I demonstrate that a member of
the protein family A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease (ADAM),
ADAM23, is expressed in the olfactory epithelium (OE) and may
inhibit neural progenitor cell (NPC) proliferation. I generated a
list of ten gene candidates and selected ADAM23 for further study,
based on its conserved protein structure and accumulating evidence
for its role in cell cycle progression of proliferative cells. I
next determined ADAM23 protein localization using
immunohistochemistry and measured both mRNA and protein expression
post-lesion with RT-qPCR and Western blot. ADAM23 is expressed in
multiple cell types of the OE, including glial Sustentacular (Sus)
cells and neurons. There are four splice variants present in the
OE, and mRNA expression decreases three to four-fold post-lesion
but recovers to pre-lesion levels within two weeks (p<0.05,
ANOVA). ADAM23 is poised to regulate NPC quiescence through contact
with Sus cell end-feet. It may also facilitate important Sus:neuron
interactions.


The redox processes of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and its compounds were investigated by the thin-layer spectroelectrochemical technique. It is shown that the direct electron transfer of the enzyme HRP on the solid electrodes can be carried out and the electrode reaction is the oxidation-state transformation of the central metal ion in prosthetic group heme rather than the reduction of disulfide group in HRP molecule. The standard redox potential of HRP(Fe3+/ Fe2+) couple and electrochemical kinetic parameters were measured, and the electrochemical properties of HRP compound I were also discussed.


This is a study of how a major federal program met its demise. In 1986 Congress passed legislation which ended federal involvement in health planning, repealing the 1974 National Health Planning and Resources Development Act. This unusual action, ending (at least for now) over 20 years of federal involvement in health planning, was precipitated by changes in the policy-relevant environment and the arrival of new actors into the issue network. Federal activity in health facilities planning actually began with the 1946 Hill-Burton Act, which provided financial assistance for hospital construction and expansion. The major federal effort got underway in 1967 with the Partnership for Health Act, which set up a network of Comprehensive Health Planning Agencies (CHPAs). Both of those acts, along with the Regional Medical Program (P. L. 89-239), expired in 1974 and were replaced by the Health Planning and Resources Development Act (P. L. 93-641). The new program replaced CHPAs with Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) and created a new emphasis on cost containment by mandating state adoption of certificate-of-need (CON) laws. It was the major piece of federal legislation in health policy until the 1983 enactment of a prospective payment system (PPS) based on diagnosis related groups (DRGs). Its demise, then, should not have surprised many, and actually it was considered overdue by most actors in the issue network. How a program with 20 years of momentum could die offers new insights into the workings of government in an era of restrained budgets.


Various distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), such as blockchain, have evolved significantly in recent years. These technologies provide a robust and effective solution for providing confidentiality, integrity, nonrepudiation, authentication, and transparency. While blockchain has many advantages, it has various limitations as well, such as complexity, low throughput, privacy, and so on. We discuss the issues that must be considered when deciding whether to use these technologies in a given case or not. We describe the operation of blockchain, application areas where blockchain is suitable, and those where it is not. We also discuss the applicability of other emerging DLTs, apart from blockchain technology, such as Hashgraph, Zcash, Nano coin, and IOTA.


Computational models are developed to allow for a deeper understanding of design factors that affect the lifetime of a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) stack, particularly related with the contact‐resistance issue of end cells in a large‐scale stack. A simplified microcontact‐resistance model and a physics‐based macrocontact‐resistance model are constructed to investigate the effect of contact resistance on the performance and longevity of VRFB stacks. A microcontact‐resistance model predicts significant heat accumulation in the current‐collector plate that can result in irreversible damage of plastic materials and an electrical‐voltage loss if the contact resistance is not properly engineered in the stack design. Furthermore, the physics‐based macrocontact‐resistance model investigates abrupt voltage and current distortion in the bipolar plate that is in imperfect contact with the current collector; this results in the local corrosion of the bipolar plate.


Abstract Comparisons of the spectral response for incomplete (well-defined row structure) and complete (overlapping row structure) canopies indicated that there was a greater dependence on Sun and view geometry for the incomplete canopies. This effect was more pronounced for the highly absorptive red (0.6-0.7 μm) wavelength band than for the near-infrared (IR) (0.8-1.1 μm) based on relative reflectance factor changes. Red and near-IR reflectance for the incomplete canopy decreased as solar zenith angle increased for a nadir view angle until the soil between the plant rows was completely shaded. Thereafter for increasing solar zenith angle the red reflectance levelled off and the near-IR reflectance increased. A 'hot-spot' effect was evident for the red and near-IR reflectance factors, especially when the Sun-sensor view directions were perpendicular to the rows. The 'hot-spot' effect was more pronounced for the red band based on relative reflectance value changes. The effect of Sun angle was more pronounc...


Objectives: The average life expectancy is increasing all over the world, and as a result, the number of elderly patients is increasing. Acute cholecystitis is one of the most common diseases requiring emergency surgical treatment in the elderly. In the literature, it has been reported that in the treatment of elderly patients with acute cholecystitis, physicians do not fully comply with the current literature recommendations due to some concerns and do not apply surgical treatment in the early period. The concept of frailty, which has come to the fore in geriatric assessment today, provides objective information about the general health status of the patient. In our study, the role of frailty assessment in the decision made regarding the early surgery in elderly patients with acute cholecystitis treated in our hospital was investigated.
Methods: In our study, the clinical features, comorbidities, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) scores, Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) frailty scale, treatment modalities and prognosis of patients over the age of 65 who were treated with the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis between January 2018 and January 2021 were evaluated retrospectively.
Results: Of the 182 patients included in the study, 24 (13.2%) were found to be frail. It was observed that the mean age and multi-morbidity were higher in the frail group (p < 0.001). It was observed that the mean C-reactive protein and leukocyte values, which are inflammatory mediators, increased in both groups, both fragile and non-fragile, and complicated cholecystitis accompanied by cholangitis or pancreatitis was observed in a total of 64 (35.16%) patients. There were 57 (31.3%) patients using anticoagulant or antiaggregant agents. The patients were most frequently treated with medical treatment (n = 108; 59.3%), the other treatment methods were early surgery ( (n = 46; 25.3%), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (n = 22; 12.1%) and percutaneous cholecystostomy (n = 11; 6.0%). Surgical treatment was more common in ASA I and II patients, and percutaneous cholecystostomy was more common in frail patients (p < 0.001). There were 20 (14.70%) patients who were re-admitted to the hospital and 6 (3.29%) patients ended up with mortality. No statistical relationship could be demonstrated between these conditions and frailty (p > 0.05).
Conclusions: In the treatment of the elderly cholecystitis patients, early surgical treatment is the most favorable treatment method in order to reduce re-admission and prevent possible complications. However, we think that a detailed geriatric evaluation should be made in a multidisciplinary manner for the decision making regarding the of surgical treatment of elderly patients, and frailty evaluation should also be made in this context.


Abstract During the past few years several intercollegiate poultry judging contests have been held, most of them either in connection with the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show or the Boston Poultry Show. The results attained in these contests have pointed out very definitely the great value which might be derived from a well planned and well organized contest of this kind. The holding of such contests has tended to increase interest in the judging of standard bred poultry among college students as well as increased appreciation of the value of pure bred stock. The value of such contests is not alone to be found in the knowledge gained by students taking part in the work, but is also to be found in the stimulation of college spirit by intercollegiate competition. There is something very definite to do in poultry judging and, therefore, the subject is one which lends itself admirably to …


Cryptography is the study of secret writing that hides the content of message from unwanted persons except authenticated persons such as the sender and receiver of the message. It is also used to authenticate the correctness of message to the recipient. Today data security is the challenging issue that is used in many contexts including computers and communication. Recently cyber security attacks have certainly influenced the user sentiments. In other words, it would be prominent to say that cryptography is one way to make sure that confidentiality, authentication, integrity and availability of user data is maintained further that security and privacy of data are provided to the user. In the paper three classical modes of operation CBC, CFB and OFB have been proposed in the literature for comparison. Features of comparison that is used are block size, throughput, random access, error propagation, parallelizing, cipher type and identical plaintext. These three modes are totally studied and general comparison are provided.


Nowadays, narrow linewidth lasers are unavoidable tools for fundamental and applied physics. One promising approach to generate coherent laser emission is based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) optical nonlinearity [1]. Implementing SBS in an optical cavity gives rise to coherent emission with impressive performances in terms of noise and linewidth [2]. Cascading the SBS process can even, under given conditions, improves the coherent emission specifications [3]. To achieve such performances it is crucial to determine the Brillouin gain coefficient. Usual pump-probe methods are carried out in single pass waveguides [4]. The probe intensity is proportional to egBPinLeff/Aeff where Pin is the incident pump power, Aeff the effective mode area and Leff the usual effective interaction length. To observe significant probe amplification one needs either long waveguides or strong pump power to reach the SBS threshold. We propose a method, based on the cavity ringdown spectroscopy, to directly characterize the Brillouin gain coefficient inside a resonator. This configuration allows to extract Brillouin parameters from the light recirculation with both a reduced waveguide length and input pump power when compared to usual methods.


In this paper we define the notion of quantized cobordism as a unitary operator between Spinc quantizations of cobordant symplectic manifolds, and announce a theorem from [13] describing the microlocal structure of this operator.


In this paper, we propose a predictor–corrector interior-point method for symmetric cone optimization. The proposed algorithm is based on a new one-norm neighbourhood, which is an even wider neighbourhood than a given negative infinity neighbourhood. The convergence is shown for a commutative class of search directions, which includes the Nesterov–Todd direction and the xs and sx directions. We show that the algorithm has iteration complexity bound which is better than that of the usual wide neighbourhood algorithm . To our knowledge, these are the best complexity results obtained so far for the solution of symmetric cone optimization. We prove that beside the predictor steps, each corrector step also reduces the duality gap by a rate of . Finally, numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and reliable.


