Based on the spatial curve tower of a cable-stayed bridge with a single tower, Midas/Civil software is used to establish a spatial truss model for the overall analysis to determine the most unfavorable load case,the related loading and displacement conditions of steel tower column,up and down bifurcation and cable-pylon anchorage zones. With the commonly used finite element analysis software ANSYS,a three-dimensinal solid model of steel tower column is bulit,then the performance of steel plates of steel tower column and cable-pylon anchorage zones can be obtained.The calculation results show that the deformation of steel tower column is small,stress levels of steel plates of steel tower column,up and down bifurcation and cable-pylon anchorage zones can meet standard requirements.It also indicates that the design of two-way forked spatial curve tower is more reasonable.


Very little is known concerning the changes that occur in living tissue following the injection of solutions of an "active deposit'' of radium emanation. This investigation was undertaken to determine what changes occur in the principal organs of the animal body following such a treatment, and to afford data that might act as a guide in the treatment of certain types of cancer, in which the solution method of radium therapy appeared particularly adapted. Since the main facts of this investigation became apparent, cases of leukemia and lymphosarcoma have been treated by the methods employed in these experiments. In these diseases the lesions were so widely disseminated as to suggest treatment by the method of intravenous radium injection. The scope of the investigation may be divided into two parts, one dealing with experiments concerning intravenous, and the other with subcutaneous injections of the "active deposit" of radium emanation.


Analytical expressions for the width and conductance peak distributions of irregularly shaped quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime are presented in the limits of conserved and broken time-reversal symmetry. The results are obtained using random matrix theory and are valid in general for any number of nonequivalent and correlated channels, assuming that the underlying classical dynamics of the electrons in the dot is chaotic or that the dot is weakly disordered. The results are expressed in terms of the channel correlation matrix, which for chaotic systems is given in closed form for both pointlike contacts and extended leads. We study the dependence of the distributions on the number of channels and their correlations. The theoretical distributions are in good agreement with those computed in a dynamical model of a chaotic billiard.


The story has been told many times: during the second half of the 18th century, in Paris as well as in London, guilds ceased to be relevant in terms of technical knowledge and improvements (if ever were), while patent legislation gave innovators individual rights to balance costs of innovation. Christine MacLeod stressed how patenting could be part of an entrepreneurial strategy to escape from guild regulations, using Dollond's patent for telescopes as typical. But if guilds lose their jurisdiction settle trade litigation, and litigation becomes public, who detain jurisdiction for litigation between tradesmen about innovation ? Do scientists, or judges have jurisdiction on inventors ? We know that trade experts appear. But how ? Asking this question also supposes to step aside from the classic account of technical progress by inventors, and to look at expertise by the side, and to dump the idea of inventors as trading inventions or science. The idea is dumped because, in this paper, we consider expertise as part of a professionnalization process: within the trade of opticians some tradesmen became inventors, or improvers, while others just sold spectacles; some appear as professionals, and some have been seen as scientists. And all can pretend somehow being experts. Beside, historians of the inventive activity have shown, the importance of inventors' networks, linking inventors to scientists, to manufacturers and financial interests in the c1700-c1820 period. But, as well as inventions ask for expertise to determine the legitimacy of inventors' claims, history of industralization can use expertise on optical manufacturing as a observatory to look on technical and organizational changes. Experts and expertise are embedded in the process and networks of the inventive activity. Of course, a capital city is a topos for expertise, because opportunity for such translations is only possible where technical, administrative and scientific interests can meet. This paper examines first how a patent litigation surprisingly did arise a collective trade interest in Restauration Paris, opposing experts' opinions. Then a parallel case, in mid-18th c. London, is reported , in order to understand what did "decaying" guilds do. Finally we have a look on the State and scientific expertise in the improvement of Paris optical manufacture: we will see its ability to link trade to science and to state policy, and its inability to place optical manufacturing into a scientific or political "centre of calculation". As Peter Greenaway's Draughtsman's contract, this paper tells stories about the power and failure of outsider's expertise, about an expert labour blurring – temporary – frontiers between trade, science and law, about the misuse of partnerships and the legitimacy of expert labourer to claim some property: opticians, manufacturer or inventors, cannot be understood without a network of contractual ties within the trade, and relationships with scientists outside the trade. This does not mean opticians are scientists or lawyers, but that some translation, ie the process of expertise – institutionalized or not – prepares and/or reveals the trade's evolutions.


Objectives: The number of patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased in the past 20 years with the widespread use of mammography screening. This study aims to investigate which patients with DCIS should undergo sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). Methods: Between 2008 and 2023, patients diagnosed with DCIS in the General Surgery Clinic were evaluated retrospectively. Age, clinical features, tumor nuclear grade, presence of comedonecrosis, tumor diameter, hormone receptor, presence of microinvasive components, axillary pathology, surgical interventions, locoregional recür-rences, overall and disease-free survival information of the patients were evaluated. Results: Forty-eight patients with a mean age of 52.2+12.4 years (25–76) were included in the study. Mastectomy was performed in 16, breast-conserving surgery in 32, SLNB in 21, axillary dissection in three, and no axillary-di-rected intervention was performed in 24 patients. Pure DCIS was detected in 44 patients and microinvasive component was detected in four patients (8.3%). No metastasis was detected after axillary sampling. It was statistically significant that a higher proportion of patients who underwent axillary intervention were in the mastectomy group and had diffuse microcalcifications in their mammograms (p<0.001 and p=0.009). Patients were followed up for a mean of 82.5 months, and locoregional recurrence was detected in 3 (6.25%) patients. One of the recurrences was due to DCIS, and the others were due to invasive cancer. The tumor sizes in these cases were above the average tumor size in the study. Conclusion: Although the absence of axillary metastasis in our study is attributed to the low number of patients and small mean tumor size, routine SLNB might not be performed in patients with DCIS due to the low rate of axillary metastasis. SLNB may be preferred only in cases where mastectomy will be performed.


A computer sawing system, which simulated a multiple saw edger, was used to investigate the effect of log rotation on the timber conversions of swept logs of three sizeclasses. A sample of 100 logs was stratified with respect to both log size and sweep, and four sawing methods (half-taper live sawing, half-taper cant sawing, offset live sawing, and offset cant sawing) were applied with the computer sawing simulation system AUTOS AW to each log at 37 positions representing rotation at 10° intervals from 0° (equivalent to the "sweep up" position) to 360° inclusive. All 14 800 simulations used the same carriage configuration, saw kerfs, and target dimensions, and the timber conversion percentage was determined for each. The results suggest that, under the conditions selected for the simulations, any log rotation can be used with half-taper cant sawing without sacrifice of substantial volume, but rotation is more important with offset cant sawing. Increased conversions were obtained when the log rotation was approximately 145°, i.e., midway between the "sweep in" and "sweep down" positions. For every angle, half-taper sawing obtained conversions that were at least equal to, if not greater than, those obtained with offset sawing. Results were consistent with the general rule of thumb that each 0.1 increase in the sweep:diameter ratio (deviation : s.e.d.) leads to a 5% decrease in timber recovery.


Over these years, GNSS technology has attracted many attentions around world and it has been widely applied in navigation for airplanes, ground vehicles and boats. On the other hand, advanced railway operating systems have been widely used to guarantee the safety and efficiency of the railway network. The efficiency of these systems is based on the availability of reliable train positioning. Hence, applying GNSS technology to the train positioning is a very promising research area, since it has such important benefits as lower initial costs and lower maintenance. In this thesis, several algorithms are proposed for train positioning by using GNSS signals and the railway centerline stored in the onboard computer database. At first, the train travelled distance, speed are estimated by using GNSS signals and an ''ideal'' railway centerline which is composed of straight line segments, transition curves and arcs of circles. The impact of the railroad curvature on these estimations is studied. Secondly, the train travelled distance, speed are estimated by using GNSS signals and a ''non-ideal'' railway centerline which is defined by a polygonal line with some level of uncertainty. The impact of the track geometric model imprecision on these estimations is studied. Finally, the train travelled distance, speed are estimated by integrating the GNSS measurements with a track database. The impact of the GNSS measurements and the track database errors on these estimations is studied.


An increasing number of studies dealing with environmental and dietary reconstruction involve measurement of intra-tooth variation of isotope ratios. The sampling procedure typically consists of collecting a sequence of horizontal bands perpendicular to the growth axis of the tooth. The objective is to obtain a temporal sequence of the changes recorded in dental tissues during tooth development. This paper examines some issues associated with this sampling strategy and consequences for interpretation of the data. Time resolution is influenced by the pattern and duration of enamel mineralization, in a way that might, however, depend on the species and the tooth analysed. Although it may be impossible to sample discrete amounts of time, a chronological order seems to be respected, which should be well enough when the objective is to detect changes in isotope ratios with time. Absolute data must be interpreted with caution. Such issues do not affect studies of inter-individual variability as long as the sampling procedure applied to the compared specimens is consistent. A new sampling strategy is tested on modern goat teeth, involving drilling in an oblique direction. The results obtained from obliquely drilled samples are very similar to those obtained from the horizontal sampling procedure. More work is still needed to determine the value of alternative sampling strategies. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Intentionally-damaged human skeletal remains indicating cannibalism and/or violence have been found scattered on room floors and deposited in pits in more than 40 archeological sites in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Most of the bone assemblages were in Anasazi sites. Using five standardized taphonomic criteria (perimortem cut marks, intentional breakage, burning, anvil/hammerstone abrasions, and many missing vertebrae), 32 assemblages meet our minimal requirement for proposing cannibalism. In the 32 cannibalized series, the minimal number of individuals (MNI) ranges from 1 to 35. The average MNI is 9.2 per site. The total MNI is 295. All ages and both sexes are represented. The earliest grouping of sites with evidence of cannibalism date around A.D. 900; the latest single site, A.D. 1700. The average date for the 32 sites is ca. A.D. 1100. Two proximate explanations involve social pathology and/or Mesoamerican influence. Prehistoric Southwest cannibalism has been explained by starvation (3 sites), social pathology (several sites), and recently, as a violent form of institutionalized social control associated with the post-A.D. 900 rise of the highly complex Chacoan social and religious center in New Mexico, its regional road system, and the linked outlier multi-storied Great House communities that were built elsewhere in New Mexico and also in Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. There is no identifiable direct connection with cannibalism in Mexico. When considered with the sites evidencing extensive violence, Southwest cannibalism appears to be part of a socially-pathological and chaotic development that began in the Anasazi area, possibly triggered by Mesoamerican influences such as Mexican traders.


