In patients with technically adequate selective coronary arteriograms and left ventriculograms, a scoring system was used to grade the severity of coronary obstruction from 0 (no disease) to 15 (total obstruction of all three major coronary arteries). The median score in 75 consecutive cases was 10. Three hemodynamic measurements were examined in these patients; left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (EDP), end-diastolic volume (EDV) and residual fraction. Left ventricular volume estimates were derived from one-plane cineangiograms in the right anterior oblique view. These hemodynamic parameters (EDP, EDV and residual fraction) did not correlate significantly with the severity of coronary disease. However, in eight patients who had clinical evidence of congestive failure, all had abnormal value of EDP, EDV, and residual fraction. These same measurements were also abnormal in three patients without clinical evidence of failure; a fourth patient had an increase in residual fraction without other abnormality; this group of four patients have myocardial impairment without the congestive failure syndrome. All 12 patients with an increased residual fraction had akinesis or dyskinesis of the ventricular wall. As expected, EDV correlated well with residual fraction (r = 0.72) and worse with EDP (r = 0.44).


Western critics think Calvino is an influential Italian writer.In his works,the division between novels and poems disappeared and they were perfectly combined.His works' great impact on WANG Xiao-bo,a Chinese writer is as follows: first,WANG Xiao-bo introduces rhyme in novels;second,he uses poetic words;third,introduce poems directly to novels


The effects of fenoterol and salbutamol on the allergen-induced histamine release from leukocytes were compared. Leukocytes used in this study were obtained from 24 children with bronchial asthma who were judged by questioning and skin test to have the offending allergen. For measurement of histamine, Pruzansky and Patterson's method, a modification of Shore and Anton's technique, was applied. Fenoterol was superior to salbutamol in the rate of inhibition of the histamine release, no matter what stage in the process of histamine release the drug was added. Especially, the inhibitory rate of fenoterol was significantly higher than that of salbutamol in case where the drugs were added at the first stage. The inhibition rates of the two drugs on histamine release were compared in the range from 10-3M to 10-7M. The result was that the inhibitory rate of fenoterol was higher than that of salbutamol in any concentration, significant difference


To improve the weak piezoelectric excitation of lateral field excited (LFE) acoustic wave sensors in air, a novel bulk acoustic wave device, named pseudo LFE acoustic wave sensor, is proposed in this paper. The commercially available finite element software, COMSOL Multiphysics, is adopted to analyze pseudo LFE acoustic wave gas sensors and further calculate their sensitivities to electric conductivity variation of the polyisobutylene (PIB) sensing film. An AT-cut quartz plate with a thickness of 185 µm is chosen as the piezoelectric substrate due to its tiny temperature coefficient to frequency for thickness shear mode (TSM). After the mesh convergence analysis, a mesh level is decided for following calculations. In frequency response analysis, a bare pseudo LFE sensor shows a pure TSM and a stronger excitation than a bare LFE sensor. The experiments also verify this result. In sensitivity analysis, a gradual conductivity increase of the sensing film from 0 to 3 S/m causes a significant resonance frequency decrease of the pseudo LFE sensor. Besides, the pseudo LFE sensor exhibits an excellent sensitivity to the film conductivity variation, about 30 times as high as the QCM sensor. Finally, the electrode dimensions of pseudo LFE sensors are discussed for optimizing device performances. One can find ringed floating electrodes exhibit greater sensitivity than circular ones. Moreover, a larger gap width between the LFE electrodes also contributes to larger sensitivity but weakens piezoelectric excitation. The results conclude that the pseudo LFE sensor exhibits a satisfactorily large admittance and an excellent sensitivity to external electrical fluctuation.


The resonance of a dynamic tide with a free oscilla- tion mode in a component of a close binary system of stars is treated by means of a two-time variable expansion procedure. The treatment is developed with respect to a frame of reference corotating with the star. Both the free oscillation mode and the dynamic tide are considered as linear, isentropic perturbations of a spherically symmetric star. At the lowest order of approxi- mation in the small expansion parameter, the resonant dynamic tide corresponds to the tidally excited oscillation mode. Furthermore, the effect of the resonance on the secular ap- sidal motion is determined. A resonant dynamic tide can con- tribute to a much larger secular apsidal motion than the static tide and the non-resonant dynamic tides of the same degree can do. The contribution can be oriented in the sense opposite to the orbital motion as well as in the same sense. From numeri- cal applications to polytropic models, it appears that especially resonances of dynamic tides with an f -mode or a lower-order g + -mode bring about larger apsidal motions. In this context, the determination of the contributions to the secular apsidal motion stemming from the static tides and the non-resonant dynamic tides is reviewed. Sterne's theory (1939) for the effect of the tidal distortion on the apsidal motion in close binary stars, which is used as standard theory, is also re- considered. The theory is shown to rest on the consideration of non-resonant, low-frequency dynamic tides taken in their lowest-order asymptotic representation.


The matrix-valued Aharonov–Casher phase factor FAC (related to the c-number Aharonov–Casher phase λAC) plays an important role in the physics of mesoscopic systems in which spin–orbit coupling is r...


The present invention relates to a memory controller and an operating method thereof and, more specifically, the operating method thereof comprising the steps of determining access attributes in address areas to be accessed; and controlling threshold voltage distribution of memory cells included in the address area as a result of the determined access attribute. More specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the access attribute comprises a first type in which the frequency of a program access and an erase access is high; and a second type in which the frequency of a read access is high.


In this paper we give an elementary method to study an inverse scattering problem for a pair of Hamiltonians (H(h), H0(h)) on L 2 (IR n ), where H0(h) = - h 2 ∆, H(h) = H0(h) + V, and V is a short-range potential. We show that, in dimension  ] , ( ); (


The development and maintenance of modern information systems, that are getting more and more complex and, at the same time, require a high flexibility, is a great challenge for current information and communication technology. One contribution is the usage of a rule-based specification mechanism that allows the compact and declarative description of complex situations. One such rule language is given by normal logic programs. The well-founded semantics has been accepted as the most relevant semantics for logic-based information systems. It assigns a unique (partial) model to every normal logic program, i.e., it allows specifications using any kind of recursion including cyclic positive and negative dependencies. Further, the time complexity of computing the well-founded model of a given intensional database is polynomial in the size of the extensional database. Several evaluation methods for the well-founded semantics are known. Each of these approaches has its advantages and disadvantages. Thus, for practical applications it will not be sufficient to select one static evaluation algorithm and apply it uniformly to any kind of application. However, it is difficult to combine evaluation methods because they all are based on different data structures, applicable to different classes of programs, or whose control strategies are not compatible. In this work we present a framework based on a set of program transformationsthat generalizes all major computation approaches using a common data structure and provides a common language to describe their evaluation strategy. We allow strategies from set-oriented bottom-up to single-answer top-down or any combination in this range just by rearranging the order of program transformations using an intuitive regular expression like specification syntax. Leveraged by our framework, we are able to analyze and compare known methods on a high level of abstraction. The advantages of the methods can be identified and new algorithms can be composed that combine the strengths of several separate approaches. For instance, we show how to optimize the alternating fixpoint procedure as the most prominent bottom-up method together with its extensions for magic set transformed programs. We can also realize the search strategies available within the SLGapproach, the most prominent top-down method, and even extend it by allowing the activation of more than one body literal at a time.


Both alcohol abuse and liver cirrhosis are known risk factors for various cancers. This article was aimed to assess the long‐term risk of malignancies among patients with severe alcoholic liver disease (ALD), i.e., alcoholic liver cirrhosis and alcoholic hepatitis. A cohort of 8,796 male and 3,077 female ALD patients from 1996 to 2012 was identified from the Finnish National Hospital Discharge Register. This nationwide cohort was combined with the data from the Finnish Cancer Registry for incidence of malignancies during the years 1996–2013. The cancer cases diagnosed were compared with the number of cancers in the general population. The number of malignancies in our cohort was 1,052 vs. 368 expected. There was statistically significant excess of cancers of the liver, (standardized incidence ratio [SIR] 59.20; 95% CI 53.11–65.61), pancreas (SIR 3.71; 95% CI 2.72–4.94), pharynx (SIR 9.25; 95% CI 6.05–13.56), mouth (SIR 8.31; 95% CI 4.84–13,29), oesophagus (SIR 7.92; 95% CI 5.49–11.07), tongue (SIR 7,21; 95% CI 3.60–12.89), larynx (SIR 5.20; 95% CI 2.77–8.89), lung (SIR 2.77; 95% CI 2.27–3.32), stomach (SIR 2.76; 95% CI 1.79–4.07), kidney (SIR 2.69; 95% CI 1.84–3.79) and colon (SIR 2.33; 95% CI 1.70–3.11). There was no decreased risk of any cancer among ALD patients. Severe ALD is associated with markedly increased risk of malignancies. The risk is especially high for hepatocellular carcinoma, but also significantly increased for cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract, pancreas and kidneys, and warrants cancer surveillance in selected cases.


In December 2011, a 42-year-old woman was referred to our department. The patient was previously diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2009. She received 6 courses of chemotherapy after having breast tumor resection, and achieved complete remission (CR) after chemotherapy. Then tamoxifen was given for 6 months as a subsequent endocrine therapy. In September 2011, the patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia-M2 (AML-M2) due to a fever of 39.0. The routine blood test indicated that the white blood count(WBC) was 43.67×109/L, absolute neutrophil count (ANC) was 0.8×109/L, hemoglobin was 57 g/L, platelets count was 22×109/L, and the myeloblasts accounted for 48% in the peripheral blood as well as 79% in the bone marrow.