Concussions are an important topic in youth sports. For example, concussions account for approximately 15% of injuries in hockey players aged 9 to 16 years, with most resulting from aggressive behaviour such as bodychecking.[1][1],[2][2] Concussion must be seen beyond the initial hit: the potential


The aim of this study of functional outcome of surgical excision of the posterior calcaneal tuberosity
through a medial longitudinal incision with debridement, reattachment of the Achilles tendon using bone
anchors in haglung deformity. Haglund deformity is a prominence in the postero superolateral aspect of the calcaneum.
Haglund deformity is a prominence in the postero superolateral aspect of the calcaneum, causing a painful bursitis, which may
be difcult to treat by non-operative measures alone. Various surgical methods are available for effective treatment of
refractory Haglund's deformity. This study is to evaluate whether adequate resection of Haglund deformity by a lateral
approach and reattachment of the Achilles tendon using bone anchor, provides good to excellent results. During the period
from 2021 to 2022, 30 patients with had undergone resection of Haglund deformity using lateral approach and the outcome was
analysed using AOFAS Ankle-Hind Foot Scale. The AOFAS ankle hind foot scale was employed to evaluate the patient's
outcome. The AOFAS ankle- hind foot score evaluates pain (40 points), function (50 points) and alignment (10 points).The mean
AOFAS score at the follow up was 90/100, with the majority of patients reporting alleviation of pain at one year follow up. The
medial approach to calcaneal ostectomy can be an effective treatment for those suffering from refractory Haglund deformity.
However, the patient must be made aware of the duration of recovery being long. Complications included one recurrence of
painful prominence, one wound infection, and one incisional neuroma. Surgical management consisted of excision of the
posterior calcaneal tuberosity through a lateral longitudinal incision with debridement, reattachment of the Achilles tendon
using bone anchors, and 4 weeks of postoperative immobilization. The outcome of these cases demonstrated that in those
patients who fail nonoperative treatment, surgical treatment of Haglund's deformity produces a predictably good surgical
result when performed using the technique described


Objective:To investigate the effects of psychological training on mental health of medical and nursing staff.Methods:94 staff members underwent psychological training period based on"Psychological Training of the Military"as long as 130 days.16 PF was used to evaluate the mental health of medical and nursing staff before and after the training session.Results:Compared with the scores of pre-training,the scores of 94 medical and nursing staff members decreased obviously in suspicion factor(P0.05),in adaptability and anxiety factors(P0.05),but stability factor increased(P0.01).Conclusion:Systematic psychological training of the military personnel plays an important role on mental health of medical and nursing staff and the effects are related with the system,the contents and the training styles.


The transverse permeability of unidirectional fiber tows is calculated using homogenization method.Each fiber tow consisting of 21 filaments is arranged in uniform square packing.Stokes governing equation is analogized with Lame equation used in the linear elasticity problem and is solved by the finite element code ANSYS.The prediction for transverse permeability of unidirectional fiber obtained by the homogenization approach is compared with other analytical methods.The result shows a good agreement with Kozeny-Carman equation and Gebart square packing model.A model for nonuniform fiber distribution and measurement technology are proposed.It can be found that the experimental result is in excellent agreement with predicted permeability in the nonuniform distribution model.


HEN Gabriel Harvey accused Spenser of allowing "Hobgoblin [to] runne away with the Garland from Apollo,"l Josephine Waters Bennett, unable to discern anything hobgoblinish about Book I of The Faerie Queene, concluded that Harvey must be talking about some other version of the poem's beginning-one which made more explicit use of fairy lore and folk superstition than the legend of holiness? There is a possibility, however, that Harvey was in fact talking about Book I and its hero, Saint George, and making a witty allusion to contemporary attitudes toward England's patron. Professor Bennett conjectures that Harvey held fairy stories in intellectual and theological disrepute: because "the ignorant and the superstitious believed in them . . . they probably had in Harvey's mind . . . associations not only with ignorance but with Roman Catholicism also. 3 Exactly those same attitudes could account for a denigration of Saint George, and they are manifest in a contemporary denunciation of him to which Harvey may have alluded. Protesting against veneration of saints, Calvin says those men dishonor Christ "who count His intercession of no importance without the assistance of George, Hippolytus, and other such larvae" (Institutes, III.xx.27). A larva is a ghost or bogey. Sir Thomas Elyot says it is a "goblin," and Lewis and Short say specifically, "hobgoblin," used "as a term of reproach." The latter is almost certainly Calvin's meaning; it is also Harvey's, to whomever he referred, and the possibility of that's being Calvin is supported by his hoping-probably tongue-in-cheek as Calvin would seriously-that "God or some good Aungell [will] putte [Spenser] in a better minde."4 9 9


Two libraries containing 72 D-xylose or D-glucose derived pseudodipetides and thioamides, respectively are prepared as ligands for catalytic asymmetric transfer hydrogenation.


. The paper presents the automated system of control of certain elements of the hydrodynamic system related to the production of liquid milk. Similar systems may find application in various fields of engineering, such as: hydro power station construction; oil refineries construction; control systems in various chemical industries containing hydrogen atoms in the final product; in propellant flow rate systems, etc., whenever it is required to control hydrodynamic parameters by means of nuclear magnetic resonance on the relevant atoms of the products used.


One of the activities in coal mining at PT Bukit Asam Tbk is overburden. Based on information obtained in the field, activities in Pit 3 East Banko Barat are still not efficient, because there is still a large cycle time of the PC 3000 digging tool and there are blasting boulders resulting in the bucket not being fully loaded. The objectives of the study were to determine the type of material, blasting drilling activities, blasting geometry, explosive use, fragmentation distribution of blasting results, and the effect of fragmentation distribution on PC 3000 productivity. Pit 3 blasting targets every month in 2018 amounted to 600,000 BCM and 249,574 BCM realization in November 2018. The blasting geometry applied at Pit 3 is 8.1 meter burden, 9.1 meter spacing, 7.4 meter hole depth, 3.7 meter fill column, 3.7 meter stemming, 26.53 loading density kg / m, and powder factor 0.18 kg / BCM (0.066 kg / ton). The results of the distribution of fragmentation using Split Desktop, obtained an average boulders (fragmentation> 100 cm) of 7.61% or it can be said that the resulting fragmentation is still quite good. The average PC 3000 cycle time is 89.96 seconds, where there is an average waiting time of 59.01 seconds. The actual productivity of PC 3000 before the improvement of work efficiency is 298.51 BCM / hour and productivity after work efficiency improvement is 338.61 BCM / hour.


Technological style has been regarded as a useful tool for the study of cultural variation patterns and to iden-tify and explore social boundaries through the material record. Technological styles definition involves the iden-tification of existing technical variability within the analyzed sample that results from the different technological choices implemented by the craftsmen during the different steps of the manufacturing sequence. In archaeologi-cal terms the existence of certain attributes of the artifacts that co-varies in time and space imply some kind of relationship between persons who produced and used them. These relationships may include different levels of social interaction that does not necessarily involve co-residence. This work takes the concept of technological style and presents the results of analyses carried out on ceramic samples recovered in different archaeological sites corresponding to pre-estate agricultural societies that developed between 1500 - 1300 BP occupying different environments of western Tinogasta (Catamarca). The results contribute to the definition of the structure of the territory of such societies and are an indicator of the different degrees of interaction of human groups within a social system.


This collection on developmental themes contributes to a spate of recent books on the dialogical self (e.g., Aveling et al., 2010; Hermans and Gieser, 2012; Hermans and Hermans-Konopka, 2010). Their emergence confirms the growing importance of 'dialogism' for psychology and the social sciences (Holquist, 2002). In psychological traditions, 'dialogical self theory' (DST) has multiple roots: first, i nthe pragmatism of William James' (1890) notion of an extended (social) self; second, in the social psychology of George Herbert Mead's (1934") focus on 'otherness' as a source of self-reflection; and third (and above all), in an engagement with the concepts of 'dialogiue,' 'polyphony,' 'multio-voicedness' and 'mediation' emerging in the Russian work of Bakhtin (1981, 1984, 1990) and Vygotsky (1978). Bakhtin's dialogical epistemology, in particular, has made possible new linkages from literary and social theory to psychological studies of a more pluralist and relational self than the 'self-contained' one proposed by Enlightenment and individualism (Sampson, 1985). The growing literature spawned by these linkages suggest that the dialogical approach is an important new innovation. At the cultural level, postmodern shifts in the possibilities for the self brought about by global electronic communication and by mass migrations, converge with these recent innovations. In short, more challenging theoretical frameworks are demanded for the study of the self; frameworks which reach beyond traditional Western conceptions of integration, self-containment and sovereign agency (Gergen, 1991; Gregg, 1991).


This article describes a survey of 77 psychologists working in the Veterans Administration. The respondents provided services such as therapy for, assessment of and consultation regarding elder patients. The respondents identified the problem areas of insufficient personnel, lack of training opportunities, resistance of psychologists to working with elders, and overemphasis on the medical model. Future research must develop assessment techniques more appropriate for elders.


