Getting the most out of employee wellness programs In the early 1980s, corporations paid about $60 billion a year for employee health care. It is estimated that they will pay $350 billion to $400 billion annually by the early 1990s. Research indicates that 53 percent of the most prevalent catastrophic illness in the United States are a direct result of lifestyle. Logically, improving employee lifestyles could reduce the incidence of disease, and thus, treatment costs. Many studies have been conducted to determine if this concept is valid. Although not yet viewed as conclusive, the body of data seems to indicate that wellness programs have both altruistic and financial value. For many companies, this evidence is enough. Therefore, employee wellness has been a focal point in the search by management to control rising health care costs. A growing number of companies have some type of employee wellness program in place. These are often called "health promotion" programs, a term that would seem to indicate that professional "promoters" have been involved. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Instead, the task of promoting good health has often been left to health professionals. Although they are excellent at developing programs, they are not professional communicators. As a result, their inability to effectively create awareness and motive through media has been the downfall of many wellness programs. Public relations practitioners are uniquely qualified to deliver the messages that create awareness and motivate employees to make healthy lifestyle changes. Thus, when their expertise is combined with the technical program delivery skills of health professionals, the effectiveness of employee wellness programs can be maximized. Getting on the team Fostering healthy lifestyle is a three-step process. First, employees must be made aware of the need to change their lifestyle. Second, they must be motivated to change. Third, they must be provided with the vehicle through which they can make the change. Often, the message must also be reinforced for an extended period of time. Team approaches to corporate wellness programming seem to be the wave of the future. Public relations practitiners should make sure they are part of the team. Those working for companies with wellness programs should discuss the value of their involvement with those responsible for improving employee lifestyles. Working together with corporate health professionals can maximize the success of wellness programs, improve the image of the company and provide professional growth opportunities for the practitioner. Even in companies without wellness programs, communicating health messages may yield similar benefits for practitioners and their employers. For independent or firm relations professionals, wellness may present a new market, and one that provides opportunities to sell other services. Many organizations do not see the need for outside public relations services, but after using them as part of a wellness effort, might think differently. Here are 10 ways for public relations practitioners to help maximize the effectiveness of company wellness programs: Contribute to in-house newsletters. In-house newsletters can be excellent forums for promoting proper health habits. In many cases, companies are looking for good information to fill newsletter pages. Contents might include articles on various health topics, promotion of upcoming events or recognition of employees who have reached health improvement milestones. Develop health-related newsletters. Although many good health-related newsletters exist on the market today, they are often expensive and geared to general audiences. Public relations practitioners should consider developing their own health-related newsletters that specifically meet the needs of their companies or clients. …


Plastic bronchitis (PB) refers to the presence of inspissated Bronchial casts (BC) is uncommon in children.Our case presented with subcutaneous emphysema as the dominant manifestation and was suspected to have foreign body in airway, but bronchoscopy revealed a bronchial cast. Subcutaneous emphysema as the initial/sole manifestation of plastic bronchitis is very rare in children.


By using the image correction by spatial multiplexing, and the basic image to the image display device on a system and method for holding the secret, the components of the basic image constituting the basic image, the configuration of the inverted image that is now suitably determined are combined by means of the elements and spatial multiplexing, alongside the adjacent display areas / pixel of the image display device, to neutralize the basic image, substantially produce a composite image as featureless to the naked eye. The pixel display device, along with the components of the basic image, intersects the adjacent pixels along with the components of the inverse image are polarized, suitably polarized so as to correspond to the polarization state of the pixels along with the components of the basic image to be read a basic image by legitimate viewers who put such eyewear. Or a variable polarizer to alter the polarization state of the corresponding display area, basic image, and the components of the inverse image by changing the position in alignment with differently polarized display area, safety it may be improved. Further, by using the active eyewear is polarized in synchronism in correspondence with the polarization state of the pixels along with the components of the basic image, it may allow reading of the basic image.


The synchronization, in the presence of time delay, of the nonlinear analog phase-locked loop (PLL) with an analog multiplier as phase detector (PD) and a lag filter is investigated. A nonlinear model for the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is suggested and the sum frequency component at the PD output is taken into account. Simple expressions of the hold-in range of both the main synchronization and the synchronization at the third harmonic are derived. These expressions point out the effect of the time delay and the filter time constant on the hold-in range. Some conclusions of the presented analysis are not anticipated by the PLL classic theory and allow a better understanding of the loop behavior.


Reduced fat mayonnaise has the disadvantage of destabilization of emulsion. Emulsion destabilization that occurs is the separation of oil and water. Pumpkin flour is used to increase the viscosity and stability of the emulsion. The objective of this study was to determine the best percentage of the use of pumpkin flour in reduced fat mayonnaise based on pH, emulsion stability, moisture content, and sensory evaluation. The material used in this research was mayonnaise made from egg yolk, canola flower oil, vinegar, pumpkin flour as a fat replacer carbohidrates based, and other optional ingredients. The method used was an experimental laboratory with a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 4 replications. The treatments consisted of without the use of pumpkin as a control, the use of pumpkin flour 2%, 4%, and 6% of the total oil used. The variables measured were pH, emulsion stability, moisture content, and sensory evaluation. The results showed that the use of pumpkin flour on mayonnaise gave highly significant effect on pH, stability emulsion, moisture content and increased panelists preferences. The conclusion of the study that using 6% pumpkin flour produced the best reduced-fat mayonnaise.


It analyzes importance of the power enterprise transmission line management,discusses application of the global positioning system in the ultra-high pressure transmission line management,detailed introduces core foundation and composite of the system,so as to improve transmission net management level and ensure safety operation of the transmission net.


We previously found a positive association between calcium plus vitamin D and antiosteoporotic drugs and survival among hip fracture patients. Our aim was to verify this observation using a nationwide database. A retrospective cohort of home‐discharged hip fracture patients aged 50 years or older (n = 23,615) was enrolled from the national database. Primary exposure was medical treatment for osteoporosis, and the outcome was all‐cause mortality. Cumulative mortalities were calculated using the Kaplan‐Meier estimator. The relationship between mortality and medication purchases was modeled using Cox's proportional hazards regression with time‐dependent covariates for medication use. One in 4 women and 1 in 10 men with a hip fracture were treated for osteoporosis in Finland. Unadjusted 1‐year mortality was lower among patients who purchased calcium plus vitamin D or vitamin D supplements and antiosteoporotic drugs than among those who did not purchase these medications [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.74, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.67–0.81]. The difference in unadjusted cumulative mortality remained in favor of the drug users for at least 5 years. Among men, the use of calcium plus vitamin D or vitamin D supplements was associated with lower 1‐year mortality even after adjustments for observed confounders (HR = 0.74, 95% CI 0.56–0.97). Among women, the use of antiosteoporotic drugs was associated with lower mortality (HR = 0.79, 95% CI 0.67–0.93). There was a tendency to even better survival in both genders if calcium plus vitamin D or vitamin D supplements and antiosteoporotic drugs were used simultaneously, the HR being 0.72 (95% CI 0.50–1.03) in men and 0.62 (95% CI 0.50–0.76) in women. © 2011 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research


In this device for capturing harmful substances with troughs (1) laid upon the roadbed (2) or other supports (3), with such a trough (1), the edge of the trough lying on the side of the trough (1) towards a rail (4) is constructed as a sealing edge (5) in such a way that it extends beneath the rail head (7). In order to stabilise the sealing edges (5) it is possible to provide supports (10) above which the sealing edges (5) can be supported on the rail foot (9). Securing webs (15) are provided to secure troughs (1.1) arranged at the side of a pair of rails to prevent the lateral slip of a trough (1.1). For the arrangement (1.2) between two rails (4) of a pair of rails, these troughs (1.2) are fitted with sealing edges (5) and fitted between the rails (4) in such a way that the sealing edges (5) are supported on either side of the rail webs (11).


It is found that the profiles of CO J = 1-0 at 2.6 mm observed in the cool carbon star V Hydrae show marked asymmetry and noticeable spatial variations, while the profiles of HCN J = 1-0 observed at the same time show no marked asymmetry. The two strong-velocity components in CO profile could be spatially resolved, indicating that the strong CO emission in V Hya originates in a region of bipolar geometry. The CO profiles also show temporal variation with time scale less than 1 yr, both in intensity and in shape, and such a time variation may indicate the importance of radiative excitation which can be time-dependent due to variability of the central star. Also, optical observations of V Hya can consistently be understood by a bipolar-disk model. Thus, V Hya may represent an early stage of the development of a bipolar nebula. 19 references.


