Mars airplane is one of the candidate payloads of JAXA's next Mars exploration program. Airborne observation of Mars is expected to fill the "gap" between rovers, which provides a detailed observation but a limited area of coverage, and orbiters, which can cover a wide range of area but with a limited resolution. Two key challenges to realize a Mars airplane are 1) unavailability of GPS for localization and 2) limited computing power due to tight restriction on the mass of on-board instrument. We address these issues by developing a computationally tractable vision-based navigation algorithm. Our approach is based on an efficient feature detector and descriptor, Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB), combined with the information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) using the extended Kalman filter (EKF) method. In this paper, we demonstrate the proposed ORB/EKF-based localization method by indoor experiments, using a small quadrotor helicopter and Mars surface image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The experimental results indicate that the computational cost of the proposed method is sufficiently small for real-time processing.


A new magnetic composite sorbent,Fe3O4 nanoparticles,modified by 2,6-diminopyridine was prepared,and characterized by FTIR.The adsorption property of this sorbent for Cu2+ and Zn2+ from aqueous solution was determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry(FAAS).The effects of pH value in aqueous solution,adsorption time,initial concentration and elution condition on adsorption were investigated.The results showed that Cu2+ and Zn2+ could be effectively adsorbed on the composite particles at pH 6—7.And only 5 min was needed for the equilibration.The adsorption data followed Langmuir lay molecule adsorption model.Under optimal conditions(T=298K,pH=7,V=50mL),the maximal adsorption capacity for Cu2+ and Zn2+ was 45mg·g-1 and 32mg·g-1,respectively.The adsorption performance did not decreased obviously after six reuses.


The two-year field experiments (2009–2010) were carried out to compare the reaction of 10 winter wheat cultivars to retardants chlormequat chloride (Antywylegacz plynny 675 SL) and trinexapac ethyl (Moddus 250 EC) used together. Retardants were applied at three growth phases: BBCH 31, 32, 37. The total amount of active ingredients per 1 ha was 2.17 kg of chlormequat chloride and 150 g trinexapac ethyl. During wheat vegetation at the shooting (BBCH 33), heading (BBCH 51) and flowering (BBCH 65) phases, the amount of selected nutrients (P, K, Ca, Mg), in dry weight of above-ground parts of wheat plants was estimated. During the shooting, heading and flowering phase there was no significant difference in the amount of P, K, Ca, Mg in dry weight of above-ground parts of winter on the plots treated with retardants, in comparison to the control samples.


In this paper we will demonstrate the improved BER performance of doubly differential phase shift keying in a coherent optical packet switching scenario while still retaining the benefits of high frequency offset tolerance.


Metal ceramic fixed partial dentures (FPD) are suitable to increase fracture resistance presenting higher clinical longevity. This type of prosthesis is mainly used when a great number of teeth replacements are needed. The FPD under analysis is defined by a metallic infrastructure (titanium) and by a ceramic coating. The advantages of hybrid FPD lie in their predictable biomechanical behaviour, versatility and cost. The main disadvantage is related to aesthetic functionality. Karlsson (1986), Lindquist & Karlsson (1998) and Palmqvist (1993) quantified the life time for hybrid FPD, referring 10 years in service to be a survival of break point. The connector design is of great importance to improve smooth stress pattern in the region between teeth. This region is also restrained by biological and aesthetic reasons. Ceramic material presents elevated failure rate in FPD due to brittleness. This work intends to predict fracture resistance to different loading conditions, using a smeared fracture approach (continuous damage mechanics). Results agree well with experimental evidence. 2 OBJECTIVES The objective of this research is to predict damage on ceramic material, depending on load type and level. An incremental loading step was applied until the maximum load bearing was reached for each loading condition. Those different loading condition should represent a wide range of dally situations. The pattern of cracking and crushing should be determined. Cracking is the ultimate state condition under tension while crushing is represented by compressive stress state. 3 MATERIALS Two different materials should be defined for numerical simulation of this metal-ceramic partial fixed denture. The adherence between them is not considered in this investigation, assuming perfect contact between both. The ceramic material should be considered as brittle, using adequate constitutive relations and the titanium should be considered as normal ductile metallic behaviour. Ceramic present higher strength resistance in compression than in tension. Figure 2 represents the mechanical behaviour under uniaxial stress conditions, being the material capable of stress relieving under tension stress. This behaviour is normally used to increase numerical convergence. Figure 2. Stress – strain relation for ceramic material. Material may undergo plastic behaviour under compression. Table 1 represents the material properties used together with failure mechanism, based on Willam and Warnke (1975) criteria. Table 1. Material model for ceramic material. MODEL PROPERTY / FUNCTION VALUE Linear Elastic modulus 66.9 [GPa] (tension/compression) Poisson coefficient 0.29 Non – linear Strain Stress


The most widely used salt production technique is the process of evaporating seawater into salt by utilizing sunlight. This study conducted to measure the weather parameter and salt production during the salt season in 2019. The method used to measure the rate of evaporation was with a impermeable pan to prevent leakage of water samples. The results show that the evaporation rate of freshwater (0°Be) is greater than saltwater (20°Be) and the evaporation in July (0.62 cm/day) is smaller than October (1 cm/day). The correlation coefficient during July until October 2019 for air temperature (r) = 0.964, humidity (r) = -0.985, wind speed (r) = 0.622, and sunshine duration (r) = 0.987. The total salt production was from July until October 2019 reached 37395 kg on a demonstration plot area of 0.43 hectares. It is estimated the total of production per hectare will reach 87 tons /season. And for 2020 based on in-situ data it is estimated that production will decrease which is salt production will begin in July 2020, unlike 2019 which began in June, this is due to the influence of changes from the West wind (Asian monsoon) to East wind (Australian monsoon).


Spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks (SSFONs) are proposed as a scalable solution to satisfy future capacity requirements in backbone optical networks. With the growing heterogeneity of network services, various protection mechanisms can be applied against network failures. SS-FONs are built on top of flex-grid, allowing for squeezed protection mechanism where the fraction of bandwidth is protected. Meanwhile, particular network request can serve non-time-crucial content, and their protected traffic can be postponed using assistive storage. In this work, we propose a novel protection approach, namely, delayed squeezed dedicated path protection (DSDPP), where protected requests, instead of transmitting squeezed bandwidth on the backup path, are transmitting full bandwidth but during a shorter period than the primary request. In more detail, the overall volume of backup requests in DSDPP matches the volume of conventionally squeezed requests. According to the conducted experiments, DSDPP decreases bandwidth blocking probability on average by around 16.9% when compared to squeezed dedicated path protection (SDPP).


'I haven't seen Aldous book and I do not want to. The idea bores me so terribly and I won't waste time on it. The only reviewer who really realised its dullness was Rebecca West. She said just what was right – she shuddered at the silliness of it. But everybody else seems to puff him up. It gets very awkward if young men are forced to feed out of their friends inkpots in this way. In fact I confess it downright disgusts me' [all sic].
Thus wrote Katherine Mansfield to Ottoline Morrell in January 1922, discussing Aldous Huxley's novel Crome Yellow (1921). Ottoline herself had been wounded by its descriptions of 'our life at Garsington, all distorted, caricatured and mocked at [...]. I was filled with dismay'. And yet everyone in the Garsington and Bloomsbury sets, and those writers like Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence, for example, who found themselves on the fringes of both, continually fed 'out of their friends inkpots' for fictional copy. For example, the character of Eddie Warren from one of Mansfield's most celebrated stories, 'Bliss' (1918), is a caricature of Huxley, and Pearl Fulton in the same story is almost certainly based on Virginia Woolf.
The relationship between Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murry and Huxley is well documented. David Goldie notes that 'Murry began the post-war period with the critical world at his feet but ended it as something of a doormat', exemplified by Huxley's lampooning of Murry as the hypocritical character of Burlap in Point Counter Point (1928). However, the connection between Mansfield and Huxley has always remained rather a footnote to the relationship between the two men. This chapter seeks to redress such an imbalance. Huxley's initial acquaintance with Mansfield led to dinners and private visits recorded by both parties, and to the fictionalising of each other in their creative writing. What emerges is a difficult relationship, blighted almost from the start by the friendships – and enmities – of those around them.


In the present study, we developed a novel approach to introduce amino group (–NH2), hydroxyl group (–OH) and sulfhydryl group (–SH) onto carbon fibers (CFs) using aromatic diazonium salts. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectra, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope and single fiber tensile testing were performed to characterize the functional CFs. Interlaminar shear strength (ILSS) and flexural strength were carried out to investigate the interfacial properties of CFs/PPBES composites. Experimental results showed that –NH2, –OH and –SH were grafted on the CFs surface and increase the fibers surface roughness. The functionalization did not lead to any discernable decrease in the fibers tensile strength. It was obvious that ILSS and flexural strength were enhanced. Dynamic mechanical analysis and hydrothermal aging tests revealed that CF–NH2/PPBES had excellent high temperature mechanical properties and hydrothermal aging resistance. Additionally, the reinforcing mechanisms were also analyzed.


This study has examined the subjective views of successful aging in intergenerational families (older adults, middle adults, adolescents). In this work, we have tried to explain the phenomenon of successful aging in a culturally specific way. This research draws on qualitative data collected through twenty interviews with grandparents, mother, father, and grandchild residing in five intergenerational families in Pakistan. Separate themes emerged in all the three generations, including subjective health criteria, social relations, inner standards, and religious aspect for grandparents; subjective health criteria, social relations, inner standards, and financial independence for parents; and subjective health criteria, social relations, autonomy, and academic aspect for grandchildren. These themes suggest a need to refine the concept of successful aging in Pakistan. The current study adds to the literature of successful aging in cross-cultural studies.


