the real is particularly staked out and historically situated. Collectively they reveal ways in which the real and the representational are mutually constitutive.


Evaporation is a dynamic and nonlinear process that incorporates various internal transport mechanisms which is important in the unsaturated zone in arid regions under low soil moisture conditions [1, 2]. The governing equations are formed out of the coupled Richards equation with the heat transport equation, where the boundary conditions originate from the surface energy balance. The purpose of this contribution is to present a numerical model simulating coupled water and heat flow in a porous medium with phase changes due to evaporation. The nonlinear nature of this problem, which originates both from the nonlinear Richards equation and latent heat exchange, which in turn governs the heat gradient, requires a proper temporal discretization in order to maintain numerical solution of sufficient qualities. The net evaporation rate is temperature and water content dependent, where the heat transferred downward by thermal conduction into the soil when the soil surface is warming by solar radiation or conducted back to the surface when the temperature of the top of the soil cools. Evaporation rates from terrestrial surfaces are very common to quantify in terms of energy flow leaving the evaporating surface as latent heat of vaporization of the water vapor. In this contribution, it is presented a numerical implementation of this coupled dynamic process and describes the computational difficulties which arise from this nonlinear process, including a numerical comparison between the common approach for evaluating evaporation in soils by using the Penman-Monteith [3] equation and the coupled water and heat flow modeling approach.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the modification of medical attention around the world, to reserve the greatest amount of resources for the treatment of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection Urology departments, just like the rest of the surgical services, have had to adapt to this situation, reducing the medical attention given to different illnesses and only selecting and attending to emergency consultations, procedures, and surgeries, or to oncologic maladies that cannot be postponed The aim of the present review was to make recommendations regarding outpatient consultation anagement and the correct selection of surgeries and procedures The postponement of the majority of non-urgent procedures should continue until the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled in Mexico


Objective To observe the pathologic morphology characteristics of basal like breast cancer carcinoma(BLBC),and to discuss the correlation of immune phenotype and molecular detection of BLBC.Methods All of 177 cases of BLBC were observed underwent morphological observation and immunohistochemical detection of EGFR,CK5/6,Then 10 cases were selected to detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization(FISH).Results The morphology of BLBC was nest schistose arrangement,no glandular tube formation,Mostly the advancing edge,map necrosis,mitotic activity,histology of almost all Ⅲ,and the immune phenotypes of blbc was ER,PR and C-erbB-2 negative,EGFR and/or CK5/6 positive;EGFR gene amplification were associated with higher lymph node metastasis(P0.05).Conclusion BLBC is a popular new subtype of breast carcinoma in recent years,with unique histologic features,immunohistochemical and molecular biological characteristics,and it has gained more and more attention and recognition.


If there exist efficient procedures (canonizers) for reducing terms of two first-order theories to canonical form, can one use them to construct such a procedure for terms of the disjoint union of ...


In this study, we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to predict the thermodynamics, structural, and transport characteristics of liquid para-hydrogen (para-H[Formula: see text] over a wide temperature range. The Feynman–Hibbs (FH) technique employs Lennard-Jones pair potentials (LJ) which are enhanced by quantum modifications to describe molecular interactions. Results retain the FH's structural, thermodynamics and transport properties, and the classical LJ models (the radial distribution function, total energy, pressure, potential energy, enthalpy, diffusion coefficient, and shear viscosity). The datasets included in the paper were also considered, along with the experimental data collected, where possible. This work shows that for liquid para-H2, FH approach integrated to classical MD simulation, including quantum corrections yields an excellent accordance with the experimental findings. The FH potential improves concordance with the shear viscosity and diffusion coefficient values, as demonstrated by the results. With greater accuracy to experimental data, the FH Molecular Dynamics approach (FHMD) predicts such values.


Operator peace-of-mind during Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) missions is dependent on the ability to localize the vehicle. During launch and recovery phases this capability is particularly important. Defence R&D Canada (DRDC) Atlantic has designed and built a long-range tracking system for the International Submarine Engineering Explorer class AUVs. The acoustic tracking system (ATS) enables an operator on a loud icebreaker platform to determine the position of the AUVs at ranges up to 30 km. An acoustic projector, mounted on the AUV, emits a hyperbolic frequency modulated (HFM) chirp at a preset time interval. A small, directional, acoustic receiving array mounted near the stern of the icebreaker, accurately synchronized with the remote projector, receives signals from the distant AUV. Matched filter processing is used to determine the time of flight of the transmitted chirp. A beamforming algorithm applied to the data provides bearing and elevation angle estimates for the received signals. A ray tr...


When discussing embolization of endoleaks, we refer to the management of type II endoleaks, which are usually only treated in the setting of aneurysm sac expansion. However, on occasion, undefined endoleaks may be approached in this way, where sometimes assumptions have to be made about the precise origin of an endoleak. Embolization may be performed using transarterial, transcaval, or direct percutaneous routes. . Occasionally, a transarterial and parastent approach might be considered. The specific embolization technique depends predominantly on the anatomy of the feeding arteries, plus the precise site and nature of the leak. Transarterial embolization of the dominant feeding vessel is the most commonly employed approach. This technique requires a navigable route from the vessel origin via collaterals to the feeding vessel and endoleak cavity. The technical success of this approach is limited if the responsible feeding vessel cannot be cannulated or if a viable path to the endoleak cavity cannot be found. One of the most common problems encountered is a type II endoleak from the inferior mesenteric artery (IMA). Retrograde filling from the IMA can usually be treated by catheterizing the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and navigating through the arc of Riolan or other middle colic and marginal artery branches (Figure 1). This technique is generally performed using a femoral access, although an upper extremity access can be used for challenging anatomic cases. A long access sheath (6 F, 45 cm) is placed with its tip just below the origin of the SMA. A reverse-shape, curved catheter is used to engage the SMA, and angiography is performed to confirm filling of the endoleak cavity and provide an arterial map for access to the cavity. Over a wire, the parent catheter is advanced as far as possible into the middle colic artery before a microcatheter is used to negotiate through the arterio-arterial anastomosis and into the IMA and Robert Morgan, MBChB, MRCP, FRCR, EBIR Departments of Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology St George's University Hospital London, United Kingdom firstname.lastname@example.com Disclosures: None.


According to the demands of fully mechanized coal mining automation, the paper selected EBZ series cantilever roadheader as the study object, and used CAN bus as the communication means. And then, it designed an online monitoring system for EBZ roadheader, and introduced the general design scheme of the system, analyzed the selection of system hardware, hardware and circuit design, software design and the methods of controlling the swing speed of the cutting arm. The application of the system showed the reliability, automation level and productivity of the roadheader effectively enhanced.


Purpose – The purpose of this article is to address the question of what it means to be critical in relationship to international business.Design/methodology/approach – Explores the underlying assumptions and objectives in the debates involving international business and trade.Findings – The emotional aspects of the debate have resulted in obscuring the objectives and underlying assumptions of those involved in the discussions. It is proposed that the underlying assumptions are reevaluated and there is a refocusing of objectives in order to produce more productive results from being critical of international business. The debate should resume with an acceptance of well established principles supported by decades of empirical research and history by all parties and the debate should focus on the actual practices of international businesses in an attempt to make international trade work for all rather than attacking international business as an institution.Originality/value – Explores the overlooked underly...


Background: Long-acting opioid formulations are advocated for maintaining pain control in chronic cancer pain. OROS ® hydromorphone is a sustained-release formulation of hydromorphone that requires dosing once daily to maintain therapeutic concentrations. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the clinical equivalence of immediate-release and sustained-release formulations of hydromorphone and morphine for chronic cancer pain. Methods: 200 patients with cancer pain (requiring ≤ 540 mg/d of oral morphine) participated in this double-blind, parallel-group trial. Patients were randomized to receive hydromorphone or morphine (immediate-release for 2–9 days, sustained-release for 10–15 days). Efficacy was assessed with the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), investigator and patient global evaluations, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, and the Mini-Mental State Examination. The primary endpoint was the 'worst pain in the past24hours' item ofthe BPI,inboth the immediate-releaseandsustained-release studyphases, with treatments deemed equivalent if the 95% confidence intervals (CI) of the between-group differences at endpoint were between 1.5 and 1.5. No equivalence limits were defined for secondary endpoints. Results: Least-squares mean differences (95% CI) between groups were 0.2 (0.4, 0.9) in the immediate-release phase and 0.8 (1.6, 0.01) in the sustained-release phase (intent-to-treat population),indicatingthattheimmediate-releaseformulationsmetthepre-specifiedequivalencecriteria, but that the lower limit of the 95% CI (1.6) was outside the boundary (1.5) for the sustained-release formulations. BPI 'pain now PM' was significantly lower with OROS ® hydromorphone compared with controlled-release morphine(least-squares mean difference [95%CI],0.77[-1.49,0.05];p= 0.0372). Scoresforothersecondaryefficacyvariablesweresimilarbetweenthetwosustained-releasetreatments. At endpoint, > 70% of investigators and patients rated both treatments as good to excellent. The safety profiles of hydromorphone and morphine were similar and typical of opioid analgesics. Conclusion: Equivalence was demonstrated for immediate-release formulations of hydromorphone and morphine, but not for the sustained-release formulations of OROS ® hydromorphone and controlled-release morphine. The direction of the mean difference between the treatments (0.8) and the out-of-range lower limit of the 95% CI (1.6) were in favor of OROS ® hydromorphone. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT0041054


The nuclear data required for the production and endotherapeutic application of radionuclides are outlined. The three types of therapeutic radionuclides, viz. β--emitters, α-emitters and Auger electron emitters, are considered and the role of some β+-emitters in therapy planning is discussed. The status of available data is reviewed.


