Two linear bis(amide) derivaties of DTPA-(diethylenetriamine- N,N,N',N",N"- pentaacetic acid),DTPA-BMOBA(diethylenetriamine-N, N',N"-triacetic-N,N"-bis(N-2-methoxybenzylamide)) and DTPA- BMOPEA(diethylenetriamine-N,N',N"-triacetic-N,N"-bis(N-2- methoxyphenethylamide)) and two linear bis(amide) derivaties of EDTA(ethylenediamine-N,N'-diacetic acid), EDTA-BMOBA( ethylenediamine-N,N'-diacetic-N,N'-bis(N-2-methoxybenzylamide)) and EDTA-BTBA(ethylenediamine-N,N'-diacetic-N,N'-bis(tert- butylamide)) were synthesized. Their protonation constants weredetermined by potentiometric titration with 0.10 mol dm-3 KCl andby NMR pH titration at 25.0+0.1. The stability constants of the complexes of calcium(II), zinc(II), copper(II) and gadolinium(III) with DTPA-BMOBA, DTPA-BMOPEA, EDTA-BMOBA and EDTA-BTBA were also quantitatively investigated bypotentiometic technique. The stability constants determined for Gd(III) islarger than those for Ca(II), Zn(II) and Cu(II) with DTPA- BMOBA and DTPA-BMOPEA. The selectivity constants and modified selectivity constants for Gd(III) with the ligands over endogenously available metal ions were calculated and discussed. Spin-lattice relaxivities(R1, 20MHz) of the complexes of Gd(III) with DTPA-BMOBA and DTPA-BMOPEA as a function of pH were determined. The similar rela-xivity R1 of the complexes of [Gd( DTPA-BMOBA)] and [Gd(DTPA-BMOPEA)] suggestthat they contain similar inner-sphere water and coordination numbers. Theobserved relaxivity R1 decreased with the increasing pH in the acid region below pH 3. Once a Gd(III) complex were fully formed, the relaxivity became a constant, and the limiting value correlated well with the number of inner-sphere-coordinated water molecules.


The invention discloses a chess cake with multicolored leaf fragrance. The chess cake comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 60-70 parts of flour, 50-60 parts of shelled eggs, 50-60 parts of sugar, 15-20 parts of cream, 1.3-2.5 parts of baking powder, 15-20 parts of cheese powder, 8-12 parts of butter, 8-10 parts of fruit and vegetable composite lyophilized powder, 7-9 parts of compound Chinese Medicine power, 5-7 parts of stir-frying coarse rice flour, 2-4 parts of stir-frying buckwheat flour, 1-2 parts of stir-frying multicolored leaf powder, and the balance of appropriate amount of water. The chess cake tastes mellow, and has the unique fragrance of multicolored leaves; and the adding of the compound Chinese Medicine power is reasonable, so that the purpose of health care is realized.


Mites are frequent agents of skin diseases in veterinary dermatology, particularly in rodents. The authors report an original case of infestation in two guinea pigs of the same household. Two adult guinea pigs were presented with a 3-month history of alopecia, matted hair, erythema, scales and mild pruritus. The first guinea pig showed almost complete truncal alopecia with mild scaling, whereas the other one had only recently developed mild alopecia of the abdomen and mild pruritus. Numerous live, long-legged mites were present both in adhesive tape and skin scrapings. Mycology (Wood's lamp and DTM agar culture) was negative. Histopathological examination of a skin biopsy did not reveal any significant inflammatory disease and morphological changes were limited to hair follicles in the telogen phase. Mites were identified as hypopodes of Acarus farris (Acaridae), but no adult stages were present. Hypopodes were also found in the hay. Control was obtained with acaricidal treatment with Phoxim 0.05% once weekly for 4 weeks, and the elimination of contaminated hay. The lesions and the alopecia resolved rapidly. Hypopodes are additional nymphal stages of some mites of the suborder Astigmata. They develop for dispersing or dormancy under disadvantageous conditions. They can be active or inert, and some can be phoretic on the skin surface or intrafollicular. Although nonparasitic, they may cause dermatitis. Acarus farris have been rarely mentioned in the literature as a cause of dermatitis. This condition could be underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed in veterinary dermatology.

Funding: Self-funded.


An object of the present invention, it is possible to include a volatile oil antibacterial substance at a high rate, applicability is to provide an excellent moisture-dependent anti-microbial powder composition, a production method, preservation method of the humidity-dependent antibacterial food preservation articles and food for . Humidity-dependent anti-microbial powder composition of this invention as the solution is, is made to include volatile oil antimicrobial agents and water soluble film forming agent, it characterized in that the release behavior of the antimicrobial substance changes depending on the humidity. The production method according to the water-soluble film forming agent as required, and then dissolving the powder excipients, in water and / or a dispersion, and where the emulsifier is added according to the needs and volatile oil antimicrobial agents, by spray drying an emulsion obtained by emulsifying treatment characterized in that the powdered. Humidity-dependent antibacterial products for food preservation is characterized in that the bearing formed by the humidity-dependent anti-microbial powder composition. Method of preserving food, for the food at a temperature of more than 70% of the atmosphere, characterized in that formed by emitting volatile oil antibacterial material from the article for the humidity-dependent antibacterial food preservation.


The class teacher's work has its regularity.Combining the education practice,the author expounds the method and skill of the class teacher's work from three aspects,like the way to talk with student,the skill to deal with contradiction,and the art to critize student,etc.


In view of the high risk and difficulty of manual opening and closing operation of the old semi-automatic high-voltage ring network cabinet, combined with the installation environment of the high-voltage ring network cabinet and the actual situation of the opening and closing knob of the ring network cabinet, a portable four degree of freedom mechanical arm for remote control of mobile phone APP is designed. First of all, the mechanical arm design index is formulated for the old semi-automatic high-voltage ring network cabinet operation panel, and the mechanical and control parts of the mechanical arm are designed according to the design index. Secondly, the kinematics equations of the designed 4-DOF manipulator are established by D-H method, and the end position coordinates and joint angles of the manipulator are solved. Then, the three-dimensional modeling of the four degree of freedom manipulator is carried out in the robot toolbox of MATLAB, and the workspace of the manipulator is simulated using Monte Carlo method to obtain the workspace map of the manipulator. Finally, the joint space method is used to plan the trajectory of the manipulator, and the trajectory diagram of the end effector and the curves of angular velocity, angular acceleration and angular displacement varying with time are obtained. The simulation results show that the designed four degree of freedom manipulator meets the remote opening and closing requirements of the old semi-automatic high-voltage ring network cabinet.


College English is one of the most important basic courses in college education, and classroom evaluation is one of the effective means to improve teaching efficiency. Multidimensional classroom evaluation system, which reflects the characteristics of college English courses, is the premise to standardize the evaluation process and ensure the fair and reasonable evaluation results. Based on NLP (natural language processing) technology and neural network, we use NLP to optimize BPNN (BP neural network) method to construct CETE (college English teaching evaluation) system model, which quantifies the concept of teacher evaluation index as input, makes the data clear, and takes the teaching effect as output. The training results show that the network can fit the training data well, and the prediction effect is remarkable, which indicates that the CETE model based on the BPNN method optimized by NLP is reasonable and feasible.


A new kind of design and achievement antenna servo system based on 80C196 is developed. On the base of particular introduction of several AC servo control technologies, the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine is adopted as the driver motor. To reach the achievement of a high and steady precision of the system, an absolute position photoelectric encoder is used as the feedback device, and the closed loop control mode including position feedback, velocity feedback and current feedback is degned for the driver motor. The Object-oriented method is used for the system analysis and study. The hardware and software of the system have been designed and debugged on the CPU of special motor controller-80C196MC. Then the experimentations are done, which show that the system is steady-going and reliable and the scheme is reasonable and feasible.


We use measurements of subbandgap photocurrent spectra on films, barrier structures and pin cells of different thicknesses to estimate the valence band tailing and to characterize the dangling bond defect region. Large differences in signal sizes in the structures are observed and particularly for thick and thin pin-diodes, the dependence of the signal on voltage bias is discussed. In pin-diodes, these effects can be explained by a change of defect occupation in the i-layer.


Summary Successful tutoring depends in part on child tutors' ability to recognise and interpret accurately signals of misunderstanding by their tutees. Age- and gender-related differences were investigated in a study which exposed 80 children to a video-recorded episode involving a target child receiving ambiguous instructions in her attempts to move a model car along a designated route on a playmat roadway from one destination to another. The results showed that explicit, general and facial modes of displaying puzzlement by the target child were judged as equally powerful expressions of degree of puzzlement, but 8-10 year olds judged the target child as significantly more puzzled than did 7 year olds. Older children were also more likely to attribute the puzzlement of the target child to the ambiguous instructions than to her verbal or facial expression of puzzlement. Girls were generally more accurate than boys in judging facial expressions and less likely than boys to give wrong or alternatively ambigu...


Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) originates from South Asia and has spread across major cotton-growing regions. The pest is considered to be the most destructive and of economic concern across the globe. In India, the pest has developed resistance to dual Bt toxins and its concealed feeding nature makes the target sites almost inaccessible for the insecticide. In view of this issue, there is need to identify a suitable alternative for its management. In this context, semiochemicals serve as one of the best eco-friendly options. These chemical substances or mixtures broadcast messages for the purpose of communication. Semiochemicals may be released from eggs, faecal pellets, tarsal segments, scales, anal tufts and/or any insect components that reduce the intra/interspecific competition for shared resources such as food, mating, oviposition site etc. Accurate identification of the semiochemical compounds and their proportion in natural blends that arouse a strong behavioural response in insects, requires a thorough knowledge. Therefore in the present study, we tried to explore the chemicals present in eggs, faecal pellets and whole-body wash extracts of mated female. Seven compounds were identified from a methanolic extract of faecal-pellet samples, namely hexadecanoic acid, 9,12-octadecadienoic acid, 9-octadecenoic acid and their methyl esters along with methyl stearate. However, only four methyl-esterified forms were found in common in eggs and female body wash extract. This clearly shows that the compounds remain constant and conserved for the species but the role of these compounds needs to be demonstrated.


