Many existing database applications place various timestamps on their data, rendering temporal values such as dates and times prevalent in database tables. During the past two decades, several dozen temporal data models have appeared, all with timestamps being integral components. The models have used timestamps for encoding two speci c temporal aspects of database facts, namely transaction time, when the facts are current in the database, and valid time, when the facts are true in the modeled reality. However, with few exceptions, the assignment of timestamp values has been considered only in the context of individual modi cation statements. This paper takes the next logical step: It considers the use of timestamping for capturing transaction and valid time in the context of transactions. The paper initially identi es and analyzes several problems with straightforward timestamping, then proceeds to propose a variety of techniques aimed at solving these problems. Timestamping the results of a transaction with the commit time of the transaction is a promising approach. The paper studies how this timestamping may be done using a spectrum of techniques. While many database facts are valid until now, the current time, this value is absent from the existing temporal types. Techniques that address this problem using di erent substitute values are presented. Using a stratum architecture, the performance of the di erent proposed techniques are studied. Although querying and modifying time-varying data is accompanied by a number of subtle problems, we present a comprehensive approach that provides application programmers with simple, consistent, and e cient support for modifying bitemporal databases in the context of user transactions.


OBJECTIVES
The present investigation explored the ability of fosfomycin to penetrate lung tissue of septic patients by utilizing the microdialysis technique.

METHODS
After microdialysis probe insertion into healthy and infected lung tissue, a single intravenous dose of 4 g of fosfomycin was administered.

RESULTS
The mean C(max), T(max), AUC(0-4) and AUC(0-infinity) for healthy lung were 131.6 +/- 110.6 mg/L, 1.1 +/- 0.4 h, 242.4 +/- 101.6 mgxh/L and 367.6 +/- 111.9 mgxh/L, respectively. The corresponding values for infected lung were 107.5 +/- 60.2 mg/L, 1.4 +/- 0.5 h, 203.5 +/- 118.4 mgxh/L and 315.1 +/- 151.2 mgxh/L. The half-life of fosfomycin ranged from 2.2 to 2.7 h between compartments. The magnitude of lung tissue penetration, as determined by the ratios of the AUC(0-infinity) for lung to the AUC(0-infinity) for plasma, was 0.63 +/- 0.31 and 0.53 +/- 0.31 for healthy and infected lung, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS
We conclude that fosfomycin achieves antimicrobially effective concentrations in infected lung tissue.


We bound the symbol length of elements in the Brauer group of a field K containing a Cm field (for example any field containing an algebraically closed field or a finite field), and solve the local exponent-index problem for a Cm field F . In particular, for a Cm field F , we show that every F central simple algebra of exponent p is similar to the tensor product of at most len(p, F ) ≤ t(pm−1−1) symbol algebras of degree p. We then use this bound on the symbol length to show that the index of such algebras is bounded by (p) −1), which in turn gives a bound for any algebra of exponent n via the primary decomposition. Finally for a field K containing a Cm field F , we show that every F central simple algebra of exponent p and degree p is similar to the tensor product of at most len(p, p,K) ≤ len(p, L) symbol algebras of degree p, where L is a Cm+edL(A)+ps−t−1 field.


To recall the shap ing of "antiquity" as a leading symbolic concept of European culture seems to be justified by the actual debate about the fault lines be tween modern i ty and postmoderni ty and emerging cultural fundamenta l isms. In 17th Century France the "Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes" fostered not only the consciousness of historical distance be tween n o w and then bu t brought forth the image of an enhanced antiquity, a " n e w Rome". The resul t ing hegemony of the "esprit classique" in central Europe provoked the Opposition of intellectuals in 18th Century Germany searching for national cultural identi ty. In the dramat ic course of this search for selfconstitution Greek ant iqui ty was elaborat ed as a symbolic token ("reine Griechheit") for a cultural pat tern that was deemed to over throw and even t ranscend universally the impact of French culture. The construction of antiquity as a cognitive image (Denkbild) with aesthetic features can be considered as a response to the quest ion if the antagonistic structure of m o d e r n life could be overcome by a utopian idea restricted, however , to a relativistic, i.e. national concept of classical s tud ies.


Large liquid drops were deformed by an acoustic standing wave in a resonant air chamber called the. Drop Physics Module, which was carried on Space Shuttle Columbia as part of the sceond United States Microgravity Laboratory mission. When this deforming force was suddenly reduced, the drops executed free oscillations about a perfect spherical equilibrium, Results arc presented for pure water and for XILICOUS solutions of soluble surfactnnts. [1'ACS: 43.25.U, 47.55.Dz, 68.10.Cr, 83.10.-y]


This paper contains the results of an empirical analysis and review of the 200 American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school library web pages to evaluate communication of library services with law school faculty. The top 11 library websites were identified using criteria such as research support staffing, publishing support, teaching support, and research services. Additionally, library research services, research support staffing, publishing support, and teaching support were evaluated across all 200 schools. Suggestions for best practices are included.


A total of 953 stool samples from the healthy children of a elementary school located in the suburb of Surabaya City, Indonesia, were examined for Shigella, Salmonella, Vibrio cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, and four kinds of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli excluding enteroadherent aggregative E. coli. The carrier rate was 6.8% (65 children out of 953). Enteropathiogenic E. coli was isolated from 42 children, but the other diarrheagenic E. coli were not detected. Shigella spp. and V. cholerae non-O1 were isolated from 12 and 11 children, respectively.


An apparatus and method for moving connection equipment on a drilling rig, the apparatus comprising a stem (190) and an extension apparatus (100) comprising a mount (141), at least a first linkage (110), a second linkage 5 (120), a third linkag e (130), a support (18) for supporting connection equipment and powered extension apparatus (150) arranged between the mount (141) and the first linkage (110), wherein, upon activation of said powered extension apparatus (150), said first linkage 10 (110), sa id second linkage (120), and said third linkage (130) extend or retract to move said support (18) away from or towards said stem (190).


In the present work, a variational formulation for fully coupled thermoelasticity is developed in the context of the mixed convolved action. This weak variational formulation recovers all the governing differential equations along with proper initial and boundary conditions as its Euler–Lagrange equations. Thus, it encapsulates the entire description of thermoelastic problems. In addition to theoretical significance, it provides sound basis for the development of novel computational methods involving unified space-time finite element approach. The simplest unified space-time finite element method is also developed here with representative examples for its viability.


This special issue of Landscape Research is dedicated to the theme of 'Landscapes of heritage and heritage landscapes'. This theme may, at first sight, suggest a lack of imagination on our part: after all, neither 'landscape' nor 'heritage' is a new topic. In fact, the impetus for focusing our efforts in this way stems from provocations first delivered by the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, which is geared towards re-theorising heritage through the 'ruthless criticism of everything existing'. It was with this challenge in mind that we proposed a session at the Association's inaugural conference, which took place at the University of Gothenburg in 2012. Our feeling then (as it is now) was that perhaps 'heritage' and 'landscape' had sat together too comfortably, and for too long, within academic, policy and popular imaginations. Indeed, we felt that they had come to be envisioned as obvious counterparts for that which is cultural and natural, tangible and intangible, personal, collective and especially 'national' (Harvey, 2013). Recent years, however, have seen both concepts come under sustained academic scrutiny, alongside a veritable explosion of popular interest, from the consumption of 'new nature writing' and related television documentaries to the steadily growing appeal of heritage-associated experiences (see for examples Howard, Thompson, & Waterton, 2013; Waterton & Watson, 2015). Furthermore, the realms of both heritage and landscape (management, protection and enhancement) are increasingly seen to reside within an orbit of governmental duty, as well as a means through which governance ambition can be instrumentalized. There is mileage, then, in revisiting the two concepts and bringing them to fruition in this special issue, which collects together contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives in order to provoke discussion between those working within the realms of landscape and those working within heritage studies. As such, our editorial aim has been to explore the tensions and opportunities that exist with the pairing of these most slippery of terms. Indeed, while there is a long history of critical and significant work within both fields, more recent scholarly trends indicate that further 'collaborative conversation' will be beneficial.


Abstract As its theme suggests this thesis of Mr. N. A. Mescherjakow bears the stamp of the modern "tempo" of the mass industrialization of present day Soviet Russia. In his manual Mr. Mescherjakow, as an engineer, gives to the reader an exhaustive analysis of the various mechanical aspects and technical principles of the operation of the modern incubator, with particular reference to operating the incubator "Kommunar." The chief emphasis of this technical work is one the various mechanical manifestations which are based on the present day scientific knowledge of artificial incubation. In other words, it stressed the biological aspect of the physiology of the embryo in relation to the mechanical adjustments of the incubator as to suitable conditions for the most favorable development of the embryo. In brief the treatise of Mr. Mescherjakow dwells in detail upon the following subjects: (1) Technical suggestions as to the temperature regulation and thermostatic control . . .


SummaryThe authors reviewed the medical records of 106 patients suffering from amyloidosis and established the prevalence of the different forms. There were 40 AL forms, 45 A A secondary cases, 10 132 microglobulin-associated cases in hemodialyscd patients and 9 instances of mediterranean fever. From a sample of 51 of these patients, the authors drew the clinical picture of primary and secondary amyloidosis. Finally, they reviewed the records of 14 patients with amyloidosis hospitalised in the Arthritis Unit in order to study the rheumatological aspect of the disease and particularly the amyloid arthropathy.


