A ring-based media access control protocol and architecture, Fast Ring, which combines the best features of the token ring and contention ring, is proposed. For this protocol, a free token circulates on the ring when the ring is idle. A ready station can transmit either by capturing the token or sensing the ring idle. The protocol works in such a way that the ready node which captures the free token, before or while transmitting, is able to continue transmission. All the other contending nodes have to stop their transmissions and then send the abort signal when they receive the upstream transmission. After its transmission, the successful station puts a free token on the ring and the protocol enters the token mode. It behaves like the token ring protocol until the ring becomes idle again when all the ready nodes complete their transmissions. Comparison of the performance of Fast Ring with those of contention ring, token ring, and carrier-sense multiaccess with collision detection protocols shows that the Fast Ring outperforms all these local area network protocols over the whole throughput range at all transmission rates.<<ETX>>


FIELD: oil and gas industry. SUBSTANCE: composition for reservoir oil recovery increasing including viscosifier and detergent agent; it contains mixture of rape and palm oils as viscosifier, xylol as detergent under the following ratio in wt %: rape oil 90.0 - 95.0, palm oil 3.0 - 8.0, xylol 2.0 - 5.0. EFFECT: increased oil-driving properties and oil recovery of reservoirs. 3 ex, 4 dwg


In our last column, we introduced our Six Mindfulness Strategies Model as being a straightforward approach to helping Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioners and learners employ easy-to-remember steps to promote positive workplace interactions. These strategies are built on the premise that, when one develops the ability to self-regulate the emotional response to situations, one can approach them with genuine curiosity and acceptance, rather than harsh judgment. The six strategies are shown below (Figure 1). As you look at the Six Mindfulness Strategies Model (Figure 1), think about which of these strategies resonate most with you. Which of these do you routinely employ during difficult or challenging conversations? Which ones have you found difficult to employ? Hopefully, there are a few here that are familiar to you and, perhaps, others that are not. The point of the simulation training has less to do with perfecting your use of these six strategies in difficult conversations; rather, it is to familiarize the learner to the existence of these strategies and to encourage putting them to practice under controlled settings. In this column, we will look at several ways to incorporate mindfulness strategies into a common stroke code simulation training session. Before we get there, think for a moment about a recent stressful situation that involved you and another individual. Was the stress primarily due to the nature of the circumstance or the nature of the verbal exchange that ensued? Chances are the answer is both. But, if we are honest, it is the nature of the verbal exchange that leaves a deeper scar, which results in emotional and mental stress. What an opportunity for us to introduce simple simulation-based mindfulness strategies that can help mitigate these types of challenging encounters. The simulated setting for this column involves a standardized patient (SP) who presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with the chief complaint of slurred speech and left-sidedweakness. The triage nurse quickly picks up on the signs and symptoms of stroke and appropriately activates the stroke code protocol. However, unbeknown to the triage nurse and the ED physician, the paging system was malfunctioning, and several key members of the stroke code response team did not receive the page in real time. The issues explored in this simulation exercise will involve dealing with the emotions that are often triggered by misunderstandings, frustration, and resentment. The learner, whowill assume the role of a stroke code response team member, will employ the mindfulness strategies to verbal communication skills. The ED nurse and physician, who are not learners, are played by SPs or educators. On arrival, the learner is met by the ED nurse and/or physician who is irate and verbally expresses his or her displeasure toward the learner for his or her lack of responsiveness. The blame for the delay in care is placed solely on the learner. For added intensity, one could insinuate that the window of opportunity for the administration of the thrombolytic drug was lost due to the delay. Furthermore, Mary Edel Holtschneider, MEd, MPA, BSN, RN-BC, NREMT-P, CPLP, is Simulation Education Coordinator and Co-Director, Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Durham VA Health Care System, and Nursing Program Manager, Duke Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Chan W. Park, MD, FAAEM, is Director, Simulation Education and CoDirector, Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Durham VA Health Care System, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.


The effect produced by the intraperitoneal injection of live and heat-killed group A streptococci, the fractions of their cell walls (both intact and sonicated) and cytoplasm was studied on 450 white rats with experimental adjuvant arthritis (AA). The injection of live streptococci into rats with AA decreased the swelling of joints (by 70-80% in the second half of the experiment), reduced the titers of rheumatoid-like factor (RLF), and inhibited the development of polyarthritis. The use of heat-killed streptococci gave a less pronounced antiarthritic effect, while the fraction of streptococcal cell walls, similarly to live streptococci, decreased the swelling of joints (by 27-64%); at the same time a considerable drop in the titers of RLF was observed in 3 experiments, and the development of polyarthritis was registered in 38% of the test animals and in 62% of the control animals. In rats with AA the cytoplasm not subjected to ultracentrifugal purification decreased the swelling of joints (by 21-50%) and the titers of RLF. In this case the development of polyarthritis was observed in 48% of the test animals and in 70% of the control animals.


The paper describes a new method using finite elements for ship hull surface design. A constrained variational principle is proposed in which the fairness criterion is included in the actual functional and the given design coefficients are as constraints. Constraints can be treated by using Lagrangian multipliers or penalty functions. The finite element method is used to solve the variational problem. The final resulting equations in both the cases are derived. Some examples employing rectangular and triangular elements are presented.


this inhibition (15). Although the mechanism is unclear, herbimycin (0.88 !.LM)reduces protein phosphotyrosine levels in treated cells transformed by src, ros, or erbB oncogenes (8, 10), and pretreatment with herbimycin prevents the increase in phosphotyrosine of T-cells exposed to anti-CD3 monocbonal antibody (12). Thus, herbimycin A appears to have an effect on a number of protein tyrosine kinases and has been widely used as a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, but its mechanism of action remains unclear. Herbimycin A has been reported to have antiangiogenic effects (16), to inhibit c-myc expression (17), to increase cellular fibronectin expression (18), and to inhibit the association of @@@src with the cytoskeleton (19). The relationship of these effects, if any, to the inhibition of tyrosine kinases remains unclear. Herbimycin also in duces the differentiation of K562 human myelogenous leukemia cells, possibly by inhibiting the abi tyrosine kinase that is strongly impli cated in this disease (20, 21), and induces differentiation and cell death in several cell lines of neural origin by a mechanism that may be unrelated to inhibition of tyrosine kinases (22, 23). Herbimycin A, geldanamycin, and several analogues have been shown to have anti tumor effects in vivo, although the relation of these effects to the inhibition of tyrosine kinases is unclear (5, 23—25).A better under standing of the mechanism of benzoquinoid ansamycin action is necessary to assess the potential of these compounds as antitumor agents. erbB2 encodes a Mr 185,000 receptor-like protein (j185) with tyrosine kinase activity and a high degree of homology to the epider mab growth factor receptor (26). erbB2 is overexpressed in many breast tumors and is associated with a poor prognosis (27). Transfec tion of breast epithelial cells with erbB2 transforms these cells (28), and growth of some breast cancer cells can be inhibited by antibodies to pl8S (29), suggesting that inhibitors of p185 may be of value in the treatment of breast cancer. As part of a program seeking inhibitors of erbB2, we have examined the effects of herbimycin A and related benzoquinoid ansamycins on p185 in breast cancer cells and report here that these compounds rapidly deplete p185 bevels.


There are 3000 to 4000 long novels published each year in China.Yet,among these quantities of novels,most are as transient as fleeting clouds.In fact,noticeable novels are within 100.Why? This article tries to answer the question in terms of writers,the change of writing style,the themes and the change of readers' taste,etc.


We are living in a time in which extraordinary, public acts of contrition have become commonplace, so frequent that one pundit describes the atmosphere that pervades our culture as "apology mania."' As citizens of the United States we have been witnesses to our President's evolving apology in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a tawdry affair that led to his impeachment in the House of Representatives. The public sphere overflows with discourse about President Clinton's apologies; his first attempt at expressed contrition was viewed as woefully inadequate and his later attempts condemned by many as insincere and politically driven. What a literature search reveals as a topic previously rarely considered has now become a national conversation. Against this historic backdrop, I join the conversation. Here I examine apology and, more particularly, the role of apology in the context of civil mediation. Apology is not a stranger to the law. In fact, the role of apology has been discussed in a growing body of case law,' and there are numerous legal articles addressing its role in litigation, particularly in the context of


The present invention describes an X-ray apparatus (1) with a C-arm (2) on which an X-ray source in opposing arrangement (3) and an X-ray detector (4) are attached, at least one actuator (5, 6) for positioning the C sheet (2) relative to a storage device (15), and control means (13) for controlling the actuator (5, 6). The X-ray apparatus (1) comprises at least one sensor (11, 12) which detects a deformation of the C-arm in a first position the C-arm (2) and converted into an output signal, wherein the deformation of the C-arc (2) by one, exerted by an operator and at a second position on the C-arm (2) directly or indirectly acting, force (7, 8) can be influenced. The control device (13) influenced in dependence of the output signal of the sensor (11, 12) the actuator (5, 6). Furthermore, a method (70) for controlling the movement of an X-ray device will be described.


China is famous for nephrites and has a lot of localities,but the quality and price of nephrites from different localities is not the same.By using modern testing instruments such as XRD and SEM,nephrites from three main localities which are Hetian in Xinjiang province,Geermu in Qinghai province and Liyang in Jiangsu province have been tested.Through the analysis and observation of their cystallinity and micro-pattern,it is found that the differences in micro-texture are the main factor which causes the nephrites from three localities are different in quality.