Underground sites play a significant role in the life cycle of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra). Despite the known importance of such roosts during winter, there is still a lack of information on salamander biology inside such roosts. We studied the wintering of Salamandra salamandra from November 2011 to April 2012 in an artificial gallery near the village of Ticha Voda (eastern Slovakia) in a population composed predominantely by males. Their weight was higher at the end of December, though we did not record any significant weight change in females. On the other hand, mobility was significant in females, while the majority of males were immobile. We also observed a high frequency of changes in the position of wintering salamanders. Most individuals preferred a free position in the roost or a half-hidden position within crevices in the gallery walls.


The specific surface area by air permeability, Sa, and that by BET, SB, were observed simultaneously during the dry fine grinding process of limestone powder with ball media, Sa values were calculated by Carman's equation in which the effect of molecular flow was taken into account. The process was characterized on the Sa-SB coordinate plane and was divided into three phases: phase I where both surfaces increased, the intermediate or transitional phase II, and phase III where both surfaces decreased. A typical grinding process started from I and arrived in III via II, but in some cases, II or III was not clearly identified.


In the chapter on Apabhraṃśa in Hemacandra's Prākrit Grammar (Siddhahema, iv, 330 if.) are found some instances of a curious phraseological turn to express the ablative of motion, which is unknown from OIA, viz.:— iv, 355 jahāhontau āgado "from where he came"; tahāhontau āgado "from there he came"; kahāhontau āgado "from where did he come ?"; iv, 379 mahu hontau gado, majjhu hontau gado "he went from me"; iv, 372 tau hontau āgado, tujjha hontau āgado, tudhra hontau āgado "he came from you"; iv, 380 amhahã hontau gado "he went from us"; iv, 373 tumhahã hontau āgado "he came from you".


. We consider a family of regularized defocusing nonlinear Schr¨odinger (NLS) equations proposed in the context of the cubic NLS equation with a bounded dispersion relation. The time evolution is well-posed if the black soliton is perturbed by a small perturbation in the Sobolev space H s ( R ) with s > 12 . We prove that the black soliton is spectrally stable (unstable) if the regularization parameter is below (above) some explicitly specified threshold. We illustrate the stable and unstable dynamics of the perturbed black solitons by using the numerical finite-difference method. The question of orbital stability of the black soliton is left open due to the mismatch of the function spaces for the energy and momentum conservation.


An electric wall panel switch comprises a grid section for fixing on a wall and a switch component connected on the grid section, wherein the switch component comprises a pivot shaft trigger which causes switching actions in the switch component due to pivot shaft movement. The trigger comprises a pair of abutted surfaces. A switch dialing bar is installed on the grid section through a pivot shaft and is provided with a pair of actuators, and each actuator is aligned with one of the abutted surfaces and squeezes the abutted surfaces for causing opening and closing movement of the pivot shaft of the trigger.


By the beginning of the 21st century it may seem that the nation state has developed into the universal institutional form by which the peoples throughout the world have linked their aspiration for belonging with their need for administration and governance (Maier 2009). During the 19th century the nation state, with its bureaucratic apparatus, juridicial-legislative systems, modes of governmentality, and economic capacities, had come to play an important role in defining, controlling, and regulating populations, including migrants, in many parts of the world. Nationalist politics and conflict have shaped the history of the 19th century up to the present. Yet, in other than nationality-related terms which are frequently linked to the modern era, migration has been a constant feature of human history.

Keywords:

assimilation and exclusion;
equality;
citizenship;
social policy;
immigration


The goal of learning-based image Super-Resolution (SR) is to generate a plausible and visually pleasing High-Resolution (HR) image from a given Low-Resolution (LR) input. The problem is dramatically under-constrained, which relies on examples or some strong image priors to better reconstruct the missing HR image details. This paper addresses the problem of learning the mapping functions (i.e. projection matrices) between the LR and HR images based on a dictionary of LR and HR examples. One recently proposed method, Anchored Neighborhood Regression (ANR) [1], provides state-of-the-art quality performance and is very fast. In this paper, we propose an improved variant of ANR, namely Locally regularized Anchored Neighborhood Regression (LANR), which utilizes the locality-constrained regression in place of the ridge regression in ANR. LANR assigns different freedom for each neighbor dictionary atom according to its correlation to the input LR patch, thus the learned projection matrices are much more flexible. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm performs efficiently and effectively over state-of-the-art methods, e.g., 0.1-0.4 dB in term of PSNR better than ANR.


Abstract Lanthanide elements are produced in relatively high yield by fission of235 U. Almost all the lanthanide isotopes decay to stable nonradioactive lanthanide isotopes in a relatively short time. Consequently, it is highly advantageous to separate the relatively small actinide fraction from the relatively large quantities of lanthanide isotopes. The TALSPEAK process (Trivalent Actinide Lanthanide Separations by Phosphorusreagent Extraction from Aqueous Complexes) is one of the few means available to separate the trivalent actinides from the lanthanides. Previous work based on the use of lactic or glycolic acid has shown deleterious effects of some impurity ions such as zirconium (IV), even at concentrations on the order of 10−4 M. Other perceived problems were the need to maintain the pH and reagent concentrations within a narrow range and a significant solubility of the organic phase at high carboxylic acid concentrations. Our cold experiments showed that replacing the traditional extractants glycol...


Introduction: Glucocorticoid (GC) excess is related to hypertension. The deletion of endothelial GC-receptors abrogates the blood pressure increase, suggesting GC-induced hypertension is endothelium-dependent. In response to shear stress endothelium releases nitric oxide, endothelial derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) and prostacyclin. Recently H2S has been proposed as a candidate for EDHF. H2S is mainly produced by the enzymes cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) and cystathionine γ-lyase (CSE) from L-cysteine. The aim of this study was to investigate the EDHF/H2S signaling in GC-hypertension. Methods: Male Wistar rats were treated with DEX (1.5 mg/kg/sc) or vehicle (VEH) for 8 days. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) was monitored every 2 days. EDHF was evaluated in mesenteric plexus and carotid artery performing a concentration-effect curve of acetylcholine in presence of indomethacin (INDO) and nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME). Apamin (APA) plus charibdotoxin (CTX), SKCa and BKCa inhibitors, or propargy...


A method of combining Kalman filtering and minimax filtering is proposed and demonstrated in an application to phase-locked loop design. Kalman filtering suffers from a lack of robustness to departures from the assumed noise statistics. But minimax filtering has the drawback of ignoring the engineer's (admittedly incomplete) knowledge of the noise statistics. It is shown in this paper that hybrid Kalman/minimax filtering can provide the best of both worlds. Phase-locked loop filter design is used in this paper to demonstrate an application of hybrid estimation.


This paper presents a new design of frequency selective structure based on a two-dimensional periodic array of hollow square coaxial waveguides, which exhibits a narrow bandpass response under dual polarizations. The design is insensitive to different polarizations due to its structural symmetry and produces a stable quasi-elliptic filtering response under different incident angles. Extensive simulation results are given to examine the effects of various structural parameters on its reflection and transmission coefficients.


Objective: To evaluate the sealing capacity and retention of apical barriers made with mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) and Portland cement (PC).  Material and Methods: Fifty-six bovine incisors were sectioned 8 mm above and 12 mm below the cement-enamel junction. The root canal was enlarged with a diamond drill to create a standard 2.5 mm diameter opening. Apical sheets of 5 mm thickness were placed using white MTA-Angelus or white PC. Fifteen samples of each material were exposed to human saliva in a dual chamber apparatus and casting was evaluated at 30 days. Samples without apical barriers and fully sealed samples were used as positive and negative controls (n = 3), respectively. Data were analyzed by Fisher's exact test (p 0.05).  Conclusion: Mineral trioxide aggregateand Portland cementapical barriers presented similar sealing ability and bond strength values.


Endress+Hauser has made significant strides in radar-measurement technology with its new Micropilot FMR5x devices for applications in all industrial process industries, from mining and metals to food and beverage, the water sector to chemicals, energy and oil and gas.


In this paper I consider what we might mean when we assert that a particular person, or a whole society, is "repressed". Is repression a useful concept for historians? In this centenary year of the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams I will use dreams as my angle for exploring the repression of desires and wishes in ancient societies. When I mentioned the topic of this paper to an anthropologist friend his immediate retort was, "Repression! The ancients didn't have any of that, did they?" And I began to wonder if I were setting out to flog a dead horse. Freud also assumed that the ancients underwent little, if any, repression. That is why Sophocles could write Oedipus the King, and the drama of Oedipus killing his father and sleeping with his mother could be staged before large audiences. The ancients could contemplate the fulfilment of the "primeval wishes of our childhood" (Freud, 1900a: 296; Sissa, 1994: 31). Freud contended, furthermore, that since antiquity there had been a "secular advance of repression in the emotional life of mankind" (Freud, 1900a: 298). This was why childhood phantasy could be expressed in Oedipus the King whereas by the time of Shakespeare's Hamlet the same phantasy had to be repressed. Oedipus was tragic, whereas Hamlet was neurotic. As an anthropologist I have learned to suspect any account of "unrepressed societies" for the simple reason that they usually turn out to be unreliable. Such reports can better be regarded as overstated examples of "ethnographic allegory" (Clifford, 1986). A case in point would be Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa (1961 [1928]) in which the author contended that because the Samoans led a life of sexual freedom they did not confront any "adolescent crisis" as American youth did. Samoan sexual arrangements, Mead argued, presented a lesson that American society would do well to heed. Some fifty years later, however, Derek Freeman (1983) pointed out that most of the girls Mead studied were, in fact, Christian and thus somewhat familiar with the concept of


Context: Reduction in risk of stroke is possible through prevention, modification, or treatment of the emerging or established modifiable risk factors. Aims: The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge regarding stroke risk factors and factors affecting this knowledge among residents of Shika, Zaria. Settings and Design: A community-based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 133 respondents in Shika community. Subjects and Methods: A pretested, semi-structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain data from the respondents. Statistical Analysis Used: Data were analyzed using IBM-SPSS version 21. Descriptive summary statistics such as mean and standard deviation (SD) were used to present numeric data such as age while frequencies and proportions were used for categorical data such as knowledge level. Chi-square test and Fischer's exact test were used to determine the association between categorical variables at a significant level of P< 0.05. Results: Majority of the respondents were males (64.7%), with a mean (± SD) age of 33 ± 14 years, and had tertiary education (46.6%). About 82.0% of them had ever heard of stroke. Only 21.8% of respondents had good knowledge (any respondent able to identify ≥2 established factors) of stroke risk factors. There was a statistically significant relationship between knowledge of stroke risk factors and gender of respondents (P = 0.04, χ2 = 6.25) as well as with the educational status of respondents (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Knowledge of stroke risk factors was found to be poor among the respondents, and educational status and gender of respondents were found to be associated factors. To increase public knowledge of stroke, community-based educational strategies based on the results of this study should focus on people with poor educational background.


