Abstract Forward speed and lateral acceleration data obtained from a Formula One car under semi-competitive conditions are employed to reconstruct the planar geometry of the circuit traversed. Methods devised depend on first smoothing the data by low pass filtering and cubic spline interp-olation and then using numerical integration on combined speed and acceleration signals. Two methods for the integration parts are designed and discussed. They involve different methods for error correction, which, uncorrected, lead to the circuit analysed not closing up without discontinuities at the start-finish line. Results from each of the two methods for the Barcelona and Suzuka Formula One circuits are given. Comparisons are made between the known geometry for each of these circuits and that reconstructed from the recorded data. Conclusions are drawn relating to method and accu-racy. Suggestions are made on how the currently exposed processing may be improved by further work.


To the Editor: The authors of the bibliographic review "Developmental and Reproductive Outcomes in Humans and Animals After Glyphosate Exposure: A Critical Analysis" (Williams et al., 2012) tentatively analyzed four of our articles concerning the cellular toxicity and endocrinedisrupting effects of glyphosate (G)-based herbicides (GBH) including Roundup (R) (Gasnier et al., 2009; Richard et al., 2005; Benachour et al., 2007; Benachour and Seralini, 2009). GBH are the most used pesticides worldwide and major pollutants of rivers and surface waters; moreover, they have become common food and feed contaminants since the development of agricultural edible genetically modified (GM) plants, most of which are tolerant to R (James, 2011). Therefore a review on the developmental and reproductive outcomes induced by these formulations is of great interest. This is also why we have analyzed numerous endpoints of cellular toxicities induced by GBH on more than 10 cell types, and for the first time on cells crucially involved in the development. These include a human embryonic kidneyderived cell line, HEK293; fresh umbilical cord cells; and placental tissue. Of course, any sign of toxicity on these models may also concern developmental effects, in contrast to the assertion of Williams et al. (2012). We have also studied GBH-induced endocrine disruption in other publications that were not reviewed by Williams et al. (2012). These reports focus on the hormonal effects of this pesticide on rat


Thyroid function tests including thyroxine (T4), T3 test, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free T4 index and antithyroid antibodies were studied in 51 patients before the start


Fodor, Mónika. 2020. Ethnic Subjectivity in Intergenerational Memory Narratives: Politics of the Untold. New York and London: Routledge. 285 pp.


The present invention discloses a method and device for controlling parameter configuration, and relates to the field of communications, which are used for ensuring the security of a system. The method for controlling parameter configuration includes the following steps: receiving the configuration commands for the limited interfaces of a network element apparatus sent by a client; determining whether there is an internal permission file corresponding to the network element apparatus on the operation and maintenance unit of the network element apparatus; if the result of the determination is YES, executing the configuration commands. The method and device for controlling parameter configuration provided by the embodiments of the present invention are applied for the configuration service of the network element apparatus.


We introduce a novel class of water soluble, extended conjugation boradiazaindacene dyes which are efficient singlet oxygen generators and have spectacular photoinduced cytotoxicity when excited in the "therapeutic window" of the electromagnetic spectrum.


In the last few years there has been interest in the problem of remote sensing of the rain perturbed sea surface. The prime reason is that the determination of sea wave spectra, near surface wind speed and sea surface temperature by means of algorithms which don't take into account these perturbations significantly degrades remote sensing efficiency and accuracy of weather and climate predictions. In this paper the results of experimental investigation of the influence of rain on backscattering and emission from the sea surface are presented. The results were obtained during a ship-airborne-space joint experiment which was conducted in July-August 1992.


The research intends to investigate the body mass index, the self-weight perception and the intention of changing the weight in teenagers, from Timisoara, Romania. The data sample was made of 243 students of 11-18 years old: 37.9% in middle school and 62.1% in high school; 56.4% girls and 43.6% boys. The manner of work was a cross-sectional study, study case type. The results show that in middle/high school there are: underweight 39.8%/22.9%, normal weight 51.1% and overweight and obese, 9.1%/8.3, with a significant difference between the 2 age groups, the difference being very small. 62.2% of middle school students and 51.7% of the ones in high school appreciate their own weight as having the normal value. 24.4% of the middle school students and 32.4% of high school students consider that that they have a weight over the normal value, and at 15-18 years old, girls perceive weight as being significantly higher than boys. The students want to lose weight, 42.7% of middle school students and 42.8% of high school students. At 11-14 years old, boys want to gain weight more frequently than girls.


The large demand in the market to use cartoons in general urges media training of professionals in the area. And still today, in Portuguese literature on the subject are scarce and in many cases even nonexistent, especially when it comes to books about 2D animation techniques, which serves as basis for 3D applications. This article reports a bibliographical study of books that explore animation techniques for animated 2D and techniques of movement, time and canvas, framing cameras, among other points that are required to produce good cartoons and apply also to the world of 3D animation. Index Terms - Cartoons, Digital TV, Animation Techniques.


The saccharin-methyl-chlorosilane was synthesized by condensation reaction with methyltrichlorosilane and saccharin sodium as raw materials,and characterized by infrared spectroscopy.The preferred reaction conditions included temperature of 56℃,reaction time of 24h,relative ratio between saccharin sodium and methyltrichlorosilane was 0.8.The reaction conversion reached 64.29%.


Tempering, the addition of water to wheat before milling, is routinely performed to toughen the pericarp of the
kernel and thus improve the efficiency of flour extraction. In an effort to better understand how tempering affects the
kernel's internal structure, the effect of moisture on the physical strength properties of wheat kernel endosperm on an in
situ basis was studied. Five soft and five hard wheat samples, available from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology's Standard Reference Materials Program for the purpose of standardizing wheat hardness instruments, were
examined. Geometrically precise cylinders of wheat endosperm (1 mm diameter ×3 mm height) were conditioned under
one of five relative humidities (~0 to 93% RH, producing moisture contents of 3 to 28%, dry basis), then tested for the
following compressive strength properties: maximum compressive stress (S max ), modulus of elasticity (E), work to
maximum stress [W(S max )], and strain at maximum stress [e(S max )]. Large variations in strength properties occurred
within the same sample and humidity, as seen by coefficients of variation reaching as high as 56%. Mean values of S max ,
E, W(S max ), and e(S max ), based on 8 to 13 endosperm cylinders per sample ×humidity setting, were normalized to a
reference moisture content of 13% d.b. Normalized values of the first three properties were linearly fitted to moisture
content and statistically tested to determine the similarity in response among samples. S max was most linearly related to
moisture content. When samples within a hardness class were pooled, the slopes of the normalized S max regression
equations were significantly different (P < 0.01) for hard and soft wheats. A similar pooling procedure for normalized E
revealed a moderately significant (P < 0.05) difference between slopes of soft and hard classes. For W(S max ), most
samples did not exhibit a sensitivity to moisture; however, when pooled into soft and hard classes, the difference between
these classes was highly significant (P < 0.01). The response of e(S max ) to moisture was constant except at the highest
moisture content (24 to 28% d.b.), where the values were approximately twice as large.


Industrial clusters develop rapidly at present and have become the new location of multinational corporations. The review of literatures also demonstrates that agglomeration has become the new dominant resource of multinational corporations. The author studies the effect of industrial clusters on multinational corporations from the angle of economic organization and pay especially attention to the effect of system division on industrial clusters' organizational property, efficient frontier and evolvement power, as well as the influence of the effect of system division on multinational corporations location. Finally the author brings forward next policy proposal: developing countries should establish its striates of absorbing FDI based on industrial clusters with the tool of system division.


The purpose of designing a media campaign Dilon coffee & eatery This is to introduce to the public. The research was conducted using qualitative research method is to conduct interviews, observation, documentation, and literature to get the data used to support the drafting of a media campaign design. Data were analyzed using multiple stages, namely data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. From the data analysis found some keywords that refer to promotional media communication strategy that will be used to achieve the target audiance ditujuh. After analysis of the data, ditemukanlah concept or keyword designing a media campaign called "casual". Description casual concept is the simplicity that can be used by anyone. The concept of "casual" aims to show that the Dilon coffee & eatery is a cafe that has an appeal that is different from the others. The concept aims to convey casual cafe identity through the design of promotional media. . Keyword : P romotion M edia, Dilon Coff e e & Eatery, Coff e e Shop .


The product process of Jigang ASP line is introduced.The effect of chemical composition,microstructure,coiling temperature and cooling process on properties of HP295 are studied.The practice shows that the yield ratio is reduced to lower than 0.8 by using two-stage cooling process and controlling the coiling temperature.The mechanical properties of plate meet the need of GB6653-1994.


Field tests suggest that the T-bar factor may vary over a large range for calcareous soils. As the T-bar penetrates very deep into soft soil, a full flow-round mechanism is formed around the T-bar. Examining the stress states around this mechanism suggests that soil elements are subjected to a varying stress state, and the element behaviour represents a combination of triaxial compression, simple shear, and triaxial extension conditions. This paper reports results of T-bar penetrometer tests performed at an elevated gravity of 150-g (where g is earth's gravity) in a geotechnical centrifuge on a calcareous silty sediment collected from the North West Shelf of Australia. Once the centrifuge tests were completed, a tube sample was cored from the centrifuge strongbox. Two specimens were prepared from two reference depths, and undrained monotonic simple shear tests were carried out. The undrained shear strengths obtained from the simple shear tests were used to back analyse the T-bar bearing factor (NT-bar). A mean T-bar factor of 9.92 was found for the calcareous silt tested. A threedimensional large deformation finite element analysis was conducted to find out the T-bar factor in an ideal soil, showing the potential for undertaking further parametric analyses using an appropriate constitutive model to develop a robust interpretation framework for Tbar test data.