Feedwater heaters of many nuclear power plants have recently experienced severe wall thinning damange, which will increase as operating time progresses. Several nuclear power plants in Korea have experienced wall thinning damage in the area around the impingement baffle inside feed-water heater installed downstream of the turbine extraction stream line. At that point, the extract steam from the turbine is two phase fluid at high temperature, high pressure, and high speed. Since it flows to reverse direction after impinging the impingement baffle, the shell wall of feedwater heaters may be affected by flow-accelerated corrosion. In this paper, to compare wall thinning range according to change entrance nozzle diameter and position with reference numerical analysis model's wall thinning range, various numerical analysis models applied. In case of changing diameter, four different diameter is applied. And a side of nozzle position, two different position-vertical type and parallel type-is applied. And then this paper describes operation of numerical analysis which is composed similar condition with real feed water heater. In conclusion, this study shows effective design for shall wall thinning by changing nozzle diameter and position.


Abnormalities of bone mineral parameters are associated with increased mortality in patients on dialysis, but their effects and the optimal range of these biomarkers are less well characterized in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD).

 PECERA (Collaborative Study Project in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease) is a 3-year, multicentre, open-cohort, prospective study carried out in 995 adult patients with CKD stages 4-5 not on dialysis enrolled in 2007-09 from 12 centres in Spain. Associations between levels of serum calcium (corrected for serum albumin), phosphate, and intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and all-cause mortality were examined using time-dependent Cox proportional hazards models and penalized splines analysis adjusted by demographics and comorbidities, treatments and biochemical collected at baseline and every 6 months for 3 years.

 After a median follow-up of 30 months (IQR:14-37 months) there were 180 deaths (18%). The association of calcium and phosphate with all-cause mortality was U-shaped (Figure). The serum values associated with the minimum risk of mortality were 9.35 mg/dL for calcium and 3.56 mg/dL for phosphate, being the lowest risk ranges between 7.4 to 10.7 mg/dL and between 2.3 to 4.6 mg/dL for calcium and phosphate, respectively. For iPTH levels, the association was J-shaped, with an increased risk for all-cause mortality at levels > 110 pg/mL.

 As previously reported in dialysis patients, PECERA provided evidence on the association of serum calcium, phosphate and iPTH levels with all-cause mortality in stage 4 and 5 CKD patients, suggesting potential survival benefits of controlling bone mineral parameters in this population. Whereas the ranges of calcium and phosphate associated with the lowest mortality in the study were consistent with the current K-DIGO guidelines, our results suggested that the threshold for considering anti-parathyroid treatment might be lower than is currently recommended.


This paper calculates the expected gravitational wave background (GWB) in the quasi-steady state cosmology (QSSC). The principal sources of gravitational waves in the QSSC are the minicreation events (MCE). With suitable assumptions the GWB can be computed both numerically and with analytical methods. It is argued that the GWB in QSSC differs from that predicted for the standard cosmology and a future technology of detectors will be able to decide between the two predictions. We also derive a formula for the flux density of a typical extragalactic source of gravitational waves.


Blood samples for serum biochemical studies were collected from representative number of goats of both sexes and different age groups. The biochemical studies included blood glucose, total protein, albumin, globulin, albumin: globulin ratio, AST, ALT, ALP, BUN, creatinine, and total cholesterol using diagnostic kits and semi-automatic blood chemistry analyser. The overall mean values of various biochemical indices observed in Changra goats were blood glucose 62.967±0.884 mg/dL, total serum protein 5.932 ± 0.037gm/dL, albumin 3.091 ± 0.024gm/dL, globulin 2.838 ± 0.035gm/dL, albumin: globulin ratio 1.157 ± 0.031, ALP 234.163 ± 5.380 IU/L, AST 78.095 ± 1.932 IU/L, ALT 19.972 ± 0.704 IU/L, blood urea 28.755 ± 0.677 mg/dL, creatinine 0.814 ± 0.024 mg/dL, and cholesterol 138.093 ± 1.275 mg/dL. In general, age and sex did not appear to have any significant effect on the biochemical indices studied. However, significant area effects were observed on all the biochemical indices.


The objective of this study is to explore the capability of the Regional Climate Model (RegCM3), to predict the extreme weather events in south-Asian region with particular reference to precipitation during monsoon season (July, August and September) over northern mountainous and southern plain regions of Pakistan. Different cumulus parameterization schemes in RegCM3 for prediction of convective precipitation are tested for monsoon period during the years 1998 and 2001. The model results are compared with the Climate Research Unit (CRU) observational data and the surface synoptic data of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). The year 1998 was a dry year and proved to be the beginning of a severe drought lasted up to the year 2000. While in year 2001 the precipitation over some parts of the country exceeded the normal, especially the northern parts of the country observed exceptionally high rainfall rate. The results indicate that some convective parameterization schemes of RegCM3 well captured the summer monsoon precipitation over Pakistan. However, the schemes need to be selected carefully depending upon the region of interest. It was found that the Grell scheme with both closures: Arakawa-Schubert (AS) and Fritsch-Chappell (FC) satisfactorily captured the monsoon phenomenon in Pakistan specially for the northern mountainous regions.


OVERVIEW: R&D organizations are among the leading users of project portfolio management (PPM). PPM plays a critical role in making R&D investments more productive in terms of delivering desired results. PPM performance can be improved by benchmarking PPM performance against best practices and improving those practices that fall below best practice standards. This paper presents a benchmarking study focused on PPM best practices in R&D organizations, including benchmarking data and some general findings supported by that data. The best use of the benchmarking database is to analyze the process in individual organizations, identify key challenges and areas for improvement, and make appropriate recommendations on how to improve PPM processes to make them more effective.


According to the characteristics of AC asynchronous motor,a design of DSP-based high-precision speed control system for AC asynchronous motor is proposed.The vector control technology is regarded as the overall control scheme of the system.high-speed digital signal processor(DSP) TMS320F2812 dedicated for TI motor control is used as the core processor of the system.Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's intelligent power module(IPM) PS21246 is used as the inverter device.A high-precision AC asynchronous motor control platform based on TMS320F2812 DSP was established by the use of space vector pulse width modulation(SVPWM) technology and fuzzy-PI control algorithm.


The stress redistributions for notched cross-ply laminates under tension were analyzed by establishing a layering shear-lag model, from which the stress concentration factors in intact fibers at the root of the notch were obtained. On the basis of these stress redistributions found, the tensile strengths of notched cross-ply laminates were studied by using a statistical fracture theory. The present results have a relatively good agreement with the existing experimental values.


Abstract Evapotranspiration rates determined from meteorological data by the Bowen ratio method were tested against rates obtained from weighing lysimeters. The tests were conducted on an irrigated field (73 by 92 meters), where the minimum fetch was 27 m. Air-temperature and vapor-pressure differences obtained as 15-minute averages at heights of from 5 to 40 cm above the crop surface were used to calculate evapotranspiration. The results indicate that the Bowen ratio method can be used successfully to determine the evaporative flux for short periods, which can be summed for longer periods. During daylight periods, the absolute errors were less that. 0.02 cal cm−2 min−1 (or ly min−1), while the relative errors were less than 5 percent.


Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), originating from the 1980s and emphasizing "learning by doing" is one form of communicative language teaching approach. Rooted in the development of language learning theories, it has now formed a systematical framework and become a salient topic in second language teaching. In Taiwan, TBLT is also widely adopted with the purpose of providing the learners with opportunities of practice which focus on the "meaning" rather than on the "form" of language. TBLT is also applied in ESP teaching. However, many practitioners only have vague ideas of its theoretical basis and practical ways and there is also a lack of empirical studies. So this paper attempts to find the theoretical relationship between TBLT approach and ESP teaching, and introduce practical ways of applying the approach based on the results of a study. A survey is conducted on the application of TBLT in ESP teaching. The results show that most of the subjects think it is necessary to take ESP courses for the future career. And they think TBLT can inspire their learning interests and improve their abilities of using English, too. The practical situation also indicates that TBLT can play a positive role in ESP teaching. Finally, the paper points out some relevant factors in implementing TBLT, such as the teacher's and learners' roles, the assessment of the learners' performance and the context of teaching, which directly or indirectly influence the success of TBLT application in ESP teaching.


Abstract : A nowcasting method for three-dimensional meteorological fields has been developed. Nowcasting is a method of diagnosing the current weather situation, and in this study is defined as an objective analysis of meterological parameters that have been currently observed. The Penn State University/National Center for Atmospheric Research (CAR) Mesoscale Model Version 5 (MM5) was utilized to obtain background data to combine with surface and upper-air observation data. In this method, surface observations and the MM5 surface forecast/V data are composed using the successive correction method, followed by a similar composition of the upper-air sounding data and the MM5 forecast data using the same scheme. After these two steps, the similarity theory formulae, MARIAH, is used to combine surface data fields with upper-air data fields. The method was applied to meteorological fields over the complex terrain centered at Salt Lake City, Utah.


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Robust control problems of MIMO linear systems with both plant and controller su bject to additive norm\|bounded perturbations are studied, and LMI\|based contro ller design method is given. The relation between the conditions of robust analy sis and robust synthesis is also given. In addition, robust performance problem is considered again, a better sufficient condition is presented.


We describe the algebraic immunity and calculation of algebraic immunity of boolean functions. We propose a new balanced n-variable boolean function with high algebraic immunity. We check the nonlinearity of the new function for n < 20 and the algebraic immunity of the function in case of n < 18. We conjecture it has optimum algebraic immunity.