Nowadays, biocatalysis is an established method for the enzymatic synthesis of chiral building blocks for organic compounds and pharmaceuticals, compounds for the flavor and fragrance industry, the production of bulk chemicals, and the modification of lipids for the food industry. Biocatalysis has become highly competitive with classical (asymmetric) chemical routes that use transition-metal catalysts, especially in combination with new methods for enzyme discovery and protein engineering, as recently shown for the synthesis of the drug Sitagliptin. The cost-effective application of enzymes, in particular for the synthesis of cheap products, requires immobilization of the biocatalyst (or the encapsulation of whole cells) to enhance their long-term stability 5] and facilitate their reuse. At the same time, immobilization of the biocatalyst should enable the use of established reactor setups, such as fixed-bed reactors (FBRs), instead of simple stirred-tank reactors (STRs, Figure 1). 6] FBRs are used, for instance, for the large-scale production of chiral amines or emollient esters for the cosmetic sector by using lipase catalysts. However, several disadvantages are encountered with FBRs, which depend on, for example, the length, diameter, and particle size in the reactor, the flow rate, the pressure drop within the column, and reactant and pH gradients, as well as inactivation profiles after extended use. In contrast, the more operationally simple STR encounters mechanical challenges for the carrier, which results in abrasion of the biocatalyst material and severe damage of encapsulated whole cells beside the fact that the recycling of the immobilized biocatalyst is rather laborious. Herein, we have investigated the use of an alternative setup for the application of immobilized enzymes and encapsulated whole cells. This SpinChem reactor (SCR; SpinChem is a registered trademark by Nordic ChemQuest AB, Ume , Sweden) enables the simultaneous stirring and efficient percolation of a liquid through packed particle beds, which is implemented by a hollow stirring device that allows the solid reaction chamber to be located inside the stirring element itself. The SCR can be seen as an evolution of the standard basket reactor. 10] The basket reactor, first published by Carberry in 1964, is a setup in which four baskets rotate inside a well for gas/solid reactions. This concept was later developed as the "annular spinning basket reactor" by Mahoney et al. in 1978. However, in the SpinChem reactor, the solid phase (such as an immobilized enzyme) is present in the stirring element itself in up to four separate compartments, which provides greater mixing and flexibility compared to the basket reactors. Figure 1. Top: Schematic representation of the three reactor setups that were investigated. Bottom: Photograph of the SpinChem device (reflux cooler and oxygen supply only for BVMO reaction).


In speaker Verification we are verifying the person by extracting the features from his/her sound and then classifying to prove that is he/her is valid speaker or not, who is claiming that he is. This is the most useful and well-known biometric recognition techniques in those fields and area in which security is our first priority. In this paper we have designed a speaker verification system which is giving good results when we mutate our classifier up to 50 thousand time. We take voice samples of different speaker and extract characteristics by MelafrequencyaCepstrumacoefficient (MFCC) and classify the features through Cartesianagenetic programing evolved artificial neuralanetwork (CGPANN). The designed system has better accuracy than existing system for speaker verification.


Because the 2010 operation of Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) mainly aims to achieve strongly elongated and diverted plasma, all the necessary hardware systems to provide an essential circumstance for the plasma shaping were newly installed and upgraded in 2010. The hardware for the 2010 KSTAR operation comprises in-vessel components and power supplies for superconducting (SC) magnets. The in-vessel components, which contain limiters, divertor, passive stabilizer, in-vessel control coil (IVCC) system, have been upgraded with satisfactory performances. The SC magnet power supplies (MPS) also fully demonstrated their own designed functions during final commissioning for the 2010 operation. In addition to drastic upgrades of the in-vessel components and MPS, there were great progresses in the development of heating and current drive system including neutral beam injection (NBI), electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD), and lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) system to prepare an initial stage for steady-state operation. In this paper, general configuration of the upgraded systems described earlier will be outlined. Moreover, several key performances and test results of the systems will be also reported in summary.


Background: the visualization of small clusters of cancer cells in a vascularised in vivo model is crucial in the development of efficient methods to study and follow-up tumour and metastasis growth. The chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane assay has been used as a convenient, non-rodent model to study angiogenic response with cancer cells implanted in vivo.[1] In the context of MRI and contrast agents research, this model could represent a versatile tool to rapidly visualize small clusters of marked cells in a vascularised environment. This could allow for follow-up studies with clinical imaging systems available in most research hospitals. At the moment, cell staining and tracking with iron oxide nanoparticles (USPIO) is widely established: susceptibility artefacts resulting from strong spin-spin interactions cause hypo-intense contrast in MR images. Incubation of cells with USPIO is associated with limitations: T2/T2* weighting sequences are used, that in general provide images of lower resolution than T1-weighted ones. Hypointense signal and image artefacts generated by the presence of USPIOs in clusters of cells does not always allow an effective differentiation between the cells and the background. In order to obtain positive contrast from transplanted cells, we have developed a labelling method to incorporate ultra-small Gd2O3 nanoparticles into cancer cells. Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most lethal forms of neurological malignancies, and ultra-small nanoparticulare gadolinium-containing compounds could become a promising tool for brain cancer Gd internal radiation neutron capture therapy (Gd-NCT). The contrast agent could therefore be used for both diagnostic and therapy.


The objective of this research is to identify the influence of gross regional domestic product (GRDP), the number of population, and the number of vehicles to the received of vehicle taxes and fees in the South Sumatra. The scope of this research was focused on the elasticity of two vehicles taxes and fees. The secondary data of period 1991-2007 was used. The qualitative and quantitative description approaches and multiple regression analysis were applied.  The results of this research showed that: (1) the simultaneous influence of gross regional domestic product (GRDP), the number of population, and the number of vehicles to the receipt of the vehicles taxes and fees was statistically siqnificant. The coefficient of determination R 2 = 97,8% showed that increasing of the GRDP, the number of population, and the number of vehicles explained  the increasing of the vehicles taxes and fees in South Sumatra, and the residual 2,2% explained by other factors. (2) The elasticity of GRDP, the number of population, and the number of vehicles to the revenues of the vehicles taxes and fees was in-elastic. It meaned that the change of the vehichel taxes and fees was less responsive to the change of the GRDP, number of population, and number of vehichel in South Sumatra. Keywords: Vehicle taxes and fees, number of vehicles, GRDP, number of population, elasticity


The Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation for a planar domain with piecewise-smooth boundary is studied using the indirect integral equation method. The domain is bounded or unbounded. It is not supposed that the boundary is connected. The boundary conditions are continuous or p-integrable functions. It is proved that a solution of the corresponding integral equation can be obtained using the successive approximation method.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus having a new application management mechanism. SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus has: a management means for managing applications; an operation screen display means for displaying an operation screen used for operating the application; and a rule violation display means for displaying information on violation of a rule that exceeds an allowable range of operation conditions determined in advance in a request to process the application. The management means, upon receiving a processing request from the application, determines whether the processing request violates the rule or not on the basis of the information that shows operating authority permitted for the application that has made the request, and notifies the rule violation display means of the rule violation when determined that the rule is violated.The display screen of the image forming apparatus is changed from the operation screen displayed by the operation screen display means to the screen displaying the information that the rule is violated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT


The invention belongs to the technical field of pharmaceutical synthesis and relates to novel 1-N acyl substituent indolone derivative application. According to the 1-N acyl substituent indolone derivative application, 4-bromaniline serves as a starting material, and by means of oxime forming, cyclizing, acetal protecting and N-alkylation reacting, a 1-N acyl substituent indolone derivative with potential bioactivity is obtained for the first time and has good prospects in the field of tumor resisting.


This article explores the response of two Russian religious thinkers to a fundamental tension within Russian Orthodoxy of the modern period, a tension that arises from Russia's engagement with modernity from the late seventeenth century onwards, and that is fundamentally about Orthodoxy's response to modernity. In the broadest terms it can be characterized as the tension between reason and faith, but this alone is insufficient. The question of the relationship between reason and faith has been posed since the dawn of Christianity. Given the historical context, it is more productive to view this tension as existing between two diametrically opposed conceptions of enlightenment, as first highlighted by the semioticians Lotman and Uspenskii:


Based on the wavelet transform (WT) and the affine projection algorithm, a new adaptive filter with a variable step-size scheme, so-called WAPA filter, is proposed in this paper. The computation performance of the WAPA filter is further verified by some numerical simulations and engineering applications. Comparing with the traditional affine projection algorithm (APA), the newly proposed algorithm can provide a faster convergence speed with the same mean square errors (MSE). This implies that the WAPA order may be reduced for a same filtering result; and the saved computation time may counteract the computation expenses of the wavelet transform. The faster convergence speed and the lower steady state MSE (or mis-adjustment) can be attributed to the variable step-size scheme adopted in the WAPA, which is much better than the normal variable step-size APAs.


Streptococcus agalactiae, also known as Group B Streptococcus (GBS), is an encapsulated Gram-positive bacterium that commensally colonizes the lower gastrointestinal tract, and in females, the lower reproductive tract, of 20–30% of healthy adults. However, in immune compromised individuals, such as newborns, pregnant women, and the elderly, GBS may cause invasive disease including pneumonia, sepsis, urinary tract infections, and meningitis. The majority of newborn infection occurs within the first week of life and is designated early-onset disease, which includes pneumonia and respiratory failure, complicated by bloodstream infection and septicemia. In contrast to early-onset infection, lateonset GBS disease occurs in infants aged >1 week, who typically present with sepsis or pneumonia, and may contract meningitis, osteomyelitis, or septic arthritis. Over the last several decades in the United States, GBS has emerged as the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the neonatal period; 25–50% of surviving infants are left with permanent neurologic sequelae including cognitive deficits, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness or seizures. Whether in utero or during labor, neonatal exposure to GBS requires GBS survival, transversal through several host environments and barriers, immune evasion, and in the case of meningitis, crossing of the highly regulated blood–brain barrier. In the United States national guidelines were published in 2002 that focused on a single strategy of universal screening for GBS carriage of pregnant women at 35-37 weeks of gestation plus intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) for all women who are carriers. Despite the initial effectiveness of the antibiotic treatment in decreasing early onset GBS disease in 2002, the overall rate of early onset GBS disease has increased. Additionally, these strategies have not prevented late onset GBS neonatal sepsis and meningitis and there is increased concern of emerging patterns of antibiotic resistance in GBS and other organisms present during treatment. GBS is commonly classified into 10 antigenically distinct serotypes based on variation of the surface capsular polysaccharide (CPS), of which serotypes Ia, Ib, II, III, and V are more commonly associated with invasive disease. More recently GBS has also been classified by sequence type (ST) based on an allelic profile of 7 different loci, with the majority of GBS human isolates being ST-1, ST-17, ST-19, or ST-23. Interestingly there is a disproportionate burden of serotype III, ST-17 strains associated with neonatal invasive disease and meningitis. Further previous work has demonstrated that an ST-17 GBS strain was more likely to survive IAP, compared with an ST-12 strain. Thus the epidemiology of GBS infection suggests that variation in CPS and ST can lead to variable colonization and disease progression. In this issue of Virulence, the authors of the article entitled "Differing mechanisms of surviving phagosomal stress among group B Streptococcus strains of varying genotypes" examined how lineage difference may impact GBS tolerance to antibiotics and various stress conditions, as well as intracellular persistence in phagocytic cells. Phagocytic cells such as macrophages and neutrophils play an important role in innate immune defense against classic extracellular pathogens such as GBS. Pathogens that can persist within phagocytic cells and survive the phagolysosomal environment not only resistant phagocytic clearance, but may more readily disseminate into other bodily tissues. GBS survival within macrophage phagosmes has been reported, but the exact mechanism (s) and factors responsible are not well understood. The current study demonstrated that distinct GBS lineages differed in their ability to be phagocytized by and


