BACKGROUND
Buxus sempervirens L. is a medicinal plant with several beneficial effects on health and is widely used in the Moroccan folklore as antidiabetic plant.

OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to evaluate the antidiabetic effect of both aglycone and glycoside flavonoid enriched extracts of this plant in the experimental diabetic state.

METHODS
in the current work, the effect of an aglycone and a glycoside flavonoid-enriched extracts from the leaves of Buxus sempervirens L. (AFBS and GFBS) (10 mg/kg) on blood glucose levels has been evaluated in normal and streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic rats. Moreover, the histopathological changes in liver and pancreas have been assessed in STZ diabetic rats. The ability of AFBS and GFBS to improve glucose tolerance in normal rats was also evaluated.

RESULTS
In normal rats, both a single and repeated administration of AFBS and GFBS (10 mg/kg) had no significant effect on blood glucose levels. However, both single and repeated oral administration of the two fractions showed a significant blood glucose lowering effect (p<0.0001) in STZ rats. In addition, histopathological analysis has demonstrated the beneficial impact of AFBS and GFBS on pancreas and liver. Whereas, the oral glucose tolerance test demonstrated no significant ability of these extracts to improve the increase in blood glucose levels in normal and diabetic treated rats. In the current study, no significant changes in body weight in normal and STZ rats have been shown. In addition, the antioxidant activity of both AFBS and GFBS, revealed the antioxidant effect of both extracts. Furthermore both flavonoid-enriched fractions had no significant effect on blood lipid levels.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, AFBS and GFBS exhibit an interesting antidiabetic effect in streptozotocin rats and GFBS was seems to be more effective than AFBS.


In this study we investigate synchronization/coordination in musical ensembles, using two complementary approaches, kinematic and acoustical analysis. We conducted an experiment divided in two sessions: In the first session, musicians were instructed to play as first clarinetist (primo). In the second session, musicians were instructed to play as second clarinetist (secondo). Results from the audio analysis show that the participants tend to follow more efficiently their own recordings. Results for gesture analysis indicate that when clarinetists follow themselves they tend to retain their "original" gestural profile, as recorded in solo executions. However, when they follow other clarinetists, they tend to deviate from their "original" profile. In those cases, it was observed that the curves of secondo clarinetists tend to slightly adapt to the curves of primo clarinetists.


The present series of experiments was designed to provide additional information on the mechanism of bubble formation in boiling liquids. In particular, knowing that a pre-pressurization treatment raises the boiling temperature of a body of water markedly, it was desired to determine the effect of such treatment on boiling from a metal heating surface immersed in the water.

A 0.010" nichrome wire was immersed in a vessel of water, the entire assembly having been cleaned, and subjected to a pressure of 15000 psi for periods of time in excess of 15 minutes. The pressure was reduced to atmospheric and the wire heated to burnout by electric current. It was concluded that the effect of the treatment on the maximum heat transfer was small and equivalent to degassing the water.

A second series of experiments was conducted in which the temperature of the wire at the onset of boiling in pre-pressurized water was measured. These experiments indicated that the wire reached a temperature considerably in excess of normal nucleation temperatures, dropping to normal at the instant of nucleation. This effect could be explained in terms of the theory which postulates bubble formation from pre-existing gas or vapor nuclei.


In the bachelor thesis the factors affecting the production the biogenic amines in selected grampositive bacteria is described. The kinetics of biogenic amine production by Lactobacillus brevis RIBM 2-69 at 0, 3 and 6 % (v/v) concentration of ethanol in the growth medium was observed. Lactobacillus brevis is considered to be one of the most possible beer contaminants. These bacteria are able to produce higher levels of biogenic amines which negatively affect the quality of alcoholic drinks and subsequently the consumer's health. The formation of biogenic amines (tyramine, phenylethylamine, putrescine, cadaverine) was monitored after the cultivation in the supernatants by reverse phase liquid chromatography with pre-column derivatization by dansylchloride and UV detection. The observation of kinetics of tyramine production was realized. Only tyramine was produced by the current tested bacterial culture. The tyramine was formed in abundant measure in comparison with concentrations of other biogenic amines which were bellow 2 mg/l.


Abstract Fatigue is commonly reported by persons with lower limb osteoarthritis (OA) and uniquely predicts worse functioning and decreased activity. The current research used a combination of wrist and waist accelerometry along with experience sampling methodology (ESM) in a diverse sample to examine the relationship between reports of fatigue and pain and subsequent physical activity among older adults with knee OA. Three hundred twenty-one participants with physician-diagnosed knee OA completed a baseline interview and mobility testing followed by a one-week observation period using accelerometry at both wrist and waist. During this week, participants also completed an ESM protocol assessing fatigue and pain 4 times daily. Multilevel models examined lagged within-subjects patterns of symptoms and their association with subsequent physical activity using three approaches: 1) wrist accelerometry alone, 2) waist accelerometry alone, and 3) a combined approach using both measures. These models also examined between-subjects predictors including measures of overall functioning, mobility testing, and demographics. Level of fatigue reported in the previous interval was the strongest and most consistent predictor of subsequent lowered physical activity. Other significant predictors included age and functional mobility. Waist and wrist actigraphy estimates were modestly correlated with each other, yet multi-level models showed consistent results regardless of placement at wrist versus waist versus a combined waist/wrist approach. In conclusion, fatigue symptoms are a significant factor in predicting subsequent decreased physical activity in OA. Waist and wrist accelerometry methods produced different estimates of activity level in this population, but similar associations with arthritis symptoms.


The humoral theory of health and causes of diseases was rejected due to discovery of circulation of blood by William Harvey. Even Ayurveda has had to face an unprecedented crisis to overcome the resistance faced by growing technological usage in the growth of modern medicine. This article tries to adjust the relation between Ayurveda and modern medicine. Rasa dhatu is an important dhatu that has a varied role in nourishment of the human body as well as all the other tissues of the body. Rasa dhatu functions and its various properties are in a way similar to modern day blood plasma. Literary Research for the review was taken from ancient Ayurveda Texts, modern medical books and the internet. On the basis of the above research it was concluded that 'Rasa dhatu as the foremost dhatu is an important part of the human body. Rasa dhatu has many similarities with Plasma part of the blood'.


Introduction: Telemedicine has the potential to enhance access to healthcare services across distances and this was of great value during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, concerns about user satisfaction in comparison to face-to-face (FTF) interaction remain inadequately addressed. Objective: This study aimed to assess the impact of telemedicine technology from the patient perspective by comparing patient satisfaction and cost savings of follow-up visits through telemedicine with those of FTF clinical visits. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with two groups i.e., a telemedicine group and a control group that received FTF care at a tertiary hospital. Results: This study demonstrated that the telemedicine group had patient satisfaction levels similar to those of the FTF clinical visit group, having a lower cost of care. Factors associated with patient satisfaction with telemedicine clinical care are identified and discussed. Both groups showed similar results in overall satisfaction with substantial cost savings for telemedicine patients. Conclusion: Positive impacts of telemedicine technology from the patient perspective were seen and decision-makers must expand telemedicine efforts and continuously monitor patient perceptions toward telemedicine.


The invention discloses an internet of things chest control method. The method comprises the following steps: a, monitoring temperature, humidity and odor in a chest through a thermometer, a humidity sensor and an odor sensor; b, transmitting corresponding temperature, humidity and odor signals to a chest master module through the thermometer, the humidity sensor and the odor sensor; c, sending the temperature, humidity and odor signals to wireless network communication equipment through a wireless network communication module by the chest master module; d, controlling an exhaust fan, a dryer and an anion ultraviolet sterilization bulb through the wireless network communication equipment by a user to control the temperature, humidity or odor conditions in the chest. The temperature, humidity and odor conditions in the chest can be detected in real time through above step design, and the temperature, humidity and odor conditions in the chest can be controlled through the wireless network communication equipment, so that the user can conveniently manage the clothes and maintain the freshness and cleanness of the clothes; the method is especially suitable for mobile users.


Objective:To determine the pharmacokinetics and relative availability of domestic cefaclor. Methods:The crossover study was conducted in 8 healthy, fast volunteers. They were treated randomly with domestic or imported cefaclor 1 000 mg and their serum and urine drug levels were measured by bioassay. RESULTS: The concentration time curves fitted to a two compartment model. The pharmacokinetic parameters of domestic cefaclor were: mean C max =(20.51±3.84) mg/L, T max =(0.84±0.13)h, t 1/2 β=(1.07±0.38)h, AUC=(27.27±2.88) mg·h/L. The cumulative excretion rate in urine within 24 h was (69.15±6.66)%. The relative bioavailability of domestic cefaclor was 108.43%. CONCLUSION: The domestic and the imported cefaclor are bioequivalent with similar bioavilability.


The authors report a patient in whom the localization of a parathyroid adenoma was enhanced following radioiodine treatment of concurrent, toxic multinodular goiter. An 80-year-old woman was referred to the Nuclear Medicine Department for a Tc-99m sestamibi scintigram for preoperative localization of a parathyroid adenoma. The combined Tc-99m sestamibi/Tc-99m pertechnetate studies demonstrated a multinodular goiter that was later confirmed as toxic biochemically. There was no definite evidence of any discernible parathyroid abnormality. Euthyroid status was subsequently achieved following radioiodine treatment, but her hyperparathyroidism, however, persisted. The radionuclide investigations were repeated 18 months after the first presentation and these correctly identified a parathyroid adenoma. On the basis of our experience, we recommend pretreatment of thyrotoxicosis before undertaking Tc-99m sestamibi scintigraphy in patients in whom primary hyperparathyroidism and thyrotoxicosis coexist.