Memory-Augmented Neural Networks (MANNs) have been shown to outperform Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in terms of long-term dependencies. Since MANNs are equipped with an external memory, they can store and retrieve more data through longer periods of time. A MANN generally consists of a network controller and an external memory. Unlike conventional memory having read/write operations to specific addresses, a differentiable memory has soft read and write operations involving all the data stored in the memory. Such soft read and write operations present new computational challenges for hardware implementation of MANNs. In this work, we present a novel in-memory computing primitive to accelerate the differentiable memory operations of MANNs in SRAMs. We propose a 9T SRAM macro capable of performing both Hamming similarity and dot products (crucial for soft read/write and addressing mechanisms in MANNs). Regarding Hamming similarity, we operate the 9T cell in analog Content-Addressable Memory (CAM) mode by applying the key at the bitlines (RBLs/RBLBs) in each column, and reading out the analog output at the sourceline (SL). To perform dot product operation, the input data is applied at the wordlines, and the current passing through RBLs represents the dot product between the input data and the stored bits. The proposed SRAM array performs computations that reliably match the operations required for a differentiable memory, thereby leading to energy-efficient on-chip acceleration of MANNs. Compared to standard GPU systems, the proposed scheme achieves 43x and 85x performance and energy improvements respectively, for computing the differentiable memory operations.


400 Abstract: Wildfire has substantial immediate effects on vegetation structure and composition. Those changes and subsequent vegetation succession alter nesting and foraging habitats of birds. In 1960, the stand-replacing Donner Ridge Fire burned 18,000 ha in California's northern Sierra Nevada. Subsequent bird-population studies in this area provided us an opportunity to investigate both short-term and long-term responses of birds to vegetation change following fire. Almost 50 years of periodic breeding bird surveys document bird-community changes in response to vegetation succession after this large wildfire. On the basis of intermittent breeding bird counts and vegetation sampling from 1966 to 2014, we describe and compare changes in bird-community structure on one burned and one nearby unburned plot (each 8.5 ha) of mixed-conifer forest within the Sagehen basin of the Tahoe National Forest. We used spot-mapping to estimate bird abundance (number of territories) and diversity during 4 sampling periods: 1966–1968, 1975–1979, 1981–1985, and 2010–2014. Most changes in the avian community were those expected from the post-fire changes in vegetation structure. These changes were most marked on the burned plot: shrub cover increased from 22% to 71%, tree-canopy cover increased from 7% to 27%, basal area of conifers increased about three-fold, and the density of larger snags decreased from 26 to 1.5 per ha. During this same time, numbers of foliage-searching birds increased about six-fold (from 2 to 13 territories per plot), whereas timber-drilling birds decreased from 1.3 to 0.3 territories, likely reflecting the loss of snags. On the unburned plot, changes during the period were subtler: tree-canopy cover decreased slightly, basal area of conifers increased by at least 25%, and shrub cover remained low. Notably, snag density on the unburned plot increased from 9 to 31 stems per ha, perhaps explaining the increase in timber-drilling birds on that plot (from 0.5 to 1.3 territories) over the five decades. The increase in snags and volume of conifers (basal area) on the unburned plot may also have contributed to the observed increase in bark-gleaning birds (from 2.0 to 5.5 territories). Finally, on the unburned plot, foliage-searching birds increased in abundance from 9 to 17 territories from 1966 to 2014. In general, changing vegetation structure, and the foraging and nesting habitat associations of the plots' birds, explained most of the observed trends in the avian communities. Some changes may have been associated with the 2010–2014 period being drier and warmer, which appears to be part of a broader climatic trend. The average annual temperature increased markedly and the date of last freezing shifted earlier, which could have facilitated increases of some species, including the Hermit Warbler (Setophaga occidentalis), which was detected for the first time during the 2010–2014 sampling period, when it was abundant.


In the title compound, C22H23FO3S, the cyclopentyl ring adopts an envelope conformation with the flap atom connected to the benzofuran residue. The 4-fluorophenyl ring makes a dihedral angle of 43.67 (3)° with the mean plane [r.m.s. deviation = 0.008 (1) Å] of the benzofuran fragment. In the crystal, molecules are linked by weak C—H⋯O and C—H⋯π interactions, forming a three--dimensional network. The crystal structure also exhibits slipped π–π interactions between the benzene and furan rings of neighbouring molecules [centroid–centroid distance = 3.883 (2) Å and slippage = 1.731 (2) Å].


This research background is the establishment of a legal rule regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 2007. This study aims to discuss the positive impact of CSR implementation by companies in Kramatinggil, Gresik, East Java. The research subjects are the people who are the majority have a high school education background. The method used in the study of the application of CSR is a qualitative descriptive method. The qualitative approach in this research uses a phenomenological. Data processing, in this case, is done by categorising field notes from the results of depth interviews. Data processing is also done from the effects of survey data that has been processed and then narrated and from the impact of FGD (Focus Group Discussion) conducted for beneficiaries. The result shows that the community have proven to be successful in increasing the ratio of gardens to the entire space used by the application of vertical gardens and Planting Fruits in Pot (Tabulampot). The activity showed that the company's CSR in the Kramatinggil area had succeeded in conserving natural resources and the welfare of the surrounding population.


The optimal control problem for systems affected by external disturbances based on state feedback exact linearization was considered.Firstly,a complex nonlinear system model was changed to a easy pseudo linear system model by the differential homeomorphism.Secondly,the concrete method of coordinate transformation was given when the relation degree was equal to the system rank,then the optimal control law was design by solving the Riccati equation.At last,the simulation results show the effectiveness of the method.


A diode-laser-array end-pumped CW Nd:YVO4 laser, formed with a flat-flat resonator, and capable of producing great than 15 W of CW radiation, has been demonstrated. At the incident pump power of 22 W, the output power of 13.22 W was obtained, resulting in an optical conversion efficiency of 60.1%, while the slope efficiency was determined to be 64.8%. It is shown that the misalignment sensitivity characteristic of flat-flat resonators can be considerably improved by the stabilizing effect of the pump-induced thermal lens.


Using prism and grating coupling techniques, surface plasma wave effects have been used to investigate metal interfaces, metal-dielectric interfaces, and other nonlinear processes.1 Here we present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of first-order coupling to SPWs and the use of this technique to characterize the optical constants of metal films.


Toxoplasmosis is the term for infection and disease in man and animal caused by a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. The more susceptible to infect with toxoplasmosis is the Diabetic patients, due to low level of immunity response. The aim of current study is to investigate the immune status of diabetes mellitus type 2. One hundred and seventy five samples of both diabetes mellitus type 2patients and controls which had been tested by ELISA technique to detect anti-Toxoplasma Abs (IgG and IgM). The positive toxoplasmosis samples were tested to detect the level of TNF alpha and MIG. Results for all samples clarified that seronegative for IgM antibodies while 53 (53%) diabetic patients were seropositive for IgG antibodies and for toxoplasmosis only patients were 30 (40%) and 45 healthy as a (controls) were seronegative for IgG antibodies and diabetic with highly significant differences (P. value ≤ 0.0001). Serum level of TNF alpha was recorded an increase in a group of diabetic with toxoplasmosis patients (84.93 ±18.33 pg/ml) with highly differences of significant (P < 0.004) also MIG level was increased in a group of Toxoplasma gondii only (14.439 ±18.930 pg/ml) with no significant differences.


2,2':6',2"-Terpyridines functionalized in the 4'-position have been prepared by reaction of 2,6-bis-(pyrid-2-yl)-4-pyridone under basic conditions with different electrophiles. The electrophiles consist of functionalized alkyl chains, which are terminated with different anionic leaving groups such as bromides, chlorides and tosylates. These reactions yielded terpyridines, which were modified at the 4'-position with heptoxy-, bromodecanoxy-, cyanopropoxy-, allyloxy-, styrene-4-ethoxy-, as well as (methoxy-ethoxy)-ethoxy functionalities. In an approach towards new functional materials based on polymerizable bis-terpyridyl metal-ion complexes, the 4'-epoxy-methoxy terpyridine was complexed with Co(II) in order to yield the paramagnetic bis-complex, which still could be characterized via 1 H NMR spectrometry. Additionally, in order to obtain an asymmetric bis-complex with two different terpyridine ligands, methyl-diethyleneoxy-terpyridine-Ru(II)-terpyridine-oxyheptane was prepared utilizing a directed coupling method via Ru(III)/Ru(II) chemistry.


Composite magnetically operated sorbents based on saponite and magnetite (containing from 3 to 10 % wt.) were synthesized, and their phase and chemical composition was revealed. Their adsorption properties with respect to the dyes were investigated and it is shown that magnetically operated sorbents have a high sorption capacity (maximum sorption capacity qt by malachite green reaches 324,50 mg/g), which is significantly higher than in their separate phases - native saponite (105.71 mg/g) and magnetite (36.71 mg/g). The calculated parameters of the equation of the Langmuir adsorption isotherm indicate that sorbent shows greater selectivity with respect to the cationic type dyes. It was found that sorption of dyes on magnetically operated sorbents proceeded at a higher rate compared to saponin. When removing spent sorbents from water by magnetic separation, it was revealed that effective removal of magnetically operated sorbents from the working medium is possible with nozzles in the form of nickel-plated steel grids. It is shown that using magnetically operated sorbents and high-gradient magnetic separators allows to purify working media from dyes with high efficiency, up to 90-96%, therefore, using magnetic separators with high-gradient magnetic nozzles in the form of nickel-plated grids with desired technological parameters of magnetic separation process that take into account the magnetic properties of a particular sorbent type is recommended.


Designing corporate strategies to deal with external economic and social forces is a challenge to management, requiring sophisticated environmental scanning systems. Social indicators, such as demographic characteristics, changes in family composition, and perceptions concerning "quality of life" provide a basis for understanding the current environment and anticipating the future.