This study examines texts featuring nostalgia for the native "old" Taiwan in books and magazines published in recent years, analyzes their strategies of representation and discursive frameworks, and contextualizes nostalgia within the larger circumstances of contemporary social and cultural changes. The finding suggests that the current nostalgic impulse can be viewed as a conjunction of reactions against historical amnesia as a result of Taiwan's previous martial law and the threat of a postmodern historical crisis. Building upon pop history and collective memory, nostalgia in print media resists the former official discourse on history, attempts to reconstruct a new cultural subjectivity, and provides the myth of continuity in order to overcome the threat of postmodern fragmentation. However, though they reproduce dominant ideologies and are shaped by print media's aesthetic, nostalgia texts tend to over-glorify the past and systematically suppress historical diversities and traumas. This may result in further fragmentation and alienation in society's collective consciousness.


Innovation, the creating of new things or processes, is a core factor in development, but it is not sufficient for development; the innovations must be exploited effectively in the marketplace. An intellectual property regime that favors too strongly one interest over another, as for example on the one hand by making the property holder's interests too strong thereby limiting the social utility of the work, or on the other hand by making the user's rights too strong thereby limiting the incentive for an inventor or writer to create, can lead to stagnation.


Mexican machismo and its vulgar folklore have long been of interest to students of Mexican culture. This article, based on research among a group of undocumented male workers, reexamines one aspect of this folklore - its degradation of women - and proposes that, besides legitimizing the oppression of women, it plays an ideological role in class conflict. The article argues that, as a signifying system unique to working-class male culture, the folklore of machismo symbolically conflates class and gender by shifting the point of conflict from the public domain of the former to the domestic domain of the latter.


This paper compares two metaheuristic approaches in solving a constrained transportation scheduling problem, which can be found in transporting goods in emergency situations. We compared Greedy Search, Parameter-less Evolutionary Search and Ant-Stigmergy Algorithm. The transportation scheduling/allocation problem is NP-hard, and is applicable to different real-life situations with high frequency of loading and unloading operations; like in depots, warehouses and ports. To evaluate the efficiency of the presented approaches, they were tested with four tasks based on realistic data. Each task was evaluated using group and free transportation approach. The experiments proved that all tested algorithms are viable option in solving such scheduling problems, however some performing better than others on some tasks.


Two neighbouring even-aged 130-yr old Picea abies trees in a homogeneous stand can differ substantially with respect to their epiphytic vegetation. Sampled branches from the canopy of one tree harboured 781 specimens of the old forest lichen Usnea longissima of which only 50 could be seen from the ground, whereas no U. longissima were found on its nearest neighbour. Usnea longissima was most abun- dant on branch tips in lower parts of the canopy on branch segments having the highest biomass of other alectorioid species. Trees with and without U. longissima showed a different pattern in their mineral composition, suggesting that a tree-specific difference in nutritional status might contribute to explain the patchy distribution of this lichen within seem- ingly homogeneous stands.


The paper starts with the concept of raising funds and building house by individuals,and the difference to raising funds and building house jointly and economical and applicable housing,and points out that raising funds and building house by individuals has become the social hot spot.The paper analyses the reasons and realistic significance of this phenomenon,and discusses the related law,tax and shortcoming.In the end,the paper puts forward some attitude and measures that the government should be have.


Objective To evaluate carotid artery elasticity parameters changes in patients with different degree of coronary heart disease (CHD) by echo-tracking (ET) technique.Methods ET techinique was performed on 50 patients with CHD and 50 normal subjects confirmed by coronary angiography,carotid artery stiffness parameter (β),pressure strain elastic modulus (Ep),artery compliance (AC),augmentation index (AI) value,one point of pulse wave velocity (PWVβ) and intima-media thinckness (IMT) were measured,The CHD group was further divided into single branch lesions group,two branches lesions group,three branches lesions group.The association of these parameters and vascular disease was analyzed in CHD patients.Results β,Ep,AI,PWVβ,IMT in CHD group were significantly higher than those in control group (P0.05),AC was significantly lower than that in control group(P0.05),and the higher the degree of CHD,the more obvious the changes were.Conclusion The carotid artery elasticity is obviously decreased in patients with CHD,ET can detect the carotid elasticity and help to assess coronary artery changes in patients with CHD,which can be used to monitor the occurrence and development of CHD.


Downtown community development potential is enhanced by attractively designed infrastructure such as road medians and verges, landscaping, pocket parks, seating, and wayfinding signage. Restoration of historic buildings and active public arts initiatives also make cities more attractive to potential business owners, developers, and visitors. Implementing these projects are, however, very expensive and time-consuming, with much of that time and cost spent in the planning stages. The development of ideas and design solutions for specific problems, and the visualization of those ideas, is part of the planning process, and the part that this study addresses. In predominantly rural East Tennessee, there are many small cities and towns where the downtown areas have fallen into decline. Johnson City, Tennessee, is one of those cities. Even though East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and the large regional medical center are very close to downtown, there was little incentive for visitors to spend time there. Now it is undergoing a revitalization, and there is a commitment among the city leaders and the community to preserve the essential identity and history of the downtown area. This has provided an opportunity for students in advanced multi-disciplinary digital arts classes at ETSU to engage in projects that involve real-world problem solving, collaboration, and an understanding of how their particular skills can be used for social and economic development in their own community. Over the course of several years, undergraduate and graduate students in digital media classes have produced visualization materials that range from interactive wayfinding products, to promotional campaigns for downtown hangouts, to the design of playground features for the city park, to façade renovations. These products were used by the city to promote discussion; evaluate and test multiple solutions; help funding grantors understand a project's goal; and persuade stakeholders to invest. By integrating community needs with the need to help students understand how their studies and skills can influence the growth of a community, the city can be saved time and money getting to a clear idea of what is needed and desired before contracting with design firms or contractors. The projects have also resulted in continuing work with the city after graduation for some students, recognition in the community in creative awards programs, and portfolio work that demonstrates students' understanding of projects that involve multiple community stakeholders and complex variables in the ideation process. This paper outlines the process by which we put this program into place, and specific results and benefits gained by both the students and the community.


The ore nature and technological mineralogy characteristics of a certain andalus ite ore in Liaoning have been studied. A combined flowsheet which include desli me, flotation, magnetic separation and acid treatment was employed. Qualified andalusite and magnetite concentrates were obtained.


FIELD: textile; paper. SUBSTANCE: absorbent article consists of a material with basic layer of generally fluid-permeable material, and at least two elastomeric strips or areas attached to the basic layer at some distance from each other, so that the central part of the basic layer is bordered from at least two sides by composite areas of elastomeric and basic layer materials. The central part of the basic layer stays generally non-elastic, while the composite areas are extendable in at least one direction due to tension and contraction of the basic layer before attaching of elastomeric materials. The resulting material in the form of a pad can be inserted into absorbent article on the part of a body. EFFECT: improved absorption. 34 cl, 9 dwg


The invention relates to a microcapsule (1, 1 ') for the local treatment of a tumor, comprising: - one wall (3) of the microcapsule (1, 1 ') forming carrier material (4), - a tumor cell damaging, in particular disrupting agent (5, 7), - a marker suitable as X-ray marker material (6) and - at least one magnetic nanoparticles (2).


Cloud computing is still very sparsely researched, especially concerning platform as a service(PaaS) deployment model. PaaS model is still a very new in cloud computing and often confused with more familiar IaaS and SaaS models. First the basic concepts of cloud computing such as essential characters, deployment models and service models are presented and everything in cloud computing lean on these main concepts. The main objectives in this thesis are, to find out why PaaS is better alternative than building an own platform over a selected infrastructure, and to justify, why the selected PaaS is the most suitable for a cloud software project. PaaS has many advantages and concerns that must be sort out before a decision of deploying one can be made. With PaaS, developers do not need to know much about underlying cloud infrastructure and the infrastructure services are usually completely hidden, instead they can focus more on the development. PaaS platforms bring also a lot of cost reductions from reduced hardware needs, staff and more predictable expenditure. The biggest challenges in PaaS are the security and privacy concerns, and possible vendor lock-in risks. The four PaaS alternatives which are measured are Amazon Web Services with Beanstalks, Google App Engine, Heroku and Cloud Foundry. These are selected from number of alternatives together with the contractor. These four were among the most well-known PaaS providers and they were the most suitable with the contractor's project and with the criteria.. To measure these, five justified criteria, which are derived from the literature, are defined. Measurable factors are derived from scalability, service agreements and vendor lock-in, security, framework and supported languages and pricing models. Choosing-by-advantage(CBA) decision making method is used to find out the best alternative. CBA is made for fast and sound decision making and it is based on the importance of advantages. The factors from the criteria are derived in away that they should uncover the advantages of each PaaS alternative. Disadvantages are also found out and listed to strengthen the decision further. With the help of the justified criteria and the CBA analysis, the goal is to support and justify the PaaS decision, which will be made.


Brucellosis is an infectious bacterial zoonosis of public health and economic significance. In this paper, a mathematical model describing the propagation of bovine brucellosis within cattle population is formulated. Model analysis is carried out to obtain and establish the stability of the equilibrium points. A threshold parameter referred to as the basic reproduction number $mathcal{R}_{0}$ is calculated and the conditions under which bovine brucellosis can be cleared in the cattle population are established. It is found out that when $mathcal{R}_{0} 1$. Using  Lyapunov function and Poincair'{e}-Bendixson  theory, we prove that the disease-free and endemic equilibrium, respectively  are globally asymptotic stable. Numerical simulation reveals that control measures should  aim at reducing the  magnitude of the parameters for contact rate of infectious cattle with the susceptible and recovered cattle, and increasing treatment rate of infected cattle.


The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of febuxostat K type. Further, the present invention relates to a novel crystalline form Mi of febuxostat.