The objective of the study was to determine of the male master volleyball the performance of the type of serve and the effect of the serve in the reception zone. The study was composed by 15 matches of the male master volleyball of the category 35 years or more. The volleyball matches were filmed and after was analyzed with the scout. The significance p and new statistic detected statistical difference of the serve continuity in two comparisons (16.87±8.92 of the overhand float serve versus 3.85±2.28 of the jump power serve, 14.07±6.47 of the jump float serve versus the jump power serve). Other result the significance p and new statistic detected statistical difference of the serve continuity in the reception zone in four comparisons (1.20±0.44 of the zone 2 versus 10.67±3.79 of the zone 5, zone 2 versus 13.67±5.36 of the zone 6, 2.87±3.39 of the zone 3 versus zone 5 and zone 3 versus zone 6). In conclusion, serve performance is important for the volleyball coach guides the player during the training and during the volleyball match.


The input scaling factors in a fuzzy control system are often used as a transformation from the real input data to the desired space. Sometimes, they are tuned for better performance just as the coefficients in a PID controller. Theoretically, they are constant and should be adjusted for better performance while the operating point is changed. In this paper, the authors suggest nonlinear mapping functions to substitute the role of input scaling factors. The results show how the nonlinear mapping function work and the performance could be better by proper adjustment. It is also noticed that such mapping will change the shapes of the membership functions. That means one need not tune every membership function of linguistic variables, and just choosing a proper nonlinear mapping function could achieve the same effects. The authors use an inverted pendulum system to verify the results.


In the context of the COVID‑19 pandemic and the economic crisis in Russia, the labour market has changed, affecting the foreign labour force, which is an important category of it. In these changed conditions, the study of the employment of labour migrants from Central Asia is becoming more relevant. Based on a sociological study conducted by the author in Russia in 2020–2021 among 900 labour migrants from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the type and scope of their employment at home are analysed. The type and scope of their employment in Russia, the method of finding a job and competition with Russians, the type of colleagues and the length of stay in Russia are analysed. The analysis analyses the average monthly and hourly wages in Russia on average per year in rouble and dollar terms and participation in the formation of the family budget at home, the existence of a written agreement with the employer and the reasons for its absence in Russia during the COVID‑19 pandemic in the country and gender sections.


An r-gathering of customers C to facilities F is an assignment A of C to open facilities F ′ ⊂ F such that r (≥ 2) or more customers are assigned to each open facility. (Each facility needs enough number of customers for its opening.) Then the r-gathering problem finds an r-gathering minimizing a designated cost. Armon gave a simple 3approximation algorithm for the r-gathering problem and proved that with assumption P , NP the problem cannot be approximated within a factor of less than 3 for any r ≥ 3. The running time of the 3-approximation algorithm is O( |C | |F | + r |C | + |C | log |C |)). In this paper we improve the running time of the algorithm by (1) removing the sort in the algorithm and (2) designing a simple but efficient data structure. key words: facility location problem


Key Points Question Can proxy data sources be used to estimate national opioid overdose mortality trends in near real time? Finding In this cross-sectional time series analysis, signals from 5 overdose-related, proxy data sources encompassing health, law enforcement, and online data from 2014 to 2019 in the US were combined via a statistical model that was able to demonstrate that these data can be used to estimate national opioid overdose death rates with an approximate 1% error. Meaning This study suggests that it may be possible to enable a more timely understanding of national opioid overdose mortality trends through the use of near–real-time proxy data sources.


Abstract : Our recent work related to closed-loop electrostatic control of membrane mirrors is summarized in this presentation. We begin with a short description of electrostatic actuation as applied to membrane mirrors, and follow this up with a brief overview of the possible actuation control approaches. The main focus of this presentation is on the two techniques being studied in our laboratory: (1) area control, which involves switching control of conductor segments forming suitably located electrode clusters, and (ii) gap control, which consists of mechanical control of the electrode-membrane gap via a movable electrode substrate. Closed loop control strategies are investigated that provide deflections and bandwidths in the range of 60 micrometers and 500 Hz respectively. A Lyapunov potential method is used for stable tracking of trajectories consistent with these deflection-bandwidth criteria. While our initial emphasis is on small single-mode focus/defocus and tip/tilt mirrors, the method generalizes without much difficulty to multiple-mode actuation of larger mirrors. Results discussed here include time domain simulations and experiments on the closed-loop dynamics of singlemode mirrors under area and gap control, and static tests illustrating gap control of multiple-mode mirrors.


A search is performed for the Higgs boson produced in association with a top quark and its antiparticle, using the leptonic and hadronic decay modes of the top quarks and the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb − 1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No excess over the background prediction is observed and limits are set on the production. The observed (expected) 95% confidence level exclusion limits on the production cross section for a Higgs boson with a mass of m H = 126 . 8 GeV in association with a top quark pair are 5.3 (6.4) times the predicted Standard Model values.


The management and choice of materials, technologies and facilities for food packaging has a significant impact on the food. Recent news events have led the market to consider safety risks for the end user in a different way even after contamination due to the possible interactions with the packaging materials. In order to identify, analyze and manage the risks associated with the packaging materials, this paper presents an approach for the management of materials, technologies and plants for the packaging of foodstuffs. The methodological approach proposed is based on the implementation of the risk management technique in the management of food packaging plants. Finally, the results obtained by the application of the methodology in a packaging plant of dry biscuits are reported.


Recently, we found a new species belonging to Genus Mouterosatus, Family Mesodesmatidae, Bivalvia; it was collected from the South China Sea, on 14 December, 1959. The new species has a shell that is rather small, thin, fragile, compressed, equivalve and inequilateral; umbo low, situated at the posterior 2/5 of dorsal margin; without lunule and escutcheon; anterior margin round and posterior margin slightly truncated. The nearly straightly anterior dorsal margin is longer than the posterior dorsal, with a surface ornamented with rather coarsely concentric lines, and the dorsal is usually covered by yellowish periostracum, especially on the margin area. The hinge has external and amphidetic ligament, and resilium is situated at a very small resilifer behind the cardinal teeth in each valve; the right valve has two cardinal teeth, whilst the left valve has one; the shell interior surface is white, mantle line that is not sinus, the adductor scars indistinct. The specimen measurements: length 10.2mm, height 7.0mm, breath 3.8mm. Holotype (M30951) collected from Beibu Wan (Gulf of Tonkin), South China Sea (20°45′N, 109°15′E), 21m deep, 14 Dec, 1959. This new species resembles M. prima (Locard, 1899), but the latter has a rounded posterior margin.


Developing circular economy and constructing circular society are signif icant strategic measures for realizing harmonious and sustainable development of environment and economy.In this context,the implementation of ecological management is the inevitable choice for enterprise development.Based on the analysis of ecological management obstacles,this paper aims to identify ways to promote the enterprise ecological management and the development of circular economy.


The invention provides a method for manufacturing compound multifunctional an anti-fake mark by laser etching, aiming at solving defects of easiness to damage two-dimensional codes and miniature images attached on the anti-fake mark, hardness to store, low anti-fake level and the like in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps of: producing an OVD (optical variable device) large coiling foil reserved with a laser etching area and provided with anti-fake elements on the laser etching area background according to needs; a, detecting defective product of the large coiling foil produced in the step a and eliminating or marking the defective product, b, slitting the detected OVD foil and processing to be the coil suitable for hot-stamping, c, etching an aluminum-plating layer in the laser etching area background pattern through the laser, reserving a base membrane, combining the etched blank area with the reserved aluminum-plating substance to form a new anti-fake pattern, and d, hot-stamping a small oiling foil membrane on corresponding products through positioning hot-stamping equipment. The production method is wide in application range and easy to understand and carry out technique; and the costs of printing enterprises and packaging enterprises can be greatly reduced after anti-fake mark enterprises use the method.


Ecotourism,as an important form of sustainable tourism,has developed rapidly.The criterion of ecotourism is the standardization of the development of ecotourism.It can play an active role in the standardized development of ecotourism.The paper makes an analysis of the evolution and property of the criterion and certified projects of ecotourism internationally,its developing situation and evolutionary trend.Based on this,the paper makes theoretical discussion on how to establish China's criterion of ecotourism.


The declining national economic conditions as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic were felt directly by the community, especially MSMEs engaged in the food and beverage sector. However, the stagnation and slowdown of the economy due to the pandemic cannot be left alone. The massive vaccination movement and the culture of health procedures in the community gave rise to a new spirit to re-open a business. Donate Gendhis Manis is one of the culinary businesses that developed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Challenges faced are limited insight and experience in business management in terms of production, marketing, human resources, finance, and risk management. The community service team tries to help develop the business by brainstorming, FGD, simulation, and providing production tools. As a result, Donate Gendhis Manis' culinary industry can empower itself by being more sensitive to market trends, environmental changes, and consumer tastes and improving its appearance by redesigning its packaging


Recently technologies of small satellites have been so matured that many earth observation missions are proposed. However, it is true that small satellite missions still have limitations of satellite functions compared with large satellites. Their main limitations are earth sensing capabilities as well as down link capabilities. The purpose of this research is to develop a highdata-rate (typically 300-500Mbps) communication system which can be applicable to small satellites of 50 kg class. We have been developing the communication subsystem both for the flight hardware as well as the ground system, paying attention to reduce the DC power and the mass of onboard instruments. This system has been demonstrated on orbit using Japanese Hodoyoshi-4 Satellite launched in 2014[1]. In December, 2014, the 3.8m antenna station at ISAS, Sagamihara received 348 Mega bit per second data with 16 QAM modulation and successfully demodulated/decoded them without error. This communication speed is as high as a half of one of Daichi 2, a Japanese earth observation satellite with about 2 tons mass and is the world fastest as a 50kg class small satellite. This result indicates that the capability of data transmission from a small satellite approaches to capability of a large satellite. The remaining issues are the improvement of sensor capabilities compatible to a small satellite.