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Significance Is human prosociality a consequence of cognitive control of selfish impulses? Alternatively, is it a default option that most people use unless they are cognitively persuaded that a given situation does not require them to behave prosocially? Our results support the latter argument. Participants with weaker cognitive control fairly shared a reward with another participant even when there was no chance of punishing unfair behavior, whereas those more capable of cognitive control behaved selfishly in the same situation. These findings demonstrate that participants' intuitive choices in economic games are prosocial. Human prosociality has been traditionally explained in the social sciences in terms of internalized social norms. Recent neuroscientific studies extended this traditional view of human prosociality by providing evidence that prosocial choices in economic games require cognitive control of the impulsive pursuit of self-interest. However, this view is challenged by an intuitive prosociality view emphasizing the spontaneous and heuristic basis of prosocial choices in economic games. We assessed the brain structure of 411 players of an ultimatum game (UG) and a dictator game (DG) and measured the strategic reasoning ability of 386. According to the reflective norm-enforcement view of prosociality, only those capable of strategically controlling their selfish impulses give a fair share in the UG, but cognitive control capability should not affect behavior in the DG. Conversely, we support the intuitive prosociality view by showing for the first time, to our knowledge, that strategic reasoning and cortical thickness of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were not related to giving in the UG but were negatively related to giving in the DG. This implies that the uncontrolled choice in the DG is prosocial rather than selfish, and those who have a thicker dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and are capable of strategic reasoning (goal-directed use of the theory of mind) control this intuitive drive for prosociality as a means to maximize reward when there are no future implications of choices.


HESS II, MICHAEL E., Ph.D., March 2009, Curriculum and Instruction, Cultural Studies. The Long Walk with Democracy: Democratic Teacher Narratives in Rural Appalachian Ohio (372 pp.) Director of Dissertation: Jaylynne N. Hutchinson This study examines a group of practicing K-12 teachers who were part of a grassroots teacher group called the Friday Roundtable. The narratives in this study represent the democratic educational experiences of eleven Roundtable teachers many of whom practice democratic education in rural Appalachian Ohio in spite of increased state and national pressures that often include undemocratic educational expectations. The teachers involved in the Friday Roundtable spent significant amounts of time trying to answer the collective question "How can we be better teachers?" Using individual case studies situated in both a Narrative Inquiry and Appreciative Inquiry design this research examines the democratic educational work of eleven of these K-12 teachers as they seek educational equity in their often underfunded Appalachian Ohio schools. Among its conclusions this study found that most of the eleven Roundtable teachers interviewed had developed a democratic educational layer that was not easily penetrated by undemocratic ideas and educational practices. Ultimately this study brings to light the lasting impact a meaningful, focused, and democratic experience, such as the Friday Roundtable, can have on a group of teachers who are willing to allow the experience to help shape their teaching philosophy, practice and in some cases, life outlook. The undemocratic policies and practices described by the teachers in this study


Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in the full-term neonate usually is associated with birth trauma and/or perinatal asphyxia. A cause can be found in approximately 75% of cases; however, the remainder have no identifiable risk factors.1 This report describes a 13-day-old full-term neonate who sustained an IVH following moderate abdominal trauma.
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 A full-term male newborn was delivered via an uncomplicated spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 35-year-old biparous mother with third trimester diet-controlled gestational diabetes mellitus. Apgar scores were 8 at 1 minute and 9 at 5 minutes. Birth weight was 3660 g, and the results of the neurologic examination were normal with a fronto-occipital head circumference of 35.0 cm.


In this paper we investigate a family of Moishezon twistor spaces on the connected sum of 4 complex projective planes, which can be regarded as a direct generalization of the twistor spaces on 3CP^2 of double solid type studied by Poon and Kreussler-Kurke. These twistor spaces have a natural structure of double covering over a scroll of 2-planes over a conic. We determine the defining equations of the branch divisors in an explicit form, which are very similar to the case of 3CP^2. Using these explicit description we compute the dimension of the moduli spaces of these twistor spaces. Also we observe that similarly to the case of 3CP^2, these twistor spaces can also be considered as generic Moishezon twistor spaces on 4CP^2. We obtain these results by analyzing the anticanonical map of the twistor spaces in detail, which enables us to give an explicit construction of the twistor spaces, up to small resolutions.


Pondok Serrata Hotel survive in the midst competition by understand the wants and needs of consumers. Consumers have the factors in deciding which hotel that will be a choice, such as service quality and pricing. Existing problems  is the competition among hotels in Semarang are very tight caused Pondok Serrata Hotel's room occupancy rate wasn't able to achieve the target. Type of research is explanatory research. Collecting data using questionnaires distributed to 100 respondents who are the dicided visitors to stay in. Selection respondents using purposive sampling with accidental method. Data analysis consisted of validity, reliability, crosstabulation, correlation, coefficient of determination, simple and multiple linear regression, t test, F test using SPSS for Windows 16.0. This study concludes, service quality of Serrata Hotel perceived good, the price was quite attractive and the consumer's decision to stay in was high. Service quality and price have positive, significant influence to the consumer's decision to stay in either partially or simultaneously. Price gives bigger influence to the consumer's decision to stay in rather than service quality. Suggestions can be submitted are need to regulate the strategies of parking area, increase the variety of restaurant menus, reevaluating pricing policy (discounts) so can attract consumers.


Russia's foreign policy has changed dramatically after Vladimir Putin took office in 2001 because Central Asia has become an important region of Russia's concern. Led by the doctrine of practical foreign policy, Russia has taken series of measures to improve and strengthen the cooperation with Central Asian countries in security and economy. By so doing, Russia has regained the trust of Central Asian countries and consolidated as well its position in the geopolitical structure in Central Asia.


With Ficus carica L.and apple as raw materials,based on single factor experiment,the formula of compound jam was optimized through orthogonal experiment.The result showed that adopting the ratio of Ficus carica L.slurry and apple slurry 4:5,14 % sugar adding,the ratio of sugar and citric acid 50:0.057 5,the acquired compound jam was best in color,flavor,taste and texture.


AbstractA new fish reef block ensuring accurate placement by a free fall was developed to enable a more economical construction of nursery reefs for snow crabs. The block is based on a cube-shaped frame structure with extra shelf areas attached to the upper and lower frames to act as stabilizers. The falling behavior of the block in water was investigated by hydraulic model experiments and three-dimensional (3D) numerical computations. A stochastic model based on the experimental data was used to confirm a narrow distribution of the placement position as a result of the swing motion of the block during its fall. The numerical computation results indicate that the upper stabilizer produces a restoring moment for a tilted block and the lower stabilizer reduces instability in the wake of the falling block. In addition, a quick estimation method for the placement position was developed to determine the release point of the block during actual construction in the presence of ambient currents.


Juvenile fish, about 3 g in initial body weight, were fed on each diet to satiation twice a day for 6 days a week for 8 weeks. The weight gain of fish fed on the diets containing 12 and 25% of feather meal did not differ from that of fish fed on the control diet containing 80% of white fish meal, however, fish fed on the 37 and 50% feather meal diets gained less weight. The feed conversion efficiency and protein efficiency ratio of fish fed on the 12% feather meal diet were almost the same as in the control group, however, these efficiencies decreased as the proportion of feather meal in the diet increased from 25, 37 to 50%. Supplements of crystalline amino acids to the feather meal diet improved its nutritive value slightly. There was little difference in the proximate composition of the whole body together with the hematological and hematochemical parameters among the dietary groups tested. The present study showed that 12 to 25% of feather meal is an appropriate substitute for fish meal in the diet of juvenile Japanese flounder.


This paper reports on an ethnomethodology-informed ethnography of a video game museum. Based on 4 weeks of ethnographic fieldwork, we showcase how groups of visitors to the museum achieved the interactional work necessary to play games together and organise a museum visit as a social unit. By showcasing and explication excerpts of museums visits we make the "taken-for-granted" nature of these interactions visible. Embedded within an activity map that outlines how people "prepare", "play", "wind down" and "exit" games, we showcase the sequential, temporal, and carefully negotiated character of these visits. Based on our findings and the resulting "Machinery of Interaction", we propose three design implications for spaces that aim to exhibit video games and/or try to facilitate co-located, collective video game play.