The growing complexity of software systems is resulting in an increasing number of software faults. According to the literature, software faults are becoming one of the main sources of unplanned system outages, and have an important impact over company benefits and image. For this reason, a lot of techniques (such as clustering, failover techniques, or server redundancy) have been proposed to avoiding software failures, however they still happen. They can be divided in three categories: permanent, intermittent and transient failures. The first type are easy to fix, but the other two categories are difficult to reproduce and fix, and become a real problem for developers and system administrators. Here we propose a new framework for predicting in real time the time until crash of a clustered application, using machine learning techniques. Our framework allows recovery of the potentially crashing server using a clean automatic recovery and avoiding losses of new or on-going user requests. Furthermore, our framework offers a valuable feedback to the developers by assigning suspicion levels (of provoking the crash) to every component of the application. We have tested our framework in a three-tier web J2EE clustered application achieving promising results.


Background Data from national health management information systems (HMIS) are essential for routinely tracking progress toward national and subnational objectives, programmatic decision-making, planning and review, and ultimately to improve quality of care. It is through an in-depth understanding of the data elements captured in patient registers, as building blocks of national HMIS indicators, that it is possible to improve standardization in data collection and measurement of key indicators to help track progress towards achieving maternal and newborn health goals. Methods and findings This analysis was done through a review of antenatal (ANC), childbirth and postnatal (PNC) registers from 21 countries across five world regions. Between July and October 2020, various country-based maternal and newborn experts, implementing agencies, program managers, and ministries of health personnel were contacted and requested to share the current versions of the registers. Both paper-based and electronic registers were obtained. Twenty ANC registers, eighteen childbirth and thirteen PNC were analyzed. Both longitudinal and cross-sectional ANC and PNC registers were reviewed, while the childbirth registers included in the review were all cross-sectional. For the ANC registers 11/20 (55%) and for PNC registers 7/13 (54%) were longitudinal. In four countries the registers were electronic (Norway, Sweden, USA, West-Bank - Palestine), while the rest was paper-based. There was great variation in the number of data elements included from each register reviewed ranging from 24 in Nepals childbirth register to 188 in Eswatinis ANC register. These findings are presented in four broad categories (Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postnatal care, and Mortality outcomes), with subheadings in each category. Conclusion This analysis highlights some areas in where there are data gaps as we work to reduce preventable maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths and deliver high-quality, equitable care. Programme managers and health workers need this data to monitor the performance of their national health system and to guide the continuous improvement of health care services for women and newborns. The results of this analysis will complement additional work and help to inform the standardization of pregnancy and childbirth registers and provide information for other countries seeking to introduce indicators in their health systems.


The Asia Pacific region has significantly changed in the past five years, with both economic and physical security issues coming to the fore. These changes make international cooperation more important, but international cooperation requires strong and effective nation-states as the basic building blocks of the global order. Some Asia and Pacific nations are firmly established as nations, but others still lack a strong sense of national identity. Virtually all the states in Asia are relative new, having been created in the past 5 to 6 decades, and many basic constitutional and institutional issues have not been fully resolved. Globalization further challenges Asia's evolving nation-states. The terrorist threat has added to insecurity in the region. Several root causes of terrorism can be identified, and there are a number of other aggravating factors. In seeking to address problems relating to international cooperation, weak nation-states, globalization and terrorism, East-West studies become even more relevant and problemand policyoriented. I want to express my gratitude to Hong Kong Baptist University and its David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies for inviting me to join you for this important conference on East-West Studies. The mission of the Lam Institute – to promote EastWest cultural dialogue – is nearly the same as that of the mission of the East-West Center, which seeks to build understanding and relations across and around the Pacific through cooperative study, training and research. For that reason alone, it is very valuable to come here, both to explore with you the broader field of Asia-Pacific studies and to 1 A Keynote address given at the International Workshop on East-West Studies, produced by the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) and the Wing Lung Bank International Institute for Business Development (IIBD) at Hong Kong Baptist University on 21 November 2002. LEWI Working Paper Series 2 discuss ways in which we can work together more closely in achieving important common objectives. To some, our missions of building East-West understanding may sound old fashioned in an age of globalization, when many of the differences across nations are being fuzzed over by a globalizing economy, by growing networks of international norms, rules, and practices, and in the popular conception at least by the acceptance of cultural convergence. But I concur with the basic premise underlying this conference – that globalization makes intercultural research and dialogue all the more relevant and challenging. The rise of international terrorism, an aspect of globalization, only reinforces this conclusion. A World Transformed Let me began with some historical context. I want to turn back the clock, but not very far – just to the eve of Hong Kong's reversion of sovereignty in 1997. This was only a little more than a half decade ago, but in those five and a half years our world has significantly changed. The Asia Pacific region was then enjoying the sunny side of globalization as capital flowed in and exports poured out, resulting in double digit or near double digit growth in many East and Southeast Asian economies, with the notable exception of Japan. While there were some prominent opponents of globalization, the political balance of forces generally favored continued freer trade and capital movements and projects. In 1994, the region's leaders had committed themselves to APEC's Bogor Vision calling for creation of free trade and investment in the region by 2010 for developed countries and no later than 2020 for all countries, and the forward movement LEWI Working Paper Series 3 of APEC continued with the 1995 Osaka Action Agenda and the 1996 Manila APEC Plan of Action. The Asia Pacific security outlook also appeared relatively benign as indicated by the smooth transition in Hong Kong. Sino-American relations had their ups and downs in the mid-1990s, but there had been a significant warming trend following the 1996 Taiwan Straits crisis. In fact, a then senior Pentagon official now heading Harvard University's Kennedy School, Joseph S. Nye, expressed concern that the peoples of the region might be a little too complacent about their security. Security is like oxygen, he warned, you don't think about it until it disappears. There was a threat of terrorism, but at least in Asia and the Pacific, it seemed locally nurtured and locally focused. I mention this time only to show how much our world has changed in only a few short years. In 1998 George Bush and Brent Scowcroft published A World Transformed, an account of the end of the Cold War in the 1989-91 period. The world was transformed then, but it was continuing to transform almost as dramatically even as Bush and Scowcroft were writing their book. In Asia, the most important transformations did not come with the end of the Cold War, but afterwards. Only hours after Hong Kong's sovereignty reversion, the Asia economic crisis began with the floating of the Thai baht. The economic crisis, like the bubble that preceded it, was a crisis of globalization. World capital fled even more quickly than it had rushed in, and suddenly Asia was experiencing the dark side of globalization. The economic crisis also let much of the air out of the APEC balloon. At the November 1997 APEC leaders meeting in Vancouver, Bill Clinton optimistically described the crisis as a "blip" that should not affect the success of the Asian economies or of APEC. In fact, LEWI Working Paper Series 4 APEC and other forms of international cooperation were important in ensuring that the crisis did not get worse and did not unravel the free trade gains that had been made in earlier years, but there is little talk today about the Bogor vision. While many in Asia were disappointed with APEC's performance and looked for other venues for cooperation, each of the alternatives also had its own problems. Politics and security were also affected. The economic crisis caused a loss of confidence in government, the most significant casualty being the Indonesian government of President Suharto, which collapsed in 1998. The collapse precipitated the destruction and independence of East Timor, an upsurge in ethnic conflict throughout the archipelago, and heightened violence in the long-simmering provinces of Aceh and West Papua. But Suharto was not alone. In the first two-three years following the crisis, a number of the region's other leaders faced serious political challenges. Some, such as Thailand's Chavalit Yongchaiyadh and the Philippines' Joseph Estrada, were removed from office, while others, such as Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamed and Taiwan's Chen Shui-bien, survived. Extremists also sensed and sought to exploit the weaknesses of the established governments, a fact which has recently become increasingly evident. Only a year ago, according to the participants at our Asia Pacific Security Outlook annual workshop, many in Asia thought of the war on terrorism as America's war, as not directly affecting them, although indirectly affecting them through the reaction of the United States. But this year's workshop, held two weeks ago in Kuala Lumpur, showed that following the Bali bombing, there is a strong belief that terrorists may strike in any vulnerable location. If it were true that security is like oxygen, oxygen is not taken for granted today. LEWI Working Paper Series 5 Some countries have been more insulated from the economic, political and security turbulence than others, but none can be totally isolated. Recent events confirm the reality of globalization and the fragile interdependencies that connect our world. Who would have thought that a policy decision by a central bank in a medium-sized Asian economy, Thailand, could have touched off a region-wide crisis and threatened a global economic bust? Certainly not the U.S. government, which initially regard Thailand's difficulties as local in nature and which did not bother to contribute to the first economic rescue package. Who could have imagined that the terrorist network, based in the ruins of Afghanistan, could have engineered the most destructive attack on American soil in sixty years using the most primitive weapons to commandeer airplanes? Certainly not the American authorities. Further, who could have thought that those attacks in New York and Washington would kill nationals of more than eighty nations, including several hundred Muslims? Certainly not the terrorists. Asia Pacific Nation-States Globalization, whether of trade, of capital, or of terror, requires an unprecedented degree of international cooperation. As in any cooperation, international cooperation requires reliable partners, partners who can make commitments with confidence and who are able to implement their pledges. In the international arena, the decision-making and implementing units are nation-states; unless these units are strong and effective, international cooperation will be weak. When we read or hear the name of a country in our media – China, the United States, Thailand, Indonesia – they sound very much alike. Indeed, in the crudest forms of LEWI Working Paper Series 6 the realpolitik model of international relations, nation-states are likened to billiard balls. They may be of different weights and sizes and be placed in different locations, but all have hard shells and are essentially similar. In the real world, we know that nations are porous and very different from one another in many ways. Looking at the nation-states in our region provides some insights into some of the political and international cooperation challenges of Asia and the Pacific. It is useful to consider the concepts of nation and state separately. A nation is a group of people with a strong sense of shared history, a common identity, and often some highly visible, distinctive cultural characteristic such as ethnicity, language, or religion. In Asia Pacific, we find such nations mainly


This thesis develops econometric models of departure time and travel mode choice to evaluate dynamic transportation policies. Dynamic policies affect travel attributes differently throughout the day. Both departure time and mode choice are modelled with Random Utility Maximizing (RUM) Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) discrete choice models that capture systematic and random heterogeneity. Departure time is represented by a heteroskedastic generalized extreme value model (Het-GEV) with overlapping choice sets. Studying the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), models are estimated using Revealed Preference (RP) household travel data from the 2006 Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS). Empirical models are used to evaluate dynamic transit and road pricing policies. Results indicate that the models are capable of capturing mode and time switching behaviour in response to peak pricing policies. To alleviate demand while maintaining transit mode share, a road charge and a moderate, flat, transit fare increase throughout the morning peak are recommended.