Back to nature" is an increased demand nowadays, for using plants in therapy "instead of using synthetic drugs that may have adverse effects. Grape seed extract (Proanthcyanidins) and Selenium possesses a wide array of pharmacological and biochemical actions. Hymenolepiasis and Passulurus infections are considered as common health problems worldwide. In the present study, Grape seed extract and Selenium were evaluated singly or in combination with Anthelmintics (Niclosamide or Mebendazole) in treatment of Hymenolepis nana, Hymenolepis diminuta and Passulurus ambiguous infections in 160 naturally infected mice. Treatment of H. nana & H. diminuta infected mice with Niclosamide (half therapeutic dose) gave an efficacy of 47% while on addition of Grape seed extract and Selenium the efficacy of the drug increased to 64%, 57% respectively (P ≤ 0.05). In case of Passulurus ambiguous infected group Mebendazole (half therapeutic dose) gave an efficacy of 50% (P ≤ 0.05). With addition of Grape seed extract and Selenium the efficacy of the drug was 55.3% for both. Complete disappearance of eggs in feces was obtained using full therapeutic dose of the specific drug alone while treatment using antioxidants alone revealed an efficacy ranging from (12.4-24.7%) in the two infected groups without significance (P ≤ 0.05). It is concluded that the use of medicinal plants hold hope of finding new Anthelmintics treatment as part of an integrated approach specifically designed to achieve sustainable parasite control.


Forests incorporating biomass and soil organic carbon(SOC) storage maintain most of the continent carbon(C). Therefore studies on estimation and distribution of both biomass C and SOC in the local forests become hot issues under the background of global change. Based on the data from sampling plots setted up in three typical oak forests located at different altitude levels of Baotianman,we compare the distribution patterns of biomass C and SOC storage of these oak forests. Our results show that both above-and below-ground biomass C storage increase as altitudes increase,whereas the ratios of above-to below-ground C storages decrease simultaneously. SOC storage in 0 ~ 10,10 ~ 20 and 20 ~ 30 cm depth soil layers show an unimodal curve as altitude increases,SOC storage increases initially but decreases as altitude continues to increase. This trend is mainly caused by SOC of the bottom layers. It is interesting that total C storage of three oak forests does not vary significantly(p 0. 05) as altitudes increase,This result implies an offset effect between biomass C and SOC storage.


Speaking English as a foreign language presents one of the most common challenges for learners of English due to many factors related to their perception of the teacher as "a sage on the stage," their own shyness, a lack of appropriate vocabulary and accurate grammar, and a lack of cooperative learning skills. To help students remedy this problem, the Think-Pair-Share' strategy was used in this study of online classes during the COVID 19 pandemic. Research has demonstrated that learners can improve their speaking skills and learn more effectively through meaningful collaboration and sharing. This study aims to investigate the role of the Think-Pair-Share' approach in promoting students' speaking skills. The study adopts a qualitative approach and addresses the following two research questions: (i) To what extent does the Think-Pair- Share help in improving students' speaking skills? (ii) How can this improvement be justified? Twenty-eight first-year Moroccan university students took part in this study. The research instruments used combined pre- and post-speaking tests, students' self-evaluation, and classroom observations. Data were video recorded, analysed qualitatively using the FCE speaking-assessment criteria, and compared to the students' self- evaluation of their own performance. The results show that the Think-Pair-Share strategy enabled predominantly average and weak students to exchange their views on a range of familiar topics with more ease, confidence, and fluency using more appropriate vocabulary and a clearer organisation of ideas. Although the learners still had problems with their pronunciation and accurate grammar, they demonstrated better interactive communication.


The potentially quadridentate tripod-like ligand NN-bis-(2-diphenylphosphinoethyl)-2-methoxyethylamine (NOP2) forms diamagnetic complexes with nickel(II) of general formula [Ni(NOP2)X]Y. Their electronic spectra fail to indicate unambiguously whether the complexes are five-co-ordinate or square-planar with a terdentate ligand. Definitive answer is provided by a three-dimensional X-ray analysis of the [Ni(NOP2)I]I complex. The co-ordination polyhedron about the nickel atom can be described as a distorted square pyramid with an unusually long apical bond between the metal and oxygen atoms.The crystals are monoclinic, space group P21/c with a= 8·736 ± 0·005, b= 12·185 ± 0·011, c= 28·722 ± 0·016 A, β= 90° 02′± 4′, and Z= 4.


The current music education information has certain information loss in the real-time transmission process, which leads to poor educational effect. The research content of this thesis is based on FPGA video image acquisition and processing system. At the same time, this research mainly uses FPGA as the platform to realize and simulate video acquisition, transformation, storage, display and transmission. This research solves the problem of long-distance real-time transmission of high-definition video stream, and in order to improve the subjective quality of the recovered video at the receiving end, the algorithm processing is added to reduce the blockiness phenomenon in the video displayed at the receiving end. Finally, the validation test was designed to validate the research perspective. The experimental results show that the system works stably and realizes the functions of video image acquisition, conversion, display and transmission, and achieves the design goal. However, due to time constraints and other conditions, the entire design needs further improvement, so that it can provide a basis for the development of subsequent music education information communication technology.


Background: Political and legal guidelines emphasise the involvement of service users in the coordination between the community mental health centres (CMHCs) and the municipalities in mental health work. The study gathers knowledge on service user involvement in the care coordination pertaining to persons with a serious mental illness (SMI) who use the health services of the CMHC and municipalities.


The number of attacks that use sophisticated and complex methods increased lately. The main objective of these attacks is to largely infiltrate the target network and to stay undetected. Therefore, the attackers often use valid credentials and standard administrative tools to hide between legitimate user actions and to hinder detection. Most existing security systems, which use standard signature-based or anomaly-based approaches, are not able to identify this type of malicious activities. Furthermore, it is also most often not feasible to analyze user behavior manually, due to the complexity of this task and the high amount of different user actions. Thus, it is necessary to develop new automated approaches to identify suspicious user behavior. In this paper, we propose to use neural networks to analyze user behavior and to identify suspicious actions. Due to the fact that neural networks require suitable datasets to learn the difference between suspicious and benign actions, we describe a behavioral simulation system to generate reasonable datasets. These datasets use different behavioral features to describe log-on and log-off activities of users. To identify suitable neural network models for user behavior analysis, we evaluate and compare 16,275 different feed-forward neural networks with three different datasets and 75 recurrent neural networks with one dataset. The results show that the used dataset and the complexity of a model are crucial to achieve a high accuracy. Appropriate models, which also consider context behavior information, are able to automatically classify before unseen user actions with an accuracy of up to 98 %.


In the study of modern Asia, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–5 has usually received ample attention, as it marked a turning point in the histories of all the three countries involved in the war: Japan, China, and Korea. Buoyed by its surprising victory, Japan replaced China to assume the leadership in Asia. Shattered and shocked by its defeat, China was caught up in a turmoil that eventually led to the demise of its ruling Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Korea fared even worse; it fell under full control of Japan and, in 1910, also became its formal colony. Yet if Japan manifested its ambition in waging the war, it had shown and pursued a similar ambition three centuries earlier, only the outcome was far less favorable. This issue aims to bring readers' attention to the East Asian War of 1592–8, or the precursor of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–5. Not only did it involve the same three countries, but its outbreak was also eerily similar. Buoyed by the success of his unification cause, Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豐臣秀吉 (1537–98) launched its invasion in Korea with the claim that he would conquer China by way of Korea. As an ally and tributary state of Ming China, Korean rulers of the Choson dynasty (1392–1910) refused Toyotomi's request and sought help from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) in China. The Ming dynasty and Choson dynasty formed a coalition force against the Japanese invasion. Unsuccessful in his first attempt in 1592–5, Toyotomi made the second attempt in 1597–8, only to face not only another loss but also his death. To a great extent, the war that took place in the end of the sixteenth century had impacted all three countries. In Japan, Toyotomi failed to become the ultimate unifier of the country, leaving it to be completed by Tokugawa Ieyasu 德川家康 (1543–1616), his erstwhile associate. The alliance between China and Korea in the war further solidified their close bond, leaving an enduring cultural legacy, especially in Korea. In Ming dynasty China, its participation in the war sapped its vitality and indirectly caused the dynasty's downfall in 1644. Occurring about a half century after the East Asian War, the Ming's fall sent out shockwaves across East and Southeast Asia. Given its lasting historical significance, the East Asian War of 1592–8 has been studied by scholars in all three countries and, in more recent years, also by those in the English-speaking world. As an international project, scholars have presented disparaging views on a variety of aspects in the war. First and foremost, their differences show in the nomenclature: namely, how to refer to the war. Almost from the days immediately after the war to more or less today, Korean historians have been accustomed to naming it Imjin Waerran (Imjin Japanese Disturbance 壬辰倭亂 ) and Jeongyu Jaeran (Jeongyu Second Disturbance 丁酉再亂 ). For, as mentioned above, the war had two stages—Toyotomi launched the first invasion in 1592, which was the year of Imjin on the lunisolar calendar used in Asia, and the second invasion occurred in 1597, which was the year of Jeongyu on the calendar; both Imjin 壬辰 and Jeongyu 丁酉 were zodiac signs in naming the years. The Korean reference to the war, using the Chinese character "亂" (k. ran; c. luan) not only condemned Japan as the perpetrator but also regarded Japan as a subordinate that rebelled against Korea, for the word ran contains the meaning of "riot." The use of zodiac names instead of the regnal year of the Korean ruler of the Choson dynasty also carried