The effectiveness of commercial granular activated carbon (GAC) induced Fe2O3 and Al2O3 for the adsorption of contaminants from slaughterhouse wastewater (SWW) was investigated. Batch adsorption experiments were designed using the central composite design to ascertain the effects of contact time, adsorbent dosage, and pH on chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency. In comparison, activated carbon impregnated with Fe2O3 followed by Al2O3 was observed to have a higher pollutant removal. Under the optimized operating conditions; 70.73%, 56.40%, and 27.63% COD were removed by Fe2O3-GAC, Al2O3-GAC, and GAC, respectively. This study showed that modification of activated carbon using Fe2O3 has higher efficiency and performance than Al2O3 followed by GAC alone. The statistical model was found significant in all three cases and error was less than 5% in terms of predicted and validation results. Adsorbent showed promising features in terms of reuse for up to four times. The method adopted in this study is effective for the pretreatment of SWW.


Łukasz GARBAL, Dorota SZCZERBA Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature (Warsaw) Editorial, Europa Monthly (Reissued) Pawel Hertz, Zygmunt Mycielski, Henryk Krzeczkowski, Juliusz Żulawski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Adam Wazyk: several names of importance for Polish culture, gathered to gether in a single periodical that could have been important to Polish intelligentsia. Not a single issue of that periodical was published, though. The presently published editor's note to a prepared phototypic issue tells a short story on what happened with the texts from the first issue of Europa monthly which finally re mained unpublished. Some of them became circulating among readers, in different political conditions and, sometimes, in an altered version one example being Wazyks poems whose 'vicissitudes' are discussed in detail.


The research paper focuses on the devel opment of a data acquisition system for precision-a griculture by sensing physical parameters; associated with the farm-soil. It requires different modules to be deployed in a system to perform data acquisition process over multiple parameters. Howev er, the prototype developed in this research work d eals with an embedded system comprising the less chip-count and consequen tly reduce overall power utilization. The analogue multiplexer routes electrical signals produced by farm-parameter senso rs. Such signals were transformed into their digital equivalents by means of a 12-bit serial Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC); which was driven by the Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The research work deals with a standardized real-time h ardware-signal monitoring system using the Xilinx ChipScope Pro Logic Analyzer.


One of important issues attracting psychologists' attention recently is the staff's job engagement which can differentiate human power of an organization from that of its competitor organizations. Job engagement refers to the extent of occupational energy, interest and effectiveness and it can be evaluated by means of powerfulness (activity), self-devotion (high identity) and absorption. Modern organizations expect their staff to be active, creative and responsible for personal and organizational promotion as their obligation to quality and performance standards. Job engagement and commitment is a different and valuable viewpoint about experiencing a job or an occupation They need the staff feeling energized and obligated to their jobs. In this research we have used two groups of data. The first group refers to data pertaining to research literature being collected in library-based manner and the second group refers to data gathered from the statistical population by making use of questionnaires to analyze the research hypotheses. Therefore, the acquired model has been suitable. So, it can be accepted that "the level of staff's general health has positive effect on their job engagement. Thus, the null hypothesis referring to lack of significance of the regression model has been rejected. It is also observed that the null hypothesis referring to the independent variable is rejected because its


In past work we introduced a method which allows for exact computations of entanglement Hamiltonians. The method relies on computing the resolvent for the projected (on the entangling region) Green's function using a solution to the Riemann-Hilbert problem combined with finite rank perturbation theory. Here we analyze in detail several examples involving excited states of chiral fermions (Dirac and Majorana) on a spatial circle. We compute the exact entanglement Hamiltonians and an exact formula for the change in entanglement entropy due to the introduction of a particle above the Dirac sea. For Dirac fermions, we give the first-order temperature correction to the entanglement entropy in the case of a multiple interval entangling region.


I congratulate Paul E. Newton on a thoughtful and evenhanded contribution to test validity theory. I especially appreciate the evident care that went into interpreting the various authors whose work Newton discusses. I found many useful insights along with the few minor points with which I might quibble. I comment on three aspects of Newton's article: (a) the construct/attribute distinction, (b) the idea that a decision entails an attribute, and (c) the rejection of degrees of validity and ongoing validation.


A 45-year-old woman with breast cancer elects to undergo mastectomy and is referred to a plastic surgeon for evaluation for postmastectomy breast reconstruction. For some patients, breast reconstruction restores body image and sexuality and improves the quality of life. Reconstructive surgery does not interfere with detection of breast-cancer recurrence. Special considerations apply to patients who require radiation therapy.


Heat treatment condition for dissolution of the M23C6 carbides in 2.25Cr-1Mo-V-Ti material for ther-mal power plant tube was investigated using a dilatometer method. 2.25Cr-1Mo-V-Ti material was heat-treated at 900~1,100 o C for 0, 10, 30 min to find the proper dissolution condition of M23C6 carbides. The phase identifica-tion and volume fraction of the carbide were measured by using OM, SEM, EBSD and TEM analysis. Optimal heat treatment condition of M23C6 carbide dissolution was selected by predicting dissolution temperature of carbide using Bs points appeared at dilatometer curve. Experimental results showed that the conditions of carbide dissolution was 900, 1,000, 1,100 o C for 30 min. Eventually, the optimal heat treatment condition for dissolution was 30 min at 1,000 o C considering the minimum coarsening of Austenite grain size. (Received


: Deep learning methodologies have been used to create applications that can cause threats to privacy, democracy and national security and could be used to further amplify malicious activities. One of those deep learning-powered applications in recent times is synthesized videos of famous personalities. According to Forbes, Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs) generated fake videos growing exponentially every year and the organization known as Deeptrace had estimated an increase of deepfakes by 84% from the year 2018 to 2019. They are used to generate and modify human faces, where most of the existing fake videos are of prurient non-consensual nature, of which its estimates to be around 96% and some carried out impersonating personalities for cyber crime. In this paper, available video datasets are identified and a pretrained model BlazeFace is used to detect faces, and a ResNet and Xception ensembled architectured neural network trained on the dataset to achieve the goal of detection of fake faces in videos. The model is optimized over a loss value and log loss values and evaluated over its F1 score. Over a sample of data, it is observed that focal loss provides better accuracy, F1 score and loss as the gamma of the focal loss becomes a hyper parameter. This provides a k-folded accuracy of around 91% at its peak in a training cycle with the real world accuracy subjected to change over time as the model decays.


Cerebral palsy is defined as a neuromotor disorder which limits the motor activity and is attributed by non-progressive disturbance in the brain during pre or post natal time. The motor disabilities of CP are usually accompanied by cognitive impairment, abnormalities in behaviour, difficulty in communication, impaired sensory perception, and seizure disorders. Although CP is a non-progressive and non-curable disorder then also it must be managed so as it does not grt worsen with time. The key issue of cerebral palsy is its treatment and management. There are various aids available for the same. In the recent years, there is emergence in the new technologies for the treatment of the CP. One of the such recent technology is virtual reality rehabilitation therapy. Virtual reality is an enviroment simulated by computer with the help of specific hardware and software. VR is emerging as a promising technology for various field, specially for the field of education and medical. VR therapy has many advantages over the conventional therapies, and now a days this became a more appropriate option for the treatment. This article dispense a review of the nature, type, treatment and management of the cerebral palsy.


Introduction: Brucellosis is a public health problem with a high incidence. The main causes of acquiring brucellosis are through the consumption of unpasteurized milk and dairy products. In this study we described a real-time PCR assay for more sensitive, rapid detection and differentiation of Brucella.abortus and Brucella.melitensis in raw milk and dairy products in Isfahan province.
Materials and Methods: A Taq Man analysis and single step PCR (BruAb2_0168BMEII0466 genes) has performed in total of 132 unpasteurized milk samples and 65 dairy products. Samples were selected from various markets and animal farms located in different cities of Isfahan province. The duration period of sample collection was nearly two months (May to June 2012).
Results: By real-time PCR 4 of 132 milk specimens (3%) were positive for B. melitensis. Also one oil sample between 65 different dairy products (1.5%) was positive for B. melitensis. None of the specimens were positive for B. abortus. We detected direct and incomplete correlation between brucella infected milk and different cities(r=0.024, p value >0.05).
Conclusion: Results of present study indicated a relative high presence of this pathogen in raw milk. Real-time PCR is technically more simple, accurate, and rapid than current standard methods for identification of Brucella species .One of the most effective routes to control the disease includes pasteurization or boiling of milk and other dairy products for human consumption.


The diagnosis of autoimmune subepidermal blistering diseases, such as bullous pemphigoid (BP), critically relies on the detection of tissue-bound immunoreactants along the epidermal basement membrane by direct immunofluorescence microscopy (DIF) studies of skin biopsy specimens obtained from perilesional skin 1,2 . However, there was surprisingly no consensus among international experts about the definition of perilesional skin 1 . The latter was considered as either normal appearing skin surrounding an inflamed area or erythematous skin adjacent to a blister.


A new analytical method for the determination of cinchona alkaloids by flow-injection sampling and chemiluminescence (CL) detection is developed. A weak CL can be emitted by oxidation reaction of cinchona alkaloid with potassium permanganate. The conditions for CL emission were investigated and optimized. The linear range of 1.0 × 10−7 – 8.0 × 10−5 g mL−1 was obtained for quinine, quinidine and cinchonine. The detection limit was 3.2 × 10−8 g mL−1 for quinine and 3.0 × 10−8 g mL−1 for quinidine and cinchonine. The recoveries of the three drugs from urine and serum samples were in the range of 95.0–105% with RSDs of 1.7–2.0%. The proposed method was used for the determination of cinchona alkaloids in pharmaceuticals and biological fluids with satisfactory result. The possible CL mechanism is also discussed.