Relapse is highly prevalent after detoxification and depression. Due to the advantages of venlafaxine compared with other antidepressants, it is expected that venlafaxine administration may reduce relapse after detoxification and depression. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of venlafaxine on depression-induced relapse to morphine dependence after methadone detoxification. Eighty Sprague-Dawley rats were habituated and conditioned with morphine (10 mg/kg, S.C., for 4 days). After that, primary forced swimming and conditioned place preference (CPP) were tested. They were followed by methadone (70 mg/kg/day, P.O., for 7 days) administration, extinguishing, forced swimming stress (FSS) and administration of venlafaxine (80 mg/kg/day, I.P., for 7 days). Finally same tests were performed. Administration of venlafaxine resulted in a decrement in final preference scores associated with a prime morphine injection (PMI) compared to the primary scores in methadone treated (MTD+) animals. In a swimming test, venlafaxine increased the amount of final floating and decreased final activity scores compared with the primary scores after administration of methadone. Venlafaxine reduced locomotor activity in MTD+ animals in the final test with PMI. There was a positive correlation between the final activity and preference scores after PMI. In conclusion, venlafaxine improved anxiety and depression-induced relapse on methadone detoxified rats.


Nonlinear optical techniques and in particular two photon excited fluorescence imaging1 have emerged as powerful tools for deep tissue imaging with subcellular resolution2, brain mapping3 and 3D printing4. At the same time, fluorescent lifetime imaging5 probes internal biochemical interactions and external environment of a molecule useful for DNA sequencing6, detection of tumour margins necessary for successful surgical removal7, and quantifying cellular energy metabolism in living cells8. To image fast dynamic processes such as biological cells in flow or neural activities, these methods must provide frame rates beyond 1000Hz. However, achieving high speed is challenged by lower efficiency of nonlinear vs. linear processes requiring illumination with a high-intensity tightly-focused beam that is scanned over sample area. The scanning is typically done with mechanical scanners the speed of which limits the frame rate. Acousto-optic scanners9 provide an intermediate solution however the frame rate is limited by the acoustic velocity leading to a trade-off between resolution and speed. Here we report on a new tool for high-speed non-linear imaging and demonstrate its utility in two photon fluorescence1 and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM)5. A rapidly wavelength-swept Fourier-Domain Mode-Locked (FDML)10 laser with digitally synthesized electro-optic modulation in a master oscillator-power amplifier configuration is combined with spectral encoding to eliminate the speed limitations of inertial scanning and achieve single-shot imaging. We demonstrate lifetime imaging with 2kHz frame-rate (88MHz pixel rate) - a record for both FLIM and two-photon FLIM. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of spectrally encoded multiphoton imaging. SEE FULL ABSTRACT IN PDF.


Research on the financial audit as a tool for accounting and financial control in the company ALPROBIS CIA. LTDA., 2013 period, same which is located in the city of Quito, Pichincha Province, with a duration of one hundred and eighty days, which aims to "Performing the financial audit as a tool for accounting and financial control in the company Alprobis Cia. Ltda. 2013 period ".

Scientific methods, inductive, deductive, and the types of field research and achieving bibliographic answer the question posed by this research were used. Instruments like to know the company interviews and questionnaires to implement internal control and thus lead to establish the level of trust and risk, same as was applied to three members of the company sampled based on a population.

Once the information is obtained by collecting the instruments could be detected that the company has shortcoming in different areas; Lack of functions, policies, values and regulations applying these indicators demonstrate solidest 0.85 and a gain of 4.45% which suggests that through knowledge of the internal control staff will acquire responsibilities and organization in the company.


Objective:To compare the efficacy of Chinese medcial herb and fluoxetine in the treatment of depression.Methods: 126 patients with depression were randomly assigned to Chinese medical herb group and fluoxetine group for 4 weeks.The efficacy was evaluated with Hamilton depression scale(HAMD).The side effects was evaluated with treatment emergent symptoms scale(TESS).Results:The total score of HAMD and clinical efficacy in fluoxetine group was significantly lower than that in Chinese medicial herb group after 4 weeks.The side effects in Chinese medical herb group was significantly lower than that in fluoxetine group after 4 weeks.Conclusion:The combinative treatment of Chinese medicine herb and fluoxetine has a good effect on depression.The Chinese medicine herb can confrontation depression side effects.


This paper presents a method for integrating synthetic objects in real-world photographs. We take a set of photographs of a real scene and build a simple image-based model. We use high dynamic range images to build an accurate representation of the lighting in the scene. Then we insert a synthetic object into the model and compute its illumination and shading using the lighting information. Illumination changes produced by the synthetic object are also applied to the background plane in the real-world photograph. We show how easy it is to achieve photorealistic results without specialized hardware. Our approach takes advantage of techniques like automatic camera calibration, high-dynamic range image capture and image-based lighting. We show preliminary results obtained with our application. We also present two improvements that we are currently studying. They are aimed at improving the quality of the resulting images and decreasing the computational resources needed by the process.


The tidal resource is large in north-western European waters and a number of axial flow, vertical rotor and oscillating hydroplane schemes are approaching full-scale design and construction. However, the intermittency of the output from such devices that only generate electricity during the flood and ebb suggests that back-up generating capacity would be required with the associated inbuilt redundancy. Basic, shallow water tidal theory is reviewed and it is shown that carefully sized tidal stream installations in the Clyde, Tees, Humber, Severn, Menai Straits and the Mersey can utilise the phase locked occurrence of tidal flow and provide a more or less regular and continuous supply of electrical power to the National Grid. Estimates are given for the required capacity of the installations and a scheme is proposed by which an installed capacity of little more than, for example, 200 MW can provide a continuous supply of about 45 MW from these sites, thus achieving a significant and uninterrupted contribution to the Government's 2010 and 2020 targets.


This study examines how different governance modes for external business development activities and venture relatedness affect a firm's innovative performance. Building on research suggesting that interorganizational relationships enhance the innovative performance of firms, we propose that governance modes and venture relatedness interact in their effect on innovative performance. Analyzing a panel of the largest firms in four information and communication technology sectors, we find that degree of relatedness for corporate venture capital investments, alliances, joint ventures, and acquisitions influences their impact on innovative performance. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The invention discloses a disposable circumcision anastomat and driver combined structure. The disposable circumcision anastomat and driver combined structure comprises a disposable circumcision anastomat and a driver which are used in cooperation. The disposable circumcision anastomat comprises an inner ring, the driver is provided with a fixing sleeve used for being arranged on the inner ring in a sleeved mode, and the fixing sleeve is sleeved with the inner ring. The disposable circumcision anastomat and driver combined structure is characterized in that the inner ring is provided with a first marking structure, the driver is provided with a second marking structure, and the first marking structure is matched with the second marking structure so that the correct relative positions of the inner ring and the driver can be determined. Through the technical scheme, when the inner ring is arranged in the sleeved mode, the work content of manual comparison can be omitted, and the inner ring sleeving process becomes more standardized and accurate.


We consider the problem of assessing the value of demand sharing in a multistage supply chain in which the retailer observes stationary autoregressive moving average demand with Gaussian white noise (shocks). Similar to previous research, we assume each supply chain player constructs its best linear forecast of the leadtime demand and uses it to determine the order quantity via a periodic review myopic order‐up‐to policy. We demonstrate how a typical supply chain player can determine the extent of its available information in the presence of demand sharing by studying the properties of the moving average polynomials of adjacent supply chain players. The retailer's demand is driven by the random shocks appearing in the autoregressive moving average representation for its demand. Under the assumptions we will make in this article, to the retailer, knowing the shock information is equivalent to knowing the demand process (assuming that the model parameters are also known). Thus (in the event of sharing) the retailer's demand sequence and shock sequence would contain the same information to the retailer's supplier. We will show that, once we consider the dynamics of demand propagation further up the chain, it may be that a player's demand and shock sequences will contain different levels of information for an upstream player. Hence, we study how a player can determine its available information under demand sharing, and use this information to forecast leadtime demand. We characterize the value of demand sharing for a typical supply chain player. Furthermore, we show conditions under which (i) it is equivalent to no sharing, (ii) it is equivalent to full information shock sharing, and (iii) it is intermediate in value to the two previously described arrangements. Although it follows from existing literature that demand sharing is equivalent to full information shock sharing between a retailer and supplier, we demonstrate and characterize when this result does not generalize to upstream supply chain players. We then show that demand propagates through a supply chain where any player may share nothing, its demand, or its full information shocks (FIS) with an adjacent upstream player as quasi‐ARMA in—quasi‐ARMA out. We also provide a convenient form for the propagation of demand in a supply chain that will lend itself to future research applications. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 515–531, 2014


Closely bound up with the times are the practice and influence of modern, literary man's paintings, in which the literary man's particular aesthetic interest and spirit of personality accomplishment is far superior to being a single Ian-scape description. Permeating them are the aesthetic forms and thought expressions of modern Chinese literary man's paintings, which possess fairly high artistic value and aesthetic penetrability.