Buddleja salviifolia has been used as a food ingredient for improving digestion, antiemetic, to relieve coughs, colic and constipation. B. salviifolia has also been used in
traditional medicine to treat varieties of diseases, which include eye infections,
tuberculosis (TB), cervical cancer, syphilis, neurodegenerative conditions. A few articles
on the antimicrobial activities of extracts from leaves of B. salviifolia have previously
been reported. However, the antimicrobial activities of hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate
and methanolic extracts from the leaves and stem-bark of B. salviifolia have not been
reported previously. Therefore, in the present study, we evaluated the antimicrobial
activities of these extracts against six bacterial isolates viz. Escherichia coli (wild strain),
Escherichia coli (O157:H7), Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Serratia
marcescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and two fungal isolates viz. Penicillium
digitatum and Candida albicans. Their inhibition zones were found to be in the range of
7.0±1.4 to 36.5±7.8 mm against bacterial isolates and 7.0±0.0 to 22.0±1.4 mm against
fungal isolates. Additionally, the MIC values of these extracts were found to be in the
range of <31.25 to >1000 µg/mL against both bacterial and fungal isolates. To conclude,
extracts from B. salviifolia exhibited promising antimicrobial activities. Since B.
salviifolia has wide verities of applications as a food ingredient and in the traditional
medicine, further studies on various parts of this plant will be useful to commercialize
products.


: We study the performance of Yb 3+ :CaGdAlO 4 under 100 W diode pumping with a standard laser design. We also investigate the laser properties of Yb 3+ :CaGdAlO 4 for different doping in order to optimize the absorption and wavelength tunability.


In this paper, the authors categorize product pages on the Web depending on their information. We used naive Bayes and the complement naive Bayes classifier, and tried four kinds of features to categorize them: all the words of the titles of the product pages, the nouns extracted from the titles, all the words of the titles and the descriptions of the product pages, and the nouns extracted from them. The experiments show that the product pages can be classified most correctly depending on only the nouns of the titles of the product pages. Moreover the complement naive Bayes classifier outperformed the naive Bayes classifier.


Dengue is characterized as the most important arthropod-borne human viral disease worldwide, representing a public health problem. Increased activation of immune cells could be involved in the progression of disease to severe forms. Although monocytes have been recognized as important sources of cytokines, the role of platelets in dengue pathogenesis remains understood. Recently our group showed the contribution of platelet-monocyte interaction to inflammatory responses observed in dengue. In fact, it is becoming increasingly clear that platelets have inflammatory functions and can influence innate response. Evidences suggest that specific stimuli-activated platelets can promote phenotypic changes in monocytes, including enhanced foam cell formation, that is characterized by an increase in lipid droplets (LD) \2013 dynamic cytoplasmic lipid-rich organelles, associated to inflammatory and infectious conditions \2013 biogenesis. Our previous works showed a significant increase in LD accumulation in leukocytes from dengue hemorrhagic fever patients, as well as in different cell types infected in vitro. Besides, these organelles were involved in capsid protein localization and virus particle morphogenesis. However, the mechanisms involved in LD biogenesis and function during dengue virus (DENV) infection still unclear. Therefore, this study aim to (i) investigate the mechanisms related to LD formation in distinct cell types during DENV infection; (ii) evaluate the roles of DENV-activated platelets on monocytes immunomodulation in vitro, focusing on LD biogenesis; (iii) analyze the effects of drugs that abrogate LD formation and your impact on viral replication and secretion of inflammatory mediators
Our results demonstrate a significant increase in LD number and/or area in distinct cell types infected in vitro. Importantly, heat inactivated DENV failed to induce LD biogenesis in vitro. Besides, modulation of lipogenesis and LD formation, by C75- or triacsin C-treated cells, impair DENV replication. We also observe that DENV is able to modulate genes involved in lipid metabolism, in a MIF \2013 cytokine that induces LD genesis in monocytes \2013 independent fashion. In the second part of this study, we show that platelets exposed to DENV in vitro form aggregates with monocytes and activate signaling cascade in these cells, which culminates in CXCL8/IL-8 secretion. In addition, platelet-monocyte aggregates formation reciprocally increase platelet activation, observed by an enhanced production of CCL5/RANTES and CXCL4/PF4. DENV-activated platelets increase LD formation and COX-2 activation in monocytes, leading to secretion of PGE2. Damping LD biogenesis through treatment with the fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor C75 prevents PGE2, but not CXCL8/IL-8, secretion by platelet-monocyte aggregates. We also demonstrate that DENV-activated platelets secrete high levels of MIF. LD formation in monocytes exposed to DENV-activated platelets is partially dependent on platelet-derived MIF
However, the supernatant from DENV-activated platelets is not sufficient to induce LD biogenesis in monocytes. Finally, LD formation is higher in monocytes which have platelets adhered on surface compared to monocytes that do not contact platelets, suggesting that beyond soluble mediators, platelet adhesion is a major event in platelet-mediated modulation of lipid metabolism in monocytes. Thus, our results indicate that DENV infection promotes LD biogenesis and that this event seems to be dependent of host lipid metabolism, since specific inhibition of enzymes involved in lipogenesis blocks the formation of these organelles. This inhibition also leads to decreased DENV replication, suggesting a role of LD in this process. Moreover, our data provide new evidence that DENV-activated platelets modulate LD formation as well as cytokine signaling in monocytes, during cellular aggregates formation, and these events may contribute to dengue pathogenesis. Therefore, the modulation of LD formation might represent an attractive therapeutic target for dengue


Cannabinoids afford neuroprotection in SOD1G93A mutant mice, an experimental model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, these mice have been poorly studied to identify alterations in those elements of the endocannabinoid system targeted by these treatments. Moreover, we studied the neuroprotective effect of the phytocannabinoid‐based medicine Sativex® in these mice.


Routing Protocol for Low power lossy network (RPL) is emerged to evade the energy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT) network. Although, RPL noticeably satisfies the requirement of the IoT network, still there exist certain open issues to resolve. This paper addresses the problem of routing overhead, packet losses and load imbalance in RPL based IoT network. These downsides are solved using the proposed Dual Context-based Routing and Load Balancing in RPL based Network (DCRL-RPL). Primarily, we implement the grid construction where the network area is split into a different level of the unequal grid. The ranking based Grid Selection process is executed to select the optimal grid head node in each grid. The grid head node in the network schedules its member node using the Reputation based Scheduling method. The elected grid head classifies the data received from its member using Adam Deep Neural Network (ADNN) to provide better routing performance. Here, the sensitive and non-sensitive data are considered as context for objective function selection. At last, the efficacy of the DCRL-RPL is analyzed using the Network Simulator 3.26 (NS3) tool. From comprehensive validation results, we show that DCRL-RPL acquires better results.


This atricle is concerned with the reactions of the phosphonium salts derived from the oxidation of phosphites and from nonoxidative cleavage of the P-O- (C) bonds facilitated by tertiary amines and metal salts, and with their application to polymer syntheses by the direct polycondensations of dicarboxylic acids and diamines, of free amino acids, and of carbon dioxide and diamines. Initiation and propagation in the polycondensation and their significant effects on the molecular weight of the resulting polymers are discussed. The preparation of polyesters by use of phosphorus chlorides is also described.


Weather information is very much needed in flight operations because it is related to the smooth running of the aircraft from takeoff to landing. Weather information required by the runway surface wind data needs as important information in the landing process. Information on the surface wind components determines Minangkabau International Airport's direction and average surface wind speed pattern. Analysis of changes in surface winds also determines the effect of wind on flight safety, especially in the process of taking off and landing aircraft. Wind direction and speed data obtained are from synoptic observations of the Minangkabau Meteorological Station for ten years (2011-2020). Surface wind data is processed using the windrose method with the WRPLOT (Wind Rose Plots for Meteorological Data) application which shows the direction and difference in wind speed and produces a wind pattern image in the form of a windrose diagram. The results of this study note that the dominant wind blows from the Southwest (203°-248°) with a percentage of 41.97%. The west direction (248°-293°) with a percentage of 27.93%. The south (158°-203°) with a percentage of 13.81%. The prevailing wind speed is 4.08 – 7 knots, with a percentage of 54.8%. The rate of 0.97 – 4.08 knots with a percentage of 38.1%, and the speed that occurs is 7-11.08 knots with a percentage of 6.1%. The condition of the overall average wind direction and speed that occurred from 2011-2022 at Minangkabau International Airport was still in the safe category for the takeoff and landing process.


IP is being considered to be used in the Radio Access Network (RAN) of UMTS. It is of paramount importance to be able to provide good QoS guarantees to real time services in such an IP-based RAN. QoS in IP networks is most efficiently provided with Differentiated services (Diffserv). However, currently Diffserv mainly specifies Per Hop Behaviors (PHB). Proper mechanisms for admission control and resource reservation have not yet been defined. A new resource management concept in the IP-based RAN is needed to offer QoS guarantees to real time services. We investigate the current Diffserv mechanisms and contribute to development of a new resource management protocol. We focus on the load control algorithm [9], which is an attempt to solve the problem of admission control and resource reservation in IP-based networks. In this document we present some load control issues and propose to enhance the load control protocol with the Measurement Based Admission Control (MBAC) concept. With this enhancement the traffic load in the IP-based RAN can be estimated, since the ingress router in the network path can be notified by marking packets with the resource state information. With this knowledge, the ingress router can perform admission control to keep the IP-based RAN stable with a high utilization even in overload situations.