View of Scouts' Hall, situated in the reserve at Stokes Point, Northcote, taken from Little Shoal Bay. Also shown in the photograph is Quinton Villa nearby. The flagstaff near the hall has the flag flying at half-mast. Taken ca 1912 by William Archer Price of Northcote.
Refer to the Northcote Athenaeum Meteor 15 Nov 1912, p 9 for information about the building of the Scout Hall.
Duplicate copy held in Northcote Library Photographic Collection. N/0109-013
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Scouts Hall, Northcote, 1966
William Archer Price lived and practiced in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches


COVID-19 has affected many people across the globe. Though vaccines are available now, early detection of the disease plays a vital role in the better management of COVID-19 patients. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) powered Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system can automate the detection pipeline accounting for accurate diagnosis, overcoming the limitations of manual methods. This work proposes a CAD system for COVID-19 that detects and classifies abnormalities in lung CT images using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimised ANN (ABCNN). The proposed ABCNN approach works by segmenting the suspicious regions from the CT images of non-COVID and COVID patients using an ABC optimised region growing process and extracting the texture and intensity features from those suspicious regions. Further, an optimised ANN model whose input features, initial weights and hidden nodes are optimised using ABC optimisation classifies those abnormal regions into COVID and non-COVID classes. The proposed ABCNN approach is evaluated using the lung CT images collected from the public datasets. In comparison to other available techniques, the proposed ABCNN approach achieved a high classification accuracy of 92.37% when evaluated using a set of 470 lung CT images.


einer Präsentation auf der 51. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik, 09. 11. September 2020, Stuttgart. Erschienen in: Ulrich Wolf und Bernhard Sattler (eds.), 51. Jahrestagung Deutsche Gesellschaft f ü r Medizinische Physik -Abstractband. Deutsche Gesellschaft f ü r Medizinische Physik, Stuttgart. ISBN 978-3-948023-10-2 Design and detector development for an in-beam small animal PET scanner Munetaka Nitta, Giulio Lovatti, Mohhamad Safari, Tim Binder, Han Gyu Kang, Sodai Takyu, Georgios Dedes, Taiga Yamaya, Peter G. Thirolf, Katia Parodi 1 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Physik, Garching bei München, Deutschland 2 National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan Introduction We have designed an in-beam PET [1] system for the Small animal proton Irradiator for Research in Molecular Image-guided radiation-Oncology (SIRMIO) project. The SIRMIO PET will image positron emitters generated by the proton beam and requires opening space for insertion of additional probes. In this study, we evaluated the performance with simulations. Then, we evaluated a prototype PET detector. Materials & Methods We used the MEGAlib software [2] for Monte-Carlo simulations. We assumed 3-layer LYSO blocks composed of pixels with a width of 0.9 mm and a height of 6.7 mm. We designed a spherical shape PET scanner with inner radius of 72 mm by using 56 detectors (Figure 1 left). For the experimental prototype detector evaluation, we prepared a 3-layer LYSO block and SiPM array (3mm  3mm, 8  8 array, KETEK, Figure 1 right). The TOFPET2 ASIC (PETsys Electronics, Portugal) was used as data acquisition system (DAQ). We irradiated 511 keV gamma-rays from a Na-22 source and used an Anger calculation [3]. Results The simulated detection efficiency was 9.8 % at the center of the PET scanner. Fig. 2 is an experimental flood map obtained by Anger calculation. Each pixel response is clearly separated, meaning that 0.9 mm pixel resolution and 6.7 mm depth resolution was achieved. Conclusion We designed a unique in-beam spherical PET scanner. Experimentally, we confirmed feasibility of the prototype detector.


The objective of research would be to know the effect of application Role Playing mode on subject of entrepreneurship in student class XI AK of SMK Budisatrya Medan Academic Year 2012/2013. The research has been conducted in class XI AK of SMK Budisatrya Medan academic year 2012/2013. The population of research was all student class XI AK of SMK Budisatrya Medan academic year 2012/2013. The sample used in research consisting of two class, XI AK I as experiment class, and XI AK II as control class. That technic of sampling was in random sample. The instrument of technic of data collection of sampling in research was learning result tes of entrepreneurship in 20 itemmultiple choise form. The result of data analysis indicated that average score of experiment class was 70,83 with stndar deviation 11,19. However the average score of control class was 57,5, with standart deviation 9,43. The hypothesis testing was conducted by using t-tes statistic formula, with dk =n1 + n2 – 2 and α= 0,05 that tcount 3,94 and ttable 1,67. The result of hypothesis testing indicated that tcount > ttable (3,94>1,67) so the hypothesis recieved, in cluded that there was effect of Aplication Of Role Playing mode on subject of entrepreneurship in student class XI AK SMK Budisatrya Medan academis Year 2012/2013.


255 women (20 nulligravida) were fitted with the IUD Inhibands for a total of 1749 woman-months use. About half of the patients used Delfan contraceptive cream during the unsafe (by BBT) time of month. No pregnancies were reported in this group. 3 pregnancies were reported in the other group 1 conceiving a few days after insertion 2 conceiving about 2 months after insertion. Insertion was carried out during menstruation with the cervix dilated to Hegar 4. 4 devices were removed for conception 1 for abdominal pain and menorrhagia. Expulsion rate was low as was morbidity.


The aim of this communication is to reflect on the topic: Books, Readers and Reading Mediators, highlighting the importance of the latter, namely within the context of pre-school and primary school education. Our reflection will be theoretically grounded on researchers in contemporary children's literature such as: Pedro Cerrillo, Santiago Yubero, Gemma Llunch.Based on experiments carried out by interns that we monitor at the School of Education of Braganca, Portugal, within various contexts of pre-school and primary school education, we will show that the mediator's role is very important both in the promotion and in the dramatization of reading, especially when targeting children, and we will highlight their role as a bridge or link between books and pre-readers and early readers, promoting and facilitating the dialogue between them.


The structure of the known secondary metabolite β-rubromycin was corrected, based on spectroscopic and chemical investigations, from o-quinone 1 to p-quinone 6. By feeding [U-13C3]malonic acid to the rubromycin-producing strain, Streptomyces sp. A1, the polyketide origin of the skeleton was verified, but the identity of the starter unit and the folding mechanism of the polyketide chain are still unclear. From the culture broth of the strain A1, in addition to 6, the co-metabolites γ-rubromycin (3), δ-rubromycin (4) and 3′-hydroxy-β-rubromycin (7) were isolated. Their structures were determined or confirmed by detailed spectroscopic analysis. The rubromycins inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and are cytostatically active against different tumor cell lines.


Using a manually collected sample of 49 corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports issued by Indonesian public companies, this study examines the relationship between the CSR performance and the readability of CSR reports. The study adopts the Fog index to measure the readability of CSR reports and standards of GRI to measure CSR performance from economic, environmental and social perspectives. The results show an insignificant relationship between CSR performance and the readability of CSR reports, indicating that companies in Indonesia are less to tend to obfuscate their narrative disclosures which are the main reason for doing the green wash practice. This study helps investors more comprehensively evaluate the CSR information disclosed on CSR reports. Our results also point to the phenomenon that happened in Indonesia that CSR both in quality and quantity improves from time to time.


Belonging to the field of chemical industry, the invention particularly relates to a preparation process of stannous octanoate. The process consists of: putting stannous oxide and isooctanoic acid into a reaction kettle in proportion, actuating stirring and a vacuum pump, carrying out a dehydration reaction at a temperature of 115-130DEG C until no fraction generation, further conducting the reaction for 2-3 hours, then performing cooling and filtering so as to obtain a stannous octanoate end product. The process provided in the invention simply and directly adopts stannous oxide and isooctanoic acid as raw materials for preparation. The used stannous oxide can be obtained through self-preparation and can also be purchased on the market. By using the new process, the prepared product not only has good quality and high purity, but also has low energy consumption and stable quality. Meanwhile, in the whole production process, less waste gas and waste water are generated compared with other preparation methods.


A wireless sensor network (WSN) is formed of low powered, battery driven electromechanical devices called sensor nodes which communicate with each other through the wireless medium. Secure data communication is a major concern for many sensor network applications. To ensure the confidentiality, it is necessary to establish a secure communication link among sensor nodes by means of cryptographic keys. However, due to the sensor network deployment scenario and several other constraints it is not an easy task to establish a security mechanism for WSN. Recently Haque et. al. proposed a PKC based security architecture to achieve secure data communication in WSN. In this paper, we point out some weaknesses in the PKC based scheme and propose an enhanced scheme to withstand these weaknesses. It is shown that the PKC based security scheme is susceptible to selective node capture attack. Moreover, this scheme requires contacting with the base station for each and every single communication which will add extra communication overhead. In our enhanced scheme, a sensor node establishes unique link key with its neighboring nodes once they are deployed which in turn increases the resiliency against nodes capture attack. Compared to the original scheme our modified scheme reduces the complexity and communication cost of the system while achieving a sufficient level of security.