The eld of Arti cial Intelligence (AI) is currently undergoing a transition. While in the eighties, rule-based and logical representations were the representation of choice in the majority of AI systems, in recent years various researchers have explored alternative representational frameworks, which emphasis on frameworks that enable systems to represent and handle uncertainty. Out of those, probabilistic methods (and speci cally Bayesian methods) have probably been analyzed most thoroughly and applied most successfully in a variety of problem domains.


Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is a potentially lethal, tick‐transmitted infection caused by the obligately intracellular bacterium Ehrlichia chaffeensis. C57BL/6 mice model severe HME when infected with Ixodes ovatus Ehrlichia (IOE); they succumb to a toxic‐shock like syndrome mediated in part by TNF and CD8+ T cells and characterized by lymphopenia and by liver apoptosis and necrosis. CD4+ T cells mediate a protective IFN‐γresponse. The aim of this study was to compare the contribution of NK cells to that of T cells in the pathogenesis of ehrlichiosis. Flow cytometry was used to track splenic NK cells (NK1.1+, CD3−), NKT cells (NK1.1+, CD3+), T cells (CD3+, NK1.1−) and monocytes (CD11b+, NK1.1−) over the course of disease; these populations failed to expand but rather contracted before the animals' death. Furthermore, splenic NK cells produced more IFN‐γ, TNF, granzyme B and Fas than did NKT or T cells. We depleted NK cells with anti‐asialo GM1 immune serum and observed reduced serum concentrations of IFN‐γ, TNF, and IL‐10 by ELISA, lower bacterial burdens in the spleen, liver, and lung by real‐time PCR, and attenuated liver injury by histopathology. Our data indicate that NK cells, rather than T cells, are the dominant contributors to the pathogenic immune response against IOE infection.


During this modern world,the fireplace is a marvel of invisible technology.We can build a"fire"without building a real fire,or we can just simply push a batten.Only recently,and in the comfortable home,has building a fire been so simple.As the title connote,Jack London's 1908 short story that mentions a man's travel in the Yukon.It also contains the man how to build a fire in sequential directions.The whole story is setting in an exceedingly cold day."Fifty below zero"is a temperature


The 1079 literary inquisition against Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101), known as the Wutai shi'an 烏臺詩案, or "Crow Terrace Poetry Case," has been of enormous interest to students of Song literary and cultural history. Many aspects of the case, especially, the political motivation and significance of the inquisition, the legal issues involved and judicial procedures followed in it, and the case's general literary profile and its impact on Su Shi as a writer, have received extensive examination.1 The rich literary interpretive and hermeneutical consequences and implications of the case, however, although they have been variously touched upon in existent scholarship, remain to be fully explored. This article is devoted exclusively to exploring the case's complicated literary interpretive and hermeneutical landscape. Since the establishment, proceedings, and final resolution of the case all centered upon the key issue


Pulmonary Embolism (PE) presents a spectrum of hemodynamic consequences, ranging from being asymptomatic to a life-threatening medical emergency. Risk factors of PE are usually related to one or more dimensions of Virchow triad: vessel's walls damage, stasis of the blood and states of increased coagulability. Some common examples of risk factors are genetic or acquired predisposition to blood clots formation, immobilization, hormonal contraception, pregnancy, obesity, increased age, malignancy, recent trauma or surgery. Although cases of PE in otherwise healthy athletes were described in the literature, vigorous physical exercise per se is not usually considered as a risk factor for PE. Here we describe a case of PE in an otherwise healthy woman, where excessive physical exercising appears to be a sole risk factor that could explain the development of venous thromboembolic disease.


This article presents the results of the research on parental labeling of gifted children in early school age. The narratives of the parents were acquired in the interviews. Results were analyzed in terms of the meanings they gave to concepts such as giftedness, abilities, talents, and also in terms of the parental descriptions of children's predispositions.


Wodiczko outlines a proposal for the Homeless Projection; Evans-Clark considers the mythical allusions in Sterbak's work. Includes a brief description of Peacock's 1984 videos "Pie Y Cafe" and "Wallace Plus Theresa." Biographical notes. 11 bibl. ref.


Problems of anthropology of time in all difficult variety of its expression in diachronic-synchronic and spatial-time measurements in the light of modern representations about consciousness and mentality of the man, physical and anthropological space and time are analyzed. For explanation of essence of the man in the changed conditions of consciousness the hypothesis (using reconstructed doctrines F. Seassure, M. Bakhtin and K. Levi-Stros) is used.


In response to problems of political short-termism and time inconsistency, over the last decades a diversity of institutional reforms have been enacted and proposals have been advanced to enlarge the time horizon of political decisions, improve their time consistency, and better take into account the interests of future generations. This paper is a contribution to the normative analysis of such institutions. It mainly aims at examining their ability to cope with the 68 Inigo Gonzalez-Ricoy plurality of determinants of short-termism and time inconsistency. To this aim, and after an introduction, I present the intertemporal problems that these institutions seek to address. A sample of such institutions is displayed next. They are organized by the types of mechanisms they employ as well as by their degree of independence, competencies, types of powers, and the extent of the mandate to which they are subject. Finally, the institutions previously introduced are assessed by their ability to cope with the motivational, epistemic, and institutional determinants of such problems.


The Plutonium Immobilization Project (PIP) is a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop technology to disposition excess weapons grade plutonium. This program introduces the ''Can-in-Canister'' (CIC) technology that immobilizes the plutonium by encapsulating it in ceramic forms (or pucks) and ultimately surrounding it with high-level waste glass to provide a deterrent to recovery. Since there are significant radiation, contamination and security concerns, the project team is developing unique technologies to remotely perform plutonium immobilization tasks. This paper covers the design, development and testing of the magazines (cylinders containing cans of ceramic pucks) and the rack that holds them in place inside the waste glass canister. Several magazine and rack concepts were evaluated to produce a design that gives the optimal balance between resistance to thermal degradation and facilitation of remote handling. This paper also reviews the effort to develop a jointed arm robot that can remotely load seven magazines into defined locations inside a stationary canister working only through the 4 inch (102 mm) diameter canister throat.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the spillover effects of marketing expertise on the market performance of domestic firms and multinational enterprises (MNEs). Specifically, this study examines how the adoption of frequency loyalty programs by a domestic firm following an MNE affects the competitive dynamics and the market performance of both firms in a Chinese retail gasoline market. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on empirical data that were obtained from a quasi-field experiment in which the MNE entered the market with a frequency loyalty program and the domestic firm later responded with a similar loyalty program. The authors measured the impact of the adoption of a frequency loyalty program by the domestic firm on the market performance of both the domestic firm and the MNE. Findings – The authors find that the domestic firm's adoption of a similar loyalty program significantly increased its market share in the regular gasoline market. The domestic firm's adoption of ...


Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, is able to exist both in environmental conditions (soil) and in the macroorganism. The manifestation of pathogenic properties of B. anthracis strains is determined by relevant plasmid composition, because the main toxin and the capsule-related virulence factors are located in bacterial plasmid. Modeling anthrax infection in vitro in macrophage culture might reveal an influence of individual B. anthracis strain characteristics on infection and development of infectious process. The aim of this study was to analyze cytokine level during infection of in vitro macrophage cell cultures with spores of anthrax microbe strains bearing varying plasmid composition. The dependence of the macrophage cell cytokine profile on the plasmid composition of B. anthracis strains was revealed while modeling anthrax infection in vitro. The presence of the toxin-producing plasmid pXO1 in anthrax microbe strains has a powerful stimulating effect on the production of macrophages J774A cell line cytokines. B. anthracis strains lacking the pXO1 plasmid virtually stimulated no production of IL-1, caused very low secretion of IL-1, IL-6, MCP-1, MIP-1, MIP-1, IL-12 (p70) and active G-CSF products. The low cytokine response of macrophage cells infected with monoplasmid strains bearing only the capsule-forming plasmid was due not only to the absence of a binary toxin, but also to disturbed regulation of capsule production associated with the absence of the atxA gene. The capsule, along with lethal and edematous toxins, belongs to the main virulence factors of B. anthracis, but strains lacking the pXO1 virulence plasmid, had its production impaired, because the main regulator of capsule synthesis is the atxA gene localized on the pXO1 plasmid being positively regulated by the acpA and acpB genes, so that strains lacking the toxin-forming plasmid, even in the presence of the encapsulation plasmid, elicit a weak cytokine response in infected cells. Diplasmid strains of B. anthracis, due to produced main virulence factors a two-component toxin and a capsule, enforce macrophages (in the experiment) to actively produce IL-1, IL-6, MCP-1, G-CSF, MIP-1; MIP-1, IL-12 (p70). Strains with moderate virulence and capable of capsulation in air virtually did not differ from highly virulent strains in terms of their effect on in vitro macrophage culture.