An enhanced thermal stability in thermoelectric Ca3Co4O9 thin films up to 550 °C in an oxygen rich environment was demonstrated by high-temperature electrical and X-ray diffraction measurements. In contrast to generally performed heating in helium gas, it is shown that an oxygen/helium mixture provides sufficient thermal contact, while preventing the previously disregarded formation of oxygen vacancies. Combining thermal cycling with electrical measurements proves to be a powerful tool to study the real intrinsic thermoelectric behaviour of oxide thin films at elevated temperatures


Five Duganella sp. bacterial isolates that synthesize violacein were cultured from a central Pennsylvania waterway. ABSTRACT Five Duganella sp. bacterial isolates that synthesize violacein were cultured from a central Pennsylvania waterway. Violacein has antimicrobial potential, including chytrid-killing effects, relevant to amphibian declines worldwide. Whole-genome analysis of these five microbial isolates may provide insights to better protect amphibian communities from fungal infections using bioremediation.


Phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) selectively hydrolyses the second messenger cGMP into 5′‐GMP, thereby regulating its intracellular concentrations. Dysregulation of the cGMP‐dependent pathway plays a significant role in various cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, its modulation by drugs, such as PDE5 inhibitors, may represent an effective therapeutic approach. There are currently four PDE5 inhibitors available for the treatment of erectile dysfunction: sildenafil, vardenafil, tadalafil and avanafil. Sildenafil and tadalafil have also received Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. This review summarizes the pharmacological aspects and clinical potential of PDE5 inhibition for the treatment of myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury and heart failure.


Merkel cell carcinoma responsive to Etoposide: a case report and brief literature review Chiara Ancona1, Andrea Caff2, Giovanni Manfredi Assanto1, Stefano Cordio3 1Department of Medical Oncology, Policlinico P. Giaccone, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy. 2Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Garibaldi-Nesima Medical Center, University of Catania, Via Palermo 636, 95122 Catania, Italy. 3Department of Oncology, Garibaldi-Nesima Medical Center, University of Catania, Via Palermo 636, 95122 Catania, Italy. Correspondence to: Dr. Andrea Caff, Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Garibaldi-Nesima Medical Center, University of Catania, Via Palermo 636, 95122 Catania, Italy. E-mail: email@example.com Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), first described in 1972, is an aggressive primary cutaneous carcinoma able to incorporate both epithelial and neuroendocrine features. MCC mainly appears in individuals in their eighth decade and it is related to a high mortality rate. The etiology of this rare disease is not well-understood but ultraviolet radiation exposure, immune suppression, and aging have a consistent role in its pathogenesis. Usually, clinical lesions appear as asymptomatic coloured dermal nodules. The tumour can involve lymph nodes but further evaluation with imaging is recommended. The common approach for localized disease is surgical. This work reports a case of an 86-year-old man with locally advanced MCC where, based on clinical experience, oral mono-chemotherapy with single-agent etoposide was chosen as first-line therapy. A complete objective response was achieved in 2 months.


This research aims ro improve teacher`s competence in online learning through Megicom Workshop during the Covid-19 pandemic in the 2020/2021 academic year of SMA Negeri 9 Bogor. This research was conducted in two cycles with 45 teachers in SMA Negeri 9 Bogor. The research was carried out for 5 (five) months, namely July - November 2020. Based on the reasearch results, after going through the Digital Media Competency Workshop, the competence of teachers in carrying out synchronous online learning has increased. From the results of observations through academic supervision, it was found that in cycle 1, as many as 38%  were very good in carrying out online learning activities in the classroom, 49%  were good, and 13% were quite good in carrying out online learning activities in the classroom. While in cycle 2, 49% were very good in carrying out synchronous online learning activities, 51%  were good, and there was no longer sufficient category). The competence of teachers in implementing synchronous online learning has increased. The results showed that in cycle 1, as many as 42% were very good at carrying out synchronous online learning activities, 47% were good, and 11% were quite good in implementing asynchronous learning activities. While in cycle 2, 60% were very good in carrying out asynchronous online learning activities, 40% were good, and there was no longer sufficient category. The average value of supervision results in synchronous classroom management, has increased from 85.14 to 87.64. Meanwhile, the average value of supervision results in asynchronous classroom management has increased from 85.06 to 87.47. The competence of teachers in the use of digital media has increased, after participating in the Megicom Workshop. This can be seen from the increasingly varied media used, such as Google Classroom, WhatsApp, Quizizz, Google Meet, Zoom Meeting, Instagram, and YouTube. It could be be concluded that the competence of teachers in online learning during the Covid -19 pandemic at SMA Negeri 9 Bogor for the 2020/2021 academic year could be improved through the Megicom Workshop.


In this paper, the curriculum teaching reform of Industrial Ctalysis is discussed, which is based on the orientation of talent cultivation for the specialty of chemical engineering in application-oriented institutes. The teaching reforms mainly embody the five aspects,including teaching contents, teaching methods, practical teaching, examination modes, the construction of teacher teams, which is helpful to the quality of teaching and education.


and CD33-positive cells in the blood by day 28. Seven of the 58 patients died of non– relapse-related causes by day 100. The estimated probability of recurrent AML was 40% at 1 year, and the 1-year survival rate estimate was 41%. The use of reduced-intensity preparative regimens is now widely accepted and used for older and infirm patients.4-6 The Seattle group has been in the vanguard of the development of reduced-intensity transplantation preparative regimens.7 It is notable that the patients treated by Pagel et al were deemed ineligible for their standard reduced-intensity preparative regimen of fludarabine and TBI alone. The survival rate of 41% is quite remarkable, given that background. Toxicity to extramedullary organs was low, and treatmentrelated mortality was reasonable and low. Targeting CD45 hematopoietic cells is not the only way to target the marrow space with additional radiation. Other hematopoietic antigens can also be targeted.8 Alternative methods include the use of external beam radiation using intensity-modulated radiotherapy techniques9 and bone-seeking radionuclide therapy.10 These approaches are promising but have not been studied in substantial numbers of patients. The advantage of these alternative approaches is their exportability, and potentially greater reliability, with higher dosing to the marrow compared with antibody-delivered therapy. However, there may be possible advantages to protocols combining radioimmunotherapy (RIT) and external beam therapy. RIT has the advantage of targeting extramedullary disease as well as medullary disease. AML in the older patient is a pressing medical problem. Chemotherapy alone results in few cures. Approaches to augmenting the efficacy of hematopoietic cell transplantation without unduly increasing toxicity are urgently needed. Reducing the intensity of therapy to uninvolved organs while boosting treatments to the sites of disease is a promising approach to achieving more cures for patients with this lethal disease. Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The author declares no competing financial interests. ■


References 1. Cresswell JL. Egger P. Fall CH et al. Is the age of menopause determined in utero? Early Human Development 1997; 4: 143-8. 2. Obermeyer CM. Menopause across cultures: a review of the evidence. Menopause 2000: 7: 184-192. 3. Aaron R. Muliyil J. Abraham S. Medico-social dimensions of menopause: a. cross-sectional study from rural South. India. Natl Med J India 2002; 15; 14-17. 4. Porter M. Penney G. Russell D, et al. A population based survey of women's experience of the menopause. BJOG 1996; 103: l025-1028. 5. Kuh D. Wadsworth M. Hardy R. Women's Health in Midlife: the influence of the menopause, social factors and health in earlier life. BJOG 1997; 104: 923-933.


Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of microscopic moulds with pronounced toxic properties. Moulds infect products of plant and animal origin at any stage of their receipt, transportation and storage, in industrial and home conditions. Mycotoxins are more commonly found in plant foods. Their biosynthesis by fungi occurs during the ripening and harvesting period under unfavourable meteorological conditions and improper grain storage. Untimely harvesting or insufficient drying of the crop before storage, storage and transportation of products with insufficient protection against moisture leads to the multiplication of microorganisms and the formation of toxic substances in food products.


Objective To investigate the methods and efficacy of traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment for primary and secondary school students with pseudo-myopia.Method Total 1 180 primary and secondary school students(2 315 eyes) underwent mydriasis with 0.5% tropicamide,and final diagnosed of pseudo-myopia by computer optometry and fascicular optical silhouette.They dropped 2~3 drops of 0.5% tropicamide every night before going to bed,and used Shumu Mingmu strap to paste 30~60 minutes;dropped Liang Jie gutta in the daytime;and corrected bad habits in using eyes.Results After more than two weeks′ treatment,1 729 eyes recovered,accounted for 74.69%;381 eyes progressed,accounted for 16.46%,with the efficiency of 91.14%;205 eyes of invalid,accounting for 8.86%.Conclusion It is effective for using traditional Chinese and western medicine methods in primary and secondary school students of pseudo-myopia,and has got certain value in preventing the occurrence and the development of pseudo-myopia.


