Exceptional progress in technology has led to significant production of data in healthcare. By employing various data analysis approaches it is possible to detect changes in the human body which will lead to early detection of diseases. Diabetes is one such disease that should be caught early in order to limit its advancement and to avoid other complications. In this work, machine learning algorithms are used to build a model to predict if a person suffers from type 2 diabetes or not. Logistic regression classification algorithm is applied on PIMA Indian Diabetic Dataset that consists of 8 parameters. The PIMA Indian Diabetic Dataset consists of 768 patient's record out of which 268 patients have diabetes and other 500 do not have diabetes. Ensemble model is developed for classification purposes. Stacking technique is in cooperated here to use the predictions from the base model to build a new model to provide enhanced performance and accuracy than the base classifier alone. Other machine learning algorithms like Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine Classifier and Decision Tree are used to build the model. Accuracy and execution time in each method is recorded in order to make better comparisons. The proposed method is implemented using python IDE and an accuracy of about 94% was achieved.


In this paper we study the drivers and consequences of understaffing in retail stores by examining the longitudinal data on traffic flow, sales and store managers' labor planning decisions of 41 stores in a large retail chain. Assuming store managers are profit-maximizing agents, we use a structural estimation technique to estimate the contribution of labor to sales and impute the cost of labor for each store in our sample. We find significant heterogeneities in the contribution of labor to sales as well as imputed cost of labor across these stores. Using the estimated parameters, we establish the presence of systematic understaffing during peak hours. In addition, we explore the effects of forecast errors and lack of scheduling flexibility on the inability of store managers to staff optimally. Finally, we run counterfactual experiments to quantify the impact of understaffing on this retailer's profitability.


Introduction: The good throws need acceleration, and acceleration starts from maximum lateral rotation with the ball come quickly to the target. The aim of this study was to investigate the comparison between sidearm and overhand throws. Method: 60 players participate in this study (age 20.9±0.4, Height 168.9±5.3, Weight 58.8±5.3 and BMI 20.6±1.8). All participants are beginner and they are right handed. Throw test in this study were sidearm and overhand throws technique with ten meters in one minute. Stopwatch is used to calculate the time for sidearm throw and overhand throw, and Dartfish software version 126.96.36.199 is used to analyze throwing motion. The paired t-test in this study was p < 0.05 to analyze the data. Result: The sidearm and overhand throws had significant differences with the average in one minute was 18.08 times and overhand throw was 15.55 times. Base on the motion analysis view in Dartfish, sidearm throw is simpler and faster, which meant side arm throw was more easy to use than overhand throw by the players. Conclusion: sidearm throw more effective than overhand throw, because the movement is shorter and simpler.


Abstract The Embedded Self-Shielding Method (ESSM) coupled with the heterogeneous Resonance Integral tables and the Enhanced Neutron Current Method (ENCM) with equivalent Dancoff factor are reviewed and reformulated to a unified framework by incorporating the ultra-fine-group slowing-down calculation on two-dimensional square pin cell problems. The comparison between the two approaches on the resonance self-shielding calculation of irregular fuel lattices shows that the reformulated ESSM approach will bring errors to the cross-section prediction of fuel pins in the irregular lattice, especially when the moderator density is low. Also, the reformulated ENCM approach is more stable for different configurations. Further numerical tests show that the scalar flux calculated by the ESSM approach is affected by the global neutron balance across the fuel lattice and ESSM is more sensitive to the error brought by the enforced equivalence.


ABSTRACT Spatial planning affects the way in which cities are created and developed, as well as their economics and welfare. It does so by constructing institutional frameworks that frequently undergo states of contradiction and demands for adjustment and revision. This situation is particularly evident by looking at the way in which urban facilities have been planned during the twentieth century. The article explores the issue of urban facility planning in Italy by taking into account the adaptations of the institutional framework governing and regulating their supply. In particular, it explores the central contradictions which guided reforms and revisions of urban facility planning in Italy, starting from the post-war period until now, and the main problems left unsolved after years of attempts at innovation aiming at a more flexible and quality-oriented approach. In order to contribute to this debate, specific policy implications and devices are presented.


Abstract High-performance liquid chromatographic conditions for the best separation of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents were described. The dependence of eluent pH on the ionic (protonated) and molecular (non-protonated) forms of analysed compounds have been investigated. This paper is the study of the retention behavior of some anti-inflammatory agents depending of the eluent pH. Some derivatives of phenol (acetaminophen, aspirin, salicylamide, phenacetin and salicylic acid), pyrazolidinedione (sulfinpyrazone, oxyphenbutazone, phenylbutazone and ketazone), amino-2-nicotinic acid (nixylic and niflumic acid) and amino-2-benzoic acid (mefenamic and flufenamic acid) were analysed with the isocratic RP-HPLC separation. The different variations of mobile phase methanol-water v/v, containing 1% acetic acid were performed in order to obtain the best conditions of the separation. For all analysed substances the pH, pKa and the fitted pKa values were calculated in different mixtures of methanol-water us...


As one of the principal investigators of both the CAPRIE and ESPS-2 studies cited in two recent editorials [1], I consider it appropriate to respond to comments made in these publications, particularly to the remarks of Dr. Mark Dyken, who, after reviewing the two trials' data, concludes that aspirin at a dosage of 1,300 mg daily is his preferred prescription for secondary prevention of stroke. Dr. Dyken is, of course, entitled to his preference, but the foundation for it is his claim that 'no study has shown that (aspirin) doses of 325 mg a day or lower are as effective as 975 mg/day or more'. This is not evidence-based medicine, it is dogma, and dogma neither moves the field of secondary prevention forward, nor does it help clinicians understand how to choose among available agents for individual patients. In addition, we cannot cherry pick, as Dr. Dyken does, from this or that study in order to buttress our views. Instead, we must look either at a single very large trial with sufficient power to prove the validity of its end points, or we must look at meta-analyses of all the data. Looking at recent analyses of the evidence we see: A 1996 meta-analysis by Algra and van Gijn [2] in patients with transient ischemic attack or stroke found virtually no difference in risk reduction at aspirin doses ranging from 50 to 1,500 mg/day. A 1997 meta-analysis by Tijssen [3] showed no appreciable differences in risk reduction for vascular events in all studies carried out in patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack as the entry criterion receiving 75–1,300 mg aspirin per day. These two analyses seem quite convincing in their support for lower-dose aspirin. Next I would like to respond to Dr. Dyken's criticisms of the ESPS-2 trial's use of placebo, its aspirin dosage, excluded data, and the concordance of its findings with those of previous dipyridamole studies. (As a reminder, ESPS-2 was a four-arm trial of 50 mg of aspirin alone daily, 400 mg of modified-release dipyridamole alone daily, a combination of the two, and placebo.) ESPS-2 required a placebo against which to evaluate the aspirin dose, the efficacy of dipyridamole alone, and the value of the aspirindipyridamole combination. All three were unknown; all three were studied. It was appropriate for ESPS-2 to employ a placebo arm because the value of very-low-dose aspirin was not established: the SALT [4] trial of 75 mg of aspirin a day had not yet been published. In the SALT trial, only the composite end point of stroke/death showed a statistically significant reduction; the end point stroke did not. It may have been a statistical anomaly, it may not. ESPS-2 contained major stroke patients as well as those with transient ischemic attacks; SALT had no major stroke patients. As the two populations were different, the efficacy of 75 mg of aspirin a day in SALT did not tell us whether that same aspirin dose would be effective in the sicker patients enrolled in ESPS-2. Considering these factors, the ESPS-2 investigators' Ethics Committees did not feel it appropriate to discontinue the placebo arm of ESPS-2. Dr. Dyken correctly states that the ESPS-2 Steering Committee had questions about the reliability of data from one clinical center and decided to exclude that center's 438 patients from the final data analysis. However, the citation Dr. Dyken gives – a secondary source in the journal Science – might mislead readers into believing that this was the first mention of the excluded-center issue. In fact, the information about the excluded center was diligently reported by the ESPS-2 investigators themselves each and every time they presented the trial data at congresses and in both ESPS-2 publications [5, 6]. (It is appropriate to add that the exclusion took place before unblinding of the data and that the exclusion had no effect on the trial's reported and published end point outcomes.) During the 1980s, dipyridamole was studied in several trials with insufficient power to show clinical efficacy. The subsequent ESPS-1 [7] and ESPS-2 trials, which were well designed, appropriately powered trials, both showed efficacy of the dipyridamole-aspirin combination in secondary stroke prevention. Unfortunately, the 990-mg daily dose of aspirin used in ESPS-1 proved intolerable to many patients. Thus, in ESPS-2 the aspirin dose was lowered, and the dipyridamole dose was increased (and given in a modified-release formulation), based on an ex vivo evaluation of the new dosage combination. The ESPS-2 findings with the new combination dosage were as follows: The risk of stroke recurrence was reduced by 37% in the aspirindipyridamole combination arm (p = !0.001), by 18.1% in the aspirin-alone arm (p = 0.013), and by 16.3% in the dipyridamole-alone arm (p = 0.039) when compared with placebo. The relative risk reductions for the combined end point of stroke/death were 24.4% in the combination therapy group (p = !0.001), 13% in the aspirinalone arm (p = 0.016), and 15.4% in the dipyridamole-alone arm (p = 0.015) when compared with placebo. Thus, I believe we can conclude that, in the tradition of evidencebased medicine, the results of the ESPS-2 trial provide a rational foundation for physician prescribing.