This paper identifies and analyzes an inherent conflict between some proposed U. S. Social Security reform measures, which would encourage delayed retirement decisions, and the objective of minimizing the economy's unemployment rate. Using recent demographic trends in the age composition of the U.S. labor force, the study suggests that such proposed U.S. Social Security reform measures may actually increase the economy's unemployment rate. It concludes that measures to encourage older workers would relieve labor market pressures (while also helping the Social Security system) if and only if unemployment was persistently near the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). However, in an economy with above NAIRU unemployment, which has been the case most often in recent years, the opposite Social Security policy logic would apply.


The electron spin resonance spectra of single crystals of manganese(II)-doped zinc maleate tetrahydrate have been investigated at room temperature. The transitions arise from a single type of site with gxx= 2.010, gyy= 1.992, and gzz= 2.035. The g shifts from the free spin value have been attributed to an electron-transfer process from the ligands to the S state ion. The observed angular variation of the allowed hyperfine transitions is in good agreement with theory. The spin-Hamiltonian parameters D= 360.5 × 10–4, E= 66.8 × 10–4, a=–8.9 × 10–4, and A=–87.0 × 10–4 cm–1 have been deduced. From the A value an ionicity of 96.5% is derived for the metal–ligand bonding. The analysis of forbidden hyperfine transitions leads to Q′= 1.58 × 10–4 and Q″= 0.28 × 10–4 cm–1 for the axial and rhombic components of the quadrupole coupling tensor respectively for the 55Mn nucleus.


An apparatus for providing a prosthetic heart valve within a patient, comprising: an outer hollow shaft, tubular and longitudinal (40), extending from a proximal portion, or nearest the apparatus to a distal portion, or farthest apparatus; a longitudinal inner shaft (50), disposed within the outer shaft (40) and aligned substantially lengthwise with this, so that the inner shaft (50) is movable longitudinally relative to the outer shaft (40); a tip structure (60), mounted on a distal portion of the inner shaft (50) to substantially close a distal end of the outer shaft when pulling the inner shaft proximally rearwardly relative to the outer shaft; a prosthetic heart valve (200) arranged around the inner shaft (50) proximally relative to the tip structure (60) and within a distal portion of the outer shaft when the inner shaft is in the retracted position and within the distal end of the outer shaft when the inner shaft is in a position relative to the outer shaft, such that the heart valve is releasable from the apparatus when the distal tip is moved distally away from the distal end of outer shaft, and heart valve is moved distally beyond the distal end of the outer shaft; and a structure (110) displacement of natural, folding leaflets from an outer distal end of the shaft (40) and resiliently biased to expand radially outward when deployed from the distal end of the outer shaft; and a structure (300) for protection against drop emboli from the structure (60) tip.


Sequential borylation of a first aryl iodide (I) using a dialkylaminoborane followed by a Suzuki—Miyaura cross coupling of second aryl iodide (II) affords unsymmetrical biaryls, in an efficient and practical manner.


We construct a class of matrix-valued Schrödinger operators with prescribed finite-band spectra of maximum spectral multiplicity. The corresponding matrix potentials are shown to be stationary solutions of the KdV hierarchy. The methods employed in this paper rely on matrix-valued Herglotz functions, Weyl–Titchmarsh theory, pencils of matrices, and basic inverse spectral theory for matrix-valued Schrödinger operators.


Three series of R2MoO6:Eu (R = La, Gd, and Y) phosphor powders were synthesized by using the sol−gel method, and then the powder was annealed at a gradually decreased temperature from 1200 to 700 °C. The structures and spectra of the as-prepared phosphors were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence measurements, respectively. The profile of the Y2MoO6:Eu particles was observed by means of field emission scanning electron microscopy. The excitation of the Mo−O groups yields the emission of Eu3+ ions, indicating that an energy transfer process takes place from the Mo−O groups to Eu3+ ions. With a decrease in annealing temperature, the intensities of the excitation and emission peaks decrease; at the same time, the position of the Mo−O excitation band shifts to the short wavelength direction. The variation of the Mo−O excitation band is discussed from three aspects: crystalline size, coordination environment of Mo, and structural symmetry of the host crystal.


The new still compression image standard, JPEG2000, has emerged with a number of significant features that would allow it to be used efficiently over a wide variety of images. The scalability of the new standard is intended to allow trading off between compression rates and quality of images. Due to multi-resolution nature of wavelet transforms, they have been adopted by the JPEG2000 standard as the transform of choice. In project, we present an implementation for a reconfigurable fully scalable Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) unit that satisfies the specifications of the JPEG2000 standard. The implementation is based on the lifting scheme, which is the most computation efficient implementation of the discrete wavelet transform. Integer wavelet transforms, also known as reversible DWT, have recently received special interest due to a number of significant properties in terms of computational efficiency and storage requirements. The Lifting scheme-based Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) unit was implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), namely the Xilinx Vertix II family. The design is scalable in order to allow a trade off between rate and distortion. A maximum clock frequency of 112 MHz, with throughput of over 400 pixels/s, was achieved by employing techniques such as parallel operation of independent units and pipelining. A speed up of over 61 times has been achieved versus a MatLab compiled C code implementation on a Pentium IV 1.8 GHZ processor.


Amino acid sequence studies of tryptic peptides isolated from a histidine-rich fragment (Cp F5) of human ceruloplasmin are described. Nineteen tryptic peptides were isolated from unmodified Cp F5 and five tryptic peptides were isolated from citraconylated Cp F5. These peptides, together with the cyanogen bromide fragments reported previously, allowed the assembly of the complete sequence of Cp F5. The fragment has 159 residues and a molecular weight of 18,650; it lacks carbohydrate, is rich in histidine, and contains 1 free cysteine that may be part of a copper-binding site. Human ceruloplasmin is a single polypeptide chain with a molecular weight of about 130,000 that is readily cleaved to large fragments by proteolytic enzymes; the relationships of Cp F5 to intact ceruloplasmin and to structural subunits earlier proposed is described. Cp F5 probably is an intact globular domain that is attached to the COOH-terminal end of ceruloplasmin by a labile interdomain peptide bond.


The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has recently entrusted CO.RI.S.T.A. with the development of a radar system that can be mounted onboard small airplanes or helicopters and may operate, at different frequencies belonging to the P-Band, either as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) or as Sounder. In this work, we present preliminary results of the helicopter-borne desert campaign carried out with this system in 2018 over the Erfoud area, Morocco, in the frame of a project that has involved different public Italian Research Institutes and Universities.


Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) takes passenger parties on demand direct to their desired destination. Empty vehicles need to be moved to stations with waiting passengers or with expected demand. Efficient redistribution of empty vehicles is critical in larger PRT networks where running times are longer than acceptable waiting-times. We have previously developed methods for allocating destinations to empty PRT vehicles sequentially as they become available. In this paper the allocation of empty vehicles is refined into three stages. The first stage is essentially the previous sequential allocation. In the second and third stage empty vehicles en route are reallocated by switching destinations between each other. In the second stage waiting passengers are allocated the nearest vehicle in order of longest wait. In the third stage remaining empty vehicles en route are reallocated based on minimum running distance. The optimization problem in the third stage corresponds to the transportation problem and it is solved approximately by a heuristic method suggested by Russel


This paper explains the content of ideological and political education in vocational colleges according to the socialist core value system,and clarifies the way and mechanism to carry out the education.The author holds the idea that the socialist core values help vocational colleges efficiently achieve the aim of ideological and political education,and aid students grow up healthily and skillfully.Therefore,the construction of a harmonious socialist society can be supported intellectually.


PREMISE OF THE STUDY
Microsatellite markers were developed for Incarvillea sinensis var. sinensis (Bignoniaceae), an annual herb endemic to Inner Mongolia, to study the degree to which delayed self-fertilization is favored.

METHODS AND RESULTS
Eight polymorphic primer sets were isolated and characterized in two Inner Mongolia populations of I. sinensis var. sinensis with a relatively simple and fast subcloning method. Numbers of alleles per locus ranged from 2 to 7, with observed and expected heterozygosities ranging from 0 to 0.261 and from 0 to 0.778, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS
These markers will be useful for future studies of self-fertilization adaptability in I. sinensis var. sinensis.


The EU judicial cooperation in civil matters system was developed following the needs of member states to achieve a common goal, which is to create a space of mutual recognition of judgements and distribute the juridical effects of the order created under one jurisdiction thru out the entire European space. One of the main pillars of this system is the creation of European Enforcement Orders, judgements or other titles enforceable in a member state without prior recognition of declaration of enforceability. This system has been developed other the years, starting with the European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims, continuing with the European Order for Payment procedure and European Small Claims procedure, and reaching its peak in Regulation (EU) 1215/2012. By virtue of this Regulation, entered into force in January 2015, a judgment given in a Member State which is enforceable in that Member State shall be enforceable in the other Member States without any declaration of enforceability being required (art. 39). The article analyses the evolution of EU regulation regarding the enforceability of foreign judgements and the system created under Regulation (EU) 1215/2012, given its importance for the judicial cooperation in civil matters and its impact on the legislation of member stated. Also, a brief analysis of the provisions of the new Romanian civil procedure Code is made, given its amendments by Law no. 138/2014.


The idealistic conception of the woman health assistance programs, which ignores the social determinants of the biological reproduction, gives to the facts an explanation based on models which instead of reaching the real causes of the problems, places an ideological curtain that distorts reality and therefore offer solutions which only permit to obtain the adequate pragmatic results, without touching the actual structural causes which can unbalance the system. In view of this fact we intend to develop a research with the objectives of knowing and explaining the biological reproductive profile, according to the insertion of is a specific reproductive profile, socially determined by the peculiar forms of production and consumption of each social class. We consider that the analysis of the data through the frame of the historical and dialectic materialism, permits the scientific explanation of the biological facts, among which the biological reproduction. The study has the purpose of obtaining subsides form the qualitative and quantitative transformation of the woman health programs on a real base, corresponding to the peculiar situation of the social classes in which is inserted the selected population.