Freud in 1914 postulated a kind of choice of libidinal objects as support or anaclitic determined by the resemblance to the protective parent or to the mother who fed him. In 1921, the author added that the choices of leaders we elect throughout our lives, which produce homogeneity for the masses, are the result of a transference of feelings and idealizations to the one we establish as the Ego Ideal. Aiming at setting a dialogue between psychoanalysis and political philosophy in order to think about the psychic vicissitudes of subjects who elect political leaders with totalitarian characteristics despite all the threat they pose to democratic systems of government.


Resistance type superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is a promising current limiter. It needs to fulfill the requirement of O-CO-CO duty in power system. So quench recovery time of YBCO superconducting tapes is very important. When superconducting tape is used in SFCL, insulation supporter should be used to support superconducting tapes and insulate it. There are many researches on quench recovery time, but the relationship between quench recovery time and insulation supporter is not clear. The object of this paper is to find the relationship between quench recovery time and insulation supporter. YBCO superconducting tapes were used, which had a critical current of 102A. Recovery time experiment was done with different insulation supporters. One insulation supporter was the KAPTON polyimide insulation layer, and another one was the slot made of nylon. The experiment result shows that insulation supporter only influents recovery time. And the recovery time with the KAPTON polyimide insulation layer is far larger than bared tape. Therefore this kind of insulation is bad for SFCL. And the slot insulation has similar recovery time with bared tape. Thus it is good to use the slot insulation in SFCL. Therefore, the slot insulation is better than the KAPTON polyimide insulation layer when it is used in SFCLs. This result is useful for superconducting tape windings.


In the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model, a service is characterized by its exchange of asynchronous messages, and a service contract is a desirable composition of a variety of messages. Though this model is simple, implementing large-scale, cross-organizational distributed applications may be difficult to achieve in general, as there is no guarantee that service composition will be possible because of incompatibilities of Web service contracts. We categorize compatibility issues in Web service contracts into two broad categories: (a) between contracts of different services (which we define as a composability problem), and (b) a service contract and its implementation (which we define as a conformance problem). This chapter examines and addresses these problems, first by identifying and specifying contract compatibility conditions, and second, through the use of compatibility checking tools that enable application developers to perform checks at design time. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-104-7.ch008


This paper proposes a fuzzy optimum decision method for the multi-objective (consists of qualitative and quantitative judgement factors) system. This method is applied to the plans preventing air pollution and a national result is obtained. This method applies to societal administration decision too and results in elimination of subjectivism, one-sidedness and empiricism in them.


Abstract The New Studley Tunnel is a replacement for part of the Elan Aqueduct, which carries water from mid-Wales to Birmingham. The 1.3 km long, 2.8 m diameter replacement tunnel was constructed through complex Carboniferous and Devonian strata affected by folding and faulting. The contractor's engineering geologist played a part in interpreting the ground conditions from the tender stage through to the completion of the works.


What would you think if you bought a car, and when there was a problem with it, the mechanics said they didn't know how it was put together, so they couldn't fix it? You'd tell them to get the manual, wouldn't you? And wonder just what kind of mechanics they are. But when software doesn't work right, all too often the development information is long gone. The developers are on other projects, and the development documents are not available. No one knows exactly how it was configured, or what the usage environment has been. So crashes are shrugged off or ignored, because there's no way to look back. Or is there? aBstract


Objective To understand the knowledge of AIDS prevention among the street children, so as to provide evidence for AIDS prevention education. Methods Fifty-three street children aged 13-15 years were interviewed face-to-face by anonymous questionnaire in Zhengzhou and Chengdu in 2006. Results Of these street children, 60.4 %, 54.7 %, 35.8 % and 47.2 % knew that HIV can be transmitted by sharing needle or syringe, heterosexual intercourse, homosexual intercourse, and pregnant mother with HIV to the baby respectively, 41.5 %, 35.8 % and 26.4 % of children knew that HIV can not be transmitted by hug, attending class m the same classroom, and having dinner together. The knowledge of the street children was mainly from mass media (56.6 %), such as TV, book/journal/newspaper, broadcast, and internet. Thirteen point two percent of the children reported that they had sexual intercourse, and 7.5 % answered that their 1st sexual intercourse was unwanted. Sixty-seven point three percent of street children hope to learn AIDS prevention knowledge. Conclusion Street children lacked AIDS prevention knowledge. The findings suggested that more attention should be paid to AIDS prevention education in street children, and to expand AIDS prevention knowledge by the educated street children to other children or their peers.


normal tone, power and reflexes. She was restless and picked at the bedclothes and reached for unseen objects in the air. She had a left mastectomy scar. By 2200h she was verbalizing, but thought by the nurses to be confused. The next day she was oriented and ambulant but complained of dizziness and involuntary tremors of the hands. She said she took the decoction after receiving instructions in a dream to use it for her cancer. She had no memory for any subsequent events until she arose that morning in the hospital. She had never used the plant before, nor heard of anyone using it for medicinal purposes, though it grew abundantly in her village. Blood drawn on entry showed a normal complete blood count, urea, creatinine, sodium, potassium and blood glucose. She recovered and was discharged on 6 June. The plant was obtained and identified as Datura candida.


Forty-one anovulatory patients consisting of twenty with primary amenorrhea and twenty-one with secondary amenorrhea were investigated by ovarian biopsy and endocrine studies. The ovaries of these patients could be divided into two groups, one with ovarian follicles and the other without ovarian follicles. The ovaries with ovarian follicles could be further divided on the basis of the presence or absence of tertiary follicles; groups with tertiary follicles (high developmental stage) and without tertiary follicles (low developmental stage). The serial measurements of serum gonadotropins and urinary total estrogens were performed in all anovulatory patients. The pituitary responsiveness to synthetic luteinizing hormone releasing factor (LRF) and the ovarian responsiveness to gonadotropins [human menopausal gonadotropin (HMG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)] in patients with primary and secondary amenorrhea were tested and compared with those in normal control subjects in the follicul,ar phase. Histological and histochemical examination of the ovaries showed some significant differences between the ovaries of the patients with primary amenorrhea and those with secondary amenorrhea. Of 20 patients with primary amenorrhea, 10 had no ovarian follicles. By contrast , of 21 patients with secondary amenorrhea, 16 had highly developed follicles. More abundant steroidogenic foci were observed in most ovaries of the patients with secondary amenorrhea. The serum levels of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) were closely related with the presence or absence of ovarian follicles as Goldenberg et al. (1973) had reported previously. Both primary amenorrheic patients without ovarian follicles and secondary amenorrheic patients with low developed follicles showed endocrinologic pictures of hypergonadotropic hypogonadism. Serum luteinizing hormone (LH) and FSH responses to LRF in these


The new Hipparcos parallax data for local subdwarfs allow a much more re-liable determination of the distance to globular clusters (by direct sequence fitting) than was previously possible. Earlier studies (Reid 1997, Gratton et al. 1997) have reported larger distances than expected, especially for the most metal-poor clusters, implying much younger ages. In our study of Hipparcos subdwarfs applied to M92 — representative of the oldest, most metal-poor clusters — we find however a distance only slightly in excess of previous expectations. We show, using Monte Carlo simulations, that most of the difference may be explained by our more detailed treatment of the Lutz-Kelker and selection biases. With up-to-date stellar evolution models, we derive a minimum age of 13 Gyr for the Universe. This value, although lower than previous estimates, still imposes a rather strict upper limit to Η ο in the context of standard cosmological


Abstract An important variable in the 2017 analysis of Lovas and Andai, formally establishing the HilbertSchmidt separability probability conjectured by Slater of 29 64 for the 9-dimensional convex set of two-rebit density matrices, was the ratio (ε = σ2 σ1 ) of the two singular values (σ1 ≥ σ2 ≥ 0) of D 1 2 2D − 1 2 1 . There, D1 and D2 were the diagonal 2 × 2 blocks of a 4 × 4 two-rebit density matrix ρ. Working within the Lovas-Andai "separability function" (χ̃d(ε)) framework, Slater was able to verify further conjectures of Hilbert-Schmidt separability probabilities of 8 33 and 26 323 for the 15-dimensional and 26-dimensional convex sets of two-qubit and two-quater[nionic]-bit density matrices. Here, we investigate the behavior of the three singular value ratios of V = D 1 2 2D − 1 2 1 , where now D1 and D2 are the 3× 3 diagonal blocks of 6× 6 rebit-retrit and qubit-qutrit density matrices randomly generated with respect to Hilbert-Schmidt measure. Further, we initiate a parallel study employing 8× 8 density matrices. The motivation for this analysis is the conjectured relevance of these singular values in suitably extending χ̃d(ε) to higher dimensional systems–an issue we also approach using certain novel numeric means. Section 3.3 of the 2017 A. Lovas doctoral dissertation (written in Hungarian) appears germane to such an investigation.


The antiproton-to-proton ratio, p̄/p, in cosmic rays has been measured in the energy range 3.7-19 GeV. This measurement was carried out using a balloon-borne superconducting magnetic spectrometer along with a gas Cerenkov counter, an imaging calorimeter, and a time-of-flight scintillator system. The measured p̄/p ratio was determined to be 1.24−0.51+0.68 × 10-4. The present result, along with other recent observations, shows that the observed abundances of antiprotons are consistent with models in which antiprotons are produced as secondaries during the propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy.


The precise duties surrounding express trusts have caused issues enough (as we explore in this journal)—but what of the duties of resulting trustees? They have been considered in the authorities, and have been the subject of academic commentary, but have nevertheless remained somewhat opaque. A recent judgment in the Court of Appeal in Singapore (its highest court) has thoroughly traversed the principal English and Commonwealth authorities and collated the academic articles. It provides a comprehensive and valuable insight into the duties of resulting trustees.