A common observation in clinically detected breast cancers and even in screening-detected cases is that a relevant percentage of tumors small in size (≤20 mm) are already nodal positive, i.e. , at advanced stage [(1)][1] . On the other hand, other tumors are still nodal negative, although already


We have developed a simple model to simulate the clusters formation in laser-ablated plume in an ambient atmosphere of inert gas. The model uses the reaction-rate theory as applied to quantum oscillators in conjunction with transition state theory to synthesize and optimize the nanoparticles in the ablated plume. The evolution of cluster size is obtained by incorporating diffusion of ambient gas into an adiabatically expanding plume. Various rate constants of clustering reactions are calculated using collision rate and transition state theory. We have used the model to simulate the spatial and temporal extents of silicon nanoparticle formation in laser-ablated silicon plume generated using 248- and 532-nm irradiation in ambient atmosphere of argon. The model predicts the onset time of 3 ms with 248 nm and 1.0 Torr of argon and 2.0, 1.2, and 0.6 ms with 532-nm irradiation and argon background at 2, 5, and 10 Torr, respectively, for 1-nm clusters of silicon. The concentration of clusters decreases with an i...


Article history: Received: 8th Sept. 2020 Accepted: 5th Apr. 2021 In a hadron collider like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the dimuon channel provides an ideal tool for the discovery of many predicted particles from Beyond Standard Model (BSM) theories such as high mass resonant, or non-resonant states. The high mass resonances like Z' and the high mass non-resonant like contact interactions or extra dimensions should appear in the high mass tail of dimuon distributions. The Drell-Yan process is the main source of high mass opposite sign muon pairs in the Standard Model (SM) which act as the irreducible background of signals of the above mentioned BSM models in proton-proton collisions. Therefore, it is important to study with the highest possible accuracy the Drell-Yan process. In this paper, the expectations of the Drell-Yan process in the dimuon channel at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD and next-to-leading order in the electroweak corrections are studied in detail. In the present study, a typical generic detector acceptance such as CMS or ATLAS at the LHC at center of mass energy 14 TeV is considered. At the end of this study, estimates of the expected backgrounds for new physics searches in the dimuon final states are given.


Anticipating potentialair transportation markets in the business jet type, the present work is devoted for exploring the possibilities of introducing some of a number of visionary and pioneering ideas and upcoming enabling technologies in the Aerodynamic and Conceptual Design Study of Quad-Bubble Business Jet (QB-BJ). In view of and driven by the vision for a fuel efficient, environmentally friendly and technology driven aircraft to meet global need within the next 15 years, the characteristics of the conceptually designed aircraft will be assessed in comparison to an appropriately chosen business jet as a reference. Major ideas derived from D8 are appropriately applied in the work, which starts with fuel efficient motivation, and followed by wing Aerodynamics and other critical factors related to the Design Requirements and Objectives. Index Term— Aircraft Conceptual Design, Double-Bubble Business Jet, Quad-Bubble Business Jet, Applied Aerodynamics.


In Giles of Rome, moral responsibility and human freedom are articulated taking into account the relation of will and intellect. For Giles, this topic appears to be particularly crucial and often r...


Many European countries, such as Austria, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, the U.K., and others utilize concrete pavements on their roads and highways. This article deals with various concrete pavement design methods used in these countries, focusing on prestressed concrete pavements, continuously reinforced concrete pavements, and other design types. Theoretical factors relating to the design process are also discussed, including pavement stress, slab dimensions, load transfer, subbases, and thickness.


A scroll sawing machine includes a motor mounted under a table of a machine base, and a saw blade driven by a first output shaft of the motor to reciprocate in an upright direction. First and second sawdust collecting members respectively have first and second intake ports which are respectively disposed above and under the table in the vicinity of the blade so as to collect sawdust scattering around the blade and falling through a hole in the table. A blowing member includes a drive shaft coupled to and driven by a second output shaft of the motor for rotating an impeller for drawing the sawdust from the collecting members into the blowing member for discharge through a discharge port.


The invention discloses a vehicle-mounted monitor management system comprising a GPS positioning module, a GPRS data transmission module, an in-vehicle information acquisition module, a monitoring center module, and an alarm module. The monitoring center module is used for selecting and editing a vehicle-mounted serial number, displaying data from the in-vehicle information acquisition module as well as data sent to a server side by a GPRS and sending a control instruction back to the inside of the vehicle, localizing the vehicle by the GPS positioning module, and controlling the alarm module to warn people in the vehicle. The in-vehicle information acquisition module is used for collecting and storing driving information and state information of the vehicle; the GPS positioning module is used for localizing the vehicle position; and the GPRS data transmission module is used for transmitting vehicle information to the monitoring center by the GPRS. According to the invention, vehicle information can be monitored and navigated; an anti-theft and alarm function can be realized in a vehicle stationary state; and the vehicle situation can be monitored comprehensively.


The nonuniform and high‐gradient solar radiation flux on the absorber surface of solar dish concentrator/cavity receiver (SDCR) system will affect its operational reliability and service lifetime. Therefore, homogenization of the flux distribution is critical and important. In this paper, 2 mirror rearrangement strategies and its optimization method by combining a novel ray tracing method and the genetic algorithm are proposed to optimize the parabolic dish concentrator (PDC) so as to realize the uniform flux distribution on the absorber surface inside the cavity receiver of SDCR system. The mirror rearrangement strategy includes a mirror rotation strategy and mirror translation strategy, which rotate and translate (along the focal axis) each mirror unit of the PDC to achieve multipoint aiming, respectively. Firstly, a correlation model between the focus spot radius and mirror rearrangement parameters is derived as constraint model to optimize the PDC. Secondly, a novel method named motion accumulation ray‐tracing method is proposed to reduce the optical simulation time. The optical model by motion accumulation ray‐tracing method and optimization model of SDCR system are established in detailed, and then, an optimization program by combining a ray‐tracing code and genetic algorithm code in C++ is developed and verified. Finally, 3 typical cavity receivers, namely, cylindrical, conical, and spherical, are taken as examples to fully verify the effectiveness of these proposed methods. The results show that the optimized PDC by mirror rearrangement strategies can not only greatly improve the flux uniformity (ie, reduce the nonuniformity factor) and reduce the peak local concentration ratio of the absorber surface but also obtain excellent optical efficiency and direct useful energy ratio. A better optimization results when the PDC is optimized by mirror rotation strategy at aperture radius of 7.0 m, focal length of 6.00 m, and ring number of 6; the nonuniform factor of the cylindrical, conical, and spherical cavity receivers is greatly reduced from 0.63, 0.67, and 0.45 to 0.18, 0.17, and 0.26, respectively; the peak local concentration ratio is reduced from 1140.00, 1399.00, and 633.30 to 709.10, 794.00, and 505.90, respectively; and the optical efficiency of SDCR system is as high as 92.01%, 92.13%, and 92.71%, respectively. These results also show that the dish concentrator with same focal length can match different cavity receivers by mirror rearrangement and it can obtain excellent flux uniformity.


This work is devoted to prove the existence of global weak solution for a general isothermal model of capillary fluids derived by J.E Dunn and J.Serrin (1985) (see \cite{fDS}), which can be used as a phase transition model. More precisely we shall derive in a first part new entropy estimates for the density when we are dealing with specific capillarity coefficient $\kappa(\rho)=\frac{1}{\rho}$ (let us emphasize on the fact that this choice of capillarity exhibits particular regime flows in the case of the compressible Euler system with quantic pressure which corresponds here to the capillarity, see \cite{Antonelli}). This allows us in particular to get enough compactness estimates in order to prove the stability of the global weak solution, the used method follows the works of A. Mellet and A. Vasseur (see \cite{fMV}). Let us point out that the key of the proof is related to the introduction of a new \textit{effective velocity} (which depends strongly on the structure of the viscosity and capillary coefficients).\\ In a second part, we shall give the main result of this paper which consists in new blow-up criterion of Prodi-Serrin type for the Korteweg system involving only a control on the vacuum. It is up our knowledge the first result of this type for a compressible fluid system.


Aims:  To develop an efficient and facile expression system supply of high purity and stable activity of rFip‐fve for oral administration, medicinal study and applications.


Physicochemical properties (i.e. morphological variation, functional groups and carbon structure change) and alkali and alkaline earth metal (AAEM) retention of chars during coal and corn stalks (CS) co-pyrolysis were investigated in this research. The co-pyrolysis char samples were obtained at the temperature ranging from 400 to 1000 ℃ at intervals of 100 ℃ under the argon atmosphere by a horizontal furnace. The results indicate that the synergistic effects on char yields are slight or even negligible. The presence of CS promotes the formation of plastic mass during co-pyrolysis because of the interactions between volatiles and chars of coal and CS. As the pyrolysis temperature increases from 400 to 1000 ℃, the aromatic C−H functional groups first increase and then decrease, and the char structure changes from a small aromatic ring system to a large aromatic ring system containing six or more fused benzene rings. The average number of hydrogen atoms per aromatic ring and the number of the aromatic ring s...


The number, diameter and structure of the capillary vessels differ in particular parts of the spinal cord. Density of the vascular net is much greater within the gray substance. Also the density differs in particular parts of the gray substance at the same spinal level.


We find that the sunk entry cost estimated in a model with the necessary convex factor adjustment costs are about 50 percent smaller than they are in a model without other costs of adjustment.