Purpose: Cidofovir has efficacy in the treatment of adenovirus and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in immunocompromised individuals. It is licensed for the treatment of CMV retinitis in AIDS patients over the age of 12 years, and is nephrotoxic and contra-indicated with the use of other concomitant nephrotoxic agents. Its use has been further limited due to concerns regarding an individual's ability to tolerate the hydration regimens associated with cidofovir administration. Despite this it is a valuable anti-viral agent particularly in the setting of haemapoietic stem cell transplantation. This study assessed the safety of cidofovir in a high-risk paediatric population. Methods: A retrospective review of all episodes of cidofovir administration at the Oncology Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead from 2000–2005 was undertaken. The dose of cidofovir and renal function (measured by urea and creatinine) pre and post infusion were recorded, and the medical notes reviewed for adverse events and concomitant use of other nephrotoxic drugs. Results: A total of 233 cidofovir infusions in 23 patients were studied. Patients: Age range 5 months - 19 years (mean 6.6 years). Sex: male 17 (74%), female 6 (26%). Clinical setting: 16 (70%) were post allogeneic stem cell transplantation, 4 (17%) were post autologous stem cell transplation, 3 (13%) had other malignancies. Indications for cidofovir: In 20 (87%) for proven adenovirus identified in stool, urine, nasopharyngeal aspirate, CSF, or tissue biopsy; 2 (9%) for adenovirus prophylaxis as part of haplo-identical stem cell transplant conditioning, 1 (4%) for extended coverage in sepsis without an identified organism. Cidofovir doses: 111 (48%) were 1mg/kg, 75 (32%) were 3mg/kg, 47 (20%) were 5mg/kg. All episodes of cidofovir administration received the same standard recommended regimen of oral probenecid 40mg/kg at hour -3, 20ml/kg of intravenous 0.9% NaCl from hour −1 to 0, cidofovir infusion with 20ml/kg 0.9% NaCl from hour 0 to +1, maintenance intravenous fluids from hour +1 to +3, followed by oral probenecid 20mg/kg at hour +3 and +9. All patients received concomitant nephrotoxic agents: 4 (17%) received 1, 4 (17%) received 2, 5 (22%) received 3, and 10 (43%) received 4 or more agents. In 19 (83%) patients with normal renal function (defined by urea/creatinine within normal range for age), there was no evidence of nephrotoxicity (defined as >150% increase in urea/creatinine from baseline) following cidofovir therapy - mean change in urea/creatinine pre and post infusion −7.5%/+5.6%. There was no deterioration in renal function in 4 (17%) patients with pre-existing renal impairment (defined by urea/creatinine above the upper limit of normal) - mean change in urea/creatinine pre and post infusion −10.9%/+3.0%. Symptomatically cidofovir was tolerated by 20 (87%) patients without adverse events. Cidofovir therapy was associated with significant morbidity in 3 (17%) patients - 1 developed blindness and axonal degeneration of unknown aetiology, and in 2 patients, both with pre-existing pneumonitis post allogeneic stem cell transplantation, the fluid regimen precipitated a respiratory deterioration secondary to fluid overload. Conclusion: Cidofovir is a safe and well tolerated drug in a high-risk paediatric population, even with the use of concomitant nephrotoxic agents. An aggressive fluid regimen may not be necessary, with particular care required in patients with significant pulmonary disease in whom the fluid regimen may precipitate respiratory compromise.


The aim of this research works is to developed a very simple and efficient strategy to detect vital life signs in Through the wall (TTW) scenarios, by taking advantage of a simple detection scheme and by exploiting a properly designed measurement set-up working in X-band regime. In the proposed method of a light weight microwave system based on continuous wave X-Band rescue radar, implementation has been done through proper experimental set-up and a new model of detection schema has been performed. The information of life signal has been extracted from the backscattered electromagnetic field employing independent component analysis (ICA) algorithm which works as an effective blind source separation technique to separate vital sign through complex noise, interference and clutter removing. Comparing among different algorithm like ICA, ACMA, EFFICA, the most efficient one gives the expected outcome was ICA.


As the results of human social practice,the Chinese and Western thought culture are of highly value and wisdom.In the river of history,the human brews wisdom,and it leads humans to go on.Especially in globalization environment,the old rules are in constant changes,a new value system is slowly building up,and the wisdom makes people reach their internal demand at the same time as they search for outside,which can achieve harmonious coexistence.Based on the thoughts of the life wisdom of Chinese and Western,this paper discusses the significance on self-growth and the impact on improving educational value.


Plants are rich sources of phenolic compounds (flavonoids, tannins and anthocyanins) and dietary antioxidants. This study was conducted in Jiroft and Bam regions of Kerman, Iran, to compare the phenolic compounds and antiradical activity of flowers, leaves, fruits and latex extracts of Milkweed (Calotropis procera) in these cities. The phenolic content was measured by the Folin–Ciocalteau method and the antioxidant activity by DPPH (2, 2diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl). Total phenols content were high in leaves extracts (9.72 and 9.02 mg Gallic acid/g dry weight in Bam and Jiroft plants, respectively) and lowest in latex of plants (3.1 and 3.59 mg Gallic acid/g dry weight in Bam and Jiroft plants, respectively). The highest antioxidant capacity was exhibited by extracts of leaves (DPPH= 74.31%, IC50 = 0.18 mg.ml -1 ) and the lowest DPPH=26.23%, IC50 = 0.42mg.ml -1 ) was in dried latex extracts of plants. The phenols and scavenging potential of leaf and fruit extracts of plants growing in Bam city were higher compared to Jiroft plants. In contrast, phenolic compounds and scavenging activity of flower and latex extracts of plants growing in Jiroft city were higher than Bam plants. The obtained results showed that flower, leaf, fruit and latex extracts of plant of Calotropis procera possess antiradical activity and could be used as natural antioxidant ingredients in food and drug industries.


Cystadenocarcinoma is an uncommon salivary gland tumor, occurring in the major salivary glands rather than the minor glands. We report a rare case of cystadenocarcinoma arising in the retromolar area and review the literature. A 90-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of a painless mass in the right retromolar region. The mass was firm and cauliflower-like, measuring 18 × 16 mm. Panoramic radiography revealed a radiolucent lesion under the mass in the mandible. Computed tomography showed no evidence of cervical or distant metastasis. A biopsy was carried out for a clinical diagnosis of gingival carcinoma of the right side of the mandible, and cystadenocarcinoma was strongly suspected histopathologically. Marginal mandibulectomy was performed, and the final histopathological diagnosis was low-grade cystadenocarcinoma. There was no evidence of recurrence or metastasis 2 years after operation. Six cases of cystadenocarcinoma arising in the retromolar area have been reported, including the present case.


Background: Every day, children all over the world undergo both emergent and elective surgical procedures. With our rapidly changing health care system, children are discharged home quicker than ever before with the responsibility of care placed on the parents and caregivers of the child. Additionally, the use of the internet is continuously increasing, with parents using the internet for health information for their children on a regular basis. The development of an online resource manual for parents caring for their child at home following surgery was completed using various methodologies.
Methods: The methodologies used to help inform the need, content, and strategies for the development of the online resource included a literature review, environmental scan, and consultations. The Model of Instructional Design by Morrison, Ross, Kalman, and Kemp (2013) was used to guide the development of this project.
Results: Results from the literature review concluded that the most common parental learning needs in caring for their child at home following surgery include pain assessment and management, and cast care. Health literacy and readability of materials for low literacy levels were other common themes throughout the literature. Results from both the environmental scan as well as consultations showed that online resources are a popular avenue for parents and play a vital role in discharge planning and teaching.
Conclusion: For the purposes of this practicum, a paper version of an online resource for parents was developed consisting of six main modules. Integration of the resource into an online platform can be done when available resources and support can be confirmed.


The structure and spectroscopic properties of exciplexes formed at an interface between a hole-transporting layer of N,N′-di(naphthalen-2-yl)-N,N′-diphenyl-benzidine (α-NPD) and an electron transporting layer of bis(2-methyl-8-quinolinato)(4-phenylphenolato)-aluminum (BAlq) in an OLED are investigated by multiscale (molecular dynamics, MD, and quantum chemistry, QC) simulations. Four α-NPD–BAlq pairs with different orientations of components are selected from the central 5-nm slab with the interface for subsequent QC calculations. Calculations for these pairs are performed within DFT/PBE0 and DFT/BHandHLYP approaches for the ground state and TDDFT/PBE0 and TDDFT/BHandHLYP approaches for the excited state with inclusion of D3BJ dispersion corrections. The calculated binding energies of the complexes are in the range from –19.0 to –24.7 kcal/mol in the ground state and from –21.9 to

–34.1 kcal/mol in the excited state. The calculated S1 excited states are characterized by strong intermolecular charge transfer, and the corresponding S1→S0 transition energies are in good agreement with the available experimental data.


Measurements of the 181 Ta and 93 Nb spin-lattice relaxation time T 1 at low temperatures are reported for the 2H polytypes of TaS 2 and NbS 2 and their pyridine intercalation compounds. An analysis of T 1 T shows that, on the intercalation of pyridine molecules, the density of states at Fermi level N ( E F ) increases about 30% for 2H–TaS 2 , while decreases about 30% for 2H–NbS 2 . This is suggestive of charge transfer from pyridine molecules to d z 2 conduction band of the disulfides.


Two questions are addressed. The first question is, Which of the many rates that have been proposed for measuring the safety of certain vehicle types of driver groups is to be trusted? It is concluded that for a rate to be correct, the numerator and the denominator must pertain to the same entity. If vehicle exposure is in the denominator, then the count of vehicles of some type in accidents (and not of accidents involving vehicles of some type) must be in the numerator; if driver exposure is in the denominator, then the count of drivers of some kind in accidents (and not of accidents involving that kind of driver) must be in the numerator. The second question is, What meaning can be attributed to a finding of overrepresentation? It is concluded that because reported accidents of specified severity are always used, overrepresentation may be caused by a mix of three factors: the probability to be in an accident per unit of exposure, the probability of the accident to be reported, and the probability of the accident to be of the specified severity. It follows that an indication of overrepresentation cannot be taken to mean that the entity has a larger-than-normal chance to be involved in accidents nor that one should seek remedies that reduce that chance of the entity to be involved in accidents.


Given a C-algebra A, a discrete abelian group X and a homomorphism : X ! Out A; deening the dual action group ? aut A, the paper discusses the problem of existence and characterization of Hilbert extensions, given by twisted cross products of fA; (X)g with G := ^ X. It is pointed out that a Hilbert extension exists ii there is a generalized 2-cocycle. In this case the set of all Hilbert extensions can be described by the center-valued 2-cocycles and there is a bijection between H 2 (X; U(Z); X) and the set of all A{module isomorphy classes of Hilbert extensions. Furthermore, a Hilbert space representation of the Hilbert extensions (due to Sutherland 8, 9]) is mentioned and the C*-norm of the Hilbert extension is expressed by the norm of this representation.