The term integron is legitimately used in a number of ways (Hall, 2001, 2002). It describes the configuration of features that are characteristic of integrons, namely an intI gene, encoding the IntI site-specific recombinase responsible for capturing the small mobile elements known as gene cassettes, an attI site into which the cassettes are inserted and a promoter (Pc) that drives expression of cassette-associated genes. Integron describes such structures both when no cassettes are present and when there are integrated cassettes as, in the latter case, the cassettes are viewed as part of the integron. Granted that each gene cassette found in an integron is a mobile element (Collis & Hall, 1992; Recchia & Hall, 1995), variability in the number of gene cassettes found in any class of integron is to be expected. Hence, while the ability to capture gene cassettes is a definitive feature of integrons, the number and nature of the cassettes present is not.


According to hydrogeological conditions at factory district of Shenyang Paraffin wax Chemical Limited Company as well as wastewater discharging conditions of peripheral agricultural irrigation,the underground water contamination mechanism was analyzed;the ground water solute migration mathematical model was established;and the temporal and spatial variation characteristic of ground water quality was forecasted.The aquifer was generalized single layer and non-homogeneous and unequal thickness and isotropic two-dimensional unsteady infiltration flow underwater system,the simulation factor was determined for petroleum classes,the movement to the water source place was generalized the two-dimensional convection-dissemination movement.The simulation boundary area was treated as the first kind area,and a hypothesized point pollution source was added at the plant area.The forecasting result indicates that under the non-impermeable layer condition,the density of every spot in the area has been gradually increasing along with the mining time's growth.Its rangeability was very obvious at near river and near mining well sector,but warning density(0.05 mg/L) was emerged;After constructing a impermeable layer,the density of petroleum class was significantly reduced relatively to the original background value.


Each of the last three decades has seen a representative white-collar crime capture public attention. In the 1960s, the media covered antitrust violations of the Electrical Equipment conspiracy that met secretly to fix prices.2 The focus in the 1970s was on corporate bribery and political corruption.3 The crime of the 1980s was insider trading.4 During the latter part of the 1980s and now into this decade, environmental crimes have become the focus of much media cov-


In this paper we analyze an ambiguity concealed in the concept of determination as used by Kant in his characterization of the transcendental schema as "transcendental time-determination". We claim that, in this context, "determination" can be understood in a dynamic way as well as in a static manner. In the first case, transcendental schemata are procedures of synthesis or temporal determination of the empirical manifold. In the second case, transcendental schemata are the basic temporal properties or determinations produced by those procedures.


Objective
To analyze and compare the characteristics of English sentence structures in national medical journals and foreign medical journals to improve the level of English writing.

Methods
Comparison was made in respectively 17 English abstracts from foreign and national medicine periodicals.Analysis involved text length(sentences), sentence types, tenses, and passive voice in the abstracts.Statistic processed in our study.

Results
It was showed that in terms of sentence type selection, the usage rate of compound sentences in foreign journals was higher than that of national journals (P<0.01). In terms of passive voice use, foreign journals were generally more current and generally used in the past than national journals.The difference was statistically significant (P<0.05 or<0.01). The use of passive voice in national journals was higher than that of foreign journals (42.27% vs 27.59%, P<0.01).

Conclusions
National medicine periodicals should verify the sentence types, avoid the use of passive voice.

Key words:
Medical journals; Abstract; Writing; Styles


Abstract Do we have free will? In this interview, Helen Steward explains part of her very distinctive approach to the philosophical puzzle concerning free will vs determinism. Steward rejects determinism, but not because she denies that we are not material beings (because, for example, we have Cartesian, immaterial souls that have physical effects). Her reasons for rejecting determinism are very different.


The invention relates to a method for coating a tension member, in particular for conveyor belts, in particular a tension member which is designed as a steel cable. The process should allow full penetration of the tension member. Here, the method includes at least the following steps: is formed inserting said tension member (2) which is in the form of a rope (2), in an immersion bath (1) containing the coating composition and - - Short-term mechanical and / or physical opening of the cable construction (2) during the Beschichtungssvorgangs and - penetration of the coating material into the open cord construction (2), wherein the rope (2) is completely penetrated and - Close the tension member (2).


This paper extends the theory of parametric upconversion to describe the mixing of two focused optical beams with unequal confocal parameters. The results of this paper have greatest applicability when focusing of one input beam is limited by physical constraints, e.g., damage. The effects of phase matching, walk‐off, and diffraction are treated herein. The analysis shows that if the beams have fixed confocal parameters b1 and b2, optimum mixing generally occurs with b2≠b1. If both confocal parameters can be arbitrarily chosen, maximum efficiency occurs with b1=b2= (crystal length)/2.84 in the absence of Poynting vector walk‐off, and with b1≠b2 in the presence of walk‐off. For weak focusing upconversion efficiency is written in a closed form which shows explicitly the effect of walk‐off.


The methods for driving fatigue assessment based on multiple physiological signals have received extensive attention in recent years. In view of the limitations of individual differences leading to reduce the accuracy of fatigue assessment, this paper proposed a method for driving fatigue assessment based on the feature fusion and transfer learning of electroencephalogram(EEG) and electromyography(EMG). The EEG and cervical EMG signals from 20 healthy subjects were recruited synchronously using the simulated driving platform. The time-frequency analysis method was used to extract the fatigue characteristics of EEG signals and EMG signals. A driver fatigue assessment model based on feature fusion and transfer learning was constructed to achieve effective identification of different drivers' fatigue state. The results showed that the recognition rate of driving fatigue based on the feature fusion and transfer learning of EEG and EMG was higher than traditional support vector machine method, and it could improve the robustness of driving fatigue assessment in different subjects. Therefore, this paper provides a new method for practical application of driving fatigue assessment based on physiological signal.


Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology | July-September 2016 | Vol 32 | Issue 3 405 Martín‐Herranz I. Carbamazepine‐induced aplastic anaemia: A case report. Rev Neurol 2002;35:647‐9. 3. Handoko KB, Souverein PC, van Staa TP, Meyboom RH, Leu fkens HG, Egber t s TC , e t a l . R i sk o f ap la s t i c anemia in patients using antiepileptic drugs. Epilepsia 2006;47:1232‐6. 4. Product monographs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Available from: http://www.drugs.com/ pro/carbamazepine.html. [Last accessed on 2013 Oct 09]. 5. Kenney B, Stack G. Drug‐induced thrombocytopenia. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2009;133:309‐14.


An efficient and cost effective protocol for direct regeneration of Kalanchoe tomentosa, a valuable medicinal and ornamental plant, is presented here. Multiplication and growth responses of Kalanchoe tomentosa towards BAP (6-Benzyle amino purine), NAA (α- Naphthalene acetic acid) and a hormone free control MS medium was evaluated. The effects of BAP and NAA either singly or in combinations, to accelerate the organogenesis of K. tomentosa were examined. The cultures were grown for 28 days at 22 ± 2°C under 16 hours photoperiod with the light intensities of 3500 lux. Maximum number of shoots, length of shoots, number of leaves, number of roots and number of plants were obtained on a hormone free MS based medium (control), suggesting that there is a little role of plant growth regulators in the In vitro development, multiplication and organogenesis of Kalanchoe tomentosa. More than 95% of the well rooted plantlets were established ex vitro in green house which were phenotypically similar to their mother plants. The 1:1 ratio of sand and grinded charcoal proved best as a potting mix for the hardening of plants.


Soba Village, West Amarasi Subdistrict, Kupang Regency is located in East Nusa Tenggara Province with abundant natural resources. One of the natural resources is a natural spring with abundant diversity of riparian vegetation. The diversity of riparian vegetation around water sources plays an important role in water quality. This study aimed to identify the diversity of riparian vegetation around springs and to determine water quality. The method used was plot installation, identification of riparian vegetation types, measurement of environmental factors and water quality testing. The results showed that there were 12 species of tree vegetation with a total of 74 individuals, the most common tree species found was Canangan odorata with a relative abundance of 24.32%, followed by Cocos nucifera 18.92%, and Areca sp. 16.22%. Meanwhile, the least species found were Tectona grandis, Mangifera indica, Artocarpus altilis, and Syzygium aqueum with relative species abundance of 1.35%. The results of quantitative analysis of the relative frequency found tree species Areca sp. and Cocos nucifera had the highest value, namely 19.05%. Meanwhile, the highest relative dominance value was found in thespecies Artocarpus altilis. The results of water quality testing with 3 parameters namely physical, chemical and bacteriological showed a COD value of 85.03 mg / L, a total colifrorm of 45 and a total fecal colliform of 230.


Introduction: Given the high prevalence of psychological disorders and the low quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) matrix on anxiety and quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Method: This is a quasi-experimental study in which pre-test and post-test design with control group was used. The research population included all people with IBS referring to three hospitals in Tehran in 2017. Among them, 30 patients with IBS were selected by using convenience sampling method and based on inclusion criteria. Then, they were randomly assigned into two groups of experiment (n=15) and control (n=15). Data were collected using Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Health Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-36). The experiment group received ACT matrix for 6 sessions of 90 minutes, but the control group did not receive any treatment. Both groups received and completed questionnaires before the treatment (pre-test) and after the end of treatment (post-test). Findings: Data analysis revealed a significant difference between experiment and control groups in terms of quality of life and anxiety scores in the pre-test and post-test stages (P <0.05), so that the patients in the experiment group at the post-test stage had a lower anxiety score and a higher quality of life score than the control group. Conclusion: ACT matrix is an effective, simple, and practical method for reducing anxiety and improving the quality of life of patients with IBS.