Individual deviancy in Criminology is a multi-disciplinary study, and traditionally a number of disciplines notably Sociology, Psychology, Economics. Law and Biology offer theories to explain crime and criminals. Organized deviancy show more Sociological potency judging by its sophistication in resources management, mobilization of manpower and organizational rationality. A few dimensions of organized deviancy are presented to demonstrate its affinity with Sociology, and these include solidarity patterns, authority structure, and adaptive change. Classical concepts related to these selected dimensions are used only as an organizing tool, and hence no appraisals of these leading concepts are attempted. The underworld is heterogeneous for it is composed of diverse units such as conventional secret societies, criminal collective, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies. Not all of them are organized on the same solidarity base, some of them on mechanical and others organic solidarity: and some others fall in between the two ends, Each variety of solidarity is discussed in conjunction with the Weberian pattern of authority, namely traditional, legal-rational and charismatic. We find that authority structure also explains the stability of deviant collective, especially in leadership succession. Social change also takes place in the underworld, which is an even more complicated process, for organized deviancy is, as understood by Simmel. only a Secondary phenomenon. Deviant collectives need to adapt not only to changes in the manifest society or the Primary phenomenon, but also to that in the underworld. As a response to social change in the manifest society, certain deviant collectives have gone international resulting in the rearrangement of their power structure to maximize profits in the Capitalist economy. Opening up new niche for technological related businesses is yet another response. It concludes that the repertoire of findings on deviant collective is ready for sociologizing or sociological theorizing.


Autoimmue urticaria(AIU)is a kind of idiopathic diseases belong to chronic urticaria,It was well recognized recently because of its severity and genetic background.The pathogenisis of AIU are implicated with autoimmue antibodies to IgE and the releasing of histamine,and the autoimmue antibodies to IgE receptor are also blamed.The diagnosis is based principally on the patient's history.Autologous serum skin test possibly should be performed as a screening test for idiopathic AIU,but had little coincidence.Further immunological study should be useful for AIU's correct diagnosis.


This small book contains a tremendous amount of well-written information. It is divided into two large sections. The first section contains technical information about perfusion MR imaging; the second contains information about its clinical uses. There is an excellent reference section, including suggested readings for further detail on methods, clinical applications to stroke and neoplasm, and animal studies. A CD-ROM supplements the book with video clips of cine presentation of image data from patient perfusion studies and postprocessing software tools. The section on technical aspects of perfusion MR imaging is very detailed but is thoughtfully organized and easy to read. Basic cerebral hemodynamic physiology is reviewed, followed by a discussion of the physical basis of contrast material–induced susceptibility effects. This leads into a detailed discussion of all of the practical aspects of performing perfusion studies, including contrast material dose and bolus administration, imaging techniques, and postprocessing. Each step is explained in sufficient detail to allow anyone wishing to perform perfusion studies to do so. Imaging techniques are discussed for echo-planar and non–echo-planar systems and for spin-echo and gradient-echo echo-planar imaging, and tables give specific recommendations for pulse sequence parameters. Most recommendations include the rationale for the recommendation and information on trade-offs involved in selection of parameters and different techniques, allowing the reader to customize them for particular equipment or clinical situations. Numerous well-reproduced graphs and clinical images aid in the explanation of these sometimes difficult concepts. The section on perfusion imaging in clinical practice is equally well presented. The advantages and disadvantages of MR perfusion imaging compared with positron emission tomography and xenon computed tomography are discussed, and this is followed by discussion of use of perfusion MR imaging in the clinical setting of cerebrovascular disease and cerebral neoplasms. Short subsections with mostly preliminary, but interesting, information about perfusion MR in dementia, vasospasm, head trauma, migraine, and epilepsy are also included. Each section is illustrated with high-quality clinical images. The sections on stroke and tumors are more detailed, with background information on the rationale for perfusion imaging, the vascular pathophysiology, and practical clinical uses. The included CD-ROM contains the text and illustrations of the book in digital form, supplementary video clips of perfusion imaging data from clinical images, and a selection of software tools for performing postprocessing on a Unix (LINUX or Solaris) workstation. The video clips do aid the understanding of the technical aspects discussed in the text, but they are certainly not necessary (for those not interested or those who are reading the book away from a computer). I have not used the software tools yet, but I plan to. The authors warn that they are not "user-friendly, commercial-quality" software. The authors and publishers should be very proud of this excellent work. The writing is clear and concise, the illustrations are well chosen and well reproduced, the content is up to date, and the layout and type are perfect. The video clips and software tools are a valuable bonus. Anyone interested in perfusion MR imaging will want this book.


Obesity is one of the leading cause for more than 53 diseases and in India around 30 million peoples
are suffering with Sthaulya (obesity), individual habits with stressful life, wrong dietary habits and
sedentary life is the main cause of disease and no satisfactory treatment is available in conventional
system. Hence there is need explore alternative system of Indian medicine like Ayurveda for the
benefits of sufferers Ayurveda dealt this disease as Sthaulya (obesity) under Medoroga (Adipose tissue
disorder) and many treatment modalities have been explained number of drugs in Brahatrayi
(Charaka, Sushruta and Vagbhat) were cited Bhavamishra was the author of Bhavaprakash Nighantu
(Lexicon) which is one of the Laghutrayis (Sharanghadara, Madhavanidhana and Bhavaprakash) text is
highlighted with Karmaoushadi (action based drug) such as Amradi Phala Varga explained Vrikshamla
considered as drug index of Ayurveda, thus present study was designed to screen the drug with
properties of Kapha Medohara (ability to reduce Kapha and Fat), Medorogahara (reduces Adipose
tissue), Sthaulyanashaka (Anti obesity) and Karshyakara (ability to make lean) from Bhavaprakasha
Nighantu in Ayurveda.


This report is a part of the results of the international project entitled "Studium in Osteuropa: Ausgewählte Aspekte (Analysen, Befunde)" conducted in the years 2013-2015 under supervision of Prof. Wilfried Schubarth and Dr Andreas Seidl from the Potsdam University, Department of Education Science, and Prof. Karsten Speck from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. The project was conducted jointly by representatives of academic centres from Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. Its general aim was a comparative analysis of the effects of implementation of Bologna Process directives into the higher education systems of the individual countries. The changes introduced into the higher education systems in the countries involved in the project were described and evaluated, discussed was in particular the problems of education of teachers at the university level. The following text is the result of the contribution of the Polish group participating in the project. The report will be presented in two parts. The first part is focused on the macro-societal context of transformations in the higher education system in Poland. The implementation of selected aspects of Bologna Process directives is described and supplemented by empirical comments. The second part deals with selected aspects of university level education of teachers, followed by a polemic against the assumptions and execution of the target transformations of higher education system.


Geological structure and history of geological evolution, tectonics, as well as physical and geographical position and climate, are controlling factors of exogenous processes that take place in the territory of Hanoi. The most important of the engineering geological factors are tectonic faults, presence of thick series of unstable soils and sinking of ground waters level and settlement of earth surface. Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is a city with an area of more than 3.3 thousand km2 and 6.2 million people, located in the delta area of the Red River (Bac Bo Plain). It is flat and filled with alluvial soils brought by the Red River. It consists of Neocene and quaternary sediments. The quaternary sediments are divided into two sediments (Pleistocene and Holocene). The Pleistocene sediments are formed by gravel, sand and clay and divided into three formations: 1. Le Chi formation: it consists of gravel interstratified with lenses of clayey silt. The thickness ranges from 25.0 to 30.0 m.; 2. Hanoi formation: it consists of gravel intermixed with sandy silty clay. The thickness ranges from 20.0 to 24.5 m.; 3. Vinh Phuc formation: it consists of marine sediments of sand, silt mixed with pebbles in the lower part, and layers of silty clay in the upper part. The thickness is 10.0 to 45.0 m. The Holocene sediments are divided into two formations: 1. Hai Hung formation: it consists of clayey silt and sandy layers. The upper part of this sedimentary formation consists of a layer of marine clay with organic substances. The thickness is from 0.6 to 20.0 m.; 2. Thai Binh formation: it consists of clayey silt mixed with pebbly sand layers, of alluvial-proluvial genesis. The alluvial swamp sediments consist of clay and peat. The thickness is from 0.9 to 35.0 m. Most of the ground water under the Hanoi plain is found in the quaternary sediments, in two mains aquifers (Holocene and Pleistocene). The Holocene aquifer is sufficient for small-scale water supply. The Pleistocene aquifer consists of alluvial sand, gravel, pebble and cobble. The thickness of aquifer varies from several meters to tens of meters. The aquifer has a significant potential for the supply of groundwater. At present, the total water withdrawal is estimated about 750,000 m3/day. Land subsidence was developed in the central and southeast parts of Hanoi where groundwater is extensively exploited. The city of Hanoi is underlain by sediments, including organic and inorganic clays, silt, peat, that are compressible. The demand for groundwater supply of Hanoi has increased ceaselessly, especially in the recent 15 years. Combining these two factors, land subsidence is an obvious geotechnical problem that Hanoi is facing.


The thesis states the necessity of practical courses on cooperation of school and enterprise,and discusses the methods of practice and the cases of the practice.And then,the thesis points that the practical courses not only perfect the system of design education,but also improve the abilities of the student and accelerate the devel-opment of the regional economies.At last the thesis analyses the problems on the cooperation of school and enterprise.


Hybrid architectures composed of NiCo2O4 nanorods coated N-doped carbon (NiCo2O4@NC) are synthesized through the pyrolysis of Bi-metallic MOFs, which exhibit excellent electrochemical performance for oxygen evolution reaction.


A man, aged 29, Greek, a waiter, whose history was negative, entered the hospital, Dec. 15, 1924, having observed a painless swelling that had begun on the left side of the face. The tongue was heavily coated at the center and red at the edges; the teeth were heavily covered with tartar, but were not tender. There was pyorrhea aveolaris. The openings of the sublingual ducts were swollen. The whole mucous membrane of the hard and soft palate and the cheeks and alveoli, sublingual space and tongue were thickly, and almost completely, covered with bluish white patches varying in size from a pin-point to half the thumb, not indurated or elevated. The breath had a foul, mercurial odor, and the neck and glands were badly swollen. The patient was uncomfortable but not in great pain. The white cell count was 12,000. The temperature ranged from 99 to 100 F. Cultures


To provide a flexible display and a manufacturing method thereof. An active region comprising a flexible display having a plurality of pixels; nicked non-active area, which comprises a bendable portion having a plurality of wire traces; and etching the buffer layer region, which is disposed at the notch portion allowing the curved line between the nearest conductor traces.