The design target of the system was to realize the management with network on the process of para-graduates reply.The system selected browse/server structure,Jsp technology,Sql server 2000 for database and Jdbc technology for the connection and access of Jsp to database.The system for Para-graduates reply,through campus network resources,changed the traditional man-made management mode and greatly improved the efficiency and quality of work while saving manpower and material resources.Its realization filled in the gap of the network management on the college teaching as well.The topic assignment module was the key of the whole system.A good algorithm could guarantee the fair and reasonable solution to it,while the old management mode could't do it.


Abstract : Free flight aerodynamic range data are presented for the 107mm XM 571 RAC mortar projectile in unboosted configuration. Seven different models were tested and most of the data was obtained for the square base shell with extension.


OVARIAN CANCER HAS the second highest incidence in gynecological cancers and is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the world. Characterizing the pathways that regulate the growth of ovarian cells is necessary for understanding the events that lead to development of ovarian cancer. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential clinical implication of circulating Activin A, follistatin, bikunin, ovarian tissue urokinase Plasminogen Activator (uPA) and Smad-2 (fusion between Drosophila mothers against dpp (Mad) and C. elegans Sma)expression for diagnosis and progression of ovarian cancer. Subjects: The study was carried out on 75 women divided as follows: 15 women with serous ovarian carcinoma, 15 women with mucinous ovarian carcinoma, 15 women with serous ovarian cystadenoma, 15 fertile healthy women, 15 postmenopausal healthy women. Methods: Serum levels of Activin A and Follistatin, and Plasma levels of Bikunin were estimated using ELISA. Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) was extracted from ovarian cancerous tissue and its levels estimated by ELISA. Detection of Smad2 mRNA in ovarian tissue was performed by Reverse Transcription – Polymerase Chain Reaction analysis (RT-PCR). Results: The levels of serum Activin A and Follistatin were found to be significantly higher in serous and mucinous ovarian carcinoma than in ovarian cystadenoma and controls (preand postmenopausal). Plasma levels of Bikunin were estimated to be significantly lower in patients with serous ovarian carcinoma and mucinous ovarian carcinoma than in controls and than patients with ovarian cystadenoma. In the present study, levels of uPA in ovarian tissue were significantly higher in serous ovarian carcinoma than in ovarian cystadenoma and controls. Levels of uPA were significantly higher in mucinous ovarian carcinoma than all other groups. Levels of uPA were found to be increased with progression of the stage of ovarian tumor. Correlation studies showed direct positive significant correlations between Activin A and Follistatin, Activin A and uPA, Follistatin and uPA. Also, Bikunin was found to be inversely correlated to Activin A, Follistatin and uPA. Smad-2 expression was detected in 75% of cases of serous ovarian cystadenocarcinoma, in 90% of mucinous ovarian carcinoma. Conclusions: In summary, activin A induces the proliferation of both serous and mucinous ovarian carcinoma. Therefore, activin A may be regarded as both a Bull. Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci. 26 (1) 2006 Sharara et al. 130 potential growth factor and a tumor marker. The significantly elevated levels of serum follistatin (Activin – binding protein) in ovarian carcinoma indicated that activin is free and this modulated its signal transduction as illustrated by the expression of Smad-2 in 90% of mucinous ovarian carcinoma and in 75% of serous cystadenocarcinoma. The present study shows that the activin/Smad signaling pathway is functional in ovarian cancer cells which most probably promotes tumor growth. It is proposed that Smad-2 increased the levels of uPA which is a proteolytic enzyme that enhances tumor growth, progression, invasion and metastases. Plasma bikunin concentration might be a strong and independent favorable prognostic marker for ovarian cancer. It may be concluded that bikunin might attenuate Activin A-elicited signaling cascades in ovarian cancer this probably suppresses uPA expression. Treatment with bikunin may be beneficial to delay the appearance of metastatic disease and/or combined with cytotoxic agents to improve treatment efficacy in advanced ovarian cancers.


Current situation and characteristics of forest-soil ecosystem in China are generalized briefly, and mainly, capital biological approaches on Chinese forest-soil ecological construction and biological evaluation indices the functions of forest-soil ecosystem are inquired into from the aspect of soil ecology in this paper.


: Solid and liquid wastes generated from both animal and domestic sources can significantly impair drinking, irrigation, recreational water and other water sources in rural and urban areas. Waste as a management issue has been evident for over four millennia. Disposal of waste to the biosphere has given way to thinking about, and trying to implement, an integrated waste management approach. This paper reviews the history of solid and liquid waste operations and summarizes the current environmental monitoring program and its major findings. Various problems of wastes in past and present, environmental ecology, general aspect of recycling and materials recovery are defined. " Managing and disposing of waste is to protect people and the environment ." " Improper handling of wastes can result in serious consequences such as explosion, fire, personal injury and may cause damage to the environment ." " Waste producers are reminded to exercise due care and follow local regulations. " " Disposal facilities are usually designed to permanently contain the waste and prevent the release of harmful pollutants to the environment. "


This paper expounded the framework of intelligent scheduling system of China's urban public transportation and proposed the programmes of the system combining transportation facilities in the lowly present condition.Last,GPS,GIS and GPRS technique were introduced and the important functions that they have played in the realization of the intelligent scheduling system were analyzed.


Building in China is about striking an architectural balance between the pull of monumental tradition and the push of technological novelty. Centering on the dynamic period of post-imperial and pre-Communist China, the book focuses on the building and city planning initiatives of Henry Murphy, a little-known American architect who initially ventured to China in 1914 to design a campus for the Yale-in-China Program, but who then found himself captivated by a professional and cultural challenge that lasted two decades: how to preserve China's rich architectural traditions while also designing new buildings using up-to-date Western technologies. Murphy's buildings were compromises -- "new wine in old bottles" as he once called them -- and the book uses those "bottles" as lenses through which to understand not only Murphy's quest to find a middle ground for his architecture in China, but also to gaze at a tumultuous society facing an uncertain future. Murphy's buildings were more than vessels for either aesthetic visions or technical expertise; inadvertently they became political emblems, as Chinese rulers such as Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen's son called on Murphy for city planning advice to complement their hopes for urban reconstruction.There are few serious studies of Western architects in the twentieth century who practiced in non-Western contexts, and those scant studies that have been published concentrate largely on British, French or Dutch examples in colonial settings. Hence, the book makes significant contributions to the fields of both American and Chinese architectural history.


Abstract The Indochinese refugee movement cast a long shadow over subsequent resettlement operations. UNHCR has since asserted greater leadership, with resettlement becoming more individually focused and globally diverse, but also more complex. Canadian policy has also evolved to become increasingly focused on protection and supportive of UNHCR's durable solution activities. This article seeks to compare UNHCR and Canadian resettlement selection policy and practice in place during the time of the Indochinese movement up to mid-2015. It highlights key elements in the evolution of UNHCR and Canadian resettlement policy and the factors behind them. It also identifies aspects of the Indochinese movement that are relevant to contemporary refugee policy. Resume Le mouvement indochinois des refugies a exerce une influence profonde sur les initiatives subsequentes de reinstallation. Le HCR s'est affirme davantage a la suite en tant que chef de file dans ce domaine, avec une approche a la reinstallation de plus en plus individuelle ainsi que diversifiee a l'echelle mondiale, mais aussi plus complexe. Les politiques canadiennes ont egalement evolue vers la protection comme principe fondamental, ainsi que le soutien des solutions durables promulguees par le HCR. Cet article a pour objectif de comparer les politiques et pratiques de selectionnement en matiere de reinstallation de la part du HCR et du Canada a partir de l'epoque du mouvement indochinois jusqu'a la premiere moitie de l'annee 2015. Il souligne les elements cles dans l'evolution des politiques et pratiques de reinstallation de la part du HCR et du Canada, ainsi que les facteurs qui les ont influences. Il identifie egalement les aspects du mouvement indochinois qui sont pertinents aux politiques contemporaines en matiere de refugies.


Revisiting the classical Gradmann's 'steppe theory' for central Europe, we examine whether the early Holocene steppe habitats survived the critical period of maximum Holocene afforestation: the mid-Holocene bottleneck. Despite the undisputable fact that afforestation was a dominant ecological factor in this period, our parallel analyses of pollen and molluscs from sedimentary sequences discovered in the dry lowland area of northern Bohemia, Czech Republic (Zahájí and Suchý potok sites, lower Ohře area) provide strong evidence for uninterrupted local occurrence of steppe grasslands throughout the Holocene. At the onset of the Neolithic agriculture, this area was covered by forest-steppe. Analogously to the present forest-steppe landscapes of eastern Europe and south-western Siberia, dry areas of northern Bohemia were dominated by open-canopy pine–birch forests that enabled continuous survival of many light-demanding plant species from the late Glacial and early Holocene to the Neolithic. Later on, anthropogenic deforestation and livestock grazing created a semi-natural steppe. Our data suggest that this secondary steppe can be viewed as a direct continuation of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene natural steppe rather than a purely cultural steppe developed only after deforestation of a continuously forested mid-Holocene landscape by humans. At the same time, we provide evidence supporting Gradmann's 'steppe theory', assuming that in central Europe, Neolithic farming started in those areas that were not completely forested but contained remnants of natural steppes. This finding has important implications for the interpretation of present biodiversity patterns in central Europe.


Chandra observations of M31 allow the first spatially resolved X-ray image of a supernova remnant (SNR) in an external spiral galaxy. CXOM31 J004327.7+411829 is a slightly elongated ring-shaped object with a diameter of ~11'' (42 pc). In addition, the X-ray image hints that the chemical composition of the SNR is spatial dependent. The X-ray spectrum of the SNR can be well fitted with a Raymond-Smith model or a nonequilibrium ionization model. Depending on the spectral model, the 0.3-7 keV luminosity is between 3.2 × 1036 and 4.5 × 1037 ergs s-1. The age of the SNR is estimated to be 3210-22,300 yr, and the number density of ambient gas is ~0.003-0.3 cm-3. This suggests that the local interstellar medium around the SNR is low.


