Experimental measurements have been made on the batch extraction of uranium from phosphoric acid solutions using various chelating ion-exchange resins (RSPO, Diaion-CRP200, Diphonix, Purolite S940, Duolite ES467, and Lewatit OC 1060) and a solvent containing ion-exchange resins (Actinide-CU). The kinetic performance of ion-exchange resins was compared, and the effect of Fe(II) and Ca(II) ions on the sorption and elution performance has also been examined. The results showed that the resin Actinide-CU containing a diphosphonate extractant was very effective for removing uranium from phosphoric acid solution. However, the elution performance of this resin with both acid and carbonate eluants was poor. It is concluded that the chelating resins Diphonix, Duolite ES467, Lewatit OC 1060, and Purolite S940 give reasonable sorption of uranium in the presence of Fe(II) ions in batch sorption trials. The desorption of uranium has been performed quantitatively using carbonate eluants. Purolite S940 was used in small...


A pre combustor unit is described for installation in a thermal engine having means for generating compressed air for mixing with a fuel for combustion in a main combustion chamber in the engine, the pre combustor unit comprising: a housing having means for installing the precombustion unit in the engine, the housing having an internal precombustion chamber with a discharge passage that communicates with the main combustion chamber of the engine when the unit is installed in the engine; a displaceable valve head in the housing, where the housing includes a valve seat at the discharge passage and the valve head is seatable on the valve seat to block discharge passage from communicating with the precombustion chamber; actuating means connected to the valve head for selectively displacing the valve head into seating engagement with the valve seat, wherein the discharge passage is closed, and for retracting the valve head from a seating engagement, wherein the discharge passage is open; a compressed air passage communicating with the precombustion chamber and having means for selectively communicating with the means of the thermal engine for generating compressed air, wherein compressed air from the engine is delivered to the precombustion chamber; and a fuelmore » supply means communicating with the compressed air passage for supplying fuel to the compressed air passage wherein a fuel-air mixture is delivered to the precombustion chamber.« less


In recent years,many domestic scholars discuss on the standard,method,measures and index system of performance evaluation for the college faculty.These studies play an important role in guiding the work of the current performance evaluation,raising its level and accelerate continuous development teachers and colleges.However,at present many problems still exist in the process of performance evaluation,so we still need to combine the theory of modern human resources management performance evaluation with and the specialty of college work to strengthen the comprehensive,scientific and deep reflection on current performance evaluation for college teachers and continuously better such work.


N ANOTECHNOLOGY, A BURGEONing field featuring tiny materials , may be poised to transform medicine with potential uses spanning all aspects of disease diagnosis , prevention, and treatment. In oncology alone, researchers envision using nanomaterials (which by definition have at least one dimension ranging from 1 nm [one billionth of a meter] to 100 times that) to detect early cancers , pinpoint tumors within the body, deliver toxic drugs specifically to malignant cells, and determine a thera-py's effectiveness. Similar medical uses may exist for arthritis, heart disease, and many other conditions. But even if these advances are achievable , little is known about the safety of nanomaterials in medicine or in other applications, such as environmental re-mediation or energy production. Researchers are now working to assess the potential risks of nanotechnology to help avoid unwanted surprises. Some limited research findings on the safety of nanomaterials, including animal and in vitro studies, are available, but epidemiologic data on the health effects of nanotechnology exposure are lacking. " There really isn't any comprehensive or conclusive information, " explained Andrew Maynard, PhD, an expert on nanotechnology from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC. Maynard is making policy recommendations to the government based on analyses of the long-term environmental , health, and safety issues of nano-technology and nanomaterials. Scientists do have a good idea of how nanoparticles can enter the body and how they might behave once there. For example, studies have shown that when some nanoparticles are inhaled, they can penetrate the epithelial cells in the lungs, enter the bloodstream, and deposit in other organs in the body (Oberdorster et al. Environ Health Perspect. 2005;113: 823-839). Experiments with rodents have demonstrated that if nanopar-ticles deposit in the nasal region, they can travel up the olfactory nerves and into the brain, circumventing the blood-brain barrier (Oberdorster et al. Studies have also revealed that nano-particles' increased ratio of surface area to volume is important to consider. As the surface area of a particle increases, the percentage of its atoms at the surface increases, creating more sites for bonding or reaction with surrounding materials. This results in properties such as improved strength or heat resistance. But mounting evidence suggests that the large surface area of insoluble nanoparticles that are inhaled also leads to an inflammatory response in the lungs (Brown et al. " What these studies are showing is that as the …


The invention discloses a small anniversary composite system for purifying domestic sewage by using water hyacinth. The system comprises a buffer tank, an aeration tank, an anaerobic fermentation tank, a water hyacinth culture tank, small artificial wetland, a methane tank and a green house; the aeration tank, the anaerobic fermentation tank, the water hyacinth culture tank, the small artificial wetland, and the methane tank are arranged in the green house; a heat supply pipe network is arranged below the green house; and the technical scheme of a comprehensive system integrated with municipal sewage treatment, methane production, phosphorus recycling, and heating and heat preservation solves the problems existing in the aspects of deep purification of municipal sewage, recycling of nutrient salt resources, treatment and recycling of wetland plant, and anniversary high-efficiency running of the system.