The discusssed stock&flow-model predicts population dynamics of Crystal Meth addicts related to the price development of drugs, the society and the market that is affected by the popularity of the TV series 'Breaking Bad': The potential impact of the broadcasting of the TV series on the system is tested by using sudden (pulsed) changes of selected flows and rates to reveal sensitivity of selected variables: 'Addicts', 'price relationship', 'dealers' saturation' and 'Stock of Crystal Meth'. While consumption, purchase and production show strong responses to such perturbations, other variables like 'getting_addicted' and 'weaning_off' show only weak responses. These reactions to pulsed changes of model parameters are analysed and their significance is discussed. Introduction and Motivation of the Model Study I'll continue to wonder about the long term effects of mainstreaming such a dangerous drug into popular culture' Witzmann et al. A model of 'Breaking Bad' 168 SNE 26(3) – 9/2016 TN 1 The Model


The control and protection switching electric appliance(CPS)is a sort of New-style multifunction and integration component design to low-voltage distribution and control system.In this article,it is introduced the structure and main characteristics of CPS,meanwhile,it is analyzed the application of Ex electrical appliance with the example of its application.Owing to some excellent feature of CPS,such as the high interrupting capacity,preferable arc extinguishing effect and high integration,it takes very important roles in Ex electrical appliance.


The Pecan Gap chalk of East Texas has been correlated, in previous publications,(FOOTNOTE 3) with the Annona chalk of northeastern Texas and southern Arkansas. Detailed surface mapping of a belt of Cretaceous rocks in eastern and northeastern Texas shows that the Pecan Gap chalk thins and disappears north and east and that the Wolfe City sand, which underlies the Pecan Gap chalk, is to be correlated with the Annona chalk.


Mr.Shen Junru is a well-known political activists and jurist in modern China.He occupies an important position in modern judicial independence movement.His human rights law thought mainly includes protecting women and children's property and education right,achieving judicial justice,rectifying prisons,making compensations for wronged trials,and guaranteeing human rights with law.His human rights law thought was closely related to his life experience and to the time in which he lived.


In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph. "Powdery horizons emerge at dawn as the heaven's pale, fuchsia skies sparkle timidly against the splintered, charred remains of my life, blending murky grays with budding blues. The dwindling clamor of helmets and oxygen tanks give way to the hungry cries of baby robins nestled safely in the tree above. Sirens and walkietalkies whispered in the distance -I'm alone now." Cover Page Footnote Appeared in the issue: Volume 8&9, Issue 6&7, 2008. This prose is available in The Angle: http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/angle/vol2008/iss2/20 COME WHAT MAY BY SELENA COCHRAN Powdery horizons emerge at dawn as the heaven's pale, fuchsia skies sparkle timidly against the splintered, charred remains of my life, blending murky grays with budding blues. The dwindling clamor of helmets and oxygen tanks give way to the hungry cries of baby robins nestled safely in the tree above. Sirens and walkie-talkies whispered in the distanceI'm alone now. It's cold in this placeempty. T he smell of old, musty rock and burnished metal, lend credence to the longevity of granite and earth. I wonder how many dreams are buried here amid the blackened ruins. H ow many I'm sorrys cry out from the smoldering earth below, never to redeem the depraved in spirit or pacify the guilty conscious? H ow many, I wonder, belong to me? It's dark in this placebarren in this place; yet, I'm still here, standing, inhaling, and searching the debris for signs of my existenceI find none. Anguished tears streak my face. Am I dead or alive? 33 1 Cochran: Come What May Published by Fisher Digital Publications, 2008


Simple Summary The introduction of immunotherapy modified the cancer treatment landscape, especially for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Unfortunately, only a subgroup of patients benefits from this therapy. Currently, the only validated companion diagnostic test for first-line immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC patients is testing for programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression in tumor tissues. However, obtaining tumor tissue can be challenging and it puts the patient at risk. Liquid biopsy offers an alternative, less invasive approach to select NSCLC patients who would benefit from immunotherapy and to monitor patients during their disease course. Liquid biopsy allows repetitive sampling, which makes it a useful tool in clinical practice. In this review, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of several liquid biopsy-based prognostic and predictive biomarkers in NSCLC patients receiving immunotherapy. Abstract In the last decade, immunotherapy has been one of the most important advances in the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment landscape. Nevertheless, only a subset of NSCLC patients benefits from it. Currently, the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved diagnostic test for first-line immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC patients uses tissue biopsies to determine the programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) status. However, obtaining tumor tissue is not always feasible and puts the patient at risk. Liquid biopsy, which refers to the tumor-derived material present in body fluids, offers an alternative approach. This less invasive technique gives real-time information on the tumor characteristics. This review addresses different promising liquid biopsy based biomarkers in NSCLC patients that enable the selection of patients who benefit from immunotherapy and the monitoring of patients during this therapy. The challenges and the opportunities of blood-based biomarkers such as cell-free DNA (cfDNA), circulating tumor cells (CTCs), exosomes, epigenetic signatures, microRNAs (miRNAs) and the T cell repertoire will be addressed. This review also focuses on the less-studied feces-based and breath-based biomarkers.


Geographic regionalisation of the agricultural production in North Moravia region makes only a part of the special research work prepared with the aim to delimitate relatively homogeneous agricultural areas on the whole territory of the Czech socialist republic. This delimitation is based on the characteristics of the agricultural enterprises. Characteristic of the agricultural production in the region was done by the help of analysis of the great amount of indicators and their mutual relations. The majority of these data was interpreted by cartographic methods. In the concluding stage of our research there were proved that not all indicators selected previously, which are important for the general characteristic of agricultural production, can be taken as factors suitable for delimitation of agricultural regions. For the effective delimitation of agricultural regions in North Moravia region the following quantitative indicators used as criteria showing the really substantial differences in agricultural typology can be applicated in the best way: 1. Structure of gross agricultural production as characteristic of territorial heterogennity of the agricultural production. 2. Structure of market production as indicator of productive intention and specialization of countries. 3. Level of gross agricultural production, final production and market production per 1 ha of farmer land as indicator of the intensity level of agricultural production. 4. Level of gross agricultural production, final production and market production count per one permanent employes in agriculture as indicator of tbe intensity of labour productivity. The research work dealing with the agricultural regionalisation in North Moravia region confirms the growing importance of the bride row of methodes (including cartographic ones) which are used in contemporaneous geographical research for delimitation of territorial differences of agricultural types in various regions. For example delimitation of productional types of agricultural farmes combination of methods by Weaver and Coppock adapted to our purposes was utilised. Resultes were later compared with the classification prepared according to the medium values in Czechoslovakia. Also some approches used by soviet and polish geographers, as little changed and adapted to the conditions of comperatively small area, were utilised in this research work. On the base of classification of the social and productional types of agricultural production and also taking in to toe consideration that boundaries between agricultural regions reflect to certain extand particularities influenced by the climatic conditions and special types of soils connected with them, we have determined in North Moravia region tile following three large agricultural regions, devidet to the ten smaller areas. A. region of lowland agricultural production with growing of intensive and special plants, B. region of highlands and uplands with majority of corn growing C. region of mountainous agriculture with majority of cattle breeding.


The authors exhibited to the society two guinea-pigs, which were deeply narcotized by injections of magnesium sulfate. One of these animals had been similarly narcotized twice before, and fully recovered each time. In their physiological and toxicological studies of magnesium salts, the authors found that by subcutaneous injections of certain quantities of sulfate or chlorid of magnesium, animals can be brought into a state of deep anesthesia, during which any operation can be performed upon them without the least resistance. If the dose of the salts is not too large, heartbeat, blood-pressure and respiration remain nearly normal. It was tested on dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea-pigs, white rats and frogs. A gram and a half of magnesium sulfate is about the effective dose for most of the animals. The chlorid has to be used in smaller doses in proportion to its smaller molecular weight. Particulars will be reported later. The authors emphasized the fact that these salts are very poisonous when certain maximum doses are exceeded.


The development and evaluation of a technique for precise measurement of the instantaneous carrier phase of a pulsed signal is discussed1. This technique has an accuracy exceeding that of currently available discriminators and interferometers and provides a more complete measurement of the pulse frequency by measuring both leading and trailing edge frequencies. An accurate phase comparison technique has useful application in monitoring the phase characteristics of both active and passive elements in microwave systems with linear, nonlinear, or discontinuous phase characteristics. Oscillators, amplifiers, filters, etc., may be completely described, with respect to the phase-time characteristics, using this technique.


OBJECTIVE
To examine whether physical activity attenuates the effect of the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism on body fat estimates in adolescents.

DESIGN
Cross-sectional study.

SETTING
Athens, Greece; Dortmund, Germany; Ghent, Belgium; Heraklion, Greece; Lille, France; Pécs, Hungary; Rome, Italy; Stockholm, Sweden; Vienna, Austria; and Zaragoza, Spain, from October 2006 to December 2007.

PARTICIPANTS
Adolescents from the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional Study (n = 752).

MAIN EXPOSURE
Physical activity.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
The FTO rs9939609 polymorphism was genotyped. Physical activity was assessed by accelerometry. We measured weight, height, waist circumference, and triceps and subscapular skinfolds; body mass index (BMI [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and body fat percentage were calculated.

RESULTS
The A allele of the FTO polymorphism was significantly associated with higher BMI (+0.42 per risk allele), higher body fat percentage (+1.03% per risk allele), and higher waist circumference (+0.85 cm per risk allele). We detected significant or borderline gene x physical activity interactions for the studied body fat estimates (for interaction, P = .02, .06, and .10 for BMI, body fat percentage, and waist circumference, respectively). Indeed, the effect of the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism on these body fat parameters was much lower in adolescents who met the daily physical activity recommendations (ie, >/=60 min/d of moderate to vigorous physical activity) compared with those who did not: +0.17 vs +0.65 per risk allele in BMI, respectively; +0.40% vs +1.70% per risk allele in body fat percentage, respectively; and +0.60 vs +1.15 cm per risk allele in waist circumference, respectively.