The authors have undertaken double-direct-shear friction experiments with floating ice sheets. These tests have been done at the ice basins at HSVA, Hamburg and the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT). Floating ice blocks are pushed past each other, with slip displacement, stress and acoustic emissions monitored at the interfaces. The authors have therefore measured the effect of frictional sliding on simulated faults. Mostly the sliding took a stick-slip form. The velocity and shear stress are non-uniform in space as well as in time. Measurements of the same stick-slip cycle, at several positions along the fault, allow the authors to identify a nucleation zone, which begins to slip before the rest of the fault and to relate this spatial variation of velocity and the temporal variation of shear stress; the slipping region, therefore, behaves like a wave-packet, propagating away from the nucleation zone.


Sarcomatoid carcinoma (SC), a variant of squamous cell carcinoma, is the most aggressive primary penile carcinoma. The preferred anatomical site is the glans penis, either exclusively or with involvement of the coronal sulcus and/or foreskin. To the best of our knowledge, there have been only two reported SCs involving only the foreskin. We present another case of primary foreskin SC in a 48-year-old man.


Social program evaluations need to produce more information of greater relevance and utility. LEAA is looking for ways to do that.


In this investigative lab, students observe blackworm pulsation rate in normal conditions and observe how pulsation rate is affected by drugs. This lab stresses the circulatory system, but can also be used for homeostasis, behavior, toxicology, and nervous system labs. Part I guides the student through blackworm handling procedures and initial observations of the blackworm's behavior and circulatory system. Part II is a student-led investigation in which the students design and run their own experiments to test drug effects on pulsation rate. The students write their investigations as an informal report and orally present their design, results, and conclusions.


We describe here the deposition of superconducting and semiconducting thin films by the laser evaporation technique. The, characterization of this process, and possible optimization with regards to wavelength and pulse duration of the laser will be discussed. Results of laser interaction experiments will also be described.


ers readily explains why some have abandoned Christ's commission and treat evangelism as an anachronism. Ultimately, this posture undermines dialogue as well as reconciliation as there is no longer anything more to be discussed. It is my experience that we as Christians can engage Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists most earnestly when we take serious Jesus' claims, his kingdom mandates, and the new covenant community he is recreating among the nations. This volume is needed wherever the debate on religious pluralism and the uniqueness of Christ is in process.


Data generated by social media are frequently leveraged to build machine learning models that can accurately profile human behavior and sentiment. Twitter is a readily available source of population data that can be collected and used by any organization. Therefore, accurate machine learning models must be created to learn from this user-generated content. In this paper, we explore the task of classifying a user's preference towards a specific entity. Particularly, we study the accuracy of classification models as an increasing number of tweets (status posts) per user is provided to the models. New users and tweets are constantly being created, warranting the use of techniques to reduce the size of data needed for machine learning algorithms. We find that there is a diminishing return on model performance as the number of tweets per user is increased, and identify a threshold where adding more tweets per user does not result in statistically better performance. Utilizing this threshold, as opposed to the maximum amount of tweets per user, data collection time is reduced by 80% while dataset size is reduced by 75%.


Rux, a Janus kinase (JAK) 1/2 inhibitor can improve splenomegaly and MF-related symptoms; however, the majority of pts experience a suboptimal response with ~50% of pts discontinuing within one year of starting treatment (Harrison 2020). Nvtm, a potent, selective, orally available mouse double minute 2 inhibitor (MDM2i) restores p53 function to modulate Bcl-2 family proteins and drive apoptosis of TP53 wild-type (TP53 WT ) myeloblasts. Single agent nvtm demonstrated clinically meaningful and disease modifying activity in TP53 WT relapsed/refractory MF (Al-Ali 2020; Vachhani 2021). Efficient


The digital age is transforming India and its people at an unprecedented rate and level. Technology is providing ample opportunities to empower more and more individuals each day and hence, to grow endlessly. Not one sector has been left untouched by this technological revolution. The banking industry, which is considered as the backbone of any economy, has for long been governed by traditional ways and means in India. But of late, evidence suggests that e-banking has progressed in various countries, and India is no exception to this. According to one of the reports in 2014, non-cash transactions in India have surpassed 300 billion in number. With the launch of Digital India Program especially, by the P.M of India in July 2015, a propensity to move towards digitalisation at a faster pace, and in an efficient and inclusive manner has been observed among all. Provision of e-services to all in the country through improved online infrastructure and internet penetration and connectivity lies at the heart of this Campaign.Moreover, recently it appears that demonetisation has provided the greatest impetus to cashless transactions across all sectors in the country, including in the banking industry. Reportedly, e-banking has almost become a buzzword after this move and awareness about e-banking services and its usage have significantly increased in both rural and urban areas. In the given scenario, this paper aims to briefly trace the evolution of e-banking in India, its current status, and future opportunities and challenges, in the wake of Digital India and demonetisation, particularly.


Advection dominant fluid flows and transport processes in microfluidic mixing devices pose noteworthy challenges in design related simulations as regards numerical errors. In the present work, an unsteady flow model with decay constant was utilized for testing passive micro-mixer simulations for numerical error. The simulations were performed using OpenFOAM (Open-source Field Operation And Manipulation), a finite volume based open source software. Three types of hydrodynamic boundary conditions representing surface engineered device walls (hydro-active patches) were investigated as design test cases. Our study focuses upon simulated effect of these conditions on concentration profiles from the point of view of numerical error. We show that the model can be analytically treated in part to establish a particular feature in the simulated concentration profiles is a numerical artefact. Further, it is shown that this error is rectified either by changing the method of solving discretized equation or by coarsening the mesh. This process is also sensitive to the type of hydrodynamic boundary conditions imposed. A generalized grid convergence test we carried out attests to the reliability of these micro-fluidics simulation results, despite the fact that they display numerical artefacts. The paper addresses this anomaly to a strong interplay between difference equation solving methods, mesh parameters and boundary conditions in the partial differential equation (PDE) model for micro-flows in passive micro-mixers. Our investigation thus suggests that grid independence tests, instead of being based only upon cell variables and mesh parameters, should also be informed by PDE boundary conditions and difference equation solving methods. Keywords— Micro-fluidics , micro-mixer, PDE, CFD, OpenFOAM


Suppose a block of mass m1 traveling at speed v1 makes a one-dimensional perfectly inelastic collision with another block of mass m2. What else does one need to know to calculate the fraction of the mechanical energy that is dissipated in the collision?


Objectives: To research and analyze the problems on integrated ICU nursing record and find countermeasures to increase nursing record writing quality and assure nursing safety. Methods: Random selected 200 integrated ICU nursing records in our hospital from 2003 to 2004, and to analyze the related problems in these records. Results: The problems can be divided into 22 aspects within 6 catalogues in these 200 nursing records. They are timeliness (8.8%), veracity (20.6%), facility (28.5%), integrality (26.1%), objectivity (5.1%), and criterion (10.9%). These problems are related to work years, education background, and duty times. Conclusions: The quality of integrated ICU nursing records is related to education background and duty times and so on. In order to realize increasing the quality of description constantly and avoid medical accident and tangle, related training should be exercised on particular nurses, related standard should be established and administration on quality should be actualized.


It is well known that in Bishop‐style constructive mathematics, the closure of the union of two subsets of ℝ is 'not' the union of their closures. The dual situation, involving the complement of the closure of the union, is investigated constructively, using completeness of the ambient space in order to avoid any application of Markov's Principle. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


We study the complexity of computing stationary Nash equilibrium (NE) in n-player infinite-horizon general-sum stochastic games. We focus on the problem of computing NE in such stochastic games when each player is restricted to choosing a stationary policy and rewards are discounted. First, we prove that computing such NE is in PPAD (in addition to clearly being PPAD-hard). Second, we consider turn-based specializations of such games where at each state there is at most a single player that can take actions and show that these (seemingly-simpler) games remain PPAD-hard. Third, we show that under further structural assumptions on the rewards computing NE in such turn-based games is possible in polynomial time. Towards achieving these results we establish structural facts about stochastic games of broader utility, including monotonicity of utilities under single-state single-action changes and reductions to settings where each player controls a single state.


Whereas a gender effect favouring males in adults' mental rotation performance can be reliably found, the respective gender effect in children's performance does not appear consistently in the literature. Therefore, this study investigated whether there is a "crucial" time slot on infantile development when a gender effect is detectable. Following Johnson and Meade's (1987) hypothesis that age ten might be crucial, we investigated 96 fourth graders—split into two age groups (mean: 9.3 vs. 10.3 years)—and 48 adults that performed the MRT (Peters et al., 1995). We observed large gender effects in older children as well as in adults. However, the younger children did not reveal a significant gender effect, although effect sizes indicated a small-to-medium effect. Surprisingly, the performance of women, older girls, and younger girls did not differ significantly, whereas older boys and adults clearly outperformed younger boys. Possible reasons for these effects are discussed.


The present case report describes a young woman with severe restrictive lung failure, who developed pulmonary hypertension. She was treated successfully with nocturnal noninvasive nasal ventilation and oxygen, which removed symptoms and signs of cardiac incompensation. The improvement has persisted for five years.


Body Mass Index is treated as an indicator to the case of pre-obesity and obesity. BMI values for pre-obesity and obesity are different. The range of BMI for pre-obesity is 25.00-29.99 while for obesity it is 30.00 or above. There is just a mere difference of 0.01 between 29.99 and 30.00. This little difference may be due to either wrong measurement in BMI or wrong diagnosis by doctor. But this difference may affect the health status of patient by changing the category from pre-obese to obese or obese to pre-obese. With the help of soft computing techniques, the wrong measurement in BMI or wrong diagnosis by medical practitioners may be either removed or minimized. In this paper we have used intuitionistic fuzzy logic, a kind of soft computing technique.