In 2005 Brentwood Home Video released a DVD compilation of 26 of producer Martin Tahse's made-for-television movies, many of which were created for ABC's Afterschool Specials series, a long-running anthology program that aired throughout the school year from 1972 until the mid-1990s. Tahse and other producers crafted these teen-focused Specials around topics such as suicide, school bullies, unplanned pregnancies, and both teen and parent alcoholism. Squire D. Rushnell, then Vice President of Children's Television at ABC, described the Specials as "realistic problem dramas" that featured "relevant and entertaining" stories meant to help teenagers find resolutions to their troubles. As George Woolery notes, the "high quality" Specials "encouraged young people to understand more about themselves, their relations with their families and peers, and the problems of living in today's world," framing their protagonists as young adults who had the potential to make their own decisions and thrive with a little guidance from their peers. The DVD compendium of Tahse's Afterschool Specials sparked a resurgence of interest among media studies scholars, including Julie Passanante Elman and Kirsten Pike, both of whom focus on what they see as somewhat contradictory messages encoded in select episodes. In conjunction with two interviews with Martin Tahse, Elman analyzes two Specials, "The Ice Skating Rink" (1975) and "The Gold Test" (1980), that feature imperfect bodies dealing with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and stuttering, respectively. These two Specials, Elman writes, construct adolescence as a process of "overcoming disability" in order to offer "the promise of eventual normalcy through endless rehabilitation." She finds that the Specials frame teenaged viewers as "already-always disabled and in need of rehabilitation" to be molded into more socially acceptable, "productive" citizens. Specifically, Elman maps the idea of disability onto the way that the Specials repair the "problem" of adolescence and how they frame the problematic teenage body as an object requiring peer intervention in order to normalize aberrant bodies into heterosexual, "able-bodied" teenagers now capable of growing into functioning adults. By situating the Specials among a number of social, cultural, and industrial factors occurring in the 1970s, Elman notes that the Specials "represented" a way that television could create programming suitable for children and teenagers that had the possibility to educate audiences as well as entertain them.


Large-scale program evaluation in the United States began proliferating in the 1960s with the dawn of social antipoverty programs and the government's desire to hold programs accountable for positive results. Education program evaluation in particular expanded, partly because of the formal evaluation requirements of the National Science Foundation–sponsored mathematics and science curriculum reforms that were a response to the 1957 launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, but also because of the evaluation requirements instituted as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The first large-scale evaluations in education were the subject of much criticism. For example, the RAND Change Agent Study (Berman & McLaughlin, 1975) and the Follow-Through Evaluation (U.S. Office of Education, 1977) sparked critiques about evaluation methodology and brought to the forefront the importance of addressing such issues as allowing a long enough time frame for evaluation, choosing valid and reliable measures, examining intermediate or incremental change, determining appropriate statistical tests and analyses, measuring implementation, and considering the politics and context of the programs (e.g., House, Glass, McLean, & Walker, 1978). From the development and critiques of program evaluation grew a debate about the similarities and differences between scientific research


Dialectical logic had been widely taught in former Soviet Union. Attitudes to review this dialectical logic by Genrikh S. Altshuller gave TRIZ a powerful possibility. Every philosophy, every thought even every method was appeared to the earth by attitudes of the originator to review existing one. It is a valuable lesson taught from history for us if we forgot to continue to review every philosophy, every thought or every method they stopped to expand and even corrupted. Originally dialectical logic teaches us the way of object how to interact each other and how to change all the time. We should continue to review dialectical logic.