Objective
To study the therapeutic effect and safety of pleurodesis with medical thoracoscopy by powdery talc on treatment of malignant pleural effusion.

Methods
Retrospective analysis were done in 74 cases of malignant pleural effusion accepted simple powdery talc pleurodesis under medical thoracoscopy.

Results
The doses of powdery talc were from 1g to 5g,average 2.18g in the course of the treatment. After operation, 45(60.8%) cases which were complete remission(CR) were full pleural adhesion and complete lung recruitment, 14cases(18.9%), which were partial remission(PR),were less pleural adhesion and most lung recruitment, and 10cases(13.6%) were stable diseases(SD), while 5cases(6.7%), which were progressive diseases(PD), were without pleural reaction. The total effective rate, including CR,PR and SD, was 93.3%(69/74). The complications of simple powdery talcage under medical thoracoscopy were included in:95.9%(71/74) with chest pain,64.8%(48/74) with fever,28.4%(21/74) with shortness of breath,12.2%(9/74) with mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema,5.4%(4/74)with nausea and vomiting,4.1%(3/74) with abdominal distension, while the complications of acute pulmonary edema, massive hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism and wound infection were not observed.

Conclusion
Treatment of malignant pleural effusion by simple powdery talcage under medical thoracoscopy has definite clinic therapeutic effect, which is safe, costeffective, less trauma and worthy of clinical application.

Key words:
Pleural effusion,malignant; Thoracoscopy; Pleurodesis; Talc


The use of acrylic resin teeth in dentures to replace the usual porcelain teeth has gained considerable favor during recent years in Japan.But very little is known about the physical characteristics of the resin teeth produced in our country, so we have studied about their properties with other countries products.1) The composition of resin teeth are essentially polymethylmethacrylate, but some of teeth contain a cross-linking agent (sample 1, 7, 8) .2) The construction of resin teeth were consider in view of the sagittal section of resin teeth (Photo 1) . Many of the teeth were processed by the powder-liquid method, and some were processed by an industrial injection molding process (sample 2, 4) .3) The knoop hardness number of resin teeth are about 17-18 except the sample 5 of K. H-N. 19.The abrasion resistance of the resin teeth are measured by mean of a dropped carbolundum method, and it is estimated that he wear down amount by the dropped carbolundum on resin teeth surface are approximately treble amount of polyurethan teeth (sample 11) .The result of experiments it found that the resin teeth on the market exhibit desirable physical properties as a polymethylmethacrylic resin teeth, but the aim of artificial plastic teeth must be to improve the hardness and abrasive resistance by the application of new plastic materials.


An IBM PC-AT interface for data acquisition from diode arrays is described. It was developed for use in an extended energy loss fine structure (EXELFS) spectrometer, where sometimes two diode arrays (containing EXELFS and low-loss spectra) need simultaneous scanning. The system operates as a multiscaler, allowing two processes to be recorded at the same time. The interfaice was designed using a programmable gate array (an 1800 gate-equivalent logic cell array from XILINX) to implement most of the digital circuitry and a 12-bit ADC to sample the analog inputs. A 12-bit DAC was used for analog outputs and for diagnostic testing purposes. The interfaice hardware was given a general design so that it may be used in other e,imilar applications.


We study optimal control of diffusions with slow and fast variables and address a question
raised by practitioners: is it possible to first eliminate the fast variables before solving the
optimal control problem and then use the optimal control computed from the reduced-order model to
control the original, high-dimensional system? The strategy ``first reduce, then optimize''---rather than ``first
optimize, then reduce''---is motivated by the fact that solving optimal control problems for high-dimensional
multiscale systems is numerically challenging and often computationally prohibitive. We state sufficient and necessary
conditions, under which the ``first reduce, then control'' strategy can be employed and discuss when it
should be avoided. We further give numerical examples that illustrate the ``first reduce, then optmize'' approach and discuss
possible pitfalls.


A finitc, element approach for integrated fluid-thermal-structural analysis of aerodynamically heated leading edges is presented. for vectorized Issues of the thermal-structural are studied for hydrogen cooled, super thermal conducting to intense aerodynamic c m p e s b e l o e n e r g y e q u a i o a s a a t i o n s for thc? l e a d i n g


One Of the dominant features shared by the Chinese living in Paris is their rich linguistic repertoire, closely related to their migratory history. As a function of the status of the language, the person or persons one is communicating with, and general practice, each language in which one is fluent conveys a whole series of connotations as to the rights and duties of the participants. Thus, the linguistic resources of the speakers operate as an effective means for the management of interpersonal relationships in social interaction, which can be viewed as a negotiation of various balances of power. The people involved are continually negotiating its vicissitudes in order to establish or reestablish the equilibrium of the relational balance. Some relationships can be established between the coexistence of linguistic varieties, their social functions, and the socio-economic situation of Chinese speakers in Paris.


Nanofocused synchrotron X-ray fluorescence and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry provide insights into time-dependent ligand exchange reactions of organo-osmium anticancer complexes in cancer cells. Created with Biorender.com.


A multinational company uses a determination of hedging decisions in international trade. The difference in currency values is a risk that will occur and minimize this risk using hedging. This research's independent variable is firm size, profitability, liquidity, growth opportunity, and leverage. The hedging is the dependent variable. This research used secondary data derived from annual financial reports by quantitative approach. The object used in this research is agricultural sector companies on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013-2019 with 11 companies as the sample. The data analysis technique used is logistic regression. This study indicates that profitability proxied by return on assets positively affects the company's hedging decisions. Meanwhile, growth opportunity calculated by using a comparison between the market value of equity and book value of equity, leverage proxied by the debt to assets ratio, liquidity proxied by the current ratio, firm size measured using the natural logarithm of total assets does not affect the company's hedging decisions. This research explains that companies with high profitability should do hedging activities to protect the company from adverse risks.


were, therefore, simply damp, and on the outside appeared some patches of whitish mildew. The coffin-plates were in good preservation, being only slightly rusted at the backs and edges. These parti<culars are mentioned as bearing on the condition in which the bodies were found. The coffin of the elder boy contained a quantity of shavings. These were damp and discoloured, like shavings kept in a cellar, but were not actually wet. The smell given forth from the bodies was peculiar. It was unlike any dead-house or dissecting-room smell; and, though offensive, was not nearly so much so as might have been expected. Perhaps there is not such a thing as a salt smell, but that is the term which would convey some idea of the odour. I have smelt something similar in close bedrooms where red herrings have been cooked. The face of the elder boy was fdry, and of a dark brown colour; the soft parts of the nose were gone, and the mouth was wide open, the lower jaw looking as if dislocated. From the right upper jaw, one of the teeth was hanging out of its socket. -When the head was lifted, the skull at the back separated entirely from the muscles and scalp as if it had been macerated, and the muscular structures were seen to be of a grey colour, moist and pulpy. The brain, as seen through the foramen magnum, was a mere pulp; and of the eyes, only traces were seen at the bottom of the orbits. The skin of the chest and abdomen was of a reddish-brown colour, as was that of the thighs. These last were in good preservation, and had a mummified appearance. The genitals were converted into a mass of adipocere ; but it would have been quite possible to ascertain from them the sex of the child had it not been known. The younger child had been a well nourished infant. The face had only slightly shrunk ; the cheeks still showed the plumpness of babyhood; the lips were only slightly separated, and one could almost fancy a smile on them. The soft parts of the nose were gone, and the orbits contained a thick yellow fluid. The skin of the chest and abdomen was dry, and reddish-brown in colour. After an incision had been made down the sternum, the skin and muscles left the ribs on a slight touch, and were rolled back as easily and completely as if made of thin lead. The genitals were converted into adipocere ; and in this case also the sex could have been determined. The feet of this child were covered with woollen socks, which appeared soaked in a fluid like that in the orbits. In both children the lungs were the most decomposed of any of the internal organs. The heart of the younger child was in a capital state of preservation ; internally it was moist, and really looked as if it were that of a recently deceased subject. M. Devergie, as quoted by Dr. Chambers (Lectures, CAziefly Clinical, p. 3), says, from notes made on the bodies at the Morgue at Paris, that it is four and a half months before complete destruction of the face occurs, and the bulky muscles of the neck and thighs are converted into adipocere. In the cases of these children, seven months had elapsed between the burial and the exhumation. In a wet soil the process of de-composition would have been hastened. The bodies had been buried within a few days (nine, I believe) of each other, but not in the same grave. It would have been exceedingly interesting to have had an opportunity of examining the body of the father of these children. He had been buried more than twelve months. Every search was made for him; but the absence of any record of the place of burial, and the firm conviction on the part of each person who attended the funeral, that the man had been buried at a spot where nobody else who had been present remembered his being buried, and the sexton's general bewilderment, and the fact that the names had, in many instances, been effaced from the coffin-plates, in consequence of their having only been painted on in some material which does not stand damp, caused the search to be abandoned. Exhumations are not of common occurrence, but they do occur ; and I shall always retain the idea that the grave of the man we sought really was opened, and that the failure in identifying his coffin was caused by official carelessness. Where no head-stones are erected, it would be easy to have a number or the initials of the deceased burnt on'the coffin. Certainly it would not, to the popular eye, look so well as the name in full, inscribed on tin plate impressed with the figures of angels furnished with anatomically impossible wings, but it would be efficacious in preventing such a failure as happened at St. Helen's Auckland ; and some plan ought to be adopted by which, if it be necessary to exhume a body, there might be a reasonable chance of finding it.