We present the results of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of GS 1354–644 during its 1997–1998 modest outburst. The source is one of a few black hole X-ray transients, which is confirmed to be recurrent, i.e. more than one X-ray outburst was detected. Previous outburst of the same source observed with Ginga in 1987 was much brighter, and the source was found in high/soft spectral state. In 1997-1998 GS1354-644 was clearly in another typical for black hole binaries spectral state hard/low. Total duration of the outburst was 150-200 days in RXTE/ASM band. PCA and HEXTE observations cover ∼70 days close to the maximum of the light curve and during the flux decline. The overall power-law like spectrum shape did not change during the observations and can be approximated by models of up-scattering of soft photons by energetic electrons in a hot plasma cloud with the temperature kT ∼30 keV and optical depth τ ∼4–5 (for spherical geometry). For good fit of the data an addition of an iron fluorescent line and a reflection component is required, which indicates the presence of optically thick cool material, most probably in outer part of the accretion disk. Dramatic fast variability was observed, and has been analyzed in the context of a shot noise model. The shape of power spectrum was typical for black hole systems in low/hard state. We note a qualitative difference in the shape of the fractional variability versus energy dependence, comparing systems with black holes and with neutron stars. Since it is difficult to discriminate these systems on spectral grounds, at least in their low/hard states, this new difference might be important for discriminating black holes and neutron stars.


The purpose of the research was to study the influence of the live weight of first-calf heifers on the subsequent milk productivity and productive longevity of high-blood Holstein animals. Research has shown that live weight influence on dairy productivity and productive longevity of cows. From cows with genotype 1/4S+1/4A+1/2RWH with a live weight of 580–600 kg for the first lactation 750 kg more milk was produced than from cows with the live weight 480–500 kg at the first calving. With an increase of the part of Holstein breed blood the differences in milk productivity between cows with different live weight during the first lactation have been increased. First-calf heifers with genotype 1/8S+1/8A+3/4RWH with the live weight of 580–600 kg outperformed their herdmates with the live weight 480–500 kg in milk yield by 1761 kg (P ≥ 0,999), and cows of genotype 1/16S+1/16A+7/8RWH by 2271 kg of milk (P ≥ 0,999). Indicators of productive economic use had certain differences. Thus, cows with the genotype 1/4S+1/4A+1/2RWH with the live weight of 540–560 kg had the highest longevity of economic use – 43,29 months and a lifetime productivity – 24942 kg of milk. In crossbred cows with genotype 1/8S+1/8A+3/4RWH the longevity of economic use and lifetime productivity were higher in cows with the live weight of 580–600 kg, the indicators were 24,73 months and 18294 kg of milk, respectively, in cows with genotype 1/16S+1/16A+7/8RWH the highest longevity of economic use 24,96 months was in cows with the live weight of 560–580 kg, and lifetime productivity – 18131 kg in cows with the live weight 580–600 kg.


Angiotensin II receptor antagonists, or angiotensin II for treating a sufficiently patient blood pressure does not decrease hypertension receptor antagonist and Treatment with low doses of hydrochlorothiazide, hydrochlorothiazide telmisartan and about 25mg to about 80 mg, or telmisartan about 160mg to include hydrochlorothiazide about 50mg, pharmaceutical compositions. .BACKGROUND


Introduction: Intracystic papillary carcinoma (IPc) is a rare malignant tumor of the breast. Generally, IPc shows no invasive growth outside of the cyst, however, it is often associated with invasive carcinoma. thus, an accurate preoperative diagnosis of invasion or spread plays a crucial role in the management of patients with IPc. case report: A 78-yearold Japanese female presented with a large right breast mass. Magnetic resonance imaging (MrI) scan showed an intracystic mass with a papillary lesion, indicating invasion. breast conservative surgery with sentinel lymph node (sLN) biopsy was performed. Histological evaluation confirmed IPc with invasion to the outside of the cyst wall, as detected by preoperative MrI, and sLN metastasis was also detected. conclusion: It should be noted that IPc is frequently accompanied by invasion. MrI findings may help in making a definitive diagnosis of tumor invasiveness. the sLN biopsy should be considered in cases of IPc with invasion.


Singly ionized states of molecular clusters with an inner-valence vacancy have recently been shown to undergo an efficient electronic decay. The mechanism of the decay, which is absent in the isolated molecules that build up the clusters, is proposed to be of intermolecular Coulombic nature. As explicit example to further investigate this new decay process, the valence ionization spectrum of the HF(H2O)2 cluster is computed with the ADC(3) one-particle Green's function method. In the inner-valence part of the spectrum, characteristic dense line bundles due to the ultrafast electronic decay of the corresponding cationic states are observed. A new hole-population analysis method for the very many computed cationic states is presented. This method allows for a quantitative measure and characterization of the hole localization pattern of the cationic states. The dense line bundles which mimic the continuous decay distributions in our finite basis set approach are analyzed in detail. The resulting intermolecul...


The properties of the confined liquid are dramatically different from those of the bulk state, which were reviewed in the present work. We performed large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and full-atom nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the shear response of the confined simple liquid as well as the n-hexaclecane ultrathin films. The shear viscosity of the confined simple liquid increases with the decrease of the film thickness. Apart from the well-known ordered structure, the confined n-hexadecane exhibited a transition from 7 layers to 6 in our simulations while undergoing an increasing shear velocity. Various slip regimes of the confined n-hexadecane were obtained. Viscosity coefficients of individual layers were examined and the results revealed that the local viscosity coefficient varies with the distance from the wall. The individual n-hexadecane layers showed the shear-thinning behaviors which can be correlated with the occurrence of the slip. This study aimed at elucidating the detailed shear response of the confined liquid and may be used in the design and application of micro- and nano-devices.


Noise levels in a dental office can be produced by different specialty instruments. Exposure to high levels of noise (unwanted sounds) may cause auditory and non-auditory health problems in dentists. The aim of this study was to (a) measure the noise levels within different clinics and laboratories of the Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, (b) promote information sharing on this serious health issue among stakeholders, and (c) collect data to organize preventive measures for students and personnel (faculty members, collaborators, administrative, and technical staff). Since the study did not apply to acoustics and acoustic measurements, a digital sound level meter and noise-integrating dosimeters with an analogue electronic transducer were used to collect data from certain postgraduate (PG) and undergraduate (UG) clinics and laboratories (LAB) during peak working periods and with a duration of 1 h per clinic/lab. Both personal (dosimeters) and static (area monitoring) noise exposure assessments were evaluated, resulting in various teaching-related activities in dental clinics. At all locations, the maximum exposure limit value of 87 dB(A) was not exceeded. However, chairside personal measurements during ultrasonic work revealed that the lower exposure action value of 80 dB(A) was exceeded. PG clinics were noisier than UG. LAB training settings, even with the new equipment, were close to the upper exposure limit due to the simultaneous use of airotors. In this context, targeted research and investigations into measures are proposed to safeguard the health and safety of students during their duties at the dental school.


Serine protease 17 (PRSS17) has two aliases. In developing teeth it is designated enamel matrix serine proteinase 1 (EMSP1). In the prostate gland it is termed prostase. PRSS17 cDNAs have been cloned from pig (Simmer et al., 1998), mouse (Hu et al., 1999), and human (Simmer et al., 1999) tooth-specific cDNA libraries. The function of serine protease 17 is to degrade enamel proteins during the early maturation stage of amelogenesis, which is necessary to harden the enamel layer. Mutations in the serine protease 17 gene (PRSS17) are believed to cause amelogenesis imperfecta (AI), an inherited disease characterized by defective enamel formation. PRSS17 was mapped to facillitate linkage analyses in kindreds with AI. The human PRSS17 cDNA has also been cloned from prostate and the gene localized to chromosome 19q13 by radiation hybrid mapping (Nelson et al., 1999).


Normal 0 false false false EN-NZ X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The focus of quality assurance (QA) in the tertiary education sector has shifted from an emphasis on peer review and other internal quality measures to a greater use of external auditing agents. These changes are being driven by governments who demand greater transparency and accountability as they simultaneously withdraw from fully funding the sector. A study of QA processes in Australia, the UK, NZ and the US at the national level and of Open and Distance Learning at institutional level, revealed a sector under stress, subject to rapid change and ongoing government scrutiny. The approaches to QA in these four countries are evolving along similar lines. If there is sufficient convergence, then the foundations are created for an international quality system that would reflect the new global education market place


In this paper, the structural and electronic properties of Cs adsorption on GaAs surface were studied. The samples were prepared by MBE. The conduction bands, valence bands, band structure and density of states were calculated by first principles based on density functional theory. The effect of Zn doping on electronic structure were also analyzed.


Background & objectives: The anterior cerebral artery is the smaller of the two terminal branches of the internal carotid. The cerebral arteries lie between their origins and their junctions with the corresponding communicating arteries. The haemodynamics of the circle of Willis is influenced by variations in the caliber of the segments of the anterior and posterior cerebral arteries and their communicating arteries. Arteries forming parts of circle of Willis frequently vary in size. Methods: In the present study the diameter of A1 segment of anterior cerebral artery, forming the anterior part of the circle of Willis, is measured in the brains of 50 embalmed cadavers. . The measurements of the diameters of the artery were taken using an electronic digital calliper with 300mm operating instructions (0.001mm accuracy). Results: The anterior cerebral artery at point 'A 'has a diameter of 2.79mm and 2.39mm on left and right sides respectively and at point 'B ' it has a diameter of 2.73mm and 2.38mm on left and right sides respectively. Interpretation & conclusion: The findings suggest that the left anterior cerebral artery has a larger diameter than the right anterior cerebral artery. The information regarding size and co-relation of the considered arteries may be useful for better interpretation of angiographic images and for deeper understanding of cerebral pathology. A knowledge of the normal size of these vessels may also be of use to the surgeon in assessing the feasibility of shunt operations and in the choice of patients. [Aggarwal N et al NJIRM 2013; 4(1) : 1-6]


A 73-year-old man presented with dyspnea, right-sided pleural effusion, and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. The pleural fluid revealed adenocarcinoma cells that stained positively for prostatic specific antigen (PSA), which confirmed this uncommon metastatic involvement from prostate cancer. The dyspnea, effusion, and infiltrates disappeared after therapy with flutamide and leuprolide was started. This report demonstrates both the usefulness of immunocytochemical staining for PSA in ascertaining the origin of malignant pleural effusion in men and the effectiveness of the aforementioned endocrine therapy in such setting.