This paper focuses on a favor in order to examine the implications of patents on innovation in the view of biotechnological developments and the utilization and associated efficacy of present patent system in promoting biotechnological innovations and the related issues and challenges therein. This article deals with patent related area in field of biotechnology. It discusses the various issues in biotechnology patenting. INTRODUCTION: A biotechnological invention would commonly include products, compositions and processes or methods. Biotechnological products 1 would generally consist of a body of microorganisms as bacteria and fungi, part of microorganisms, plasmids and allied products as antibiotics and enzymes derived from recombinant DNA, antigens, monoclonal antibodies, hybridoma, artificial organs and novel microorganisms obtained as a result of discovery. Biotechnology have a great impact and potential in field of agricultural techniques, plant varieties development, pharmaceutical issues, health and environment widely recognized as one of the frontier technologies and witnessed a new explosion area of new technologies in this area drawing the attention of the IPRs claims across the globe . Biotechnology is a new area which has become the subject matter of worldwide attention about its patentability, especially with respect to genetically modified organisms. It includes techniques that uses living organisms, or parts of organisms, to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. Recent innovations in the science of biotechnology, have led to a great revolution in multifunctional human activities, which in turn requires a re-look into the legal systems, particularly, the IPRs regime, in order to make them sustainable for the human development and prosperity . Due to the large discrepancy in granting the patents in the area of biotechnology and variations in the different national patent laws, it was felt that there must be a harmonized method of patents & related issues in different countries the globe.


Objective To evaluate the effect of feeding pattern on thymus development during the early time of infant by ultrasound.Methods Forty-two infants were divide into two groups according to feeding patterns,breast feeding infants(n=24)and formula feeding infants(n=18).The thymus of forty-two infants were assessed by ultrasound at birth and 4 months,the thymus index was calculated,condition of infants constitution was registered.Results The thymus ultrasonic appearances of 42 cases were clear and easily achieved through breast bone at birth and age 4 months.There were no significant differences in thymus index at birth of the two groups.At 4 months the thymus index was 26.3±12.0 in breast feeding group and 20.1±10.6 in formula feeding group,there was significant differences between the two groups(P0.05).Conclusion The development of infants thymus in breast feeding is better than that of formula feeding,and breast feeding has important effect on the development of thymus during the early time of infant.Ultrasound is an effective method to monitor and evaluate the development of thymus during the early time of infant.


The crystal structure of a racemic compound of benzyloxycarbonyl-Gly-L-Pro-L-Leu and its enantiomorph has been determined. The crystallographic data are: P21/a, a = 22.126 (9), b = 9.615 (7), c= 10"185 (5) A, fl = 96"23 (4) °, Z= 4. The final R value is 0"059. The peptide bond between the glycyl and prolyl residues has a cis conformation, and the bond angles around the N(Pro) atom are significantly affected by the internal rotation of the peptide bond. The angle/_C'-N-C ~ is larger and the angle/_C-N-C ° is smaller, respectively, than those in the trans form. The torsion angles of the prolyl residue agree essentially with those of poly-L-proline I.


Author(s): Kohansal, Mahdi | Advisor(s): Mohsenian-Rad, Hamed | Abstract: An efficient electricity market determines the operational mechanisms to maintain long-term and short-term power system reliability in a least-cost manner. The performance of the market not only depends on the market structure, but also the bidding mechanisms of the market participants including various generation resources, smart consumers and financial players. Our goal is to study and improve the bids in electricity market with focus on the California energy market. Therefore, in this thesis, a comprehensive analysis on the real bidding data from California electricity market has been done. It is concluded that compared to the supply side, the demand side in the California market is currently highly inelastic, leading to many undesirable consequences such as price spikes and exercising market power by generation companies. To address such issues, a new demand bidding framework has been proposed that recognizes the special characteristics of smart loads. The bids in this framework are called extended-time demand bids. The new framework resolves the problems of accommodating smart loads in the electricity market such as market instability and lack of equilibrium. Moreover, a novel strategy for large smart loads to procure their required energy in electricity market has been introduced. The proposed strategy is general and can be applied to both basic and complex smart load types.Finally, the performance of financial players bids known as Convergence Bids (CBs) have been studied. While CBs are designed to improve the market efficiency and decrease the price gap between day-ahead and real-time markets, there are recently serious concerns where CBs do not act as intended and their performance even result in decreasing market efficiency. Accordingly, we built an analytical foundation to explain under what conditions placing a CB at a bus in a nodal electricity market can decrease (increase) market efficiency. Specifically, it is shown that transmission line congestion can highly influence the performance of CBs. In particular, under certain transmission line congestion configurations, placing a CB at a bus can result in divergence (instead of convergence) between day-ahead and real-time markets prices.


Untreated and treated (with 0.2% solution of rooting hormone IBA) branch cuttings of Bambusa vulgaris Schrad ex Wendl. were allowed to root under four different light regimes, viz ., open sun, tree shade, partial shade and deep shade. Rooted cuttings were then grown under the open sun for 6 months to assess the performance of stecklings. Rooting ability of cuttings and growth performance of stecklings were found affected significantly both by light intensity and IBA treatment. Highest rooting percentage (84%) was in IBA treated cuttings rooted in the tree shade followed by untreated cuttings under the same light regime (73.3%) and the lowest (60%) was under the deep shade. The number of roots per cutting was also the highest (7.9) in the treated cuttings rooted under tree shade and the lowest (4.1) for untreated cuttings grown under the open sun. However, the longest root was in cuttings rooted under tree shade (17.1 cm) without IBA and the shortest (9 cm) was in deep shade regime. The highest survival percentage was 95.2% in treated cuttings rooted in the open sun and the lowest was in case of deep shade without IBA treatment, while maximum number of shoots were developed in treated cuttings rooted under tree shade. Shoot length was the highest in treated cuttings rooted under partial shade.


Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a networking paradigm that has the potential to revolutionize the way we develop and operate network infrastructures. SDN enables network engineers to quickly monitor networks, centrally manage networks, and quickly and accurately detect malicious traffic and link failures. In addition to its flexibility, SDN is also susceptible to various attacks like Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that can bring down the entire network. In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) approaches have been applied for reliable and highly accurate traffic anomaly detection. Therefore, this paper proposes a method based on DL to classify the benign traffic from the DDoS attack traffic. The major contribution of this paper is to propose a novel hybrid DL method to perform the classification. In addition, we compare different deep learning methods using attack severity, which is integrated into the standard metrics to differentiate the quality of the results of DL methods. The attack severity will be calculated using an appropriate weighting of undiscovered intrusions (FN and FP) discovered during the testing phase. Besides, various DDoS attack detection research projects employ public datasets that are not specific to the SDN environment. We propose a method to determine the adequacy of a selected dataset using two proposed metrics based on quality and quantity conformity evaluation.


ABSTRACT The effect of emulsifier II concentration and its HLB on the yield of preparation (Y1) and the stability (R) of the multiple emulsion has been studied. It was found that at low emulsifier II concentrations, both yield of preparation and stability are significantly high regardless of the emul-sifiers HLB. At high concentrations, when w/o/w emulsion is formed, there is only one optimal HLB value for both yield of preparation and stability of the multiple emulsion. The difference in the behavior of the multiple emulsions formed from low or high concentration of emulsifier II is probably due to the significant difference in the multiple droplets size and shape.


While today's workflow management systems are well suited for the controlled execution of completely specified processes, support for dynamically changing processes is rather weak. However, new applications in the business domain and in non-traditional domains like the natural sciences or laboratory environments require support for flexibility like user interventions in workflow executions and dynamic modifications. Based on an activity meta model and an activity instance model, the paper discusses dynamic modifications and user interventions and shows how their implications to activity models and to concurrent and future activity instances can be described. Finally, we show how the basic concepts presented in the paper are realized in a prototypical implementation.


Two patients with large left ventricular false aneurysms due to CABG-occlusion, myocardial infarction, and ventricular free wall rupture are reported. Colorflow cardiac Doppler showing blood flow at the site of the perforation and in the false aneurysm revealed the diagnosis noninvasively. Because of the high incidence of rupture of false aneurysms, surgical management is essential.


In developing software for the automation of an organization's business processes, it is important to include the complexity of business processes as one of the cost drivers when determining the estimate costs of project. In this paper, we propose a model for calculating the complexity of business processes using cyclometric complexity which was initially used as a quantitative measure of the logic complexity of a program. Furthermore, the results of measuring the complexity of the workflow are attached to one of the multiplier efforts in constructive cost model (COCOMO) II.


Mills producing spruce–pine–fir (SPF) dimension lumber are required to carry out heat treatment before shipping the lumber to markets. Kiln drying/heat treatment is the most common strategy for drying SPF lumber. Currently there is a question about whether to use air drying before or after heat treatment to improve lumber grade recovery and reduce energy consumption. We tested three drying strategies for spruce/pine and sub-alpine fir lumber: heat treatment followed by air drying (HT+AD), air drying followed by heat treatment (AD+HT), and kiln drying heat treatment alone (KD/HT). Results related to final moisture content uniformity, warp, and drying stress were better when air drying was incorporated in the strategy. The standard deviation of the final moisture content was reduced from 3.9 to 1.3 percent for spruce/pine and from 7.2 to 3.1 percent for sub-alpine fir. Warp was reduced by 27 to 42 percent for spruce/pine and 14 to 41 percent for sub-alpine fir. Using the prong tests, drying stress was reduc...