CONCLUSION
Adolescents meeting the daily physical activity recommendations may overcome the effect of the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism on obesity-related traits.


This paper studies 200 signs displayed in commercial premises
 during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland and in France. The
 data were collected through crowdsourcing via social media platforms and
 analysed from the perspective of cross-cultural pragmatics. The vast majority of
 Finnish and French directives were direct, but cross-cultural differences
 emerged in relation to perspective and mitigation. Specifically, French signs
 preferred an impersonal perspective, whereas Finnish signs favoured a hearer
 perspective, and Finnish signs were more often mitigated than French signs. The
 signs balanced between attracting customers and imposing safety measures on them
 through the justification of measures, the presentation of measures taken by
 businesses themselves, as well as by addressing clients and thanking them. The
 findings suggest that the directives in Covid-19 signs differ from directives in
 other data types.


have raised our sights with respect to the need for much more widespread application of the Public Health Service Drinking Water Standards."


The objective is to create a model standards managerial control, uniformly and consistently applied in all fields. These standards serve as a reference system for the management of public institutions must implement internal control systems and specialized structures that evaluate these systems. Seen in the light of general principles of good practice internationally accepted and EU internal control policies and procedures are all designed and implemented by management and staff authority to provide reasonable assurance for: objectives of the public entity in an economic, efficient and effective; external compliance, policies and management rules; protect assets and information; prevention and detection of fraud and errors; quality accounting documents and timely production of reliable information on financial and management segment.


The social thrust of market reforms is to build a modern European country with a developed economy able to satisfy the social demands of its citizens. Ukraine has made significant progress on that path; however, against the background of economic growth and improvement in the material welfare of the population, the problem of uneven development has continued to worsen, differentiating sectors and sociodemographic population groups. Works by prominent domestic economists, among them S. Bandur, V. Heyets, E. Libanova, V. Novykov, V. Onikienko, S. Pyrozhkov, and many other authors [1–4], are devoted to developing a well grounded approach for building a socially oriented economy in Ukraine. Mechanisms to translate this approach into practice, in order to reduce social differentiation, are necessary. This article seeks to perform this function regarding wage regulation.


This research work framed on both doctrinal and normative legal environment, about environmental pollution suffered by one of the largest swamps that still exist in the city of Machala, as the Estero "El Macho" in 2013, aims to recognize the true and proven fact of how the damage they cause to nature becomes a perfect boomerang that does its best landing on the health of human beings, then proposing a change of perspective in the way we analyze the right, a perspective that goes what anthropocentric to biocentric and in that context provide the legal system to promote the analysis of new considerations in regulatory systems and subsystems especially in the areas of health and environmental effects and resulting product contamination of the environment, for with this become agents of change towards getting a decent health protected by legal rules in harmony with the care and respect for nature.


At present the performance of short-pulse raregas-halide excimer-laser systems is definitely below that of solid-state systems, as far as the maximum peak-power is concerned. However, short-pulse excimer lasers are expected to be the best candidates to produce the highest focused intensities ( I > 10 2o W/cm 2) provided by the shorter wavelength and less optical distortion in the gaseous active medium. This is especially feasible if the present performance of short-wavelength focusing optics is improved, and the problem of the limited extraction efficiency of excimers is solved. In this paper the results of former developments, novel methods, such as spatially-evolving chirped-pulse amplification, off-axis amplification, interferometric multiplexing, and some considerations for the achievable maximum brightness of table-top excimer systems are presented. PACS: 42.60, 42.55.Mv In view of the recent advances in femtosecond solid-state technology, solid-state-based high-power laser systems have become an important work-horse in high-intensity experiments. Based on the well-developed high-energy amplifier technology and using the so-called Chirped-Pulse-Amplification (CPA) technique [1, 2], peak powers of several tens of TW have been reached [3-5]. These results seem to be hard to beat by other lasers. At present, the excimer-based shortpulse laser systems are operating up to a somewhat lower level [6-22]. However, in most of the high-intensity experiments, it is the focused intensity which has to be considered as the major figure of merit for the performance of the pump-laser system. This is the point, where the better focusability of short-wavelength gas lasers becomes a dominant advantage [23, 24]. This is easily seen by comparing the focusability of the different laser systems [5, 9, 17-22]. It is a general tendency that the development of lasers is striving towards ever shorter wavelengths. By frequency Permanent address: JATE University, Research Group on Laser Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ddm t6r 9, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary conversion of infrared or visible laser pulses, the wavelength range can be extended, but at the expense of energy and stability. At certain wavelengths direct generation of pulses in the UV is possible by excimers with high efficiency [25]. The bandwidth of the gain curve of excimers is significantly narrower than that of dyes, but still allows the amplification of subpicosecond pulses [23, 24, 26]. Among the various excimers XeF, XeC1, KrF and ArF are the most often used and are the main candidates for short pulse amplifiers, having their lasing wavelengths at 351, 308, 248 and 193 nm, respectively. (In spite of the great success of short-pulse amplification using the XeF (C-+ A) transition [27], in the present study this excimer transition is disregarded because of the longer (visible) wavelength. Also F 2 has been left out because of its very low efficiency and the technical difficulties associated with the short ( k = 157 nm) wavelength [28].) For the comparison of solid-state and excimer-based laser systems, the most important features are summarized in Table 1. It is known that the saturation energy density of solidstate materials is in the J/cm 2 range, while for excimers it is 1000 times smaller, lying in the mJ/cm 2 regime [29-41]. This is roughly proportional to the maximum extractable energy from a given cross-section; that is why solid-state lasers can be much more efficiently used for high-energy application. The host material is solid-state and noble gas for solid-state and excimer lasers, respectively. The noblegas host material with its low density and low nonlinearity results in ease of propagation of the beam in excimer amplifiers, without the danger of self-focusing, phase front distortion and self-phase modulation. Due to the different intensity level for the appearance of nonlinearities in excimers and solid-state systems and due to the very different value of their saturation energy density, direct amplification of subpicosecond pulses is only possible in excimers. In solid-state systems, saturated amplification of subpicosecond pulses corresponds to an intensity level where nonlinearities prevent any operation. The so-called Chirped-Pulse Amplification (CPA) [1, 2] scheme is devoted to overcome this problem, where the intensity of the pulse is lowered in the amplifier by temporal stretching and compression of


We proposed a new type of plasmonic optical phased array consisting of an array of plasmonic phase modulators based on electro-optic polymers[1]. The proposed device has only one optical peak at a wavelength of 1.55um, and the output light can be deflected and scanned over a range of more than 100 degrees by voltage control, which is confirmed by numerical calculation using the two-dimensional FDTD method. A Small-sized (70*26um2), low-voltage (Less than 10V), high-speed and low-power optical phased array could be designed.


ABSTRACT This article examines young Muslim Australians' attitudes toward implementing Sharia in Australia using 64 semi-structured interviews conducted in Melbourne and Geelong, Australia. We found that although the attitudes can be grouped under the main typologies of Legal Pluralist and Muslim Secularist, there were a variety of responses within each category. While Legal Pluralist A wants Sharia to be officially implemented for Muslims in Australia, Legal Pluralist B thinks Sharia would be beneficial for everyone in Australia. The majority of our respondents (Muslim Secularist) think that Sharia is not suited for Australian state, legal system and politics. Muslim Secularist A does not think that Sharia offer any benefit to modern societies in any part of the world. Muslim Secularist B thinks that Sharia cannot be applied in Australia that has to remain secular because of the religious diversity of the population and Sharia is more useful for Muslim-majority countries. Religiosity does not predict any of these typologies in our participant group since, with few exceptions, all identified themselves as religious Muslims.


Western Europe with a declining availability of landfill sites has turned largely to incinerators in the past 20 years. Only one process based on pyrolysis/gasification technology has attained commercial operation. However, for about ten years now private companies and research institutions have undertaken R and D work in the field of pyrolysis or gasification of refuse, sewage sludge, plastics and rubber, or biomass. This paper surveys the status of European pyrolysis/gasification technology. It also reviews the thermodynamic aspects and kinetics of the technology as well as the engineering aspects of the chemical reactors.


The three-state current hysteresis control strategy overcomes the disadvantages of the three-state Discrete Pulse Modulation(DPM) current hysteresis control strategy effectively by introduction of a constant frequency signal and the frequency-inspected and phase-inspected circuit.The circuit topology,control strategy of three-state hysteresis current,steady principle characteristic,and design criterions of key circuit parameter of the inverter are deeply investigated.A prototype of 1 kVA 190 VDC/115 V400 Hz AC inverter was developed,which has excellent comprehensive performances such as high efficiency,small bulk,lower weight,good output spectrum characteristics,good output waveforms,high steady precision,fast dynamic response,strong function with different nature load,low noise and low cost,etc.


In recent years the analysis of urinary enzymes has attracted interest as a possible aid to the diagnosis of renal disease. We have produced renal ischaemia of varying duration in dogs and then studied the activity of different enzymes in the urine. In spite of the fact that the damage to the kidney was so small as to produce only a slight or moderate effect on creatinine clearance and inulin and PAH extraction, we observed in the first few hours following ischaemia a very marked increase in the outflow of leucineaminopeptidase (LAP), lysozyme (muramidase) and lactic dehydrogenase (LDH). The increased outflow of LAP was rapidly reduced to normal, whereas the raised values of LDH and lysozyme were observed for a longer period, 10 days to one month. After renal ischaemia LDH 5 was raised in the urine and also, for a short period immediately after, in the renal vein, indicating that this fraction in our experiments arose from damaged kidney cells. It is concluded that studies of urinary enzymes may be of gre...