Objective(s): Free cholesterol in the diet can cause liver fibrosis by accumulating in Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). The rate of mortality of this disease is high worldwide and there is no definite remedy for it, but might be treated by anti-fibrotic therapies. MSCs-derived exosomes are known as the new mechanism of cell-to-cell communication, showing that exosomes can be used as a new treatment. In this study, we investigated the ability of exosomes of WJ-MSCs as a new remedy to reduce cholesterol-induced liver fibrosis in the LX2 cell line. Materials and Methods: MSCs were isolated from Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord and the exosomes were extracted. The LX2 cell line was cultured in DMEM medium with 10% FBS, then cells were treated with 75 and 100 μM concentrations of cholesterol for 24 hr. The mRNA expression of TGF-β, αSMA, and collagen1α genes, and the level of Smad3 protein were measured to assess liver fibrosis. Results: Cholesterol increased the expression of TGF-β, αand -SMA, and collagen1α genes by increasing the phosphorylation of the Smad3 protein. Treatment with Exosomes significantly reduced the expression of TGF-β, α-SMA, and collagen1α genes (fibrosis genes). Treatment with exosomes prevented the activation of HSCs by inhibiting the phosphorylation of the Smad3 protein. Conclusion: The exosomes of WJ-MSCs can inhibit the TGFβ/Smad3 signaling pathway preventing further activation of HSCs and progression of liver fibrosis. So, the exosomes of WJ-MSCs s could be introduced as a treatment for liver failure.


Summary Infections in patients with malignant diseases – prophylaxis and therapy Patients with malignant diseases are prone to infectious complications, particularly during therapy-associated neutropenia. Prompt initiation of the appropriate anti-infectious therapy is essential to avoid life-threatening deterioration. In this situation, the general practitioner is often the first contact. She/he has to decide on whether the patient needs to be immediately admitted to a hospital or receive outpatient treatment. Risk stratification on the basis of various parameters, such as the expected period of neutropenia, kind of the antecedent therapy, comorbidity etc. is helpful for the decision. An oral outpatient treatment under close supervision is feasible only for special low-risk constellations and in close contact with the specialist in charge.


In this study, the nurbs-based isogeometric analysis is developed to optimize natural frequencies of bidirectional functionally graded (BFG) beams by tailoring their material distribution. One-dimensional Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) basis functions are utilized to construct the geometry of beam as well as approximate solutions, whereas the gradation of material property is represented by two-dimensional basis functions. To optimize the material composition, the spatial distribution of volume fractions of material constituents is defined using the higher order interpolation of volume fraction values that are specified at a finite number of control points. As an optimization algorithm, the differential evolution (DE) algorithm is employed to optimize the volume fraction distribution that maximizes each of the first three natural frequencies of BFG beams. A numerical analysis is performed on the examples of BFG beams with various boundary conditions and slenderness ratios. The obtained results are compared with the previously published results in order to show the accuracy and effectiveness of the present approach. The effects of number of elements, boundary conditions and slenderness ratios on the optimized natural frequencies of BFG beams are investigated.


The assay aims at the combination of Corporation Identity System CIS with the translation of brand names. First of all, the author analyses the function of trademark translation in CIS of some famous enterprises and sums up the gains and losses of trademark translation. Then the author points out existing problems in translating brand names of some medium-sized or small companies. At the end of the article are some tips for CI makers.


Burn injury to the rescuers is one aspect of burns which has not been sufficiently studied and very few studies are available on pattern of burns in rescuer of victims of burn injury. With this aim, a retrospective study of 15 rescuer burn patients was conducted on patients managed at Department of Burns and Plastic surgery, Civil Hospital Ahmedabad. Twelve patients were males and 3 patients were females. Average age of rescuers was 32.3 years (range 23-55 years) and body surface area ranged for 1-20%. Most rescuers had a primary level of school education and did not have any knowledge of the techniques of rescuing a burns victim. The most common site of incident was kitchen. The primary victim had suicidal burns in 10 cases and accidental burns in 5 cases. The burns were predominantly limited to the upper extremity, head and neck and anterior trunk in most cases. Lack of knowledge about the correct techniques of rescuing a burn victim was a major factor related to the sustenance of rescuer burn. Also the incidence of rescuer burns is grossly underreported as most of such cases never come up for their own treatment in the presence of a more severely burnt relative and if the primary victim succumbs to his /her injuries, the rescuer never turns up for follow up treatment.


A survey with a specialized focus exploring American history from an urban frame of reference. Topics include the social consequences of the modern city, politics, reform, and federal-city relations.


According to the characteristics of the life-slab structure house,the author combines with project case,through the field investigation,structure analysis and structure retrying on this type of house,thus make the life-slab structure house satisfy current design standard requirements,further improving application of the life-slab structure form.


BACKGROUND
 From the 1991 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Landmark Report, The Computer Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care (Dick, Steen, & Detmer, 1997) which called for computer based patient records, to the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, health care has been integrating technology into our delivery systems and transforming the landscape of health care delivery (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2017). Telemedicine (also called telemonitoring, telehealth, remote monitoring, eHealth) has brought about new methods of care delivery. These methods will hopefully demonstrate cost effective outcomes as well as new levels of quality. Under the influence of The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was enacted which pushes the health care industry to improve quality and value. By the end of 2018, it is expected that 50% of alternative payment models will have quality and value tied to them and 90% of fee-for-service will do the same. It is feasible that telehealth could be the link to new health care delivery and payment models. This paper evaluates some of the most recent literature regarding telemedicine to elucidate quality within the domains of cost-effectiveness, hospitalization, mortality, patient adherence, and patient satisfaction.

 OBJECTIVE
 To evaluate the effectiveness of telemedicine strategies with respect to cost-effectiveness of care, hospitalizations, mortality, patient adherence, and satisfaction.

 METHODS
 The Google Scholar search engine was used to find articles published between 2015 and 2018 so that preliminary observations could be made regarding the telemedicine literature. Once this was done, a logical search process was used to locate articles using two research databases: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and PubMed (MEDLINE). The titles and abstracts of the records identified were independently screened by four investigators. Five reviewers screened 58 abstracts to determine relevance and significance relative to the research objectives. The final group analysis was 29 articles. Main outcome measures included economic, clinical, and satisfaction outcomes.

 RESULTS
 Our results showed that examining telemedicine interventions that were either patient or provider driven appeared to improve outcomes related to patient adherence, patient satisfaction, cost-effectiveness, and had a favorable effect in terms of decreasing hospitalizations. Only two articles that were reviewed addressed mortality, so the investigators could not describe results on its effect. Although there are barriers to adherence there is much progress in the field of telemedicine that aids in outcomes, both positive and negative.

 CONCLUSIONS
 The literature is clear that telemedicine is linked to improved outcomes when applied with a sound strategic plan. Patients who adhere to telemedicine interventions appear to show significantly better satisfaction, quality of life, reduced hospitalizations, and related health care costs. When providers take greater responsibility and initiative with telemedicine interventions, this contributes to those patient outcomes. Our review of the literature suggests that the quality of the implementation strategy was linked with better outcomes. Telemedicine appears to hold promise as a cost effective, convenient tool for both patients and providers.


Dhaka is among the most crowded cities on earth, where nearly half of its population lives in slums, squatter-settlements and urban fringes. Since the mid 1980s, a new hybrid of popular music, sometimes called "urban folk", has been prevalent in this city by dint of its consumption among the urban poor. These informal city-dwellers, by their power of mass consumption and with the advent of audio-cassettes and cheap music-listening technologies, have radically re-shaped the music industry. This cultural encroachment has transcended the boundary of the audio-cassette industry and reaches into the television media creating new representational patterns and cultural politics. It creates a "high-brow" and "low-brow" division inside the realm of popular music where the urban folk, a relatively awkward type of music for the taste of the educated class, in many ways outperforms the prevailing tradition of sophisticated pop in a city whose cultural taste is designed by the empowered elites and middle-classes. While contextualizing this phenomenon in the traditions of Bengali folk and popular musics and in the experiences of post-liberation and post-famine urban migration in Bangladesh, this research explores how urban folk music has been performing the cultural identity of the urban poor. Based upon a prolonged observation in different slums, streets and shrines of Dhaka, I argue that the hybrid nature of urban folk music makes it one of the best sites from which to observe the cultural formation of the urban poor. And the newly formed self of the urban poor – this research examines through ethnographic and textual analysis – is a silent and pervasive existence in Dhaka city which has been undergoing a series of conflicting portrayals through the production, consumption and reproduction of urban folk music in different media locations.


Gasoline HCCI engine must have the function of HCCI/SI mode transition because HCCI combustion can't cover the entire vehicle operating range.Distributed control system based on CAN bus was developed for HCCI/SI mode transition experiments of HCCI/SI dual mode gasoline engine.The engine was equipped with independent regulation of inlet exhaust valve timing and lift.So the complexity of HCCI engine mode transition's control system was reduced because of distributed design.HCCI/SI mode transition Control was studied detailedly by using the control system.This paper introduced the structure and control strategy of control system.Because of adopting self-adaptive PID control strategy for inlet exhaust valve timing and lift and neural Networks forecasting inlet flow.Experiment results show that:control system solve the control problem of inlet valve timing lifts,exhaust valve timing lift and air/fuel ratio in mode transition.It can meet for the need of dynamic,smoothness mode transition by managing hybrid heat release.


The Lighthouse Road landslide, to the south of Akaroa township, was triggered during heavy rainfall (275mm) over 3 days 25-27 July 1994. A long-term remedial programme was planned to stabilise it by unloading material from the landslide. A cost-effective and reliable programme to monitor pore-water pressure development and landslide movement during and following the two phases of remedial work acted as an early warning system and provided data to aid in the design of the later phase of remedial works. Data showing the effect of unloading on pore-water pressure development are presented. Part of the reduction of pore-water pressure could be due to swelling caused by unloading the slope. The inconsistency of pore-water pressure differences relative to piezometer locations in the landslide highlights the significance of the disturbance to soil hydrology caused by landslide movement. This raises a question of how accurate methods of instrumentation used to determine the phreatic surface in an active landslide are and the subsequent use of those data in stability analyses. Decisions related to the planning of remedial work based on pore-water pressure data from these instruments must be taken cautiously.