The possibility of using the oil-point and compression tests for evaluation of dried rapeseeds processability was examined. Seeds of initial moisture 10, 14, 18 and 22% (w/w) were dried at 60, 80, 100 and 120°C to a final moisture of 6.5% (w/w). The values of pressure (P 0 ), work (L 0 ) and strain (e 0 ) determined by the oil-point test, and pressure at strain e = 0.45 mm mm -1 (P e ) and degree of elasticity (D) determined by the compression test for bulk dried seeds differed markedly from those found for non-dried seeds. The P 0 , L 0 and P e values were strongly correlated with the initial moisture of rapeseeds and drying temperature. All the strain values (e 0 ) were lower than those for non-dried seeds, and their changes depended solely on the initial moisture of seeds. Changes in the degree of elasticity were irregular and did not reach the value characteristic for over-dried seeds, ie 100%. High correlation of the agglomeration test data (Δ 1-3 values) with those of the P 0 , L 0 and P e made it possible to develop appropriate equations that proved the usefulness of the variables for determining the dried rapeseed processability.


Two smooth muscle contraction segments (S2, S3) on esophageal high‐resolution manometry (HRM) demonstrate varying contraction vigor in symptomatic patients. Significance of isolated exaggerated smooth muscle contraction remains unclear.


The basic course of drawing is one of the basic courses of the industry design specialty. We should deal with the relationship between the basic course of drawing and the course of design specialty, CAD, and creative ability, etc. to strengthen the teaching of it.


Topology optimization can be a very useful tool for creating conceptual designs for vehicles. Structures suggested by topology optimization often turn out to be difficult to implement in manufacturing processes. Presently, rail vehicle structures are made by welding sheet metal parts. This leads to many complications and increased weight of the vehicle. This article presents a new design concept for modern rail vehicle structures made of standardized, thin-walled, closed, steel profiles that fulfil the stress and manufacturing requirements. For this purpose, standard software for topology optimization was used with a new way of preprocessing the design space. The design methodology is illustrated by an example of the topology optimization of a freight railcar. It is shown that the methodology turns out to be a useful tool for obtaining optimal structure design that fulfils the assumed manufacturing constraints.


A novel method for direct impedance measurement using a common vector network analyzer (VNA) is introduced. In commonly used methods impedance or admitance of a device under test (DUT) is derived from measured value of its reflection coefficient causing serious accuracy problems for very high or very low impedances. The proposed method makes possible to measure quantity directly proportional to the value of the impedance or admittance of the DUT. This enables us to accurately measure even impedances that are extremely different from value of the 50Ω reference impedance. The method can also significantly reduce effect of uncertainties of the VNA. A suitable calibration technique is suggested and fully mathematically described. The concept of the new method was verified by software simulation.


We derive an international centralized and decentralized market model, in the spirit of Lagos and Wright (2005), where agents can experience asset-specific illiquidity. We apply the analysis to the question of dollar illiquidity during the global financial crisis and the response through international swap arrangements conducted by the Federal Reserve during that crisis. Our results show that it is possible for a deterioration in US asset values, analogous to the meltdown experienced during the global financial crisis in US real estate and asset-backed securities, to actually result in an appreciation in the dollar exchange rate, as was observed at the crisis apex. The intuition behind this counterintuitive result is that the deterioration in other dollar asset values reduces the availability of dollars for transactions purposes. Given that dollars are required for some transactions, this raises the demand for other dollar assets, such as cash, that can substitute in providing these liquidity services. Our model predicts that the benefits of swap arrangements, such as those pursued by the Federal Reserve swap arrangements are likely to be dependent on a number of agent characteristics. The benefits are shown to be increasing in the probability of needing to transact in dollars, the opaqueness of an agent's asset portfolio, and its illiquidity.


Background The zygomaticomaxillary complex (ZMC) fractures are highly frequent injuries. There is a variety of operative techniques for fixation of ZMC fractures, with no consensus about the best technique. We aim to compare one-point versus two-point fixation of tripodal zygomatic fractures. Patients and Methods This prospective randomized controlled clinical trial was carried out on 68 patients admitted to the trauma unit in Assiut university hospital, in the period from September 2019 to March 2021. Patients were divided into two groups (group 1; one-point fixation, and group 2; two- point fixation). The degree of success of reduction and fixation was evaluated by measuring the diastasis of ZMC fracture at the inferior orbital (IO) rim on postoperative CT scan; and by clinical evaluation of symmetry between zygomatic eminences. Results Post-operative diastasis between the fracture ends was 1.20 ± 0.80 mm in the one-point fixation group, and was 0.99 ± 0.64 mm in the two-point fixation group; (P=0.40). Malar symmetry was detected in (94.1%) of patients in the one-point fixation group, and in (97%) of patients in the two- point fixation group; (P=0.56). The unsightly scar was seen only in cases of two-point fixation group (41.2%), (P< 0.001). The plate was palpable only in patients of the two-point fixation group (35.3%) at the frontozygomatic region, (P<0.001). Patient' satisfaction with surgical outcomes was significantly higher in the one-point fixation group (94.1%) vs. (58.8%) in the two-point fixation group, (P<0.001). Conclusion The one-point fixation technique for tripodal ZMC fractures is considered effective as the two-point fixation technique; and it offers advantages of scarless operation, reduced operation time, fewer complications, and lower cost.


The invention discloses a WiFi hot spot login method and system. A server located in the Internet, WiFi hot spots for providing the Internet access service, a terminal and users are involved in the method, wherein the users use the service provided by the system when the terminal is in communication with the WiFi hot spots or the server. By establishing the contact person relation between the users requesting for logging into the hot spots and hot spot owners, the automatic access control of the hot spots is achieved, two users who are contact persons for each other can automatically log into the WiFi hot spots owned by the opposite sides, the complex operation that the users input and manage account numbers, keywords and the like manually is avoided, and the use efficiency is improved.


Rates for the aquation of trans-[Cr(tn) and trans-[Cr(en)(tn)Cl ions in aqueous acidic solution have been measured by spectrophotometric method at various temperatures and pressures. Activation volumes are negative and lie in the limited range -1.7 ∼ -2.9cmmol or the complex ions. Activation entropies and activation compressibility coefficients are small negative values. From the results of thermodynamic parameters, it can be inferred that the aquation of the complex ions proceed through an associative interchange(Ia) mechanism. Furthermore, the information on possible transition state structure and reaction paths can be obtained by considering total stabilization energy of the hypothetical intermediates within the framework of angular overlap model. It is found that the theoretically predicted mechanism is consistent with the experimentally observed results.


Section 1 Class, race and oppression: Art, healing and liberation -rituals of body and place, Miche Fabre-Lewin Class issues in therapy, Chris Wood Drawing lines - art therapists and psychiatric services working in collaboration with contemporary artists, Lyn French. Section 2 Working with race, racism and difference in art therapy: Living colour in art therapy, Jean Campbell, Vicky Barber Echoing the steps of my ancestors, Cherry Lawrence, Heather Barford The scapegoat - Jewish experience and art psychotherapy, Joy Schaverien Foreign images - images of race and culture, Caroline Case Thrown in at the deep end, Jenny Cooper My God! look at me! Pauline Mottram Culturally sensitive therapy - accents, approaches and tools, Ranju Roy. Section 3 Philosophies of therapy and practice - east and west: Issues of empowerment in a multi-cultural art therapy group, Sally Weston Taoism and art therapy - flowing and stuckness, Malcolm Learmonth. Section 4 Therapists - a question of identity: Crossing the meniscus - art therapy and local agenda 21, Jenny Jones Group issues from a black art psychotherapist's viewpoint, Yvonne Crawford Art therapy and Jewish identity - stories from Jewish art therapists, cathy Ward, Marian Liebmann Being white - engaging with a changing world, Marian Liebmann. Section 5 Training - preparing the ground: A black perspective on art therapy training, frederica Brooks Art therapy training and race and culture, Cathy Ward.


There is a need for an easy to administer, yet valid and reliable instrument for use by clinicians to diagnose early and middle stage alcoholism. Current instruments are either too lengthy or not holistic in their approach. This article describes an instrument that has been informally tested for over three years by addictions and mental health practitioners in clinical practice with positive results. It is long enough lo be inclusive, yet brief enough to be memorized and incorporated into an interview. It has yet to be tested under strict research conditions.


The invention discloses a preparation method of a silver nano-particle with uniformity in particle size and favorable monodisperse stability and belongs to the technical field of material chemistry. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: mixing 20 parts by volume of ultrapure water with 5-10 parts by volume of 1 percent ultrapure aqueous solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone; adding 0.6 part by volume of 0.01mol/L aqueous solution of sodium borohydride; adopting ice bath for protection in the reaction process; simultaneously and uniformly adding 5 parts by volume of 1 percent ultrapure aqueous solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone and 5 parts by volume of 0.085-0.1 percent ultrapure aqueous solution of silver nitrate by using an injection pump at the speed of 30mL/h; paying attention to adding while stirring; and after the addition is ended, continuously stirring for ten minutes to obtain a sliver nano-particle liquid sample. The prepared silver nano-particle is quite stable, keeps original properties after being placed for six months at room temperature without keeping out of the sun for protection and has favorable dispersivity and uniformity in particle size being about 10-15 nanometers.