My one critique, especially of the more constructive pieces, is that they would have benefitted from even more explicit interaction with related disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and so on. Even St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and John Calvin situated their discussions of freedom in relation to more complex patterns of interaction (e.g., politics, economics, law, even the family). This critique notwithstanding, these essays offer an important direction for rethinking the concept of theological freedom, situating it within a dialogical and communal framework rather than the strictly individualistic context usually identified with Western theology. Yet another volume is needed to flesh out the implications of such a reconstruction, and theviewof God'spresence and activity it implies, for the complexity of— and because of sin, ambiguity inherent in—all the patterns of interaction that constitute our personal lives and communities, even those beyond strictly dialogical relations.


This paper is about the design of public transport service concepts and networks in urban and rural districts. An attempt has been made to define some basic concepts that are useful for public transport planners and decision makers when they want to create high quality public transport services in their region. The paper is based on the authors' work for the HiTrans Interreg III-project, recent work on a good practice guide for public transport system design in rural and small town regions for the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications and earlier literature studies and consultancy work for various public transport bodies in Norway. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E215911.


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This paper proposes an algorithm for solving multi-objective assignment problem (MOAP) through interactive fuzzy goal programming approach. A mathematical model has been established to discuss about multi-objective assignment problem which is characterized by non-linear(exponential) membership function. The approach emphasizes on optimal solution of each objective function by minimizing the worst upper bound, which is close to the best lower bound. To illustrate the algorithm a numerical example is presented.


The invention relates to a mobile phone, a display method of a mobile phone and a system thereof. And an LCD display screen is employed to provide a user interface (UI). The display method comprises the following steps that: an ambient light intensity is detected; a UI template is selected according to the ambient light intensity; and an UI that is provided by an LCD display screen is changed according to the selected UI template. According to the invention, a user of a mobile phone can see a content on the screen of the mobile phone clearly under outdoor strong lights.


Abstract:This article explores the incremental privatization of what is today East Africa's largest corporation, communications and finance firm Safaricom. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, British multinational Vodafone became a partial shareholder of Safaricom, with the government of Kenya retaining the majority stake in the company. This was followed by the company going "public" in 2008 through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). In exploring these transformations, this article demonstrates that privatization was not a singular event but turned on the production of divisibility: a discursive, epistemological, and material process whereby seemingly "classificatory wholes"—a corporation, an infrastructure, a state asset—were first presented and then rendered as partible entities. As the lines between the public and the private were being redrawn, another conceptual series—"citizenship," "development," the "public"—were similarly transformed into partible objects subject to division. Unraveling the historical entanglement of the corporation and the state, this article clarifies why, today, Kenyans—some of whom have been reformatted as shareholder-client-citizens—call on Safaricom to act like the state from which it has been incrementally "unbundled."


Self-care and Self-help groups are promoted as appropriate for achieving improved outcome in Chronic Health Problem's management. We have developed a Training Model for pre-school and school-age children and their families, using Play and Role-Reversal techniques based on Self-Sufficiency and Self-Reliance. This model promotes a leading role for the children in the management of his own problem (self-management), with the Health Care Team's guidance, and the family learning to act facilitating the process. The goal is to achieve significant improvements in the child's functioning and quality of life. The program consisted in five weekly sessions held in a school, coordinated specially trained teachers. Children and parents met simultaneously in separate groups, joining at the end. They both were trained in identifying body signals, control of their environment, treatment's management, decisior-making and Self-Reliance habits. To assess the impact of the Program, a quasi-experimental, randomized Field Trial model was developed with 420 (4-12 years old) patients of the Children's Hospital R. Gutiérrez (Respiratory, Nutrition and Neurology Departments). Of these, 212 were assigned randomly to Experimental (128, "Groups") or Follow-up only (94, "Controls"). Preliminary results suggested a significant impact of the Program in attitudes and behaviours of the study children and their parents. In moderate to severe asthmatics, the children's severity according to the parents changed significantly(p=.0005). Unnecessary use of Hospital services also fell, as well as School Absenteeism (Exp: 11.3 to 6.9%; Cont: 9.2 to 11.6%). Parents showed more knowledge and less anxiety after the Program (Exp: Knowledge before 35%, after 61%; Cont: 33 and 29%) (Fear of child's death: Exp: Before 21.4% after 4.9%; Cont: 53.3% and 41.9%). There is also decreased sense of altered family dynamic, and increased (30 to 50% more) parental recognition of the child's protagonism. The Health Locus of Control changed also significantly in Experimental children (p=0.0015; Cont: p=0.10), which explains many of the positive changes operated. Preliminary results in Epilepsy and Diabetes showed a similar tendency.


The industry of Winter Date jujube var.developed very rapidly this years in Zhanhua county,and has walked up to the rode of industrialization development,and also it has become the support of the county economy.But with the enlargement of the industry scope,a lot of problems were exposed.The present status of the county's Winter Date industrialization development was researched,the problems were discussed,and also some primary countermeasures were put foreword in this article.


The I domain of integrin αE was modeled on the crystal structure of that in CD11b and mutated to produce an open (high affinity) or closed (low affinity) conformation. K562 transfectants expressing mutant αE and wild‐type β7 were tested for adhesion to E‐cadherin‐Fc. Downward displacement of the C terminus of the αI domain with a disulfide bridge enhanced adhesion and Mn2+ dependency. Adhesion greatly exceeded that observed using wild type integrin under similar conditions. The closed integrin gave poor adhesion which was greatly improved by PMA‐induced clustering. Blocking β7 function with a βI domain‐specific antibody inhibited the wild‐type but not the locked open integrin. Isolated open αI domain expressed on K562 cells showed strong Mn2+‐dependent adhesion to E‐cadherin, whereas the wild‐type version was ineffective. αEβ7 was shown to bind to monomeric E‐cadherin but to only one component of dimeric E‐cadherin. Finally, we report that M290, a function‐blocking antibody, bound to a conformation‐sensitive epitope near the rim of the αI domain MIDAS and recognized wild‐type and closed αI domain but not the open conformation. The results broadly support the paradigm for affinity regulation by conformational change that has been established for β2 integrins. Nevertheless, for αE, the fully open conformation may represent an extreme situation that does not occur physiologically.


The paper deals with development work on which the authors have been engaged since 1945 on machines for the transmission of pictures and facsimiles over land-lines and radio. Faithful tone reproduction of photographic material has been attained, and machines have been produced to fulfil the needs of the Press. Machines with more precise scanning, up to 500 lines per inch, have been developed. A method of controlled retoning of a picture is also described. Further developments have been made using an electrochemical action instead of photographic paper as the recording medium. Machines have been produced to receive tone pictures and to act either independently or as monitors to the photographic machines. Recent applications of the electrochemical recorder to facsimile and telegraph purposes are described.


Based on the duality of managing labor and laborer, this text divides the management into two classification: prodution operational management and government′s administrative management,makes a concrete analysis on the relation between managing labor and value creating under the socialist market economy condition, deeply probes into the measurement of managing labor and the issue of value realizing, expounds to the way and method to the value assignment and reallocation of managing laborer. Therefore it is a kind of insistence, development and innovation to Marx′s labor value theory and there is positive facilitation to realiztic economic development and economic system reform.


In hospital construction, additional challenges must be considered, such as an increased number of stakeholders and building trades, such as medical and laboratory technology. Due to the increasing requirements and challenges, associated construction processes are becoming more intricate. Especially for complex building types, the effects of this development are clearly noticeable and cause considerable disruptions to the construction process. A main difficulty constitutes the missing definition of the interfaces of building trades and participants. In the present study, interfaces in hospital construction were identified and analyzed by guided interviews with experts from the health sector. The qualitative content analysis, according to Mayring, was used for the evaluation to derive appropriate solution approaches. This paper presents the interfaces using the example of hospital construction in Germany and general approaches of optimization. Hereby, the digital method Building Information Modeling (BIM) plays a decisive role in the optimization of interfaces, especially in complex buildings. Furthermore, a task and building trade control matrix is required to better coordinate the interfaces. The identified approach intends to alleviate potential disputes and misunderstandings among stakeholders, as well as to improve time and financial predictability, which are particularly valuable during inflationary periods.


The time evolution of probability densities of one-dimensional nonlinear vector fields is studied using a Liouville equation approach. It is shown that the Liouville operator admits a discrete spectrum of eigenvalues of decaying type if the vector field is far from bifurcation. The associated right and left eigenvectors are explicitly constructed for simple models and shown to be distributions rather than regular functions. On the other hand, the spectrum of the Liouville operator may become continuous at the bifurcation point, a phenomenon illustrated explicitly in the paper in the case of the pitchfork bifurcation. The relationship between the spectral decompositions of the Liouville and of the Fokker-Planck equations is discussed. In particular, the spectral decompositions constructed here for the Liouville equation are obtained as the noiseless limit of the well known spectral decompositions of the Fokker-Planck equation of the associated stochastic process.


ABSTRACTIn this paper, a new non-isolated Interleaved dc/dc converter with high-voltage conversion ratio is presented. The proposed converter combined with interleaved converter techniques and volt...