Introduction: Certain diseases are more common in tropics probably because tropical climates are more conducive to these diseases and also because areas of poverty and primitive sanitation conditions are more common in the tropics. Tropical infections cause significant morbidity and mortality especially in less developed regions of the world. Re-emerging infectious diseases are defined as those that are 'due to the reappearance of, and an increase in the number of infections from a disease, which is known, but which had formerly caused so few infections that it had no longer been considered a public health problem'. Discussion: For many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, changes in the pathogen and host environment play the primary role. Even minor ecological changes may significantly alter transmission and exposure patterns leading to sudden proliferation of disease. The recent epidemics of Chikungunya fever and the return of Dengue fever in India clearly shows the emergence of disease due to environmental changes and increased survival capability of mosquitoes. This article describes briefly salient points about Chikungunya fever and Dengue fever. Keywords: Tropical infections, Dengue fever, Chikungunya fever.


This paper proposed Optimized Particle Swarm Optimization (OPSO) based on a global optimum solution for DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing aligns and merges the DNA fragments to construct the final sequence. In this research work, Optimized Particle Swarm optimization (OPSO) is introduced to solve DNA sequencing. This is done to improve the matching value and finds the final sequence for DNA ligand binding. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) often yield accurate results but with less speed, but this principle can be improved to create an optimized PSO based on Global optimum solution. To overcome the drawback of PSO, an Optimized PSO solution solved by a modified version of particle swarm optimization is used in DNA sequencing. At each iteration cycle, weightage will be given to particles to provide good solutions. It is intended to allow the probable global optimum of DNA. The final DNA sequence can be determined based on the global optimum. The efficiency of this proposed work is compared with GA and PSO. The outcome of OPSO shows that the DNA fragment matching score is increased compared with other traditional algorithms.


Many verbal jokes, like garden path sentences, pose difficulties to models of discourse since the initially primed interpretation needs to be discarded and a new one created based on subsequent statements. The effect of the joke depends on the fact that the second (correct) interpretation was not visible earlier. Existing models of discourse semantics in principle generate all interpretations of discourse fragments and carry these until contradicted, and thus the dissonance criteria in humour cannot be met. Computationally, maintaining all possible worlds in a discourse is very inefficient, thus computing only the maximum-likelihood interpretation seems to be a more efficient choice on average. In this work we outline a probabilistic lexicon based lexical semantics approach which seems to be a reasonable construct for discourse in general and use some examples from humour to demonstrate its working.


Objective To establish diet-induced obesity model of impuberism female SD rat closely simulated with clinical children obesity. Methods Forty-five female SD weaning rats were randomly divided into three groups,the(control) group,the obesity group A and group B.The control group was fed on common diet;the obesity group A was added with soya-bean sprout,milk powder,pork fat,egg and cod-liver oil,and the obesity group B was fed with standard high fat diet.At the end of experiment(45 days),the body weight and Lee's index,blood glucose and lipid profiles,leptin and other obesity parameters were compared among them. Results As compared with control group and obesity group B,obesity group A had significantly increased body weight,abdominal fat, liver/body weight ratio,Lee's index and leptin at the end of the 4~(th) week and the 6~(th) week respectively.However, blood glucose and fat,insulin and insulin sensitivity index,and the level of plasma TG,TC,LDL-C,HDL-C showed no significant differences among the three groups. Conclusion On the basis of 15g common diet for each experimental SD rat,single high fat diet or addition with soya-bean sprout,milk powder,pork fat,egg and cod-liver oil,the obesity model of impuberism female SD rat can be induced successfully.


FIELD: cosmetology. SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a shampoo for dry and highly damaged hair, containing essential oil of Laurel and freshly squeezed alfalfa juice, UV treated with wavelength of 210-240 nm, in layer with thickness of 30-50 mm for 10-30 minutes, with following component ratio, wt%: Surfactants 6.0-15.0; foam stabiliser 1.0-5.0; target additive for improvement of hair structure 0.1-3.0; conditioner 0.01-1.0; jellied additive 0.1-5.0; foam stabiliser pH 0.01-0.5; preservative 0.001-1.0; odorant 0.4-2.0; water softener 0.01-0.3; freshly squeezed alfalfa juice 50.7-75.0; essential oil of Laurel 0.05-1.5; water is rest. EFFECT: invention provides prolonged storage of shampoo with increased content of biologically active substances in form of freshly extracted juice. 1 cl, 3 tbl


This study aims to investigate students' use of technology for their translation needs and investigate which translation tools students use most often. The study is based on a survey of 50 students majoring in English Language in courses 09DHAV to courses 12DHAV of Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI). They are representative of each school year, covering a variety of levels, genders helping to identify any trends or differences among student translators at different educational levels. This article analyses by quantitative method with the results of 20 questions including multiple-choice and essay written in English. The results show that students use a lot of technology and prefer to use their phones to translate Vietnamese-English. The tool using Google Translate was voted as the most used by students, followed is TFlat, SmartCat. The preference for using a phone over using a computer increased after the first and final years of school. Students in the early years also show a significant preference for Google Translate as their most used tool, but this preference is much lower for seniors.


The present invention provides a mixed bed ion exchange resins. The present invention provides a cation exchange resin, the resin is also held in addition to monovalent ion-exchange high speed multivalent ion, in spite of the surface coating, but the agglomerate does not occur, even when the mixed bed ion exchange resin as well.


Category: Ankle; Arthroscopy Introduction/Purpose: The hypothesis was that IONA would provide the patient with a unique experience of their pathology and facilitate their rapid recovery through an awareness of their own condition, and that using IONA would accelerate recovery to sports-specific activities compared to the literature using standard arthroscopic procedures. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study investigating patients who underwent IONA for anterior ankle impingement between 2019 and 2020. Clinical outcomes were evaluated using the following methods preoperatively and at final follow-up: The Foot and Ankle Outcome Scores (FAOS) and Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pain Interference and Pain Intensity domains. A five-point Likert scale regarding patient satisfaction was evaluated at final follow-up. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was performed to compare preoperative and postoperative outcome scores. Results: Thirty-one patients were included in this study, which included eighteen males and thirteen females with a mean age of 41.7 +- 15.5 years (range, 17-69 years) and a mean body mass index (BMI) of 27.3 +- 5.7 kg/m2 (range, 19.37-41.5). The mean follow-up time was 12. +- 1.9 months (range, 11-15 months). There were 27 patients who participated in sports activity prior to IONA-arthroscopy procedure. Of those, 26 patients (96%) returned to their sports activities. The median time to return to sports was 3.9 weeks (range, 1.5 to 12 weeks). Patients reported an overall positive experience with a mean rating scale of 9.71 +- .8 (range, 6 to 10). Twenty-seven patients (87%) reported the highest rating (10/10) for overall positive experience and felt that seeing their procedure in real-time aided in their understanding of their underlying pathology. Lastly, twenty-nine patients (94 %) expressed willingness to undergo the same procedure again. Conclusion: The current study demonstrates that IONA treatment of anterior ankle impingement results in significant pain reduction, a low complication rate, and excellent patient-reported outcomes with high rates of return to work/sport. Additionally, IONA for anterior ankle impingement leads to high patient satisfaction with a significant willingness to undergo the same procedure again.


Salman Rushdie has claimed that young authors in Britain can talk about nothing but contemporary English lifestyles. As a comment on the literary establishment this is only too sadly true. But that is not the whole of the story. There are other traditions.


n r rarlons ~e~ow-mlgh level and proxlnial to nee-aisarticu~anon :I inclu,, .ill the transcondylar procedures such as the Gritti Stokes (1,2) ---d Callender (3,4) procedures and are not considered in this contribution. In my view they are largely undesirable because they provide little end bearing, may not leave sufficient space for the inclusion of assistive devices in the prosthetic knee, and are perhaps better replaced by a long myoplasty amputation. The Gritti Stokes procedure in particular often gives rise to a number of complications most of these being due to the retention of the patella. Recent contributions suggest this operation is excellent at least in terms of wound healing. Unfortunately, it has persuaded a number of surgeons to employ the procedure for this reason alone. We are concerned in this contribution with the through-knee amputation or knee disarticulation. At the outset I should say that there seems to me very little validity in an argument about the relative merits of operative procedures at different levels of limb ablation except in the individual case. On this basis it will be assumed that an amputation can properly be done below-thigh level but for one reason or another cannot be done at below-knee level The knee-disarticulation operation has a long history of use extending back to the sixteenth century if not before (5,6,7,8). Like many surgical procedures its popularity has waxed and waned with changing surgical fashion and in this particular case with the prosthetic practice of the day. I believe the procedure has a stated place in our surgical armamentarium. In the first place it has a particular application during the growth period as it preserves the distal femoral epiphysis and thus the capacity for 80-90 percent of femoral growth. In this way we obtain a stump of maximum length when skeletal maturity is reached yet somewhat shorter than the


In conclusion CFH gene analysis was performed to confirm whether the patient had aHUS or not. However, we have found CFH gene mutations that are not specific for aHUS. Epigenetic factors might have triggered the patient's phenotype. Also p.His402Tyr mutation may cause TMA with a milder clinic feature than that of other aHUS specific CFH gene mutations. Conflict of Interest Statement The authors of this paper have no conflicts of interest, including specific financial interests, relationships, and/ or affliations relevant to the subject matter or materials included.