Cefmenoxime is a new syn-methoxyimino cephalosporin antibiotic derived from cefotiam, which has been proved to be a very effective and useful antibiotic for the treatment of respiratory infections. Th


Adolescent sleep deserves special attention as the sleep/wake cycle shifts during puberty. Not only are there hormonal processes to consider, but also psychosocial and environmental factors have a significant role in changing the circadian rhythm. Delayed sleep phase syndrome and narcolepsy have a typical onset during the second decade of life and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome often has a different etiology and treatment modality in teenagers. Insomnia affects a high number of adolescents and treatment is important because of the impact on daily functioning.


Several labs are investigating noninvasive measures of retinal function which predict onset of exudative age-related maculopathy (ARM).1,2,3,4 The goal is to identify those at risk so that laser photocoagulation is not delayed when symptoms first appear. Three psychophysical performances have been associated with development of ARM-- loss of absolute (dark adapted) foveal sensitivity to long wavelength light,1,2 loss of S-cone sensitivity,2 and change in color discrimination.4 We report here that flicker sensitivity to long-wavelength, low spatial frequency light is also affected in eyes at risk for ARM.


In this paper we introduce a new method using the zero-norm l0 for the combined feature selection-supervised classification problem. Discontinuity at the origin for l0 makes the solution of the corresponding optimization problem difficult. To overcome this drawback we use a robust DC (difference of convex functions) programming approach which is a general framework for non-convex continuous optimisation. We consider a continuous approximation to l0 in an appropriate way such that the resulting problem can be formulated in terms of a DC program. Our DCA (DC algorithm) requires the solution of one linear program at each iteration. Preliminary computational experiments on some real-world data sets show that the proposed method is promising for the combined feature selection-classification and more efficient than the standard FSV (feature selection concave) approach.


Introduction: Surgical site infection is dened as infection occurring within 30 days of a surgical operation, and affecting either the incision or deeper tissues at the operation site. These infections are associated with increased incidence of complications as well as increased cost of treatment. Methods: The objective was to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of surgical site infection among patients undergoing laparotomy. The subjects were patients undergoing laparotomy in the department of General Surgery, Medical College Trivandrum. Results: The incidence of surgical site infection following all laparotomies was 35.3%. Increased incidence of surgical site infection was associated with older age, prolonged surgery, prolonged hospitalisation, hypoalbuminemia, hyperglycemia, drain tubes and past history of laparotomy. Conclusions: A good number of patients develop surgical site infections after laparotomy. Knowledge about the risk factors will help us to understand surgical site infections in a better way and thereby to take appropriate precautionary measures.


Background Introduction The MA.17 study and combined analysis of the ATLAS and aTTom studies provide evidence of DFS and modest OS benefit from 10 years of hormone therapy (HT) for hormone receptor positive early breast cancer. The benefit may be less for women diagnosed today, due to advances in chemotherapy, initial HT, and radiation therapy since the era when these trials were conducted. Side effects accrue to all users of longer HT while benefit is experienced only by those who avoid recurrence, which is related to the baseline prognostic factors such as stage, grade, and disease biology. Methods To enhance informed patient-physician discussions, starting with a cohort of 10815 stage I-III hormone receptor breast cancer diagnoses between 1989 and 2004, we examined event-free survival (EFS) in years 5 to 10 among 1,061 premenopausal ( Results Median follow up for the 7676 patients is 11 years. Event rates (including CLBC) in the second 5 years from diagnosis for stage I, II and III cancers were 6%, 12%, 23% for the pre-menopausal cohort, and 5%, 14%, 26% for the post-menopausal cohort. EFS in years 5-10 varied significantly by grade as shown below: Recurrences (excluding CLBC) after 10 years was 2% for the 10815 cases (representing 12% of all recurrences). Conclusion These data suggest that pre and postmenopausal women with stage I cancers of any grade, and postmenopausal women with stage II grade 1 cancers who have not experienced a relapse in the first five years can expect a less than 10% risk of recurrence, breast cancer death, or CLBC without further HT over the next 5 years. Prolonged HT in the identified groups may result in higher probability of harm than benefit and may best be avoided, although long term data will be needed to fully inform this risk benefit analysis. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2013;73(24 Suppl): Abstract nr P1-13-01.


The factory outlet center development industry has boomed over the past decade, despite the fact that factory outlet stores originated in the last century. The traditional format for a factory outlet was a small store located near a factory, used as a vehicle to distribute lower quality or out of date merchandise at deeply discounted prices. The factory outlet center concept arose during the past 25 years, with a number of manufacturers locating in a shopping center format. Factory outlet centers have represented a minute portion of the retailing landscape, of interest primarily to local or regional real estate developers. Outlet centers have recently evolved into a new retailing concept composed almost exclusively of "value-oriented" merchandise.' They have been significant profit centers for manufacturers that have experimented with retailing, and they have transformed some manufacturers into full-scale retailers. They have also transformed the development approach for some companies from a traditional limited partnership format on individual projects to multiple large scale developments undertaken by public market real estate investment trusts (REITs). The explosive growth of the outlet center industry initially attracted investors in the public markets. As the frontier nature of factory outlet center development has given way to a more slowly expanding, mature industry, questions have been raised about future growth prospects for retailers, developers and real estate investors. This thesis explores the dynamic growth of the industry, the questions that have arisen in the process, and the implications for future factory outlet center development and investment. Thesis Supervisors: William C. Wheaton Professor of Economics W. Tod McGrath Center for Real Estate 1 W. Thomas Anderson, Retailing in the Year 2000: Quixotic consumers? Exotic Markets? Neurotic Retailers? in The Future of US. Retailing: An Agendafor the 21st Century (New York: Quorum Books), pp. 53-54.


ALTHOUGH the three -stage high quality amplifier described in the March issue left little to be desired in the way of performance, it has elicited many requests for information as to the best method of adding some form of tone control in the circuit. The gain of the amplifier is sufficient to accommodate certain types of tone controls, but others require still more amplification in order to perform correctly. The feedback placed around the first two stages eliminates the interstage coupling circuit as a location for tone controls, and in general, the amplifier is not suitable for this modification. Added to this difficulty, some interest has been shown in the possibility of adapting the basic circuit to accommodate a dynamic noise -suppressor amplifier, and as a further incentive, one re-


Individuals can be divided into three types of processing orientations: information-oriented; avoidant/diffuse orientation; and normative. These orientations are assumed to operate on at least three different levels: what people actually do; social-cognitive strategies; and identity style. Differences in identity style may be due mainly to motivational factors. One approach to investigating processing orientations has involved constructing a self-report measure of identity style. It was developed by separating the commitment and self-exploration components that would be contained in statements about identity status. Two studies examined the role that processing orientations may play in the construction and reconstruction of self-identity. The first investigation utilized a large-scale sample of 148 college student "pure" status types: achievers, moratoriums, diffusions, and foreclosures. As predicted, identity foreclosures had the highest normative scores, diffusions were highest on the avoidant/diffuse dimension, and achievers had the highest information-oriented scores. The second study focused on how some individuals rigidly manage to maintain and conserve their self-structures despite encountering experiences and stressors that should induce the need to reevaluate and perhaps accommodate their self-views. College students (N=l71) completed identity style scales, a coping checklist, and measures of achievement anxiety. The results revealed that both avoidant/diffuse and normative subjects reported being significantly more likely to rely on emotion-focused coping than did subjects with an information style. In conclusion, these results support the utility of a process conceptualization of identity. (ABL) *************************************************************t********* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** A Process View of Identity Formation and Maintenance Michael D. Berzonsky Department of Psychology State University of New York at Cortland Cortland, New York 13045 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTE R (ERIC) crhis document has been reproduced as eceived from the person or organization originating if Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions staled in this docu ment do not necessarily represent official 10EMpoadionOrWICY "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY /1/1 c1v, e SerZoots kir TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE(' %CO INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) CD %4D An address presented at a Symposium on Alternate Approaches to hrN Ego Identity held at the 1991 Biennial Meeting of the Society for CV Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington, April, 1991. (:) Symposium organized by Dr. Nancy Bugch-Rossnagel, Department of Psychology, Fordham University. 1 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE


BACKGROUND: Over the years Medical Records Department has arises as a vital part of any health care organization or a hospital. The dictum is "People forget, but Records remember". Medical Records has become a specialty in its own right, and the Medical Record Officers and Medical Record Technicians have earned the right to be considered as specialist in their own field. This is so because patient care requires a chronological record of patient care and treatment, and this enables the clinical team, as well as the hospital administrator, to evaluate the quality of medical care, and the effectiveness of the hospital services. This study is based on some objectives, to evaluate the existing medical record keeping system and evaluate the effectiveness of the current medical record system. METHODS: The population of the study includes all the medical record staffs of medical record department. The data were collected by direct interaction with personnel of the medical record department in B.P.S. Medical College & Hospitals of the Sonepat district, Haryana. Additional information was gathered by observation. RESULTS: This study was aimed to analyze the existing working procedure of Medical Record department to find out the areas that could be further improved. It was observed that the personnel in the Medical Record Department were sincere and conscious and the department was computerized, ICD coding system is implemented though there is scope for implementation of Electronic Health Record. CONCLUSIONS: The problems faced by Medical Record Department are the scarcity of staff and space for storage & working is insufficient which should be increased.