This paper addresses feature extraction for automatic chord recognition systems. Most chord recognition systems use chroma features as a front-end and some kind of classifier (HMM, SVM or template matching). The vast majority of feature extraction approaches are based on mapping frequency bins from spectrum or constant-Q spectrum to chroma bins. In this work a set of new chroma features that are based on the time-frequency reassignment (TFR) technique is investigated. The proposed feature set was evaluated on the commonly used Beatles dataset and proved to be efficient for the chord recognition task, outperforming standard chroma.


The article considers such a method of obtaining tax benefits as the conclusion of an investment tax credit agreement. The author analyzes the agreement of the investment tax credit from the position of tax, civil and budget legislation, examines its legal nature in relation to the tax legislation on tax benefits.


This study examined about characteristics in Well-being, Slobbie(slower but better working), and Lohas(Lifestyle of health and sustainability), which are shown in aesthetics of slowness, and about trend of pursuing fashion. Given summarizing the results of this study, those are as follows. First, Well-being attaches importance to an individual's value, and prefers eco-effective fabric in the aspect of clothing. In the aspect of food, the organic food is eaten. Slow food is preferred, which is made at home. In the aspect of shelter, well-being apartment, well-being pension, air cleaner, water purifier, and anion home electronics are used. Second, Slobbie wants to live slowly and leisurely and emphasizes happiness in mind and family. In the aspect of clothing, it is preferred the caports look, the clothing that is revealed artisanship with having value as labor and time, the clothing that is put handiwork such as embroidery, patchwork, quilting, and beads craft, and the clothing of being made by self. In the aspect of food, there is much interest in food culture with traditionally agricultural method. In the aspect of shelter, the traditional housing mode is preferred. Third, as Lohas is an upper concept of well-being, it attaches importance to the global environment and even to the value of descendants beyond an individual's value. In the aspect of clothing, there is much interest in the organic-agriculture fashion and recycling fashion. In the aspect of food, the domestically organic food is preferred. The disposable product and the instant food are rejected. In the aspect of shelter, commodity is preferred that can reduce environmental contamination and wastes.


The invention discloses a coal pyrolysis reactor, which comprises a pyrolysis reactor. An upper part of the pyrolysis reactor is provided with a raw material coal pipe for leading a coal raw material in and a leading-out pipeline for leading a coal pyrolysis gas-phase product out; the bottom of the pyrolysis reactor is provided with a discharging opening for leading a semi-coke out; a pipeline structure for leading a high temperature grain medium out is arranged in the pyrolysis reactor; and an outlet of the pipeline structure is extended to the middle part or the middle lower part of the pyrolysis reactor. The pyrolysis reactor is provided with the pipeline structure for shunting the high temperature grain medium, and the pipeline structure is extended to the middle part or the middle lower part of the pyrolysis reactor; and the raw material coal is pyrolyzed by adopting a combined method of indirectly pre-heating or directly heat exchanging, so that the use ratio of the heat energy is increased, the coal raw material on the upper part of the pyrolysis reactor plays a role in filtering dusts, and the structure reduces the content of the dust carried in the product to the largest extent.


Two experiments were applied to study effect of sterilization by using microwave oven on germination, soil microorganisms and some growth characteristics of local chickpea planted in sterilized soil. First experiments applied in vivo using petri dishes, while the second carried out in vitro using pots. Seeds and soil treated by microwave at different exposure times ranged between (0 to 60/ sec) based on two energy levels at 50% and 100%. The vivo results showed significant effect of time sterilization on seed germination, that declined after 25 and 30 sec with both of energy level (50 and 100%) compared with non-sterile treatment. While, the experiment of soil microbial in pots showed highest decrease in number of fungi and bacteria in sterilized soil started after 30sec at (50 %) and 40sec at (100%) of levels of energy for bacteria and fungi respectability, compared with non-sterile treatment. Also the results showed that, significant differences between sterilization treatments on plant growth, if recorded treatment of 50 sec/time with 50% energy higher value compared with other sterile and non-sterile treatment of soil. For 100% energy level the result indicated that, non-growth of seedling in most of all treatments.


Lab instruction plays a special role in the cultivation of innovational spirit and practical ability for students. Lab is an important base for the cultivation of professional skills and research capability of students. This paper presents an overview of the lab system construction for the major of computer science and technology in Central China Agricultural University.


By using molecular self-assembly and polymer brush chemistry, adhesion of water droplets at solid/oil interfaces could be achieved and modulated by external triggers. Silicon wafers were hydrophobically modified with binary mixed self-assembled layers consisting of fluorinated silanes and atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) initiator silanes, and subsequently grafted with responsive polymersvia surface-initiated ATRP. Temperature- and pH-responsive adhesion of water in oil droplets occurred on surfaces coated with phase-separated self-assembled layers and grafted with short polymer chains.


70s ribosomes isolatedfrom a streptomycin (Sm) sensitive strain of M. tuber- culosis H37Rv bind labelled streptomycin rapidly. This binding depends on the drug concentration. At low concentration, there is one binding site on the ribosome, which increases to two as the concentration is increased. Sm causes a small amount of miscoding in a cellzfree, poly U-directed system from M. tuberculosis H37Rv containing Sm-sensitive ribosomes. There are no differences in the uptake of SH-dihydrostreptomycin (DH Sm) by whole cells of Sm-sensitive and resistant strains ; the uptake decreases after 1 hour and again increases upto about 8 hours. Sm causes the slow release of fMet-tRNA, from a preformed initiation complex, in vitro. This paper proposes o laboratorj~ analog model for Radar Target Simuhtion. hi the realization of the model, mathematical equatrons ore formulated and aFe used for obtazning target information in term of Range, Azimuth and Elevutjon. The mathematics ofthe model was smuhted on the IBM 360144 computer andthe results are presented in the form of graphs.


A CR-manifold is said to be Lorentzian if its Levi form has one negative eigenvalue and the rest positive. In this case, it is possible that the CR-manifold contains holomorphic curves. In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived (in terms of the "derivatives" of the CR-structure) in order that holomorphic curves exist. A "flatness" theorem is proven characterizing the real Lorentzian hyperquadric Q5 C CP3, and examples are given showing that nonflat Lorentzian hyperquadrics can have a richer family of holomorphic curves than the flat ones. 0. Introduction. In the study of CR-manifolds, the presence of holomorphic submanifolds has a fundamental effect on the behavior of solutions of the natural PDE associated to a given CR-manifold. In fact, the holomorphic submanifolds play a role analogous to Monge characteristics in the theory of second order partial differential equations for one function of n-variables. The elliptic theory, i.e., no Monge characteristics, corresponds under this analogy to the strictly pseudo-convex CR-manifolds, where holomorphic submanifolds are forbidden by the positive definite behavior of the Levi form. The classical wave equation corresponds to the Lorentzian CR-manifolds (see ?1 below) where the maximal isotropic subspaces of the holomorphic tangent space are complex lines. Thus, two dimensional complex submanifolds are forbidden by the signature of the Levi form, but the possibility of holomorphic curves remains. In this paper, we solve the problem of determining when holomorphic curves exist in a Lorentzian CR-manifold. Moreover, we derive an upper bound on the dimension of the parameter space of the holomorphic curves in a Lorentzian CR-manifold and give an example to show that this upper bound can be achieved. The fundamental tools to be used are the notions of differential systems and prolongation. We will not need to assume any previous knowledge of these subjects, though the reader may wish to acquaint himself with the motivating ideas by consulting (Bryant-Chern-Griffiths). The author would like to express his gratitude to Eric Bedford for acquainting him with the problem and supplying him with valuable references and to James Faran and Nancy Stanton for several illuminating discussions on CR-manifolds.


The plastic ball grid array( PBGA) doublebump lead-free solder joint stress and strain distribution under the thermal cyclic loading was analyzed based on the stress-strain finite element analysis model,and then the thermal fatigue life was calculated. The impacts of solder joint height,solder joint maximum radial size on fatigue life were also studied. The results show that compared with the single-layer solder joint,the stacking solder joint can effectively improve the solder joint thermal fatigue life. The thermal fatigue lives of double-bump solder joint by using of lead solder Sn62Pb36Ag2 and Sn63Pb37 are longer than that using the lead-free solder Sn-3. 5Ag and SAC305.Solder joint thermal fatigue life increases when the height of the double-bump solder joint increases from 0. 50 mm to 0. 80 mm.The thermal fatigue life of double-bump solder joint decreases when the maximum radial dimension of the double-bump solder joint increases from 0. 30 mm to 0. 45 mm.


A series of new 3-substituted fervenulin (6,8-dimethylpyrimido[5,4-c]-1,2,4-triazine-5,7-dione) (1) derivatives have been synthesized by modifying the 3-alkyl- and aralkyl side-chains. Brominations of 3-methyl-15, 3-ethyl-16- and 3-benzylfervenulin (17) led to mono- and dibromo derivatives 22, 23, 25–27, which are prone to various nucleophilic displacement reactions 24, 28–35. Periodate oxidation and ozonolysis, respectively, of 3-styrylfervenulin (20) afforded fervenulin-3-carboxaldehyde (36) which was transformed to a folic acid analog (39). Potassium permanganate oxidation of 3-alkylfervenulins 15–19 afforded only ring-contraction to 3-alkyl-5,7-dimethylimidazo[4,5-e]-1,2,4-triazin-6-ones 42–46 which are also formed as mixtures with its 2,4a-dihydro derivatives 47–50 on treatment with ethanolic sodium hydroxide. Fervenulin-3-carboxylic acid (55) can be converted to the corresponding acid chloride 58 which reacts with amines to fervenulin-3-carboxamides 59, 64–67 and/or 2,4a-dihydro-5,7-dimethylimidazo[4,5-e]-1,2,4-triazin-6-one-biscarboxamides 60–64.