The general stiffness of an underactuated finger as seen from the actuator is a function of its internal compliant elements, such as springs, but also depends on its geometry. In this paper, a complete stiffness analysis of a general underactuated finger is presented. The objective is to shed light on important aspects to consider while designing underactuated fingers and how to take advantage of the finger's stiffness during grasping, for instance in order to estimate information such as contact location and force magnitude. This is done using the instantaneous-stiffness plane of the finger introduced in this paper. This plane shows the relationship between the finger's geometry and its instantaneous stiffness and how simple changes in geometrical parameters can have significant effects on the finger's stiffness. This novel tool can be used for a wide range of underactuated finger architectures as will be shown. First, a theoretical framework including numerical simulations is presented. This is then followed by an optimization example of a finger's geometry and a discussion.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


In 1985, Robert Bellah and his co-authors published the first edition of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. It was an instant classic—a profound cultural analysis of American individualism and a sophisticated moral Jeremiad against its destructive consequences. The problem, as they identified it, was not the presence of individualism in American culture, but its growing tyranny over the moral imagination of the American people. Their remedy was to strengthen other significant, yet neglected, strands of the American cultural conversation, including, especially, its biblical and republican heritage. American social life and democratic public discourse required, they proposed, a richer, more communally oriented set of moral resources than individualism alone could provide. Over a quarter century later, William F. May's Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics makes a similar argument in a different historical context. In fact, May's volume can be seen, in style and substance, as an heir to that classic work. Testing the National Covenant is a profound theological and moral Jeremiad against possessive individualism and social contract liberalism. Like Habits of the Heart, it does not so much propose to eliminate individualism from the American cultural consciousness—as though that were even possible—but to point out its moral insufficiency and restrain its hegemonic pretensions. And also like Habits of the Heart, May's volume enriches the moral


P255 MODELING ELASTIC MODULI OF DANIAN NORTH SEA CHALK FROM PETROGRAPHIC DATA IDA LYKKE FABRICIUS 1 CHRISTIAN HOIER 2 and UFFE KORSBECH 3 Abstract 1 1 E&R DTU Kgs Lyngby Denmark EAGE 65th Conference & Exhibition — Stavanger Norway 2 - 5 June 2003 2 GEUS 3 Orsted DTU In impure chalk the elastic moduli is not only controlled by porosity but also by cementation resulting in relatively large moduli and by admixtures of clay and fine silica which results in relatively small moduli. Based on a concept of framebuilding contra suspended solids we model P-wave and S-wave moduli of


Composites of potato protein (PP) to potato starch (PS) weight ratios of 1:0.5, 1:1, 1:3 and 1:7, and their thermal-induced (90 C for 20 min) gels were prepared, and the calorimetric, rheological and structural properties were investigated. Data of ΔH (heat of phase transition) were close to ΔHPP-PS composite indicating that PP and PS underwent phase transitions independently during thermal treatment of PP–PS composites. The onset of gelation (Tgel) increased from 57.9 C to 61.9 C, it and became hard to identify as the PP content increased, indicating that PS was formed a gel more easily than PP. The decrease of the degree of dependence of G′ on frequency sweep (z′) from 0.20 to 0.08 with the increase of the strength of molecular interactions (K) from 1.49 to 2.22 indicated that the physical interactions in PP–PS gels decreased but the covalent interactions and the strengths of the gels increased as the PP content increased. Potato starch prevented the thermal induced secondary structural changes of PP, and a more uniform network structure was formed in the PP–PS gels as the PS content increased. Thus, by adjusting the ratios of PP and PS, the quality of PP–PS gels could be enhanced.


Banks play an important role in the development of a country. A financial crisis in 2008 led policymak ers to think about regulation of banking system and adopt polici es to reduce the level of risk in the sector. BASEL committee on banking supervision was formed as a primary global st ndard setter for the prudential regulation of ba nks. This committee laid its first regulatory norms in the year 1988 te rmed as BASEL accord, which is a set of three regul ations (Basel -1,2 and 3). This paper is an attempt to measure the level o f compliance of BASEL norms in India. Top 10 banks according to market capitalization and profitability are taken a s sample and the extent to which the banks complied with BASEL norms is studied. Research limitation and implications-This research have considered only quantitative information for understanding the compliance of BASEL in Indian Ban ks and qualitative aspects like process and systems in banking is not taken into consideration. This research will help i n understanding the level of Compliance and result development of suitable guidelines.


To take advantage of existing opportunities in a market of global competition and rapid changes, firms try to adapt their strategy by introducing new or improved innovation types. While there is a large body of literature investigating the relationship between innovation and performance, there is a need to further analyze the role of innovation type on performance, especially in SMEs. Using a scoping review approach, this study aims to evaluate the influence of innovation types on firm performance in SMEs. A total of 47 studies were selected to examine the correlation between innovation type and performance, and identify the key factors that strongly impact the firm growth per industry. Findings demonstrate the difference in innovation impact according to the targeted industrial sector and show which type could be more beneficial to enhance firm performance. In the most studied industries, results reveal that product innovation influences strongly firm performance in the manufacturing sector, while marketing and product innovation are the variables that most impact the growth of agro-food firms. Similarly, organizational and product innovation affect highly firm improvement in the manufacturing and service sectors. This study helps managers in their struggle to obtain growth by targeting the most appropriate dimensions of innovation and helps policy makers by making decisions that stimulate firm development.


Military avionics applications require the high reliability, which offers the challenge to design feasible avionics fiber-optic (AFO) data buses. In this paper, we present the new design methods to implement the highly reliable AFO data buses by using today's mature optoelectronic devices. To effective solve the problems associated with optical power budget and high reliability, the active-coupler architectures for both single-wavelength and multi- wavelength AFO data buses are proposed. The topologies are discussed in detail. To ensure the high-reliability data transmission on the buses, three efficient modulation techniques are presented, which can significantly reduce the complexity of optical transceivers and the processing time at receivers compared to using the modulation scheme recommended by the MIL-STD-1773. The hardware design of the proposed active-coupler-based AFO data buses is also described.


Phase shifter using BST thin films is attracting more and more attention thanks to advantages of low-cost, fast-response, wide frequency band, small size and easy to control. In this thesis, a new phase shifter which can achieve large phase-shift and low insert loss has been proposed based on the research of the design model. And this new design has been verified by ADS simulating.


Objective: In this paper, we investigate the bibliographic production on executive compensation and return to shareholders in the Brazilian and international scenarios, aiming to constitute a theoretical basis for the development of empirical research involving the theme. We chose the research by Jensen and Murphy (1990) as the starting point of the discussions on the subject.

 Method: Descriptive study with a bibliometric design. The elaboration of the research was was based on keyword searches through EndNote™ and SPELL - Scientific Electronic Library Periodicals, maintained in Brazil by ANPAD ("Associacao Nacional de Pos-Graduacao e Pesquisa em Administracao"), as follows: i) Executive Compensation; ii) CEO Compensation; iii) Company performance, combined with the word Compensation and the corresponding terms in Portuguese in the Brazilian database.

 Results: The main studies published focus on the North American and British scenarios, especially professors Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University), Kevin M. Murphy (University of Southern California) and Martin J. Conyon (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Jensen participated in the study that marked the discussion on the agency problem (Jensen & Meckling, 1976). Murphy conducts research on the theme beginning in the 1980s, on the North American scenario, a period that also marks the beginning of Professor Conyon's studies, who focused on the British scenario. The three authors are a reference on the subject and, based on this highlight, studies were developed in other economic scenarios, such as Canada, Germany and most recently China. Contributions: We believe that the findings presented contribute to the development of new empirical studies, especially in countries where the issue is in full development or in areas where the interest in the subject emerges, adding these variables to contribute to a further understanding of the agency problem.


Alumnium alloy LM 25 based composites reinforced with boron carbide at different weight fractions of 4%, 8%, and 12% were fabricated by stir casting technique. The microstructures and morphology of the fabricated composites were studied by scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy. Elemental mapping of all fabricated composites were done to demonstrate the elements present in the matrix and fabricated composites. The results of microstructural analyses reveal homogenous dispersion of reinforcement particles in the matrix with some little amount of clustering found in composites reinforced with 12% wt. of boron carbide. The mechanical characterization is done for both alloy LM 25 and all fabricated composites based on hardness and tensile strength. The hardness increased from 13.6% to 21.31% and tensile strength 6.4% to 22.8% as reinforcement percentage of boron carbide particles increased from 0% to 12% wt. A fractured surface mapping was also done for all composites.