FIELD: message boards and mail servers. SUBSTANCE: electronic message board is provided with database in form of several known words, which are selected in specific order, while each word is connected to respective URI. Message text from user computer is checked using a plurality of known words. When message text does not include a known word of plurality of known words, message is placed at electronic board. Each known word is found in text, known in text is converted to hypertext format with URI connected to word, as destination of link, and message is placed at message board. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 7 cl, 4 dwg


The paper describes in some detail the Emission-Infrared-Spectrometer for Atmospheric Research, EISAR, a groundbased FTIR spectrometer, measuring spectra of downwelling radiation between 550 and 3500 cm -1 with a spectral resolution of 0.3 cm -1 in maximum and a noise equivalent temperature of less than 0.1 K. Measurements of blackbody radiation at several temperatures from 100 °C to ambient temperatures were used to correct the absolute calibration for nonlinear detector response. Numerical simulations of the variability of atmospheric emission spectra and of atmospheric contribution functions indicated the most informative spectral regions for remote sounding and the contribution of individual atmospheric layers to the signal. These simulations gave for the observation site and a winter month (February) maximum equivalent brightness temperature variations of more than 20 K in the atmospheric window between 770 and 930 cm -1 for cloudless zenith, mainly caused by atmospheric moisture variations. Spectral variability of 2 to 3 K equivalent brightness temperature variations were found around the ozone band (1047 cm -1 ) even in case of unchanged atmospheric ozone. The contribution functions of the most transparent spectral intervals, when related to the logarithm of altitude, had their maximum at about 2 km for zenith viewing at midlatitudes in winter. The achievable sounding height depended on the atmospheric moisture content and, thus, on site and season. Retrieval errors of the temperature lapse rate within the first two km were assessed in dependence of random error and bias of the measurement for the spectral interval from 680 to 714 cm -1 , where the water vapour influence is negligible. High retrieval accuracy (0.2 K) was found for the first 300 m for smooth temperature profiles assuming proper radiometric calibration, which is not critical, however, by tuning the calibration to the temperature, measured at the observation site. A detailed discussion was made for a near surface inversion situation.


More than a century ago, research in Drosophila discovered fundamental mechanisms of inheritance that apply to sexually reproducing organisms (1). One key observation was that in meiosis, the cell division that generates sex cells, homologous chromosomes make large-scale reciprocal exchanges of genetic material called crossovers. A second observation was that these crossovers are not randomly distributed, with the presence of one crossover reducing the likelihood of another crossover nearby. This phenomenon, termed interference, results in crossover spacing that is more uniform than expected by chance. To this day, the mechanism of crossover interference remains largely unexplained. In PNAS, Capilla-Pérez et al. (2) and France et al. (3) make a leap forward in our understanding of this puzzling phenomenon. Meiotic crossovers are formed during prophase I within a highly organized chromosome structure. First, the two sister chromatids of each chromosome are tethered to a proteinaceous axis (Fig. 1). Second, homologous chromosome axes are "zipped" together by a highly ordered and evolutionarily conserved structure: the synaptonemal complex. A repeating unit of the synaptonemal complex, which is analogous to the teeth of a zipper, is the ZYP1 protein, also called the transverse filament. In PNAS, Capilla-Pérez et al. (2) and France et al. (3) leverage the genetic tools available for the plant Arabidopsis thaliana to elucidate the role of the transverse filament in crossover interference. Genetic studies of the transverse filament had been largely precluded in Arabidopsis because it is encoded by an inverted duplication of the ZYP1 gene separated by 2 kb, which was nearly impossible to knock out in the pre-CRISPR/Cas9 era. Previous studies in multiple organisms have shown that the synaptonemal complex, and its transverse filament, are required for crossover formation: In the complete absence of the transverse filament in Drosophila (4), mouse (5), worm (6), and yeast (7), crossover formation is severely reduced. CapillaPérez et al. and France et al. generated CRISPR/ Cas9 lines deleting both ZYP1 copies in Arabidopsis and reported that the transverse filament is not required for crossover formation in this species. Importantly, the fact that crossovers still occurred provided the authors an opportunity to investigate other roles of the transverse filament not directly related to crossover formation, and they found that 1) meiotic progression can proceed relatively normally without the transverse filament: Homologous chromosomes coalign but fail to synapse, and normal chromosome axis remodeling is abrogated; 2) the synaptonemal complex limits crossovers and imposes crossover interference; and 3) male and female crossover rates, which are normally different, become identical without the transverse filament. In many organisms, including Arabidopsis, two crossover pathways with differing genetic requirements exist (8). Crossovers formed by the major pathway require an evolutionarily conserved set of genes collectively referred to as ZMMs and are sensitive to interference. The second class of crossovers is insensitive to interference. As one class of crossover is sensitive to interference and the other not, changing the balance of crossovers contributed by the two pathways can alter genetic measurements of interference, without necessarily changing the underlying interference mechanism. Only loss of the interference mechanism, however, should result in random placement of ZMM crossovers and a possible increase in their number. This is exactly the outcome reported by CapillaPérez et al. and France et al. with loss of the transverse filament in Arabidopsis. Both groups report an abolition of interference measured genetically, and an increase in ZMM-dependent crossovers (Fig. 1). Thus, the loss of the transverse filament has resulted in


ABSTRACTAim of the study:This study aims to contribute to the existing knowledge on similarities and differences of networking styles across Europe and support either network contextualists or univ ...


Christie was born a biological male but self-identified as female from the time she was three or four years old. She was excused from sports and physical education at school because of her embarrassment over getting changed in front of boys. When she was seventeen years old, Christie started looking for a doctor who would perform sex reassignment surgery. At twenty-three, she began a four-year process of psychological and phys ical treatment. She had her name legally changed and has lived her whole adult life as a woman.1 She married the man she loved, who knew about and was comfortable with her sex identity. When he died seven years later due to a doctor's mistake, Christie filed a wrongful-death medical malpractice suit. But because of who she is, Christie was barred from even trying to prove her case. Instead, she was told that her marriage to the man she loved was not valid. Neither her husband nor she had done anything wrong, and they had followed all of the formalities. Simply because she was born a male, the court decided she can never be anything else; therefore, she could not have legally married her husband. The grieving widow was not only dis qualified from pursuing her lawsuit, but her marriage was invalidated.2 Cases like this are increasingly making their way into courts across the U.S., and judges are facing the decision of determining transsexuals indi


The resistance to MLSB antibiotics, i.e. Macrolide-Lincosamide-Streptogramin B (MLSB), is an increasing problem among Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci. The resistance to macrolides can be by efflux mechanism or via inducible or constitutive resistance. Unfortunately, routine clindamycin susceptibility testing fails to detect the inducible resistance, which commonly results in treatment failure and necessitates incorporating a simple D-test to detect such resistance. A retrospective observational study was performed on S. aureus isolates from patients. The strains were subjected to antibiotic susceptibility testing followed by detection of mecA gene by a polymerase chain reaction and, the 'D-test' was performed to know the inducible resistance to clindamycin. A total of 235 isolates were identified as S. aureus. Antibiotic susceptibility test indicated 190 MRSA and 45 are sensitive to MLSB (MS). Inducible clindamycin resistance was found among 48 (20.4%) isolates and constitutive resistance in 104 (44.2%). MRSA strains had higher inducible and constitutive resistance than MSSA strains (22.1%, 51.6% and 13.3%, 13.3%, respectively). Clindamycin is a commonly used antibiotic in patients with MRSA infections to spare higher-end anti-MRSA antibiotics like linezolid and vancomycin. To detect inducible clindamycin to avoid treatment failures; the study showed the importance of incorporating the D-test in routine testing.


The study analyzes the technique peculiarities of the strongest skiers at a 50-km distance during the World Championship 2015. The racers' skiing speed uphill, their ski gliding length and frequency, the angular characteristics of diagonal stride key phases were determined. Russian athletes' techniques were compared with that of Norwegian athletes; the criteria for economization of techniques over long distances were defined.


Guthrie (1948) classifies Mambwe as M15. The language is spoken in Mbala and Senga districts in Northern Province of Zambia. Nurse and Philipson (1999) have characterized Mambwe as originating from Fipa language in Southern Tanzania. The paper outlines the rules governing tense categorization and evaluates the verbal structure of tense in Mambwe language. The study employed the qualitative approach and elicitation methodology to collect data. Using descriptive and Lexical Morphology (LM) theoretical underpinnings, the article identifies the forms or categories of tense and their respective structures in Mambwe language. The study shows that tense in Mambwe language is as attested by other Bantu languages in terms of the present, past and the future tenses with their corresponding progressive counterparts.


Introduction: Pregnancy-associated stroke (PAS) is a rare event but is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Understanding racial disparities in outcomes may help improve care in susceptibl...