The present study involves an analysis of treatment results of the severe burn patients of the Burn Unit, Far Eastern District Medical Center in 2020–2022. The paper describes a clinical case of comprehensive intensive treatment of a patient with major burn injury (80% body surface area burned). The study indicates a vital importance of the fastest evacuation of severely burned patients to a special care unit and adequate intensive therapy to be carried out during transportation. This enables an invasive surgical approach to be adopted, including effective early removal of necrotic tissues, leading to a reduction in the number of complications and improvement of treatment outcomes. The recovery of patients with major burn injury highly correlates with total availability of medication and instruments, individual management of patients, and active rehabilitation measures.


Wood are one of the most important raw material source for forest products industry. Due to technological developments, researchers in the area of wood chemistry have been showing increased interest in the benefits of utilization wood based materials alone or together as an alternative lignocellulosic fiber sources for forest products industry.
 However, utilization of woody matrials more efficiently and conservation natural resources have been paid special attention. For that reason, it should be carefully consider and beneficial to understanding chemical structure of those woody materials. Many new approaches and techniques have been developed for better understanding of wood chemical sturucture.
Keywords: Wood chemistry, cellulose, lignin, extractives, pulp and paper


In dairy cattle, the period of transition from late pregnancy to early lactation is characterized by dramatic changes in nutrient demand that necessitate coordinated changes in body tissue metabolism to meet requirements of energy, glucose and amino acids by the mammary gland (Bauman and Curie, 1980; Bell, 1995; Overton et al., 2001). Failure of the transition cow to appropriately adjust her metabolism to support increased nutrient requirements of early lactation may lead to metabolic disorders, suboptimal milk production and compromised postpartum reproductive efficiency. One of the key metabolic adaptations that occur in support of lactation involves extensive mobilization of body fat to meet the increased demand for energy. However, if the rate of non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) mobilization from adipose tissue exceeds that of their metabolization in the liver, the syndrome of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver may result, which can ultimately lead to prolonged recovery from other disorders, increased incidence of health problems, and compromised liver function (Drackley, 1999; Grummer, 1993; Veenhuizen et al., 1991). Therefore, the research missions of our laboratory are 1) to identify dietary components that can reduce periparturient metabolic upsets due to decreased feed intake, 2) improve milk production without negatively affecting its composition, and 3) stimulate ovarian activity to improve postpartum reproductive efficiency in dairy cattle.


A quantum-theoretical model of rate processes in condensed systems is developed which is capable of treating partial charge transfer phenomena and chemical bond formation. Adiabatic local potential surfaces of a reactive subsystem are subjected to a unitary transformation into species potential surfaces; the phonon-assisted conversion of chemical species can then be calculated in the common T-matrix framework. In numerical calculations, anharmonicity of species potential surfaces and dependences of the electronic transition element upon nuclear coordinates is allowed for. As specific application, photoelectrochemical processes on semiconductor surfaces with fractional electrons or holes are considered.

Ein quantentheoretisches Modell chemischer Prozesse in kondensierten Systemen wird entwickelt, das die Behandlung partieller Ladungsubergange und chemischer Bindungsbildung ermoglicht. Adiabatische lokale Potentialflachen des reaktiven Subsystems werden einer unitaren Transformation in Spezies-Potentialflachen unterworfen; die mit Phononenubergangen gekoppelte Spezies-Umwandlung kann dann in ublichen T-Matrix-Rahmen berechnet werden. In numerischen Rechnungen wird Anharmonizitat von Spezies-Potentialflachen und Abhangigkeit des elektronischen Ubergangselements von Kernkoordinaten berucksichtigt. Als spezifische Anwendung werden photoelektrochemische Prozesse an Halbleiteroberflachen mit partiellem Elektronen- oder Loch-Ubergang betrachtet.


A previous paper [D. K. Sardar et al., J. Appl. Phys. 93(5), 2602 (2003)] has reported Judd–Ofelt (J–O) spectroscopic properties of Er3+ in garnets Y3Al5O12, Y3(Sc2Ga3)O12, and Gd3Ga5O12. In that paper, the possible magnetic-dipole contribution to the oscillator strength, which is non-zero for the 4I13/2 ↔ 4I15/2 (1.5 μm) transition of Er3+, has been erroneously omitted in their J–O calculation, resulting in incorrect results of relevant spectroscopic parameters. In this Comment, we point out the error, perform correct J–O analysis, and report correct results.


Aquatic invasive species, such as the signal crayfish ( Pacifastacus leniusculus ), present a major threat to freshwater ecosystems. However, these species can be challenging to detect in recently invaded habitats. Environmental DNA (eDNA)– based meth-ods are highly sensitive and capable of detecting just a few copies of target DNA from non-invasively collected samples. Therefore, they have considerable potential for broad-scale use in mapping and monitoring the spread of invasive species. In this study, we aimed to increase our understanding of the current


Internet marketers increasingly engage in activities that allow them to better track and understand consumer online browsing and purchase behavior for targeting and personalization purposes. Users of Internet services may consider such practices unethical and a violation of privacy and respond in ways that may ultimately harm company efforts. The purpose of this research is to determine consumer awareness and perceptions of two such activities, cookies and adware, and consumer response to the practices.


Photosystem II (PSII) from Cu-deficient pea plants (Pisum sativum L., cv. Lincoln) has been investigated for electron transport activity, Cu content, and changes in some lipid components. Total fatty acid content was lower that in control plants, with an additional shift in the C18 fatty acid patterns. Less α-linolenic and more linoleic and oleic acids were found. PSII preparations from Cu-depleted plants showed a decreased carotenoid content in light harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex of photosystem II (LHCII) and additional variations in pigment composition of pigment-protein complexes. In the green alga Dunaliella the effect of Cu deficiency on fatty acid composition was similar to that in pea plants, but the influence on the carotenoid pattern was much less pronounced.


In the article the review of the domestic publications devoted to the criteria and indicators of sociocultural adaptation and integration of immigrants is presented. The author's definition of the concept sociocultural integration of immigrants with reference to a comprehensive school is offered, criteria and indicators of diagnostics of this phenomenon are developed.


Objectives: Intravenous (IV) oxytocin during vaginal delivery has been rarely used since an intramuscular (IM) route or IV infusion have been preferred in this regard. The trial aimed to compare the low-dose IV bolus 3 IU of oxytocin, along with 7 IU oxytocin infusion with 10 IU oxytocin infusion in cesarean section. Materials and Methods: A parallel control randomized study was conducted on a total of 320 consenting term pregnant women based on the inclusion criteria. The participants were randomized into either 3 IU IV bolus and 7 IU infusion of oxytocin or 10 IU of IM oxytocin following vaginal delivery. The difference in pre- and post-delivery hemoglobin (Hb) levels, tone of the uterus, hemodynamic changes, adverse effects of the drug, and the need for additional uterotonics and blood transfusions were assessed based on the aim of the study. Results: Based on the results, more women with severe blood loss were found in the IM oxytocin group in comparison to the IV bolus with infusion group following vaginal delivery. In addition, more women had a drop in the Hb of 3 gm/dL in the IM oxytocin group compared to the IV bolus-infusion group (11% vs. 4%, odds ratio=0.768, P=0.469) although there was no statistical significance in this respect. The tone of the uterus was firmer in the IV bolus with infusion group at 3 and 5 minutes. Eventually, the difference in hemodynamic changes, side effects, and the need for additional uterotonics or blood transfusions was not significant. Conclusions: In general, an IV bolus of 3 IU with a 7 IU infusion of oxytocin is as safe as and more effective than the IM injection of 10 IU of oxytocin at the time of vaginal delivery for the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage.


For several years German mobile network operators (MNO) have to cope with decreasing average voice service revenues per user (ARPU). Location-based services (LBS) are one mobile data service on which German MNO set their hopes to stop these decreases. LBS exploit the location information of a user's mobile device to provide added value services dependent on a customer's geographic context and individual preferences. To date, LBS offers of MNO have not yet achieved substantial market success in Germany. Therefore, investigations are required which explore reasons for the short falling past LBS adoption in Germany. This paper analyses data from an online as well as paper-based survey in Germany. The survey was administered to 662 participants to explore (potential) users' willingness to adopt LBS and LBS-related perceptions. Results suggest that most LBS variants are (still) rather unknown among residential MNO customers in Germany. Perceived LBS usefulness is higher and data security concerns are lower if an individual has obtained actual LBS use experience. Thus, MNO should foster first LBS use experiences by e.g., free trial periods or by offering free basic LBS to promote LBS adoption in the consumer market.


Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), is the most effective choice for patients suffering from benign prostatic hyperplasia who do not respond properly to pharmacological treatment. Absorption of hypotonic fluids used during TURP may cause hemodynamic and central nervous system disturbances, which is generally attributed to dilutional hyponatraemia occurring during or immediately after operation. Several combinations of the signs and symptoms resulting from these changes are known as "transurethral resection of prostate syndrome". The clinical picture is inconsistent and the syndrome is easily confused with other acute disorders. Mild forms are common and often go undiagnosed, while severe forms of the TUR syndrome are rare and potentially life-threatening. We present a review of this pathological entity, compiling pathophysiology, diagnostic, prevention and therapeutical approaches.