A hybrid switched inductor with flexible high voltage gain boost converter for 400 V DC microgrid application is presented in the paper. The three operating modes of the converter are controlled using three switches by two-duty ratios. The proposed converter provides flexibility in the selection of the duty cycle to achieve desired output voltage. Moreover, with two duty ratio, high gain with a wide duty range is accomplished in the proposed converter while an individual switch does not need to operate at a very large duty ratio. The power circuit analysis, operating principles, steady-state voltage gain analysis during continuous conduction mode (CCM) and discontinuous continuous mode (DCM), boundary condition, efficiency analysis, comparison, and circuit parameter design of the proposed are presented. A closed-loop controller design and small-signal modeling are discussed. The dynamic behavior of the proposed converter is validated with a change in duty ratio, input voltage, and load power. A laboratory prototype converter is designed and developed to verify the model, and feasibility of different operation modes. The prototype is tested for a power range of 100 W–500 W for different duty cycles.


Differential blood count is a very common medical test which determines relative percentage of each type of white blood cell (WBC) in a blood sample. This test is usually performed by visual inspection of a blood sample which is time consuming and tedious task for a medical specialist. This test can be performed automatically with appropriate equipment as well. However, such equipment is quite expensive and available only at larger medical centers. In this paper alternative approach is proposed which is based on low cost microscope and digital camera coupled with appropriate algorithm for WBCs detection and identification in a blood image. The proposed algorithm consists of two steps. An image of blood sample is segmented in order to detect possible WBCs which are then further classified with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) into 5 classes. The proposed approach shows promising results obtaining accuracy of 81.11% on created dataset.


Abstract In this paper we discuss the use of a noncausal approach for the improvement of PID control, according to a method presented in (Piazzi and Visioli, 2004). In particular we verify that, despite the proposed methodology is based on an estimated first-order plus dead time (FOPDT) model of the process, different identification procedure can be employed for this purpose yielding in any case to a good result. Further, the role of the unique design parameter is analysed.


. Ultrastructural analysis of epitheliocystis organisms from gills of anadromous juvenile steelhead trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, revealed the presence of several distinct forms. Two oval infectious organisms resembled previously described agents and had chlamydia-like characteristics. One form had a distinct oval head region from which a tail-like structure projected. These prokaryotic forms have an ultrastructural appearance which has not been described in previous reports of epitheliocystis. Morphological analyses of gill epithelial cells of S. gairdneri suggest that each cyst remains contained within the cytoplasm of a single host cell.


The essence of the concept of environmental safety of urban areas from the impact of boiler houses is justified on the basis of the synthesis of this definition of domestic scientists. A method for calculation of the indicator of environmental safety of urban areas based on the balance approach, which is based on the comparison of data on anthropogenic pressure exerted by boiler houses on the components of the environment and the ecological capacity of territories, was edveloped. Classification interval estimates of the ecological safety indicator of urban areas have been developed with a brief description, the economic essence of the ecological safety of these territories with a justification of relationship between the environmental, technical, and economic indicators has been proved.


The aim of the paper is to evaluate adequately the academic performance efficiency of the teaching and research staff employed in the agricultural higher education institutions and organizations in the field of agricultural science and innovation. At the same time it is developed the nonparametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis for rating assignment DEA_UASM. As a result of analyzing the academic performance rating by option variable returns to scale, it is possible to determine the resources for improving staff activity by evaluating the distance function for


From collections of 3073 individual hermit crabs in Taiwan, representing 56 species, 53 individuals of 3 different species were found to be infested by 3 species of rhizocephalans: Peltogaster postica on Pagurus angustus, Septosaccus cf. snelliusi on Diogenes tumidus, and Dipterosaccus indicus on Calcinus morgani. Rhizocephalans were identified based on histological sections, and species identifications were consistent with partial sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. This is the 1st record of peltogastrid rhizocephalans (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from Taiwan. The prevalence of peltogastrid species greatly differed among the collection sites, and hosts for Pel. postica and Dip. indicus differed from previously known hosts in the Ryukyus and other sites. The microhabitat of the host species may be crucial to rhizocephalan parasitism success.


The establishment of a comprehensive framework to identify village development types is crucial to formulate plans for rural development and promote rural revitalization. This study proposed a natural–socioeconomic framework to identify the types of villages based on field survey, statistical data, and multi-source remote sensing images. The framework was constructed by combining the two-dimensional natural suitability/restriction evaluation and the four-dimensional socioeconomic development level evaluation. Then, the modified multiplication-weighted summation method and the coupling coordination degree algorithm were employed to identify the villages' development types. A total of 774 villages of the Laiyang County, eastern China were used as the study areas to examine the framework. The results demonstrated the following. (1) There were 243,318 and 151 villages with high, moderate, low natural suitability, and 62 villages with natural restrictions; and 158,366 and 250 villages with high, moderate, and low economic development level, respectively. The distribution characteristic of natural evaluation was "high in the southwest and low in the northeast", and the socioeconomic development level was generally centered on the urban area, which presented a "high–medium–low" circle-layer distribution structure. (2) There were 247 villages with high-level coupling coordination, 464 villages with intermediate coupling coordination, 1 village with low-level coupling coordination, and 62 villages with disordered coupling. (3) Based on the coupling coordination evaluation results, villages in the study area were grouped into five types: urbanization development (31%), construction development (16%), agglomeration linkage development (27%), decrease and improvement development (18%), and relocation and integration development (8%). The framework of villages' development types identification established in this study can enrich the theory of rural geography, and the applied research results can provide a basis for rural revitalization and development planning.


Galileo stereo images covering about 1500 km² of Uruk Sulcus on Ganymede have revealed two scales of ridges; (1) large‐scale ridges and troughs spaced ∼6 km apart, corresponding to the "grooves" seen in Voyager images, and (2) small‐scale ridges spaced hundreds of meters apart superimposed on the large‐scale ridges. We interpret the small‐scale ridges to be the result of tilt‐block normal faulting of the surface brittle layer, while the large‐scale ridges may be due to necking of the brittle layer over a ductile substrate. The geometry of the tilt blocks revealed in Galileo images leads to a minimum estimation of 51% to 58% extensional strain in the area. The strain estimate, when incorporated into a model for the formation of grooved terrain by necking of a brittle layer undergoing extension, leads us to estimate a thermal gradient of ∼20 K/km and a strain rate of ∼10−14 s−1 during groove formation.


Health monitoring for reinforced concrete bridges and other large-scale civil infrastructure has received considerable attention in recent years. Traditional inspection methods (x-ray, C-scan etc.) are expensive and sometimes ineffective for large-scale structures. Piezoceramic transducers have emerged as new tools to health monitoring of large size structures due to the advantages of active sensing, low cost, quick response, availability in different shapes, and simplicity for implementation. In this research, piezoceramic transducers in the form of patches are used to detect internal cracks of a 6.1-meter long reinforced concrete bridge bent-cap. Piezoceramic patches are embedded in the concrete structure at pre-determined spatial locations prior to casting. This research can be considered as a continuation of an early work, where four piezoceramic patches were embedded in planar locations near one end of the bent-cap. This research involves ten piezoceramic patches embedded at spatial locations in four different cross-sections. To induce cracks in the bent-cap, the structure is subjected to loads from four hydraulic actuators with capacities of 80-ton and 100-ton. In addition to the piezoceramic sensors, strain gages, LVDTs, and microscopes are used in the experiment. During the experiment, one embedded piezoceramic patch is used as an actuator to generate sweep sinusoidal waves, and the other piezoceramic patches are used as sensors to detect the propagating waves. With the increase of number of and severity of cracks, the magnitude of the sensor output decreases. Wavelet packet analysis is used to analyze the recorded sensor signals. A damage index is formed on the basis of the wavelet packet analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed methods using piezoceramic transducers along with the damage index based on wavelet packet analysis is effective in identifying the existence and severity of cracks inside the concrete structure. The experimental results also show that the proposed method has the ability to predict the failure of concrete as verified by results from conventional microscopes (MS) and LVDTs.


THE relationship of the top firm's profit rate to its market share, its stock of goodwill and other elements of the market structure was investigated using data on Japanese industrial firms. Traditional microeconomic theory suggests that firms in oligopolistic industries restrict output, raise prices and earn higher profits than do firms in competitive industries, and therefore there will be an important misallocation of resources. To test the validity of this hypothesis there have been a rather large number of studies, beginning with a study by Bain [i], which investigated the relationship between profitability and market structure. Most of these quantitative tests of the structure-performance relationship have been based on data from the United States. Thus, it is of particular interest to see whether similar conclusions concerning the structure-performance relationship can be reached in a fast-growing economy such as that of Japan. This is one justification for adding to the already voluminous literature on this subject. The second justification for our work is that we have collected data only for top firms-firms whose sales are the largest in their respective industriesand have investigated the relationship of each top firm's profit rate to its market share, its stock of goodwill and other elements of the market structure, which has not been examined previously and which is of some interest. It should be emphasized that the behaviours of non-top firms are likely to differ from that of a top firm, i.e. top firms often behave as leaders, while the remaining firms tend to behave as followers.1 Therefore, in order to improve the fitness of the structure-performance model, we restrict the sample to top firms. The third justification for our work is the use of the concept of the stock of goodwill, instead of the advertising/sales ratio. Previous empirical studies have consistently found a strong positive relationship between profit rates and advertising/sales ratios. The advertising/sales ratio has been generally believed to work as a proxy for the height of the product differentiation barrier to entry. Because there is no strong theoretical justification for using the advertising/sales ratio as an independent variable, empirical results based


The issue of renewal will always be associated with the advancement of science and technology as well as the changing demands of the times. Modernization or renewal can be an attempt to improve the situation both in terms of ways, concepts, and a set of methods commonly applied in order to deliver better circumstances. In the context of renewal education is the absolute thing to be done because part of maintaining the existence of education itself. Islamic education is uniquely different from other types of educational theory and practice largely because of the all-encompassing influence of the Qur'an. The renewal of Islamic education is an attempt to actualize the great values of religion in the form of an empirical and historical life. Nurcholis Madjid and Kuntowijoyo are two great Islamic thinkers of Indonesia who seek to actualize Islamic values in everyday life. Although not specific in the world of education, but what is done in Islamic renewal can be used in renewal in education. The values of religion that are still normative and subjective must be transformed into theories that can be translated in the empirical world and become objective. This paper aims to explore the thinking of Islamic renewal of these two figures and find its relevance to the development of Islamic education.