Genetic relationships between populations can be studied by comparing genotypic and allelic similarities. This investigation aims to demonstrate that selected autosomal microsatellite markers could be used to study the genetic structures of different populations living in northwest Venezuela, in Zulia State. Seven autosomal systems (CSF1PO, TPOX, TH01, vWA, D7S820, D13S317, and D5S818) were tested by PCR in a multiplex format on 688 different chromosomes from unrelated individuals living in Maracaibo, "Isla de Toas," and "San José de Heras," and from two Amerindian populations from the "Sierra de Perijá," Barí' and Yukpa. Allele frequencies, Hardy–Weinberg equilibria, genetic distances, phylogenetic trees, and ethnic admixtures were estimated. The study shows the existence of a clear genetic difference among these populations in accordance with their historic evolution. The populations of Maracaibo and "Isla de Toas" showed a triracial origin, with a large European contribution, followed by an Amerindian component and a small African component. The indigenous groups, Barí' and Yukpa, showed exclusively an Amerindian component, and "San José de Heras" showed only an African component. These results indicate that microsatellite markers are useful for molecular anthropology in a regional and worldwide context and provide important genetic information about contemporary populations of Venezuela. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 17:451–459, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Objective:To establish HPLC method for the determination of hydroxy safflor yellow A in ErShiWei RouDouKou Tablets.Method:Chromatographic column:Kromasil-C_(18) column(5 μm,4.6mm×250 mm,made by Dalian Elite Analytic Instruments Co.,Ltd);Mobile phase:methanol-acetonitrile-0.7%phosphoric acid(V:V:V=26:2:72);flow rate:0.80mL/min;detection wavelength:403 nm;column temperature:room temperature.Result:Hydroxy safflor yellow A showed a good linear relationship in the range between 15.6 and 104 μg(r=0.999 9) and peak area,average recovery rate was 99.81%,RSD was 0.31%(n=6).Conclusion:The method,convenient,rapid,accurate and reproducible,provides a reliable method for the determination of hydroxy safflor yellow A in tibetan compound.


On 27 December 2007, some ten million Kenyans went to the polls in what were generally anticipated to be the most hotly contested and close-run presidential, parliamentary and civic elections in the country's 45 years since emerging from British colonial rule. The register of voters had been swelled since the previous elections by new registrations, many of them young, first-time voters. The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) had therefore doubled the number of voting stations to 27 555, and arranged in some 20 000 polling centres. President Kibaki trailed most of the time and only started catching up well into the vote tallying exercise. He was ultimately declared the winner (by an extra 231 728 votes over the Orange Democratic Movement's [ODM] candidate, Raila Odinga) in the late afternoon of 30 December 2007, and then hurriedly sworn in, notwithstanding raucous protests that the results had been rigged. These protests and an ODM press conference were abruptly silenced by a news blackout and summary security clampdown as armed soldiers bustled candidates, party agents, diplomats and domestic as well as international observers out of the Kenyatta International Conference Center where the tallying process was taking place. Some observers were astounded, others who had been allowed into the tally centre were visibly incensed by what they regarded as evidence of malfeasance on the part of the ECK, committed in their very presence. An upward adjustment of already announced results from some populous pro-Kibaki constituencies, ostensibly favouring the president, fanned the flames of suspicion. Televised utterances by the ECK's Chairman, Samuel Kivuitu, only served to make matters worse, as did a hurriedly composed media statement released by four of the 22 commissioners, commenting on the twist of events and calling for calm. Widespread and often ethnically motivated violence erupted and rapidly spread to various parts of the country. (1) Shaken by the turn of events a day after he had announced the incorrect results of the presidential elections, Kivuitu divulged that he did not even know who had won the elections. This further complicated the already muddled situation. Kibaki's move to replace some members of the ECK merely days before the elections--an action which had caused an outcry from ODM politicians--was now understood as a pre-planned approach to ultimately rig the elections. Raila Odinga, who had foreseen this taking place even before the elections, had warned the president on the dangers of attempting to rig the outcome. The post-election violence seemed to confirm suspicions that the aggression had been pre-planned in the event that the ODM lost the elections despite attempts at rigging the results. Violence greeted the country with a magnitude hitherto inconceivable to many Kenyans, and to the external world that had known the country as an island of peace. From 29 December 2007, following a delay in the announcement of the contested results, to 29 February 2008, when the two key principals--Mwai Kibaki (President) and Raila Odinga (Prime Minister, hereafter PM)--signed the national peace accord, the country was burning. It all started in Kisumu, the home town of the PM, and parts of the Rift Valley Province, with his supporters convincingly arguing that their presidential candidate had won, and that the PNU had engineered the results. Odinga's supporters therefore turned their antagonism on the Kikuyu, Kamba (because one of the presidential candidates, Kalonzo Musyoka, who was later to be appointed Vice President, had transferred his support to the PNU), and Kisii, among other minor ethnic groupings that were thought to support the PNU. Mobs looted these ethnic groupings' properties and evicted the people, branding them thieves and renegades. Approximately 1 200 people died within the two months when carnage and arson raged through the country. More than 350 000 people were displaced, with most of them being accommodated in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). …


As atomic operations, secure matrix-based computations using homomorphic encryption (HE) have attracted much attention in cloud-based machine learning. However, most existing secure matrix computation solutions that focus on HE schemes suffer efficiency loss as the size of the matrix, which greatly limits their applications in the big data environment. To address these issues, this paper proposes seIMC, an integer matrix computation scheme based on the Gentry-Sahai-Waters (GSW) scheme, to cope with privacy protection and secure computation of large-scale data. In detail, we translate the GSW scheme to encrypt an integer matrix modulo $q$ (i.e., a large positive integer), and homomorphically compute matrix addition and multiplication, which is a natural extension of HAO scheme. Besides, the correctness and security analysis of seIMC are shown, and complexity analysis is also given in this study. Furthermore, the proposed schemes are implemented, including public-key encryption and private-key encryption schemes. Compared with existing secure matrix computation schemes, the proposed scheme performs better in execution time. Finally, seIMC is applied to solve the problem of the number of ways in which any two participants make friends through $k$ steps in an encrypted social network. Experiments show that when the cloud server processes an integer matrix of 1000 people with a security level of 90, namely, 1 million data volumes, it only takes approximately 1.9 minutes for each homomorphic matrix multiplication. Hence, the practicality of the proposed seIMC in privacy protection under a big data environment is highly proven.


The problem of knot-removal for B-spline curves is investigated in this paper. The sufficient and necessary condition for removing knots of B-spline curves exactly is simplified. Based on the constrained optimization method, a new algorithm of knot-removal is derived by perturbing the control points of B-spline curves. This method can also be used to fair B-spline curves.


X ray diffraction to crystal is the first and most convenient and important method for man to research the material microstructure. X ray diffraction has the character of no damaging sample, no pollution, and high measuring accuracy. Material phase structure, the measurements, direction and distribution of crystalline grain, stress and other information can be taken by the method. By means of X ray diffraction quantitative phase analysis, the test and research of potsherd in New Stone Age in Yeshi Mountain of Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province primarily ascertained its main composition, started and strengthened the research of unearthed cultural relics with science and technology in Zhaotong city, made the research of unearthed cultural relics turn to malty-subject study.


The present volume is one of the "British Men of Science" series, which aims to give "short but authoritative" accounts of the work of prominent British scientists. As a contribution, which is presumably intended for the general reader, Dr. Keele's book has a similar approach to the recent biographies of Harvey by L. Chauvois (1957) and K. J. Franklin (1961). On the other hand it is considerably more expensive than these books and some other currently available works in the present series. Dr. Keele's book is well organized, being divided into three sections, dealing successively with Harvey's biography, his career as a physician, and his scientific work. The last is the longest section, but the author's most sympathetic and original writing is on Harvey the physician. The familiar biographical material is well presented and the author gives a helpful account of the institutions associated with Harvey's career. In concert with recent research, Dr. Keele has stressed the significance of the influence of Aristotelian methodology and physiology on Harvey's natural philosophy. The book is well provided with illustrations—most of which will be familiar to the reader —but the set of five figures of the developing chick, based on William Langley's diagrams, are little known. In analysing Harvey's scientific work, the author is at his weakest in his treatment of the De Generatione. As would be expected, the examination of Harvey's theory of circulation occupies a central position in the book; it is unfortunate that this section displays certain important defects. The author's account of the origins of Harvey's idea of circulation is rendered inaccurate by his failure to consider Dr. Whitteridge's evidence about the dating of the Anatomical Lectures. A general fault is the failure to provide footnotes and references to sources. This obscures the exact origin of the numerous quotations from Harvey's work. Neither is the source of the translations given, and careful scrutiny of the quotations from Harvey's writings on circulation, shows that most are inaccurate amalgams of the translations of Willis and Franklin. This defect considerably reduces the value of this attractively presented book.


The senses appear on the boundary between the inside and the outside of human experience. They are like an open door through which light, impres-sions, and air enter, are exchanged, and merge with the light, impressions, and air that were there before, exchanging inner and outer. While perception and sensoriality appear to be experiences that happen in real time, the sensorial can and most of the time does inhabit imagination in very precise ways. Sensorial imagination is related to human experience, to sensorial remembrance, and is based on sensorial knowledge. It happens in the present, is sustained by the sensorial knowledge of the past, and projects itself by way of sensorially driven expectations towards the future. Our sensorial imagination leads our interpret-ations, expectations, and actions. Offering background information as well as projecting expectation, it is an important cue for understanding the world, for creating synaesthetic associations, and for making connections between our experience and knowledge and those of others.
Sensorial imagination has for a long time been linked mainly to vis-ual imagination. The word imagination even contains a visual reference to "image." However, not all our experiences are related to the visual. Just start to think about everyday experiences like the wind, water, a dark country path, a hidden heap of rubbish: all these experiences are sensorial in different modal-ities: haptic, olfactive, auditory, motoric. In the context of art, and specifically music, this multi-sensory presence—involving a synaesthetic approach—is of uttermost importance. A musician sees a score, hears the music, has a haptic and motoric sense of how to interact with both, and can anticipate this in an imaginary multi-sensorial mode.