Through the implementation of educational technology a web-based educational tool is being developed to aide in the teaching of architectural acoustics to architecture students at the undergraduate and graduate level. As the first step, its scope has been limited to reverberation time in architectural acoustics. The overall objective is to provide a dynamic educational tool for both educators and students to improve their understanding and retention of the principles of architectural acoustics.


Summary The acute physiologic release of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) from the endothelium is critical for vascular homeostasis. This process is prostacyclin- and nitric oxide (NO)-independent in humans. It has been suggested that calcium signaling and endothelial-derived hyperpolarizing factors (EDHF) may play a role in t-PA release. G-protein-coupled receptor-dependent calcium signaling is typically Gαq -dependent. EDHFs have been functionally defined and in various tissues are believed to be various regioisomers of the epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). We tested the hypothesis in vitrothat thrombin-stimulated t-PA release from human microvascular endothelial cells (HMECs) is both Gαq - and EDHF-dependent. Conditioned media was harvested following thrombin stimulation, and t-PA antigen was measured by ELISA. Thrombin-induced t-PA release was limited by a membrane-permeable Gαq inhibitory peptide, the PLC-β antagonist U73122, and the IP3 receptor antagonist 2-aminoethoxyphenylborane, while the Gαq agonist Pasteurellatoxin modestly induced t-PA release. The cytochrome P450 (CYP450) inhibitor, miconazole, and the arachidonic acid epoxygenase inhibitor MS-PPOH inhibited thrombin-stimulated t-PA release, while 5,6-EET-methyl ester stimulated t-PA release. The 5,6- and 14,15-EET antagonist, 14,15-epoxyeicosa-5(Z)- enoic acid, inhibited t-PA release at the 100 µM concentration. However, thrombin-stimulated t-PA release was unaffected by the prostacyclin and NO inhibitors ASA and L-NAME, as well as the potassium channel inhibitors TEA, apamin and charybdotoxin. These studies suggest that thrombin-stimulated t-PA release is Gαq-, PLC-β -, IP3 -, and 5,6-EET-dependent while being prostacyclin-, NO- and K + channel-independent in HMECs.


A bronze antique of Han Dynasty called "zengfou" is introduced in this paper. The concentric circles on the surface of the antique is believed to be the traces of cutting technique. This antique is a real example for the research of metal processing technology of ancient China. 


The nature of mobile communication, characterised for example by terminals having poor user interface and limited processing capacity, as well as complex combination of network protocols, makes the design of security solutions particularly challenging. This paper discusses some of the difficulties system architects are faced with as well as some advantages mobile networks offer when designing security solutions for mobile communication.


ION BUNCH FORMATION STRATEGIES FOR THE JLEIC COLLIDER Bamunuvita Randika Prasad Gamage Old Dominion University, 2018 Director: Dr. Todd J. Satogata An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) has been proposed and supported as the next major nuclear physics facility in the United States, with very high design luminosities of 10 − 10 cm−2 s−1. The Jefferson Lab EIC concept, JLEIC, includes construction of a new ion beam accelerator complex. To achieve the required luminosity, the JLEIC ion collider requires unprecedentedly short ion bunches of 1 cm length at a high repetition frequency of 476 MHz. However, only much longer ion bunches are formed by the ion injector complex producing beams for the collider ring. Formation of short ion bunches from much longer ion bunches in this collider while limiting beam size growth is a fundamental challenge. This dissertation investigates several methods using longitudinal RF gymnastics to address this bunch formation challenge, including debunch/rebunch with barrier bucket manipulations and adiabatic bunch splitting. We discuss background of both methods, and show results of simulations that indicate that multiple adiabatic bunch splits are best suited to produce ion beam that satisfies the current JLEIC requirements. Adiabatic bunch splitting is also further optimized using genetic algorithms to find the optimum tradeoff between acceptable emittance growth and accelerator time necessary to perform the bunch formation process.


Most if not all technology teachers concern themselves with two main types of knowledge, declarative and procedural. They do so because these forms of knowledge are reflected in the syllabi they teach to as "learn about" and "learn to" statements. Studies of adaptable and flexible expert students across all domains of knowledge and walks of life raises questions about the types of knowledge that are missing from school curricula and consequently, from teaching and learning experiences in the technology classroom. Self-regulated expert students always possess conditional, strategic and metacognitive forms of knowledge in order that they can solve problems in authentic contexts. Yet technology classrooms rarely if ever acknowledge and nurture the development of these forms of knowledge.


With this work I want to build a mechanism that it will allow to adjust us automatically the inclination of a photovoltaic solar panel respect from sun using materials low cost so we will be able to get the maximum capacity to generate electricity from panel. Furthermore it will implement a monitoring software system so we will be able to get and store information generated for the solar panel for your visualization, analysis and adjustment in the future. Also at the end of the document will be append several improvements to system implemented.


Over the last two decades, large margin methods have yielded excellent performance on many tasks. The theoretical properties of large margin methods have been intensively studied and are especially well-established for support vector machines (SVMs). However, the scalability of large margin methods remains an issue due to the amount of computation they require. This is especially true for applications involving sequential data.
In this thesis we are motivated by the problem of automatic speech recognition (ASR) whose large-scale applications involve training and testing on extremely large data sets. The acoustic models used in ASR are based on continuous-density hidden Markov models (CD-HMMs). Researchers in ASR have focused on discriminative training of HMMs, which leads to models with significantly lower error rates. More recently, building on the successes of SVMs and various extensions thereof in the machine learning community, a number of researchers in ASR have also explored large margin methods for discriminative training of HMMs.
This dissertation aims to apply various large margin methods developed in the machine learning community to the challenging large-scale problems that arise in ASR. Specifically, we explore the use of sequential, mistake-driven updates for online learning and acoustic feature adaptation in large margin HMMs. The updates are applied to the parameters of acoustic models after the decoding of individual training utterances. For large margin training, the updates attempt to separate the log-likelihoods of correct and incorrect transcriptions by an amount proportional to their Hamming distance. For acoustic feature adaptation, the updates attempt to improve recognition by linearly transforming the features computed by the front end. We evaluate acoustic models trained in this way on the TIMIT speech database. We find that online updates for large margin training not only converge faster than analogous batch optimizations, but also yield lower phone error rates than approaches that do not attempt to enforce a large margin.
We conclude this thesis with a discussion of future research directions, highlighting in particular the challenges of scaling our approach to the most difficult problems in large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition.


Historian Michael Sonenscher is correct in noting that "capitalism" in the twenty-first century has taken on a politically charged meaning divorced from its intellectual origins, and his goal of situating the term in historical context is a worthy undertaking. Unfortunately, the purpose of Sonenscher's book appears to be something other than understanding the historical meaning of "capitalism." Rather, he seeks to impress upon his readers that "capitalism" and "the division of labor" are distinct concepts—and, as he so bluntly puts it, "that the division of labor is worse."


The optical fiber communications community experienced 30 years of rapid growth from 1970 to 2000, and a severe downturn lasting several years after 2000, but has been rising up again in recent years. During this time, optical communications technology has established itself as the underlying basis of a new social infrastructure, supporting, for example, key industrial, financial, educational and medical activities. The recent globalization of the world would not have been feasible without our optical technology breakthroughs. In recent years optical communications have allowed the feasibility of IPTV applications, including broadcast TV, on-demand, and interactive streaming services, which have increased traffic by orders of magnitude, but not perhaps with a parallel established business model. This exploding traffic growth rate is exceeding that of Moorepsilas Law, which has meant the power consumption of our technology area is also forming an ever larger proportion of overall CO2 emissions, following that of the car industry. Our quest in the coming 10 years of further technical progress must be to find solutions, like the EDFA or ROADM in the past, which increase the flexibility and efficiency of photonic networks, as well as develop business model solutions underpinning the optical technology area, so as to continue supporting the social infrastructure of our society.


In this paper we interpret the problem of �climate change� in relation to Heidegger's critics of metaphysics and its accomplishment, the technical era. We will show that such criticism is developed basically as a one of the domination of the will, respectively, with the metaphysical understanding of man as �master of the earth�. With the domain of the will not only nature is reduced to a mere source of resources, but also the reality in general is understood only as objectivity. Its counterpart is the serenity. We will see that the serenity is based on a phenomenological-ethical approach that aspires to be a rescue of things. That ethical dimension will be discovered as a rescue of the others (things, nature and human beings) and even as love. Finally we will argue that climate change does not require an environmental ethics, but rather an ethics of letting be.


Introduction There has been dramatic evolution in multiple myeloma (MM) therapy in the last decade. The novel agents (Thal, Bor, and Len) have been reported to improve natural history of the cases with MM. In order to use optimal drugs for each patient, we should investigate the actual conditions of the clinical practice. However, we could not have the information regarding epidemiology, clinical features, treatment results, prognosis, and so on because there is no large-scale database demonstrating the clinical features of MM-related diseases in Japan. Therefore, we have founded the study group, named as Kansai Myeloma Forum (KMF), for the purpose of registering the cases with MM-related diseases in Kansai area of Japan on November, 2012.

In this study, we analyzed the clinical characteristics and outcomes of MM-related diseases registered in KMF and evaluated the treatment strategies in the novel agent era.