We show that abstract interpretation-based static program analysis can be made efficient and precise enough to formally verify a class of properties for a family of large programs with few or no false alarms. This is achieved by refinement of a general purpose static analyzer and later adaptation to particular programs of the family by the end-user through parametrization. This is applied to the proof of soundness of data manipulation operations at the machine level for periodic synchronous safety critical embedded software.The main novelties are the design principle of static analyzers by refinement and adaptation through parametrization (Sect. 3 and 7), the symbolic manipulation of expressions to improve the precision of abstract transfer functions (Sect. 6.3), the octagon (Sect. 6.2.2), ellipsoid (Sect. 6.2.3), and decision tree (Sect. 6.2.4) abstract domains, all with sound handling of rounding errors in oating point computations, widening strategies (with thresholds: Sect. 7.1.2, delayed: Sect. 7.1.3) and the automatic determination of the parameters (parametrized packing: Sect. 7.2).


Calculations of the small-angle intensity from an extended medium of uniform electron density, by the usual Fraunhofer approximation, lead to values which are too large and quite different in magnitude for different shapes such as spheres, disks and square plates. A rigourous calculation is carried through for the square plate using Fresnel diffraction and allowing for a small variation in the sample dimensions. The small intensities which are observed in practice result from the combined effects of Fresnel diffraction and the inevitable variation in sample dimensions.


This paper explores low observability flight path planning of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of radar detection systems. The probability of detection model of an aircraft near an opponent radar depends on aircraft attitude, range, and configuration. A detection model is coupled with a simplified aircraft dynamics model. The nonlinear trajectory generation (NTG) software package developed at Caltech is used. The NTG algorithm is a gradient descent optimization method that combines three technologies: B-splines, output space collocation and nonlinear optimization tools. Implementations are formulated with temporal constraints that allow periods of high observability interspersed with periods of low observability. This feature can be used strategically to aid in avoiding detection by an opponent. Illustrative examples of optimized routes for low observability are presented.


Background Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare disease caused by the deficiency of C1 esterase inhibitor. HAE has a risk of life-threatening complications such as capillary leak syndrome (CLS) and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Case A 42-year-old male patient with HAE presented for deceased-donor kidney transplantation. Prophylactic fresh frozen plasma (FFP) was given before surgery because of the risk of edema development. With careful management during anesthesia, there were no problems during surgery. However, generalized edema, hypotension, hypoalbuminemia, massive drainage of serosanguineous fluids from the intraabdominal space, and DIC occurred on the day after surgery. CLS was suspected and sustained hypotension with generalized edema became worse despite treatment with albumin, danazol, FFP, and vasoactive drugs. The patient's condition worsened despite intensive care and he died due to shock. Conclusions The anesthesiologist should prepare for the critical complications of HAE and prepare the appropriate treatment options.


A model of the psychological refractory period (PRP) proposed by Surwillo and Titus (1976) is compared critically with that proposed by Welford (1952) noting the following points:

(1)
Surwillo and Titus augment the single channel hypothesis of Welford's model with other assumptions that are unnecessary as Welford's model fits their data (and the great bulk of other studies) with great precision.

(2)
An anomaly overlooked in their application of the model to the data was found, namely, a counterintuitive decrease in reaction time to the 2nd stimulus below its asymptotic value. This has not been reported in any PRP data. The assumption in error is pointed out and a correction suggested.

(3)
When an essential expansion of their model to incorporate varying signal processing times is made, the notion of an inert Recovery Period used by Survillo and Titus becomes redundant. If this is discarded on grounds of parsimony, the major remaining difference between the models is Surwillo and Titus' additional restrictive assumption of discrete time segments gated by an EEG rhythm for which their data do not present any strong evidence.

Although Welford's model is limited for developmental data as it only fits, rather than predicts, increases in reaction time with development, it is more accurate and preferable. Investigations of more cognitive variables such as practice may produce better explanations of developmental changes in reaction time than will measurement of small concomitant changes in physiological time parameters.


The invention relates to a controlled-release fertilizer special for Xinjiang grapes as well as preparation and application thereof. The controlled-release fertilizer special for the Xinjiang grapes is prepared through mixing a water-retention heat-insulation composition, humic-acid-coated urea, urea coated with sulfur and polymer, potassium nitrate coated with epoxy resin modified by urea prime coating, urea, diammonium phosphate, zinc sulfate and boric acid at a ratio, wherein the water-retention heat-insulation composition is prepared through the following the following steps: mixing weathered coal, decomposed chicken manure, bean cake powder, corncob powder and water-absorbent resin, and granulating the mixture. The controlled-release fertilizer special for the Xinjiang grapes is mainly used for planting grapes in Xinjiang and adjoining areas in China, and is once applied after grape harvesting in autumn.


The reaction of Bunsen's cacodyl disulfide, Me2As(S)-S-AsMe2, with heavy metal cations in methanol produces insoluble salts (complexes) of dimethyldithioarsinic acid, Me2AsS2H, and dimethyl arsenium ion, Me2As:+. This arsenium ion prefers to react with Me2As(S)-S-AsMe2, when in excess, compared to AcO− or MeOH/H2O and it is also reactive towards sulfur (Sx, x = 1-8) producing the stabilized dimethylarsino sulfenium cation, . The complexes (Me2AsS2)xM (x = 1 or 2) are unstable in the presence of their own heavy metal cations decomposing to colored solids. In an attempt to prepare salts of Me2AsSH, the reactions of (Me2AsS2)xM with triphenylphosphine and trimethyl phosphite gave the metal sulfide and Me2As-S-AsMe2 instead.


Young sexual minority women disproportionately experience pregnancy, repeat pregnancy, and become parents, when compared with their heterosexual peers. Black sexual minority women who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are a part of three demographic groups likely to experience adolescent pregnancy. A paucity of research has examined why these young women become pregnant. The authors begin to address this gap by examining the meaning of pregnancy from young women's perspective. Modified grounded theory was used to analyze data from interviews with 14 young Black sexual minority women, aged 16–24. Pregnancies, intentional and unintentional, were common among the participants and within their sexual minority community. Pregnancy affirmed sexual identity and same-sex relationships as well as garnered sexual and reproductive agency. Participants' pregnancy experiences contradicted the belief that young women sought or valued pregnancy because it provided access to heterosexual privilege. Although the main functions of intentional pregnancies did not differ drastically from those of young heterosexual women, we argue that these young women's pregnancy and parenting desires may be magnified because of the particular realities they face as sexual minority women. Further, we situate our analysis within the context of a Black cultural environment and argue that pregnancy and motherhood may be adaptive subsistence strategies for women who are largely socially devalued.


The energy conservation approach has been adopted to exploit GOCE orbit information in earlier GOCE time-wise and space-wise gravity field models which are two kinds of official ESA products,but the accuracy of long-wavelength gravity signal is low.Gravity field recovery with GOCE satellite data is an ill-posed problem and the precision of zonal coefficients is low due to the polar gaps,which needs be processed by regularization technique.This paper analyzes the accuracy of existing approaches for gravity field recovery in processing GOCE data and the selection of optimal regularization techniques and parameters.Several gravity field models were recovered based on GOCE precise orbits of 92-days from 2009-11-01 to 2010-01-31 with the energy conservation approach,short-arc integral approach and average acceleration approach.These approaches do not require any initial values of unknown parameters and reference gravity models.Besides,the Tikhonov regularization technique was applied to tackle the ill-posed problem.The results show that the highest accuracy of the model is recovered by the average acceleration approach,the lowest accuracy is the energy conservation approach,and the accuracy of short-arc integral approach is slightly worse than average acceleration approach.Therefore,such methods as the average acceleration approach or short-arc integral approach should be recommended to be applied when processing the GOCE orbit data.Gravity field models can effectively recovered by GOCE orbit data with the order and degree 120 when orbit and gradiometer data are combined to processes in the future.Kaula regularization and second-order Tikhonov(SOT)are superior to other regularization techniques in dealing with ill-posed problem of GOCE,and the corresponding optimal regularization parameters of both techniques are consistent.However,the effects of polar gaps could not be completely inhibited by regularization technique;it should be combined with other data,such as GRACE satellite data,to get the desired results.


To obtain an extra high quality imaging system in electrical imaging, new important physical factors and physical characters are considered and partly tested in addition to traditional characteristics such as frequency characteristics, quantization errors and so on. We have discussed the problem systematically based on the Uniform Lightness-Chromaticness Scale System and picture quality which is derived from the discussion of psychophysics.


The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on all levels of society, including the people of Bangka. Positive cases of Covid-19 in Riding Panjang Village are still relatively high and continue to grow. This results in a high transmission rate. Therefore, this problem needs to be considered so that it is handled as soon as possible to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. Public awareness of the importance of adhering to health protocols is still very minimal, this is what has become the main cause of transmission of the Covid-19 virus. Based on these problems, there is a need for public awareness to change behavior patterns to better comply with health protocols in tackling the spread of Covid-19. With that, it is important to make an effort that can make the public's mindset aware of the importance of complying with health protocols, namely by holding outreach activities in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This socialization was conducted in Bukit Tulang Hamlet, Riding Panjang Village, Belinyu District, Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Islands Province. As for the activities achieved from this socialization, the community is more concerned with complying with health protocols such as wearing masks, maintaining distance, and washing hands.