In order to understand the influence of a net cage tilapia culture on the environment, water quality parameters were investigated during the period between December, 2005 and November, 2007. Three sampling stations were established in the reservoir of Nova Avanhandava (Zacarias, Sao Paulo State) as follows: upstream of net cage area (P1), in the rearing place (P2) and downstream of net cage area (P3). The mean values of the parameters examined in the water sampling stations were within the standards of water quality recommended by resolution no. 357/2005 of the Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente for class 2 freshwater bodies. A significantly higher mean concentration of total phosphorus (p < 0.05) in the P2 (0.035 mg L -1 ) was the result of the uneaten feed and feces of fish. The average concentration of total phosphorus in P3 was lower (0.015 mg L -1 ), which was assimilated by the aquatic ecosystem. The frequent monitoring of the water parameters is fundamental, so the producer can adjust the management according to environmental conditions, by reducing fish density or changing feeding rates for example, to mitigate or avoid water quality deterioration.


Nowadays, embedded system requires all the components to be integrated into a single chip, called SOC. Embedded system consists of both hardware and software components which works together in order to perform a specific function. A soft core processor is a central component of such an embedded system which is defined in software and can be synthesized in a programmable hardware. As the complexity of the system increases, it requires optimizing its processor's parameter values. The process of optimization is a challenging task for a designer in order to meet the major market trade-offs – Cost, Functionality and Time to Market. A designer will be a winner in embedded market when a right product is produced at the right time at the right cost. In this project, a methodology for reducing the power consumption and area of the processor core according to the application requirement by designing the controller unit of ARM7 soft core processor using random logic method and finite state machine modelling is proposed. This approach is evaluated on ARM7 processor core design using Xilinx ISE9.1i for synthesis and Modelsim SE for simulation using VHDL programming language to show the average area and power consumption savings. Design Of ARM 7 Processor Core With Constraint Of Power And Area Consumption Using FSM Modelling And Random Logic Method Paper ID IJIFR/V3/ E10/ 027 Page No. 3705-3717 Subject Area Elec. & Comm. Engineering


The relationship between music and language is fiercely debated in the modern literature of neuroscience and music. Here, we argue that a musicological study of online communication between jazz musicians in combination with brain imaging studies offers a unique setting for evaluating communicational aspects of music practices that rarely enter the present discourse on the subject. We employ Miles Davis' quintet of the 1960s and its use of polyrhythmic structures as a general example of a jazz group focusing on communication. First, we consider jazz in the light of Roman Jakobson's model of communication in a broad perspective. Next, we analyze polyrhythmic occurrences in Herbie Hancock's solo on the jazz standard "All of You" as an example of how this communication develops as a narrative structuring of tension and relief. We identify two typical types of polyrhythms, metric displacement and regrouping of subdivisions. Finally, we show how these polyrhythmic structures employ brain areas hitherto associated with linguistic semantic processing, and discuss possible implications.


Endometrial segmentation plays a vital role in the computerized evaluation of uterine ultrasonic images. Accurate segmentation of endometrial regions may improve the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosis. Recent studies have been focused on the employment of deep learning in medical image segmentation. In this study, we compared six models, including five convolutional neural networks with different network architectures (UNet, Segnet) and backbones (Resnet50, Vanilla CNN, VGG16) for the segmentation of endometrium, and one model called deep dual-resolution networks (DDRNets). The training and test datasets were composed of 840 and 210 images from 302 and 68 cases, respectively. Through validation, DRRNets demonstrated the best performance for endometrial segmentation with an average Dice coefficient (DSC) of 0.895.


The purpose of this research is to study holes surface quality drilled by unconventional methods. Tested technologies were Laser, Water Jet and EDM. As a reference bores were used two holes drilled by regular HSS drill. The surface quality is rated by microscopic images taken from two sides – Entering and Outputting side. Further evaluation consists of the hole inside surface quality taken from the scanned texture, deviations from the ideal cylindrical shape and measured areal roughness Sa, Sq, Sz. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of DAAAM International Vienna.


Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are currently the most common pathogens associated with hospital-acquired infection in many neonatal intensive care units. To determine the risk factors and antimicrobial susceptibility of infections with these organisms, we studied 70 infants from whose blood cultures grew CNS; these infants had received the neonatal intensive care at the Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 1994 to 1998. We considered it infected when the case grew the same isolates from multiple blood cultures and complied with clinical symptom and signs. Twenty-three cases of all were identified representing infection group and forty-seven were contamination group. Logistic regression was then performed to find significant correlates. The factors most significantly related with infection were the indwelling of central venous catheter (p=0.001) and increased C-reactive protein (CRP) (p=0.0001). Most strains (96%) were multiple antibiotic resistance but all were sensitive to vancomycin. After empirical antimicrobial therapy and by removing central venous catheter, we did not discover any directly associated mortality.We concluded that the indwelling of central venous catheter and increased titers of CRP correlate most strongly with true infection rather than contamination. Vancomycin is the only antibiotic with consistent efficacy against CNS.


Expanding from Barnett's critique of the emphasis in critical security work on 'subjectivity through subjectification', this response explores some of the ways in which geographers and others might attend to the diversity of security affects. Fear and anxiety do not exhaust the affective expressions of security, and affect is not simply another medium for the successful implementation of programmes of rule. Rather, affects are imbricated in the ordinary work of securing and publics are formed in and through encounters with the devices, techniques, objects and people that make up 'security'. Securing and encounters with security are themselves enveloped, pressured and otherwise conditioned by collective affects.


Dear Sir,

Hemoclips® are devices used for the purpose of ligating blood vessels to reduce loss of blood. They are widely used in general, cardiothoracic, and plastic and reconstructive surgery,(1-4) as well as in a wide variety of other disciplines. However, the general small size, light weight and wide variety of shapes of Hemoclips and their loading systems may make it difficult to quickly and efficiently load the clips. Hence, we would like to share an easier Hemoclip loading technique.

The technique begins with the preparation of the adhesive agent from the manufacturer (if the manufacturer does not provide an adhesive agent with the loading system, a hypoallergenic adhesive agent like Mastisol® may be used). The surface of the loading system with the adhesive agent is then adhered to the dorsum of the gloved hand. Subsequently, different varieties of Hemoclips can be arranged neatly on the dorsum of the gloved hand (Fig. 1). The use of the dorsum of the hand in this technique prevents a considerable reduction of hand dexterity and ensures a minimal loss of function, as the movements of one hand can be compensated by the surgeons' opposite hand. This technique can also be applied on the operative assistants' hands, if there is a small surgical field, or at the surgeons' discretion.

Fig. 1

Photograph shows Hemoclip arrangement on the dorsum of the gloved hand.

The effectiveness and safety of this technique can be seen in our previous study,(5) which was completed with our attending surgeons, residents and surgical assistants at two participating centres. In this study, it was shown that after a two-hour training session, this technique resulted in a statistically significant decrease in the time of application of the Hemoclips, two weeks after the study initiation. As it also requires less mental effort and workload, this technique could allow surgeons greater cognitive resources for dealing with other demands of surgery.(6) Furthermore, there were no additional safety issues for the surgical team and patient.

One thing that should be noted is the possibility of the integrity of the glove being compromised during the learning phase (i.e. two weeks) for this technique. However, this was a small and insignificant increase, and can be easily mitigated through the use of a modified glove (i.e. with a thicker dorsum area), an additional glove, or through an extended learning phase (by practising on models).


The invention provides a method for metal recovery by a ceramic capacitor. The method consists of: first crushing a waste ceramic capacitor into particles with a particle size of 0.01-0.1mm, adding an alkali and water into the particles and mixing them evenly, conducting roasting, washing the roasted material with hot water, then carrying out filtering, recovering tin and lead from the filtrate, then dissolving the filter residue with a sulfuric acid solution, performing filtering to obtain a solution containing titanium, nickel, copper and iron, then implementing electrolysis to obtain copper, adjusting the pH of the residual liquid to 3.5-4.5, precipitating iron and titanium to obtain a nickel-containing solution, performing concentrating crystallization so as to obtain a nickel sulfate crystal, dissolving the filter residue with a nitric acid solution, and performing filtering to obtain a solution rich in silver and palladium, with the filter residue being barium sulfate, precipitating the silver and palladium-containing solution by sodium chloride to get silver chloride, reducing the silver chloride by hydrazine hydrate directly to obtain silver powder, and electrolyzing the filtrate to obtain palladium powder. The method provided in the invention is simple and practicable, and can comprehensively recycle a variety of valuable metals in the ceramic capacitor, thus being in accordance with the requirements of energy conservation and environmental protection.


The difference in behavior under lateral loads, in combination with
the in-plane rigidity of the floor slabs, causes nonuniform
interacting forces to develop when frames are braced with shear
walls, therefore numerical analysis which took into account of
interaction of shear wall and frame should be developed to evaluate
the proportion of lateral load resisted by the frame and the shear
wall.
In this paper, the evaluation of the proportion of lateral load
resisted by the frame and the shear wall is investigated with PARME
 METHOD and it is compared wirh computer program and other numerical
analyses.