A 650 million people around the world live with a disability, most of who require ongoing intensive physiotherapy and rehabilitation. The most common neurological causes of debilitation include stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD), cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis (MS) spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), are the main causes of motor disability among adults and are expected to impose an increasing social and economic burden on our country.1 Difficulty in walking is a major feature of neurological disease, and loss of mobility is the activity of daily living on which patients place the greatest value.2 Walking ability, though important for quality of life and participation in social and economic life, can be adversely affected by neurological disorders such as SCI, stroke or TBI.3 The impact of these pathologies on patients is enormous, with negative ramifications on their participation in social, vocational, and recreational activities. The neurological field mostly aims to help restore muscle control or to help foster muscle control in those born with little or none. Musculoskeletal therapy assists in strengthening and restoring functionality in the muscle groups and 1Department of NeuroRehabilitation, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy 2Privatklinik Villa Melitta, Neurological Rehabilitation, Bozen, Italy 3Medical Park Humboldtmühle Berlin Department Neurological Rehabilitation Charité, University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany EUR J PHYS REHABIL MED 2012;48:111-21


Objective To discuss the value of 64 slice spiral CT angiography with multi-phase merge imaging technique in the assessment of the degree of portal hypertension and its collateral circulation.Materials and Methods Contrast enhanced abdominal scanning was performed with 64-slice spiral CT in 80 cases with portal hypertesion.CT portography of all cases were done with portal vein phase imaging and multi-phase merge imaging respectively.All CTA images were reviewed by two radiologists to assess the definition,grade of portal vein and the opening of collateral circulation of portal hypertension.Results CT portography with multi-phase merge imaging technique was superior to CT portography with portal vein phase imaging in the definition portal vein of 1-4 grade,statistical significant difference was found between two groups(P0.05).In the demonstration of the branch of portal vein,there was statistical significant difference between two groups in demonstrating 2-5 grade(P0.05),but there was no difference in demonstrating 1 and 6 grade portal vein respectively.CT portography with multi-phase merge imaging technique was also more effectively than CT portography with portal vein phase imaging in showing collateral vessels of portal hypertension.Conclusion CT portography with multi-phase merge imaging can show more clearly the portal vein and collateral vessels,and evaluate more accurately the portal hypertension.


On April 23, 2021, Paige Chu presented Technology and Racism: An Environment for Violence? at the Generation Z Congress. The presentation was followed by a moderated question and answer period and further discussion in a moderated break-out room. Key points of discussion included: how technology has allowed for public issues to be absorbed into private spaces, the differential experiences with the use of technology, how technology has been used to perpetuate racism, and the difficulties with holding tech companies accountable.


Five decades have passed through since the first research degree leading to Ph.D in library and information Science in India was awarded. This study collected and analyzed the data of all the theses in library and information science submitted to Indian universities from 1957 to 2007. Most active research departments and research supervisors were identified. Karnataka is found to have produced more Ph.D theses than any other state in India. Bibliometrics is the most attracted field for researchers.


Three-dimensional (3D) power Doppler indices (vascularization index (VI), flow index (FI) and vascularization flow index (VFI)) have been shown to correlate with flow and vascularity1; however, these indices are highly susceptible to machine settings and attenuation2. In this study, we sought to verify whether the volumetric pulsatility index (vPI) based on spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) power Doppler3 is less dependent on attenuation than the original 3D power Doppler indices obtained from both static 3D and STIC datasets by evaluating a flow phantom. The study model is the same as that described in a previous publication4; essentially, it comprises a flow phantom in which a blood-mimicking fluid flows through a silicon tube, powered by an electric pulsatile pump (Figure 1). We inserted one of two different attenuation blocks, made from the same substances used in the flow phantom structure, each measuring 10 mm in thickness, between the ultrasound probe and the flow phantom5. These blocks had different concentrations of glass beads (1.8% and 4.4%) and therefore different coefficients of attenuation: 0.6 dB/MHz/cm ('low attenuation' experiment) and 1.0 dB/MHz/cm ('high attenuation' experiment). The preset 'gynecologic' was used and the following machine settings were maintained for all acquisitions: depth, 4.2 cm; power, 100%; gain, 0.0; WMF, mid1; PRF, 3.2 KHz;


The title compound, [Ag(P(p-tol)3}4]PF6 or [Ag(C21H21P)4]PF6, crystallizes with parts of two independent formula units in the asymmetric unit. The Ag—P distances range between 2.5665 (13) and 2.6142 (7) A, and the P—Ag—P angles between 109.310 (18) and 109.632 (18)°, indicating a distorted tetrahedral geometry. Both Ag atoms and both PF6− anions lie on threefold rotation axes.


Morphological hierarchical segmentation of color images may be achieved in a straightforward way by measuring the persistence of regional minima from color gradients and using these measurements as a criterion to select markers for the watershed from markers framework. Since color has an implicit role in the selection of markers, the segmentation process may provide a bad combination of distinct colored regions, and this may lead to a distorted image simplification. This paper proposes a new method to color image simplification in which the importance of color is raised because color information is added to the marker selection process. Such method provides finer control over the final number of regions (n) and the resulting number of colors (c). A color clustering method splits the regional minima in to c minima sets, each of which has a representative color. The most prominent regional minima from each minima set are selected to form the markers for the segmentation framework. In the final segmentation, the color assigned to a region is given by the representative color bound to the marker that points to the region. It leads to an image whose segmented regions are quantized to fewer distinct colors.


This study attempts to analyse the structural characteristics of a sample of Calcutta [India] households which do not conform to the patrilineal pattern of intra-family relations. Its main objective is to delineate the pattern if any in the formation of non-patrilineal family organisation in a metropolitan urban complex. The data concern a sample of 1474 households and were collected in 1973-1974; the focus is on a subsample of 170 "complex" families. (EXCERPT)


neuvers were elegant, and the informed discussion provided a nice review of differential diagnosis in this setting. However, I beg to differ regarding the conclusion of the authors. The presented case is compatible with atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT), provided that the model of reentry through the inferior right and left nodal extensions is taken into account. 2 First, true nodoventricular pathways are rare, and concealed ones extremely rare. Second, it is of interest that the earliest retrograde atrial activation was mapped inside the coronary sinus ostium and not the proximal His. This is against a concealed nodoventricular pathway, but compatible with a relatively short left inferior nodal extension. Third, resetting of the tachycardia (ie, advancing the next atrial electrogram) with His-synchronous extrastimuli is considered a strong diagnostic criterion to exclude AVNRT. Paradoxical delay may also indicate an operating pathway although data are few. Both rules are subject to exceptions. We have previously demonstrated that resetting of typical AVNRT may occur with almost His-synchronous left inferoparaseptal pacing. 3 Atypical AVNRT may also be reset in this way: In Figure 3, a ventricular extrastimulus is delivered before the expected His bundle depolarization; thus, it may well have captured the antidromic slow pathway, conducted with a decrement, and resulted in delayed retrograde activation of the atrium. The A-A-V response may be compatible with fast-slow AVNRT as the authors state. In addition, although unusual, atypical AVNRT can be induced by atrial pacing in the presence of a relatively slow fast pathway, as expected in a 71-year-old patient.


This study aims to improve the electrochemical properties of lithium metal for application as a negative electrode in high-energy-density batteries. Lithium metal was heat-treated at varying temperatures to modify the native and solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) films, which decreased the interfacial resistance between the lithium electrode and electrolyte, thereby improving the cycling performance. Moreover, the influence of the native and SEI films on lithium metals depended on the heat-treatment temperature. Accordingly, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was performed to investigate the chemical composition of the native and SEI films on the heat-treated lithium metals before and after immersion in an organic electrolyte solution. The XPS results revealed the high dependence of the chemical composition of the outer layer of the native and SEI films on the heat-treatment temperature, implying that the native and SEI films can be effectively modified by heat treatment.


(1988). Braun, Bennett G. (Ed.), (1986). Treatment of multiple personality disorder. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 227-231.


In 2003, Law 10.639 was passed, making teaching compulsory Afro-Brazilian and African culture and culture at all levels of education; but apparently, the inclusion of these themes in teaching occurs slowly. This study presents how the Law 10.639/03 is applied in the UFCAT's Letters Degree courses, based on the analysis of the Pedagogical Project of the courses and the semiannual schedules of course offerings, over the last ten years. Although there is research about Afro-Brazilian and African culture in the Academic Unit, we conclude that its results are little applied in both degrees. Strategies are also presented for the law to be complied with, due to its mandatory nature and the need to fight prejudice and transform ethnic-racial relations, aiming to assist in teacher education of students, through discussions and critical reflections for a teaching focused on ethnic-racial relations.


Abstract To date, research on the effects of urbanization, which include reduced biodiversity, has focused on changes at particular sites or along gradients of urbanization. Comparatively little work has investigated changes in biodiversity at any citywide—much less global—scale, and no attempt has been made to quantify such changes in human terms. We have developed a novel data set that reveals a systematic pattern of biodiversity: Within cities worldwide, most residents are concentrated in neighborhoods of impoverished biodiversity. This pattern exists despite substantial biodiversity present in cities overall, and becomes more severe when only native species are considered. As humanity becomes increasingly urban, these findings have a tragic and seldom-considered consequence: Billions of people may lose the opportunity to benefit from or develop an appreciation of nature. Because nearby surroundings shape people's baselines of ecological health, our findings suggest adverse consequences for conservation in general as well as for humans' quality of life if the problem remains uncorrected.