Background Depo-Provera is one of the most widely-used contraceptives. The side-effects includes loss in bone mineral density (BMD), increasing fracture risk (1,2). It is not known if conventional fracture risk factors impact fracture risk in these patients. Objectives We set out to determine if the usual risk factors for fracture are associated with increased risk of fragility fractures in patients exposed to Depo-Provera. Methods Patients referred for bone densitometry at a scanner in North West of England were analysed. Femoral and vertebral BMD, height, weight and body mass index (BMI) were recorded, in addition to: age, diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, smoking status, alcohol consumption, family history of fractures, history of secondary osteoporosis, corticosteroid use, total average proportion fat, average tissue thickness, fat mass, and lean mass. Patients with exposure to Depo-Provera were selected for analysis. Initially patients with and without a fracture were compared using Chi-squared test and T-test. Logistic models were fitted univariately and adjusted for age to analyse association between traditional risk factors and fracture. Results 304 females (103 currently and 201 previously on Depo-Provera) were included. 62 (20.4%) had sustained had least one fragility fracture. There was no significant difference in fracture risk between those currently and previously on Depo-Provera (p=0.176 95% CI). Decreased left femoral BMD significantly impacted fracture risk (p=0.035 95% CI). All other factors investigated did not significantly increase fracture risk in this cohort.(see table below) Predictor All Patients Patients with fracture Patients without fracture p-value Odds ratio (n=304) (n=62) (n=242) (95% CI) Age at scan (years) 36.7 41.5 39.2 0.083 1.028 [0.10, 1.06] Height (m) 163.2 163.3 163.2 0.924 1.002 [0.96, 1.04] Weight (kg) 73.0 76.9 72.1 0.078 1.012 [0.10, 1.03] Femoral BMD (left) (g/cm2) 0.966 0.932 0.975 0.035 0.100 [0.01, 0.82] Femoral BMD (right) (g/cm2) 0.972 0.945 0.979 0.112 0.177 [0.02, 1.47] Lumbar spine BMD (L2) (g/cm2) 1.115 1.099 1.119 0.364 0.432 [0.07, 2.62] BMI (kg/m2) 27.4 28.8 27.0 0.068 1.037 [0.10, 1.08] Average proportion fat 0.274 0.299 0.267 0.069 9.071 [0.86, 101.12] Average tissue thickness (cm) 17.6 18.3 17.5 0.080 1.076 [0.99, 1.17] Fat mass (g) 275.2 302.7 268.1 0.053 1.002 [0.10, 1.00] Lean mass (g) 724.8 697.3 731.9 0.053 0.998 [0.10, 1.00] Alcohol (no. of patients) 23 8 15 0.102 2.235 [0.78, 5.96] Smoking (no of patients) 154 31 123 1.000 0.968 [0.53, 1.76] Family history (no. of patients) 77 17 60 0.744 1.145 [0.57, 2.22] Rheumatoid arthritis (no. of patients) 11 3 8 0.702 1.485 [0.25, 6.43] Secondary operation (no. of patients) 48 10 38 1.000 1.032 [0.43, 2.29] Corticosteroids (no. of patients) 67 18 49 0.169 1.609 [0.80, 3.14] Conclusions Our study suggests that fragility fractures in patients taking Depo-Provera are not associated with the usual risk factors for fractures. To our knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating fracture risk in such patients to be independent of conventional risk factors. This therefore indicates an as yet unidentified mechanism of increased fracture risk. Study limitations include the small number of fractures and lack of data on length of treatment with Depo-Provera. Further research is needed into the mechanisms by which the drug gives rise to increased fracture risk, independent of other factors. References Contraception. United States; 2011 Nov;84(5):e31–7. Obstet Gynecol. United States; 2008 Oct;112(4):788–99. Disclosure of Interest None declared


Ficus lyrata Warb. 'Compacta' plants were grown with various rates of Osmocote 19N-2.6P-10K for 2 months prior to inoculation with Pseudomonas cichorii (Swing.) Stapp. Optimal plant growth occurred at rates from 4 to 13 g/12.5-cm pot in the spring, and 4 to 16 g/12.5-cm pot in the summer and fall. Percentage of leaf area affected with Pseudomonas cichorii was correlated to fertilizer level at rates between 4 and 16 g/12.5-cm pot. Disease rating was lowest for underfertilized plants (1 g/12.5-cm pot) increased at the 4-g rate and decreased at higher rates according to the following equation (y = 14.39 - 0.72x, R2 = 0.86).


The invention discloses an inorganic adhesive for silicon-based solar battery back aluminum slurry and a preparation method thereof. The inorganic adhesive is prepared by the following steps: step one, weighing raw materials according to the following weight percent: 10-20% of SiO, 5-15% of SrO, 25-40% of Bi2O3, 20-30% of B2O3, 5-15% of Al2O3, 2-5% of Na2O and 1-4% of K2O; step two, uniformly mixing the weighed components, transferring the mixed components into a porcelain crucible, smelting for 1-2h under the temperature of 900-1100 DEG C, water quenching and drying; and step three: crushing the dried materials, ball milling the dried materials by a planetary ball mill, drying and filtering, thus preparing the inorganic adhesive with the average particle size being 0.5mum-1.5mum. The inorganic adhesive has the advantages of high density, low softening point, small expansion coefficient and the like; and in the sintering process, aluminum powder and a silicon sheet can be contacted with each other well, and the bending degree of the silicon sheet is smaller than 1.5mm.


We are given a specification s that states the requirements of a problem in terms of data dependencies. We are also given some assumptions about the input domain. In this paper we define a formal model that can be used to verify that a program written according to the specification s does indeed have the data dependencies specified by s.


In this paper, it is studied a blockade problem about suspect escape with using graph theory. A minimum encirclement generation algorithm is proposed to convert this problem into a matching problem. Then the specific blockade plan is obtained. As the algorithm is a sort of polynomial time algorithm, it can obtain the global optimum in a relative shorter time compared with other algorithms. A series of evaluation criterion and numerical example are finally simulated to measure the effectiveness of proposed the blockade plan.


Twenty-nine cases of single cerebral metastases from renal carcinoma were the object of a retrospective and prospective study covering a period of 15 years (1975–1988). The best diagnostic means were NMR imaging with paramagnetic contrast medium and CAT scans after intravenous injection of a double dose of contrast medium. All patients underwent total surgical removal of the cerebral lesion. Radiotherapy was useful but had less influence on further reproduction than in metastases from tumors of other sites. The median survival was 28.1 months in patients who received radiotherapy and 23 months in the others. No significant difference in survival was found between the group of patients with unknown primary tumors and the other group with diagnosed primary neoplastic disease.


Cloud computing has emerged as a model for distributed computing that promotes on-demand scalability, flexible application deployment and reuse. Software product lines (SPL) promote reusable application development for product families. Cloud systems change to respond to changing clients' requirements. Cloud systems can be modeled as Software-as-aService (SaaS) families similar to the SPL concept. Some SPL development techniques rely on feature models to describe the commonality and variability of member applications. In this position paper, we extend our previous work, on service-oriented variability modeling, to introduce a platform independent approach to model cloud systems variability based on feature modeling and SPL. In addition, our approach is accompanied by a meta-model that formalizes the multiple views of cloud systems. We believe that such an approach facilitates variability modeling of cloud software families in a systematic and platform independent way. Keywords— Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Software Product Lines, Service Oriented Architecture, Variability Modeling,


We present three cases showing families' competence in mathematical problem solving as a practical aspect of daily life. At home, parents and children engaged creatively in solving math-relevant problems. They used a combination of everyday practices and school forms, but generally did not recognize mathematics in their problem solving. The findings invite new forms of participation that bring families into discussions of math-relevant situations and relates them to their children's school math. [families, math, ethnography, daily practices, math in context]


We consider a reverse supply chain with a production facility and a recovery facility, and address the joint control of production and disposal decisions for sustainable operations. Demands are satisfied from on-hand inventory of serviceable products, replenished via manufacturing or remanufacturing. Sold products may be returned after usage and each returned product is disposed of or accepted for recovery. Accepted returned products are converted into serviceable products after remanufacturing process. Formulating the model as a Markov decision process, we characterized the structure of the optimal production and disposal policy as two monotone switching curves under a special condition. Three types of heuristic policies are presented and their performance is numerically compared.


Objective To investigate the effects of intratumoral dendritic cells injection combined with radiotherapy on cytokines in the mice with renal carcinoma.Methods[WTBZ] BALB/c mice received renal cancer cell(RENCA) vaccination(subcutaneous injection of 2.5×10~6 RENCA cells),and then radiotherapy(7 Gy/time) and intratumoral injection of unpulsed dendritic cells at 1×10~6 cells/mouse/time were carried out.The mice were sacrificed on twenty-eighth day.Growth rate,weight and size of tumor mass were measured,and IL-2,IFN-γ,IL-4,IL-10,and TNF-α levels in splenocytes were determined by ELISA assays.Results Growth of tumor mass in the group of intratumoral dendritic cells injection combined with radiotherapy was significantly slower than that in other groups,and IL-2,IFN-γ and IL-4 levels in splenocytes in the group of intratumoral dendritic cells injection combined with radiotherapy was significantly higher than those in other groups.Conclusion Intratumoral dendritic cells injection combined with radiotherapy can inhibit growth tumor in the mice.


According to Shaanxi Province's 1994-2005 statistical date,This article used the method of ecological footprint to analysis Shaanxi Province's capacity of sustainable development.Then analysis the influencing factors that affected Shaanxi Province's capacity of sustainable development.Finally a basic avenue for improving Shaanxi's capacity of sustainable development was put forward.


The notion that the inhabitants of the Roman provinces may have expressed resistance to Rome by asserting aspects of their native culture was not unknown to early Roman historians such as Theodor Mommsen, who saw, for example, the dearth of Latin inscriptions in places like Paris as a manifestation of "silent resistance" to Roman culture.