The benign monomelic amyotrophy of the lower limb is a slowly progressive disease that is clinically manifested by muscle atrophy in only one lower limb. This disease is quite rare, while it is most common in Asian countries (about 80 cases have been described). According to the literature a total of 16 cases of benign monomelic amyotrophy of the lower limb were described in Europe by 2000. Etiology and pathogenesis have not been reliably studied now. The article presents a clinical case of the development of this disease in a 42-year-old patient. The patient was admitted with complaints of weakness in the right leg and its decrease in volume. During the period of hospitalization, diff erential diagnosis was carried out with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive muscle atrophy, Hirayama disease, vascular and paraneoplastic processes. According to the results of a comprehensive laboratory and instrumental examination, the diagnosis was fi rst established: benign monomelic amyotrophy of the lower limb. The father of a patient who had atrophy of the muscles of the left lower limb would also be examined. According to the data of hereditary anamnesis, an assumption was made about the presence of the phenomenon of anticipation in the inheritance of benign monomelic amyotrophy of the lower limb. This article describes for the fi rst time a case of benign monomelic amyotrophy of the lower limb in the domestic literature, as well as a familial case of this disease all over the world.


In designing a logic system to control switching in an electricity-supply network, it is necessary to check the performance of the system under many different operating conditions. This paper describes a digital method of simulating logic systems for switching control and then gives a method of specifying system performance tests so that these tests can be applied automatically in the course of a simulation. A technique for determining the effects of failures of supply-network and logic-system components is also described.


Oblivious routing algorithms use only locally avail¬able information at network nodes to forward traffic, and as such, a plausible choice for distributed implementations. It is a natural desire to quantify the performance penalty we pay for this distributedness. Recently, Racke has shown that for general undirected graphs the competitive ratio is only O(log n), that is, the maximum congestion caused by the oblivious algorithm is within a logarithmic factor of the best possible congestion. And while the performance penalty is larger for directed networks (Azar gives a O(vn) lower bound), experiments on many real-world topologies show that it usually remains under 2. These competitive measures, however, are of worst-case type, and therefore do not always give adequate characterization.
The more different combinations of demands a routing algorithm can accommodate in the network without congestion, the better. Driven by this observation, in this paper we introduce a new competitive measure, the volumetric competitive ratio, as the measure of all admissible demands compared to the measure of demands routed without congestion. The main result of the paper is a general lower bound on the volumetric ratio; and we also show a directed graph with O(1) competitive ratio that exhibits O(n) volumetric ratio.
Our numerical evaluations show that the competitivity of oblivious routing in terms of the new measure quickly vanishes even in relatively small common-place topologies.


The task of a monitor is to watch, at run-time, the execution of a reactive system, and signal the occurrence of a safety violation in the observed sequence of events. While finite-state monitors have been studied extensively, in practice, monitoring software also makes use of unbounded memory. We define a model of automata equipped with integer-valued registers which can execute only a bounded number of instructions between consecutive events, and thus can form the theoretical basis for the study of infinite-state monitors. We classify these register monitors according to the number k of available registers, and the type of register instructions. In stark contrast to the theory of computability for register machines, we prove that for every k ≥ 1, monitors with k + 1 counters (with instruction set ⟨+1, =⟩) are strictly more expressive than monitors with k counters. We also show that adder monitors (with instruction set ⟨1, +, =⟩) are strictly more expressive than counter monitors, but are complete for monitoring all computable safety ω-languages for k = 6. Real-time monitors are further required to signal the occurrence of a safety violation as soon as it occurs. The expressiveness hierarchy for counter monitors carries over to real-time monitors. We then show that 2 adders cannot simulate 3 counters in real-time. Finally, we show that real-time adder monitors with inequalities are as expressive as real-time Turing machines.


Before you lies the final bachelors report of Clareyne de Vries, an Industrial Design student. The product is designed for Artinis Medical Systems. The assignment was to redesign a prototype, used for measuring brain activity in the frontal lobes, named the 8-Channel Headcap. The product uses NIRS technology to compare the differences between oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood. The purpose of the assignment was to optimize skin contact with the upper LEDs of the unit. These LEDs go through the hairline where hair can block the infrared light signals. Using a pressure cooker, a first step toward solving this problem has been made. The scope of ideas was reason to classify these ideas by similar solutions and subproblems. In a whole, this classification was represented in a morphologic schematic. The realistic ideas where elaborated to 4 concepts. After consultation, a final concept was chosen and detailed. Due to time constraints it was decided to focus only on the main part of the 8-Channel Headcap; the casing and functioning of the LEDs and receivers. Simultaneously, research has been conducted on a production technology, new to Artinis, called vacuum casting. During the detailing of the chosen concept, design parameters and constraints of the method were taken into account. Ultimately, a final testing prototype was made of the detailed concept by casting.


This study aims to reveal the importance of guidance and counseling services in higher education based on the views of biology education students. The research was conducted using in-depth interview techniques on three students with high, medium, and low abilities. Considering the health protocol during the Covid-19 pandemic, the interview was conducted by telephone. Research findings reveal that students are not aware of the existence of guidance and counseling services in universities. Knowledge about guidance and counseling that students have is derived from experience in senior high school and also from guidance and counseling lecture material which generally discusses guidance and counseling at school. All informants have a good perception of guidance and counseling services. In addition, informants agreed that students really need guidance and counseling service programs on campus, because various student problems cannot always be solved by telling stories to friends or academic advisors. Based on the fact that informants did not know about counseling services, the informants suggested that better socialization be given to students about the existence of counseling services in universities, so that they could effectively overcome various problems faced by students.


Summary. A simple 2-D model of the effect of an upwelling motion on the toroidal field in the Earth's core is investigated. It is found that flux is readily expelled from the core, indicating that the frozen-flux approximation can fail, even when the magnetic Reynolds number in the core is high. This process provides a simple explanation of features in the magnetic field which have recently been identified at the core-mantle boundary beneath southern Africa.


Disclosed are an organic light-emitting display and a display device. The organic light-emitting display comprises a power driving chip (51) and an organic light-emitting display panel (12). A soft-start circuit (52) is disposed in the power driving chip (51), wherein the soft-start circuit (52) comprises a first time-delay circuit (21) and first and second anti-surge circuits (22, 23). The first time-delay circuit (21) is configured to: control, at an initialization stage, the first anti-surge circuit (22) not to operate and control the second anti-surge circuit (23) to operate; delay a voltage at an output end, and control, after the initialization stage ends, the first anti-surge circuit (22) to operate and control the second anti-surge circuit (23) not to operate. The first anti-surge circuit (22) is configured to control, after the initialization stage ends, a voltage value inputted to a first input end of the organic light-emitting display panel (12). The second anti-surge circuit (23) is configured to control, at the initialization stage, the voltage value inputted to the first input end of the organic light-emitting display panel (12).


An incomplete fingerprint is one which contains noise and cannot be recognized in some areas.In some cases,it may not provide sufficient minutiae or ridge details for undertaking a normal matching process.This paper proposes an algorithm to reconstruct incomplete regions.The nearest minutiae and orientation field of neighborhood are combined to estimate the unknown orientation field.Previous outcome is used to connect disrupted ridges and recover missed minutiae based on ridge topology features,and arrive several rational schemes.They are measured by using entropy and the best is chosen.The experimental results demonstrate that proposed algorithm is effective in reconstructing incomplete fingerprint,and hence improve the performance of matching.


The regional characteristic of urban landscape design is a new topic of the urban landscape design. This article studies and analyzes the urban landscape design with the regional characteristics based on the concept of scientific development and strive to discover the inherit and reshape the historical and cultural connotations and the regional characteristics inherent in the city. So this paper expounds on the concept and approach of regional characteristic of the urban landscape design and combines the Mianyang City to carry out the case study as well analysis on the exploration to provide ideas and references for regional characteristic of the urban landscape design.


Based on the analysis of pollution determinants of groundwater and environment impact identification,the paper explores the structural features of wastewater pool an anti-leakage from the deformation joint,post-cast strip,and the construction joint,and points out the anti-leakage weak belt of the pool,so as to provide some scientific reference for respective anti-leakage measures.


The title compounds, C17H24O4 and C15H20O4, respectively, were obtained during studies of the relationship between structure and herbicidal activity of derivatives of levoglucosenone [Furneax et al. (1989). European Patent Application 0 302 599; Furneaux, Henzell & Tyler (1991). US Patent 5 047 518; Blattner, Furneaux, Mason & Tyler (1991). Pestic. Sci. 31, 419–435; Furneaux, Mason & Tyler (1995). Unpublished results]. The crystal structures contain independent molecules held together by van der Waals packing forces. The pendant groups at C1 in C17H24O4 have a minor effect on the fused dioxolane-pyranose ring conformation. The O-benzyl groups adopt different conformations determined by minimization of intramolecular repulsive contacts, particularly for the 4-C-methyl molecule, and intermolecular non-bonding contacts.