Con Agatha en Estambul (1994) open the narrative space through an intertexual assimilation of detectivesque fiction. By combining the investigative act with the interpretative act, FernándezCubas collapses the epistemological with the ontological to reveal the blurred boundaries between representation and reality where the author's characters may obtain, states Folkart, "free reign to discover agency in changing subjectivity" (184). In her last chapter, "Plotting Desire: The Visual Construction of the Subject in El ángulo del horror" Folkart extrapolates Bahktin's idea of "chronotope" to analyze how it contributes to "delineate a subject's space and structure a subject's time" (214). In the subject's pursuit of a singular identity stabilized by the supposed static nature of a binary opposition, Fernández-Cubas's stories ultimately upend difference. Any assumed stability is undermined by revealing alternate perspectives that expose other angles of perception that provoke contradictions in die subject's understanding of self and other. In her book Jessica Folkart engages Fernández-Cubas's fiction in a provocative way that rescues an often overlooked author and genre from the margins of post-Franco Spain's literary landscape. Both the text's organization as well as its clear prose communicate complex theoretical issues coherently and effectively while introducing the reader to the essential works of Cristina Fernández-Cubas.


Women in the US are unlikely to be offered routine screening for ovarian cancer after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said last week that the practice may do more harm than good.

Since 1989, when Gilda Radner, a 42 year old comedienne, died of ovarian cancer more gynaecologists have been offering screening tests for the disease, and more women have been taking them. In many private gynaecologists' offices, screening for ovarian cancer has become routine …


Microarray is a general scheme to identify differentially expressed genes for a target concept and can be used for biology. The output is presented utilizing a heatmap that biologists analyze in related terms of gene ontology to determine the characteristics of differentially expressed genes. In this paper, we propose an integrated visualization tool for a heatmap and gene ontology graph. Most of the previous methods used were static and none of them were combined. The proposed visualization tool integrates these and provides users with an interactive management ability. Users can easily identify and confirm related terms of gene ontology for given differentially expressed genes. Further, the proposed tool visualizes the connections between genes on the heatmap and gene ontology graph. Therefore, the proposed tool can be used for precision healthcare.


A class of supersymmetric theories that include interaction with an external supergravitational field and are invariant at the classical level under a group of generalized superconformal transformations is considered. For these theories a technique is proposed for calculating the anomalous local supermultiplet of the trace that appears in the supercurrent-conservation equation as a result of breaking of the superconformal invariance. One-loop superconformal anomalies are found for the following cases: a massless chiral superfield, the massless Wess-Zumino model, and a massless real scalar superfield, all interacting with external N-italic = 1 supergravity.


We have formulated and applied a separable approximation for treating the nonlocal exchange interactions that arise in electron-molecule collision problems. A separable representation of the exchange terms in the electron-molecule interaction potential is obtained by projection onto a finite set of Cartesian Gaussian functions and is combined with a single-center expansion of the direct potential terms that accurately treats the long-range, multipolar forces. An integral-equation method is used to obtain a solution of the set of coupled equations obtained in a body-frame formulation of the collision problem. The method is illustrated by application to low-energy e/sup -/-H/sub 2/ and e/sup -/-LiH scattering in the static-exchange approximation.


Background & Aims : Refraction, which is an essential component of vision care, is the determination of the amount of refractive error in the eyes. According to the existence of deprivation in different regions and the high prevalence of myopia, this study aimed to estimate and compare the agreement among three refraction methods including subjective and objective (autorefraction and retinoscopy). Materials & Methods : This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was performed on 80 myopic individuals (160 eyes) referred to Razmjou-Moghaddam Clinic in Zahedan City from April to July in 2018 using a convenience sampling method. Visual acuity was first measured with a Snellen chart with and without correction and then the refractive error was determined by subjective refraction method using trial frame and objective refraction by autorefraction and retinoscope. The agreement between the parameters of sphere and astigmatism and the astigmatism axis between the three methods was calculated using the intra-class correlation coefficient index. P-value less than 5% was considered as a significant level. Results : The mean age was 23.0±4.1 years. Most of the participants were female (70%). Also, most of them were students (87.5%). Participants had, on average, 0.6±2.8 hours of near-eye work per day. The agreements between the three methods in measuring the spherical power of refractive errors, power, and cylinder axis were estimated to be 99%, 89%, and 69%, respectively, which were statistically significant (p<0.001). Furthermore, the mean power of the sphere was estimated to be more negative by the autorefraction method than the subjective refraction and retinoscope. Conclusion : According to the high prevalence of myopia, the existence of deprivation in different regions of Sistan-and-Baluchestan province, and based on the available facilities, it seems that the subjective refraction method can be used as an alternative to objective refraction methods for evaluation of the refractive errors.


The genus glomerella and its anamorph colletotrichum, B.C. Sutton sexuality and genetics fo colletotrichum, R.J. Bryson, et al molecular transformation and genome analysis fo colletotrichum, R.J. Rodriquez and R.S. Redman lectin cytochemistry - a new approach to understanding cell differentiation, pathogenesis and taxonomy in colletotrichum, R.J. O'Connell, et al infection strategies of colletotrichum species, J.A. Bailey, et al mechanisms of resistance to colletotrichum species, M.T. Esquerre-Tugaye, et al colletotrichum diseases of legumes, Jillian M. Lenne colletotrichum diseases of perennial and other cash crops, J.M. Waller colletotrichum graminicola and the anthracnose diseases of maize and sorghum, Ralph L. Nicholson colletotrichum lindemuthianum on bean - population dynamics of the pathogen and breeding for resistance, J.C. Tu colletotrichum coccodes - the pathogen and its hosts, Helene R. Dillard coffee berry disease - the current status, Dinah Masaba and J.M. Waller molecular analysis of colletotrichum gloeosporioides pathogenic on the tropical pasture legume stylosanthes, J.M. Manners, et al molecular differentiation of colletotrichum gloesporioides isolates infecting tropical fruits, P.R. Mills, et al quiescent infections of colletotrichum in tropical and sub-tropical fruites, D. Prusky and R.A. Plumbley epidemiology of colletotrichum gloeosporioides in the tropics, J.C. Dodd, et al chemical control of colletotrichum infection in mangoes, C. Prior, et al strategies and prospects for biological contro of diseases caused by colletotrichum, P. Jeffries and I. Koomen use of colletotrichum strains as mycoherbidices, George E. Templeton.


There is an increase in the requests for voluntary sterilization in contraceptive technics. Together with an increase in number of regrets requests for reversal of sterilization is no longer a rarity. Possible complications of female sterilization are well known but few data are available about effectiveness and reversibility. Pregnancy risk was analyzed recently in 20000 cases of female sterilization. Method of access to the abdominal cavity and technic of sterilization are important aspects for effectiveness. Culdoscopy is attractive to women because of absence of abdominal scar but is not recommended because of increased risk of complications and technical errors. Minilaparotomy is a suitable method of sterilization but complications are related to experience of operator. Electrocoagulation is effective with low risk of pregnancy (1.9/1000) but risk of tubal pregnancy is 9 times higher than other mechanical occlusive methods. Risk of intestinal burns is a serious disadvantage (0.5/1000). Endothermy is an improvement but available data are insufficient to determine effectiveness and risk of tubal pregnancy. Risk of pregnancy with the Hulka-Clemens clamp is higher than with the Falope ring (3.3/1000). Sterilization reversal depends on site and extent of sterilization procedure. Various reversal technics have about a 62% risk of pregnancy. Microsurgical sterilization at isthmus level (about 4-5 cm long) with a loss of 2-3 cm of the fallopian tubes provides a good chance of fertility recovery. Risk of tubal pregnancy after microsurgical correction is about 5%. There is no fool-proof method of sterilization or sterilization reversal. Current sterilization methods meet current requirements of sterilization.


With great solubility, iodine acetic acid is a new kind of disinfection by⁃products in drinking water. Its toxicology and mechanism on aquatic organisms are widely investigated. Liver tissue is the key tissue for fish detoxification to xenobiotics. In this study, oxidative damage mechanism induced by iodine acetic acid on the liver tissue of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in vivo was demonstrated. After exposure to different concentrations ( 1 μg·L-1, 10 μg·L-1 and 100 μg·L-1) of iodine acetic acid for 96 h, both ROS and MDA contents significantly increased (p<0.01) compared with control group. The activities of SOD and GST significantly increased, while the activities of CAT decreased. The mRNA expressions of detoxification function genes in the live tissues such as CYP1A, CYP3A and GST significantly increased. All these changes were in dose⁃dependent manners. These results clearly indicate that iodine acetic acid can induce oxidative stress in aquatic organisms. The detoxification function genes in the live tissues are more sensitive than other bioindicators and they may be acted as useful biomarkers for the evaluation of iodine acetic acid toxicities. For reducing the hazardous impacts, new measures for less formation of iodine acetic acid during the disinfection progress in drinking water plant are urgently needed.


Data on Stark widths of spectral lines are of high interest for astrophysics and analytical techniques of stellar plasma diagnosis. Stark widths of 43 spectral lines of Sn I and 27 spectral lines of Sn II has been measured in a laser-induced plasma (LIP) at an electron temperature of 11,000 K and an electron density of 1.1 × 1016 cm−3. The LIP optical emission spectroscopy generated by a 10640 Å radiation, with a flux of 1.4 × 1010 W cm−2 on several tin and lead targets in an atmosphere of argon was recorded at 2.5 μs and analyzed between 1890 and 7000 Å. The population level distribution and the corresponding temperatures were obtained using Boltzmann plots. The plasma electron densities were determined using well-known Stark broadening parameters of spectral lines. Special attention was dedicated to the possible self-absorption of the different transitions. The local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) conditions and plasma homogeneity have been checked. The experimental results obtained have been compared with the experimental and theoretical values given by other authors. The results obtained in this study will allow a substantial improvement in the interpretation of the data of the ultraviolet spectrum of the tin observed by the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. These atomic data are relevant to the analysis of the isotopic abundances of tin in stellar atmospheres.


By virtue of strong ion-pairing interactions that are reinforced following its oxidation to the ferrocinium form, (ferrocenylmethyl)trimethylammonium cation is able to electrochemically sense dihydrogen phosphate and ATP anions in organic electrolytes; clear two-wave voltammetry features allow their amperometric titration by this very simple derivative of ferrocene.