Three-phase inverters in UPS, electric vehicles or hybrid electric vehicles use dc link electrolytic capacitor to establish an intermediate dc link, which has reliability issues and is one prominent cause of inverter failure. Large volume of electrolytic capacitor increases size and cost of the system. Recent research on electrolytic capacitorless inverter using six pulse modulation (SPM) technique along with high frequency power conversion has tried to address this issue. In this paper, closed loop operation of an electrolytic capacitorless inverter is presented. A 1kW laboratory prototype has been built and tested under different loading conditions to verify the proposed analysis and implemented control system.


Abstract : Combustion of deuterium and fluorine in a preburner, finite rate supersonic expansion of the reaction products, and finite rate mixing between parallel, supersonic streams of preburner reaction products and hydrogen-carbon dioxide mixtures are analyzed to establish design criteria for a small continuous wave HF and/or HF-CO2 transfer laser. Parametric variations of preburner and secondary injectant total pressures, mixture ratios, relative nozzle sizes and expansion ratios resulted in the selection of optimum nozzle arrangements and operating conditions for the generation of HF or CO2 population inversions, and thus potential power output, from the laser cavity. (Author)


Abstract Some organisms are capable of exerting exquisite control ower the crystals they form. Key components in this process are unusually acidic proteins (aspartic acid-rich). In this study we use a series of calciun dicarboxylic acid salts to investigate in vitro how these proeins are capable of interacting specifically with certain crystal faces. The property that characterizes the affected faces is the orientation of sets of carboxyl groups which are perpendicular to the plane of the face in well defined motifs. Calcite crystals grown urder the same conditions were ohserved to nucleate off a stereochemically equivalent face and to be oriented with their c axes perpendicular to the substrate. We show that this is a result of the acidic proteins adsorbing onto the substrate and then inducing oriented nucleation. This study underscores the importance of these proteins in biological crystal growth and demonstrates some of the basic mechanisms involved.


The contact potential method was used in a study of the adsorption of lanthanum on the (100) face of tungsten in approx.10/sup -/11 Torr vacuum. The work function, heat of adsorption, and frequency factor in the Arrhenius equation were determined as a function of the concentration of the adsorbed lanthanum atoms. The work function was found to depend strongly on the substrate temperature in the range 300/sup 0/K


The HIV care cascade examines the attrition of people living with HIV from diagnosis to the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and suppression of viral replication. We reviewed the literature from sub‐Saharan Africa to assess the definitions used for the different steps in the HIV care cascade.


The sample wheel has 99 usable spaces for standards and samples in 2 ml autoanalyser cups, which are held in a thermostatically controlled water-bath at 8C. The reaction wheel has 99 usable spaces for 6ml glass reaction tubes, which can be thermostatically controlled between 30 and 50C using the builtin water-bath. The sample arm is driven by a stepper motor and is pneumatically operated for transferring samples from the sample wheel to the reaction wheel. At the reaction wheel, sample is washed out of the pick-up line with diluent. Before resampling, the outside ofthe pick-up line is washed and dried in an intermediate position between the two wheels to minimize carry-over. Sample sizes can be varied from 10 #1 to 500#1 and larger samples can be taken by repeat sampling from the same cup. Permanent storage is available for up to 60 reagents, in volumes varying from 100 ml to 11, 31 of which are refrigerated to 8C. All the reagents are permanently piped, via electrically operated valves, to one of 27 dispense stations situated around and above the reaction wheel. Up to six reagents per test may be dispensed at any one of the 27 stations. The reagent bottles are pressurized to 7.5 p.s.i, with compressed air and during a test the computer opens selected valves for fixed time intervals, allowing accurately measured volumes of reagents to be dispensed into the reaction tubes. To ensure complete mixing ofreagents and sample, two dual mixer stations are positioned around the reaction wheel. These are pneumatically driven air bubbling mixers and for each test the computer may be programmed with information on: (1) the use of one, two or no mixers; and (2) the size of the mixing bubbles produced and the time interval between bubble production. At the photometer station coloured solution is transferred from the reaction tubes into the photometer for concentration measurement. For any test the computer will select: (a) the most suitable interference filter (20 available); (b) the volume ofsample drawn through the photometer before the solution is held stationary and an absorption measurement is made; (c) acceptance limits for the number of separate measurements (usually three) made on each solution, and (d) whether the photometer station is used on the first or subsequent passes (in order to complete complex chemistries and to allow time for intermediate chemical reactions to occur, it is possible to permit the reaction wheel to rotate more than once before transfer to the photometer [the maximum number of revolutions is four]; similarly it is possible to arrange for mixing and reagent addition to occur on any or all of the passes).


• ABCs of Vascular Medicine – Core curriculum in vascular disease • Interdisciplinary educational sessions covering all aspects of vascular medicine • State-of-the-art approaches to venous thromboembolism and DOACs • Full-day session on Saturday: Sailing through the vascular lab with SVM • Jay D. Coffman Young Investigator Award 2016 SVM Scientific Sessions and 2015 Year in Review Society for Vascular Medicine Communication Page


Chassis is the most important part of a truck, because it is closely related to the safety and weight of the truck. The profiles used for truck chassis differ as follows: C-channel, U-channel and rectangular tube. This study aims to reveal the most ideal profile for use as a truck chassis. The study was conducted using finite element analysis. The study conducted was buckling analysis. The variables observed for each test profile are free vibration, buckling safety factor, and deformation scale. the C channel profile is most ideal for use as a truck chassis. The simulation results show that the C channel profile has a buckling safety factor > 1 and the smallest average deformation occurs in each shape mode. The U channel profile has a light weight, but the deformation that occurs in each shape is greater than that of the C channel. The rectangular tube profile has the greatest safety factor in each shape mode, but has the largest deformation scale and weight.


Purpose of the study: This study contextualizes within the border of psychoanalytical perspective specifically focusing on Freud's theory of personality and Lacan's module of the psyche to evaluate an artist's mental state that how his/her mental state fluctuates.
Methodology: Bali Jatti is taken as an exemplary character to project the reality of being an artist. This analysis presents her three-dimensional world, real, theatrical, and psychological, to represent the challenges she faces as she opts to embrace the life of folk theatre. It explores her psychological life and the chaos in which she spends the rest of her life. It probes into social taboos and stigmas that are associated with her life that makes her a stereotypical icon.
Main Findings: This research concludes that the psychological world of folk theatre Bali is under the hegemonic supremacy of the other two worlds, real and theatrical. This diligent inquiry leads the reader through a steady stream of events of Bali's life which is taken as an exemplary character to project the reality of being an artist.
Applications of this study: This study provides guidelines to academia and probes into an exploration of the novel concept of Pakistan folk theatre and its artist's three-dimensional world.
Novelty/Originality of this study: From a theoretical perspective, this study provides important insights into literature by exploring the most demanding skills in folk theatre artists and their three-dimensional world that formulates their destiny and takes their journey of life from glory to demise.


Four different catalysts, nano-Ni, diamond powder, mixture of nano-Ni/diamond powder, and ultrasonicated nanodiamond seed, were used to activate Si wafers for diamond film growth by hot filament CVD (HFCVD). Diamond crystals were shown to grow directly on both large diamond powder and small nanodiamond seed, but a better crystallinity of diamond film was observed on the ultrasonicated nanodiamond seeded Si substrate. On the other hand, nano-Ni nanocatalysts seem to promote the formation of amorphous and/or graphitic-like carbon at the initial growth of diamond films. The subsequent nucleation and growth of diamond crystals on top of the amorphous carbon layer were followed to generate the spherical diamond particles and clusters prior to coalescence into continuous diamond films. Moreover, the mixture of nanoNi/diamond powder catalyst tend to promote the formation of a mixed of amorphous and crystallite diamond structures as characterized by TEM, Raman, and XRD techniques.


ABSTRACT Shortened versions of Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory, SEI (Coopersmith, 1967) and Schaefer's Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory, CRPBI (Schaefer, 1965a, 1965b) were administered to 126 fifth- and sixthgrade children. The mean levels of SEI and CRPBI scores for both parents were similar, as were the patterns of intercorrelations among these variables. A multiple regression analysis confirmed a similar pattern of CRPBI predictors to the SEI for both boys and girls, with Acceptance and granting of psychological autonomy (Control) being the key predictors. An analysis of combined perceptions suggested that boys who perceived both parents as high in acceptance had significantly higher SEI scores than those who perceived both parents as low in acceptance. Boys who perceived both parents as lax in discipline had higher SEI scores than those reporting firm discipline. In contrast, the Control factor was significant for girls but not for boys. Girls who perceived both parents as high in...


Abstract While the appeal of humor lies, typically, in its very spontaneity and original contextual incongruity, there is also the chance of an 'afterlife' for the humorous text. In most cases, the humorist seeks an immediate response for what is an ephemeral, fleeting, linguistic transaction. A permanent place in humor culture is probably the least of the humorist's goals- after all, the immediate, positive response is prioritized as an evidence of skill. Thus, most humor studies focus on the first instantiation of humor, as being generative of the act of humor. This prioritization of the immediate surprise, over the 'echoes' of an instance of humor, does not address the fact that many people enjoy revisiting a familiar joke, or comic film, or an entire TV comedy series, and that these revisited texts become incorporated into group and cultural artefacts. These recontextualizations in themselves are potentially funny, but they are also important in sustaining the original instance of humor as a type of ongoing conversation: a very distinctive feature of humor's social importance. This paper will present a theorization of an interdependency between author, text, and interlocutors for the 'afterlife' of texts, and will furnish high-profile examples to support this concept.