Genomic double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) becomes single-stranded (ssDNA) during replication, transcription, and DNA repair. ssDNA is therefore believed to be transient, occurring in only a fraction of the genome at a given time, and variable amongst a population of cells. These transiently formed ssDNA segments can also adopt alternative, dynamic DNA conformations, such as cruciform DNA, triplexes, quadruplexes and others. To determine whether there are stable and conserved regions of ssDNA, we utilized our previously developed method S1-END-seq 1 to convert ssDNA to DNA double strand breaks (DSBs), which are then processed for high-throughput sequencing. This approach revealed two predominant dynamic DNA structures: cruciform DNA formed by expanded (TA)n repeats that accumulated uniquely in microsatellite unstable human cancer cell lines, and DNA triplexes (H-DNA) formed by homopurine/homopyrimidine (hPu/hPy) mirror repeats common across a variety of human cell lines. Triplex-forming repeats accumulated during replication, blocked DNA synthesis and were hotspots of somatic mutation. In contrast, pathologically expanded (hPu/hPy) repeats in Friedreich's ataxia patient cells formed a replication-independent and transcription-inducible DNA secondary structure. Our results identify dynamic DNA secondary structures in vivo that contribute to elevated genome instability.


Since 2010, there have been significant improvements in the banking sector with the introduction of agency banking, an innovative delivery channel that seeks to bring access to financial services much closer to entrepreneurs. This study sought to find out the role of agency banking on the performance of entrepreneurs in Kibera, Nairobi. This research adopted a census survey study where a total population of 34 entrepreneurs were selected from Kibera. Data was collected and administered using structured questionnaires to the entrepreneurs. The study used descriptive data analysis tools to test and establish the relationship between agency banking and the role on entrepreneur's performance. Data analysis was done with the aid of SPSS software and results presented in form of table, pie charts and graphs. From the findings, the transaction costs like deposis costs, withdrawal cost was established and the result shows that twenty four respondents (70%) agreed that transaction cost affect the performance of agency banking. Fifteen respondents (44%) disagreed that regulation and policies affect the performance while fifteen respondents (44%) agreed with the same. On the issue of commission, 100% agreed that commission disbursement method does not affect the agency performance while twenty six respondents (76%) agreed that security affects the agency performance. In conclusion and recommendation, the study found out that poor security within Kibera negatively affect the agency performance, the time transactions take positively influence agency performance, regulations directly affect the performance of agent entrepreneurs, the agents agreed that the commissions offered do not have a direct effect on their performance and as a result there was need to abolish the deposit cost charged to clients to boost the performance of agency entrepreneurs and improvement on the commission given to the entrepreneurs. The Government should also boost security within the region and regulations such as float restrictions should be removed to enhance the agent entrepreneur's performance.


We have investigated the dependence of in-band incoherent crosstalk-induced power penalties on seed source in reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA)-based wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical networks (WDM-PONs). The in-band crosstalk penalties in an RSOA-based WDM-PON were measured with two different seed sources; a broadband light source (BLS) and a distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD). The 1-dB power penalties with a BLS seeded and a DFB-LD seeded RSOA source were observed when the crosstalk-to-signal ratios were ~ -14 and -16 dB, respectively. From the results, we found that the directly-modulated RSOA sources with a BLS or a DFB-LD seed source were more tolerant to the in-band crosstalk than an externally-modulated DFB-LD source. In addition, we confirmed that the in-band crosstalk-induced power penalty in the RSOA-based WDM-PONs could be calculated with a proper estimation of an equivalent optical source bandwidth.


The paper discusses quantities to characterize close-in phase noise performance of a locked tunable oscillator in low phase noise applications. It is shown that low phase noise of the oscillator is an inappropriate criterion for the oscillator selection. Correct target quantities are derived and discussed.


We investigate the possible reasons for the discrepancy between the theoretical two-photon ionization cross section, $\ensuremath{\sim}\phantom{\rule{-0.16em}{0ex}}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}56}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{4}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{s}$, of Ne${}^{8+}$ obtained within the perturbative nonrelativistic framework for monochromatic light [S. Novikov and A. Hopersky, J. Phys. B 34, 4857 (2001)] and the experimental value, $7\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}54}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{4}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{s}$, reported in [G. Doumy et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 083002 (2011)] at a photon energy of 1110 eV. To this end, we consider Ne${}^{8+}$ exposed to deterministic and chaotic ensembles of intense x-ray pulses. The time-dependent configuration interaction singles (TDCIS) method is used to quantitatively describe nonlinear ionization of Ne${}^{8+}$ induced by coherent intense ultrashort x-ray laser pulses. The impact of the bandwidth of a chaotic ensemble of x-ray pulses on the effective two-photon ionization cross section is studied within the lowest nonvanishing order of perturbation theory. We find that, at a bandwidth of 11 eV, the effective two-photon ionization cross section of Ne${}^{8+}$ at a photon energy of 1110 eV amounts to $5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}57}$ and $1.6\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}55}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{4}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{s}$ for a deterministic ensemble and a chaotic ensemble, respectively. We show that the enhancement obtained for a chaotic ensemble of pulses originates from the presence of the one-photon 1${s}^{2}$-1$s$4$p$ resonance located at 1127 eV. Using the TDCIS approach, we also show that, for currently available radiation intensities, two-photon ionization of a 1$s$ electron in neutral neon remains less probable than one-photon ionization of a valence electron.


Centring was done by interferometric measurement of surface height and the lens cells were assembled in plain diamond turned barrels; improvements in symmetry of about an order of magnitude over results previously reported were found.


The use of laser lead extraction (LLE) to remove pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads has become increasingly prevalent. This advanced technique has been shown to be highly effective and safe. We report a rare case of severe traumatic tricuspid regurgitation after LLE that led to death.


The present note examines the variants of the three first sequences of the eighteenth period (Mk 11,27–12,44) corresponding to the Seventh Section of the Gospel of
Mark (Mk 11,1–14,11) in Codex Bezae (D05), the greatest representative of the Western text, comparing it with the Alexandrian one, represented by Codex Vaticanus (B03)
and Codex Sinaiticus ()01). The Seventh Section consists of three periods: the cursing of the fig-tree and the cleansing of the Temple (XVII: 11,1-26: cf. RCatT 32/1 [2007] 205-226); the debate in the Temple between Jesus and the circles of leaders (XVIII: 11,27–12,44); and the prediction of the destruction of the Temple, the plot of the leaders against Jesus and Judas' offer to them (XIX: 13,1–14,11). Period XVIII is made up of seven sequences arranged in a linear pattern: A B C D E F G. At the end of this period, which takes place entirely in the Temple, the different religious and political groups reveal their intention to take Jesus by surprise in a question that they will put to him in order to match him out. In the first sequence, Mark
relates a new visit to the Temple by Jesus and the appearance of the three Sanhedrin groups (the High Priests, the scribes and the elders of the people) who will challenge his authority [A]; in the second, adopted from the Gospel of John, the scribes and the Pharisees appear the following day with a trap they have prepared, bringing to him a woman caught in adultery [B]; in the third, some Pharisees and Herodians have been sent to match him out by putting to him the question about taxes payable to Caesar [C]; in the fourth, it is the Sadducees who continue the questioning [D]; in the fifth, a scribe asks him about the principal commandment and acknowledges the rightness of Jesus' reply [E]; the penultimate sequence sees Jesus move to a counter-attack as he asks about the Messiah as the successor of David [F]; and finally, in the last one which is situated in the Treasury of the Temple, Jesus praises the generosity of the poor widow [G]. In the first six sequences [A–F], no mention is made of the disciples. Only in the last one [G] of this 18th period does Jesus, seated opposite the Treasury, call his disciples
(cf. 12,43) to draw their attention to the example of the widow. In the present note, we will examine the variants of the first three sequences (Seqs. 69–71 [A–C]). In the next note, we will complete the analysis of the tour remaining sequences of the 18th period.


Millimeter wave (mmWave) sensing has recently gained attention for its robustness in challenging environments. When visual sensors such as cameras fail to perform, mmWave radars can be used to provide reliable performance. However, the poor scattering performance and lack of texture in millimeter waves can make it difficult for radars to identify objects in some situations precisely. In this paper, we take insight from camera fiducials which are very easily identifiable by a camera, and present R-fiducial tags, which smartly augment the current infrastructure to enable myriad applications with mmwave radars. R-fiducial acts as fiducials for mmwave sensing, similar to camera fiducials, and can be reliably identified by a mmwave radar. We identify a set of requirements for millimeter wave fiducials and show how R-fiducial meets them all. R-fiducial uses a novel spread-spectrum modulation technique to provide low latency with high reliability. Our evaluations show that R-fiducial can be reliably detected with a 100% detection rate up to 25 meters with a 120-degree field of view and a few milliseconds of latency. We also conduct experiments and case studies in adverse and low visibility conditions to demonstrate the potential of R-fiducial in a variety of applications.


The invention discloses a network system for realizing integrated security services, which comprises the classification separation of data transmission, the security, confidentiality and the QoS (quality of service) guarantee of application services, the integrated security protection of the network system and network management. The network system has the advantage of integrated design of the data transmission, the security protection and application services, thereby constructing a high-efficient security network platform with the QoS guarantee capable of bearing various types of services. Integrated network security is to apply security protective measures in all aspects of network communication and make the security protective measures mutually cooperate and support to guarantee security performance and communication efficiency; and the integrated network services support integrated services such as voice, video, data and the like and guarantee security and QoS of various types of services.