Derivatives of chlorophyll were investigated as both catalysts and comonomers to generate well-defined polymers with narrow dispersities under AGET ATRP conditions.


recently poor anticoagulant response to activated protein C (APCresistance) was recognized as the most frequent cause of thrombophilia, being found up to 21-33% of patients with venous thrombosis, and is now considered to be a significant risk for development of thrombosis in the affected subjects (1-3). APC-resistancc in almost all individuals is related to a mutation of an APC cleavage site o f Factor V (Arg506 to Gin) (4-6). At present no data arc available on the thrombotic risk of these patients during pregnancy or puerperium. We investigated a group of 118 subjects (M/F 46/72) with venous thrombotic disease selected from a larger group of thrombotic patients consecutively referred to our center. Selection criteria were based on the absence of any acquired or inherited condition predisposing to thrombosis (solid neoplasia, nephrotic syndrome, myeloproliferative disease, autoimmune disease, deficiency of antithrombin III, protein C and S, plasminogen). APC-resistance assay was performed using the commercial kit from Chromogenix (Molndal, Sweden); 33 individuals (28%, M/F 11/22) had the clotting time ratio with and without APC be low the control mean -2SD and were considered affected (manuscript in preparation). Another 11 affected female subjects (9 without history of thrombosis) were identified during family investigation. In all the affected individuals the presence of anticardiolipin antibodies or lupus anticoagulant was ruled out. Out of the 33 women with APC-resistance (22 probands and 11 relatives), inheritance of the plasma abnormality was established in 13 individuals belonging to 8 kindreds with the mutation FV Arg506 to Gin and in 5 individuals from 3 kindreds not analyzed for FV gene. Another 2 subjects with no relatives available for investigation had the FV mutation. The remaining 13 women were not available for FV gene analysis or family investigation. O f the total women investigated we first considered a group of 48 individuals who had been pregnant at least once and had a history of thrombosis (18 probands with APC-resistance and 30 probands with no plasma abnormality, i. e. APC-resistance or deficiency of antithrombin III, protein C and S, plasminogen): the first venous thrombotic event occurred during pregnancy or puerperium (defined as one month after delivery) in 10 of the 18 symptomatic APC-resistant women (55%) and in 8 o f the remaining 30 women (26%) (x2 = 4.00, p <0.05). Thus, of 18 women with thrombotic onset related to pregnancy and puerperium, 10 were APC-resistant (55%); this is in agreement with the percentage of 60% cited by Dahlback (7). Then we evaluated the overall prevalence of venous thrombosis during pregnancy and puerperium in APC-resistant women. A total of 57 pregnancies without antithrombotic prophylaxis and 8 abortions was recorded in 27 women, the remaining 6 having never had a pregnancy. Venous thromboembolism complicated 16 pregnancies in 15 patients (14 iliacofemoral thrombosis, 1 pulmonary embolism, 1 superficial


From an organizational learning perspective,this study establishes a framework explaining the relationship of customers and service innovation,and analyzes the path of customer-firm interaction which influences the service innovation performance by influencing organization's motivations and actions to learn from customers.Following an empirical framework,a survey is developed in 122 Chinese service firms from Shanxi,Guangdong,and Jiangsu.Results indicate that: i) there is strong positive relationship between three dimensions(cooperative production,customer contact,customized service) of customer-firm interaction and organizational learning;ii) the positive relationships are moderated by organizational innovative climate and the more innovative the climate,the stronger the improvement effect;iii) the organizational learning is positive to service innovation performance significantly.


The Syrian crisis has caused one of the greatest episodes of forced displacement since World War II and some of the densest refugee-hosting situations in modern history. Lebanon has hosted more than 1 million Syrian refugees. This article is based on a large multisectoral survey of Syrian refugees' households in Bekaa, conducted by the Union of Relief and Development Associations (URDA) in the period 2016–17 with a total of 1614 households and 6199 individuals. It assesses the socio-economic and living conditions of this representative sample (i.e., the location of refugees and housing conditions, the legal status of refugees, family expenditure, shelter, displacement, education, work, health, child health including child marriage). Among many vulnerabilities experienced by Syrian refugees, we identify three salient domains of precariousness, which are education, health, and early marriage. A particular analysis covers the differential analysis between camp dwellers versus urban ones, and the conviviality of the former compared with the latter.


A class of closed, bounded, convex sets in the Banach space c0 is shown to be a complete PCA set. Introduction. Let K denote a closed, bounded, convex set in a separable B-space X, and let exK denote its set of extreme points. It is possible that exK = ∅, and also that exK fail to be a Borel set ([5, 6]). Hence it is natural to ask for the complexity of the set CE of sets K in X having an extreme point. This question will be answered for X = c0, after a digression on the class F (M) of all closed subsets of a metric space (M,d). This class can be quite mysterious ([4, 7]), but we mention only the rudiments. When F (M) is provided with the Hausdorff metric—a minor adjustment is necessary when d is unbounded—certain sets [U ] in F (M) are open. Here U is open in M and A ∈ [U ]↔ A ∩ U 6= ∅ . When d is totally bounded—equivalently, when F (M) is separable—the sets [U ] generate the field of Borel sets, called the Effros Borel structure, and therefore the Borel structure in F (M) has a definite meaning when M is separable (since then there is some totally bounded metric). Some sets are always closed, for example the subset of M × F (M) defined by m ∈ A. When X is a separable B-space, the convex sets form a Gδ. To see this, let (Un)n=1 be a basis for the open sets; then A is convex provided A meets 1 2 (Un + Um) whenever A meets both Un and Um. The Hausdorff metric in F (X), relative to the usual metric, will be called the strong metric; that relative to a totally bounded metric in X will be called a weak metric. (This has no relation to the weak topology.) Let E be the subset of F (X)×X×X×X containing elements (A, x, y, z) Supported in part by the National Science Foundation.


The influence of different sintering temperatures during Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) process on microstructure of La-Ca-Sr-Mn-O ceramics has been studied. The powders of La0.67Ca0.33-xSrxMnO3 (x = 0.33; 0.03) (LCSM) perovskite were prepared by milling of the stoichiometric amounts of the starting materials - lanthanum oxide (La2O3), calcium oxide (CaO), strontium carbonate (SrCO3) and manganese oxide (MnO2), and subsequently calcinated twice. After the second calcinations the LCSM powders were treated by SPS method at four different temperatures (1000°C, 1150°C, 1200°C and 1250°C), at uniaxial pressure of 50 MPa in a vacuum. The microstructure characterizations were done by polarized light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The microstructural observations showed that increasing sintering temperature leads to an increase of grain size. The energy dispersive spectral (EDS) analysis confirmed that higher sintering temperatures cause changes in the phase composition of the investigated LCSM perovskite materials. The benefits of the LCSM samples preparation by SPS process are discussed.


By flash welding method,the 4.5mm thickness B600 CL hot rolling steel plates were welded with different welding parameters.The microstructure of interface region was observed,and the tensile properties of the welded joints were researched,the effects of upset pressure,upset allowance and flash allowance on the microstructure and mechanical properties of welded joints were studied.The results show that,with the increase of upset pressure,the bainite structure in interface refines,while the tensile strength and elongation of the weld joint are affected slightly;with the increase of upset allowance,the microstructure gradually coarsens,the tensile strength and elongation decreases,and the tensile properties deteriorate when the upset allowance is over 5.5mm.With the increase of flash allowance,the bainite structure in interface gradually coarsens,and the tensile strength and elongation gradually reduce;when the flash allowance is more than 10 mm,the tensile properties are seriously deteriorated.


Precise assembly of exfoliated graphene sheets on electrode surfaces plays a major role for next generation electrodes to be used in sensors, batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors and other types of energy storage devices. Here, we achieve vertical assembly of sulfonated, few-layer graphene on a metal surface. The few layer graphene flakes were extensively decorated with dopamine capped iron oxide nanoparticles utilizing electrostatic interactions between the nanoparticles and the graphene sheets. The attached nanoparticles drived the assembly of the graphene nanosheets into a vertical orientation on a gold surface under the effect of a moderate external magnetic field.


ABSTRACT The objectives to be achieved in this research are: (1) describe the sociological aspects of literary mimesis in novel Detik Terakhir , in terms of character and characterization, social status, the behavior of the characters, and events that occur in Novel. (2) The extent to which the involvement of the author in the novel Detik Terakhir . This study is a review of sociology of literature using qualitative methods. Research techniques include the stage of data collection, data analysis, data presentation, and conclusion. The data source consists of primary data (novel Detik Terakhir ) and a secondary form books of literature and other sources. The results Showed that the sociological aspects of mimesis in the novel Detik Terakhir is a clone of the state of young people today, where many young people are caught in the vortex of drugs as a form of escape from the problems that they face . While the implications of authorship or involvement of the author in the novel Detik Terakhir includes pouring her heart by concern over the unpreparedness of the family and the environment in receiving back a family member who has been rehabilitated drug. Keywords : sociology of literature, mimesis, qualitative, Novel Detik Terakhir


This dissertation complies with an analysis of the criminal system in light of the Lei Maria da Penha, based on social and legal rights, in the approach of the Lei dos Juizados Especiais. It seeks a consistency between the critical points of critical criminal law and the punishment of the punitive system in order to determine the treatment of women's law and cases of domestic and family violence against a woman from the perspective of the victim of fender, or the entire community. The aim of this research is to as certain and understand if it is really worth a criminal hardening and if it is capable of improving the life of such a large contingent of women who suffers violence from a feminist look. The method of deductive research was used, through which one sought to create intimacy with the object of study, examining invarious doctrinal sources, besides the field research in which interviews were conducted, inorder to seek the most honest understanding about the subject matter.