It has been over two decades since the concepts of instrumental and intuitive grief have entered the field of grief and loss. In this time, there has not been a study that attempts to understand the language used among these two grief styles until now. In this study, a corpus linguistic program called #Lancsbox was used to analyze the collocates of the top words found in each grief style. Results of this study show that the word "death" is exclusive to the top words of instrumental grief over its counterpart. Contrary to what one would expect from the cognitively-oriented instrumental griever, node words such as "like" offered collocates of emotions, while words high in intensity were collocates among the intuitive grief vignettes. This study contributes to the field of grief work and includes several implications for both counseling and research, both of which are provided to the reader. Keywords: graphcoll, collocation, grief, Doka, Martin, corpus linguistics


Eschatology is a doctrine or teaching related to the last days, in the Abrahamic religious belief about eschatology, namely the arrival of a savior at the end of time for these religions, namely Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the three religions believe that at the end of time a when there will be a savior who will save them from the chaos that existed in the world before the apocalypse. This issue includes who is the true savior for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This paper aims to find out who is the savior of the end times for the Abrahamic Religion, namely Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The form of this research uses Research from the Library (Library Research) which is carried out by collecting data including books, journals and others as well as clarifying some of the literature related to this research. According to Christianity, Jesus is their savior, who will save Christians from various corruptions in the end times, then the Jews believe in the Messiah or the Messiah as their savior in the last days, because with the messiah they can live in peace. without any interference from others, and Muslims believe in the existence of Allah's Apostle, Jesus son of Mary, who will save you Muslims from the Fitnah of Dajjal at the end of time, so Muslims need Jesus' help to kill Dajjal before the apocalypse comes.


The subject of this paper is an analytic approximate method for a class of
 stochastic differential equations with coefficients that do not necessarily
 satisfy the Lipschitz and linear growth conditions but behave like a
 polynomials. More precisely, equations from the observed class have unique
 solutions with bounded moments and their coefficients satisfy polynomial
 condition. Approximate equations are defined on partitions of a time
 interval, and their coefficients are Taylor approximations of the coefficients
 of the initial equation. The rate of Lp convergence increases when degrees
 in Taylor approximations of coefficients increase. At the end of the paper, an
 example is provided to support the main theoretical result.


Dear Editor,

We would like to respond to Dr. Schofferman's letter to the Editor regarding our Editorial on using the SAFE principles for medical algorithmic thinking. The intent of Krames et al. was not to propose a single algorithm for all chronic nonmalignant pain syndromes but instead to offer a new perspective regarding the development of chronic pain management algorithms. Medical algorithms are designed to guide clinicians and patients along certain pathways to achieve specific endpoints. As such they tend to be rigid and quickly outdated as circumstances change. The use of the SAFE principles in the design of pain management algorithms allows for greater flexibility …


Peridotites of Ulten Zone (Eastern Alps, N Italy) show a transition from coarse protogranular spinel lherzolites to fine‐grained amphibole + garnet peridotites, recorded by the crystallization of garnet coronas around spinel. Pyroxenite veins, transposed along the peridotite foliation, show a similar metamorphic evolution from coarse‐grained (garnet‐free) websterites to fine‐grained garnet websterites. In both peridotites and websterites, garnet previously exsolved from porphyroclastic high‐temperature pyroxenes and later crystallized along the foliation. This evolution has been interpreted to reflect cooling and pressure increase of websterites and host peridotites from spinel‐ to garnet‐facies conditions. Microstructures and crystallographic orientation data indicate that the re‐equilibration of garnet websterites in the garnet stability field occurred during deformation. Porphyroclastic pyroxenes have been interpreted to deform by dislocation glide and creep. In particular, TEM observations indicate the activation of the (100)[010] slip system in orthopyroxene. Core‐and‐mantle microstructures also suggest that dislocation creep was aided by subgrain rotation recrystallization, leading to the formation of neoblastic pyroxenes. These recrystallized grains deformed by diffusion‐accommodated grain boundary sliding, as indicated by the occurrence of quadruple junctions and straight, aligned grain boundaries. The transition from dislocation creep to diffusion creep in websterites was accompanied by the crystallization of garnet along foliation, which triggered the pinning of the recrystallized matrix and stabilized the fine‐grained microtexture for diffusion creep, promoting rheological weakening. Garnet websterites of Ulten Zone thus offer a unique opportunity to investigate the effects of reaction softening during the corner flow in the supra‐subduction lithospheric mantle induced by the descending slab.


With a little generalization, one can claim that there are three major shortcomings in modern Balkan historiography: The first—part of a global problem—a tendency to swing between two extremes of socioeconomic and cultural bias by opting for either a class-based analysis or an identity-politics paradigm. The second failure can be described as a lack of synthesis between the achievements of the ever growing blocs of Ot toman studies and Balkan studies. While these two shortcomings can be observed both in the historiography of each country of the region and more generally in Western historiography, the third one is more often and clearly observed in the Turkish historiography on the history of a country, people or sub-region of the Balkans focusing only on the period under Ot toman rule. Territories (countries) tend to disappear in the historiography in the period after their separation ("independence") from the Ot toman Empire. This problem can be observed in the historiographies of the Balkan countries, on the other hand, as a lack of interest in the Ot toman Empire after the partition, even though the legacy of the Empire was so vital in those new nation states of the nineteenth-century that each of them can be regarded as a "mini-Ottoman state."


A large number of biological information has been available from genome sequencing and bioinformatics. To further understand the qualities of the biological networks (such as metabolic network) in the complex biological system, representations of integrated function in silico have been widely investigated, and various modeling approaches have been designed, most of which are based on detailed kinetic information except flux balance analysis (FBA). FBA, just based on stoichimetrical information of reactions, is a suitable method for the study of metabolic pathways, and it analyzes the behaviors of the network from the viewpoint of the whole system. Herein, this modeling approach has been utilized to reconstruct the mitochondrial metabolic network to integrate and analyze its capability of producing energy. Besides, extreme pathways analysis (EPA) and shadow prices analysis have also been integrated to study the interior characters of the network. Our modeling results have indicated for the first time that the covalent regulative property of pyruvate dehydrogenase is restrained by the feedback of acetyl-CoA. Combined with the biological experiments, these simulations in silico could be pretty useful for the further understanding of functions and characters of the biological network as a complex system.


Gaelic is a minoritised indigenous language of Scotland, with its traditional heartland in the rural north-west of the country. The education system, and in particular Gaelic Medium Education (GME), has been recognised as an important strand of the language maintenance and support initiatives. The provision of GME has grown significantly since its inception in the early 1980s, it remains on the 'periphery' of the education system, with around 0.9% of all primary school pupils enrolled in GME settings. The ongoing language shift from Gaelic to English, a process that has been particularly pronounced in the traditional heartlands of the language, and the resulted decline in the use of Gaelic as the language of the home, the family, and the community, raises the question of how GME can contribute to a sustainable future for Gaelic. This article will discuss the findings of a small-scale mixed method practitioner enquiry study, which incorporated parental questionnaires, classroom observations, class-based language assessments and focus groups, to explore the use of blended learning approaches to enhance the development of language skills. The results of this study, conducted initially to evaluate the impact of the Covid-19 school closures on the linguistic proficiency of children in Primary 1 to Primary 3 enrolled in GME, show that pupils who were actively engaged in online learning activities showed a greater confidence and proficiency in their use of Gaelic compared to their peers who had not used these materials to support their learning, as well as increased involvement of caregivers in these Gaelic homework tasks. These findings allow for a re-imaging of approaches to homework in minority language immersion contexts to support the acquisition and use of the minority language beyond the classroom.


It expresses well result measurement system's the importance that 'It can not manage that can not measure.' In this way, there is no expressivity that express difficulty. While Corporation's tangible asset is possible measuring by specific amount of money of financial statement or loss and gain statement etc, Method of corporation's intangible asset measurement is much had been introduced, but some one is not presenting objective frame. This research did size of construction corporation's intangible Asset(Intellectual Asset) through knowledge asset storing accumulation model(XYZ model) that present in LG economy research institute so that do quantification objectively. Through this, can presume construction corporation's intrinsic value level.


Improving the quality of tetrahedral meshes is an important operation in many scientific computing applications. Meshes with badly shaped elements impact both the accuracy and convergence of scientific applications. State-of-the-art mesh improvement techniques rely on sophisticated numerical optimization methods such as feasible Newton or conjugate gradient. Unfortunately, these methods cannot be practically applied to very large meshes due to their global nature. Our contribution in this paper is to describe a streaming framework for tetrahedral mesh optimization. This framework enables the optimization of meshes an order of magnitude larger than previously feasible, effectively optimizing meshes too large to fit in memory. Our results show that streaming is typically faster than global optimization and results in comparable mesh quality. This leads us to conclude that streaming extends mesh optimization to a new class of mesh sizes without compromising the quality of the optimized mesh.


This paper grew out of the following question: If X is a compact subset of Cn, is C(X) ? Mn (the C*-algebra of n x n matrices with entries from C(X)) singly generated? It is shown that the answer is affirmative; in fact, A 0 Mn is singly generated whenever A is a C*-algebra with identity, generated by a set of n(n + 1)/2 elements of which n(n 1)/2 are selfadjoint. If A is a separable C*-algebra with identity, then A 0 K and A 00 U are shown to be singly generated, where K is the algebra of compact operators in a separable, infinitedimensional Hilbert space, and U is any UHF algebra. In all these cases, the generator is explicitly constructed.


We experimentally demonstrate the use of Bragg grating reflectors in an intrinsic all fiber polarimetric force sensor. Lateral force applied to the fiber induces a proportional birefringence. If the region in the fiber where the force is applied contains a Bragg grating, it will exhibit two reflection peaks associated with orthogonal polarization modes. The measured force sensitivity was of 7.2/spl times/10/sup -2/ nm/kg for this specific set-up and a very low temperature dependence is expected.


Digital spectral analysis techniques are used to observe that, under the appropriate experimental conditions, the radial fluctuation-induced transport in the NASA Lewis Bumpy Torus plasma may be reversed from outward to inward by applying a weak vertical magnetic field. This reversal in the transport direction corresponds to a reversal in the sign of the phase angle between the density and potential fluctuations and results in an enhancement of the plasma density by a factor of five or more.