The weakly interaction universally exists in actual quantum gases,the analytical expressions of chemical potential,pressure,trophy and heat capacity at a constant volume for actual quantum gases in the absence of external potential are derived using total energy deduced by pseudo potential method,then based on the derived expressions,the effects of inter-particle interaction on the properties of Fermi gas systems are discussed.


The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the significance of the activity run by philanthropic organizations in Poland for the benefit of society and the economy in the light of the social welfare of governmental organizations. Verification of hypotheses was conducted using different research methods: regression analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, trend analysis, and comparative analysis. The results did not demonstrate a significant relationship between local governments' expenditures on grants for philanthropic organizations fulfilling tasks on social welfare and local GDP. Despite the fact that the level of expenditure of public entities on social welfare goes up with the growth of the number of PBOs, as do their costs and revenues, the figures do not depend on each other.


Introduction In August, 2002, the Mexican Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB), together with the Fundación Este Pais, published the results of a national survey aimed at evaluating the culture and political practices of Mexicans. According to the survey, 45% of the surveyed expressed the belief that neither the citizens nor the authorities respected the law. Moreover, 71% of the surveyed replied "no" to the question "Do you believe that the people should obey the laws, even if they are unjust? To another question, 58% answered affirmatively to the question "Do you believe that the people can disobey a law if it is unjust? 2 Four years after the publication of this survey, the presidential candidate of the leftist coalition "Por el Bien de Todos" (For the Good of All) in the 2006 elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), was sworn in as the "Legitimate President of Mexico" in downtown Mexico City. In this act, Lopez Obrador and his followers called for the formation of a parallel


An endless belt (1) of the annular, made of a fluorine resin on the outermost layer of the endless belt 1, also the outer surface is provided with a release layer (2) made of a molding surface, and the endless belt (1) maximum provided with a supporting layer (6) to the inner layer, by a one endless belt having an elastic layer (4) between the outermost layer and the innermost layer, without curing the elastic layer of the endless belt used, etc. for the fixing of a color copying machine belt, a fluorine resin layer as a release layer on its outer surface can be formed by coating.


Objective:To study the clinical curative effect of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of drooping eyelids with myasthenia gravis.Methods:62 cases of drooping eyelids with myasthenia gravis in our hospital from February 2001 to May 2010 were randomly divided into research group and control group,each group had 31 cases.The patients of control group were given simply Western medicine.In research group,patients were given Rising Yang and Benefiting Stomach Decoction combined with Western medicine.The curative effect,recurrence,complications and side effects of two groups were compared.Results:The total effective rate of research group was 100.0% and 96.8% in control group,but there was no statistically significant difference between two groups(P0.05).The recurrence rate of control group was 25.8% which was higher than that in research group(3.2%),there was a statistically significant difference(P0.05).The rate of complication onset of research group was 6.5% which was lower than that in control group(35.5%),there was a statistically significant difference(P0.05).In the control group,there were 5 cases with granulocytopenia,3 cases with thrombocytopenia,3 cases with high aminotransferase;in research group,there was 1 case with granulocytopenia,no one with Thrombocytopenia or high aminotransferase,the differences were statistically significant between the two groups(P0.05).Conclusion:There was no obvious difference in curative effect between combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine and pure Western medicine in the treatment of drooping eyelids with myasthenia gravis.But combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment can obviously reduce the recurrence rate and the incidence of complications,and also reduce the side effects,so it is worth to use in clinical application.


Progress in introducing high-resolution electron microscopy at controlled elevated temperatures is described. Initial work involved the study of dynamic events in materials like cadmium telluride which can be heated to a sufficient degree by the imaging beam. However, for reproducible experiments the temperature must be carefully controlled and measured, and this involves a heating specimen holder. Results achieved recently this way on a variety of substances including CdTe, GaAs, Si, GaAs-Ti, GaAs-Ni, Si- Mo and Si-Ti, are reported. To derive information pertinent to bulk behavior both the manner of an in situ reaction and its kinetics should be compared with those for specimens prepared from macroscopic materials treated ex situ. For interface reactions in semiconductor materials it is found that events typical of the bulk can be recorded under high-resolution conditions in a large proportion of cases.


A data security is very important to be kept secret. Cryptography is a branch of science that contribute to security and confidentiality of the data. One of the methods used in cryptography is a hybrid encryption. That system of data security by combining the use of symmetric algorithms the key asymmetric algorithms. This thesis aims to increase knowledge and references on how algorithms work in securing a One Time Pad text data. And also how to work the Knapsack algorithm used in securing key algorithm of One Time Pad earlier. This discussion will result in an application that can be used to encrypt text data using symmetric algorithms are used at the same time securing key to encrypt it again using an asymmetric algorithm.


We develop and present effective PSFs for the F606W filter in the WFC, and then for five other filters. After briefly reviewing the concept of the effective PSF, we show that the WFC PSF varies with position in the detector. We represent the PSF by a 9×10 array of fiducial PSFs, between which a tailor-made PSF is to be interpolated for each star. Fitting these PSFs to star images gives photometry and astrometry with accuracies of 0.01 mag and 0.01 pixel, respectively, for well-exposed star images. We study short-term variability of the PSF and also study it over the history of ACS. The variability with time depends mainly on focus, and can be represented as a spatially fixed "perturbation PSF" for each image. We make FORTRAN programs available for generating our PSFs, for measuring star images with them, and for a number of related utility tasks.


Through the study of a series of important speech published on ecological civilization construction by General Secretary Xi Jinping,Combined with the project of the State Forestry Administration and the national development and Reform Commission "study on the second-phase construction planning ideas of comprehensive treatment of rocky desertification",from the dialectical angle to our country's the rocky desertification problem,the necessity and importance of promoting the treatment of rocky desertification,and the new understanding on the nature,guiding ideology,scientific method and target,etc. of the entire project. Then apply the new acknowledge to comprehensive desertification control in the second phase of the project planning,and point the clear direction for the second phase plannig of the project.


Monitoring traffic payloads to detect the occurrence of suspicious patterns has proven to be a useful and necessary tool for network security. Bit-splitting breaks the problem of monitoring payloads to detect such patterns into several parallel components, each of which searches for a particular bit pattern. We analyze bit-splitting as applied to Aho-Corasick style string matching and present a formal treatment of bit-slicing to prove correctness and to provide bounds on the NFA to DFA conversion of the Aho-Corasick type machine used for bit-splitting. The problem can be viewed as the recovery of a special class of regular languages over product alphabets from a collection of homomorphic images. Furthermore, in an attempt to extend the flexibility and applicability of the original bit-splitting algorithm, we explore the expressiveness and limitations of bit-slicing with respect to wildcard matching applications.


In the paper there is proposed a fuel converter that allows to save fuel, use low-octane gasoline, and reduce exhaust emissions to meet international standards EURO 4.


.35 mg of norethindrone was administered daily and continuously to 95 patients for a total of 728 cycles for contraceptive purposes. The minimum length of treatment was 2 cycles. There were 5 pregnancies of which 4 were attributed to failures on the part of the patients and only 1 to failure of the method. The drug was well tolerated. Weight changes were negligible (maximum approximately 300 gm). 19 patients reported nausea and only 1 vomiting; these symptoms were slight and treatment could be continued. The average duration of the intermenstrual period was 33.4 days. The menstrual flow increased in 8.9% of the cases decreased in 32.6% and remained unchanged in 58.5%; its duration increased in 23.8% decreased in 19.4% and remainedunchanged in 56.8%. Premenstrual syndrome symptoms were reduced in 93.7% of the cases. Dysmenorrhea was reduced in 69.4% of the cases (36 patients and 283 cycles) and worsened in only 5.6%. Intermenstrual bleeding occurred in 34 cases. The menstrual flow was absent in 5.1% of the cases. Side effects were very slight: dizziness (11 cycles out of 1243) headache (10) anorexia (4) nervousness (3) pyrosis drowsiness and pain in the lower limbs and in the iliac area (2 cycles). The drug is regarded as effective and safe.(Authors modified)


In this paper, we identify a new task for studying the outlying degree of high-dimensional data, i.e. finding the sub-spaces (subset of features) in which given points are out-liers, and propose a novel detection algorithm, called High-D Outlying subspace Detection (HighDOD). We measure the outlying degree of the point using the sum of distances between this point and its k nearest neighbors. Heuristic pruning strategies are proposed to realize fast pruning in the subspace search and an efficient dynamic subspace search method with a sample-based learning process has been implemented. Experimental results show that HighDOD is efficient and outperforms other searching alternatives such as the naive top-down, bottom-up and random search methods. 1 Introduction Outlier detection is a classic problem in data mining that enjoys a wide range of applications such as the detection of credit card frauds, criminal activities and exceptional patterns in databases. Outlier detection problem can be formulated as follows: Given a set of data points or objects, find a specific number of objects that are considerably dissimilar, exceptional and inconsistent with respect to the remaining data [5]. Numerous research works in outlier detection have been proposed to deal with the outlier detection problem defined above. They can broadly be divided into distance-based methods [7], [8], [11] and local density-based methods [4], [6], [10]. However, many of these out-lier detection algorithms are unable to deal with high-dimensional datasets efficiently as many of them only consider outliers in the entire space. This implies that they will miss out the important information about the subspaces in which these outliers exist. A recent trend in high-dimensional outlier detection is to use the evolutionary search method [2] where


In this paper the term "breeder" is discussed in its broader sertse. ln the narrow sense Haring and Gruhn (19?l) confines breeding to purebred animals only. Commercial cattle are "produced" and not bred. In the broader sense which I prefer, "breeding" is seen as the utilisation of total genetic variation provided by different breeds, additive genetic variation, dominance, overdominance, heterosis and combining ability to "breed" and .'produce" beef cattle, I therefore believe in the classical stnrcture of the industry having