A systematic nomenclature for allergens originated in the early 1980s, when few protein allergens had been described. A group of scientists led by Dr. David G. Marsh developed a nomenclature based on the Linnaean taxonomy, and further established the World Health Organization/International Union of Immunological Societies (WHO/IUIS) Allergen Nomenclature Sub-Committee in 1986. Its stated aim was to standardize the names given to the antigens (allergens) that caused IgE-mediated allergies in humans. The Sub-Committee first published a revised list of allergen names in 1986, which continued to grow with rare publications until 1994. Between 1994 and 2007 the database was a text table online, then converted to a more readily updated website. The allergen list became the Allergen Nomenclature database (www.allergen.org), which currently includes approximately 880 proteins from a wide variety of sources. The Sub-Committee includes experts on clinical and molecular allergology. They review submissions of allergen candidates, using evidence-based criteria developed by the Sub-Committee. The review process assesses the biochemical analysis and the proof of allergenicity submitted, and aims to assign allergen names prior to publication. The Sub-Committee maintains and revises the database, and addresses continuous challenges as new "omics" technologies provide increasing data about potential new allergens. Most journals publishing information on new allergens require an official allergen name, which involves submission of confidential data to the WHO/IUIS Allergen Nomenclature Sub-Committee, sufficient to demonstrate binding of IgE from allergic subjects to the purified protein. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2018.03.003 Received 24 February 2018; Accepted 6 March 2018 ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: email@example.com (R.E. Goodman). Molecular Immunology 100 (2018) 3–13 Available online 04 April 2018 0161-5890/ © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/). T


By many accounts politics is becoming more polarized, yielding dire consequences for democracy and trust in government. Yet a growing body of research on so-called false polarization finds that perceptions of 'what the other side believes' are inaccurate—specifically, overly pessimistic—and that these inaccuracies exacerbate intergroup conflict. Through a review of existing work and a reanalysis of published data, we (i) develop a typology of the disparate phenomena that are labelled 'polarization', (ii) use that typology to distinguish actual from (mis)perceived polarization, and (iii) identify when misperceived polarization gives rise to actual polarization (e.g. extreme issue attitudes and prejudice). We further suggest that a specific psychological domain is ideal for developing corrective interventions: meta-perception, one's judgement of how they are perceived by others. We review evidence indicating that correcting meta-perception inaccuracies is effective at reducing intergroup conflict and discuss methods for precisely measuring meta-perception accuracy. We argue that the reputational nature of meta-perception provides a motivational mechanism by which individuals are sensitive to the truth, even when those truths pertain to the 'other side'. We conclude by discussing how these insights can be integrated into existing research seeking to understand polarization and its negative consequences. This article is part of the theme issue 'The political brain: neurocognitive and computational mechanisms'.


Currently, there are many attacks and exploitation to Android smartphones by the attackers all over the world. These attacks are based on profit and caused loss of money and productivity to the victim. This exploitation can be done via camera, SMS, call, audio, image or location exploitation by attacking the system call, permission or API inside the Android smartphone. Therefore, this paper presents 32 mobile malware classification based on system call and permission to detect camera exploitation for Android smartphone. The experiment was conducted in a controlled lab environment, by applying reverse engineering with 5560 training dataset from Drebin, where both static and dynamic analyses were used to identify and extract the permission and system call from the mobile applications (apps). These 32 classification have been evaluated with 500 mobile apps from Google Play Store and 19 mobile apps matched with the classification. This new classification can be used as the database and input for the development of new mobile malware detection model for camera exploitation.


Club foot is one of the foot deformities due to genetic factors, diseases, the condition of pregnant women is too small, or the result of a marriage that has a kinship. For every 1000 normal childbirths, there is usually one birth of a child with a leg like this. Children with this leg shape often have difficulty doing daily activities. In this paper, the prosthetic limbs used by children with clubfoot are very uncomfortable and often cause excessive pain. This paper comprehensively explains the process of designing boots for club sufferers using a semi-reverse innovative design (semi RID) method. The collaboration of 3D replica with Handyscann 700TM is used to get 3D mesh foot models with. STL format that is truly precise and accurate. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) with PowerShape 2019i software is used in this paper to get a variety of shoe lasts and insole designs that are truly precise and accurate according to the foot contours of clubfoot children. The results showed the error tolerance geometry was less than 5.0 mm for each dimension.


Two band-winged dragonlets, Erythrodiplax umbrata (Linnaeus), collected in Wayne County, Michigan on 6 October 2007 represent the first records for this genus and species in the state, as well as the northernmost record for the species. They were found during a period in which many individuals were seen or photographed in Ohio, which prior to 2006, had only two records. ____________________ Erythrodiplax (Brauer) is a primarily Neotropical genus of 56 species (Garrison et al. 2006), six of which occur regularly in North America north of Mexico (Dunkle 2000). Erythrodiplax umbrata (Linnaeus), the band-winged dragonlet, is found in South America south to Argentina, Central America, Mexico, the Greater Antilles, and the southern United States. Prior to 2006, there were only four records outside the southern U.S., all represented by specimens. One was taken at Cedar Bog, Champaign County, Ohio on 11 June 1934 (Borror 1935). Two teneral individuals were collected in Indiana by B. E. Montgomery on 1 September 1934, a male in Gibson County, and a female in Pike County (Borror 1935). Kansas has two records, a teneral male collected by G. F. Hevel on 11 July 1964 in Labette County and a female taken on 8 June 1999 in Sedgwick County by R. J. Beckemeyer (Beckemeyer 2004). On 11 August 2006, a male E. umbrata was photographed at Armleder Park, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, which remained present until at least 23 August (Abbott 2007, Hull 2007). In 2007, Ohio had a spate of records for this species. One was photographed on 29 August at Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve, Lake County and two more were seen at this location on 10 September (Rosche 2007). Two adult males were found and photographed on 4 September at Frohring Meadows, Geauga County and another was photographed there on 18 September (Rosche 2007). An adult male was found on 14 September at the Leroy Wetlands, Lake County. Multiple individuals, including juveniles, were observed at this site through 22 October; the peak number was at least 20 juveniles on 26 September (Rosche 2007, J. Pogacnik, pers. comm.). A male was photographed at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cuyahoga County on 8 October and two teneral individuals on 17 October (Gardella 2007a, L. Gardella, pers. comm., contra Rosche 2007). None of these individuals were collected. Bearing the recent Ohio findings in mind, on 6 October we took advantage of unseasonably warm (30°C) and sunny weather to do a final survey of adult odonates at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, Humbug Marsh Unit, located along the lower Detroit River, in Wayne County, Michigan. Part of this unit is an 18 ha brownfield owned by Wayne County. The only surface water on the brownfield site were rainwater puddles unintentionally created by construction equipment earlier in the summer. These puddles were restricted to a 3 ha section approximately 300 m from the Detroit River. Immediately upon entering the site, JAC spotted a male E. umbrata at an 8 × 4 m puddle (42°06'53"N, 83°11'38"W). As we attempted to photograph 1 Craves and O'Brien: Erythrodiplax Umbrata (Odonata: Libellulidae): New for Mic Published by ValpoScholar, 2007 2007 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 97 it, a second male flew in and the two chased each other. For about 15 min, they alternated between the original puddle and another of similar size approximately 20 m away. Although they were wary and difficult to approach, JAC was eventually able to capture both. Voucher specimens have been deposited into the Univ. Michigan Museum of Zoology, Insect Division, and have been cataloged by the Michigan Odonata Survey. This location is roughly 40 km farther north than the northernmost record for Ohio (at Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve) and over 220 km farther north than the previous northernmost specimen, the one taken by Borror in 1934 outside of Columbus (Borror 1935).


The block size is an important index for determining the integrity of rock masses, as well as the evidence for estimating the rock mass classification. However, obtaining the block size information of exposed rock is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and high risk work. This paper proposed a new method to automatically identify the rock block and calculate the block size based on the 3D point cloud data of rock surface. The proposed method includes four steps: (1) automatic identification of rock discontinuity and extraction of information based on several machine learning algorithms, (2) Rough extraction of block discontinuities combination by distance filtering and angle filtering, (3) accurate identification and extraction of blocks by applying mutual projection of centroid and adding angle repair coefficient, (4) calculation of block size by filling in the concavity outline of point cloud for single block. An automatically statistic and analyzed program is compiled by matlab language based on massive point cloud of block information. The method is applied in controllable boxes model and real road cut slope, making comparison with the results of former research and calculated results by specialized point cloud processing software. It reveals that the proposed method is applicable with high calculating accuracy and efficiency.


In this study, a facile route was developed for the synthesis of α-CaB4O7 compound. Ammonium tetraborate tetrahydrate (ATB) was used as the source of Boron. The compound was obtained using high-temperature solid-state reaction technique (840 °C) and heat treatment process was introduced to enhance the phase purity and crystallinity. To control the formation of calcium tetraborate single phase, an excess amount of B2O3 (2 wt%) was added to the starting powder mixture. Various analytical methods such as x-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopies, Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were employed to characterize the prepared sample. Phase purity and crystallinity were evaluated by x-ray diffraction analytic method. Raman and FTIR spectroscopies were performed to confirm the atomic bond formation and its borate anionic group. FE-SEM was carried out for the morphological study of α-CaB4O7 compound and Energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) analysis was used to investigate the elemental composition of the prepared sample. XRD analysis confirmed that the prepared sample has alpha phase structure with monoclinic symmetry. The peaks correspond to unwanted phases (CaB2O4, Ca2B6O11) were not observed in the x-ray diffraction pattern of the prepared CaB4O7 compound. XPS was performed and its spectrum showed all expected characterization peaks for the first time, which is in agreement with FE-SEM and EDX results.