A solution of the highly complex unsteady compressible flow field inside a cylindrical resonance tube has been obtained numerically, assuming one dimensional, viscous, and heat conducting flow, by solving the appropriate fluid dynamic and energy equations. The resonance tube is approximated by a right circular cylinder closed at one end with a piston oscillating at resonant frequency at the other end. An iterative implicit finite difference scheme is employed to obtain the solution. The scheme permits arbitrary boundary conditions at the piston and the end wall and allows assumptions for transport properties. For the example considered herein, the solution predicts a rise of 95°F in the mean end wall temperature, from 60°F to 155°F, in 14.313 milliseconds which is in good agreement with the experimentally observed values. The solution would also be valid for tapered tubes if the variations in the cross-sectional area are small. In successfully predicting the resonance tube results, an innovative simple but stable solution of unsteady fluid dynamic and energy equations is provided here for wide ranging research, development, and industrial applications in solving a variety of complex fluid flow heat transfer problems. The method is directly applicable to pulsed or pulsating flow and wave motion thermal energy transport, fluid-structure interaction heat transfer enhancement, and fluidic pyrotechnic initiation devices.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


The Dynamin superfamily is a class of large GTPases that perform essential membrane remodeling events via self‐assembly stimulated GTP hydrolysis in a manner that involves the coordination of lipid‐membrane interaction, high‐order oligomerization, and GTP hydrolysis, however a clear understanding of how these functions are coordinated has remained elusive. A "variable domain" (VD) is present in many superfamily members and may enable specific targeting to sites of action, but the nature of VD function is unclear in most dynamins. Dynamin‐related protein 1 (Drp1) is the primary mechanoenzyme responsible for mitochondrial fission. We seek to identify the role of the Drp1 VD, or B domain. We find that removal of the B domain from Drp1 results in enhanced assembly and GTP hydrolysis, suggesting that the B domain has an auto‐inhibitory role. We find that the B domain is intrinsically disordered (ID) and surprisingly, undergoes phase separation or coacervation under conditions that induce other ID proteins to fold. The same conditions that induce phase separation of the B domain also enhance binding to cardiolipin, a lipid that is unique to the mitochondrial membrane. Based on these findings we suggest a model in which the B domain inhibit Drp1 assembly by dynamically occluding assembly interfaces, and that this auto‐inhibition is relieved upon interaction of the B domain with cardiolipin at the mitochondrial membrane, involving the process of coacervation. This model may also be applicable to other members of the dynamin superfamily, and intrinsically disordered membrane remodeling proteins in general.


Objective: To explore the relationships among psychosocial behavior reaction, psychosocial needs, anxiety and depression of colostomy patients before surgery. Methods: Sixty colostomy patients who were going to undergo surgery were selected. Demographic data scale(self-designed), Ostomy Psychosocial Behavior Reaction Questionnaire(OPBRQ), Ostomy Psychosocial Needs Questionnaire(OPNQ), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS) were used to evaluate the relationships. Results: ① The psychosocial behavior reaction of colostomy patients before surgery was in the moderate level. The most common events were reconstruction, acknowledgement, retreat and impact in descending order. Patients' psychosocial needs were in the middle to high level and anxiety-depression showed a low incidence rate. ② Significant positive correlation was shown between psychosocial behavior reaction and psychosocial needs, anxiety-depression. Conclusion: Colostomy patients' needs and emotion should be paid enough attention to before surgery. Fulfillment of patients' specific needs and release of their anxiety-depression emotion will help to raise patients' eustress and better preparation for the coming colostomy.


Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is extensively used in modern digital television terrestrial broadcasting (DTTB) systems, such as the OFDM based Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld (DVB-H) system, to support high performance bandwidth-efficient multimedia services. As a special format of multiple input multiple output (MIMO), multiple-antenna diversity reception can be used to improve the signal quality of the multiple-antenna reception OFDM based DVB-H systems. The same as the single-in single-out (SISO) OFDM systems, the MIMO-OFDM systems are sensitive to the power amplifier distortion at the transmitter and the channel estimation errors at the receiver. The objective of this paper is to research and analyze the compositive effects of power amplifier distortion and channel estimation errors on the performance of the DVB-H system with multiple-antenna receiver under multipath fading channel. Both the nonlinearities and the memory effects are used to model the power amplifier behavior. A closed form of symbol error probability is derived for the DVB-H system with multiple-antenna receiver in the presence of power amplifier distortion and channel estimation errors under multipath fading channel. Theoretical results show closely matching with those obtained by simulations for the DVB-H system with multiple-antenna receiver in the presence of power amplifier distortion and channel estimation errors under multipath fading channel.


Bayesian subset selection for simplex distribution linear models is studied by Gibbs sampler and Metropolis-Hastings algorithm in this paper.Firstly,we define simplex distribution linear models which include model uncertainty;And then we explicitly describe a MCMC procedure that can identify the promising subsets of predictors under the simplex distribution linear models.Numerical examples are used to illustrate the proposed methodology.


The increasing use of concrete in the rail industry, primarily through slab tracks, sleepers and station developments, highlights an opportunity to improve sustainability in this field of construction. As well as change to the methodology of a construction project, the materials that are used are becoming increasingly scrutinised in the pursuit of sustainable construction.
This experiment focuses on the feasibility of introducing steel fibre, rubber and glass composite concrete for high fatigue applications in the rail industry. To determine this viability, 100x100x500mm beams were produced and subjected to four point cyclic flexural fatigue loading. The flexural strength and cycles to failure of each mix were compared with each other and then with reinforced concrete to establish benefits and alternative options.
The results show the addition of steel fibre, rubber and cullet improves fatigue life of plain concrete. With this improvement, a slight decrease was observed in the flexural strength of samples with those that failed before the full 1,000 cycles of testing. Samples that completed the full range of cycles were found to have a significantly increased static flexural strength through densification.
Ultimately the results of testing may be considered inconclusive due to the highly random nature of fatigue due to the heterogeneous nature of concrete, more so with the addition of steel fibre, rubber and glass.
With the availability of this more sustainable concrete mix, it may assist beneficiaries such as Transport for London and Network Rail to improve the longevity of their assets, thereby reducing delays and disruptions to passengers over the life of a structure.


simple low-temperature synthesis route of fabricating porous YVO_4:Er nanoplates via a chemical co-precipitation method using Y_2O_3,NH_4VO_3,Er_2O_3 and ethylene glycol as the reacting precursors was proposed.The as-synthesized YVO_4:Er was thermally treated at 300℃and 600℃for 2 h.The obtained samples were characterized by FTIR,XRD,TEM and PL.The results revealed that the luminescence intensity was significantly increased with increasing annealing temperature.


The introduction of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to Malaysia improves the environment of the country. Besides achieving sustainable development, the carbon credit earned through CDM enhances the financial state of the nation. Both CDM and renewable energy contribute to the society by striving to reduce carbon emission. Most of the CDM projects are related to renewable energy, which recorded 69% out of total CDM projects. This paper presents the energy overview and status of renewable energies in the country. Then, the renewable energy will be related to the CDM.


REVO head is a high efficiency and accuracy five-axis measuring system designed and applied on coordinate measuring machine. It is now widely used in the measurement of precision parts of aircraft engine. As a high precision and high efficiency measurement system, the accuracy of the measurement result can only be guaranteed, in the case of ensuing the correctness of the measurement methods. This papers presents two measurement methods of REVO five-axis head based on coordinate measuring machine, using an NPL designed and manufactured freeform material standard consisting of an aluminium block with geometric shaped blended to form a pseudo freeform surface as a measurement example. By comparing the result of REVO five-axis head CMM and the result given by NPL. The accuracy of the measurement method can be verified. And then combined with the results, this paper explores how to better ensure the accuracy of measurement results. This has profound effect on future precision-parts measurement.


An extended PGaN structure is proposed and successfully adopted on a Schottky PGaN enhancement‐mode GaN high‐electron‐mobility transistor (HEMT) platform. The device features a drain saturation current of 256 mA mm−1, a threshold voltage of +1.8 V, and an ON resistance of 19.781 Ω mm. It is found that using the PGaN extension structure on both HEMTs and circle Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) efficiently reduces leakage current across a wide temperature range (from −55 °C to 150 °C). Furthermore, multifrequency CV measurements of interdigitated SBDs are employed to assess the extension structure's dynamic responsiveness.


This paper briefly introduces the RCS mathematic model of simple metal objective,and takes it as foundation to particularly present one method of computation of complex objective RCS-components separation method,finally use certain type missile as an example to stimulate and calculate.The results of computation were in good agreement with the conclusions of the reference article.It is showed that the method was effective and could satisfy the analysis need of project.


The problem of raising the efficiency of evaporative air coolers is discussed. The redistribution of the main and auxiliary air currents to obtain an optimal refrigeration output in coolers using the indirect evaporative model has been determined by solving heat balance equations. Probable operating conditions for indirect-direct evaporative coolers are also determined.


Preclinical animal models to study laryngeal cancer are nonexistent. The purpose of this study was to describe a novel mice laryngeal cancer model.


While NATO constantly stresses the Warsaw Pact's numerical superiority, particularly around budget time, its military leaders actually believe they could do a reasonable job defending against a Warsaw Pact attack.