In order to determine the change of their structural properties, this study carried out an ozone-treatment experiment on leachate, collected from the landfill area of D City in Chungcheongnam-do and examined the change of the chemical properties of non-biodegradable substances. The conclusions of this study are as follows. 1. Sixteen kinds of non-biodegradable compounds were found in the leachate and most of them had the characteristic of aromatic hydrocarbon. Among them dibutyl phthalate was identical with a substance included in the list of USEPA, which is classified as a mutagen that may cause the mutation of genes and disorders in chromosomes. In addition, 2,5-Cydohexadiene-1,4-dione, 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid and butyl octyl ester were found to be similar to substances listed by USEPA. 2. According to the result of analyzing the chemical change of non-biodegradable substances after ozonation, 15 kinds of compounds were observed after 10min of ozonation, which increased to 17 after 30min and again decreased to 13 after 60min. The decrease may be because ozone oxidizes organic matters by reacting with parts of weak molecular binding such as C-C double bond of and aromatic rings and decomposes them into aldehyde, simple organic matters and CO₂. 3. According to the result of analyzing structural changes before and after ozonation using GC-MS, cyclic compounds and aromatic compounds were observed in the original water and aliphatic compounds were newly observed after ozonation. In addition, through ozonation, humic substances of high molecular weight were oxidized and decomposed and produced low-molecular compounds such as aldehyde, ketone and carboxyl acid and highly biodegradable aliphatic carbon, which suggests the bio-degradability of non-biodegradable substances.


Thailand's second-leading cause of death is lung cancer. Thai indigenous herbal plants are sought after as an alternative treatment against lung cancer. This work aimed to examine cytotoxic, antiproliferative and antimigratory capacities of different parts of Streblus asper (SA) from northeastern Thailand on A549 lung cancer cells. Plant leaves, twigs, bark and wood were used for ethanolic extraction by maceration. The highest cytotoxicity of 85.46% was found in twig extract (IC50 57.46 µg/mL) assessed by an MTT assay. The lowest IC50 (18.42 µg/mL) was also found in twig extract using a clonogenic assay indicating its most antiproliferative activity in a long-term therapy. In addition, all SA extracts displayed antimigratory activity against A549 cells in a dose-dependent fashion, especially twig extract. Apoptotic characteristics were noticeable in SA extract treated cells. The maximum DPPH-scavenging activity, FRAP value, total phenolic and flavonoid content were found in twig extract. GC-MS analysis revealed that twig extract contained four prominent components namely ethyl-α-D-glucopyranoside, hexadecanoic acid, ethyl ester, lupeol and γ-sitosterol. Real-time PCR results showed that genes (Bcl-2, Bax, p21, and cytochrome c) linked to apoptosis were significantly affected by all SA extracts. The various SA components' ethanolic extracts exhibited moderate-to-high cytotoxic action towards A549 cells. This work will significantly advance the utilization of the plant as an alternative source of medicine for rural Thais, and it paves the way for future research to determine the active compound(s) and anticipate new drug candidates.


【Many precedent investigations hate been made for the reliable assessment of the insulation state of large power apparatus for which partial discharge detection is one of tile plausible way. In this work, experimental investigations have been carried out to make the comparison on the PD(partial discharge) pattern analysis related to the five different types of artificial defects such as SFMP (Single Free Moving Particle), MFMP (Multi Free Moving Particle), Void, CFP (Conductor-Fixed Protrusion), EP (Enclosure Protrusion). For each PD pattern, PD detection has been done by tee different types of PD sensors such as HFCT(High Frequency Current Transformer), AE(Acoustic Emission) and UHF(Ultra High Frequency). And, in addition, frequency spectrum by the UHF sensor has been also made for each defect respectively. As a result, it is observed that the possibility of obtaining PD pattern based on PRPD(Phase Resolved Partial Discharge) in connection with the defects tinder investigation is dependant on the type of the sensor while the spectrum analysis is always successful to be achieved for every defect. Therefore, it could be suggested that the nature of PD source can be identified more distinctively when the conventional PRPDA is combined with spectrum analysis.】


An older driver's questionnaire was administered in 1994-5 to 1780 drivers 54 to 99 years of age and a follow up questionnaire in 1996 to 395 drivers remaining from this group. Ages, socioeconomic status and location were very similar for the two samples. While the variation between individuals was considerable, estimates of weekly driving declined with age. Reduction in mileage with time was predicted by health status/decline in health status, and by decline in confidence in driving competence. The same factors indicated increasing use of public transport and transport provided by friends and relatives. Attitudes to other road users and to possible restrictions did not change with time. Most respondents reported that they valued their independence and would have difficulties if they had to give up their cars, especially if they cared for spouses with limited mobility.


Transition from mitosis to meiosis in cell division is a fundamental process of gametogenesis. This transition is thought to be largely controlled by the exchange of relative dominance between positive and negative regulation by the retinoic acid/Stra8 signal cascade and a non-canonical PRC1 (PRC1.6), respectively. We have previously demonstrated that germ cells have transcriptionally and/or post-translationally reduced levels of MAX, a component of PRC1.6, immediately prior to meiotic onset, leading to alleviation of the negative effect of PRC1.6 against meiotic onset. Here, we found that germ cells produced Mga variant mRNA bearing a premature termination codon (PTC) during meiosis as an additional mechanism to impede the function of PRC1.6. Our data indicated that spermatocytes and/or round spermatids produced an anomalous MGA protein lacking the bHLHZ domain from the variant mRNA and therefore functioned as a dominant negative regulator of PRC1.6 by exquisitely using their inefficient background of PTC-mediated nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Thus, our data indicate that meiotic onset of male germ cells is controlled in a multi-layered manner in which both MAX and MGA, which constitute the core of PRC1.6 by their interaction, are at least used as targets to deteriorate the integrity of the complex to ensure initiation of meiosis. Significance Statement PRC1.6, a non-canonical PRC1, functions as a strong blocker of meiotic onset. Therefore, germ cells need to alleviate the function of the complex as a prerequisite for meiotic onset. The MGA/MAX heterodimer not only constitutes a core of PRC1.6, but also confers direct DNA-binding activity to the complex. We have previously demonstrated that germ cells reduce Max amounts prior to meiotic onset to inactivate PRC1.6. In this study, we explored the possibility of an additional molecular mechanism that promotes meiotic onset via impediment of PRC1.6 functions as a safeguard system. Here, we demonstrate that meiotic germ cells specifically generate variant Mga mRNA by alternative splicing, which leads to production of a dominant negative regulator of PRC1.6.


In this work we present experimental data of the Flory binary interaction parameter, χ, of poly (ethylene adipate) PEA, a plasticizer material. We have...


Recent research has suggested that the discharge rate of traffic across the stop-line of signalized intersections is not constant (a conventional assumption when deriving saturation flow), but that it varies over the green time. Different studies have shown very different patterns of variation, but unfortunately the reasons for these differences have not been fully explained. This study compares previous results on the variability of the discharge rate over the green time, and then attempts to explain why different patterns are produced by different situations. Secondly, in order to give a more comprehensive picture of this phenomenon, a study is undertaken at four signals in a developing city ? Hanoi, Vietnam. It appears that the pattern of the discharge rate at signalized intersections depends on: (1) traffic composition; (2) proportion of turning vehicles; (3) length of green time; (4) type of operating signal control; (5) the number of vehicles actually stopping behind the stop-line; and (6) those simply decreasing their speed before crossing the stop-line. Furthermore, it seems that the period of time from the onset of green to the moment the discharge rate reaches a temporary stability or maximum value depends much on the proportion and manageability of the predominant type of vehicles at the head of the queue.


Mass media play an especially important role in democratic societies. They are presupposed to act as intermediary vehicles that reflect public opinion, respond to public concerns and make the electorate cognizant of state policies, important events and viewpoints. The fundamental principles of democracy depend upon the notion of a reasonably informed electorate. The `propaganda model' of media operations laid out and applied by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media postulates that elite media interlock with other institutional sectors in ownership, management and social circles, effectively circumscribing their ability to remain analytically detached from other dominant institutional sectors. The model argues that the net result of this is self-censorship without any significant coercion. Media, according to this framework, do not have to be controlled nor does their behaviour have to be patterned, as it is assumed that they are integral actors in class warfare, fully integrated into the institutional framework of society, and act in unison with other ideological sectors, i.e. the academy, to establish, enforce, reinforce and `police' corporate hegemony. It is not a surprise, then, given the interrelations of the state and corporate capitalism and the `ideological network', that the propaganda model has been dismissed as a `conspiracy theory' and condemned for its `overly deterministic' view of media behaviour. It is generally excluded from scholarly debates on patterns of media behaviour. This article provides a critical assessment and review of Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model and seeks to encourage scholarly debate regarding the relationship between corporate power and ideology. Highly descriptive in nature, the article is concerned with the question of whether media can be seen to play a hegemonic role in society oriented towards legitimization, political accommodation and ideological management.


The Plant Factory are technologies that have begun to be detonated since 1980 and over the years have evolved in anamazing way, providing technological tools that boost their capabilities such as Big Data, IoT, ubiquitous computing,among others. The software that operates the control algorithms for the operation of the controlled microenvironmentstations, is an essential core part for its optimal operation, thus the tools for the timely administration of the softwaredesign are key agents to guarantee a timely development of the interfaces. The present work exposes the case study ofthe risk analysis for a mini PFAL module, where the requirements analysis is established, exposition of the technicalresults of the PFAL system achieved, identification of the project problem, risk management process, process riskprojection; and finally, with the help of scatter and superimposition graphs, the latent risks of the system that areproposed to be assessed for the success of the project with a view to being part of a risk mitigation, monitoring andmanagement plan (MMMR) in future phases are concluded.