This report provides passive acoustic evidence of the presence of beaked and minke whales on the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) instrumented acoustic range (BSURE and BARSTUR) before and after the Feb 2010 Submarine Commanders Course training event (SCC). The effort focuses on these species utilizing automated species passive acoustic detection and classification algorithms. Manual verification of selected automatic detections was performed to confirm presence of the species under investigation. Results indicate presence of beaked whales (BW), suspected to be Blainville's and Cuvier's (Mesoplodon densirostris and Ziphius cavirostris respectively) and minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) before and after the SCC on the PMRF range. While data does show a lower number for the POST versus the PRE periods, it is not clear if the differences are due to the exercise or normal variations.


Received: 6 December 2019 Accepted: 11 February 2020 The proposed work is to provide security for audio data stored in cloud data centers and online song repositories such as hungama.com, iTunes, where huge number of songs is stored for listening and downloading. When polynomial secret sharing method is applied on secret audio, audio shares are generated each with the size of secret audio. Secret is derived only when a valid subset of members in the group are compromised. The purpose of the proposed work is to reduce the dimensions of shares. This can be achieved by having the amplitude values of the secret audio as the coefficients of the polynomial instead of random values in polynomial based secret sharing scheme. But having amplitude values as coefficients does not generate meaningless shares and reveals information about the secret. In this paper, two methods are proposed for generating meaningless audio shares such that the dimensions of each share are lesser than the dimensions of confidential audio. It gives dealer an advantage to securely store and distribute the shares by hiding the shares into other media. In the first method, secret audio is encrypted and the values of these encrypted audio are taken as the coefficients of the polynomial to generate the shares. Second method is implemented to reduce the burden of encryption and decryption. In this approach, for share construction the leading term in the polynomial will have random values as coefficient and for all other terms the coefficient are amplitude values of the secret audio. In both methods, shares generated are of reduced dimensions and are meaningless. Security of shares is enhanced by providing integrity mechanism to shares and steganography effect. A novel block cipher is implemented as compression function in the hash algorithm to generate checksum which is used for verifying integrity of shares.


Introduction IN THE PHILOSOPHIES that deal with the mind, dualism is the precept that mental phenomena are, to some degree, non-physical and not completely dependent on the physical body, which includes the organic brain. René Descartes (1596-1650) popularised this concept, maintaining that the mind is an immaterial and nonphysical essence that gives rise to self-awareness and consciousness. Dualism can be extended to include the notion that more broadly asserts that the universe contains two types of substances, on the one hand, the impalpable mind and consciousness and, on the other hand, common matter. This is in contrast with other world-views, such as monism, which asserts that all objects contained in the universe are reducible to one reality, and pluralism which asserts that the number of truly fundamental realities exceed two. Star Trek (ST) is a fictional possible future history of how humanity might advance and develop up to the 24th century. The series and movies comprise a metanarrative that encompasses 735 hours of viewing time, and thereby provides a fertile ground for the analysis of various areas of critical study. This paper will review the philosophy of the mind as depicted in ST, and will show that ST accedes to mindbody dualism, with a cognitive proviso that in turn complies with the tropes and conventions that are recognised not only by ST, but also within the broader scope of the SF genre itself. An inevitable tension will be shown to have arisen between the notion of what is, to all intents and purposes, a soul, with the spiritual and possibly even deist accoutrements that this brings along, versus science, which, even within SF, acknowledges exclusively rational tropes and explanations, an acknowledgment which would automatically exclude these motifs. This paper will also demonstrate the interesting permutations and combinations of mind-body and mind-mind interaction that is only possible within this genre, with narratives that include the crossing of consciousness not only across organic bodily boundaries, but also across and between machine consciousnesses. It is crucial to note that these narratives ignore the warnings of posthumanist researchers who believe "that the mind-body duality is a social construction that obscures the holistic nature of human experience" (Hayles 245) and ignores "the importance of embodiment" (20). Moreover, this essay will show that in the vast majority of cases, these interactions constitute one of two events: a dybbuk, which, in Jewish mythology, is defined as the possession of the body by a malevolent spirit, usually that of a dead person, or outright possession by beings with superhuman powers. The narratives then focus on countermeasures that need to be undertaken in order to restore the original personality into its former body, thereby emulating a morality play, with good mastering evil.


Protective coatings are used ubiquitously as the primary means of corrosion defense for buried or immersed metallic structures. Cathodic protection is often used in conjunction with coatings as a secondary means of corrosion protection, however it can also have detrimental effects on the coating itself if not properly applied. Cathodic disbondment testing is used to measure a coating's susceptibility to loss of adhesion to the substrate due to cathodic polarization. NACE recently published a new cathodic disbondment test method, TM0115-2015, Cathodic Disbondment Test for Coated Steel Structures under Cathodic Protection. This research compares and contrasts NACE TM0115 to ASTM G8, Standard Test Methods for Cathodic Disbonding of Pipeline Coatings. The paper highlights the strengths and challenges of each test method as applied to coatings used in water infrastructure corrosion control.


The time interval between sowing and flowering in rice (Oryza sativa L.) comprises three successive phases: a basic vegetative phase (BVP), a photoperiod-sensitive phase (PSP), and a post-PSP phase (PPP). The objective of this study was to estimate the length of the three phases in diverse rice cultivars to provide the basis for accurately predicting rice flowering dates. In greenhouse experiments, plants of 20 cultivars were transferred from short day (SD) (10 h d -1 ) to long day (LD) (12.5 or 14 h d -1 ) or from LD to SD at various times after sowing. The duration of BVP varied greatly among cultivars ranging from 16.7 to 45.4 d. The indica cultivars exhibited an apparently longer BVP than the japonica cultivars. The duration of PPP also varied among cultivars, from 18.0 to 37.2 d. For all cultivars, the length of the intervening PSP was shorter under SD conditions (3.6-24.1 d) than under LD conditions (10.5-76.5 d); the difference in PSP between SD and LD depended on the photoperiod sensitivity of the cultivar. The PSP under both SD and LD conditions did not necessarily end at panicle initiation (PI), but, on average, 4 to 5 d after PI. This study confirms the necessity to divide the entire preflowering period into the three phases for modeling purposes. Further studies are needed to elucidate the phenomenon in some cultivars of a significant delay of flowering by early SD-to-LD transfers before PI.


A study of six different airlines has been performed using a case study method, in which a full range of leadership development theories and themes, as well as organizational performance measurement themes to measure organizational performance have been used. Three failure airlines and three successful airlines were chosen for the study. The scope of the research is limited to the airline as a unit of analysis. In this unit of analysis, further leadership and organization are considered as two sub-units of analysis. In the leadership sub-unit, mainly leadership traits and determinants, leadership perspectives, leadership styles and types of leadership have been studied, whereas in the organization sub-unit of analysis, human resources, technology, structure, safety culture, strategy, environments, the role of government, unhealthy competition, political instability and its effects, have thoroughly been studied. The results indicate that leadership and organizational performance of Nepali aviation industries are two sides of a coin and without effective leadership, better organizational performance is not possible. Besides other factors like culture, environment, technology and financial constrain, most of the cases revealed that the role of government leadership while formulating the policies and aviation leadership that fails in coopetition with governmental bodies due to lack of political competency are the two main factors for aviation organizational success or failure in Nepal. Success factors, as per the research findings, are: merit-based employee selection process, no discrimination based on gender, consideration of all employees as owners, and ownership feeling within employees due to profit distribution, highly qualified and well-educated employees. Finally, a new theory of successful airline has developed at the end of this research based on multiple case studies. airlines. A study of six different airlines was performed using an open-ended interview to determine


Sport as a content of Physical Education, in the cultural context of body movement, was historically the result of changing public policies in education that were not on the sidelines of society. From this, the sport is presented as hegemonic content during the process of teaching and learning in physical education classes at school, as well as other cultural forms are being esportivizadas by holding competitions and standardizing the rules. In this sense, this paper aims at discussing the main manifestation of the sport from the school context, in order to uncover the practice observed in Brazilian schools. This was a qualitative research of bibliographical. As a result of this study, we believe that the sport worked in physical education will only have an effect, especially, social, considering the learner as an active agent in the teaching process, allowing the understanding of the entire movement and not a repetition of simple gestures mechanics and technicians.


Introduction The treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism in elderly persons is controversial. Previous studies have shown that there are interactions between kidney and thyroid function, but data regarding interventions that target thyroid function in elderly patients are scarce. We aimed to investigate the impact of thyroid hormone therapy on the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in elderly patients. Material and methods Ninety elderly patients aged ≥ 65 years with subclinical hypothyroidism were followed for 36 months in our case-control study. The changes in the eGFR in patients with and without thyroid hormone replacement therapy were compared. The adverse effects during the treatment period were noted. Results The eGFR of both groups was similar at the beginning of the study (43.4 ±6.1 vs. 42.8 ±5.9 ml/min/1.73 m2; p = 0.62). With the decline in thyroid stimulating hormone levels after treatment, the eGFR of the treatment group significantly improved compared with the control group (45.8 ±4.8 vs. 35.8 ±5.3 ml/min/1.73 m2; p < 0.001); the eGFR increased rapidly over the first 6 months and then plateaued. No patients withdrew from the study, but the therapeutic dose was decreased in two patients due to angina pectoris. Conclusions Thyroid hormone therapy preserved renal function in elderly patients. Appropriate individual treatment should be considered in elderly patients with subclinical hypothyroidism.