Patients & Results Among a total of 923 cases initially diagnosed since 2006 and registered to KMF database until March 31, 2013, we analyzed 434 symptomatic MM cases (213 females/221 males), who were treated since 2006. The median age was 69 (range: 32-96), and the OS rates at 3 and 5 years were 68.7% and 45.3%, respectively. The prognosis of the cases treated after 2010 became significantly better than that of the cases treated between 2006 and 2009 (log-rank test: P=0.019). The prognosis of the cases treated with the novel agents was significantly better than without them (p=0.005). Among the non-transplanted 339 cases, the effects of the novel drugs were shown more clearly (p=0.002). The best response during the course differentiated the prognosis; the hazard ratios of CR, VGPR, PR, SD and PD compared to sCR were 2.23, 3.19, 9.54, 16.84 and 432.01, respectively (P<0.001). Ninety-five cases received the high-dose melphalan therapy (HD-MEL) with stem cell support. The OS rate of these 95 cases was significantly better than that of non-transplanted 339 cases (90.1% at 3-year/61.4% at 5-year vs. 61.6%/40.2%, p<0.001). CR/sCR rate after HD-MEL was 50%. Also, 83 out of 95 cases received at least one of the novel agents during their clinical courses, and 51 cases achieved CR/sCR as best response, showing significant better survival than the cases with best response of VGPR or <PR (p=0.008). The superiority of OS in HD-MEL group was also observed even when less than 65 years old patients (74 out of 95 patients) were compared to 55 patients (≤ 65 years) without HD-MEL but receiving novel agents (90.6% at 3-year/71.4% at 5-year vs. 73.6%/47.3%, p=0.036).

Next, we analyzed 123 cases with MGUS and 54 with smoldering MM (SMM), who had diagnosed in 2006 or later. The median age at diagnosis was 66.0 (range: 34-88) in 123 MGUS cases (53 females/70 males). The type of paraprotein detected was IgA in 15.4% of the cases and IgG in 69.1 %. With a median follow-up period of 27.2 months, 8 cases (6.5%) received chemotherapies due to the disease evolution. The evolution rates at 1, 3 and 5 years after the diagnosis were 2.1%, 9.0% and 12.0%, respectively (2.4% per year). The 3-year OS after the start of treatments was 75.0%. In 54 SMM cases (29 females/25 males), the median age was 68.2 (range: 40-87), and IgG and IgA types comprised 72.2% and 14.8%, respectively. With a median follow-up period of 22.4 months, 15 cases (27.8%) received chemotherapy due to progression to symptomatic MM. The evolution rates at 1, 3 and 5 years after diagnosis were 15.4%, 36.7% and 62.5%, respectively (12.5% per year). The 3-year OS after the start of treatments was 76.9%.

Discussion & Conclusion The current study revealed the significant effects of novel agents on symptomatic MM cases in the practical use. It has been still unknown and controversial whether HD-MEL with auto-PBSCT is necessary or not in the novel agent era. In this analysis, it was shown that HD-MEL could provide significant survival benefit to symptomatic MM cases even in the novel-agent era. However, it is necessary to determine when and how we should perform HD-MEL for MM during therapeutic sequences including novel agents. This study also suggested that it might be unnecessary to generally consider an early chemotherapy to MGUS or SMM cases before the evolution, since the prognosis after the evolution seemed not to be inferior to that of the de-novo symptomatic MM. Thus, KMF database would provide abundant and beneficial information to consider the treatment strategies of the cases with MM-related diseases.

Disclosures: Tanaka: celgene: Research Funding. Kosugi: Janssen: Honoraria; celgene: Research Funding. Kida: celgene: Research Funding. Ohta: celgene: Research Funding. Yamamura: celgene: Research Funding. Shibayama: Janssen: Honoraria; celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding. Kohara: celgene: Research Funding. Kaneko: celgene: Research Funding. Fuchida: celgene: Research Funding. Kobayashi: celgene: Research Funding. Miyamoto: celgene: Research Funding. Shindo: celgene: Research Funding. Kuroda: celgene: Research Funding. Uoshima: celgene: Research Funding. Matsumura: celgene: Research Funding. Yoshii: celgene: Research Funding. Kamitsuji: celgene: Research Funding. Boku: celgene: Research Funding. Ishii: celgene: Research Funding. Matsuda: celgene: Research Funding. Takahashi: celgene: Research Funding. Hamada: celgene: Research Funding. Adachi: celgene: Research Funding. Nakatani: celgene: Research Funding. Nomura: celgene: Research Funding. Taniwaki: celgene: Research Funding. Takaori: celgene: Research Funding. Shimazaki: celgene: Research Funding. Tsudo: celgene: Research Funding. Hino: celgene: Research Funding. Matsumura: Janssen: Honoraria, Research Funding; celgene: Research Funding. Kanakura: celgene: Research Funding.


This experiment was conducted to study the variation of freshness of cooled pork under the condition of 4℃ and 20℃ through analysis on sensory evaluation,detections of volatile fatty acid,pH,TVB-N,moisture as well as chromatism evaluation.Results showed that there were significant differences among the first four indexes which means they can exactly reflect the freshness degree of pork.We hope this paper can offer some data reference for building a new model of meat freshness rapid evaluation in the future.


In this paper, stepped frequency pulse trains are utilized to synthesize ultra-wideband radar range profile. Because of the errors of measured target velocity, the synthesized range profile still has range migration and power divergence. Therefore, a new method, called iterative dimidiate approach, is proposed. By exploiting this new technique, the range migration and range spread along range dimension can be neglected. The simulation results prove the validity of the method.


The spin-torque diode effect has enabled a nanoscale category of microwave detectors, which are characterized by ultrahigh sensitivities and can work at sub-μW input power. Here, we develop such detectors having a dual-band rectification curve centered at the frequencies f1 and f2 and with a rectified voltage of opposite sign ( V f 1 > 0 and V f 2 < 0). By selecting the proper bias current and field, the sensitivity is larger than 8000 mV/mW. The physics behind this behavior is the simultaneous excitation of different magnetization oscillation modes and the injection locking mechanism. This dual-band microwave detector could find potential applications in the Internet of Things by reducing the size and the power consumption for signal demodulation in a binary frequency shift keying modulation/demodulation scheme.


Until recently, the works of Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir, were known chiefly through Hermann Suchier's nineteenth-century edition of the manuscript. Philippe's two verse romances, La Manekine (c. 1230–1240) and the later Jehan et Blonde, have now become more widely known through the publication of versions in modern French. Both can be considered as typical initiation romances, to the extent that the stories of Joie, the protagonist of La Manekine, and Jehan, hero of Jehan et Blonde, span several years, bringing them from adolescence into adulthood, marriage, and an established position in society. Beyond this superficial categorization, one noteworthy feature of both narratives is that their French author chose to set various segments across the Channel, in Scotland and in England. Such "exotic" elements as the Anglo-Norman dialect or Scottish customs unquestionably demonstrate Philippe's skill at weaving strands of local colour into the texture of his romances. They also merit attention as narrative strategies. This article will examine the episodes situated in England or Scotland, exploring their variations and their aesthetic or dramatic function within the respective narrative frameworks. First, however, a brief summary of the


During last 5 years, more or less standard geophysical techniques have been used in frame of the huge environmental projects in Bratislava capital and Kosice city. They are: observations of the intensity and changes of the natural and anthropogenic magnetic activity; measurements of the electromagnetic smog level, caused namely by very high frequency radio-transmitters; radioactive pollution and radon risk assessment.


Color poster with text and graphs describing research conducted by Kelly N. Paulson, Elizabeth T. Kooistra, Kristina K. Vargo, and Tasha Rieck, advised by Kevin P. Klatt.


From a geographical perspective tourism has been increasingly seen as an activity that creates socially constructed productive spaces which evolve over time. Tourism destinations are dynamic systems and as such, they should be managed in order to maintain their competitiveness. In contrast to the deterministic (and in some cases pessimistic) forecasts of some of the evolutionary models proposed in tourism geography(Butler, 1980; Christaller, 1964; Gilbert, 1939; Plog, 1973), a number of works...


We report the synthesis and photophysical properties of 1,4-bis(9-ethynylanthracenyl)benzene. Results in dilute hexane solutions give a very high fluorescence quantum yield (Φ = 0.97) and a lifetime of τ = 1.8 ns. Studies at different temperatures, viscosities, and micromorphologies, as well as excited-state semiempirical calculations, indicate that conformations having aryl groups coplanar absorb and emit at wavelengths that are longer than those that have their aryl groups orthogonal or twisted. A simple MO picture is consistent with essentially frictionless aryl group rotation in the ground state and a relatively high rotational barrier in cummulene-like excited states.


As a natural edible alkalescent polysaccharide,chitosan had many advantages such as high value-added,a kind of renewable resources,antibacterial,non-toxic,easy to be filmed,biodegradable,and chelating heavy metal.The advance in research of chitosan and its derivative on food industry and agriculture was summarized.The application of single chitosan,modified chitosan and composite in food preservation was overviewed.The plants,antibacterial antioxidant effect,clarified fruit juice,additives and the food industry wastewater treatment were introduced in detail,and the future development of fresh film of chitosan was prospected.


In current industrial production, the acquisition and processing of large amounts of sensor monitoring data have become an important component of equipment monitoring. Artificial intelligence approaches have the advantage in the management ability of big data from manufacturing processes and are thus increasingly used in industry. However, the artificial intelligence methods are suitable for specific production lines and hardly generalizable to new situations. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a transfer learning-based Stacked Auto-encoder (SAE) with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which simplifies high-dimensional data into generalization and effective features that characterize the machine tool's working state. First, it uses an unsupervised SAE for general feature extraction for monitoring data from different production lines. Second, a few supervised data are used to fine-turning a working condition classifier composed of a one-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network to verify the performance of the model in the new production line. The proposed method reduces the amount of labeled training data while at the same time enhancing the accuracy. The experiment result shows a better performance of the proposed method, which suggests a strong potential for applications in pattern recognition during sheet metal forming processes.