Metallic silver, being differ from the most of the transition metals, characterizes only weak interaction with oxygen, and no obvious adsorption and dissociation of di-oxygen on the surfaces of bulk silvers have been observed at the elevated temperatures. As the excellent catalysts, however, silver has been used extensively in several very important catalytic processes, such as epoxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide, partial oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde, partial oxidation of benzyl alcohols and catalytic oxidation of CO. The unique activity and selectivity in such the oxygen-related catalytic reactions have been attributed currently to the existence of a subsurface oxygen species, labelled as Oγ, in the toplayers of silvers. Our previous experiments1),2) showed that compared to the "normal" adsorbed atomic oxygen forming on silver surface at low temperature, the Oγ species presents the quite different properties in the respects of the electron and structure as well as the thermal-stability. Such the oxygen species, however, was found to be created on the ordered Ag(111) surface only at the temperature being higher than 500℃ and also an existence of oxygen atmosphere, under which conditions a actual reconstruction with (26x1) superstructure was formed simultaneously. Subsequent theoretical investigations with DFT methods confirmed that the reconstruction of the surface atoms lowers the energy barrier of oxygen diffusion into the bulk of silver, which essentially accelerates the formation of the subsurface oxygen (Oγ). In this report, a unique dependence of the formation of Oγ species on the size of silver particles will be presented, with emphasis on the so-called "nano-effects". Experimental and theoretical3),4) results show that the temperature for building Oγ in the silver particles could be reduced distinctly with the decrease of the particle size, and such the selective oxygen species can even be observed at room temperature in the system with silver particles in the diameters of 2~4nm, which is fully supported by a recent observation of HRTEM5) upon the formation of Oγ species on the SiO2-supported silver particles. The effects of the enhanced formation of Oγ species in the nano-silver systems on the selective oxidations will be discussed, and the experimental results referring to the selective oxidation of methane, methanol and carbon monoxide at lower temperatures on nano-silver catalysts will be presented as well in this report.


The size of the crystallites in nylon 66, polytetrafluoroethylene, and polyethylene correlates with the degree of crystallinity. This supports the suggestion that the amorphous content of partially crystallized polymers can be attributed to chain folds and other regions directly related to the crystalline structure, at least down to a level of 40–60% crystallinity. In all cases, the term "percent crystallinity" is a useful unifying concept expressing the over-all degree of order including mesomorphic structures, the relative amounts of ordered and disordered material, and the quality of the ordered regions.


This article is about the Graduate Program in Rural Education that started in 2006. This program is an innovative experience because it is developed in two different modalities: face to face and distance with virtual components.It includes five different modules; each one developed in a different Central American country. The participants are from all over Central America. The author explains, how this is an original alternative from the Rural Education Department (DER) of the Center of Investigation and Teaching in Education (CIDE) to the national and international community, that supports people who is interested and linked with the development of rural areas in the region.


Orientation:  It is a widely held belief that attractive people generally experience an easier life and that the door to success is opened by perfect bone structure and a sparkling smile. However, attractiveness might play a far lesser role in individual's achieving their objectives than has previously been thought. Is it possible that an individual's qualifications may have a greater influence on the perceptions of managers who assess the suitability of a candidate of a knowledge worker? Research purpose:  The study sets out to examine the relative predictive power of physical attractiveness and qualifications in the decision to hire a knowledge worker. Motivation for the study:  The research was motivated by a desire to explore the presence of bias in the decision-making process when seemingly rational individuals are exposed to factors such as physical attractiveness of a job candidate and then faced with a decision on whether to hire them. Research design, approach and method:  A two-phased experimental design was applied to investigate the existence and strength of the beauty premium amongst a group of managers who were provided with fictitious resumes coupled with photographs of the applicants. These managers were requested to make a hiring decision based on the information supplied. Main findings:  Although results confirm the existence of a beauty premium, it was relatively weak. It indicated that qualifications have a greater influence on a manager's perception of the suitability of a candidate to fill a position of a knowledge worker. Practical or managerial implications:  The research draws attention to the possibility of bias in selection decisions and proposes ways in which such potential bias can be limited. Contribution:  This study contributes to knowledge concerning the existence or otherwise of a so-called beauty premium, with particular reference to its impact in the knowledge economy.


Mass development of the latest applications for the famous 19 services of the Internet of things (IOT) becomes dominant a factor in the intellectually intensive segments of automation of technological systems. IoT is supported by regulatory switching of IoT components and devices to the Internet for information exchange with these facilities in order to control and regulate their functional modes. Our article prescribes the use of fiber optic sensors devices that can be equipped with technological and industrial installations in order to monitor them and detect deviations from operating modes. The development of fiber optic communication and monitoring devices makes IOT systems easily manageable and remotely adjustable.
The integration of devices for reading technological parameters and their further transmission over a fiber optic network gives rise to several problems that were analyzed in detail in the article. In this regard, it can be established that fiber optic IOT has a broad development perspective. This article describes the current capabilities of the Internet of Things, and the constituent components of the Internet of Things, and also presents the theoretical premises that underlie the Internet of Things.
Keywords: Internet of things, fiber-optical sensor, fiber network, signal processing, home safety monitoring, technological parameters acquisition.


In a stochastic volatility market the Radon-Nikodym density of the minimal entropy martingale measure can be expressed in terms of the solution of a semilinear partial differential equation (PDE). This fact has been explored and illustrated for the time-homogeneous case in a recent paper by Benth and Karlsen [3]. However, there are some cases which time-dependent parameters are required such as when it comes to calibration. This paper generalizes their model to the time-inhomogeneous case.


Recently, the integer DCT (Int-DCT), which has rounding operations in the lifting structure, is attracting many researchers attention as an effective method for DCT based lossy/lossless unified coding. So far, focuses of the previous reports relevant to the Int-DCT have been limited to a few topics such as how to reduce the number of multipliers with the four point lossless Hadamard transform and the non-separable two dimensional LDCT. What seems to be lacking, however, is how to express multiplier word length as short as possible for reduction of hardware complexity. This report defines a new "SNR sensitivity" as an indicator of how the word length truncation of multiplier coefficients affects quality of the decoded image, and also proposes a new word length allocation method based on the sensitivity. As a result, two [bit] on average shorter word length is attained under equivalent quality of the decoded image.


As the rate of incarceration in the United States continues to grow, a large body of research has been primarily focused on understanding the determinants and drivers of federal and state prison growth. However, local jail systems, with 11 million admissions each year, have generated less research attention even though they have a far broader impact on communities. Preliminary time trend analysis conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) uncovered disparities in county jail incarceration rates by geography. Contrary to assumptions that incarceration is an urban phenomenon, Vera discovered that during the past few decades, pretrial jail rates have declined in many urban areas whereas rates have grown or remained flat in rural counties. In an effort to uncover the factors contributing to continued jail growth in rural areas, Vera joined forces with Two Sigma's Data Clinic, a volunteer-based program that leverages employees' data science expertise. Using county jail data from 2000 - 2013 and county-specific demographic, political, socioeconomic, jail and prison population variables, a generalized estimating equations (GEE) model was specified to account for correlations within counties over time. The results revealed that county-level poverty, police expenditures, and spillover effects from other county and state authorities are all significant predictors of local jail rates. In addition, geographic investigation of model residuals revealed clusters of counties where observed rates were much higher (and much lower) than expected conditioned upon county variables.


The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of the planting distance and depth on the power take-off (PTO) load spectrum of a small riding-type transplanter for the optimal design of the transplanter. To measure load data during actual planting operation, a load measurement system was developed using a torque sensor, a data acquisition system, and an inverter. Field experiments were conducted at four planting distances (26 cm, 35 cm, 43 cm, and 80 cm) and three planting depths (85 mm, 105 mm, and 136 mm) in a field with similar soil conditions. The measured load data were inverted into a load spectrum using rain-flow counting and Smith-Watson-Topper (SWT) methods. The safety factor of a transplanter according to the planting conditions was analyzed using the converted load spectrum and commercial software. The load spectrum for all planting conditions showed torque ratios similar within a high cycle region of 108 to 109. The torque ratio increased when the planting depth increased and planting distance decreased in the low cycle region under less than 108 cycles. The safety factors of the PTO driving gear and the driven gear increased as the planting distance increased at all planting depths. When the planting depth decreased at the same planting distance, the safety factor of the PTO gears increased. The results of this study might provide useful information for a transplanter PTO design considering the working load according to the various planting conditions.
Keywords: transplanter, planting distance, planting depth, power take-off, load spectrum, safety factor
DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20201302.4187

Citation: Kim W-S, Kim Y-S, Kim T-J, Nam K-C, Kim T-B, Han T-H, et al. Effects of planting distance and depth on PTO load spectrum of a small riding-type transplanter. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2020; 13(2): 57–63.


Volvo Cars is working on reducing the frequency of small margin driving situation in order to reach Vision 2020; that no one should be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo car by 2020. In thi ...


During the past few years and particularly after Watergate, there has been a renewed interest in political ethics at every level of government. National events have raised serious doubts as to the standards of conduct observed by elected officials. This has compelled many states, Alabama among them, to create such standards through legislation or executive order.


A formulation for sensitivity analysis of the fully coupled time-dependent aeroelastic analysis of helicopter rotors is given in this paper. Both forward sensitivity and adjoint sensitivity formulations are derived that correspond to analogues of the non-linear aeroelastic analysis problem. Both sensitivity analysis formulations make use of the same iterative disciplinary solution techniques used for analysis, and make use of an analogous coupling strategy. The information passed between fluid and structural solvers is dimensionally equivalent in all cases, enabling the use of the same data structures for analysis, forward and adjoint problems. Sensitivities for the fully coupled aeroelastic problem are verified using the complex step method and agreement to machine precision is demonstrated. Future work will involve using these sensitivities in the context of a coupled aeroelastic rotor optimization problem.