In April 2015, the efficiency of a system of low-sloping rack and bypass has been assessed for Atlantic salmon smolts at the small hydroelectric plant (HEP) of Auterrive on the Gave d'Oloron River (France ; turbine discharge: 7.8 m3.s-1 ; rack inclination: 26° relative to the horizontal ; bar spacing: 20 mm ; bypass discharge: 0.5 m3.s-1). 239 hatchery smolts (mean length 185 mm) were PIT-tagged and released 100 m upstream the HEP, in 5 groups at different times of the day. Their passages downstream the HEP by the bypass and as well by the fishpass for upstream migration were monitored with RFID antennae. On average 80.7% of smolts migrated through the HEP bypass and 3.8% of smolts descended through the fishpass. In total, 84.5% (min-max: 75.5-91.9%) of smolts migrated downstream the HEP via safe routes. 50% of them did it in less than 23 minutes since their release and 75% of them did it in less than 2 hours. Fish migration time was similar for afternoon, evening and night releases (median times between 19 and 21min), but was significantly longer when the fishes were released in the morning (median migration time: 3hours 17min). Our findings give credence to the recommended design criteria for low-sloping racks, which is the main solution implemented in France for small HEPs.


Aiming at the problem of coupling alignment, a dynamic alignment method based on laser method is proposed and verified by simulation. The design content mainly includes: the collection and processing of sensor current, the data processing of single chip microcomputer, the communication of upper computer and the writing of program. The results show that the designed alignment method can display the changes of various data in real time and monitor the alignment state of the coupling in time.


A backup battery protection system for protecting a backup battery supplying power to a load includes a switch unit and an overdischarge protection module. The switch unit switches power supplied by the backup battery to the load. The overdischarge protection module shuts down the switch unit to stop the backup battery from discharging when voltage of the backup battery is lower than a first preset voltage and starts the switch unit when voltage of the backup battery increases to be higher than a second preset voltage after the discharging stop. The backup battery protection system of the present invention compares the first voltage and the second voltage respectively with a reference voltage, and switches the switch unit according to the first comparison signal and the second comparison signal, then controls the on and off of the backup battery output to the load, resulting in an effective solution to the problems of battery life reduce caused by repeated power supply and load system instability.


New metal dithiocarbamate complex [(HOC2H4)2NCSS]2 Ni was synthesized by method of One-Pot synthesis and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectra, melting point. The crystal structure was determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction. Complex [(HOC2H4)2NCSS]2Ni is monoclinic with space group P2(1)/c. Lattice parameters: a=6.3798(8) Å, b=11.8298(14) Å, c=11.4586(13) Å, β=93.63(0) °. Parameter ratio: a/b=0.5393, b/c=1.0324, c/a=1.7961. The data agreed well with the structure determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction.


This research aims to study the effect of the days in week on the return of the stock price index, particularly in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). The daily closing prices of SET50 index from June 2, 2003 to June 2, 2017 are taken into account, i.e., there are totally 3,425 days. The stock returns of the 50 companies are calculated according to the daily historical stock prices of companies. Both descriptive and inferential statistics are employed in data analysis including average, standard deviation, multiple comparisons and multiple regression analysis. Applying ordinary least square method, the linear equation with five dummy variables is formulated for multiple regression analysis. The results show that the means of daily return rate of SET50 index are significantly different. Monday has a negative influence on the return rate of SET50 index whereas Friday has a positive influence at the significance level of 0.05. The return rate of SET50 index on Monday is lowest whilst Friday is highest during the week.


A lack of intrinsic motivation to practice speech is attributed to tedious and repetitive speech curriculums, but mobile games have been widely recognized as a valid motivator for jaded individuals. SpokeIt is an interactive storybook style speech therapy game that intends to turn practicing speech into a motivating and productive experience for individuals with speech impairments as well as provide speech therapists an important diagnostic tool. In this paper, I discuss the novel intellectual contributions SpokeIt can provide such as an offline critical conversational speech recognition system, and the application of therapy curriculums to mobile platforms, I present conducted research, and consider exciting future work and research directions.


I am disturbed by Perkins and Redfern's paper in the May 1996 Journal. The COLREGS have been developed over many years of tinkering and tuning. They are not designed only for educated European masters driving big merchant ships. The users; fishermen, yachtsmen, oarsmen, tugmasters, Rhine bargemasters, and Yangtse junkmen, etc, are from all educational standards and from all the world's cultures. The COLREGS are now well-known. There is such a huge investment of time and effort, of learning by millions of different people, that the prospect of tampering with their fundamentals is horrific, even if it would suit a small class of user belonging to the more advanced countries. Change is painful, and too much change, too fast, kills. Compare the practical decision not to change the side of the road on which we British drive: it might be convenient, but it would cost too much. The same applies to the COLREGS.


The faculty of department of pathology in West China School of Medicine have col-lected more than 3 000 gross specimens for 74 years.On the basis of them,they decide to construct pathology museum.The construction work includes the specimen showing classroom,the historic and cultural display board of our department,and the specimen exhibition hall.The completed pathology museum enriches the teaching source materials of pathology practice,and support the bilingual and foreign students'practice teaching,and also impels the practical teaching reform,and at the same time,it promotes department culture to make the department become an open base for the social public health education.


obtained to establish the phase diagram for the thoriumzinc system. Four compounds corresponding to the stoichiometric formulas Th/sub 2/Zn, ThZn/sub 2/, ThZn/sub 4/, and Th/sub 2/Zn/sub 1//sub 7/ were observed. The melting points of these compounds under constrained vapor conditions were found to be 1055, 1105, 1095 deg , and 1O15 deg C respectively. Four eutectics exist in thia system with the following eutectic temperatures and thorium contents in wt.%: 1040 deg C, 89 Th; 945 deg C, 79 Th; 1045 deg C, 55 Th; and 995 deg C, 35 Th. The standard free energy, enthalpy, and entropy of formation for the compounds were determined from zinc vapor pressure data. (auth)


Aim: To report the clinical courses of four adolescent patients, who developed childhood-onset schizophrenia and where art had a vital role in diagnosing schizophrenia, monitoring their clinical state and progression. Case report: All of the patients had several diagnoses throughout childhood; however, the final diagnosis was made with the help of art therapy. Following the changes in the content of our patients' drawings enabled us to notice the changes in their quality of life, functioning, and efficacy of therapy. Some of the patients specified that throughout the drawing process, they felt more satisfied, "better" and not "haunted" by their hallucinations. This acknowledgment assured us that creative expression through art is an appropriate approach for them. It also strengthened the therapeutic relationship with our patients and encouraged us to understand their disease and make better decisions about their treatment. Conclusions: We propose art as an assistive method in diagnosing schizophrenia. Art can break down communication barriers and can also serve as follow-up method for children and adolescent patients with schizophrenia.


This paper intends to express the importance of open education resources and to introduce the open education resources of Anadolu University, Turkey. The open education resource movement is especially important in emerging countries where higher education is still considered as a privilege due to shortage of available seats for everyone who would like to get in a university, where knowledge is still been considered as assets of professors, and where there are a few opportunities for people to improve themselves either in their profession or in general. Anadolu University as a dual mode university provides not only open education diploma programs but also open education resources to the Turkish citizens for almost thirty years. Second University, e-certificate, Yunus Emre, ANAPOD, Open Courseware are the major open education resources the University offers. The informal qualitative and quantitative evaluations have shown that a great number of people are benefiting from these resources.


This paper probes into some effective methods of conducting petroleum geology vocabulary teaching in colleges and universities of petroleum. In the process of professional English teaching,it is of vital importance for the students to grasp as many technical terms as possible. Based on his own teaching experience,the author proposes three methods for petroleum vocabulary teaching,namely,the explanation of word -formation,vocabulary translation and the context analysis.


The vaporization of Al 2 Te 3 was studied. The total vapor pressure was measured by the torsion-effusion method in the temperature range 1058-1163K. The temperature dependence is given by the equation : log(p/kPa) = (11.14 + 0.30)-(16900 ± 1000) (K/T). The standard enthalpy of the decomposition reaction: Al 2 Te 3 (s) = 2 Al(s) + 3/2 Te 2 (g), ΔH° m (298) = (505 ± 10) kJ/mol, an average of second- and third-law treatment of the results, was obtained. The derived heat of formation of Al2Te3, equal to ΔH f °(298) = (-260 ± 10) kJ/mol, lower than that quoted in literature, is discussed.


Approximately two thirds of those older than 60 years have a hypertension diagnosis. The aim of our program, Health Coaches for Hypertension Control, is to improve hypertension self-management among rural residents older than 60 years through education and support offered by trained community volunteers called Health Coaches. Participants received baseline and follow-up health risk appraisals with blood work, educational materials, and items such as blood pressure monitors and pedometers. Data were collected at baseline, 8 weeks, and 16 weeks on 146 participants who demonstrated statistically significant increases in hypertension-related knowledge from baseline to 8 weeks that persisted at 16 weeks, as well as significant improvements in stage of readiness to change behaviors and in actual behaviors. Furthermore, clinically significant decreases in all outcome measures were observed, with statistically significant changes in systolic blood pressure (−5.781 mmHg; p = .001), weight (−2.475 lb; p < .001), and glucose (−5.096 mg/dl; p = .004) after adjusting for multiple comparisons. Although 40.4% of participants met the Healthy People 2020 definition of controlled hypertension at baseline, the proportion of participants meeting this definition at 16 weeks postintervention increased to 51.0%. This article describes a university–community–hospital system model that effectively promotes hypertension self-management in a rural Appalachian community.