A spanning tree T of a graph G is called a tree t-spanner if the distance between any two vertices in T is at most t-times their distance in G. A graph that has a tree t- spanner is called a tree t-spanner admissible graph. Given a graph G and an integer t, the tree t-spanner problem asks whether G admits a tree t-spanner. It is known that the tree t-spanner problem is NP-complete for chordal bipartite graphs for t ges 5 whereas the complexity status of the cases t = 3 and t = 4 are open. In this paper, we study the tree 3- spanner problem in simple chordal bipartite graphs which is a subclass of chordal bipartite graphs. We have shown that this class need not admit tree 3-spanner in general. First, we present a structural characterization of tree 3- spanner admissible simple chordal bipartite graphs. Based on this characterization, we propose a linear time algorithm to recognize tree 3-spanner admissible simple chordal bipartite graphs. Finally, we present a linear time algorithm to construct a tree 3-spanner of a tree 3-spanner admissible simple chordal bipartite graph.


Emile and Isaac Pereire: Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in Nineteenth-Century France by Helen M. Davies, Manchester University Press, 2015, 266 pp.


Ischaemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are at risk of early recurrent stroke (RS). However, antithrombotics commenced at the acute stage may exacerbate haemorrhagic transformation, provoking symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage (SICH). The relevance of antithrombotics on the patterns and outcome of the cohort was investigated.


The subject of this thesis is the child's experience of the disappointment of its wishes
during the early, most formative years of its psychological development. This is a
common area of study in psychoanalytic developmental theories and a range of these
established understandings will be discussed. My research on the child's experience
of disappointment, which is presented in the context of these previous theories,
endeavours to be original, however, by attempting to establish whether or not the
experience is, in the context of the Kleinian object relational understanding of
childhood development, significant in a way that has yet to be fully considered.
In order to research whether my particular arguments, as to the importance of a
child's disappointment, might be valid or not, I firstly explore the experience from
the perspective of the relevant psychoanalytical literature on child developmental
theory. From this position, I am then able to present my own series of theoretical
arguments, and it is from these that a set of hypotheses, about the meaning of
disappointment in childhood development, are then able to be proposed. Following
this, the thesis describes my examination of these hypotheses by some preliminary
clinical research. The overall findings of this research are then presented and applied
in support of my theoretical arguments.


The invention discloses a method and device for enabling a subordination base station to provide service. The method comprises: information sent by a terminal may be received by the subordination base station, wherein the subordination base station or other network elements related with the subordination base station determines whether to allow the subordination base station to provide service to the terminal according to the receiving situation of the information; a reference signal may be sent also by the subordination base station; and the terminal, after receiving the reference signal, gives a feedback about information and/or location information obtained based on the reference signal to the subordination base station or the other network elements related with the subordination base station. By using the method and device provided by the invention, the coverage scope of the terminal in the subordination base station can be discovered in a rapid and high-efficient manner.


The project will investigate the use of radar altimetry (RA) data in the determination of the ocean circulation models. RA data will be used to verify prognostic experiments of the steady state and seasonal cycle of large-scale circulation models and the statistical steady state of eddy-resolving models. The data will serve as initial and update conditions in data assimilation experiments and as constraints in inverse calculations. The aim of the project is a better understanding of ocean physics, the determination and mapping of ocean currents, and a contribution to the establishment of ocean circulation models for climate studies. The goal of the project is to use satellite radar altimetry data for improving our knowledge of ocean circulation both in a descriptive sense and through the physics that govern the circulation state. The basic tool is a series of ocean circulation models. Depending on the model, different techniques will be applied to incorporate the RA data.


The problem of reconstructing a multi-dimensional field from noisy, limited projection measurements is approached using an object-based stochastic field model. Objects within a cross-section are characterized by a finite-dimensional set of parameters, which are estimated directly from the projection measurements using maximum likelihood estimation. The computational structure, performance and robustness of the ML estimation procedure are investigated.


Scientific and technological innovation is the result of intellectual and non-intellectual factors working together.The survey found that non-intellectual factors of Chinese college studentsscientific and technological innovation overall are not optimistic.The reason lies in the lack of cohesion linkage at all levels of education.It needs to establish integrational personnel training system to achieve organic convergence of the various stages of education in school in order to culture the scientific and technological innovation non-intelligence factors of college students.So this paper recommends thinking highly of non-intellectual factors and putting it into the school system at all levels of education;Reforming the traditional personnel training way and vigorously carrying out personalized and diversified personnel training in schools at all levels;building the integration of innovative talent training of innovative talent training mechanism in schools;Deepening education reform to optimize the educational system at all levels of talent recruitment examination and evaluation;strengthening ideological and political education and foster scientific and technological innovation mission and responsibility.


Discloses an improved apparatus for data deduplication, the system and method. Implement input module 312, hashing module 314 and transmission module 316 in the nonvolatile memory device 210. The input module 312 receives a request 302 from a hash internal or external nonvolatile memory device requesting entity. Hash identifier request comprising a data unit, the data unit corresponding to the hash identifier identifies the requested data unit. Hashing module 314 generates a hash using a hash function of the data unit. A hash is generated using computing resources of the nonvolatile memory device. When input module 312 receives a request hash, the transmission module 316 transmits the hash to the receiving entity. Deduplication proxy 110 uses the hash to determine whether the data unit is a copy stored in a storage system includes a nonvolatile storage device 210 in data unit.


Objective:To evaluate the diagnostic value of diffusion-weighted imaging and fluid attenuated inversion recovery in superacute and acute cerebral infarction patient.Methods:We analyzed 56 cases of acute cerebral ischemia patients in regular MRI,FLAIR and DWI imaging.Results:The positive rates of DWI,FLAIR and T2WI in 16 cases of superacute cerebral infarction patients were 93.75%,60% and 50%,respectively.The positive rates of DWI,FLAIR and T2WI in 40 cases of acute cerebral infarction patients were 100%,90% and 87.5%,respectively.Conclusion:DWI is superior to FLAIR and T2WI in displaying superacute and acute cerebral infarction.There is no difference between FLAIR and T2WI in displaying superacue and acute cerebral infarction.


Extended feed storage to reduce the risk of virus survival has not been tested experimentally. Five ingredients inoculated with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus-174, and Senecavirus A were stored indoors at 20°C or outdoors in Minnesota winter conditions. After 30 days, outdoor samples contained infectious virus, while indoor samples did not.


we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet


Nearly twenty years ago, I put forward a hypothesis on the existence of moral censorship in the only manuscript of Quevedo's Imitaciones de Marcial  (MS 108 at the Biblioteca Menendez Pelayo in Santander) that was known at the time. According to this hypothesis, Quevedo may have used several obscene words that were perhaps altered or replaced by various euphemisms in the said manuscript. The analysis of a second codex, conserved in the Biblioteca March in Palma de Mallorca, confirms that this censorship has taken place. This is proven by the fact that the presumed euphemisms in the Santander manuscript correspond systematically in the manuscript in the March Library to some of the following censorship procedures: the "alteration of syllables and/or letters" of the obscene term; the use of "suspension points"; the "elimination" of certain verses; the "omission" of the whole poem; or the insertion of "blank spaces."


One kind of 2 C in a communication system, comprising a terminal, a plurality of sub-stations and the main controller based on I , wherein the master station controller using parallel data connection, and the main controller with I between substation 2 C rules physical wire connection terminal and / or substation site provided corresponding to redundant main controller as a transit point on the bus for data transmission, parallel data to complete the station I 2 C standard data format conversion, and improve the processing efficiency station data transmission speed. The main controller redundancy detection, redundancy switching timing using specific logic and corresponding switching operation enables a smooth transition. Each site-specific address information provided, but also the address information of the faulty station positioned, completely on the bus redundancy check done according to the site, the redundant address detection address to be communicated, no additional excess redundancy circuit detection and switching. The circuit is simple means, flexible communication, high speed, the use of redundant communication station and reliability are increased.


Gastric cancer remains a major health issue and a leading cause of death worldwide.While the incidence is decreasing in western countries,there has been a shift to more proximal cancers of the diffuse type,which are usually more aggressive and associated with a worse prognosis.Radical surgery still offers the only chance of long term survival,but surgery has reached a plateau of effectiveness and more aggressive approaches like'ultraradical' lymphadenectomy have not improved prognosis.There are three options to improve the situation:Earlier detection,neoadjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant therapy.Whilst systematic gastroscopic screening makes sense in countries with a high incidence of gastric cancer,in other regions targeted investigation of risk groups including first-degree relatives of cancer patients,patients with a chronic corpusdominant gastritis or with defined genetic abnormalities may help to detect cancer at an earlier stage.Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has meanwhile proved to significantly improve the prognosis not only in patients with a locally advanced cancer who cannot be resected for cure but but also in those who are potentially amenable to curative resection.In the largest randomised study so far reported,perioperative chemotherapy raised overall survival after 5 years from 23%to 36%.The role of adjuvant chemotherapy has been discussed for over 30 years.Meta-analyses demonstrate a small but significant effect which,however,seems to be restricted to Asian patients.In a large USstudy,adjuvant radiochemotherapy appeared to significantly improve outcomes.However,less than 50%of the study patients underwent a systematic lymphadenectomy and so the results of the therapy group were not better to those of'only resected'patients in two large European studies.Thus,the indication of adjuvant(radio-)chemotherapy in gastric cancer currently remains uncertain.Endoscopists have found a therapeutic role through endoscopic resection of early cancers,introduced mainly by Japanese authors.With the development of high


Property use changes continuously, hence planning based on this information is a continuous process that can be very critical. In Nigeria, information depicting past and present changes in property use for environmental planning, monitoring and socio-economic development is often inadequate. Therefore, there is a need of new tool such as GIS, to analyze changes in properties in Apapa, Nigeria. The method adopted in achieving the result of this work includes collection of both spatial and ancillary data of year 1968 and 2007. Both spatial data with GPS locations of additional information were integrated using ArcGIS to update the 2007 data. The study revealed that initial plan for each property as at 1968 showed that 136 were been used for properties. Year 2007 information revealed 246 existing properties when query analysis was performed to display property information or status. Changes in property uses between 1968 and 2007 were identified in the study; some plots were merged while others have more than two properties within a single plot. The rate of change was simply determined by few parameters in last 39 years. Total properties and individual properties changes, percent dynamics change and rate of changes have been demonstrated in the study.