We are developing Data Stream Management System that can be applied in medical monitoring system. One of the problems is how to support efficient data access methods. This paper considers indexing issues in data management system. The indexing is a commonly used method of data access acceleration. Classical and new streaming methods of indexing have been presented. The method was developed in data stream management system and first applied in a centralized neonatal monitoring system.


n the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Americanactor Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman reluc-tantly sent to cover a longtime annual ritual inrural Pennsylvania when the groundhog emerges fromhis hole after a long winter sleep to look for hisshadow…a mythical sign of either the end of 6 moreweeks of continued bad weather or the beginning ofspring. Murray's character, bored with the routine ofhis life's work, finds himself in a "time loop" whereevery morning he is forced to continue to relive thereporting of Groundhog Day over and over again.Increasingly frustrated and depressed, he finallyrecognizes that his plight is a sign that if he doesnothing to re-examine and change his life for thebetter, he is doomed to repeat the same event everyday. What makes this movie a classic is that theaudience, in this timeless saga, can easily identifythemselves and their own lives with Murray'scharacter.So what does this have to do with disaster medicineand public health preparedness? Clearly, the sciencehas never been better. The studies published in thismonth's issue are fine examples of just how far thediscipline has come. Young, eager, and extremelysavvy researchers and practitioners see the merits ofthis discipline in having a positive effect on theirworld. The millennial generation increasingly seethemselves as global citizens who identify with everycrisis on the planet. Collectively, we can all share inthe knowing that in one generation the discipline hasmoved from almost pure anecdotal reports to solidevidence-based studies. While that is gratifying, in theprocess and progress, we have not obtained apolitical voice.For those of us who have made disaster medical sci-ences our life's work, we risk at the same timeexperiencing a foreboding sense that we have beenhere before. Much of the good science over the yearscontinues to languish, as it has done for decades, inthe literature, failing to reach the level of policychange and the population impact the originalauthors dreamed their work was destined for. I learnedrecently that followers of fast moving communicationsscience claim that today's published studies willremain current for only 5 years, otherwise doomed tothe archives or for the next generation to reinvent thetheme in another study.Yes, as a recognized, increasingly respected but admit-tedly fledgling discipline,we must takean example fromMurray's character and ask where and how we could dobetter. The contributions over the last several yearsfrom this journal and others in this discipline speak tomany unmet opportunities. Health practitionersworldwide are experiencing Groundhog Day —every-day. Victims are repeatedly seen from the consequencesof heat extremes, emerging infectious diseases frombiodiversity losses, cancers and cataracts from loss ofozone protection, worsening infant mortality rates froma lack of fresh water and sanitation induced by sea levelrise, malnutrition from the loss of agricultural land, andtheemergingbevyofavoidablenoncommunicablediseases. These are never cured unless prevented.Yamada and colleagues have wisely introduced usto "climate justice," as much as a challenge to thediscipline as to inform the readership.


There are many cosmological scenarios that try to explain the observed current accelerated expansion. They are based or on the existence of new fields in nature or on the modification of the gravitation theory. This work investigates the observational viability of a modified gravity f(R) = R - α/ Rn within the Palatine approach, in the light of 32 age measurements of passively evolving galaxies and the baryonic acoustic oscillation peak scale. By using information-criteria model selection, this scenario is compared with the DGP alternative cosmological model as well the adjustable components of energy based in the general relativity based int the observational data set.


Faiza, Ria Nurul. 2010. The Use of Semantic Map to Improve Students' Ability In Making
Recount Text. A Final Project. English Department. Languages and Arts Faculty,
Semarang State University. The first advisor is Intan Permata Hapsari, S. Pd, M. Pd and
the second advisor is Dr. Dwi Anggani, L. B, M. Pd.
The title of the final project is "The use of semantic map to improve students' ability in
making recount text (a case study at the Eight Grade Students of SMP Islam Tegowanu,
Grobogan)". The aims of this study are to find out if semantic map can improve students' ability
in making recount text and the effectiveness of using semantic map compared with conventional
method. This study is an experimental research in which I studied two groups: an experimental
group and a control group. The experimental group was the 8 A class that was taught writing
recount text by using semantic map whereas the control group that was 8 B class that was taught
writing recount text without using semantic map as media. Those two groups belong to "SMP
Islam Tegowanu" Grobogan.
I used a test to gather the data. The test was writing text. The students were expected to
make a recount text.
The result shows that semantic map is an effective media that is proved by the
improvements of students' ability in making recount text. The improvements are in content,
organization, grammar, word choice and mechanic.
I used the students' test result that was completed by the means to know the difference of
the students' competence in writing recount text between the experimental and the control
groups. The result shows the difference between the two groups that is 11.75. I used t-test
formula to know the significanct difference. The number of subjects in this experiment for
experimental and control groups were 54 with the degree of freedom (df) 52, that was N1+N2-2.
At the 5% (.05) alpha level of significance, the obtained critical value is 1.676. It is higher than
the critical value (2.449 > 1.676), thus the difference is statistically significance. Then, at the 1%
(.01) alpha level of significance, the obtained critical value is 2.307. It is higher than the critical
value (2.449 > 2.307), and it can be said that the difference is statistically significance.
Hopefully the results of the research can be used as the consideration for the teacher to
make improvements and betterments of the teaching writing. The use of semantic map can be
done as one of the techniques to teach writing composition, especially recount text.
Keywords: semantic map, recount text


Many recent studies show an increasing interest to develop new adaptive algorithms, which aim to mitigate interferences in the future mobile radio using a CDMA system. In this paper, a new interference suppression receiver for demodulation of BPSK DS/CDMA signals received by a base station antenna array is presented. The proposed receiver, which is suitable for multipath channels, combines a spatial generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) algorithm with a temporal GSC filter bank. Besides its simplicity, one major advantage of the new structure is the fact that it incorporates conventional algorithms, which have been suggested for use in adaptive spatial beamforming and implements them in temporal filtering. The performance of the proposed receiver is studied in terms of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), bit error rate (BER) and achievable capacity of a given CDMA cell.


FIELD: protected memories. SUBSTANCE: proposed memory that provides plurality of protection levels for application areas has first protection level area, protection code input attempt counter, plurality of application areas, each including save area, application protection area, protection code input attempt counter for application area, erase key section, and erase key input attempt counter. EFFECT: enhanced reliability of protecting memory as part of intelligent card in its multiple reuse. 1 cl, 20 dwg


Exact similarity solutions for melting heat transfer in steady laminar flow over a flat plate were collected from the diffusional mass transfer literature to provide solutions for Prandtl numbers from 0.001 to 100. An exact closed-form solution is introduced for the case of melting in porous media. The results are presented and discussed in such a way as to emphasize the similarity between melting and diffusional mass transfer.


This paper explores the persistent link between women and domestic responsibility, a link that has been heavily documented and yet much less frequently theorised. Drawing on a qualitative research project with a 'critical case' study sample of couples trying to share housework and childcare in Britain in the early 1990s the paper argues that part of this puzzle linking women and domestic responsibility can be addressed by adopting wider definitions of domestic responsibility and of community. While domestic responsibility is often conceived as family labour that occurs within families/households, it also has inter-household, inter-institutional and community dimensions. With regard to a wider conceptualisation of the community, the paper argues that the community is more than a social institution; it is an institutional arena within which families/households, inter-household relations, community-based social networks and a wide array of community activities occur. The overall findings and implications of the research presented in this paper are three-fold. First, gendered socially constructed norms and gendered community-based social networks are highlighted as important factors that help to account for the persistent link between women and domestic responsibility. Second, taking cues from research carried out in Third World and low-income Western communities, it is important to shift research agendas on domestic divisions of labour to focus not only on intra-household divisions but also inter-household and intra-community relations. Third, the need is highlighted for greater attention to the links between socially constructed norms on masculinities, men's friendships and domestic responsibility. Este articulo explora la conexión persistente entre las mujeres y la responsabilidad doméstica. Se ha documentado mucho veces esta conexión pero se ha teorizado muy pocas veces. Se hace uso de una investigación cualitativa con un estudio tipo 'caso crítico' del cual proviene una muestra de parejas que intentan compartir las tareas domésticas y el cuidado de los niños, y se sostiene que se puede tratar parte de este enigma que une a las mujeres con la responsabilidad doméstica si se adoptan unas definiciones mas amplias de la responsabilidad doméstica y de la comunidad. Mientras que a menudo se suele concebir la responsabilidad doméstica como trabajo familiar que tiene lugar dentro de las familias/los hogares, también tiene dimensiones inter-hogares, inter-institucionales y comunitarias. Con respecto a una conceptualización mas amplia de la comunidad, este artículo sostiene que la comunidad es más que una institución social; es un ruedo institucional (Goetz, 1997) dentro del cual se encuentran las familias/los hogares, las relaciones inter-hogares, las redes sociales basadas en la comunidad y una amplia gama de actividades comunitarias. Tienen tres aspectos las conclusiones e implicaciones globales que se presentan en este artículo. Primero, se ponen de relieve las connotaciones de género, que se evidencian en las normas sociales y en las redes sociales basadas en la comunidad, como factores importantes que ayudan a explicar la conexión persistente entre las mujeres y la responsabilidad doméstica. Segundo, es importante seguir el ejemplo de investigaciones realizadas en el tercer mundo y en las comunidades occidentales de bajos ingresos, y cambiar el enfoque de las investigaciones de las divisiones domésticas del labor para centrarse no sólo en las divisiones entre el hogar sino también en las relaciones entre los hogares y entre la comunidad. Tercero, realzo la necesidad de prestar mas atencion a los vínculos entre las normas sociales sobre las masculinidades, las amistades entre los hombres y la responsabilidad doméstica.