This paper sheds light on the concept of complimenting, based on its practice in the Moore language spoken in Burkina Faso, West Africa. It revisits Holmes' (1986) definition of "compliments" and proposes a model which gives new insight into the concept of complimenting behaviour across languages and cultures. The proposed model may have implications for our understanding of politeness strategies as proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) , particularly with the urge to integrate third person in the model, as a close examination of data from Moore would suggest. The data analyzed were collected in naturally occurring discourse.


We report on the development of a holographic camera capable of measuring nanometer-scale surface features. The system is based on a modified off-axis Mach-Zehnder interferometer and was optimized to provide high-quality interference patterns. Fast imaging was implemented with a time-gated intensified CCD camera directly facing the surface of the object. By increasing the intensifier gain, holographic images with good contrast could be captured within 1 ns. We tested the ability of the camera to measure nanometer-scale height differences using a patterned USAF target. The depth resolution of the camera was estimated to be better than 10 nm. We also found that both the object-CCD distance and the angle between the object and reference beams had significant impact on the quality of the reconstructed surface profiles. Potential applications of the camera include measurement of tissue surface displacements for non-contact photoacoustic imaging.


Numerical simulation and experimental investigation were carried out on combustion optimization of DG420/13.7-Ⅱ2-type tangential anthracite-fired boilers burning undesigned blended coal.The predicted burnout rate of pulverized coal agrees basically with the measured data.Under recommended pagoda type air distribution mode,the burnout rate of pulverized coal and the combustion efficiency of boiler are increased.Under waist drum type air distribution mode,the burnout rate of pulverized coal and the combustion efficiency of boiler are obviously decreased.Under uniform and shrunk-middle type air distribution mode,the burnout rate of pulverized coal is between those of pagoda and waist drum type air distribution.By using pagoda type air distribution mode,the boiler efficiency and the economic efficiency of unit are obviously improved.


Adjuvant chemotherapy is currently employed in the treatment of patients with osteosarcoma, but the drug regiments, although effective in improving disease‐free survival, are unsuccessful in 20–40% of patients and very toxic. It would be useful to know whether tumor cells are sensitive to a given drug prior to its use. To this end, we developed a method of assessing Adriamycin (doxorubicin) binding to tumor nuclei as a possible means of detecting sensitivity to the drug. Adriamycin‐sensitive murine osteosarcoma cells were used to develop the assay. The in vitro conditions (drug concentration, duration of incubation, and temperature) were optimized with use of the murine osteosarcoma cells in culture. After the cells had been incubated with Adriamycin, cell viability was determined and Adriamycin fluorescence intensity was measured with a cytofluorometer. The optimal parameters for Adriamycin binding were found to be a 30‐minute incubation in a 10 μg/ml concentration of Adriamycin at 37°C the frequency of cells that emitted Adriamycin fluorescence from the nucleus compared with the total number of livin cells reached 100% under these conditions. In a murine leukemia cell line with known sensitivity to Adriamycin, the cells emitted red fluorescence from the nucleus and cytoplasm, whereas in a resistant line the cells emitted Adriamycin fluorescence from only the cytoplasm. We demonstrated that it is possible to differentiate nuclear from cytoplasmic concentration of Adriamycin in a tumor cell with use of a fluorescent microscope and that resistant cell lines can be distinguished from sensitive cell lines by this method. Since Adriamycin acts by intercalating to DNA, its absence in the nucleus probably indicates a resistant cell. This is a rapid technique that may allow prediction of drug sensitivity at the time of diagnosis or relapse.


Taking user's emotion in music retrieval and recommendation as application background, this paper presents a method to extract the features associated with music emotion from the existing physical features. Focusing on degree of stability, differentiation and relativity, the method simplifies the existing multidimensional features and extracts the music physical features associated with emotion. We verify the presented method on data from baidu.com. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the classification efficiency about ten percent under the condition that the precision can be guaranteed. Copyright © 2014 IFSA Publishing, S. L.


Abstract There is increasing support for the efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural interventions for anxiety and depression. However, little is known about the applicability of transdiagnostic behavioural interventions for children younger than 12 years old. This study was conducted to examine the feasibility and potential efficacy of Streamlined Transdiagnostic Intervention for Anxiety and Depression (STREAM) for children with anxiety and/or depressive disorders using a randomised controlled design with a wait-list control (WLC) condition and blind-assessments. Of the 22 potential participants, 16 Japanese children (M = 9.81; SD = 0.75; range 9–12 years) with principal anxiety or depressive disorder were eligible and enrolled. Then, the participants were randomly assigned to the STREAM or WLC condition. The dropout rates were 0% for both the conditions at post-assessment. Mixed model analyses showed that, although there were no significant interactions at post-assessment between both the conditions, both anxiety and depressive disorders significantly improved at 3 months compared with pre-assessment for the combined condition (the STREAM and WLC conditions). Therefore, this study demonstrated the feasibility of the STREAM in the Japanese clinical setting and potentially supported its efficacy for children with anxiety and depressive disorders at the follow-up assessment.


In this paper, we introduce the quay partitioning problem (QPP), that is, a problem of partitioning quay length into berths for minimum ship waiting time. Such a problem arises when designing the terminal layout. Two schemes of quay layout are considered: with at most one ship in a berth and with at most two ships in a berth. Ship arrival times, service times, lengths, and weights are given. We show that QPP is NP‐hard. The two versions of QPP are formulated as mixed integer linear programs (MIPs). Scalability of solving QPPs as MIPs is studied. We investigate, analytically and in computational experiments, features of the QPP solutions such as (i) changes in solution quality when one long berth length is used versus choosing various berth lengths flexibly, (ii) what lengths of berths are chosen when ship lengths mixture is changing, (iii) what is the impact of congestion on the chosen berth lengths, and (iv) how much is one quay layout scheme better than the other.


We examine how interfaces can influence the early stages of a new phase forming in an existing phase, e.g., diseased or cancerous cells attempting to form in a region of healthy cells, or misfolded protein molecules attempting to form deposits. We consider whether some understanding of the roles which interfaces play in phase suppression might transfer from inorganic systems to biological ones. A key difference is that interfaces in biological systems often involve living cells. These cells can obtain energy by respiration, they can divide and multiply, and they are large compared with the atoms that are often the building blocks of inorganic interfaces. We examine how they affect or new cells


A specialty in higher education's discipline localization should be historic,objective and scientific.lf the location of a superiority and potentially vitality is a dislocation,it will possibly cause a historical deficiency not only to a country's higher education superiority,but also to the survival of a state school.The dislocation will influence to the major's usage to society,pace in scientific research and its own development.This article is based on the core value of the public art—"public nature".My views and localization are from teaching targets and teaching methods of the public art.


The problem of what constitutes a dangerous dose of alcohol has led to considerable confusion in the terminology that is used and the public statements that are made. The model of liver damage is inadequate to convey the message of what constitutes a harmful dose in the context of our understanding of indices of harm. It is recommended that community education should be based on the effects of alcohol on the brain, on skilled performance, cognitive functioning, behaviour and to a lesser degree on neural or other physical damage. Guidelines are suggested for controlling the dose of alcohol and the blood alcohol concentration.


The aim of the study was to detect investments processes in farms located on lower Silesia region in period of financial perspective 2007-20011 period within RADP. The competitive position of agriculture sector depends on possibilities of grants gaining from EU budget. It plays essential role especially in cases of lack of own capital in production level. The article presents main directions of investment processes in Lower Silesian agricultural farms – selected at 3 districts where the modernization processes had the highest quotas of co-financing from EU. Funds for modernization were used basically by bigger size farms where the level of own capital were easier to generate. The second position had medium size family farms especially with higher level of economic power due to European Size Unit classification. Small farms used possibility of coofinancing very seldom. Basic progress in farm modernization was noted at units over 100 ESU of economic size.


Liquefaction potential of various types of soils has received a great deal of research attention in the geotechnical community over the previous two decades. Dramatic occurrences of liquefaction in saturated deposits of fine, uniformly graded sands in the Japanese city of Niigata and surrounding areas resulting from ground shaking during the 16 June 1964 earthquake spawned extensive studies to develop methodologies for assessing the potential for liquefaction of predominantly clean sands throughout Japan and worldwide. Japanese researchers have recently performed laboratory and field studies to assess the influence of variations in grain-size distribution and soil-index properties of liquefaction potential of fine-grained soils. Several Corps of Engineers dams in seismically active areas are founded on fine-grained, low plasticity alluvial deposits. This report reviews current practices applied to study the phenomenon of fine-grained soil liquefaction, with emphasis on recent Japanese laboratory and in situ testing research. The findings will promote efficiency of effort in the conduct of subsequent laboratory-testing efforts toward the development of specific procedures for use by the Corps and others in assessing the potential for earthquake-induced liquefaction to occur in fine-grained soils.


Qiaogong Hydropower Station has large bulb tubular units with a unit capacity of 57MW,the largest in China and the second largest in the world.Difficulties in design and fabrication of such unit and countermeasures are discussed.


With the expansion of real-time applications for mobile ad hoc networks the need for quality of service support has become essential. This paper deals with quality of service considerations in mobile ad hoc networks and provides a brief overview of the state of the art in this field. It contains the most up-to-date overview of QoS models, QoS routing, as well as resource reservation techniques and concludes with identifying some open issues in this challenging area.


There are a number of asymmetries in the surface air temperature response to forcing, including polar amplification and changes to the diurnal and seasonal temperature ranges. We propose that such spatial–temporal signatures of climate change can, in part, be explained by differences in the effective heat capacity of the atmosphere. We have demonstrated that predictions arising from this hypothesis are simultaneously satisfied through the analysis of temperature records from daily to inter-decadal timescales using observational and reanalysis datasets. This mechanism can help to explain why we see the largest temperature trends in the winter months (0.42 K/decade in winter compared to 0.18 K/decade in summer) and why the diurnal temperature range decreases in a warming world, having decreased by ∼0.4 K since 1950.