The spread of the SARS-Co V- 2 virus and its contagious disease COVID-19 has impacted countries to an extent not seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. In the absence of an effective vaccine and as cases surge worldwide, governments were forced to adopt measures to inhibit the spread of the disease. To reduce its impact and to guide policy planning and resource allocation, researchers have been developing models to forecast the infectious disease. Ensemble models, by aggregating forecasts from multiple individual models, have been shown to be a useful forecasting method. However, these models can still provide less-than-adequate forecasts at higher spatial resolutions. In this paper, we built COVID-19 Ensemble Vis, a web-based interactive visual interface that allows the assessment of the errors of ensembles and individual models by enabling users to effortlessly navigate through and compare the outputs of models considering their space and time dimensions. COVID-19 Ensemble Vis enables a more detailed understanding of uncertainty and the range of forecasts generated by individual models.


We studied the magnetron ion etching of GaAs in SiCl4/Cl2 discharges and sidewall passivation effect which closely relates to the anisotropic dry etching. The effects of a variety of process parameters on the final via hole profiles and morphologies were also examined. Furthermore, in order to determine the surface chemistry of the residues on GaAs sidewall in magnetron plasmas, surface characterization was undertaken using scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy combined with an energy dispersive x‐ray spectrometer, and x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. It was confirmed that the residues, namely the sidewall protection film, consists of double layers. The aluminum content of the underlayer is four times greater than that of the upper layer. The aluminum mainly results from sputtering of the alumina cathode covers. The formation of the sidewall protection film was identified as the key factor in controlling the via hole profile for GaAs device fabrication.


The weak four-sublattice ferromagnet NaNi${\mathrm{F}}_{3}$ shows one- and two-magnon Raman scattering. The two-magnon scattering is perfectly described by a two-sublattice isotropic cubic antiferromagnet model with one exchange integral between magnetic neighbors ($J=41.8$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$). The two one-magnon low-frequency lines, centered at 6.5 and ${11.5}_{5}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ have been studied as a function of the direction and the amplitude of an applied magnetic field and versus the temperature. A two-sublattice model, taking into account the isotropic exchange, the antisymmetric and symmetric anisotropic exchanges, and the single-ion anisotropy, provides a satisfactory agreement with the experiment. The most important term after the isotropic exchange is the Dzyaloshinski\char22{}Moriya antisymmetric exchange, but other coefficients are necessary to give an account of the observed properties: Seven of them were derived from our experimental data, which enables us to explain all the known magnetic properties of NaNi${\mathrm{F}}_{3}$. Besides this we discuss the one-phonon Raman scattering of NaNi${\mathrm{F}}_{3}$.


The convex hull for a set of points is consist only of a small part of the set generally. If we can remove those points lying in the interior of the hull in an efficient way,we can then construct the hull with fewer time. By dividing the bounding box of the point set and by exploiting the convex property of a convex set,we get an efficient quick hull algorithm. The new method is simple to implement and more efficient than some traditional accelerating methods.


This study examined the means to encourage collaboration strategy with various local community actors through public sports facility management organizations. Such a collaboration strategy is aimed at activities which consist of local contribution activities provided by public sports facility management organizations and activities that stimulate the local community support for the local contribution activities. This strategy should make it possible to improve the operation of public sports facilities. The study focused on two baseball fields of comparable scale, located in neighboring cities and managed by a local company that specializes in farm equipment sales. We conducted semi-structured interviews with the following informants: (1) the president and staff of the managing company, (2) administrative officers of the cities, (3) staff members at the two baseball fields, and (4) various local community actors who collaborate with the company. The major findings were as follows: First, it is important for local governments to adopt appropriate policies, such as granting partial management responsibility for public sports facilities to organizations experienced in facilities management to ensure flexible, competent management based on a collaboration strategy with the various local community actors. Second, collaboration strategy with the local community various actors is important for producing two desirable outcomes: (1) it can reduce costs by building relationships of trust with local community various actors, and (2) it can also thereby build trust with the local government and can have a positive effect on public sports facility management organizations.


Motivated by recent numerical simulations of molecular cloud (MC) evolution, in which the clouds engage in global gravitational contraction, and local collapse events culminate significantly earlierthantheglobal collapse,weinvestigate thegrowthofdensityperturbations embedded in a collapsing background, to which we refer as an inverse Hubble flow (IHF). We use the standard procedure for the growth of perturbations in a universe that first expands (the usual Hubble flow) and then recollapses (the IHF). We find that linear density perturbations immersed in an IHF grow faster than perturbations evolving in a static background (the standard Jeans analysis). A fundamental distinction between the two regimes is that, in the Jeans case, the time τnl for a density fluctuation to become non-linear increases without limit as its initial value approaches zero, while in the IHF case τnl ≤ τff always, where τff is the freefall time of the background density. We suggest that this effect, although moderate, implies that small-scale density fluctuations embedded in globally collapsing clouds must collapse earlier than their parent cloud, regardless of whether the initial amplitude of the fluctuations is moderateorstronglynon-linear,thusallowingtheclassicalmechanismofHoylefragmentation to operate in multi-Jeans-mass MCs. More fundamentally, our results show that, contrary to the standard paradigm that fluctuations of all scales grow at the same rate in the linear regime, the hierarchical nesting of the fluctuations of different scales does affect their growth even in the linear stage.


We assess biodiversity status of Rotifera known from India to-date based on our studies from various regions of this country and evaluation of other viable records, and highlight notable features of biogeography and richness. The Indian fauna reveals 434 valid species belonging to 68 genera and 25 families and thus indicates the most biodiverse Rotifera vis-àvis south and Southeast Asia, and records ~25% and ~41% species of global and regional biogeographic interest. It depicts the littoral-periphytic nature, broadly tropical character, the limited reports of cold-water species from the sub-Himalayan and Himalayan latitudes, paucity of the endemics and Bdelloids, and cryptic diversity awaits analyses. The richest diversity and distinct biogeographic identity of Rotifera of Northeast India (NEI) is attributed to location of this region in the 'Himalayan and Indo-Burmese' biodiversity hot-spots, 'Assam gateway' – the biogeographic corridor, and the 'Rotiferologist effect'. Regional disparity and spatial heterogeneity of biodiversity elsewhere from India are attributed to the limited sampling, inadequate collections from diverse ecosystems, unidentified species, and paucity of attention on smaller species. The biodiverse rotifer assemblages of the floodplain lakes including Deepor Beel and Loktak Lake, the two Ramsar sites and globally megadiverse ecosystems, are hypothesized to habitat diversity of these ecotones, while 'Rotifera paradox' depict speciose constellations per sample. The species-rich small floodplain and urban wetlands focus interest on rotifer diversity in small water bodies. We estimate more diverse Indian Rotifera following analyses of collections from underexplored and unexplored regions and ecosystems, and the bdelloid and sessile rotifers using integrative taxonomic approaches.


Sensor localization is one of the supporting technologies in wireless sensor networks. The paper introduces the localization process of sensor nodes of DV-Hop algorithm. DV-Hop is one of the range-free localization algorithms using hop-distance estimate. An improved DV-Hop positioning algorithm uses grey correlation method to improve localization accuracy without needing an additional hardware device. Simulation results show that the improved DV-Hop algorithm outperforms the original DV-Hop algorithm and can provide more accurate location estimation.


Introduction: The inspiration for this article came from a dissertation paper written for a specialization course in Geoprocessing undertaken by one of the authors. That work studied the identification, by way of geoprocessing techniques, of areas most suitable for implementing airport infrastructure within a specific region north of the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This paper follows the same issues and concerns. The demands for transport and airport services in many locations around the world has led field specialist to rely on the planning of procedures to resolve future impasses, as well as impasses already reached. The advantages of implementing rigorous assessments, regarding soil use and occupation towards specific goals are numerous. For instance, the choice for the ideal location in a municipality for installing structures, potentially leading to a better use of space and a better physical and territorial ordering for implementing urban infrastructures. Consequently, the acceptance and use of geoprocessing techniques in urban planning has gradually increased, leading to the implementation of a number of geoprocessing techniques and tools. Therefore, in the search for suitable locations for implementing a larger airport capacity in the North Vector of the RMBH, geoprocessing was used, as it is believed that it serve as an important aid for that sort of decisions. Objectives: The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the legitimacy and validity of applying geoprocessing in the identification of adequate locations for implementing airport infrastructure. Methodology: The search for adequate locations for the installation of airport infrastructure was undertaken from a regional centre, with a modal project. To this end the analysis adopted a radial profile. The variables mapped where identified through consultation with specialists in airport design, construction and


The invention provides a catalyst having a hydrogenation catalysis function, and a preparation method and an application thereof. The catalyst comprises a carrier, and at least one group VIII metal element and at least one group VIB metal element which are loaded on the carrier. The group VIII metal element and the group VIB metal element are separately in a non-uniform distribution along the radial cross section of the catalyst, wherein along the radial cross section of the catalyst, a ratio of Cexternal to Cmiddle is 0.1-0.9, and a ratio of Cexternal to Cmiddle is 0.1-0.8. The invention also provides a hydrogenation treatment method of a hydrocarbon oil. The method includes that the hydrocarbon oil is contacted with the catalyst provided by the invention under a hydrogenation treatment condition. The catalyst provided by the invention shows higher catalytic activity, higher stability and longer service life in a hydrogenation demetalization reaction of the hydrocarbon oil (especially a heavy hydrocarbon oil). The preparation method is simple and easy to implement.