T he rapid rise of the older population in Thailand requires the speedy action of the country's government to support the change. Projections show that the ageing of populations requires policy action and investment. With regard to health-related aspects, research into the health status of the older population is required for the development of care plan strategies. This article will focus on the structural change of population which leads to the necessity of health assessment in older people.


Preclinical findings reported over the past years have raised worries that some of the anesthetics used routinely in pediatric practice may not be as innocuous as we used to think. In rodents, volatile as well as injected drugs (particularly when used in combination) have been shown to induce profound apoptosis in the developing brain, associated with behavioral changes later in life. Several articles in a recent issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia have reviewed this topic. These animal data have been confirmed, expanded on, and seem solid. The big question, of course, is whether similar effects might occur in late-term fetuses or young children receiving anesthesia. This is an exceedingly difficult question to study, for several reasons. First, there is the time factor: many years will pass between early anesthesia exposure and (let's say) differences in performance in high school. This makes designing a truly prospective study with long-term follow-up almost impossible. Second, there are lots of confounding variables. Almost all children who undergo anesthesia do so because they have a medical problem. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely, that the underlying medical problem might be responsible for subsequent changes in cognitive performance, rather than the exposure to anesthetic drugs. Sorting this out is difficult. Similarly, most children receiving anesthesia also undergo surgery. How does one separate the effects of anesthetic drugs from the effects of surgery and the trauma of the perioperative experience? Third, the effect of a single exposure to anesthesia on cognitive function is likely modest. How can one separate that modest effect from the myriad of physiologic and pathologic insults experienced during the subsequent years, particularly because cognitive function shows so much intersubject variability anyway? Fourth, the neuropathologic effects (neuroapoptosis) cannot be studied in humans with existing imaging techniques. These and other problems make the clinical study of anesthetic-induced neurotoxicity in the young a daunting undertaking. But the preclinical data cannot be ignored. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) realized the need for further research as soon as the preclinical data became available and developed a program involving additional preclinical work (particularly in primates) and development of a structure to support clinical trials. The FDA also understood that a problem of this complexity would require intellectual and financial support from public as well as private sources. Therefore, they formed a public-private partnership (PPP) with the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS, the parent organization that publishes Anesthesia & Analgesia). This partnership, dubbed "SAFEKIDS" (Safety of Key Inhaled and IV Drugs in Pediatrics), was announced on March 13, 2009.* Its official goal is "to address major gaps in scientific information concerning the safe use of anesthetics and sedatives in children." Last November, the first SAFEKIDS scientific workshop was convened at the FDA White Oak campus (Silver Spring, MD) to discuss the progress. This article summarizes some of the main outcomes of this meeting.


This paper concerns a semantic change whereby a continuous aspect prefix was reinterpreted as marking realis
 mood. This change took place in Chatino and then diffused to the Southern Zapotec subgroup, contributing to the genetic
 diversification of the Zapotec languages. Proto-Zapotecan marked irrealis mood with *k- and did not mark realis. *n- indicated
 continuous aspect and could concatenate with perfective *ku- to render a resultative reading. A continuous-marked positional verb
 *n-te later grammaticalized as a progressive prefix in Chatino. As both perfective and progressive refer to (at least partially)
 realized situations, *n- was reanalyzed as a marker of realis mood that could concatenate with aspectual viewpoint prefixes. The
 realis prefix is shown to be one of several traits diffused from Chatino which contribute to the creation of the Southern Zapotec
 clade and its divergence from Monte Albán Zapotec.


The complex compounds 4HN (SO2Me)2 · (diaza-18-crown-6) (1) and Na[N(SO2Ph)2] · 2HN(SO2Ph)2 · 2 (12-crown-4) · 2 MeOH (2) were obtained from their components and characterized by low-temperature X-ray diffraction. Structure 1 (monoclinic, space group P21/n) displays centrosymmetric formula units consisting of a biangular diazonia-18-crown-6 dication, two (MeSO2)2N− anions situated above and below the macrocycle and linked to the NH2+ groups via an N - H ··· O and N -H ··· N bond system, and finally two HN(SO2Me)2 molecules, each forming an N -H ··· O bond to one of the anions. The molecule-anion entity represents an iso form of the [(RSO2)2N -H ··· N (SO2R)2]− homoconjugates previously described. The crystal packing of 1 is stabilized by an extensive and highly organized [H2C -H ··· O(S)] hydrogen bond network. Structure 2 (monoclinic, space group P21/n) exhibits inconspicuous [Na(12-crown-4)2]+ cations and, as a striking feature, supramolecular anions assembled from a central (PhSO2)2N− ion, two MeOH molecules flanking the amide anion, and two HN (SO2Ph)2 molecules bonded to the MeOH moieties. The assembly is held together by two N -H ··· O(H )(Me) bonds, one MeO -H ··· N− bond and one MeO -H ··· O(anion) interaction. For both structures, conformational peculiarities of the N(SO2C)2 groups are discussed.


Expressions for the fields and propagation constants in cylindrical dielectric waveguides with umaxial crystal cores are found. The propagation constants of biaxial-crystal-cored guides are then deduced from a coupled-mode analysis, using the uniaxial solutions as ideal modes.


Aiming to promote thinking and cooperation in the field of security sector reform, DCAF organises each year a Young Faces Conference in Geneva. This year DCAF has decided to expand the conference series and create the Young Faces Network. Within this framework, we will hold three Young Faces Conferences in 2005, where the network members will work to analyze, discuss and compare the national security strategies of the SEE countries, and draft a Regional Security Strategy. The third and final meeting of the DCAF Young Faces Network will take place in Belgrade, from 25 to 26 November 2005. The conference will focus on finalizing the Young Faces Regional Security Strategy for the Western Balkans.


Effects of the depth-height ratio,the sag-height ratio and the height-span ratio on optimization design of a trussed beam string structure were studied.In the optimization design, structure weight was object function,sections of member were design variables which took discrete value,and constraints for slenderness,strength and stability of members as well as structure stiffness,were introduced.The research results show that the optimum sag-height ratio is about 0.10,the optimum depth-height ratio is about 0.145,the optimum height-span ratio is about 0.18.If the height-span ratio is smaller or equal 0.17,structure design is governed by the structure stiffness constraints.The present method and results in the paper can provide reference for design and construction of long span trussed beam string structure.


Women are the most vulnerable group in a major parts of India. India's North Eastern region is quite backward comparing to other parts of the country and the condition of women is also not so good. Adolescence is a stage when a girl sees a number of changes in her physical and mental health. In this stage she needs proper nutrition for her all round growth. But in our country specially in this part of the country the girls face lot of obstacles including mal nutrition due to which she lacks proper growth of her body and mind. The Government of India thus introduced a number of schemes for the welfare of the people and more specifically for the women and girls. But the schemes also do not reach to the appropriate group of people because of lack of awareness and corruption along with a number of other reasons. In this paper a modest attempt has been made to analyse the causes of poor performance of the Govt. schemes on the basis of available data collected from different sources and Govt. data and produces a comparative chart of the implementation of the Govt. schemes in the eight North Eastern states of India. The study has given special emphasis on KSY(Kishori Shakti Yojona), an important scheme for the development of adolescent girls and its implementation in different states of North East India.


Shaft hoist is a key equipment in colliery production. According to the lag actuality of mining production equipment in our country now,the article brings forward a new kind of scheme ,which means computer monitor-control system composed of computer and PLC,instead of the pristine system.Two systems is compared and the new system is introduced in detail.


Background: Emotional eating (EE) has been found to be provoked by negative urgency (NU, tendency to act rashly when distressed) and the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, like rumination. Another risk factor for emotional eating is the experience of boredom, which simultaneously facilitates rumination. The aim of the study was to explore the interplay of these factors: We assessed mediating effects of rumination in the relationship between EE and NU. Further, we tested whether this mediation is moderated by individual degrees of boredom proneness.
Method: A total of 456 subjects (74% f; age: M=33.8; SD=12.1; 19<BMI<30) completed an online-questionnaire trait about NU (I8), the general use of rumination (RS-8), boredom proneness (BPS), and EE (DEBQ). A double moderated mediation model was tested, with NU as predictor, EE as outcome, rumination as mediator and boredom proneness as a moderator on the direct and indirect path.
Findings: Rumination significantly mediated the relationship between NU und EE. However, this indirect effect was dependent on low degrees of boredom proneness (indirect effect b=-0.04, 95%CI [0.02;0.09]). There was no significant moderation regarding the direct path (p=.36).
Discussion: The results are unexpected. Rumination often occurs in states of boredom and constitutes a prominent mechanism in explaining dysfunctional eating. However, individuals with a high tendency for boredom proneness may skip the phase of rumination and grasp food immediately and impulsively without reflecting their behaviour. Thus, mechanisms of action in explaining EE may differ depending individual characteristics.