Sustainability reporting is a report that contains information outside the company's financial performance. In recent years, there are much increase in the disclosure of sustainability reporting in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to explain how political connections and government ownership affect the disclosure of sustainability reports. This research was conducted at companies from Indonesia that were ranked on ASRRAT in 2018-2020. Determination of the sample using a purposive sampling method with two criteria, such as companies that publish annual reports and sustainability reports from 2017-2019. The data in this study were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that political connections have a positive effect on the disclosure of the sustainability report, but government ownership does not affect the disclosure of the sustainability report. The results of this study also prove there is evidence from the theory of legitimacy, that is the company has a social contract, namely a sustainability report with its environment.
Keywords: Sustainability Report; Political Connection; Government Ownership


Organizational Citizenship, Decision-Making Styles and Transformational Leadership concepts are increasingly important paradigms in post-modern times in management science. The rapid progress of technology and information age makes it very necessary to plan ahead and develop the reflexes in this way in order to determine what kind of position the Company and Institutional managers should determine in the hyper-competitive environment. In our work, The organizational citizenship evaluated in accordance with Otherness, (benevolence), Conscientiousness, Courtesy, Gentility (Sportsmanship), Civil Virtue, and Spontaneous Decision Making, Rational Decision Making, Intuitive Decision Making, Dependent Decision Making, Shyly Decision Making were considered types of Decision-Making Styles.Finally, we tried to address the dimensions of the concept of Transformational Leadership, which we have examined as a dependent variable in our research model: "Mental Encouragement, Charisma Behavior, Instinctive Leadership, Interest at Individual Level and Charisma Attribution Dimensions". The universe of the research, the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Vocational Schools of Business Administration, which are located in Gumushane and Bayburt provinces and are candidates for the future, constitute day students. A total of 221 students from Gümüşhane University (110) and Bayburt University (111) participated in the research. The example of the research was formed in this way. The turnover rate of the questionnaires is 74%. Many previous conceptual and latent (dimensional) studies on Organizational Citizenship, Decision-making Styles and * Arş. Gör. Bayburt Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi İşletme Bölümü, El-mek: email@example.com ** Öğr. Gör. Gümüşhane Üniversitesi Gümüşhane Meslek Yüksekokulu, İşletme Bölümü, El-mek: email@example.com ** Arş. Gör. Bayburt Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi İşletme Bölümü,El-mek: email@example.com 2 Fetullah BATTAL İbrahim DURMUŞ Ertuğrul ÇINAR Turkish Studies International Periodical for the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 12/31 Transformational Leadership have been conducted however in this study the effects of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Decision-Making Styles on Transformer Leadership examined for he first time by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).


In this paper we describe the architecture of the most crucial and sophisticated element of the LHCb Timing and Fast Control (TFC) System the Readout Supervisor (RS). The multi-functionality, the complexity and the speed demands dictate usage of the most advanced and performant technological solutions. The logical part of the Readout Supervisor is therefore based on the fastest PLDs on the market i.e. the Altera MAX and FLEX devices working on 2.5V. There are 12 such units implemented where each unit carry separate logical functions. The front-end logic of the module is designed with positive ECLinPS Lite ICs. The Experiment Control System (ECS) interface to the Readout Supervisor is based on a commercial Credit Card PC from Digital Logic AG.


In recent years, a large variety of protocols and standards have been proposed in the context of digital electrocardiography. This multiplicity generates a clear lack of integration and interoperability in electrocardiogram (ECG) standardization. Some pairwise converters have been proposed and developed but such an approach is not costeffective, since it requires a large number of mappings. Therefore, to efficiently administer the various formats, some management systems are required. In this paper, a framework for the integration and management of the different ECG formats is proposed. This framework is a Java-based application comprising four main parts: a servlet, an applet, a database and a web page. The primary idea of this approach is to provide with converter classes to a central format. Then, since ECGs are stored in the same format, they can be homogeneously managed, stored and visualized.


Context. Many disk galaxies host two extended stellar components that rotate in opposite directions. The analysis of the stellar populations of the counter-rotating components provides constraints on the environmental and internal processes that drive their formation.
Aims. The S0 NGC 1366 in the Fornax cluster is known to host a stellar component that is kinematically decoupled from the main body of the galaxy. Here we successfully separated the two counter-rotating stellar components to independently measure the kinematics and properties of their stellar populations.
Methods. We performed a spectroscopic decomposition of the spectrum obtained along the galaxy major axis and separated the relative contribution of the two counter-rotating stellar components and of the ionized-gas component. We measured the line-strength indices of the two counter-rotating stellar components and modeled each of them with single stellar population models that account for the {\alpha}/Fe overabundance.
Results. We found that the counter-rotating stellar component is younger, has nearly the same metallicity, and is less {\alpha}/Fe enhanced than the corotating component. Unlike most of the counter-rotating galaxies, the ionized gas detected in NGC 1366 is neither associated with the counter-rotating stellar component nor with the main galaxy body. On the contrary, it has a disordered distribution and a disturbed kinematics with multiple velocity components observed along the minor axis of the galaxy.
Conclusions. The different properties of the counter-rotating stellar components and the kinematic peculiarities of the ionized gas suggest that NGC 1366 is at an intermediate stage of the acquisition process, building the counter-rotating components with some gas clouds still falling onto the galaxy.


Cancer is an irregular extension of cells and one of the regular diseases in India which has lead to 0.3 deaths every year. It may take any forms and is very difficult to detect during early stages. Getting a clear cut classification from a biopsy image is inconvenient task as the pathologist must know the detailed features of a normal and the affected cells. Manual identification of cancerous cells from the microscopic biopsy images is time consuming and requires good expertise. This paper presents an overview of the method that proposes the detection of breast cancer with microscopic biopsy images. It focuses on image analysis and machine learning. Keywords—CNN, Image Processing, Machine Learning


Based on the "UPC Sustainable Plan 2015" the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) is developing different actions related to the improvement of the university community from a sustainability perspective. One of these activities is the introduction of the Industrial Ecology (IE) discipline into its educational program.
Taking advantage of that, the purpose of this paper is to check whether IE framework is applicable and viable to improve sustainability at UPC. IE concept is focused on an integrated and systemic view by taking into account the interactions between the different involved stakeholders; as well as the way they manage the whole process from "cradle to cradle" . That means an analysis which goes from the extraction of the raw materials till the reintegration of the final wastes, closing the loop.
In order to reach the goal of this research, the principles of IE will be applied to one of the services offered by the university, such as the cleaning service. This one is a good exemplary case of study due to different stakeholders involved and to environmental impact produced in each step of this process.
This study is focused on the analysis of the management process by using some of IE tools. Furthermore, the study will be taking into consideration IE´s strategy which is to substitute toxic substances by others less hazardous while dematerialize and decrease waste, by reducing the usage of resources such as water, energy and cleaning products.
Once the process has been analyzed, it will be verified whether IE has been applying the proper frameworks which reduce the environmental impacts and, at the same time, produce a positive impact on daily good practices to the university, community and society.


Objective: This is a Prospective analytical study carried out in department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hi-Tech Medical College & Hospital, Bhubaneswar, a tertiary care centre, to find out the role of combined laparoscopy and simultaneous hysteroscopy in the management of infertility. Materials and Method: A total of 70 women who reported with complaint of infertility were chosen for study. The women were evaluated for female factor by laparoscopy and simultaneous hysteroscopy. Tubal patency study was also done. The study was conducted over a two year period i.e .from November 2018 to October 2020 at Hi-Tech Medical College & Hospital, Bhubaneswar. Results: Age of the women ranged from 21 to 40 years and the mean age was 27.97 years. In hysteroscopy, endometrial polyp, cervical stenosis, submucous fibroid, ostial block and septate uterus was identified. In laparoscopy, various pathologies like polycystic ovarian disease, endometriosis, bilateral and unilateral tubal block, pelvic adhesions, myomas and uterine anomalies were detected. Conclusion: In investigating the causes of female infertility, a combined laparoscopy with simultaneous hysteroscopy provides the best approach to diagnose the pathologies.


Abstract The surface patterns of winged seeds of Paulownia fortunei, P. tomentosa and P. fortunei × P. tomentosa were examined by scanning electron microscopy. The pattern of reticulation on the wings and seed coat of P. fortunei and the hybrid are comparable, while that on P. tomentosa is different and more elongated. Also, the wings are more extended at the oblong ends of the seeds in the former when compared to the wings of P. tomentosa . Distinct random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) patterns were obtained for the three taxa and P. kawakamii with five different random oligonucleotide primers, suggesting that the method can yield genetic markers for differentiating the taxa. Also, Southern blot analyses of the RAPD products of the hybrid and the two parent species revealed shared (inherited) genetic polymorphisms.


Most data on the etiology of bloody diarrhea come from developing countries. The authors of this study, working through the EMERGEncy ID NET Study


An antibacterial is a compound or substance that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria. The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic(s) (1). Today, antibiotic (s) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds (2). According to the report of Union of Concerned Scientists, it is known that the estimated 16,000 tons of antimicrobial compounds are used in US, nearly 93 tons of antibiotics used in New Zealand and 14,600 tons of active antimicrobials used in Kenya (3). A chemically modified electrode constructed by immobilization of functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotubes (fMWCNTs) and Ni (II) complex of benzil bisthiosemicarbazone (Ni-BBTC) at the surface of glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The Ni-BBTC- fMWCNT-MGCE was used as a sensitive electrochemical sensor for detection of tetracyclines. There was a good linear relationship between the peak current (Ipa) and tetracycline concentration in the range from 8.0×10 -7 to 1.0×10 -5 M, and the detection limit was 2.0×10 -7 M (S/N= 3). The method has been successfully employed to detect tetracycline in pharmaceutical and clinical preparations.


AbrlracL We have previously formulaled B general translationally invariant version of lhe coupled cluster theory. \hl: invaligate hem lhe linearized approximalion referred to as the second-order translatianally invariant cluster method. In panicular, we algebraically formulate and numenally salve h i s method at the aplimal Euler-Lagrange level for finite bosonic systems. ?he method proves lo be highly superior to the standard mnfigurationinleraction calculations of the shell-model type, and confirms the validity of the Gaussian geminal expansion of the No-body clusler C z .