To prepare for the ever-increasing demand for air transport, airport operators should be well aware of the timing of the saturation of the facility and increase the capacity of the airport through extension or extension. The capacity of an airport is determined by the smallest value of the facilities that make up the airport, but it is generally customary to determine the capacity of the costly and time-consuming runway as a whole for the airport. For analyzing the capacity of the runway capacity, the study used the most accurate microscopic air traffic simulation, Simmod-PRO, to analyze the saturation time of three runways currently in Incheon International Airport's operation, and calculate the appropriate time for operation of the 4th runway. The study also calculate the relocation of Airport's high-speed exit taxiway for analyzing the increasing of capacity.


Trauma is pervasive in the clinical world of counseling. The current literature indicates adverse effects for survivors of a traumatic event and the counselors listening to the details of traumatic events, but there is a gap in research on the adverse effects trauma in counseling has on supervisors. This study aims to understand the lived experiences of supervisors who have dealt with traumatic experiences in clinical work through interviews with current supervisors of those who work with trauma. The results indicate trauma-informed supervision consists of trauma taking many forms, supervisors (and counselors) using the self in their work, supervisors knowing their stance, and developing a "third eye" as a new way of seeing.


Delayed ionization with average lifetimes on the order of several μsec has been observed for two-photon 308-nm excimer laser ionization of C 60 and C 70


Polarization hadron experiments at high energies continue to generate surprises. Many questions remain unanswered or unanswerable within the frame work of QCD. These include such basic questions as to why at high energies the polarization analyzing power in pp elastic scattering remains high, why hyperons are produced with high polarizations etc. It is, therefore, interesting to investigate the possibilities of accelerating and storing polarized beams in high energy colliders. On the technical side the recent understanding and confirmation of the actions of partial and multiple Siberian snakes made it possible to contemplate accelerating and storing polarized hadron beams to multi-TeV energies. In this paper, we will examine the equipment, the operation and the procedure required to obtain colliding beams of polarized protons at TeV energies.


The paper analytical method for calculation of magnetic characteristics of infinitely long circular and hollow cylindrical conductors has been proposed. The method permits: to calculate radial distribution of vector potential and induction of magnetic fields, being formed by direct current in the internal and external areas of the conductor; to determine the value of magnetic flux in the internal and external areas of the conductor; to calculate the current and flux running inductances of circular and hollow conductors; to find frequency dependence of Q-quality of cylindrical conductors and to de-fine the scales of characteristic frequencies.


David Roberts' views of Cordoba were carried out in 1833 and later redrafted as lithographs, engravings, and oils. These artworks enjoyed great commercial success and international diffusion due to their thematic and undoubted artistic value. The authors analyze their documentary value as a graphic record -prior to the advent of photography- of the urban landscape and architecture of Cordoba, a city now denominated a World Heritage Site.
These images are studied here for the first time as a group, since they are either virtually untraceable or dispersed in museums throughout the world. In addition, these views have been contextualized with information concerning the artist and his Spanish journey, including a letter that he wrote from Cordoba. The documentary reliability of every image is also assessed, while the significant transformations of the places represented are indicated.


In several countries governments fund childcare provision, but in many others it is privately funded as labour regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this latter case, there is no empirical evidence on the effects generated by the financial burden of childcare provision. In particular, there is no evidence about who effectively pays (i.e. firms or employees) and how it pays (i.e. via wages and/or employment). This study is the first one to provide such evidence. Our hypothesis is that, in imperfect labour markets (e.g. oligopsonistic), firms will transfer childcare cost on to their workers. To analyze this, we exploit a discontinuity on childcare provision mandated by Chilean labour regulation. Our results suggest that firms transfer entirely the cost of childcare (nearly 100%) to their workers via lower wages (not only to female but also to male workers) and not through the alteration of the share of male workers within the firm. This is consistent with our finding that firms do not manipulate the threshold (number of female workers) because they avoid the burden by transfering the cost to their employees.


1 H. A. Prichard, Kant's Theory of Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909). 2 On Joseph's struggle to accommodate idealism and realism, see R. K. Tacelli, 'Things in Space: Realism and Idealism in the Philosophy of H. W. B. Joseph', doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto, 1980. 3 H. W. B. Joseph, 'The Psychological Explanation of the Development of the Perception of External Objects', Mind, 19 (1910): 306–21 & 457–69; 20 (1911), 161–80. This series of papers was mainly an attack on views expressed by Stout. See G. F. Stout, 'Reply to Mr. Joseph', Mind, 20 (1911): 1–14. 4 H. W. B. Joseph, 'The Psychological Explanation of the Development of the Perception of External Objects', p. 468. OXFORD REALISM: KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION II*


The article is devoted to the analysis of the nominees of the Mordovian languages, which are the part of the lexical-thematic group of names of fruit trees and bushes. The author analyzes the lexemes, in which the internal form is transparent and semasiological features are distinctly distinguished. The latter are actively included in the system of semantic fields, on which basis the semantic models are picked out. The study of nominees from this point of view, on the one hand, reveals their essence, and on the other hand, reveals the nature of systemic organization of the lexical-semantic level in the dialect form of a national language. This issue is still insufficiently studied in Finno-Ugric linguistics. The importance of the research is primarily caused by the study of the linguistic aspect of the component part of the nationwide vocabulary, which is of a paramount importance for the Finno-Ugric languages. The materials of the author's fieldwork among the Erzya and the Moksha, as well as lexicographical sources have become the basis of the work.


Short-term load in power system is nonlinear and non-stationary. To cope with the problem that the training error of neural network prediction model is increased while the generalization ability is reduced caused by the large input fluctuation, the rough neurons with upper and lower inputs are introduced into the radial basis function (RBF) neural networks, a power system short-term load forecasting model based on rough RBF neural networks is presented. The genetic algorithm is used to optimize related parameters of rough neural networks to find the best parameters in the global. The simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the prediction accuracy of the power system short-term load.


This article reviews the motivational factors for environmental behaviour in general, presenting a case study on recycling disposable plastics in hospitals. Results show that 90% of over 600 employees from six analysed hospitals in Germany reported that the recycling of disposable plastics on the wards makes sense from an environmental and economic point of view. The case study reports an assessment of recycling attitudes and problems of hospital staff, mainly nurses. Employees in eco-certified hospitals were much more satisfied and reported fewer problems with the recycling system. The gender effect was significant only for saving energy, while age correlated with nearly all reported pro-environmental behaviour at home. At work, the mere introduction of a recycling system was insufficient to achieve good recycling results. Based on the study findings, recommendations are given aimed at improving the safety and sustainability of the recycling system. Practitioner Summary: This study examines the factors influencing recycling behaviour in hospitals, using a case study of recycling disposable plastics in six German hospitals. The main findings revealed that personal factors do relate to recycling, however, the greatest potential for improvement was identified in organisational issues, mainly concerning information, feedback and logistics.


The "clubs", found at the perifery of the "sulfur granules" in Actinomyces infection, are composed chiefly of a highly polymerized basic protein rich in guanidyl, indole, and phenolic groups; sulfhydryl groups are absent. The clubs appear to be made of a material actively secreted by the filaments. It is hypothesized that some product or products of animal protein decomposition which are metabolized by the actinomycete trigger and maintain club formation in vivo, and that the club prevents phagocytosis or enzymatic digestion of the filaments on the one hand but proscribes further growth of the filaments on the other. New growth of the parasite takes place by extension of non-clubbed filaments at the perifery of the granule or by deposition of coccoid elements phagocytized by leucocytes.


According to the switched reluctance motor control system which is developing quickly, its features, application situation, research and development are analyzed in this paper. And, on the basis of the structure of current and speed feedback loops control with DSP, there is a thorough analysis on the basic system configuration. The present researching, the application state and the perspective of the system are also summarized in the paper.


The issue made in the article, is associated with a certain type of marital relationships. I focused on him at quarrels and arguing that occur between partners, because they, in my opinion, determine to a large extent on the totality of these relations. I begin my thoughts to determine the meanings of such terms as: "quarrel", "dispute", "conflict" or "crisis". They are used for the description of behavior, which are the subject of my interests, are therefore the key to their understanding. I assumed – that what determines the nature of marriage, is primarily associated with communication between the partners. I mean communication rather wide and turn in all its scope both verbal and non-verbal behaviour, that determine the communication and mutual affections. Any barriers which make difficult so understood communication leads to conflict and crisis, and these, in turn, take the form of "quarrels" or "disputes". Therefore, the central problem of this article was to analyze the progress and results of quarrels and disputes that may arise in this type of relationship.


Factorization Machines (FMs) learn weights for feature interactions, and achieve great success in many data mining tasks. Recently, Locally Linear Factorization Machines (LLFMs) have been proposed to capture the underlying structures of data for better performance. However, one obvious drawback of LLFM is that the local coding is only operated in the original feature space, which limits the model to be applied to high-dimensional and sparse data. In this work, we present a generalized LLFM (GLLFM) which overcomes this limitation by modeling the local coding procedure in a latent space. Moreover, a novel Supervised Variational Encoding (SVE) technique is proposed such that the distance can effectively describe the similarity between data points. Specifically, the proposed GLLFM-SVE trains several local FMs in the original space to model the higher order feature interactions effectively, where each FM associates to an anchor point in the latent space induced by SVE. The prediction for a data point is computed by a weighted sum of several local FMs, where the weights are determined by local coding coordinates with anchor points. Actually, GLLFM-SVE is quite flexible and other Neural Network (NN) based FMs can be easily embedded into this framework. Experimental results show that GLLFM-SVE significantly improves the performance of LLFM. By using NN-based FMs as local predictors, our model outperforms all the state-of-the-art methods on large-scale real-world benchmarks with similar number of parameters and comparable training time.


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