Quality of Service is a valuable working resource for telecommunication engineers charged with solving the problem of how to handle the exploding volume of traffic on their companies' networks. The authors explore the roots of the current network traffic control crisis & they provide a realistic assessment of the gamut of standard, new, & emerging QoS/CoS technologies. They consider all crucial, design, cost, & support issues surrounding QoS deployment for all types of networks, including intranets & multimedia networks. & they provide a rational framework for finding the most cost-effective QoS/CoS solutions. This book also focuses on IP & MPLS technologies & routing protocols. Internet architecture & problems in an IP networks are illustrated when different internet protocols are used. Evaluation of QoS guarantee parameters such as delay, jitter & throughput are described with state of art study results mainly for real time applications in IP & MPLS networks. Key technical issues covered include queuing disciplines, traffic shaping, & admission control techniques, MPLS TE implementation & working, Frame Relay & ATM technologies, Integrated Services Architecture & RSVP.


Stackelberg strategies with closed-loop information structure are well known to be delicate to design in general. Nevertheless when they are restricted to the case of memoryless ones, that is when the controls are function of the time and the current state, then they are strongly time consistent. Due to this property, it is possible to compute step by step backward in time the value functions associated with the Stackelberg equilibrium. A new method, using a matrix block formulation is provided here to facilitate this numerical computation. An example illustrates this method.


The present invention relates to a device for gripping that is applied to a vacuum transfer system. The device of the present invention comprises a supply passage connected from the lower end of a side surface of a main body having a central discharging passage toward a suction hole of the lower end of said discharging passage. In particular, an air guide for moving compressed air only upward from the discharging passage by providing a rounded end (R) of said supply passage is provided in the lower portion of the main body. Thus, even a small amount of unnecessary flow of the compressed air toward a lower pad part may not occur. As a result, an object may be quickly and efficiently absorbed.


GPS/GSM collars were fitted to females in two sable antelope herds occupying adjoining home ranges in the Kruger National Park in order to establish their movement responses to seasonally changing resource availability. This investigation formed part of a larger study aimed at identifying the factors responsible for the substantial population declines by this and other rarer antelope species in the protected area. To indicate responses to stressful periods during the seasonal cycle, we used the following measures: (a) proportion of locations outside the home range core, (b) displacement distances from day to day in foraging locations, and (c) extent of movement at night versus during daylight. Movements beyond the home range core were affected by excursions to water as well as foraging locations. When food and water availability became restricted during the dry season, one herd extended its range well beyond the core region favored during the wet season, while the other herd concentrated its space use mor...


Objective To analyze the cost-effectiveness of hepatitis B vaccine to newborns for 10 years and provide evidence for strategy of hepatitis B vaccination in Guangdong province.Methods Collected and analyzed the data of hepatitis B vaccination rate of newborns from 1992 to 2002,hepatitis B incidence rate and incidence of HBsAg carriers of children aged 1-9 in 1992 and 2002 in Guangdong province. (Results) The HBsAg carrier,HBV positive case,acute or chronic hepatitis B patient,hepatocirrhosis patient and hepatoma patient were reduced in the amount of(1 417 958),(5 334 000),(95 003),(354 490),(42 539) and(1 418) respectively by 10 years vaccination of hepatitis B to newborns.It brought about(11 119) million RMB direct benefits as well.The ratio of cost by benefit was(1∶42).Conclusion The implementation of Hepatitis B vaccination to newborns was the most cost-effective measure to control hepatitis B.


The immunological status of the respiratory tract is critical to racehorses' performance. Respiratory diseases in young Thoroughbred (TB) racehorses are a major concern during their early athletic career. This study investigated the airway adaptations occurring in young TB race horses during their first year of race training. Eighteen animals were evaluated at five different time points over a one-year follow-up period. A physical examination was performed, followed by airway endoscopy, in which tracheal mucus (TM) and pharyngeal lymphoid hyperplasia (PLH) were observed. Differential cytology of the tracheal wash (TW) was also performed. The physical parameters in the five assessments and TM grade did not vary. The PLH grade was lower at time-points 3 (T3) and 4 (T4) than at the initial evaluation (T0) (P=0.028 and P=0.036, respectively). The cytological analysis revealed that neutrophil count decreased at T4 as compared with T0 (P=0.022). Epithelial cell count was increased, and macrophage count decreased, at T3 and T4, compared with T0 (P=0.004 and P=0.031, respectively). Haemosiderophage count was higher at T1 (P=0.020) and lower at T2 (P=0.003), compared to T0. A statistical correlation between mucus and all cell types was found, showing a non-specific immune response. In conclusion, young TB racehorses underwent airway modifications during the initial months of race training, and a thorough follow-up is needed during the initial period after stabling.


After analyzing the data for forest fires,the paper proposes ways to apply the survey results of the forest resources planning.


Of the research entitled Designing a pedagogical strategy based on body language to develop emotional awareness in preschool children of the educational institution Jose Joaquin Casas Chia. Based on a qualitative methodological approach, a type of hermeneutic phenomenological research was chosen and structured in three phases: diagnosis, design, and evaluation. As results, it is found that through corporal expression the body has ceased to be a mechanism of violence to be a mediator of coexistence. Body contact between the children went from being aggressive to being conciliatory. Children understood that emotions are inevitable and are found in almost all situations in life, but now find other ways to address them, such as lean on their peers, and talk or ask for help from the teacher.


This paper presents a system which analyzes an input text syntactically and morphologically and converts the text from the graphemic to the phonetic representation (or vice versa). We describe the grammar formalism used and report a parsing experiment which compared eight parsing strategies within the framework of chart parsing. Although the morphological and syntactic analyzer has been developed for a text-to-speech system for German, it is language independent and general enough to be used for dialog systems, NL-interfaces or speech recognition systems.


In a rechargeable lithium generator comprising inter alia a lithium anode, a cathode reducible lithium ion linked with a polymer, and a polymer electrolyte are introduced or potassium ions at the cathode, or at the electrolyte, or both, so that potassium is distributed in the cathode and in the electrolyte when the generator is at equilibrium. It thus stabilizes the performance of the generator during cycling, the level of energy and power.


the reader with the desire to see it revised and more fully elucidated. A special word is in order on the author's style. His prose—as is well known to the multitudes of the readers of his Story of Art as well as of his less 'popular' books such as Art and Illusion and of essays such as the collected Meditations on a Hobby Horse—is of a masterly fluency and lucidity, and it is no wonder (though an extraordinary event) that Mr. Gombrich, a native of Vienna, has recently been honored with a coveted British literary award. Again and again, simple facts and complicated trends of thought are characterized to perfection by concise, sometimes pithy but never affected formulations.


A rotary light tester for continuously inspecting empty cans discriminates between good cans and defective ones by judging the amount of transit light entering the interior of the empty cans. The light seal circular plate and the freely-reciprocative slide pusher which rotates with the continuous rotating star wheel face each other sandwiching each can receiving seat therebetween. The nozzle opening of the tip of the slide pusher vacuously holds the bottom end of an uncoated or unprinted bright can received in the can receiving seat one by one when the can enters into the empty can supply station just after the trimming. Then, in the light detection station, the opening end of the can is inserted into a groove of the light seal circular plate having a black non-luster surface to further the reflection attenuation of outer entry light, a trap is disposed in the deepest portion thereof, and a conical introduction arrangement makes it easy to insert the opening end therein by advance pushing of the slide pusher.


The utility model provides a heat radiation system of a LED street lamp, comprising: a housing, a plurality of LED lamp modules disposed inside the housing, and a plurality of radiators disposed in cooperation with each LED lamp module, a plurality of LED lamp modules are in an interval arrangement in the length direction of the housing and are arranged into at least one column, the top face of each LED lamp module is respectively provided with a radiator. The LED street lamp is advantaged by good effect of heat radiation and long service life.


The peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall is a peptide cross-linked glycan polymer essential for bacterial division and maintenance of cell shape and hydrostatic pressure. Bacteria in the Chlamydiales were long thought to lack PG until recent advances in PG labeling technologies revealed the presence of this critical cell wall component in Chlamydia trachomatis. In this study, we utilize bio-orthogonal D-amino acid dipeptide probes combined with super-resolution microscopy to demonstrate that four pathogenic Chlamydiae species each possess a ≤ 140 nm wide PG ring limited to the division plane during the replicative phase of their developmental cycles. Assembly of this PG ring is rapid, processive, and linked to the bacterial actin-like protein, MreB. Both MreB polymerization and PG biosynthesis occur only in the intracellular form of pathogenic Chlamydia and are required for cell enlargement, division, and transition between the microbe's developmental forms. Our kinetic, molecular, and biochemical analyses suggest that the development of this limited, transient, PG ring structure is the result of pathoadaptation by Chlamydia to an intracellular niche within its vertebrate host.