The axial dispersion in the liquid-phase of a gas-liquid downflow through a packed column was studied with air and water flowing concurrently in a 8.0 cm diameter column with glass spheres of 0.12, 0.26 and 0.43 cm. The impulse response was calculated numerically from the two signals measured at two cross-sections in the bed. The response was characterized by both a peak and a very long tail, and could be represented satisfactorily by using the PDE model in which the mass transfer between the dynamic and the stagnant holdups in addition to the axial dispersion in the dynamic holdup was taken into account. Four parameters appearing in the PDE model were determined by means of the time domain curve fitting method. Peclet number which was based on the actual velocity in the dynamic holdup ud had a constant value of 0.43 for Re''(=udρdp/μ) 400. The volumetric mass transfer coefficient was correlated as a function of particle size, liquid and gas velocities. The total liquid holdup agreed well with the literature data. The fraction of the dynamic holdup varied in the range of 0.6 to 0.95 depending on the particle size and the gas and the liquid velocities. The correlation of the dynamic liquid holdup was given graphically.


Ag/Sn quasi-core/shell nanoparticles have been synthesized by a two-step reduction process at room temperature. The hybridization of elementary plasmons of Ag was detected by the photoluminescence spectra. In addition, the fluorescence quenching effect can be attributed to the strong interaction between Sn and Ag.


This paper studied how chemical companies' patent early warning work should be carried out from the patent interpretation and analysis warning track stages.


Following Levy and Roll [2010], we posit that the market portfolio is the efficient tangent Markowitz portfolio, i.e., it is mean-variance efficient. We then reverse engineer the expected returns and variance terms with constraints imposed by empirical data on a hierarchy of asset baskets. This extends the results of Levy and Roll [2010] and shows that only minor adjustments of the input parameters are needed, well within the statistical uncertainties. Applying the Levy-Roll procedure to the 25 Fama-French portfolios sorted by sizes and book-to-market values, we check the consistency of the Levy-Roll approach by investigating how the adjusted stock returns of specific stocks are modified when varying the basket of stocks they belong to. We test the dynamical performance of the Levy-Roll procedure over the period from January 1992 to December 2009 and find that the corresponding dynamical portfolio allocation performs significantly better than standard benchmarks.


The factors of the landscape design formation in Nakhodka are considered in detail in the article. According to authors, the range enrichment of this district landscape gardening has to proceed from a very considerable vegetation period, summer heat, sufficient precipitation in summer and the dryish winter rather severe on the coast and in the low mountain districts.


The utility model relates to a conductive wire tension control device. The conductive wire tension control device comprises a base, a damping roller, a damper and wrap angle rollers. The damping roller, the damper and the wrap angle rollers are all mounted on the base, wherein the wrap angle rollers and the damping roller parallelly arranged in a manner that angles are formed between the wrap angle rollers which are arranged at lower sides and the damping roller which is arranged at an upper side; and the damping roller is connected with the damper through a coupling and is rotatably arranged. The conductive wire tension control device can provide a constant tension source of which the tension is adjustable, and can compensate the tension of conductive wires and adjust the tension of the conductive wires to a set value of the tension source through a tension compensation mechanism when the tension of the conductive wires fluctuates in a wire drawing process, such that constant tension control on the conductive wires can be maintained in the wire drawing process of the manufacture of solar front surface electrodes. The conductive wire tension control device of the utility model is also provided with a wire fracture detection circuit used for detecting conductive wire fracture and performing warning. The conductive wire tension control device has the advantages of structural simplicity, easiness in operation, low cost as well as excellent tension adjustment effect and wire fracture detection effect.


Implicit neural representations have shown compelling results in offline 3D reconstruction and also recently demonstrated the potential for online SLAM systems. However, applying them to autonomous 3D reconstruction, where a robot is required to explore a scene and plan a view path for the reconstruction, has not been studied. In this paper, we explore for the first time the possibility of using implicit neural representations for autonomous 3D scene reconstruction by addressing two key challenges: 1) seeking a criterion to measure the quality of the candidate viewpoints for the view planning based on the new representations, and 2) learning the criterion from data that can generalize to different scenes instead of a hand-crafting one. To solve the challenges, firstly, a proxy of Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) is proposed to quantify a viewpoint quality; secondly, the proxy is optimized jointly with the parameters of an implicit neural network for the scene. With the proposed view quality criterion from neural networks (termed as Neural Uncertainty), we can then apply implicit representations to autonomous 3D reconstruction. Our method demonstrates significant improvements on various metrics for the rendered image quality and the geometry quality of the reconstructed 3D models when compared with variants using TSDF or reconstruction without view planning.


Cognitive and psychic disorders in multiple sclerosis (MS): anatomical-clinical correlations. Cognitive and psychic disorders in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients both in early and late stages of the disease have been reported by several Authors. They are frequently related to demyelinating lesions in specific sites of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Recently, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has given the opportunity to carry out anatomical-clinical correlation studies in vivo. A neuropsychological and neuroimaging study was carried out in 63 MS patients to asses any possible correlation between cognitive decline and/or psychic disorders and demyelination sites. Our findings suggest that corpus callosum lesions and subcortical atrophy are significantly related to the cognitive and/or psychic impairment. Neuropsychological assessment in MS patients, besides clinical and paraclinical investigations, is an important tool to reveal early cognitive changes and to consider an early cognitive rehabilitation.


Our article is about how english language can be learned at classrooms on the bases of new pedagogical technologies with having taking into consideration the national aspect, i.e. influencing local Uzbek language and typical mistakes and difficulties in learning english by Uzbek speaking students. English lexicology concerned only with vocabulary, translations and dictionaries exist and functions at the present time and major concern are, therefore with the treatment of the problems inherent in course of lexicology from the synchronic angle. Quite an important factor in education towards, cooperation is the teacher's attitude. If she favors a cooperative style of teaching generally and does not shy away from the greater, workload connected with group work or projects, then the conditions for learning to cooperate are good. The atmosphere within a class or group can largely be determined by the teacher, who - quite often without being aware of it - sets the tone by choosing certain types of exercises and topics.


Since the mid‐1970s, an "ozone hole" has developed in the stratosphere over Antarctica each austral summer. The Arctic, by contrast, has been immune to such severe depletion because it is much less susceptible to developing a strong vortex, a pattern of winds that encircles the pole, isolating a continent‐sized body of air in which all the conditions for ozone depletion can be established. In March 1997, however, the Arctic stratosphere behaved more like its southern counterpart than had ever been observed before, and Arctic ozone levels hit record lows for March. (See the figures on page 19.) The observations were reported in eight papers in the 15 November 1997 issue of Geophysical Research Letters.


We calculate the energy of lattice fermions with a small density moving in a weak magnetic field. It is shown that the ground state energy has a minimum at B = 2πν/ea2. Based on this fact we discuss some aspects of the modern theory of strongly correlated fermionic systems.


In 2004, the Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party and the State Council promulgated Advice on Further Strengthen and Improve University Students' Ideological and Political Work, which makes our construction of Communist Party a more challenging task. And the construction of Communist Party among students is the focus of the whole construction of Communist Party in university. This paper analyzes the problems exiting in the further education of pre-party members and puts forward the solution to strengthening education, encouraging their self-study and building an advanced examining system.


Through research on the technical knowledge and historic knowledge of instant symbols (source texts). Based on the definitions of instant symbols, private instant symbols and common instant symbols given for the first time, it analyses its relationship with Internet language, basic characteristics, transformation from individuality to collectivity and other technical knowledge. Meanwhile, the historic origin, writing examples and new possibilities in the future of instant symbols, as the non-text symbols used for communication, are uncovered through further vertical analysis.


The prevalence of clinical and subclinical rickets in Saudi children was studied in Sulimania Children's Hospital in Riyadh on admission. Among the total (16125) admissions during 1986 and 1987 the prevalence of clinical rickets was 1.3 and 1.4% in each year respectively, and the prevalence of subclinical rickets was 3.1%. The age range of the rachitic children was 11.5 ± 4.5 months compared with 11.6 ± 4.7 months in control children. The majority of the rachitic children (88%) were breastfed compared with 42.1% in control children


Rice has a strategic role in stabilizing national food security, economic
resilience, and stability of national politics. In Indonesia, 95 percent of the
population consumes rice as a main food, so that the safety, affordability,
availability of rice is vital and requires government intervention. Market
operations into one form of intervention that price stability can be maintained.
The aims of this research are (1) to analyze the effect of market operations,
production, the government provision of price, imports, and import parity prices
on the retail price of rice in Indonesia and (2) analyze the effect of market
operations, production, the difference between the retail price of rice with the
government provision of price, and the beginning stock of rice on Bulog's rice
procurement.
The analytical method used is descriptive analyzes with error correction
model (ECM) using OLS (Ordinary Least Square). The data used are secondary
data from the years 1970-2010 that sourced from BPS, Ministry of Agriculture,
Ministry coordinator of public welfare, Bulog, and FAO,.
The analysis showed a significant market operating variables only in the
long run on the retail price of rice in Indonesia, while the variable of production,
the import parity price, and the government provision of price significantly better
in the long run and in the short run. Market operations variable significant only in
the long run of Bulog's rice procurement, the difference between the retail price of
rice with the government provision of price and the production significantly in
both the long run and in the short run.