Rotational atherectomy (RA) is an adjunctive tool for the management of heavily calcified coronary lesions during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but the clinical outcomes remain unclear. Access site choice is also poorly defined and there is growing evidence that transradial approach (TRA) is associated with lower complications and lower mortality.

 To assess the safety and long-term outcomes of RA for calcified coronary lesions and to investigate the influence of vascular access site in the efficacy and safety of the procedure.

 Retrospective single-centre study that included consecutive PCI with RA performed from January 2006 to December 2017. Endpoint was a composite of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), defined as cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke and target vessel revascularization, at 1- and 5-year.

 246 procedures were included in a total of 236 patients (pts): mean age 70.1±9.7 years, 73.6% male; 36.2% had previous PCI, 12.2% vascular peripheral disease (VPD), 24% reduced left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) and 6.9% were under hemodialysis. PCI with RA was mostly performed due to stable angina (48.9%) and via TRA (55.3%), with a total of 371 treated segments and a median number of 1 vessel treated per intervention. The left anterior descending artery was the most frequently treated artery (67.5%). Single burr was used in 76% of cases (mean number of burrs 1.23; mean burr size 1.5 mm). Procedural success rate was 94.7%. Complications were recorded in 9.3%, with no procedure related death. Clinical follow-up was complete in 98.8% of pts at 1-year and 81.3% at 5-year (mean time 62.3±41.8 months). Survival free of MACE at 1- and 5-year were 83.7% and 73.2%, respectively. Multivariate Cox regression identified 6 independent predictors (only 1 protector) for 1-year MACE (Fig. A) and 6 independent predictors (all of increased risk) for 5-year MACE (Fig. B). TRA was protector of 1-year MACE and Kaplan-Meier curves showed benefit for both 1- and 5-year MACE occurrence (Fig. C and D), without significant difference in procedural success (p=0.92) and complications (p=0.45) rate comparing to transfemoral approach.

 RA followed by stenting was a safe procedure with a high immediate success rate but an increased number of long-term cardiovascular events. Some clinical conditions, such as previous PCI, VPD and reduced LVEF, seems to adversely influence the long-term outcome while TRA appears to be protective.


Starting from aspects of institution recombination,organization structure,and operation mechanism,etc.,this paper expounds the idea for "one-divided-in-two" reform of municipal Party newspaper office.


This study is about the concept of consideration of Benazir Bhutto about State and woman. Focus to background the emergence of consideration of state and woman by Benazir Bhutto. There are two important things as result of this study : First, there are paradigm Islam consider that Islam is one of ideology or basic of existence a State. Second, woman reputed has great participation on sproduction and implementation politic decision. Method of  this study use descriptive-qualitative method purpose to describe a incident with more detail. Kata Kunci: Political Thought, state, woman.


A highly manufacturable 0.25- mu m ion-implant-process has been used for the development of monolithic microwave integrated circuit low-noise amplifiers (MMIC LNAs) covering the 2-18-GHz band. Noise figures of less than 2.5 dB and 3.0 dB have been achieved with MMICs covering the 2-6-GHz and 6-18-GHz bands, respectively. Insertion gains were 16 dB for the 2-6-GHz design and 10 dB for the 6-18-GHz design. This performance is comparable to that reported for high-electron-mobility-transistor (HEMT) processes.<<ETX>>


This work aims at presenting the main results achieved by Working Group (WG) 1 "Novel Ground Penetrating Radar instrumentation" of the COST (European COoperation in Science and Technology) Action TU1208 "Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar" (www.cost.eu, www.GPRadar.eu).

The principal goal of the Action, which started in April 2013 and is ending in October 2017, is to exchange and increase scientific-technical knowledge and experience of Ground Penetrating Radar techniques in civil engineering, whilst promoting throughout Europe the effective use of this safe non-destructive technique. The Action involves more than 300 Members from 28 COST Countries, a Cooperating State, 6 Near Neighbour Countries and 6 International Partner Countries.


The introduction presents the main directions of fuzzy applied engineering. The second chapter contains condensed elements of hardware implementations of fuzzy information processing underlaying the advantages of intrinsic fuzzylogic circuitry. In the introduction and in the third chapter, the author presents some aspects of his studies and practical results in fuzzy engineering applied to both stands and real-time control of the automotive engines. He tried to demonstrate that to claim «fuzzy logic as a gimnick» is absolutely unjustified


A series of anion radical salts, (DCNQI)2Cu, where DCNQI is N, N -dicyanoquinonediimine, have been extensively investigated because of their peculiar physical phenomena such as heavy-fermion-like behavior and the Metal-Insulator transition [1]. The hybridization between the wide 1D 2pπ bands and the narrow 3d bands is a key factor in understanding electronic properties of these systems. One of these salts, (DMe-DCNQI)2Cu, (DMe-DCNQI = 2,5-dimethyl-DCNQI) has an unusual pressure-temperature (P − T ) phase diagram (Fig. 1). At ambient pressure, this material shows metallic behavior down to 450 mK. Peculiar to (DMe-DCNQI)2Cu, an insulating phase is induced by the application of pressure higher than 100 bar [2]. This unusual P − T phase diagram can be reproduced by the chemical pressure effect using selectively deuterated compounds [3]. The fully deuterated sample of (DMe-DCNQI)2Cu, in which the chemical pressure corresponds to 512 bar, exhibits the antiferromagnetic ordering below 8 K [4]. Recently, we have developed a high-pressure μSR setup for the RIKEN-RAL Muon Facility and successfully observed a sign of magnetic ordering of (DMeDCNQI)2Cu under 500 bar by means of the high-pressuregetup. In this presentation, we will show the experimental results of high-pressure μSR measurements for (DMe-DCNQI)2Cu.


This article examines in detail the European Commission's main instrument in aiding the fluency of merger procedures, the Best Practices on the conduct of EC merger proceedings guideline, and portrays its positive effect on the regulatory transition phase of 2004, when the new EC Merger regulation 139/2004 came into force. Relevant background information concerning the legal context is provided in order to illustrate the anticipated hazards of the transition phase, which in retrospect never actualised. This paper seeks to answer how this scenario was avoided: What measures did the Directorate General for Competition take and as a result, what effect did this have on business communities' freedoms and responsibilities. These conclusions are drawn from 2004's statistical survey on European merger control. The Blackstone/Acetex case of 2004 is provided as a case study to demonstrate the potential complications of the official merger procedure and to emphasize the importance of a well-managed pre-notification procedure preceding the actual concentration. In addition, the Commission's increased powers to issue fines are illustrated in the form its former decisions, where the concentrating parties neglected to comply with EC competition rules.


Silicon micromachined sensors and actuators that incorporate piezoelectric materials are considered. Widespread application has been restricted by the properties of the materials available. The prospects for micromachined piezoelectric devices have improved since it became possible to deposit PbZr/sub x/Ti/sub 1-x/O/sub 3/ layers over large areas with goad uniformity and reproducibility. Considerable progress has been made in developing process technologies for integrating PbZr/sub x/Ti/sub 1-x/O/sub 3/ thin films layers with surface and bulk micromachined structures. As incorporation of these materials in silicon microstructures becomes established it will be possible to consider the integration of bipolar and CMOS electronics with the sensors and actuators. Material and process integration techniques developed to incorporate thin film PbZr/sub x/Ti/sub 1-x/O/sub 3/ onto bulk micromachined structures are described. The design of a triaxial accelerometer and the processing steps required are outlined.


The consensus among Studies examining differences in coupon redemption between ethnicminority consumers and the general population is that ethnic consumers redeem significantly fewer cents-off coupons. The current study goes a step further by examining coupon redemption by several methods of distribution. It is hypothesized that differences between African- and Hispanic-Americans and Anglo-Americans will be significant for some methods of distribution but not for others. Results of the study indicate that the only types of coupons for which differences are found between AngloAmericans and their ethnic-minority counterparts are those distributed through print media. The implication of this finding is that marketers targeting ethnic consumers with coupon promotions must distribute them in such a way in which these consumers will be reached.


ing tributaries, and perhaps in the Zuni watershed south of Gallup, New Mexico. Extensive surveys throughout the known range of L. vittata during 1960 found only one specimen of this cyprinid in Clear Creek, Arizona (Miller, 1961); however, a large population was found in East Clear Creek, during 1961 (Miller, 1963). Surveys conducted by Minckley and Carufel (1967) in 1963 and 1966 found L. vittata throughout its known range in Arizona; however, populations declined again after this period (Minckley, 1973). Due to a sporadic distribution and a reduction in numbers, L. vittata was listed as threatened by USFWS in 1987 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1987. Recently, Blinn et al. (1993) and Rinne and Alexander (1995) demonstrated, by in situ cage experiments, that predation by Oncorhynchus mykiss (rainbow trout) may, in part, be responsible for the disjunct and sporadic geographic distribution of L. vittata.


Abstract Marriage and family counselors are repeatedly exposed to problem situations in which ineffective communicative patterns are a major factor for their clients. One frequent context in which this is seen is that of interpersonal conflict. For the counselor to recognize that two or more parties are not effectively communicating is insufficient to help restore effective dialogue. What is missing is a method one can use to train effective communicators; a method by which communications between conflicted individuals can be restored and will be more resistant to future communication disruption. The three main steps of this model are: 1) owning one's position; 2) attending to the other person; and 3) resolving the conflict. Each of these steps contains several specific, learnable behaviors. The result of these learned behavioral patterns is the development of more effective communicators and communication patterns.


In this paper, we propose the SNR-based hybrid incremental/selection Decode-and-Forward (H-ISDF) relaying protocol. In the new protocol, the destination and the relay jointly choose relaying protocol based on the quality of the received signal at the destination and the relay, specifically, source retransmission in the second phase is allowed. We evaluate the performance of the protocol in terms of the end-to-end bit-error-rate (BER) and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) outage probability over independent non-identical flat Rayleigh fading channels. Exact closed-form expressions for the optimal relaying threshold that effectively minimizes the end-to-end BER and the outage probability of the system are derived. Monte-Carlo simulations are further provided to confirm the analytical results.