The feasibility that the insurance fund invested in mortgage-backed securities(MBS) is that MBS has the advantage of satisfying th e principles of insurance investment. High profit drives the issuers of MBS part icipating in the market and MBS has suitable investment environment. It is quite important to the insurers to meet the demand of "balance of three principles" w hen different MBS are used in asset-liability management, hedge, speculation and arbitrage. At the end of the paper, some suggestions are provided on the invest ment of insurance fund in the MBS in China.


Microwave dielectric oscillation frequency source uses a small size, light weight, high Q value, inexpensive dielectric resonator (DR) as a resonant unit. It has the advantages of miniaturization, low phase noise, high stability and low cost and had already been widely applied, so the research on microwave dielectric oscillator has also become one of the focus of today's microwave integrated circuits. This paper describes the working principle and design method of the DRO. Through reading lots of literature on DROs, the author has deeply knows about the theory of DROs and designs a circuit with both HFSS and ADS simulation software.


About 5% of patients will suffer a stroke within a week of transient ischemic attack, and the number increases to 10-15% at 3 months. The ABCD scoring system quickly and reliably predicts early risk of stroke following TIA. It is one of several prognostic approaches clinicians can use to identify high-risk patients.


Oncoplastic Guideline Group:

Editors: Dick Rainsbury, Alexis Willett

Guidelines Coordinator: Lucy Davies

Chair: Dick Rainsbury

Writing Group: Simon Cawthorn (Association of Breast Surgery), Ramsey Cutress (Association of Breast Surgery), Diana Harcourt (British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology), Joe O'Donoghue (British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons), Carmel Sheppard (Royal College of Nursing), Joanna Skillman (British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons), Christina Summerhayes (Association of Breast Surgery), Eva Weiler-Mithoff (British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons)

Breast reconstruction and oncoplastic techniques have been widely adopted in the surgical management of patients with breast cancer. The National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit (NMBRA) 1 is the largest prospective audit of breast reconstruction ever carried out. It was designed and implemented by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit at The Royal College of Surgeons of England with input from the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS), the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), and the Royal College of Nursing. The NMBRA examined a broad range of clinical and patient reported outcomes in more than 18,000 women. Factors examined included patient information and access to reconstructive services as well as the level of pain, complications, quality of life and wellbeing after surgery.

The patient reported outcomes in the NMBRA highlight the positive effects of breast reconstruction on quality of life and the very high levels of satisfaction with the clinical care provided. The audit did, however, find complication rates, levels of postoperative pain and readmission rates that were much higher than expected. There were also variations in preoperative provision of information, access to services and some clinical outcomes.

The original ABS guidelines 2 predated the NMBRA. One of the key recommendations of the audit was that new guidance should be written that describes 'best practice' and sets current standards of care. Following this, a multidisciplinary writing group of specialists with expertise in the management of patients undergoing oncoplastic procedures was set up by the ABS and BAPRAS to develop comprehensive new guidelines: Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction: Guidelines for Best Practice. 3 A patient representative was involved throughout as a core member of the group. Feedback from a wide range of stakeholders has been incorporated into the document, which enjoys the support of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the National Cancer Director. The guidelines are available on the ABS and BAPRAS websites.

The NMBRA identified more than 80 unique metrics, reflecting previously undisclosed standards of care. These provided a benchmark for the selection and development of 25 new quality criteria, which form the backbone of the new guidelines (Table 1). The quality criteria were selected to be outcome based, measurable and clinically relevant. They set standards that can be used for future audits, within individual units or nationally.

Table 1

Example quality criteria

Since oncoplastic breast surgery is a developing area of clinical practice with a limited evidence base, the guidance reflects a combination of peer opinion and the best available evidence informed by peer reviewed publications. External advice was commissioned on pain management from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and on infection control from the Healthcare Infection Society and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. A wide range of stakeholders with an interest in this area of clinical practice provided comments on the draft document. The guidelines are not designed to be prescriptive or legally binding but should be used to inform decision making when developing a patient management plan. They are designed to complement existing guidelines, including the ABS' Surgical Guidelines for the Management of Breast Cancer. 4 Ultimately, members of the multidisciplinary team remain responsible for the treatment of patients under their care.

There are four key sections in the new guidelines: the outpatient phase, the inpatient phase, clinical requirements and training requirements. The outpatient phase includes referral, assessment, information and decision making. The inpatient phase includes preoperative, intraoperative, post-operative and peridischarge periods. The clinical requirements section defines the essential components of an on-coplastic multidisciplinary team, and the caseload, casemix and staffing levels required to support an oncoplastic unit or an oncoplastic centre. The final section considers training requirements for those with a background in general surgery or plastic surgery and additional oportunities that should be available for professional development.

The guidelines contain comprehensive guidance regarding the variety and type of information that must be provided for patients to inform and support decision making about breast reconstruction. There is also important new guidance on infection control to tackle the worryingly high rates of infection and implant loss reported in the audit. Advice includes screening for methithicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus as well as for methicillin resistant S aureus in high risk patients (which includes patients undergoing implant-based procedures). Furthermore, there is new guidance on the use of laminar flow facilities, alcoholic skin preparation, and double glove and minimal touch techniques. For postoperative management, monitoring charts have been recommended which include a visual analogue scale for pain, a nausea scale, flap and patient monitoring, venous thromboembolism management and physiotherapy input. There is also new advice on preventing pain with multimodal analgesia including paravertebral, intrapleural, infusional and non-steroidal analgesia.

A patient version of the guidelines has been developed in collaboration with Breast Cancer Care and with the input of patient representatives. This aims to inform patients, in an accessible format and lay language, about the care and support they can expect to receive when considering or undergoing breast reconstruction.

Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction: Guidelines for Best Practice aims to provide all members of the breast multidisciplinary team with guidance on best oncological and oncoplastic practice at each stage of a patient's journey, based on best current evidence. These guidelines reflect the findings of the NMBRA and are designed to provide quality and target standards against which care can be measured and audited, leading to improvements in clinical outcomes and patient experience. It is hoped these guidelines will also benefit professionals and service commissioners in this increasingly sophisticated area of clinical practice.


We demonstrate an all-optical wavelength conversion (AOWC) scheme based on four wave mixing (FWM) effect in dual-polarization semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) for 56Gbps polarization division multiplexing 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (PDM-16QAM) signal using parallel dual-pump. The orthogonal dual-polarization SOAs are utilized to improve the optical link capacity in terms of spectrum utilization and bandwidth efficiency. The polarization insensitivity wave signals are obtained at arbitrary polarization angle θ. The wavelength conversion efficiency (CE) is determined by optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), pump spacing, injection current of SOA and pump power. The results show that the bit error rate (BER) of the converted signal 1' and signal 2' is lower than the converted signal 1 and signal 2. Our results can be used in long distance fiber optical communications.


Patient: Male, 51-year-old Final Diagnosis: Sinonasal inverted papilloma Symptoms: Nasal congestion • nasal mass Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Pathology Objective: Rare disease Background: Inverted papilloma is a benign epithelial lesion of the nasal cavities. Although commonly encountered in clinical practice, it rarely presents with extensive ossification and few cases have been described in the literature. Casa Report: Herein, we describe the case of a 51-year-old man who presented to clinical attention for persistent right nasal obstruction. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans of the facial bones showed a lobated lesion with ossification occupying most of the right nasal cavity. The lesion was removed by endoscopic sinus surgery, leaving the surrounding bone structures intact. On pathological examination, mature bone tissue was found within an inverted papilloma. The pathologist contacted the surgeon, who confirmed that no healthy bone tissue was removed during the procedure. Therefore, a diagnosis of inverted papilloma with ossification could be made without the use of ancillary techniques. Conclusions: Inverted papilloma with ossification is a common lesion with a rare feature. Our report investigates the diagnostic difficulties of a paradigmatic case, highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary teamwork in reaching the final diagnosis.