This paper describes the results of a study where two on-line parameter identification (PID) methods are compared for application within a fault tolerant flight control system. One of the PID techniques is time-domain based while the second is featured in the frequency domain. The time domain method was directly suitable for the on-line estimates of the dimensionless aircraft stability derivatives. The frequency domain method was modified from its original formulation to provide direct estimates of the stability derivatives. This effort was conducted within the research activities of the NASA IFCS F-15 program. The comparison is performed through dynamic simulations with a specific procedure to model the aircraft aerodynamics following the occurrence of a battle damage/failure on a primary control surface. The two PID methods show similar performance in terms of accuracy of the estimates, convergence time, and robustness to noise. However, the frequency domainbased method outperforms the time domain-based method in terms of computational requirements for on-line real time applications. The study has also emphasized the advantages of using "ad-hoc" short pre-programmed maneuvers to provide enough excitation following the occurrence of the actuator failure to allow the parameter estimation process. # Associate Professor, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Hankuk Aviation University, 200-1 Hwajondong, Goyangshi, Kyonggido, 412-791,South Korea, AIAA Member ∗ Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506/6106, AIAA Member + Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506/6106 % Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506/6106, AIAA Member Symbols English c Aerodynamic coefficient K Numerical coefficient L Lift force q Pitch angular velocity, rad/sec S Wing surface, ft t Time, sec x Longitudinal axis y Lateral axis z Vertical axis Greek α Angle of attack, rad or deg ε Downwash angle, rad or deg η Dynamic pressure ratio θ Pitch Euler angle, rad or deg δ Control surface deflection, rad or deg σ Standard deviation ω Frequency, rad/sec Subscripts h Horizontal tail L Left side l Rolling moment M Pitching moment R Right side S Stabilator Acronyms AC Aerodynamic Center BLS Batch Least Squares CG Center of Gravity DTFT Discrete Time Fourier Transform EE Estimation Error EKF Extended Kalman Filtering FDI Failure Detection and Identification FTR Fourier Transform Regression FFT Finite Fourier Transform LS Least Squares LWR Locally Weighted Regression ML Maximum Likelihood PID Parameter Identification RLS Recursive Least Squares S&CD Stability and Control Derivatives Introduction Aircraft parameter estimation from flight data has been extensively conducted as a post flight analysis for several years. Several statistical methods have been used for this purpose, with the Maximum Likelihood method being one of the most widely used approaches [1,2,3]. In recent years, drastic increases in the available on-board computational power have allowed the flight control community to consider the application of on-line parameter estimation techniques. In particular, the on-line extension of the PID process has immediate and potentially very important applications for control of time varying aircraft systems, such as an aircraft subjected to substantial changes in the dynamic and aerodynamic characteristics. On a parallel path, research on fault tolerant flight control systems has been an important issue in flight controls. A fault tolerant flight control system is required to perform failure detection, identification, and accommodation following a battle damage and/or failure to a critical control surface. To implement a failure accommodation strategy, a variety of control surfaces (speed brakes, wing flaps, differential dihedral canards, spoilers, etc.) and thrust mechanisms (differential thrust, thrust vectoring) can be used [4]. Recent experimental research programs – the Self Designing Controller (SDC) program [5], the RESTORE program [6,7], and the IFCS F-15 program (previously known as the F-15 ACTIVE program) [8,9] – have proposed specific fault tolerant control laws formulated using on-line estimates of aircraft parameters obtained from a real time PID scheme. The research effort described in this study was conducted within the NASA IFCS F-15 program. A block diagram of the IFCS F-15 fault tolerant scheme is shown in Figure 1 [9]. The scheme features a set of Baseline Neural Networks acting as look-up tables for 26 stability and control derivatives (SCDs) of the IFCS F-15. At nominal flight conditions these 26 SCDs are provided as inputs to the IFCS F-15 controller featuring control laws designed through on-line solution of the Riccati equations. Following a failure on a primary control surface a PID scheme is tasked with providing on-line estimates of the same 26 SCDs to an On-Line Neural Network (OLNN). The OLNN's task is to interpolate throughout the flight IFCS F-15 flight envelope the correction terms for the 26 SCDs which, added to the values from the Baseline Neural Networks, are provided as inputs to the controller. The current effort focuses on the selection of a suitable method for the on-line PID task. Like off-line PID approaches, on-line PID methods can be formulated either in the time domain or in the frequency domain. Within time domain on-line PID techniques Least Squares (LS) algorithms are used in lieu of techniques based on the use of the gradient and Hessian because of their lower computational effort and better convergence characteristics. Therefore, on-line time domain PID techniques mainly include variations of the LS regression method, such as Recursive Least Square (RLS) [10,11], RLS with a forgetting factor [12], a Modified Sequential Least Square (MSLS) [5], a real-time Batch Least Squares (BLS) [13,14], and Extended Kalman Filtering (EKF) [15]. The real-time application of any of these methods is challenging due to a combination of the unavoidable presence of system and measurement noise, possible lack of information for PID purposes in the flight data (such as a prolonged steady state flight condition), and potential unavailability of independent control inputs – a necessary condition for an accurate PID – due to the interactions with the closed-loop control laws. Analytical mechanisms to handle some of the above problems include the use of temporal and spatial constraints (such as forgetting factors and/or the use of short sets of flight data). A potential problem with the previous time-domain PID techniques is the lack of a reliable parameter for an on-line assessment of the accuracy of the estimates in the presence of unmodeled noise. Another less known problem for real time application of PID techniques is the presence of time skews and/or delays from the instant flight data are acquired by the flight control system and the instant the data are supplied to the PID algorithm. In trying to overcome some or all the problems described above, two techniques, one time-domain based and one frequency-domain based, have recently been introduced. The primary objective of this effort was to conduct a detailed comparison of the performance of these two PID techniques through simulations with a detailed aerodynamic modeling. Due to the realtime nature of the application of the PID process, the comparison was performed using the following parameters: convergence time for the parameters to be estimated; CPU requirements; robustness to measurement and system noise; amount of excitation required for an effective estimation; on-line computed variance of the estimation error. The paper is organized as follows. The next section briefly reviews a detailed approach of the aerodynamic modeling for an aircraft at post-failure and/or damage conditions. Two following sections review the two on-line PID methods. Then a section discusses the comparison of the two methods following control surface damages typical of a combat situation for a military aircraft under different scenarios. A final section summarizes the paper with conclusions. Aerodynamic Modeling of Actuator Failure and/or Battle Damage In a worst-case scenario, actuator failure and/or battle damage may imply a missing surface or, more realistically, a missing surface with the actuator jammed at a given position. Using a simplified modeling failure and/or battle failure can be modeled as jammed actuators without missing surface. In this effort emphasis has been placed in the accurate post-failure aerodynamic model for simulation purposes. From conventional aerodynamic modeling [16,17], the aerodynamic characteristics of a surface can be expressed in terms of normal force, axial force and moment force around some fixed points or axes. In this paper we will examine failures in the longitudinal axis only. This failure is believed to be more critical than aileron and rudder failures due to the coupling between the longitudinal and lateral-directional dynamics. A control surface damage with a missing portion induces instantaneous changes in its aerodynamic characteristics. An assumption in the aerodynamic modeling is that the axial forces exerted by a control surface deflection (in this case longitudinal surfaces) are negligible. Thus, the net effect of any control surface failure with a missing portion is a change (a reduction) in the relative normal force coefficient. The aerodynamic moments around the different axes can then be considered proportional to this normal force coefficient through the aircraft geometric parameters. Therefore, to test the capabilities of the PID schemes to evaluate on-line the postfailure mathematical model, the objective is to obtain closed-form expressions of the nondimensional aerodynamic stability