One kind of a gas turbine with inversion of the HP and LP turbine, comprising: LP turbine (50) having a plurality of nozzles (52) for moving wheels appear (56), the movement of the LP turbine wheel rotated in the opposite direction to the rotation of the HP turbine wheel movement direction; intermediate the turbine housing (60) having inner and outer housing walls, and across the inner arm on the channel between the outer housing wall (68) together define an air flow passage between the HP and LP turbines. The outlet of the gas turbine in the HP turbine (40) and the LP turbine (50) a first carrier wheel (5 1 ) or a nozzle means having no gas flow between the deflection function. HP turbine (40) is advantageously designed to deliver intermediate the turbine housing (60) in the swirling gas.


DURING the past ten years several myopathies with unusual microscopic changes in muscle have been described. 1-3 Shy and Magee presented the original report of a familial myopathy, "central core disease," characterized by weakness and hypotonia from birth and a characteristic morphologic abnormality in the center of muscle fibers. Shy and co-workers later described "nemaline myopathy," a congenital muscle disease marked by collections of small rod-shaped structures within muscle fibers. Enlarged and numerous mitochondria, referred to as "megaconial" and "pleoconial" respectively, have recently been demonstrated in the electron microscopic study of muscle in sporadic cases with clinical signs of myopathy. 4 This report is a clinical and pathologic study of two sisters with diffuse muscular weakness and growth retardation, with enlarged and abundant muscle mitochondria. Report of Cases CASE 1.—This 15-year-old girl was referred for the study of muscle weakness, growth failure, and seizures. She weighed 1,531 gm (3


Lithium-Air Batteries (LAB) are one of the most promising upcoming energy storage devices. With a theoretical energy density of 11680 Wh/kg [1] and a practical energy density around 1700Wh/kg a LAB has similar energy densities to gasoline. Furthermore a practical energy density of 1700 Wh/kg would mean a 5-10 fold increase over todays Li-Ion Batteries (LIB) with 100-200 Wh/kg.
One of the major limiting factors on performance and round-trip efficiency is the catalyst used. Today´s LAB still suffer from high charge- and discharge overpotentials caused by insufficient catalysts. The major goal is to reduce overpotentials by using bifunctional catalysts catalyzing both the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) as well as the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Noble metal catalysts show good performance on both reactions but with increasing prices of noble metals metal oxides have drawn attention recently.
In order to optimize the performance of Li-air batteries, it is highly important to understand the kinetics and influence of electrode morphology under different operating conditions. One of the most promising in-situ electrochemical characterization methods is the Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS). After a brief overview of different porous electrode models used in literature for fitting experimental data measured during oxygen reduction on gas diffusion electrodes the porous electrode model of Gohr will be discussed in detail. First results with different multi-layered gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) using different metal oxides like perovskite type oxides as well as spinel type oxides and various other types of catalysts produced by different production techniques like reactive rolling and mixing, dry powder spraying or vacuum plasma spraying will be shown.


A method and apparatus for outputting data is provided. The method includes outputting a first web page containing streaming data, before the streaming data is completely reproduced, when a request to output a second web page is received, outputting the second web page while continuously receiving the streaming data, and when data of an amount that is appropriate to continuously reproduce the streaming data without data delay is received, announcing that the streaming data is capable of being reproduced.


Preface Boundaries of Illusions of Control The Emergence of Modern Illusions of Control Evolution, Runaway Selection, and Control Self Control: Psychological Control at the Personal Level Control and Rationality Conspiracies and Tokens: The Psycho-Political Picture of Control The American Dream: A Basis for a Grand Illusion of Control Controlling Our Children's Future: Or Why the Next Generation Seems so Obstinate to Go Its Own Way Control and the Unofficial Organization: A Story of Neglect Controlling Corporate Culture Leaders "In Control" Modern Specialists: Greater and Greater Control Over Less and Less Controlling the Economy and other Great Illusions of the Dismal Science Controlling Authoritarianism: Can We Survive Destructive Personalities? Controlling Conflict: The Longest Illusion The Paradox of Technology and Conflict Control Control of the Ethereal: Cultural and Values Motivation and Control of Cultural Development Toward Solutions: Performance Driven Control (PDC) In Our Personal and Professional Lives Bibliography Subject Index Author Index


Oasis-desert transitional zone affects not only the material circulation and energy flow of oasis,but also affects stability of oasis of life quality of the masses in sand areas.Combination of remote sensing technology,study was conducted on status of oasis-desert transitional zone in Hexi Corridor,the results showed: landform of oasis-desert tran-sition zone mainly including shifting sand,fixed sandy land,and semi-fixed sandy land;the degree of frag-mentation of the landscape was high,interior habitat size of the landscape elements was small and edge length was short.After adopted the "four transitional integration" integrated mode including the closure forestation and grass with plants living sand barrier blocking sand belt,sand fixation forest and the frontier wind prevention and sand resistance,the spring,boundary wind speed of oasis-desert transition zone was down;plant diversity in growth season increased,change of water soil content was not significant,and ecological environment of control zone has been improved.


Over the past several decades, there has been some disagreement as to whether evidence supports separate or integrated bilingual mental lexicons (Gollan, Forster, and Frost 1997; Finkbeiner, Forster, Nicol, and Nakamura 2004). While several studies have provided evidence for an integrated lexical memory system, where both languages are simultaneously activated during language processing (e.g., Dijkstra, Timmermans, and Schriefers 2000; de Groot, Delmaar, and Lupker 2000; Finkbeiner et al. 2004; Costa 2005), others have supported the view that the two lexicons are stored separately such that the activation of one language does not entail the activation of the other (e.g., Soares and Grosjean 1984; Gerard and Scarborough 1989; Ibrahim 2009; Li, Mo, Wang, Luo, and Chen 2009). More recently, a consensus is beginning to emerge that the two lexicons are indeed integrated (Kroll and Stewart 1994; Fabbro 2001; Paradis 2001; Dijkstra and van Heuven 1998, 2002; Costa 2005), though the level of representation at which this integration occurs is still under some debate. Two of the most influential models of the bilingual lexicon differ somewhat in this respect. The first, the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM; Kroll and Stewart 1994; Kroll, van Hell, Tokowicz, and Green 2010; see Figure 1A), posits that the two lexicons access a shared conceptual store, but that each language has a separate store at the lexical level of representation. The links from first language (L1) words to their corresponding concepts are very strong, as these are learned in conjunction with one another during the process of L1 acquisition. L2 lexical representations, on the other hand, have stronger links to the L1 lexical store, as they are most often learned by direct "lexical association" to their already-learned translation equivalent during the process of sequential L2


from reading it as a sacred text of scripture. The volume contains much insightful analysis on the use of language from English Bible translations (and the KJB in particular) in authors from Shakespeare to Milton to Blake, as well as in more recent, previously marginalised writers. Essays by Katherine Bassard, R. S. Sugirtharajah and Heather Walton add welcome new dimensions to the KJB's complex and global story, examining how its language has been deployed, 'in the name of sexism, racism, imperialist colonization, anti-Semitism and other forms of religious bigotry, and homophobia'. It is, however, regrettable that only three out of thirteen authors in the volume were women, an imbalance perpetuated at the OSU anniversary conference in May 2011. This was by no means intentional, and matters could be worse (another anniversary volume of KJB essays contains all male authors), yet it is clear that more careful attention to diversity and balance must be paid in future anniversary studies and conferences. The editors' wishes that the volume will 'spark new kinds of conversations', and 'invite more voices to join in the telling of this story' (pp. 1–2) are well-founded and will take shape as we experience upcoming Bible anniversary years, celebrating publication milestones of Erasmus' Greek– Latin New Testament (1516), Luther's German New Testament (1522) and Tyndale's New Testament (1526). The volume's contributors demonstrate interest in, and further scholarly need for, discussions on the global, living legacy of the Protestant English Bible (including cultures of preaching, private study and biblical memorisation), as well as the historical and theological contexts of the KJB as a sacred text whose reception reflects long-standing patterns of resistance and acceptance in the Judaeo-Christian Bible's history. Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer (Bagley) Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753, USA firstname.lastname@example.com


In recent years, the concepts of imperialism, global capitalism, and capitalist empire have become increasingly relevant to critical globalization studies. Within the context of this discourse, this article explores whether or not contemporary society can be characterized as a new form of the Marxist notion of imperialism. In an attempt to answer this question, I employ Vladimir Lenin's analysis of imperialism as it relates to contemporary capitalism. I test Lenin's theories with a macroeconomic statistical analysis of existing data.


Sketch is the foundation for artistic modeling, and is an important part of fundamental art courses. For better teaching outcome, scientific teaching methods have to be taken, with theories and practice fully integrated.


Under the invitation of Zeng Jianhui, spokesman for the Third Plenum of the National People's Congress (NPC), Premier Zhu Rongji met with Chinese and foreign correspondents this afternoon in the Great Hall of the People.