The primary goal of the current study was to investigate the influence of religion, conflict, sex, and duration on the quality of romantic relationships in college. The transition period of college lends itself to new opportunities and experiences in which young adults learn to express themselves within different types of romantic relationships. One aspect of college that influences these relationships is the emerging "hookup" culture, leading to relationships being less of a norm in college settings. Another influence of college is the diversity of students within the college setting, yielding higher rates of intercultural (or in the case of this study, interfaith) relationships between students. There is little research about how interfaith relationships in college fair in contrast to intrafaith relationships. Thus, the current study was designed to address the gap in the literature on how religious similarity factors into overall relationship quality, along with sexual intimacy, conflict, and duration of relationship. Results reveal that religious similarity and overall religiosity do not influence the quality of relationships in college. However conflict and duration were found to negatively influence the quality of relationships and sexual intimacy showed a strong positive influence on the quality of relationships in college. This study uncovers the predictors of quality in romantic relationships in a college environment. Running Head: Romance and Religion in College 3


Fe3O4 nanoparticles have attracted extensive attention for solving Cr(VI) pollution because they can effectively reduce Cr(VI) to the less toxic and less soluble Cr(III)-containing species. However, these magnetic nano-adsorbents suffer from very low adsorption capacity and low stability. To solve these drawbacks, we developed a pomegranate-like hybrid nanosphere (PHN) with a polydopamine (PDA) peel and Fe3O4 nanocrystals as seeds, which were applied as the nano-adsorbent for removing Cr(VI) ions. The adsorption performance of the resultant PHN nano-adsorbent towards toxic Cr(VI) ions was evaluated systematically with respect to the solution pH, competing ions, and temperature. The adsorption of Cr(VI) ions onto the PHN nano-adsorbent was found to be highly pH dependent with the optimal pH ranging from 2 to 4 and the PHN nano-adsorbent exhibited a remarkable sorption selectivity in complex wastewater. The nano-adsorbent has a fast adsorption rate for Cr(VI) ions that can reach adsorption equilibrium in about 10 min and the maximum adsorption capacity of the PHN nano-adsorbent was as high as 454.55 mg g−1 at 338 K. In addition, the developed PHN nano-adsorbent has good recyclability. After 5 cycles of regeneration and adsorption, it could still maintain a high removal efficiency of up to 92.5% for Cr(VI) ions.


Submitted for the MAR05 Meeting of The American Physical Society Temperature dependence of DOS at the surface of Na0.75CoO2 LEI CAI, CHENXI LU, JIANDI ZHANG, Florida International University(FIU), Miami, FL 33199, R. JIN, B. C. SALES, D. G. MANDRUS, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 — Although many interesting bulk phenomena of layered compound NaxCoO2 are unveiled, the lack attention is paid to the surface properties. The structure and the composition in the proximity of the surface can make the surface properties to be drastically different from the bulk in spite of its quasi-2D layered character. We have studied the density of states (DOS) as a function of the temperature for insitu cleaved NaxCoO2 with x ∼ 0.75 by Variable Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (VT-STM). While it shows strong temperature dependence, the dI/dV curve indicates the presence of a finite DOS at the Fermi level (EF ) at all measured temperatures between 91 K to 294 K. This is consistent with previous report that Na0.75CoO2 is metallic in bulk. However, an unusual shift of the minimum DOS occurs below 230 K. Combining with the observation of a hump on the curve of DOS vs. T at the energy levels between 0.11 eV and 0.51 eV, we attribute the shift to the local charging effect on the surface which indicates an unconventional metalinsulator transition near 230 K. The work was supported by NSF-DMR0346826 and DOE DE-FG02-04ER46125. ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Dept. of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 Lei Cai Florida International University Date submitted: 29 Nov 2004 Electronic form version 1.4


The paper considers the waveforms of signals received in the sidelobe region of an antenna, when the signals are of very short duration. It is shown that the output signal waveforms can be very different from those of the input signal. An analysis is presented to explain these effects, and several examples are presented to illustrate the effects and to show the validity of the analysis.


A IO N We describe herein the fi rst example of an electrochromic Bragg mirror (ECBM), combining nanoporous multilayers made of NiO and WO 3 nanoparticles. Because NiO and WO 3 are complementary in their coloration effects (e.g. cathodic coloration for WO 3 and anodic coloration for NiO) [ 1 ] and their corresponding change in refractive index, tunability can be achieved by combining these electrochromic components in a 1D Bragg mirror tandem arrangement. The high nanoporosity of this ECBM allows protons and electrons to be quickly shuttled into and out of the multilayers, altering the mix of intervalence charge transfer optical effects within the layers and Bragg diffraction effects between the layers. A proper choice of electrolyte guarantees cycling of the optical properties with negligible degradation. Electrochromic [ 2 , 3 ] devices change their electronic structure and color via electrically-induced storage of ions and electrons in the material, which can be reversed by applying an opposing electrical bias. In comparison, photonic crystals change their color by alterations in the dimension and/or refractive index of the photonic lattice, which can also be changed electrically and reversibly. A prominent example for reversible color changes emanating from alterations of the geometrical structure are voltage-driven, swellable and shrinkable 3D inverse opals built from cross-linked polyferrocenylsilane. [ 3–5 ] This effect is known as the electrophotonic effect. [ 4 , 5 ] Electrochromic materials present themselves as a good alternative, as the coloration usually comes with a change in the refractive index. In the fi eld of electrochromic devices, tungsten trioxide W(VI)O 3 and nickel oxide Ni(II)O are the inorganic material archetypes, and function according to Equations 1–2 . [ 6–8 ]


Abstract
                The Museum of Islamic History of the Archipelago is an answer to the problem of the differences between Islamic groups in the archipelago. So that the museum can provide information to the public about how Islam came to the archipelago peacefully without military support, both politics, solely preaching and also trading, then they marry local residents. Provide information to the public that our country is a unity between Indonesian and Islamic.
Nusantara Architecture is an architectural art that focuses on the potential of culture, tradition, and climate conditions in the Indonesian archipelago. To support the concept of the Nusantara Islamic History Museum building, it will use the concept of Archipelago Architecture which will strengthen the characteristics of every diversity that exists in the archipelago and can provide education to visitors about the importance of knowing the cultural diversity of this country of Indonesia.


In this work, a study of the wave climate in a region of the Peruvian Sea Basin is carried out using wave spectral data. Time series of 10-year buoy ocean data are processed. The analysis of the wave climate presented that the maximum values and variability of wave power and significant wave height occur during the winter months. In contrast, features such as wave energy period, wave power directionality coefficient and direction of maximum directional wave power tend to remain constant over the year. Furthermore, it was found that the maximum directional wave power concentrates around the 50 % of the omnidirectional wave power with a directionality South to North and a dispersion of 40 °. These conditions show potential for wave energy converter installations near the region's coast.


Abstract In high elevation habitats of the Peruvian Andes a new population of Microseris (Asteraceae, Lactuceae) related to the single South American species, M. pygmaea, recently was discovered. Microseris pygmaea occurs at lower elevations in Chile and has originated after long-distance dispersal from a Californian progenitor. Differences in flowering traits and habitat preferences of the new population raised the question of its precise phylogenetic affiliation. The analysis of the nuclear rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of all Microseris species revealed the Peruvian plants as part of the Chilean M. pygmaea clade. Molecular, ecological, and physiological data resulted in an interpretation of the Peruvian population as derived from Chilean progenitors instead of being remnants of stepping-stone dispersal from North America through the Andes to Chile. Differences in ITS sequences found in this study compared to earlier ones were explained by the occurrence of two different rDNA clusters in the genome of Microseris, which were preferentially amplified by differences in the PCR protocols.


1. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors disposed in a personal media player (110), perform a method for transmitting information describing a wireless network (306) from the personal media player (110) to the wireless device (310 ), be connected to a network, the method comprising the steps of: said capture information used point (312) in a wireless network (306) to allow the wireless network detection (306) one or more wireless devices to connect to the network, and to provide secure access to the wireless network (306); ! transmitting said information further device (310) for the physical connection between the personal media player (110) and an additional device (310), and the transmitted information is used by an additional device (310) for connection to the network (306). ! 2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein said information comprises at least one of an identifier (ID) wireless network, and the network credential key. ! 3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the key corresponds to one of WEP, WPA and WPA2. ! 4. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the method includes the further step of receiving additional device ID that uniquely identifies the additional device. ! 5. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the method includes the further step of sending data from the personal media player device according to a further wireless Internet


The room air movement is described by the transport equations. For these equations to be solved numerically, a computational space grid with the dependent variables to be evaluated at the grid points is used. Having the velocity field fixed, the dynamic of the temperature is modelled. However, the discretization of space introduces an error. As a result, the continuity equation of the elementary cell is no longer respected. A method for compensating the error introduced by discretization of space in the general energy conservation equation is presented. The purpose is to obtain a continuous-time discrete-space model. The continuous-time model is important because the method for integrating the differential equation becomes a free choice.


This simple one-pot two-step protocol allows the synthesis of pyrroloquinolines (VII), which can be further converted into oxazine-fused derivatives such as (XI).


Abstract Beijing is taking the lead working out Village system planning and Construction of experimental unit of New socialist countryside.Research the aspects of economy trade and industry,land saving and intensive using,population,ecology,infrastructure and public accommodation,new energy utilization and conserve energy and so on.The research focus on exploitativeness and public participation,besides,whether the constructuin of new socialist countryside can be implemented.


This paper presents the results of the taxonomic study of the diatoms from Peri lagoon, located in the southern of Santa Catarina Island, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, situated at 27°43'30" of south latitude and 48°32'30" of longitude. About 108 samples were analyzed, they were collected between march 1981 and february 1982. Syxty two taxa were identified, 10 of them ara mentioned for the first time in the Santa Catarina State.