IMPORTANCE: Many maternal diagnoses in pregnancy have been linked with offspring ASD risk. However, pregnant women receive many other diagnoses, most of which have not been evaluated for an association with offspring ASD. OBJECTIVE: Systematically test the associations between maternal diagnoses around pregnancy, and ASD risk in offspring, filtering out potential false positives and accounting for correlation between maternal diagnoses. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This case-cohort study included children born in Israel from January 1, 1999, through December 31, 2008, and followed up until January 26, 2015. We used information on all ICD-9 codes received by their mothers during pregnancy and the preceding year. ASD risk in children whose mothers experienced each of those conditions during the exposure period was compared with ASD risk in unexposed children. Data were analyzed from December 1, 2019, through April 30, 2020. MAIN OUTCOME AND MEASURES: Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of ASD risk associated with each maternal ICD-9 code, calculated using Cox proportional hazards regression, adjusted for the confounders (birth year, maternal age, socioeconomic status and number of ICD-9 diagnoses during the exposure period). RESULTS: The analytic sample consisted of 80,187 individuals (1,132 cases, 79,055 controls; median [interquartile range] age at the end of follow up was 11.2 [8.8-13.6]; 48.8% female). Of 822 ICD-9 codes tested, 148 were recorded in at least 10 of each case and control mothers. Of those, 22 maternal diagnoses were nominally significantly associated with offspring ASD, and 16 of those survived subsequent filtering steps (permutation testing, multiple testing correction, multiple regression). Among those 16 diagnoses, we recorded increased risk of ASD associated with certain metabolic (e.g. hypertension (ICD-9 401); HR=2.74(1.92-3.90), P=2.43E-8), genitourinary (e.g. noninflammatory disorders of cervix (ICD-9 622); HR=1.88(1.38-2.57), P=7.06E-5) and psychiatric (depressive disorder (ICD-9 311); HR=2.11(1.32-3.35), P=1.70E-3) diagnoses. Meanwhile, mothers of children with ASD were less likely to attend prenatal care appointment (ICD-9 V22; HR=0.62 (0.54-0.71), P=1.80E-11). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: We observed an association between ASD and 16 maternal ICD-9 diagnoses, after rigorous filtering out potential false positive associations. Replication in other cohorts and further research to understand the mechanisms underlying the observed associations with ASD are warranted.


The fuelling efficiency and injection depth are the fundamental problems of supersonic molecular beam fuelling. In the recent supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI) experiments, the injection depths of SMBI have been found mainly dependent on the background electron density and temperature, the source gas pressure and temperature. The empirical scaling of SMBI depth was obtained at room temperature. Hydrogen clusters formed in the beam have been observed in the low temperature (source gas at liquid nitrogen temperature) SMBI experiments. It resulted in injection depth greater than 30 cm. Comparing the relationships between injection depths, plasma background parameters and molecular source temperature, the cluster formation phenomena during low temperature MBI are analyzed.


This paper is a contribution to the analysis of deprivation seen as a one-dimensional condition. A most useful tool for such analysis is to view deprivation as a matter of degree, giving a quantitative expression to its intensity for individuals. Such 'fuzzy' conceptualisation has been increasingly utilised in poverty and deprivation research. This paper aims to further develop and refine this strand of research. The concern of the paper is primarily methodological rather than detailed numerical analysis from particular applications. We re-examine the two additional aspects introduced by the use of fuzzy (as distinct from the conventional poor/non-poor dichotomous) measures, namely: the choice of membership functions and the choice of rules for the manipulation of the resulting fuzzy sets, rules defining their intersection and averaging. The relationship of the proposed fuzzy monetary measure with the membership function and an estimate, by confidence interval, of the poverty line.


BACKGROUND
The effects of chronic hypoxia on cardiac membrane fatty acids and on lipid peroxidation were examined, as well as the effect of l-carnitine (LCAR), which suppresses lipid peroxidation, on this process.

METHODS AND RESULTS
Four-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to 10% oxygen for 14 days ("Hypoxia"), and then to 100% oxygen for 12 h (O2). LCAR (200 mg/kg) was administered by intraperitoneal injection daily for 2 weeks. Fatty acid composition, malondialdehyde (MDA) as a lipid peroxidation product, and antioxidants (superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase and catalase) were measured. The concentration of linoleic acid was lower, and that of docosahexaenoic acid, which has more double bonds than linoleic acid, was increased in hypoxic hearts. SOD activity decreased in hypoxia, whereas MDA was unchanged, but significantly increased in "Hypoxia"+O2. LCAR reduced the increase in MDA, and had no effect on SOD activity or fatty acid composition. The administration of LCAR caused an increase in the ventricular levels of acetylcarnitine.

CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest that chronic hypoxia changes the cardiac fatty acid composition of juvenile rats to fatty acids that contain more double-bonds and reduce SOD activity, and that lipid peroxidation was augmented by exposure to oxygen.


A key advantage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds is providing users on-demand access to resources. However, to provide on-demand access, cloud providers must either significantly overprovision their infrastructure (and pay a high price for operating resources with low utilization) or reject a large proportion of user requests (in which case the access is no longer on-demand). At the same time, not all users require truly ondemand access to resources. Many applications and workflows are designed for recoverable systems where interruptions in service are expected. For instance, many scientists utilize High Throughput Computing (HTC)-enabled resources, such as Condor, where jobs are dispatched to available resources and terminated when the resource is no longer available. We propose a cloud infrastructure that combines on-demand allocation of resources introducing the snapshot of clouds using virtual machines. this mechanisms increases the throughput of on demand accesses of entire network. The performances of the sytem automatically increase by utilizing the snapshots of clouds. We demonstrate that a shared infrastructure between IaaS cloud providers and an HTC job management system can be highly beneficial to both the IaaS cloud provider and HTC users by increasing the utilization of the cloud infrastructure and contributing cycles that would otherwise be idle to processing HTC jobs.


This study investigated the nature of banking practices in the Nigerian banking space. The methodology adopted was field research combined with personal interview. The researcher interacted heavily with numerous bank customers, bankers and the regulators of banking business in the country. The findings of the study show enough evidence that warrant the classification of some of the banking practices as inhospitable, unethical and intimidatory in nature. As a result the Central Bank of Nigeria is hereby advised to improve its capacity and the will to enforce its rules, especially on transaction charges, and to punish those who circumvent them. The apex bank should streamline transaction charges and ensure that banks stick to globally accepted fees. Customers should know the terms and conditions applicable to each transaction accounts opening before putting pen to paper to avoid unnecessary charges/deductions and also complain if there are arbitrary charges.


We describe a new program-analysis framework, based on CPS and procedure-string abstractions, that can handle critical analyses which the k-CFA framework cannot. We present the main theorems concerning correctness, show an application analysis, and describe a running implementation.


It has been noticed that the major part of the loss of ṠH from the molecular ion of most of the o-methoxythioamides results from an ortho effect of the methoxy group. Comparison of the MIKE spectra of the [MSH]+ of 1-(2-methoxyphenylthioxomethyl)piperidine and 1-(2-methoxyphenylthioxomethyl)pyrrolidine with the MIKE spectra of [MSH]+ of the corresponding unsubstituted compounds, reported earlier, indicated two parallel pathways for the formation of [MSH]+ in the o-methoxy compounds. In the first pathway, as has been noticed in thioamides in general, the loss of ṠH involves the migration of either the α-hydrogen in the amine moiety or the hydrogen attached to nitrogen. In the second pathway, the migration of a hydrogen from the o-methoxy group to the sulphur atom followed by ejection of SH from the molecular ion leads to a stable cyclized ion. Interesting secondary fragmentations as a consequence of this ortho effect have also been noticed.


This paper explores the representations of non-expert 'lay' roles in selected media reporting of the 2011 synthetic cannabis debate in New Zealand. It uses a critical discourse analysis to explore these representations, using van Leeuwen's work on the transitivity of clauses. It identifies a number of roles present in reporting and argues that media reporting denies lay roles agency and limits the space available for their members to give their account of events. Instead lay groups are constructed as the passive recipients of actions by authoritative groups. The one exception to this is the construction of parents who, because of a combination of a moral authority granted to them by being parents, and the media's alignment to the 'concerned parent' position, are granted agency and space to explicate their positions.


Simultaneous language interpreting (SLI) places extreme requirements on the cognitive control skills (Yudes et al., 2011; Hervais-Adelman et al., 2015) acquired by multilinguals through intensive training and practice (Chernov, 2004). Not only does SLI involve constant concurrent retrieval of words and collocations in the source and target languages, it also requires their retention and manipulation in working memory, tracking both source and target discourse as well as performing repeated language switching (Moser, 1978; Moser-Mercer et al., 2000; Christoffels et al., 2006). Previous research has shown that systematic SLI practice causes structural neuroplasticity in simultaneous interpreters (SIs). Specifically, Elmer et al. (2014) provided evidence for reduced gray matter volumes in SIs compared to multilingual controls. To further explore neuroplasticity in SIs, Elmer and Kühnis (2016) predicted the existence of functional cortical connectivity changes induced by exposure to SLI. Based on the dual-stream model of speech processing (cf. Hickok, 2012), and the assumption that SLI practice places high demands on sensory-to-articulation mapping, Elmer and Kühnis (2016) analyzed two preselected regions of interest (ROIs) within the dorsal stream, namely BA 41/42 (auditory-related cortex), and BA 44/45 (Broca's area), expecting them to be more functionally coupled in SIs than in multilingual control subjects. In the experiment, 12 professional SIs and the same number of multilinguals with no SLI experience were tested in a mixed and unmixed auditory semantic decision task which consisted in judging word congruency by pressing one of the buttons. In the unmixed condition the words were delivered sequentially in the same language (German or English), while in the mixed condition the languages were different. Consistent with the prediction, analysis of EEG data revealed stronger functional coupling in the theta band (∼4–7 Hz) between the ROIs in SIs than in controls. This result is very interesting because it suggests that SLI proficiency may be a matter of not only structural, but also functional changes in the brain. In this commentary we offer several methodological considerations. First, the experimental task only included English and German words, and other language combinations may have produced a different pattern of results. For example, the authors could have included another Koshkin and Ossadtchi Functional Connectivity Facilitates Language Translation experimental condition with French and English word pairs. This would have required almost no effort in recruiting extra participants: the autobiographical data show that all of the SIs rated their proficiency in French at least 3 on a scale …


Cyber physical systems (CPSs) by definition involve design constraints addressing the computation and communication necessary to control physical systems. These systems have been modeled using domain specific modeling languages, but some limitations exist in the continued application of such a modeling approach to more complex, or safety-critical, systems. Specifically, it is well known how to formulate constraints in a domain-specific modeling language in order to prevent users from building invalid structures, but existing constraint-based techniques do not take into consideration design requirements that may require analysis in the physical domain (i.e. dynamic constraints). Those analysis results, when interpreted by a domain expert, can inform changes to the model: unfortunately, this ``by hand'' process does not scale. This paper presents an approach to automate the process of evolving models based on dynamic constraints that are not structurally enforceable into the modeling of CPSs. This new methodology---called dynamic constraint feedback (DCF)---is described herein and demonstrated with specific examples derived from the domain of data adaptable reconfigurable embedded systems (DARES). In DCF, expert blocks are integrated with a modeling language to perform dynamic constraint analysis on system models. The results from these analyses are then used to generate model transformations that can be applied to the source models.