Nicotine is accumulated intracellularly in ganglia (Brown, Halliwell & Scholfield, 1969). This might form a slowly clearing reservoir sustaining extracellular nicotine levels and consequent receptor activation during washout. A pertinent question arising from this work is whether similar explanations, rather than postulation of separate hyperpolarizing receptors, might account for some other instances of increased ganglionic hyperpolarization following nicotinic blocking agents.


The cytotoxic effect on the silk worm eggs of vari ous concentrations of cryoprotective agents such as glycerol, ethylenegly col, propyleneglycol, DMSO was investigated. The hatchability percentage of the eggs was influenced negatively by the experimental substances. The increase of the protective agents concentration and of the diffusion period led to a decrease in the hatchability percentage. Also, between the balancin g period and the hatchability percentage there is a n inverse proportion. Observing the effect of freezin g and thawing operations on the silkworm eggs we have drawn the conclusion that at least for the emb ryogenesis phases we have tested, they are not fitted for preserving in liquid nitrogen (-196°C). In all cases a stagnation of the embryonar development was noticed and in none of the experiments the larvae hatched.


This paper presents an application of wireless sensor networks for forest fire monitoring system.It puts forward a detailed design of sensor node based on RF SoC chip nRF9E5,temperature sensor DS18B20 and humidity sensor HS1101, simply introduces the gateway design using ARM7 chip S3C44B0X and GPRS module SIM100,then constructs a reasonable data protocol and programs a friendly user interface.This system can monitor the temperature and humidity precisely in real time,effectively predict and monitor forest fire.


Growth of larvae of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), was evaluated in a laboratory bioassay on diets containing lyophilized leaf tissue of resistant and susceptible inbred lines of corn, Zea mays L. Diets were prepared by adding lyophilized tissue of each of six inbred lines alone and in pairs to distilled water, agar, gentamicin sulfate, sorbic acid, and ascorbic acid. Larvae were fed the test diets for 10 d and then weighed. Larvae that were fed the diets containing leaf tissue of the resistant plants weighed 52% less than those fed diets containing only susceptible plant tissue. Growth of larvae on diets containing mixtures of leaf tissue from different inbred lines revealed that the variation among diets was accounted for by the average performance of different lines.


A series of Yb doped lead oxychloride tellurite glasses with composition of (80-x)TeO2-10PbO-10PbCl2-xYb2O3 were prepared using conventional melt quenching technique. These glasses were then immersed in distilled water (pH 4 and pH 9) for 10 days. The quantitative analysis of Pb2+ and Te4+ were made using induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). The results showed that Te4+ and Pb2+ were highly leached in acidic solution or at lower pH compared to alkaline solution and the addition of Yb3+ in the glass system had reduced or maintained the leaching of Te4+ and Pb2+ from the glasses.


The deepest part of the measured succession consists of light grey, homogeneous silty mudstone with a single coaly horizon (Fig. 42B). Upwards the silty mudstone becomes faintly parallel-laminated, and sediment disturbances are occasionally present. Coal particles and streaks are common together with coalified leaves and twigs. The silt content gradually decreases, and the silty mudstone is overlain by a homogeneous, dark grey mudstone. This is followed by a light grey, slightly more silty, homogeneous mudstone with rare sediment disruption. The shallower part of the cored interval starts with a dark grey, homogeneous mudstone, which upwards changes to a faintly parallel-laminated heterolithic mudand siltstone (Fig. 42A). The heterolith is increasingly dominated by silt, and gradually changes to a siltstone, followed by a weakly parallel-laminated very finegrained sandstone. Small-scale faults and sediment disruptions are common. Towards the top the very finegrained sandstone again changes to a parallel-laminated, heterolithic mudstone and siltstone. The uppermost heterolith contains coal particles and streaks, and plant fossils as coalified leaves and twigs. The sedimentary succession is interpreted to have been deposited in a floodplain environment.


A fully three-dimensional computation of induction processes in a disk is performed to investigate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in gas-rich barred and spiral galaxies in the presence of field diffusion. As input parameters we use time dependent velocity fields obtained from selfconsistent 3D N-body calculations of galactic dynamics. Our present work primarily analyzes the influence of the gas flows in non-axisymmetric gravitational disturbances (like spiral arms and bars) on the behavior of the magnetic field. The magnetic field is found to evolve towards structures resembling dynamical spiral arms and bars, however its distribution is often much more complicated than the velocity field itself. We show that a random configuration of seed magnetic fields quickly dissipates, and is therefore unable to explain the magnetic field strength observed in nearby galaxies. The detailed comparison between the simulated velocity and magnetic fields allows us to establish that the reversals of magnetic vectors appear in the vicinity of the corotation radius of non-axisymmetric disk structures, where the velocity field shows rather abrupt changes. We argue that this explains the observed field reversals in our Galaxy.


In this chapter, we discuss two real-world applications of geospatial abduction problems (GAPs). While both applications deal with finding weapons caches that support improvised explosive devices used by insurgent terror groups, they operate in two different environments. SCARE (Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine) implements point-based geospatial abduction and was used to find IED weapons caches in Baghdad. In contrast, SCARE-S2 is an extension of SCARE to region-based geospatial abduction which has been used, with various modifications, to find high value targets (either large weapons caches or insurgent commanders) in certain provinces of Afghanistan. The accuracy of both systems has been tested on real-world data, and over 18 organizations have requested or used either SCARE or SCARE-S2.


AIDS is not as common in Botswana as in many other African countries with only 16 known cases. Of these 8 have died and there are 141 HIV-positive cases among a population of 1.2 million. There is however the great potential for a rapid spread of the disease since frequent and different sexual partners seem to be a common occurrence. This paper discusses the Governments educational campaign against AIDS in particular the main messages about the disease--that it kills and that each person should stick to 1 partner. The results from the 2 surveys on attitudes towards and knowledge about AIDS are presented. A high proportion (80%) of the population has heard about AIDS and had relatively few misconceptions about the spread of the disease. The majority of the students had correct and accurate knowledge about AIDS and are fairly tolerant in their attitudes concerning the treatment of AIDS victims and carriers. Most students also stated that they were afraid of catching AIDS and that they had changed their sexual behavior because of the disease; i.e. they were now using condoms and they were being monogamous. However there is still a large proportion of this group who stated that they had more than 1 sexual partner in the last 4-5 months. (authors modified)


The aim of this work was to explain the inter-individual variance in baseline
 and induced micronuclei (MN) frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs)
 of females with uterine cervical insufficiency. The baseline and induced MN
 response of the PBLs in 32 patients were investigated using the
 cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) method. The obtained mean values of
 induced MN frequency (11.31 ± 4.44/1000 BN cells), were significantly higher
 (p < 0.001) in comparison to their baseline MN frequencies (7.81 ± 3.33
 MN/1000 BN cells). The analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed statistically
 significant difference between-group vs. within-group variance in baseline (p
 < 0.05) and induced MN frequency (p < 0.001), in professionally exposed
 patients when compared to the non-exposed. Multivariate logistic regression
 analysis confirmed that patients with high baseline MN frequency (cut-off 8.5
 MN/1000 MN), had significantly increased (odds ratio OR = 5.875; CI = 1.28 -
 26.795, p 12 MN/1000 BN cells). Our results
 suggest that the baseline MN frequency in PBLs directly influences the scope
 of the induced MN response. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije,
 br. III41010 i br. ON175103]


Von Arnim et al. Inhibition of African cassava mosaic virus Systemic infection by a movement protein from the related geminivirus tomato golden mosaic virus. Virology. 187:555-564, Apr. 1992. Longstaff et al. Extreme resistance to potato virus X infec tion in plants expressing a modified component of the putative viral replicase. The EMBO Journal. 12(2):379-386, 1993. Jupin et al. DNA replication specificity of TYLCV gemini Virus is mediated by the amino-terminal 116 amino acids of the Rep protein. FEBS Letters. 362:116-120, 1995. A. Von Arnim et al., "Inhibition of African Cassava Mosaic Virus Systemic Infection by a Movement Protein from the Related Geminivirus Tomato Golden Mosaic Virus", Virol ogy, vol. 187, pp. 555-564, 1992.


A new thin sandwich panel composed of an aluminum expanded metal core adhesively jointed with stainless steel face sheets is introduced, and its mechanical behavior under three-point bending is investigated. The strength and stiffness are analyzed theoretically, and the press-formability and strength enhancement are evaluated experimentally. The specimens with the specific configurations exhibit face yielding well before face-core separation, which means that the sandwich panel can be formed by a press without failure. The measured load levels corresponding to the face yielding and the face-core separation agree fairly well with the theoretical estimations. For a given weight, the sandwich panel is superior to a solid panel in terms of strength, stiffness, and press-formability.