2017;12(9-10):386. 5th Dubrovnik Cardiology Highlights | An ESC Update Programme in Cardiology | October 19-22, 2017 | Dubrovnik, Croatia Introduction: Acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition characterized with separation of the layers within the aortic wall. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates in spite of prompt medical treatment1. Case report: 44-year-old man was admitted to the Coronary Care Unit from the Emergency Department with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction with ST elevation in precordial leads. The only chronic disease in his medical history was hypertension for which he was treated for the last three years. Due to the chest pain with ECG changes suggesting acute coronary syndrome and initially elevated troponin level (troponin I 0.165 ug/L) an urgent coronary angiography was performed. The angiogram showed no significant lesions of epicardial arteries. Due to the ongoing chest pain, persistent high blood pressure and elevated D-dimer levels (2.818 ug/L), a CT angiography of aorta was performed. CT angiogram revealed an acute Stanford type B dissection of the descending aorta. Due to the unavailability of endovascular treatment options in our hospital, the patient was immediately transferred to University Hospital Centre (UHC) Zagreb for thoracic endovascular aortic repair procedure which was successfully performed. During further hospitalization in UHC Zagreb the patient developed posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome due to extremely high blood pressure levels.


Breast milk is a quality baby food because it contains nutrients and immunity. The high percentage of working mothers who breastfeed (92.5%) is directly proportional to the number of babies who consume pumped breast milk. It is feared that the storage of breast milk at a specified temperature and time can reduce its quality, including immunoglobulin A (IgA) levels. Objective: The objective of this study was to prove the effect of storage temperature on the quality of breast milk (IgA). Methods: This study used a quasi-experimental design with a pre-post-test design with a control group design. The sampling technique used purposive sampling of 32 nursing mothers in the experimental group and 32 nursing mothers in the control group included in the inclusion criteria (divided into control and experimental groups). The bivariate analysis utilized paired until t-test followed by independent t-test. Results: There was a decrease in IgA levels in the cooler bag storage temperature (4-8 0C) for 6 hours with an average difference of -18.264 ng/ml (p-value 0.012). IgA levels also decreased at room temperature storage (26 0C) for 6 hours with an average difference of -373.209 ng/ml (p-value 0.000). Different tests in the two groups had an average difference in IgA levels of -354.945 ng/ml (p-value 0.000), which meant significant differences. Conclusion: Storage temperature at cooler bag temperature 4-8 0C is better than room temperature of 26 0C on breast milk quality (IgA level).


A convex optimization controller design method is presented which minimizes the closed-loop H/sub 2/ norm, subject to constraints on the magnitude of closed-loop transfer functions and transient responses due to fixed inputs. This method is applied to the roll axis of the EOS-AM1 spacecraft attitude control system, with a set of performance and robustness specifications. This example serves as a good benchmark problem, because it has been used for previous model-based control studies. A controller is designed using constrained H/sub 2/ which successfully meets all of the design specifications of a previous study.


The general scenario, political, economic, rural and urban that Mexico exhibited in the years 1963 to 1965 and that corresponds to the change of sexennium from Adolfo Lopez Mateos (1958-1964) to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (1964-1970) was characterized by: offering few job opportunities in the countryside and in urban factories, presenting  limited possibilities of access to education, repressing  people with paramilitary bodies, experiencing  a marked economic dependence on US imperialism and allowing arbitrary acts committed by a government whose social and economic policies affected large-scale sectors of society. This scenario was the fundamental basis that led to the birth of a self-proclaimed guerrilla movement such as Grupo Popular Guerrillero (GPG) led by Professor Arturo Gamiz Garcia and supported by left-wing youth against the then governor Praxedes Giner Duran. The guerrilla began as a movement of collective actions against the State (first as a social movement and then as an armed movement) that culminated in the assault on the barracks of the city of Madera on September 23, 1965. After this event, the social actors who died during the assault were regarded as "martyrs". For its part, the government, in particular, the Federal Security Directorate (DFS) described them as "bandits". However, this work considers the guerrilla as a social movement whose purpose was to improve the living conditions of society and reform the prevailing political model and its actors not as "martyrs" nor "bandits" but as men with flaws and virtues, who were conscious of their social reality.


The article considers the questions that will help you to reveal the concept and content of the legal status, namely the characteristic features, structural elements and types of legal status.


This study is concerned with the factors affecting the box office performance of US and Korean movies, focusing on appeal to patriotism. Multiple regressions for 227 US movies screened in the US and 240 Korean movies screened in Korea between 2004 and 2007 that were highly-ranked in terms of domestic box office were used. Dependent variable is domestic box office, and independent variables are production cost, influence of director, influence of actor, genre, rating, bargaining power of distribution companies, consumer reviews for movie and finally appeal to patriotism. A survey of consumers in the US and Korean movie was used to assess appeal to patriotism. The analysis shows that production cost, number of screens, consumer reviews and director (p<0.01) affected the box office performance of a movie in US, in addition to appeal to patriotism (p=0.017) and actor. In Korea, number of screens, genre (comedy or horror) (p<0.01) and appeal to patriotism (p=0.02) affected the box office performance of a movie. There was no difference shown between US and Korean respondents in terms of their average evaluation of appeals to patriotism. As a result, this study shows that appeals to patriotism affect the box office performance of both Korean and US movies.


PURPOSE
Past research has shown that subjects with ACL injuries show activation differences and atrophy in the muscles that cross the knee, including the gastrocnemii, which predominately act at the ankle. However, it is not known how the other ankle muscles that do not cross the knee are affected. We focused on the two muscles that control the ankle, the soleus and tibialis anterior muscles, to see how they were affected by an ACL injury. We hypothesized that the ankle muscles of subjects with ACL injuries that did not require surgery (copers) would be more like normals and that the muscles of subjects with ACL injuries who required surgery to return to normal activity (noncopers) would atrophy.

METHODS
Twenty-seven subjects were divided into three even categories: unimpaired subjects, copers, and noncopers. Axial spin-echo T1-weighted MRI images were used to digitally reconstruct the tibialis anterior and the soleus. We used the digitally reconstructed muscles to determine the peak cross-sectional area and volume of each muscle.

RESULTS
The copers' tibialis anterior muscles were similar to the unimpaired subjects, but, surprisingly, the noncoper's tibialis anterior muscles of the injured leg were larger than those of their uninjured legs (P < 0.05). In the soleus, the results showed a trend of not being affected.

CONCLUSION
The increase in size of the tibialis anterior in noncopers may have been caused by altered gait patterns in noncopers. We believe this is due to either an ankle-stiffening strategy during heel strike or from the inversion of the foot causing external rotation of the tibia as a stabilizing technique for the knee.


Knowledge Management and Innovation on Firm Performance of United States Ship Repair by Cynthia J. Young MBA, Touro University International, 2007 MBA, Touro University International, 2003 BA, University of Maryland, College Park, 1997 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration


Almost thirty years after he and Anne Smith published their foundational essay on the quarrel between Dickens and Martineau, Ken Fielding returned to the pair's complex relationship, rounding out a lifelong interest in both authors. Writing on this second occasion for the Martineau Society Newsletter...


Continuous epidural block offers advantages over general anesthesia with controlled ventilation by decreasing the frequency of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism as well as blood loss and transfusion requirements. Hemodynamic differences, with lower mean arterial and pulmonary arterial blood pressures—and consequently less arterial and venous oozing of blood from the surgical wound—in patients given continuous epidural block, probably explain the lower blood loss with this anesthetic technique. The thromboprophylactic effect of continuous epidural block is explained by a hyperkinetic blood flow in the major vessels of the lower limbs. Other factors include less tendency to clotting and better fibrinolysis function with this anesthetic technique. A "stabilizing" effect of local anesthetics on blood cells and endothelial cells is another possible additional explanation. The lower blood transfusion requirements might also play a role.


BACKGROUND
Currently available antipsychotics have limited efficacy in the treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia and new drugs with wider spectrums of clinical efficacy are very desirable. Cariprazine is a newer antipsychotic acting as dopamine D3- and in lesser extent D2-receptor partial agonist found to be effective in the treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVES
To evaluate cariprazine early effects at the first stage of therapy of schizophrenia patients with predominantly negative symptoms.

DESIGN AND PATIENTS
Open-lable observational assessment of 60 adult schizophrenia patients (F20 on ICD-10, 49% males) with predominantly negative symptoms (PANSS-FSNS ≥15, PANSS-FSPS <19) treated by cariprazine (starting daily dose 1.5 mg followed by upward titration by 1.5 mg weekly up to 6 mg if needed) were assessed with PANSS, CAINS, CDSS and SAS scales at baseline and on week 1, 2, and 4. Efficacy criteria were.

RESULTS
Most patients (75%) improved during 28 days of cariprazine treatment. Negative symptoms mean total scores on PANSS-NS and CAINS significantly (p<0.05) reduced by 4.3 and 4.9 respectively at the end of assessment (day 28). Cariprazine tolerability was good, only 4 patients discontinued because of TEAEs (akathisia, insomnia).