I review some aspects related to the influence of planets on the evolution of stars before and beyond the main sequence. Some processes include the tidal destruction of a planet on to a very young main sequence star, on to a low mass main sequence star, and on to a brown dwarf. This process releases gravitational energy that might be observed as a faint intermediate luminosity optical transient (ILOT) event. I then summarize the view that some elliptical planetary nebulae are shaped by planets. When the planet interacts with a low mass upper asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star it both enhances the mass loss rate and shapes the wind to form an elliptical planetary nebula, mainly by spinning up the envelope and by exciting waves in the envelope. If no interaction with a companion, stellar or sub-stellar, takes place beyond the main sequence, the star is termed a Jsolated star, and its mass loss rates on the giant branches are likely to be much lower than what is traditionally assumed.


Analysis and comparison were rnade of the changes of the performance of the worm gear tooth contact area(dimention and location) before and after using the modification techniques like the parabolic modification,parameter conversion medification,and the three-splitting modification technique of simulating the U.S.A model machine to get practical statistics.It was proved that the parabolic modification technique was more effective than the others,and thus providing a theoretic basis for guiding production.


In most of the earlier research for multiple zeros, in order to obtain a new iteration function from the existing scheme, the usual practice is to make no change at the first substep. In this paper, we explore the idea that what are the advantages if the flexibility of choice is also given at the first substep. Therefore, we present a new two‐point sixth‐order scheme for multiple roots (m>1). The main advantages of our scheme over the existing schemes are flexibility at both substeps, simple body structure, smaller residual error, smaller error difference between two consecutive iterations, and smaller asymptotic error constant. The development of the scheme is based on midpoint formula and weight functions of two variables. We compare our methods with the existing methods of the same order with real‐life applications as well as standard test problems. From the numerical results, we find that our methods can be considered as better alternates for the existing methods of the same order. Finally, dynamical study of the proposed schemes is presented that confirms the theoretical results.


The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of using augmented reality applications to identify potential food allergens. Seven individuals with intellectual disabilities participated. Participants were shown how to use a mobile device equipped with the Red Laser application to identify potential food allergens. Results indicated a functional relation. All participants readily identified possible food allergens using augmented reality and maintained the skill six weeks later. Conclusions are discussed in the context of using augmented reality applications to increase independent living skills for individuals with intellectual disabilities.


Sir, Double-boosted protease inhibitor (DBPI) therapy has been an option in HIV-infected individuals requiring salvage therapy, including those who have exhausted treatment options, harbour complex resistance mutations or have intolerance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). Studies have shown a range of virological responses 1‐5 and in a retrospective clinical cohort comparing DBPI versus single PI regimens no significant differences in the relative odds of viral suppression were


In the independent innovation,we must strengthen intellectual property right protection to achieve the aim of innovation.This thesis analysed the departure between intellectual property right protection strategy in china and independent innovation.And probed the measure of intellectual property right protection in independent innovation: consummating lawmaking system,the sanity of management mechanism,setting down specific strategy,fostering per- son with ability.


Objective:To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of two drug-eluting stents in the treatment of ostial lesions of coronary artery.Methods:From Apr.2004 to Apr.2006,92 patients with 95 ostial lesions of coronary artery received drug-eluting stents.At 6 months after procedure angiographic follow-ups were performed,clinical and interventional data were analyzed.Patients were divided into paclitaxel-eluting stent group(PES group,n=45,with 47 lesions)and rapamycin-eluting stents group(SES group,n=47,with 48 lesions).Baseline clinical characteristics in both groups were comparable.Quantitative coronary angiography(QCA)was performed for all patients.The major adverse cardiovascular events(MACE),including deaths,myocardial infarction(MI)and target lesion revascularization(TLR)were compared.Results:The number of ostial lesions of the two groups located at LM,RCA and LCX was the same,but the lesions involving LAD and total occlusion lesions were more common in SES group(P0.05).Stents were implanted successfully in all patients.There was no MACE during 30-day follow-up in two groups.At 6-month follow-up,MACE was similar in both groups.Two patients(4.3%)in SES group and 4(8.9%)in PES group underwent TLR(P0.05).Angiographic follow-up showed lower binary restenosis rates(4.3% vs 22.2%,P0.01),and smaller late loss(0.16±0.18 mm vs 0.65±0.67 mm,P0.001)in SES group.Conclusions:The two types of drug-eluting stents for ostial lesions of coronary artery are effective and safe.Angiographic restenosis and late loss were lower in rapamycin-eluting coronary stents.TLR showed no significant difference between two types of drug-eluting coronary stents.


The present invention provides a method and system for page messages, comprising: receiving the transmitted message; sender determines whether the received message belongs to at least a temporary group message corresponding to the contact list page messages; if the message is sent Party page messages belonging to the contact list, the message is stored in the temporary message corresponding group; alert message according to the alert mode message temporary group message stored preset. By this method and system, upon receiving the transmitted message, the message do not have received such a message or a reject message absolute choice, but according to the message sender that is stored in the corresponding temporary group message , and issued to the user mode of the alert message corresponding to the group staging alert message. So to meet the needs of users related to message processing and improve the processing efficiency of the user message.


(Gomori-Koelle technique) after any available copper bound to the nodal acidic mucosubstances had previously been blocked with ferrocyanide (Figs. 3 and 4). We conclude that acetyicholinesterase activity in the region of the node of Ranvier, as seen with the light microscope, is not due to precipitation of thiocholine by copper bound to nodal acidic mucosubstances. However, the appearances in Figure 1 and 2 do not necessarily reflect the complete distribution of acetylcholinesterase, for the enzyme was partly inhibited by the above-men-


Extensive Reading is an activity to read a text-based on someone's interest, and it is an effective method to improve reading skills. Nowadays, the university promotes Extensive Reading to boost students' interest in reading along with improving reading skills. The purpose of this research is to investigate the students' perception of using material Extensive Reading based on the CEFR Framework. This research using the qualitative method and collecting the data through SHOWeD. The participants in this research were 14 EFL college students of University in Indonesia who are following the Extensive Reading class for 16 meetings in 4 months. The result finds out that the students have positive perceptions toward Extensive Reading based on CEFR as material in reading.


Reaction of [PtCI2(dppm)](dppm =Ph2PCH2PPh2) with Na[BH4] gives the binuclear cation [Pt2H2(µ-H)-(µ-dppm)2]+ isolated both as its chloride and hexafluorophosphate salts. Reaction of this complex cation with CCl4 or hydrogen chloride affords the related [Pt2(µ-CI)H2(µ-dppm)2]+ and [Pt2CI2(µ-H)(µ-dppm)2]+. The latter cation is also formed by protonation of the Pt-Pt bond in the platinum(I) complex [Pt2CI2(µ-dppm)2]. The 1H and 31P n.m.r. spectra of these complexes are reported. Study of the hydride resonances is shown to be an excellent method of distinguishing between terminal and bridging hydride. The Pt-Cl and Pt-H vibrational bands are in agreement with the proposed structures of these complexes, but vibrational bands due to bridging hydride groups could not be observed.


and speaker to sixth forms. He emerged as a leading authority on the history of science, at a time when such historians were rare. But, through it all, he maintained his central passion to bring together theology and science in a unified world view. It has been said by one who knew him that 'he was a man of almost all the talents and interests in an age of specialists. But he was so sure of the rightness of his position that he could not be self-critical about it.' Perhaps for this reason perhaps because he remained an 'unrepentant liberal' and would have no truck with German theology the institutional Church could find no work for him after his retirement. The question remains whether his sort of theology is dead or whether the issue of Natural Religion and Christian Theology (the title of his Gifford Lectures in 1951-52, published at Cambridge in 1953) is one to which Christians must constantly return. F. B. WELBOURN


MOPO-LSI is an open-source Multi-Objective Portfolio Optimization Library for Sustainable Investments. This document provides a user guide for MOPO-LSI version 1.0, including problem setup, workflow and the hyper-parameters in configurations.


John Warner of the —Texon Staff Photo-by Stanley Pernor Bicentennial celebration addresses governors. WASHINGTON (AP) V President • • Ford is:"studying the possibtlity-of par doning all those convicted or accused of .;'•* Watergate-related crimes, a.spokesmah said Tuesday." The 'surprise disclosure, heightening . the confroversytouched of [ by . Eo'rd^s ,U pardon for Richard Nixon, was made by 'acting press secretary John Hushen, who •' said he spoke with Ford's express <-.-'.•• authorization..:.. .!?; '"The question of pardons is under' ' ;«study," he said, adding that the review • embraces all... 48'. individuals who have been accused of crimes associated..wi£h~" • the'Watergate label. Of the 48. 39 have pleaded guilty or: been convicted by :. juries:: • ^ '' u»9i, "I, CAN give you n^fuhl^Kjguttance ,'f-w i Hushen'said. • • -• . " •.' White House counsel' PhilipBuchen— later told reporters he understood Ford ;?'*:Was . personally' conducting the .-pardon• study at this point but that he, Buchen, expected to be involved later. . Buchen said he believed Ford first dis closed -his /interest in possible broadscale Watergate pardons at a morning . meeting with' Hushen and counselor Robert T. Hartmann. . > ,, Hushen was asked by a newsman if he ^understood the likely impact of his Fordauthorized statement on a nation already divided over the merits of the Nixon par don . . "I think those factors have been taken into aqcount," he said, adding that the launching of a study did not mean par dons actuallv would be granted. •REACTION'-fromgressional Democrats was swift and critical.-Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West. Virginia said-new par dons •'"would complete the cover-up of the cover-up.'' House; Speaker CarlAlbert, D-Okla., said they "would be