Aiming at the lane change behavior recognition requirements for vehicle active safety system, natural driving test in real road were carried out and different parameters related to lane change behavior were collected synchronously. Firstly, parameters were processed with Kalman filter to increasing the potential relevance among sample data. Then, SVM model was established for lane change recognition. Lastly, data normalization, principal component analysis method, and bayesian network were adopted to optimize the SVM model. The recognize rate of lane change with 1.2 second time window increased from 93.9% to 98.7% by using these optimization measures. It can be meet the requirements of effectiveness and real-time for vehicle active safety system, such as lane change warning system or lane departure warning system.


The productions of indigenous authorship have echoed the voices of native peoples from various regions of the planet. These literatures record the cosmological perspectives of authors who are members of the communities. In texts written by indigenous women, it is also possible to note the strong presence of grandmother characters who narrate stories and transmit wisdom. The objective of this article is to analyze the works Criaturas Ñanderu (2013), by the Brazilian Potiguara author Graça Graúna, and La pequeña Francisc a (2020), by the writer Mariela Tulián (Comechingón people/Argentina), making a comparative reading of these narratives. Although both have Western classifications of "literature for children" or "folktales," here we highlight the importance of these stories created by two authors located in different spaces of Abya Yala. The methodological apparatus of the investigation is anchored in bibliographical research, with a qualitative approach. The theoretical framework is based on Antonio Cornejo-Polar (2000), with the notion of heterogeneous literatures; Arturo Arias (2012), examining the debate about indigenous productions questioning the idea of hegemonic nationality; Graça Graúna (2013), who suggests the use of the notion of self-history in the study of these literatures. Thus, the research shows that comparative studies aimed at analyzing productions written by indigenous women from different countries enrich the literary field and allow us to observe the points that approach and distance these experiences.


The invention provides a bogie performance parameter combined test stand of a rail vehicle. The test stand comprises a mechanical analog detection device and a test signal transmitting and processing system; the mechanical analog detection device mainly comprises a frame, a shifting platform, a loading beam, a vertical loading actuator, a horizontal loading actuator, a wheel pair clamping actuator and a track; and the test signal transmitting and processing system contains an industrial control computer, a laser distance meter, a load sensor, a transmitting channel of the load sensor used for generating signals and a data processing software. By using the test stand of the invention, the simulation of the loading of the vehicle body corbel of the overall bogie of the rail vehicle,, the rotation of the bogie and the traverse movement of the wheel pair can be realized; the installed test signal transmitting and processing system can realize fast, accurate and comprehensive detections of various items and ensure the reliability of the dynamic performance parameters of the bogie; and the safety performance of the rail vehicle can be increased and the requirements of the related rules of the ministry of railway can be satisfied.


Using the example of a beginning teacher's account of the experience of entering her new school for the first time, this paper presents a consideration of the nature of interpetive inquiry in education and how such inquiry treats 'the individual case'. This is compared with how more traditional, quantitative studies might treat such cases. The pedagogic character of interpretive inquiry is then discussed.


Photoelectrochemical cell technology is one of the simplest technologies, which converts light energy directly into electricity. The synthesis of cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanocrystals (NCs) was performed by the facile hot injection method. The NCs were characterized by different techniques such as XRD, Raman, UV-Vis, FESEM, and XPS. The XRD and Raman patterns confirm the phase pure hexagonal CdS NCs. The band gap of NCs calculated from the UV-Visible spectrum is at 2.64 eV, indicating good absorption in the visible spectrum. XPS analysis confirmed the presence of individual elements in CdS NCs. The CdS thin-films having different thicknesses were prepared on FTO substrates using the spin coating technique. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) investigation of CdS NCs thin-films photoelectrodes was performed by varying its thickness. The increase in the thickness of thin-films increased photocurrent density.


To solve the premature issue of TSP solving using the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO), this paper proposes an improved ACO using particle swarm optimization (PSO) to solve the classic traveling salesman problem (TSP). The algorithm's strategy includes three stages: firstly, establishing a mathematical model according to the optimization objective, and then solving the optimal path obtained by the particle swarm optimization algorithm. Finally, the pheromone concentration of this path in the ant colony mathematical model is enhanced according to the particle swarm optimization algorithm's optimal path. A classic TSP case is used to compare the PSO and ACO. The results show that the proposed improved algorithm has a faster convergence speed and can converge to the optimal global solution, and its performance is better than that of ACO and PSO.


The indexes of men single elements were analyzed in the trampling competition of the Finland World Games in 1997. They were the pre-jumping time, the number of pre-jump, the height of pre-jump, the length of time being spent in accomplishing the element and the set of movement, the changing trend of height in the course of accomplishing the elements. The current development status of the trampling movements of men and the problems of trampling training in men single were discussed so as to provide reference for training practice.


Study Design A correlational design was used to compare the lumbar spine's total sagittal range of motion (ROM) within a chronic low back pain patient population (n = 42) using three different measurement systems. Objectives. To compare, within a back pain patient population, the relationship of ROM measurements obtained from a motion analysis system (SPINETRAK), a lumbar extension rehabilitation device (MedX), and liquid inclinometers. Methods. Total lumbar sagittal ROM was determined with each device in each subject as part of patients' standard clinical evaluation. Results. Results indicated that the motion analysis system is significantly correlated with the liquid inclinometers and mildly correlated with the MedX. Inclinometer and MedX ROM measurements are also significantly correlated. To assess individual differences, dependent tests were performed. Results indicated that the SPINETRAK yielded significantly lower ROM than the inclinometer or the MedX. The MedX and in clinometer measures did not significantly differ. Conclusions. This report shows that, depending on the device and procedures used, the lumbar sagittal ROM within a chronic low back pain population vary significantly.


The coupling between the dark components provides a new approach to mitigate the coincidence problem of cosmological standard model. In this paper, dark energy is treated as a fluid with a constant equation of state, whose coupling with dark matter is Q̄=3Hξxρ̄x. In the frame of dark energy, we derive the evolution equations for the density and velocity perturbations. According to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, we constrain the model by currently available cosmic observations which include cosmic microwave background radiation, baryon acoustic oscillation, type Ia supernovae, and fσ8(z) data points from redshift-space distortion. The results show the interaction rate in σ regions: ξx = 0.00328-0.00328-0.00328-0.00328+0.000736+0.00549+0.00816, which means that the recently cosmic observations favor a small interaction rate which is up to the order of 10-2, meanwhile, the measurement of redshift-space distortion could rule out the large interaction rate in the σ region.


Sadula was a famous port in the Yuan Dynasty.At present,most people agree that he was born in Yanmen Pass.This conlusion is mainly based on the the preface to Yanmen Literary Collections.However this preface has no clear source and has been doubted for long.This paper,on the basis of five documents,proves that he was born in Yanshan.


In this study,an industrial process using tannin extracts for H2 S removal from semi-water gas and converter gas is investigated. The compositions of valonia,black wattle and industrial tannin extracts are analyzed. The kinetics of sulfide oxidation is also performed. The results show that the content of tannic acid is the major difference in the composition of these three tannin extracts. The hot alkaline pretreatment significantly enhances the sulfide removal efficiency for the three tannin extracts,but leads to almost no change for tannic acid. The FT-IR shows that the νO—HandνCOOHfunction groups for the tannin extracts are generated after the pretreatment whereas these groups are not observed for pretreated tannic acid. The ratio of tannin extract to V2O5 does not affect the rates and side-reactions of sulfide oxidation.


Abstract Scanning electron microscopy was used to examine small dinoflagellates collected from the plankton of the E Atlantic between 20 and 40°N. Among the cells studied were a number which have been attributed to the little-known genus Micracanthodinium as M. setiferum (Lohmann) Deflandre. For the first time it has been possible to give the thecal tabulation for the genus which is: Po, 4′, 7″, 7c, ?s, 6′″,2″″. The thecal plates are covered with small spinous ornamentation which often obscures the sutures. Long thin spines, which have been reported by light microscopy as a feature of the genus, were not always preserved in this material, but it appears that there is normally one spine attached to each plate of the epi- and hypotheca. The distribution of the three recognized members of the genus is reviewed. Two species which may be conspecific, M. bacilliferum (Schiller) Deflandre and M. setiferum (Lohmann) Deflandre, appear to be mainly confined to warm water (mean annual temperature greater than 20°C) ...


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At the 2001 BPS Centenary Conference in Glasgow, Steve Brown argued that only by incorporating all aspects of the world, both human and non-human, into what he termed a "concrete interactional assemblage" could we begin to make sense of the complex social relationships that routinely determine our lives (Brown, 2001). The implications of this position are considerable, from the evocation of biographical/social memories by artefacts (Radley, 1990) to the persistence of animism into adult life, contra, for instance, Piaget (1929); from the social life of exchangeable commodities (Appadurai, 1986) to the social psychology of objects and the designed environment (Miller, 1995, 1999; Miller & Kälviäinen, 2001).The present paper draws on some of this material to argue for the existence of a reciprocal agency shaping most if not all of the social exchanges of "animate" and "inanimate" actors. By reciprocal agency is meant the mutualistic elicitation of sequences of action from both "animate" and "inanimate" actors in their joint interaction, and on the basis of their (sometimes) shared expectations about the actions of the other. Although there is some recent sociological literature on "inanimate" agency (Woolgar, 1994), the notion has scarcely impacted on psychology. However, the list of topics given earlier, together with my definition of reciprocal agency, suggests that psychology could make a positive contribution to this somewhat esoteric field. Thus the study of such mutualist actions could usefully draw on certain theoretical traditions in psychology, particularly those emanating from B. F Skinner and J.J. Gibson, as well as those from related social sciences.Finally, the paper will use a limited number of objets trouvés to illustrate its various theses.