ONE of the most interesting facets of the recent thalidomide tragedy was the long inter¬ val between the appearance of a substantial excess of drug-induced malformations and the time of withdrawal of the drug from the mar¬ ket. According to Taussig's description of the West German experience, this interval was at least 1 year (1). In retrospect, it is easy to understand why such a long delay occurred. Although this excess of malformations was large in total number of cases, it was distributed both geographically and temporally in the total population of births occurring in this interval. The chance that any one physician would see a large number of the cases was, therefore, small. Birth and stillbirth certificates filed at the New York State Department of Health have contained an entry for reporting congenital malformations since 1940. Analyses of the data, however, were sporadic (@-6), and no rou¬ tine or continuous appraisal had been under¬ taken. Consequently, in May 1962 the depart¬ ment established a congenital malformation surveillance system based on vital records.


Firstly, the inherent default of the perimeter firewall is pointed out in the paper. Then the architecture of the distributed firewall is introduced, and its operational principle is discussed at the same time. In the paper a practical example is given. Practice shows that the distributed firewall not only succeeds to the all virtue of the perimeter firewall, but also improves mostly on its lack.


An anthropometric study was performed on 40 Caucasian children with familial short stature (FSS) and conpared with 40 age-, race-, and sex-matched children with normal height (C-NH), and 250 adolescent girls with normal height (AG-NH). Anthropometric measurements were also obtained on 30 short parents of the FSS (P-SS) and compared with 26 normal height parents of the FSS (P-NH) and 33 normal height adults (Ad-NH). Brachymetacarpy V, rhizomelia, and short upper and lower limbs were highly prevalent among the FSS patients as compared to the control groups. Brachymetacarpy V was present in 75% of FSS whereas only 28% of C-NH and 33% of AG-NH had this trait (P<0.01). Among the FSS patients 42% had rhizomelia, 38% had short arms, and 65% had short legs whereas in the normal height children only 15% had rhizomelia, 12% had short arms and 30% had short legs (P<0.01). Brachymetacarpy V was also more prevalent among the P-SS than among the Ad-NH (73% vs 33%)(P<0.05). Rhizomelia and short limbs also appeared to be more prevalent in the P-SS than in the two other adult groups. The concomitant presence of more than one type of tubular bone alteration was more commonly seen in the FSS groups than in the control groups. All affected FSS patients had one or two affected parents suggesting a possible autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. The high prevalence of tubular bone alterations in FSS patients suggests that an altered tubular bone elongation or endochondral ossification is probably responsible for short stature in a large proportion of these families.


Objective:Indwelling urinary catheter to prevent complications of urinary tract infection continue to improve the quality of care. Method:The establishment of indwelling catheter CQI team,define its role,to develop appropriate quality improvement program. In accordance with the PDCA continuous nursing care quality improvement program. Results:Indwelling catheter in patients with urinary tract infection rate from 24% down to 6.5 percent. May 2009—2010 years,in January of the indwelling catheter in patients with urinary tract infection rate in November 2008 to April 2009 of the indwelling catheter in patients with urinary tract infection rate decreased significantly,there was statistical significance(P0.05). Conclusion:Indwelling catheter in patients on continuous improvement of quality of care to avoid urinary tract infections due to physical damage caused to the patient and psychological stress,reduce health care costs,increase patient satisfaction,they could really take preventive measures.


'The micro/nano reinforced particle' aluminum metal matrix composites (Al-MMCs) are widely used in manufacturing sector due to light-weight, superior strength-to-weight ratio, better fracture toughness, improved fatigue, and tensile property, enhanced corrosion resistance to harsh environment, etc. This article provides an overview of the manufacturing processes and different reinforcing elements used during the synthesis of Al-MMCs. Generally, the reinforced particles like carbides, nitrides, and compounds of oxides are used. Different organic, inorganic, industrial and agricultural waste which can be used for reinforcement in the aluminum matrix is highlighted with their feasible applications. The common mechanical properties (i.e. hardness, tensile and compressive strength, etc.) reported by different researchers are thoroughly discussed with the aim to highlight the amount of reinforcement and improvement occurred during processing. The formation and methodology for mixing condition and sintering behaviour of Al-MMCs are discussed to impart knowledge about the processing circumstances in powder metallurgical route. The affecting conditions during operating and responsible factor for the tribological behaviour are deliberated in a precise manner to recognize the potentiality of reinforcing particles in Al-MMCs. Finally, the different shortcomings and future prospects of the Al-MMCs are given to encourage the future research directions.


Since their construction, hydropower dams have generated more than just power for the Tennessee Valley Authority, they also generated concerns about their effects on river flow and aquatic life. When the dams aren't releasing water, the rivers can almost run dry; and when they do generate power, the flows can reach high velocities and frequently contain waters from the deepest layers of the reservoir, waters whose reduced oxygen content could hurt or drive off aquatic life. These concerns led the TVA to sponsor the design and construction of two innovative types of weirs: a timber-crib and a labyrinth. These small dams, located downstream from the generators, regulate the water flow and, in the labyrinth's case, help reoxgenate the water. On both rivers, the water level no longer fluctuates wildly and miles of river have been brought back to life. The article discusses the problems faced by the TVA, the steps taken to design the weirs to solve those problems and respective advantages and disadvantages of the two styles.


This research work describes the abrasive wear rate of as-cast AL (6061) alloy reinforced coated albite and graphite particulates .The present investigation is on the wear behaviour of AL6061/Albite/Graphite reinforced hybrid composites. Dry sliding wear behaviour of AL6061 based hybrid composites has been investigated using a pin-on-disc wear-testing machine. The hybrid composite showed appreciable improvement in wear rate due to better interface bonding. The composites containing both Albite and Graphite exhibited a transition from mild to severe wear with application increasing normal applied loads. The transition from mild wear to severe wear was influenced by the applied load, sliding distance, hardness and strength of the hybrid material.


The Purpose of this paper is to give an insight into some successful e-governance projects in Karnataka. Karnataka has been very innovative in the use of ICT. Karnataka's IT policy focuses on using e-governance as a tool and delivering a government services. That is more pro-active and responsive to its citizen. The state of Karnataka is among the very few states in India which as pioneered e-governance initiatives in all possible areas through its project such as Bhoomi, Therige, Khajane etc., for administrative services and also for other services such as education, health, environment, agriculture etc., The objective of BHOOMI (meaning land in Kannada), a project of the Revenue Department of the Government of Karnataka are : E Facilitating easy maintenance and prompt updating of land records


Within the quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA), the covariances associated to the nuclear matrix elements (NME) of neutrinoless double beta decay (0vββ) are estimated. It is shown that correlated NME uncertainties play an important role in the comparison of 0vββ decay rates for different nuclei, both in the standard case of light Majorana neutrino exchange, and in nonstandard physics cases.


The article includes a description of the approach to the development and analysis of the cryptographic protocols using time-probability technique. it reveals the influence of channel errors on the performance of authentication and encryption protocols.


What is a poet?.... He is a man speaking to men. Wordsworth, "Preface to the Second Edition of `Lyrical Ballads"' He is a seer...the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. Whitman, "Preface 1855-Leaves of Grass" Far too many critics, in both New World and Old, assume a kind of natural continuum between Europe and America, or between English and American literature and culture-a continuum wherein essays stressing the influence of Bunyan and Spenser upon Hawthorne, or the mark of Shakespeare upon Melville, or the methods of French Impressionists upon Stephen Crane abound with very little attention to the revolutionary and sui generis genius of the American works. However, there has indeed been a radical break between Europe and America-what Thoreau understood in declaring "old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new" (1:775) and what D. H. Lawrence recognized in the "new consciousness" arising "upon the continent of North America and no where else," an alien character that would "hurt horribly" but would cause Europeans to "open new eyes" (Studies 1, 2). The London Morning Post ( 1934) summed it up by declaring that those who have had to do with Americans will not mistake them for our intimate cousins, our near psychic relations. They are a different people. (Mencken 43, italics mine) And even Thomas Paine, only a few years in the New World, knew that "it is evident that they belong to different systems: England to Europe-America to itself" (Common 43). But what is this radical breach in the traditional continuum between Old World and New? It is the deep, instinctive knowledge held by Americans that they have had only one chance by which they could develop their own peculiar aesthetics and languagecould escape the finality of what David Daiches calls the "unrivaled mastery" or "supreme craftsmanship" of William Shakespeare as "the unchallenged champion in the whole field of English literature" (308). It is the deep, instinctive wisdom by which they could, with Melville, "away with this leaven of literary flunkeyism towards England" ("Hawthorne" 1:839), and with Emerson, "listen" no more "to the courtly muses of Europe" ("American" 79): Americans took the risk and redefined themselves by the eye, not the ear. In what follows, we shall first demonstrate the aural or lyrical or hyperverbal bias of the English by attending to the poetry, primarily, of one of the foremost Romantics, William Wordsworth; and then, in part II, we shall focus upon the visual bias of the American "romantic," Walt Whitman-a figure whose overall output and stature compare well with Wordsworth's, even if perhaps his hypervisuality itself may not be supreme among New-World writers. Moreover, as we turn to each major subject, we shall feel free to include brief parallels and contrasts with other significant writers of both nations in order to illuminate further the struggle for freedom or even cultural and aesthetic supremacy still occurring in the "Revolutionary War" between New World and Old. As Thomas Paine once again reminds us in prefiguring the self-reliant strictures of Emerson: Independence is the only bond that can tie and keep us together. We shall then see our object, and our ears shall be legally shut against the schemes of an intriguing, as well as a cruel enemy. (Common 91, italics mine) 1. William Wordsworth: Poems of the Auditory Imagination Orphean Insight! truth's undaunted lover. "On the Power of Sound" In the first place, I think we would do well to note the amazing frequency with which Wordsworth-in early poems and late-turns to the ear or voice to begin or end his stanzas, verse paragraphs, or complete poetic works. "An Evening Walk" (1793) opens "where Derwent rests, and listens to the roar/That streams"; and it concludes with "the song of mountain-streams," the "spiritual music of the hill," the "echoed hoof nearing the distant shore," the "rustling corn," and, finally, the "yell, in the deep woods, of lonely hound" (Poetical 39, italics here and following mine). …