Objective: To describe the case of an infant with gastro-esophageal reflux disease which improved while under chiropractic care and to review the literature on chiropractic manipulation and gastro-esophageal reflux disease. Clinical Features: A 4-month-old female infant with gastro-esophageal reflux disease was brought into the clinic by her mother for chiropractic care. The mother reported multiple episodes of reflux and vomiting per day. Slight asymmetry of the frontal bone was noticed with a flattening of the left side. Methods: A literature search of PubMed using the subject heading "gastro-esophageal reflux disease AND chiropractic" or "GERD AND chiropractic or "acid reflux disease AND chiropractic" was performed. Intervention and Outcomes: The patient was treated with chiropractic manipulation in the form of sustained pressure and Activator adjusting instrument. Recommended treatment frequency was 2x/week for 2 weeks and 1x/week for 4 weeks after. Cranial adjustments were performed, particularly on the frontal bone. The patient's mother reported a large bowel movement after the adjustment on the same day and a longer than normal subsequent sleep cycle. At the next visit the patient's mother reported that the number of episodes per day of vomiting and reflux had decreased. Over the next 3 weeks both the number of episodes per day and number of days with any vomiting and reflux decreased. Within 3 weeks the infant had no reflux or vomiting. Conclusion: There is limited literature about the effect of chiropractic care as a treatment for gastro-esophageal reflux disease. There are reports of successful chiropractic treatment of gastro-esophageal reflux disease. This patient's reflux and plagiocephaly improved while under chiropractic care.


The article analyzes the key aspects of the development of relations between Russia and the OSCE from the point of view of the complex issues of Euro-Atlantic security. According to the author, the acсession of Crimea to Russia and the crisis around Ukraine have further exacerbated the preceding tensions in bilateral relations. Today, they are much like the Cold war confrontation. In Europe, the military confrontation is now intensifying. Today Moscow is openly accused of undermining the foundations of the post-war order in Europe, of illegal steps to break the generally accepted international legal norms, of aggressive intentions that threaten European stability. At the same time, the existence of significant distrust between Russia and the West does not mean that we should wait for some pause, abandon attempts to take constructive steps to re-establish cooperation. Such an approach would be counterproductive – especially since both sides are sending, albeit muted, signals of readiness for dialogue. In this situation, the author proposes a number of initial steps that could increase the level of trust between the parties, would ideally move to a meaningful dialogue on the future of the European security architecture. Various OSCE mechanisms could play a useful role. The author emphasizes the importance of increasing the effectiveness of the OSCE-originated crisis mechanisms in the context of the erosion of strategic stability on the European continent as a result of the unprecedented deterioration of relations between Russia and the West. Special emphasis is placed on modernization of the crisis management potential of the OSCE and promotion of dialogue between the West and Russia, including the establishment of a novel consultative platform in the framework of the OSCE to discuss emerging crisis situations. A number of specific confidence-building measures are proposed to restore dialogue and find solutions to crisis situations in the region.


The administration of 7–8 mg of b-aminoproprionitrile fumarate (bAPN-F) intralesionally results in a statistically significant decreased tendon cross-sectional area and an improved fiber alignment score compared with placebo treated tendons. The use of bAPN-F 1–3 months postinjury results in better quality tendon repair with improved chances of the horse's returning successfully to racing. Authors' addresses: Dept. of Clinical Studies, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, 382 W. Street Rd., Kennett Square, PA 19348 (Reef); Randall Veterinary Clinic, 20600 Miles Pkwy, Warrensville Heights, OH 44128 (Genovese); andAlaco, Inc., 1500 N. Wilmot #290, Tucson,AZ 85712 (Davis). r 1997 AAEP.


Determination of the budget and regional expenditure income (APBD) of Kuantan Singingi Regency has a polemic in the formulation process. The delay in the enactment of this regional budget regulation indicates that there is a bad relationship between the regional head and the Kuantan Singingi district parliament. To answer the problems that occur, an analysis is conducted to find the bright spots of the polemic. This research was conducted to see the relationship between the DPRD and local government in the process of formulating the APBD. This research uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques namely by studying literature and using previous research. This study uses Stone's interaction type theory, namely decisional type, anticipated reaction type, non-decisional making type, systemic type. The results showed that the relationship between the local government and the Regional Parliament of Kuantan Singingi in the formulation of the 2017 Regional Budget was included in the type of non-decisional making interaction. This type of interaction is a form of interaction that is influenced by the presence of a strong majority group in influencing the process of formulating the APBD, especially on the submission and agreement of the KUA-PPAS by providing public issues so that a bad image is formed.


A variable wavelength interference filter includes a fixed substrate having a fixed reflecting film, a movable substrate having a movable reflecting film, and an electrostatic actuator including a fixed electrode and a movable electrode. The fixed electrode includes first and second fixed partial electrodes electrically isolated from each other. First and second extraction electrodes extending from the first and second fixed partial electrodes, respectively, are formed on the fixed substrate. The movable electrode is formed in a ring shape covering first and second facing regions facing the first and second fixed partial electrodes, respectively.


Thousands of years after the establishment of mosque as a place of worship, issues and problems regarding its continuous development, especially those stemming from complexity of modern living have created the need for urban planners and architects to reconsider its planning and design in regard with limited land availability, shortage of resources, accessibility and appropriate architectural expression. Thus the aim of this research is to find a proper definition for urban mosques in compact cities and point out the key considerations for the design of urban mosques. This research is conducted qualitatively through reporting on available design guidelines related to the current topic followed by a discussion on three mosques within the Malay Archipelago as the secondary data source. Consequently, three mosques within Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were studied as a primary data source. The outcome of this research establishes a framework for possible design approach of urban mosque development as a basis for future mosques design in compact cities. The result can be utilized as a source of information for reference purpose as well as a possible guide on the effectiveness of urban mosque concepts, possible challenges in a compact city setting, vertical expansion, and sustainable development.


In early 1994, the US will once again place a spacecraft in lunar orbit. Popularly called Clementine, this spacecraft will spend about two months mapping the Moon and then will travel on to encounter the near-Earth asteroid, 1620 Geographos. A brief description of the historical development of the mission; the lunar survey; Clementine's payload, equipment, and capabilties; and the encounter with Geographos is presented.


The present invention relates to a method for producing a wiper blade rubber, in particular for a windshield wiper in which a wiper blade main body (in a process step a) 10) of a natural and / or synthetic rubber is formed, from the (10) in a method step b ) at least a portion with a natural and / or synthetic rubber dispersion (40) is coated. Moreover, the invention relates to a dispersion-coated blade rubber (10, 40) and an order (10, 40) equipped wipers.


Abstract Hatching eggs were collected from two meat parent genotypes (normal and semidwarf) between 200 and 210 days of age and sorted by weight into four quartiles. Eggs from the light and heavy quartiles were retained for a comparative testing of hatching quality and progeny performance. Egg weight differed significantly between the two genotypes. Genotypes and egg size had no significant effect on hatchability. Significant genotypic and egg size effects were observed on fertility and day-old chick weights but not for mortality during rearing. Maternal genotype had no significant effect on the body weights of broiler progeny at either 28 or 49 day s except that at 28 days males from semi-dwarf maternal parents were lighter than males from normal maternal parents. Egg size had a significant effect on both male and female body weights at all ages with broilers hatched from the small eggs being lighter than those hatched from large eggs. Feed conversion was unaffected by genotype, but chickens hatched from large eggs exhibited better feed conversion compared with those hatched from small eggs. The percentage of Grade A carcasses was not affected by genotype but was significantly higher among male broilers hatched from the small sized eggs. Egg size had a significant effect on monetary returns as broiler chickens hatched from the smaller eggs returned approximately 7¢ less per bird compared with broilers hatched from the larger eggs. There was no significant difference between monetary returns from broiler chickens from either normal or semi-dwarf maternal parentage. This strongly supports the future adoption of the semi-dwarf maternal parent by the industry.


Lyme Borreliosis (LB), also known as Lyme or Lyme-like disease, is a zoonotic, tick- borne infectious disease that does not readily show up in regular pathology tests. The causative agent is Borrelia, a very slow-growing spirochete transmitted by tick bite. Ticks can be infected with Borrelia from their previous host (bandicoots or other small marsupials), and can acquire other microorganisms and bacteria that will subsequently be transferred to a human host via the tick's bite.


Evagrius of Ponticus is a figure who has greatly influenced the eastern and western orthodox churches. His theology provided a basic framework in forming the spiritual traditions of these churches. He explained the order of our universe using the concept of first and second Creation. His critical analysis of human beings hinges on the understanding of Spirituality, the core factor of second creation. According to him, our soul is divided into mind, desire, and anger. The status of our present existence rises from the relationship between these three elements. Moreover, depending on what takes control of human souls, it will ultimately decide whether we will be angelic beings or evil beings. Such understanding of the basic framework of human beings becomes clearer in the understanding of ``nous``. On the subject of ``nous``, we discover that not only has Evagrius analysesd humans from ontological point of view but also from epistemological and ascetical/practical perspective. His understanding of ``nous`` and its characteristics and functions include ``the maintenance of one`s identity``, ``intuitive knowledge`` and ``receptivity``. These functions focus on the restoration of a corrupt human being to his/her original state. Henceforth, it is accurate to approach his understanding of human beings using a concept of spiritual growth, which embodies both epistemological and ascetical/practical point of views. Furthermore, whilst accepting Neo-Platonic ideology, he adheres to the positive grounds of human body. Therefore, his understanding of human beings highlight the importance of the research into Spirituality and Spiritual practice conducted by Korean