Two quite distinct views on how metropolitan labour markets work have co-existed for over three decades. Both claim empirical support and, after a brief period of confrontation, they continue to co-exist today giving quite conflicting signals to policy-makers. According to the first model, the urban labour market consists of a number of spatially defined sub-markets so that local unemployment exists primarily because of deficiencies in highly localised demand for labour. By this argument, unemployment rates remain high in the absence of a renewed supply of appropriate jobs within short commuting distances of the jobless. The solution according to this model is to attract private- and public-sector production into such areas. In contrast, a second model views the city as a single market in which transactions between labour and capital take place regardless of the location of residence and employment sites. According to this perspective, the spatial incidence of unemployment simply reflects the residential clustering effects of a housing market reacting to an unequal income distribution. Demand for labour may still be deficient, but only at the aggregate, metropolitan-wide level. According to this model, creating jobs for labour in particular parts of the conurbation in order to reduce unemployment in certain neighbourhoods will only have a temporary, short-term effect at best. The apparent conflicts between the policy implications drawn from these segmented and seamless models of the urban labour market arise out of a failure to recognise explicitly the marked differences that exist in the ability of different levels of human capital to adjust. Both models have relevance, but to different categories of labour. As soon as the implicit assumption of homogeneous labour is relaxed, the simultaneous presence of spatially seamless and segmented markets becomes a source of insight rather than conflict and their role in policy discussion becomes more transparent. The research challenge lies in achieving a better understanding of the scope and practice of adjustment of individuals with different skills together with the way the urban markets as a whole adjust.


Objective: To observe the protection effect of indol-2,3-dione on cardiac microvascular endothelial cells.Methods: We established the primary culture method of rat cardiac microvascular endothelial cell(rCMEC),and identified the cells with morphology and immune cell chemical dyeing.Then ox-LDL was used to induce the damage and damage model was established.Finally,the protection effect of indol-2,3-dione on the rCMEC was observed.Results: Under the inverted microscope,the cells were presented in fusiform shape and grew like the paving stone,and at the same time some region had tube-like structure.It was positive for the immunocytochemical staining of factor CD31-related antigen.ox-LDL(0.1 g·L-1)inhibited the growth of cells,and could be used as the concentration of the model.Indol-2,3-dione reduced the damage of ox-LDL in a dose-dependent manner(P0.05).Conclusion:Indol-2,3-dione can protect the rCMEC damaged by ox-LDL.


Today"s era is an era of technology and advancements where energy is the main component. Almost all devices are being powered by non-recyclable and non-biocompatible materials-based power sources. Herein, TENG based on natural waste material is proposed which is designed using Calotropis fibers (Ark fibers) and PTFE. These fibers are electropositive as compared to PTFE and produced the voltage of 79V on manual tapping at 4Hz. This arrangement has the capability to generate sufficient power that can run 60 green LEDs. Finally, ac voltage is converted to dc by rectifier and stored energy is used to power small digital wrist watch.


The invention discloses a method for breeding blue-lower-leg spotted-brown-feather laying hens with high egg yields. The method comprises the following steps of: artificially inseminating and mating a large quantity of Huainan spotted-brown cocks serving as male parents and Loman laying hens serving as female parents, collecting hatching eggs and hatching an F1 generation; identifying cocks and hens according to the colors of feathers and lower legs, eliminating white-feather yellow-lower-leg chicken which are cocks, reserving spotted-brown-feather blue-lower-leg chicken which are hens for serving as breeding hens, and performing back crossing by taking Huainan spotted-brown cocks as male parents to produce an F2 spotted-brown-feather generation; crossly mating and fixing the F2 generation and performing family breeding to produce an F3 generation; and performing gradual pure breeding on the F3 generation and later generations and obtaining the blue-lower-leg spotted-brown-feather laying hens with high egg yields according to egg yield, protein, lower leg color, feather color and bodily form, wherein the feathers are spotted-brown feathers; and the bodily form refers to delicate and pretty bodily form, blue lower leg and blue beak. According to the method, an appropriate high-egg-yield gene is introduced into a local chicken breed, and the proteins and macroscopic features of the local chicken breed are kept simultaneously.


In light of common engineering progress payment delay phenomenon in international projects,using the interaction relation between engineering duration and engineering payment,the essay simulates punctual engineering progress payment curve,and compares it with engineering payment delay curve,and then induces the delay duration,so as to guarantee the contractor's rights and benefits.


With the help of grey relational analysis, this study attempts to propose a new differential evolutionary (DE) algorithm by updating the mutation factor in a grey-based adaptive manner. By the proposed approaches, each individual has its own mutation factor whose value is dependent upon the corresponding grey relational grade. Since the relational grade of an individual is varying over the generations, the mutation factor is also time-varying. Even if in the same generation, the mutation factor may differ for different individuals. Such a DE algorithm is termed the DE algorithm with grey-based adaptive mutation factor (DE_GAMF) in this study. In addition, the DE_GAMF is applied to solve the optimization problems of eight benchmark functions for illustration. Simulation results show that the proposed DE_GAMF could perform well search performance on most of the test functions.


1. The name of the product design: Music toothbrush (K1662). 2. Purpose of product design: clean teeth. 3. The designer of a design elements: shape. 4. The best indicator of design elements or photographs of: a perspective view.


Incorporating linguistic, world and common sense knowledge into AI/NLP systems is currently an important research area, with several open problems and challenges. At the same time, processing and storing this knowledge in lexical resources is not a straightforward task. We propose to address these complementary goals from two methodological perspectives: the use of NLP methods to help the process of constructing and enriching lexical resources and the use of lexical resources for improving NLP applications. This tutorial may be useful for two main types of audience: those working on language resources who are interested in becoming acquainted with automatic NLP techniques, with the end goal of speeding and/or easing up the process of resource curation; and on the other hand, researchers in NLP who would like to benefit from the knowledge of lexical resources to improve their systems and models.


To successfully educate and advocate on behalf of people with Parkinson's disease and their family members and caregivers, nurses and other health professionals need a working knowledge of current trends in the medical management of Parkinson's. The goal of treatment is to gain control over the symptoms of the disease and promote the best possible quality of life for patients and their families. This paper provides an overview of current approaches to the medical management of Parkinson's. It explores the challenges encountered when treating people with young-onset Parkinson's and those who experience medication side effects, in particular the increasingly recognised impulsive/compulsive behavioural disorders associated with some classes of medication. The key role of the nurse in symptom monitoring and promoting compliance with medication regimens is emphasised.


Gilbert proposed an algorithm for bounding the distance between a given point and a convex set. We apply the Gilbert's algorithm to get an upper bound on the Hilbert-Schmidt distance between a given state and the set of separable states. While Hilbert-Schmidt distance does not form a proper entanglement measure, it can nevertheless be useful for witnessing entanglement. We provide a few methods based on the Gilbert's algorithm that can reliably qualify a given state as strongly entangled or practically separable, while being computationally efficient. The method also outputs successively improved approximations to the closest separable state for the given state. We demonstrate the efficacy of the method with examples.


The pervasive applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have made an impact on the human knowledge sharing and education. In practice, a lifelong learning process is becoming an inevitable trend in the future. Although distance education has been developed for a long period, there are still problems such as low learning enthusiasm, low autonomy, and unsatisfactory learning support services. The application of AI to distance education will fundamentally affect the instruction and guidance methods, as well as the instructing content of distance education. Evolutions in distance education have brought significant changes in the instructing mode, learning strategy and support service, evaluation mode, and instructing platform of distance education. Distance education can construct an intelligent education platform to provide learners with personalized learning support. It can also offer flexible, dynamic, and convenient evaluation and on-demand learning resources with guaranteed quality. By leveraging the state-of-the-art data mining technique, we in this work design a set of simple yet effective distance education system, in the context of video conferencing. Our technique depends on the existing video surveillance network and equipment. Our technique can be applied to achieve an effective face-to-face online interaction. Meanwhile, the video surveillance network switch is optimized to enhance the network transmission and ensure the reliability of network operation. Comprehensive experimental results on the two instructing platforms based on embedded system learning and hospital nurse learning have shown the advantage of our method.


Managing privacy is important because organizations must meet legislative and organizational requirements. Some countries, such as the United States of America, have a patchwork of legislation, making it difficult to understand technical requirements. Other countries, such as Canada and the European Union, have well-established and understood privacy laws. As well, many different technologies that may be applied to provide compliance with those laws exist, but there are no established technological solutions suited for handling all of the challenging requirements expressed by privacy regulations. The question remains: how can a citizen's privacy rights be managed or enforced? This article describes extensions to a privacy architecture that employs digital rights management technologies to manage individual data privacy. Several scenarios related to the management of personally identifiable information are described, illustrating how the system operates in support of the requirements expressed in the European Union privacy principles.


Reducing the electricity use of servers is a major challenge both in end systems and datacenters where most servers reside. HTTP timed redirection can be used to create extended idle periods where a server can sleep and save energy in a hybrid server architecture. This method of reducing energy use is intended for delay-tolerant applications such as client software updates and file backup. Performance evaluation shows the potential for enabling significant energy savings with a bounded delay.


Epidermoid cysts of the testis are rare in children (3% of all the testicular tumors). Bilateral appearance has only been described in the pediatric age in 2 cases and none associated to Klinefelter's syndrome. We present, for our knowledge, the first case of bilateral epidermoid testicular cyst associated to klinefelter's syndrome in a boy, highlighting its management and therapeutic approach. We analyze the different kinds of treatment.