The graft copolymerization of methyl methacrylate in wool fibers was investigated in aqueous solution using V5+—thiourea redox system. The rate of grafting was determined by varying monomer, thiourea, acidity of the medium, temperature, nature of wool, different acrylic monomers, and reaction medium. The graft yield increases significantly by increasing reaction time in the initial stages of the reaction but it does slow down on prolonging the duration of grafting. The effect of increasing monomer concentration brings about a significant enhancement in the graft yield. The graft yield increases with increasing thiourea concentration, but beyond 0.0075M, the percentage graft yield decreases. The graft yields are considerably influenced by chemical modification prior to grafting. Wool reduced with thioglycolic acid is more susceptible to grafting than untreated wool; the opposite effect is noted in the case of trinitrophenylated and esterified wools. A suitable kinetic scheme has been proposed and the rate equation has been evaluated.


A compelling and thoroughly readable account of two middle schools -- one urban and one suburban-that attempt to build communities which will foster student growth and learning. This book shatters prevailing beliefs and furthers our understanding of the ways in which teachers' relationships impact their work and their lives in schools.


This study aims to determine the law of the sunnah prayer before maghrib. This study uses a qualitative approach through descriptive-analytical methods. The results and discussion of this study indicate that praying sunnah before maghrib is sunnah, but this sunnah is not recommended based on the hadith of Imam Bukhari. This study concludes that performing sunnah prayers before maghrib is allowed but not recommended, scientifically the law is ghairu muakkad. This study recommends to the public and academics to review the mukhtalif of sunnah prayers before maghrib.


Optimizing process of the planning of regional water resources is a process with multi-attribute and group decision-making (MAGDM). Based on summarizing the recent research in this field, the conception of MAGDM is put forward and a grayed classified function including six kinds of data is established. The decision-making model includes the basic layer(A), expert layer(B)and the senior management layer(C), meanwhile the concrete calculation step is presented, and a general program is developed in Excel. Case results show that this model fits the process of the optimal choice of water resources planning scheme truthfully, and the result is in reason, and so that it provides a clear thought in solution.


Significance
 This is positive news for the country, which experienced a sharp economic decline in 2020 and had been struggling to bolster economic activity for several years before that. New President Chandrikapersad Santokhi will hope that the IMF deal gives his administration some breathing room to enact unpopular economic measures.

 Impacts
 Ongoing discussions with China could lead to supplementary aid and financing from Beijing.
 Increased fiscal support will encourage greater investment, especially into the oil sector.
 Greater economic cooperation with Guyana on oil projects will boost the sector's outlook.


Book review of Practical Digital Preservation: A How-To Guide for Organizations of Any Size, by Adrian Brown (Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013.


Civilian control occurs during the interaction between a civil society and a state, which actualizes the problem of sociological research of interaction between the society and the authorities in Russia. This problem is considered by the author in the historical and sociological way. The article shows that institutional capital of civic organizations, gained during the years of post-Soviet social and political reforms and reflecting simulative democratic process in Russia, is a source of the affective rather than effective institutionalization of the civilian control in the Russian society.


We have adopted a simple signal-processing-based approach to solving the inverse-scattering problem. We have applied these techniques to real data, measured at Rome Laboratory using microwaves, and to model targets whose structure is known a priori, the so-called Ipswich mystery data. Making these data available to the imaging community at large, but without revealing the structure of the target, has proven to be a very important exercise when it comes to comparing different inversion techniques and their claimed success. In our case, data were processed using an inversion method based on cepstral filtering. All of the so-called mystery targets were imaged, although their resolution was poor. The poor resolution results in part from the limited number of data points used in the inversion step.


The development and dinamica of thought amongst groups always keep on in diversity. For
instant, the thoughts of mu'tazilah which is liberal is against those of As'ariyah and Maturidiyah
which proclaim Ahl Al-Sunnah wa Al-Jamaah. Each thought which is lead by Ja'far Umar
Thalib. This thought is more known with Laskar Jihad Ahl Al-Sunnah wa al-Jamaah. This
thought has 3 basic teaching; tauhid (pure oneness), hadis (the Prophet's saying) and the thought
of salafiyyin. This teaching has spreaded in Ambon, it's aimed to give an aid in struggling (jihad)
against the Kafiruun (the disbelievers). Before the coming of Islamic Shari'a, either in Tauhid,
shari'a or jihad (struggle). Nevertheless, after the Laskar Jihad came, those sinful acts has been
eliminated


The European H. secalinum (2n=4x=28) and the South African H. capense (2n=4x=28) had similar karyotypes with ten pairs of metacentrics, three of submetacentrics, and one of SAT-chromosomes. The C-banded karyotypes of H. secalinum from northern Europe were characterized by banding patterns with few bands, those of H. secalinum from Spain and H. capense by banding patterns with more bands. The bands were mostly small or very small and had no preferential disposition. Intraplant banding pattern polymorphism was observed in North European H. secalinum, in agreement with an outbreeding reproductive system. No banding pattern polymorphism was present within plants of H. secalinum from Spain and H. capense, suggesting self-pollination. In both species banding pattern polymorphism was prevalent among plants. Together with other evidence the fairly similar basic C-banded karyotypes of the two species indicate a rather close relationship.


Have you ever dreamed of st udy ing in China but weren't sure where to start?When you searched online for options,did you feel frustrated and confused?This happens frequently with prospective students scouring the


Purpose: Pseudohypoparathyroidism is a hereditary disorder characterized by symptoms and signs of hypoparathyroidism, typically in association with distinctive skeletal and developmental defects. Hypoparathyroidism is caused by a insufficient end-organ response to PTH (parathyroid hormone). Hypoparathyroidism consists of four types in which the most common form, pseudohypoparathyroidism-Ia, accompany with Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy. We experienced a case of a woman who had been suffering from calcified mass on left foot, diagnosed Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy. Methods: We present a case of a 24-year-old Korean female who visited plastic surgery department with a painful mass on dorsum of the left foot. On the physical exam, bony hard and painful mass, fixed to dermis, was noted. Plain X-ray films demonstrate suspicious calcification on subcutaneous tissue of dorsum of the left foot. The patient was diagnosed pseudohypoparathyroidism 2 years ago at the plastic surgery department. At the visiting time, the laboratory results were within normal range even though the patient actually had a disease. The reason is because the patient has been treated with Vit.D, calcium replacement therapy and thyroid hormone therapy. Moreover, the patient has been treated with anticonvulsant agents due to epilepsy. On the brain computer tomography (CT), calcification was noted on the basal ganglia and dentate nucleus. So we decided the total excision of entire mass from the left foot. Results: We excised main mass with numerous pinhead sized masses which were scattered around the main mass. The sized main mass was bony hard, and its surface was flat and margin was irregular. The permanent biopsy was confirmed that the main mass and all the scattered tiny masses were heterotopic calcification. The patient did not suffer from the pain after the mass excision. The wound has been healed without any problem. Conclusions: Heterotrophic calcification is often accompanied with pseudohypoparathyroidism, but such a huge one is uncommon. We report a case of pseudohypoparathyroidism with heterotrophic calcification developed in dorsum of left foot who was diagnosed by excisional biopsy.


In this article, one distributed circuit model for the on-chip single interconnect will be introduced at first, where all the lumped elements are frequency independent and can be directly obtained from its geometrical and physical parameters. This ensures proper scalability of the model parameters because no optimization tuning or fitting for them is involved. Some popular and low-cost techniques, such as patterned ground shield (PGS) structures for suppressing the substrate loss of silicon substrate at high frequencies and differential signal transmission, are also addressed here. Then, electromagnetic modeling of on-chip coupled (a)symmetrical interconnects will be performed, including all distributed parameters. The average power handling capability (APHC) of on-chip interconnects and even thin-film microstrip lines (TFML) are also addressed here. Finally, the electrothermal analysis of multilevel interconnects under electrostatic discharge (ESD) stress will be reported using the time-domain finite-element method (FEM).

Keywords:

on-chip interconnect;
modeling


A level three graph sum S(G) is the sum over all three-colorings of the vertices of a given multigraph G of the "total edge value" for each coloring. Each edge is assigned a cube root of unity depending upon the colors of its endpoints; the product over all edges gives the corresponding term in the sum. This assignment may be defined via a symmetric 3◊3 matrix whose entries are cube roots of unity. We demonstrate that the 729 possible matrices lead to 31 nonequivalent level three graph sums, then pinpoint 81 of them (representing 7 equivalence classes) with the nice property that S(G) gives a power of three for every graph G; these are the arithmetic graph sums. We propose three characterizations of matrices that give arithmetic graph sums, then prove that these seven graph sums have the desired property. MSC2000: 11Z05, 11C20, 05C15


Quantum cascade laser based breath sensor platform for medical applications employing a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy technique is reported. The detection sensitivity for exhaled ammonia is at ≪10 ppbv level with 1 s time resolution.


Octupole deformed shapes in neutron-rich actinides and superheavy nuclei as well as extremely deformed shapes of the N ∼ Z light nuclei have been investigated within the framework of covariant density functional theory. We confirmed the presence of new region of octupole deformation in neutron-rich actinides with the center around Z ∼ 96 , N ∼ 196 but our calculations do not predict octupole deformation in the ground states of superheavy Z ≥ 108 nuclei. As exemplified by the study of 36Ar, the nodal structure of the wavefunction of occupied single-particle orbitals in extremely deformed structures allows to understand the formation of the α-clusters in very light nuclei, the suppression of the α-clusterization with the increase of mass number, the formation of ellipsoidal mean-field type structures and nuclear molecules.