Twenty-three second graders and 20 fifth graders were interviewed about how gears move on a gearboard and work in commonplace machines. Questions focused on transmission of motion; direc- tion, plane, and speed of turning; and mechanical advantage. Several children believed that meshed gears turn in the same direction and at the same speed. Many second graders provided very incomplete expla- nations of transmission of motion. Most children confused mechanical advantage with speed. Yet as the interview proceeded, several fifth graders generalized conceptions about transmission of motion into a rule about turning direction. They increasingly justified their ideas about gear speed by referring to ratio. Chil- dren's reasoning became more general, formal, and mathematical as problem complexity increased, sug- gesting that mathematical forms of reasoning may develop when they provide a clear advantage over sim- ple causal generalizations. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 35: 3-25, 1998.


Human activity recognition aims to work out the activities performed by someone in a picture or video. Examples of actions are running, sitting, sleeping, and standing. Complex movement patterns and harmful occurrences like falling may be a part of these activities. The suggested ConvLSTM network can be created by successively combining fully connected layers, long immediate memory (LSTM) networks, and convolutional neural networks (CNN). The acquisition system will pre calculate skeleton coordinates using human detection and pose estimation from the image/video sequence. The ConvLSTM model builds new controlled features from the raw skeleton coordinates and their distinctive geometric and kinematic properties. Raw skeleton coordinates are utilized to generate geometric and kinematic properties supported by relative joint position values, joint differences, and their angular velocities. By utilizing a multi-player trained CNN-LSTM combination, novel spatiotemporal directed features can be obtained. The classification head with completely connected layers is then utilized. The suggested model was tested using the KinectHAR dataset, which consists of 130,000 samples with 81 attribute variables and was compiled using the Kinect (v2) sensor Experimental data is used to compare the performance of independent CNN and LSTM networks.


Recent research has shown that multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems provide high spectral efficiencies and error performance gains. However, the use of multiple antennas in mobile terminals may not be very practical. Certainly there is limited space and other implementation issues which make this a challenging problem. Therefore, to harness the diversity gains afforded by MIMO transmitter diversity techniques, while maintaining a minimal number of antennas on each handset, cooperative diversity techniques have been proposed. In addition, attention has also been given to combining wireless relaying systems with MIMO techniques to improve capacity, coverage, and obtain better diversity at the expense of increased node complexity. This thesis considers the design and analysis of cooperative diversity systems and MIMO amplify-and-forward relaying systems. In particular, we investigate adaptive timeand frequency-domain equalization techniques for cooperative diversity systems using space-time block codes (STBC). For MIMO relaying systems, we analyze the ergodic capacity of various systems and compare different amplify-and-forward methods in terms of system capacity performance. We propose a new block time-domain adaptive equalization structure for time reversal-space time block coding (TR-STBC) systems, which eliminates the separate decoder and also the need for explicit channel state information (CSI) estimation at the receiver. Our simulation results show that the time-domain adaptive block equalizer performs better than the frequency-domain counterpart but at the cost of increased complexity. Then, we extend this time-domain adaptive equalization scheme to distributed TR-STBC systems. We also develop a frequency-domain


A semiclassical model is presented for the calculation of energy spectra of one nucleon transfer reactions to continuum states. Both isolated and overlapping resonances can be discussed. The theory is applied to medium energy heavy-ion reactions and the calculated spectra show general trends in agreement with the experimental data.


Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are recurring events in Mediterranean coastal waters and can affect either large or smaller, more localized areas. HABs pose a threat to human health, marine ecosystems, and resources such as tourism, fisheries, and aquaculture. While some of the contributions of human activities to the recent increase in HAB incidence have been recognized, the exact causes of these blooms are still under debate. The present chapter provides an up-to-date and integrated perspective on harmful and toxic phytoplankton blooms in the Mediterranean Sea (MS), especially in relation to the human impacts and habitat changes that have occurred there during the past few decades. The earlier conceptual model of the MS described an oligotrophic sea with low values of phytoplankton biomass with a modest increase of biomass during seasonal phytoplankton blooms (late winter early spring) or in spatial structures as fronts, cyclonic gyres or in the deep chlorophyll maximum. Thus there was a low probability of high biomass bloom occurrence and maintenance in offshore waters. Based on our current knowledge of HABs, in coastal nearshore waters and in specific "hot spots," the levels of nutrient availability, phytoplankton abundance, and harmful algal species are recognized as being much higher than in open waters. The contemporary conceptual model takes into account the frequent small-scale and localized proliferations of microalgae in the coastal nearshore waters. Coastal HABs in the MS are diverse, highly localized, and either recur annually or emerge in a seemingly arbitrary manner, without a defined pattern. They may be of short duration (2 or 3 weeks) or prolonged (up to 2 months) depending on several factors which, individually or collectively, influence bloom dynamics. Thus, blooms are diverse and in some cases non-predictable. Seasonality is not a constant feature; while most blooms occur in the summer they may also appear in winter. Both the damage caused by these blooms and the lack of a clear understanding of their occurrence underline the importance of establishing appropriate monitoring systems to gain the knowledge needed to implement preventative as well as prophylactic measures aimed at Esther Garcés and Jordi Camp 520 impeding these outbreaks. Finally, we discuss the possible causes of the blooms in relation the human activities and habitat changes that have occurred in the MS coastal areas during the last few decades. An anthropogenic forcing of bloom increase can be specifically related to the modification of the MS natural coastline and a subsequent increase in the number and size of areas of confined water. This has been occurred mainly in the northern basin. The information will contribute to a more thorough assessment of the impacts of HABs on the ecosystems of the MS and thus what, if anything, can be done to alleviate these impacts.


This work examines fire incidents in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria between 2000 and 2010 by analyzing the trend and fitting appropriate stochastic time series model. It was observed that fire activities in the State have a declining trend. It was further discovered that the number of fire incidents in the State follows Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) Model of order (1, 0, 1) (1, 1, 1)12. Forecasts from the model show that the first month of the year, 2011, had the highest number of fire incidents. This was followed by steady declines in the number of such incidents in the first three months, fluctuations in the next six months and a steady rise in the last three months of the year. This implies that the declining trend observed in fire incidents in the State is not likely to be maintained all the time.


For twenty-five years, Educational Television (ETV) programs have been available to schools in Hong Kong through broadcasting and video tapes. Supporting materials including booklets of Teachers' Notes and Pupils' Notes are also produced and used together with the programs. The emergence of desktop video means that an ETV program together with the supporting teaching and learning materials can be converted into digital data, integrated into a courseware, and stored in a CD-ROM for easy retrieval. In addition, the advantages of interactivity, where a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate, can also be of use. This article reports the development of a courseware with full motion and full screen video stored in a CD-ROM by making use of the latest compression and decompression (CODEC) technology.


The complete molecule of the title compound, C26H38N2, is generated by a crystallographic inversion centre. The piperazine ring adopts a chair conformation with pseudo-equatorial substituents. In the crystal, molecules interact only by van der Waals forces.


The present invention relates to a particular method for forming a metal wire consisting of an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device as a liquid crystal display device. The invention constituting the metal wiring such as a gate wiring and a data line consisting of an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device with multi-layer of copper / moly alloy (Cu / Mo-alloy). Such a configuration, the improvement in the contact property by the copper-molly alloy (Cu) layer is first deposited layer does not occur deultteuneun poor, but that the surface of the substrate mowers by the etching solution during the process of etching the two layers . In addition, the molly alloy layer does not cause the poor fire resistance accuracy stronger than when using only the layer that Molly purifying each in the lower part of the copper layer. Accordingly, it is possible to eliminate the stain caused kkakyeo the substrate surface can be produced a liquid crystal display device with high definition, it is possible to prevent failure of the lifting wire has the advantage of improving the yield of products.


A sound effect, made on a generator, that mimics the sound of aeroplane engines when sitting inside a plane during embarkation.


As a new information technology science in recent years, GIS plays an important role in urban planning industry, and its application is becoming more and more extensive and in-depth. At present, the application of GIS technology in urban planning informationization mainly embodies in the aspects of database platform construction, information comprehensive service, three-dimensional assistant decision-making and dynamic monitoring of planning, etc. The main shortcomings and application prospects of GIS technology are studied and analyzed, and the urban digital planning system based on GIS technology is preliminarily established. The establishment of GIS-based urban planning platform is inseparable from the modeling of known geographical phenomena, that is, the completion of the establishment of geographic data model, which also involves the object-oriented method. The application of GIS technology has helped solve many problems encountered in urban planning and design, changed the situation that planners relied excessively on subjective experience to guide and guide the planning work, and made planning and design have more scientific and quantitative analysis methods for urban planning and construction. Have important reference value.


By analyzing the main technical indexes of women basketball matches in Beijing Olympic Games,it's found out that there exist obvious disparities of Chinese women basketball team,compared with American and Australian women basketball teams,in scoring,rebounds and steals,the reasons of which are due to the players' poor basic skills,simple tactics,weak tactic consciousness and inexperienced cooperation.Therefore,it is proposed that the scientific training methods should be introduced to the training of Chinese women basketball team,that the quality of domestic women basketball league should be improved and that more talented coaches and players should be sent to the American and European high level leagues to improve themselves.