Objective To study multi-slice spiral CT(MSCT) features of cardiogenic hepatohemia.Methods MSCT features of cardiogenic hepatohemia were retrospectively analysed.Results All cases were showed having reflux of contrast into the inferior vena cava(IVC)during arterial phase,of them,10 cases were accompanied with abnormal hepatic perfusion and 7 cases with intrahepatic lymphostasis sign.Conclusion The features including the reflux of IVC and abnormal hepatic perfusion during arterial phase in contrast-enhanced CT scan may suggest hepatohemia caused by higher pressure level of right heart from the cardiovascular diseases.


The objective of the present work was to investigate if the practice of a dry-off period in goats maintained under grazing conditions, increases milk yield and therefore the quantity of its compounds. In goats without dry-off, females were hand milked until parturition (SPS; n = 9). Hand milking of goats from dry-off period was stopped 50 days prior occurrence of parturition (CPS; n = 11). We used a factorial design with a lineal model with fixed effects to compare milk yield and quantity of its main compounds, in response to the treatment, time, and time × treatment interaction. There was a treatment effect on milk yield during lactation, with higher values in CPS group than SPS group (P<0.001). In the same way, the quantity of milk compounds was influenced by the treatment (P<0.001). In conclusion, the practice of the dry period in goats under grazing conditions, increase milk production during subsequent lactation and therefore the quantity of its components.


I noticed the previous evening that she wasn't her usual lively self, but it was still a shock to discover her curled up, stiff and cold, the next morning. The children immediately attempted post hoc resuscitation by generously refilling her food tray. But to an experienced eye, there was no denying the clinical reality. Smokey Bin Hamster was no more.

Their next reaction was to stage a cover up. Don't tell the cleaner, they insisted. Their ill formed plan was to leave the …


AIM: The aim of this study is to find out if there is a relationship between femoroacetabular syndrome and the risk of hip fractures that have been known with high morbidity and mortality rates.
MATERIAL AND METHOD: Between January 1st of 2015 and January 1st of 2020, data of 243 patients with intertrochanteric fracture, 126 patients with femoral neck fracture and 250 trauma patients of over 65 years old that had admitted to our hospital's emergency department but had no fracture on both pelvis AP x-ray and pelvis CT, were evaluated retrospectively. While central edge angle, acetabular index and singh index were measured on AP x-ray of pelvis, alfa-angle, anterior offset and anterior offset ratio were measured on pelvis CT.
RESULTS: No significant differences were found between the groups forming the hip fracture and the control group in terms of gender, age and Singh index, indicating that these factors were homogeneously distributed between the groups and had no effect on the factors investigated (p>0.05). The central edge angle, acetabular index, alpha angle, anterior offset and anterior offset ratio were found to be significantly different (p


This work focuses on a contextualized understanding of 'autocratic authoritarianism' in Tunisia without approaching its peculiarities in reference to the ideal type of capitalist-liberal democracy and teleological democratization assumptions but instead on its own merits as a Tunisian civilian dictatorship (1957–2010). This latter is reminiscent of French colonial authoritarianism (1881–1956) and traditional beylic monarchic absolutism (1705–1957). For more than half a century, the Tunisian autocratic political system functioned as state-manufactured nationalist-populist authoritarianism associated with a presidential hegemonic ruling party, two successive autocratic presidents and their subservient oppressive elites. The diachronic survey of Tunisia's political system encompasses the early years of autocracy, under the autocratic rule of the first president of the Republic Bourguiba, 1957–87, as well as the various stages of its consolidation into a police-security state with the second autocrat-President, Ben Ali, 1987–2011. This study also explores the reasons behind the durability of the ruling authoritarian-autocratic elites who played a decisive role in shaping state-society relations under the first and second president and left an indelible mark on the Tunisian polity beyond the 2010 'popular uprisings'. Therefore, the question is how, throughout the 2010 'Jasmine Revolution', anti-democratic forces mutated in Tunisian politics in such a way that the end of 'autocracy', brought about by people's uprisings, did not translate into social transformations, economic gains and 'popular sovereignty'? Put more bluntly, why does the 'revolution' remain 'unfinished' and the transition 'endless' or 'blocked'?


OBJECTIVE
To analyze the prognosis of fetuses identified with de novo variants of unknown significance (VOUS) by chromosome microarray analysis (CMA).

METHODS
A total of 6 826 fetuses who underwent prenatal CMA detection at the Prenatal Diagnosis Center of Drum Tower Hospital from July 2017 to December 2021 were selected as the study subjects. The results of prenatal diagnosis, and outcome of fetuses identified with VOUS of de novo origin were followed up.

RESULTS
Among the 6 826 fetuses, 506 have carried VOUS, of which 237 were detected for the parent-of-origin and 24 were found to be de novo. Among the latters, 20 were followed up for 4 to 24 months. Four couples had opted elective abortion, 4 had developed clinical phenotypes after birth, and 12 were normal.

CONCLUSION
Fetuses with VOUS should be continuously follow-up, in particular those carrying de novo VOUS, in order to clarify their clinical significance.


A 65 year old man presented with bacterial endocarditis of the mitral valve. Immediately after mitral valve replacement a valve ring abscess ruptured. Early surgery should be performed when an intramyocardial abscess is suspected.


A radiotracer composed of a bone targeting agent P15-041 linked to the radioisotope gallium Ga 68, with potential imaging activity upon positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT). Upon administration, the P15-041 moiety targets, through an as of yet unknown mechanism of action, a certain target expressed by bone and, upon PET/CT, bone metastases can be imaged.


The wet dual clutch transmission (DCT) controls clutch engagement and disengagement by charging and releasing hydraulic oil into the clutch oil pressure chamber. The pressure oil is filled into the clutch chamber, and the clutch is engaged; otherwise, the clutch is disconnected. The speed of clutch dynamic oil-filling time has a significant influence on the realization of DCT shift control law, vehicle starting performance, shifting smoothness and other shifting quality. In this paper, taking a DCT clutch system with the proportional solenoid valve (PSV) as the research object, the operation principle of the DCT clutch system is introduced, and the dynamic oil-filling characteristics of the clutch are studied by experiment on the hydraulic control unit (HCU) test bench. Finally, a method for optimizing the structure of clutch oil circuit is proposed, and the dynamic oil-filling characteristics of the clutch are compared and verified on the HCU test bench. The optimized structure can effectively improve the dynamic oil-filling performance of the DCT clutch system.


In this article we give a new proof of Ng\^o's Geometric Stabilisation Theorem, which implies the Fundamental Lemma. This is a statement which relates the cohomology of Hitchin fibres for a quasi-split reductive group scheme $G$ to the cohomology of Hitchin fibres for the endoscopy groups $H_{\kappa}$. Our proof avoids the Decomposition and Support Theorem, instead the argument is based on results for $p$-adic integration on coarse moduli spaces of Deligne-Mumford stacks. Along the way we establish a description of the inertia stack of the (anisotropic) moduli stack of $G$-Higgs bundles in terms of endoscopic data, and extend duality for generic Hitchin fibres of Langlands dual group schemes to the quasi-split case.


Cutfield W, Lindberg A, Albertsson Wikland K, Chatelain P, Ranke MB, Wilton P, on behalf of the KIGS International Board. Final height in idiopathic growth hormone deficiency: the KIGS experience. Acta Pædiatr 1999; Suppl 428: 72–5. Stockholm. ISSN 0803–5326


Lithium titanate Li4Ti5O12as lithium ion battery cathode material was synthesized using hydrothermal and microwave hydrothermal methods, the influences of different methods on its electrochemical performance were examined, and its structure,morphology, constant current charge and discharge characterized. The results showed that Li4Ti5O12could be synthesized by both methods, the latter could lead to better electrochemical properties of the sample in smaller and more uniform particle size and larger specific surface area, the first discharge capacity of 151.33 mA·h/g after 97 cycles was 140.94 mA·h/g, the capacity retention rate 93.14%,and the chemical impedance smaller.


Most captive members of the genus Panthera are fed a nutritionally supplemented diet consisting almost entirely of ground meat. While the Association of Zoos and Aquariums discusses (but comes short of recommending) the supplementation of this diet with more complete carcass elements, the fact remains that large captive felids are fed diets that require substantially less masticatory effort than those of their wild counterparts. The osteological effects of this dietary difference have not been fully evaluated. We compared 3D geometric morphometric landmarks on a population of captive and wild lions and tigers. Though the first principal component (21.3% of the variation) separates the two species, the second principal component is driven not by the sex differences in these highly dimorphic species, but rather by their captivity status. In fact, captivity status drives nearly twice as much of the morphological variation as sexual dimorphism (15.6% vs. 8.0% for PC1 vs. PC2). If a causal relationship can be seen between mechanical diet and morphology, curators and nutritionists who oversee the diets of captive carnivores should consider modifying these diets to account for not only nutritional but also mechanical value as well.