CONCLUSIONS
The study results preliminary suggest initial effect of cariprazine on negative symptoms at least in some schizophrenia patients with predominantly negative symptoms starting from 1-2 weeks of treatment and available for observation and assessment and could be useful for determination of early clinical predictors for efficacy. Considering limitations of observational open-lable design with no control groups these data need to be confirmed.


LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE IS REPRESENTED BY AN ELEMENTARY PLANE MODEL CONSISTING OF LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATES IN A MATRIX. A STUDY WAS MADE OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THIS MODEL SUBJECTED TO UNIAXIAL AND BIAXIAL STRESSES.


ABSTRACT Our study is manifested in the process of solar drying of various mature foods of vegetables and fruits such as apricots, mint, and green peppers in a hot and somewhat dry area in Biskra, one of the cities of Algeria. Our interest is limited to the study of the amount of moisture extracted from each product and using the forced convection with three different mass flow rate to control the speed of solar drying, which helps us to deepen the research and increase the effect of mass flow rate on the amount of water out of the product. We used a set of mathematical models for different researchers, each according to the mathematical relationship used, and we reformulated it by finding the constants for each model, which means that each mass flow corresponds to the constants of the eight models where deliberate, and the product also affects them about the type, size, and the mass. We contributed to this study by creating a mathematical model adapted to the experimental data and we tried it with the dried products. The results were improved and from this we compared the mathematical models of the researchers with our model and they were also very proper. We conclude that the mass flow rate influence onto the coefficients of the establish model this means that the mass flow rate is an important factor. Our model was found as the best model based on statistical parameters of R 2, RMSE, and χ 2. The model is applicable to predict the moisture content of mint, apricot, and green pepper during solar drying.


Abstract [First paragraphs]: Although the wheel was invented about 5500 years ago, our quest for a better understanding of this invention and our fascination for its refinement continue unabated to this date (Wong, 1989). It is an extremely complex and challenging problem which depends on numerous soil-wheel parameters.


Open trial,as an important system in the modern lawsuit,is by no means fortuitous but has deep theoretical foundation.In terms of the theory of managing the country democratically,the development of democratic politics requires opentrial;In terms of the theory of the human right theory,the guarantee of citizens'Knowing right needs open trial;In terms of the theory of law of legal procedure,modern lawsuit purpose and lawsuit just realization and great deal of lawsuit rules also requests open trial.


We present ARTIC, a novel langible interface that offers 3D user interaction which can be explored in the con· texl of Augmented and Mixed Rea/ity. Our system consists in tracking a portable artifact based on colar evalua· tion by computer vision, and use it as a 3D input device. Using vision·based techniques, we are ah/e to detect and lrack lhe motion of a physical object through calor analysis and segmentation, and then perform virtual camera calibration. Using ARTIC, the user can easily manipulate the tangible artifact in arder to interact, in the general sense, with 3D virtual objec/s. The system al/ows for 6DOF, providing a natural and simple experience of interactivity to the user, which is extremely important in a Tangible Augmented Reality approach.


Previous studies have demonstrated hemodynamic changes at different phases in the menstrual cycle, but the cerebral circulation has not been investigated. Our aim was to study carotid and cerebral blood flow during the menstrual cycle using Doppler ultrasound. Two different techniques of Doppler waveform analysis were used: standard Doppler indices and Laplace transform analysis (LTA), which may provide additional hemodynamic information.


ness, again when applied to the whole population of asthmatic individuals, leads to a disproportionate increase in the proportion of those with severe disease. The probable validity of the second assumption can be illustrated (figure) by comparing childhood asthma prevalence in England and New Zealand (EA Mitchell, HR Anderson, unpublished study). The lifetime prevalence of wheeze in Auckland, New Zealand, is 18-5% higher than in South West Thames, England (25-6% v 21-6%), the prevalence of wheeze in the last 12 months 32-1% higher (14-8% v 11-2%), and the prevalence ofwheeze in the last month 87-5% higher (7 7% v 4-1%). Thus there is a difference in the distribution ofasthma severity between the two countries. Could this be produced by New Zealand's higher asthma drug consumption2 and the promotion of maintenance beta agonists? Dr Gregg speculates that "pan-adrenoceptor" agonists may be superior to selective beta2 agonists in relieving and preventing mucosal oedema. These drugs were effective when used intermittently for acute severe asthma. The hypothesis, however, relates to long term regular use. The recent report suggesting that fenoterol, a less selective beta2 agonist, might increase the risk of death in patients with asthma3 indicates the need for caution before returning to even less selective adrenoceptor agonists.


INTRODUCTION: In care organizations for the elderly, the majority of professionals are unqualified formal caregivers, responsible for most of the care provided, who play a fundamental role in meeting the needs of the institutionalized elderly population, which is usually the one with the greatest needs for support due to functional limitations, the breakdown of family and social support networks and pluri-pathology, which of ten translate in to high levels of dependency and the need for support. OBJECTIVES: to evaluate the sociodemographic profile, training levels and quality of life of formal caregivers of care institutions for elderly people and to understand the relationship between the existence of training and quality of life levels. METHODS: an exploratory, descriptive, correlational and cross – sectional study with a sample of 254 individuals from 15 institutions in the Castelo Branco region. A questionnaire was used to collect socio- demographic data, educational and training profile, and the WHOQOL-BREF to evaluate the quality of life of these formal caregivers providing direct care for the elderly. Some characteristics of the training were also evaluated, defined according to the descriptors of the key competences of these professionals. RESULTS: The sample was exclusively female with a mean age of 44.12 years (SD = 10.24), mostly married (71.5%) and with children (85%). 68.3% had education until 9 years, and technical and vocational training was residual (6.7%). On average, they worked at same the institution for 7 years. 76.2% reported having training in the workplace, this training being carried out mainly in the workplace (65.1%) and in some basic skills ("Hygiene and comfort", "Basic human care" and "Techniques of mobilization ,Positioning and transfers") was performed in more than 40% of cases by colleagues with the same category and performing the same functions. In all dimensions of the instrument used to assess the quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF), the scores obtained are lower than those of the group of healthy individuals in the instrument validation study for the Portuguese population. There were better levels of QoL in the Physical (p = 0.038), Psychological (p = 0.003) and Social domains (p = 0.009) in individuals who reported having training in the area in which they work. CONCLUSION: the results show the need to reflect on the profile of these workers, in preparation for the functions they perform and in their capacity to respond to the needs of the elderly, as a contribution to the improvement of the care provided.


In this paper, we study primary decomposition of an ideal in an MV-algebra. We show that if an ideal in MV-algebras has a primary decomposition, then it has a reduced primary decomposition. Also we introduced .-primary ideal of PMV-algebra and by example, we show that a .-primary ideal in a PMV-algebra is not a .-prime ideal in a PMV-algebra.


An experiment was conducted with 144 broiler chicks (Cobb 500) from day-old to five weeks of age to investigate the efficacy of a water additive in broiler production. The chicks were randomly distributed into four different treatments namely T 1 (control), T 2 (water additive as per recommended level of the manufacturer), T 3 (25% less than the recommendation) and T 4 (25% more than the recommendation). Broiler growth performances and hematological parameters were studied and cost effectiveness of the application of such water additive was determined. There was an improvement in both body weight and FCR due to addition of water additive although all productive performances in birds receiving treatments showed no significant differences from the control. Among the hematological parameters, lower values were obtained for mean cell volume and mean cell hemoglobin, although only the former (mean cell volume) of the treated groups differed significantly (P<0.05) from the control. However, all levels of water additive increased profit in comparison with the control but addition of the additive at a rate 25% less than the recommendation appeared to be most profitable and cost effective. It was therefore concluded that the water additive tested in this study may be applied 25% less than the usual recommendation. It also suggests that any additive considered for poultry, must undergo trial for determining efficacy as well as its cost effectiveness for application. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/pa.v21i1-2.16754 Progress. Agric. 21(1 & 2): 73 - 82, 2010


Materials and Methods: A total of 392 (EFP), 58 (onco-FP) patients returning to use their oocytes were included. A binary logistic regression (LR) analysis was employed to measure the impact of age (stratified in four groups: ≤30; 31-35; 36-40; and ≥41y) and indication on survival rate. Binary survival was considered as ≥90% and <90%. Adj.OR were calculated combining age and indication. Kaplan-Meier plotting considering the number of oocytes consumed was used to evaluate the cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) according to ages ≤35 and ≥36y and indication. Long Rank (Mantel-Cox), Breslow (Generalized Wilcoxon) and Tarone-Ware overall comparisons were performed (statistical significance P<0.05).


It is widely recognized that agriculture serves as the fundamental pillar of India's economy. This research paper delves into the realm of yield predictions, encompassing the vast array of crops cultivated throughout the nation. What sets this script apart is its unique ability to anticipate agricultural production for any chosen year, employing easily comprehensible variables such as state, district, season, and area. To achieve this feat, the article draws upon an assortment of regression techniques, including the notable Kernel Ridge, Lasso, and ENet algorithms. These sophisticated statistical methods form the bedrock of the paper's prediction methodology, enabling accurate estimations of crop output.