The seeds of Irvingiagabonensis are a major raw material in the preparation of ogbono soup or as a condiment in the preparation of sauces used with African foods prepared from major staples such as amala, eba, pounded yam, etc. In view of this, an investigation into the concentrations of amino acids of the hull and dehulled seed parts of Irvingiagabonensis was carried out using standard methods to determine amino acid profiles; quality of dietary protein was determined using various methods like: amino acid scoresdetermination [(in three different ways; (i) amino acid score based on the whole hen's egg, (ii) essential amino acid score based on the provisional amino acid scoring pattern, (iii) essential amino acid score based on suggested school child requirement)], essential protein efficiency ratio as well as the determination of the isoelectric point. Glutamic acid was the most abundant amino acid (10.1-15.2 g/100 g) and Leu (6.39-7.05 g/100 g) was the most abundant essential amino acid. The total essential amino acid in dehulled sample was 39.2 g/100 g (47.4 %) and 29.8 g/100 g (46.6 %) in the hull. The limiting essential amino acid (based on provisional scoring pattern) was Lys (0.64) in dehulled and Met + Cys (0.49) in hull. The essential amino acid index ranged from 0.87 (hull) to 1.21 (dehulled); the predicted protein efficiency ratio was 2.10 in hull and 2.42 in the dehulled whereas the isoelectric point ranged between 3.56 in hull and 4.53 in dehulled. At r0.05, significant differences existed in the samples in amino acid profiles and calculated isoelectric point (pI). The results of this study indicated that the amino acid profiles of Irvingia gabonensis seed hull and cotyledons are complementary in nutrition. There may therefore be no need to remove the hull in the seed when used as soup ingredient.


Future 5G networks aspire to enable new services with vastly different data rate, latency and scalability requirements. The consensus is that these new services will fall into three categories: eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC. Due to unique characteristics of these services and the limited availability of finite spectrum resources, 5G will need to carefully map appropriate bands and spectrum usage models for each service. The SAS is an emerging spectrum sharing model that is gaining momentum in the U.S. SAS presents an opportunity for operators to access the 3.5 GHz military radar band for commercial use. This article discusses the feasibility of the current SAS model in the context of mMTC. We propose a scalable SAS framework that can manage the mMTC uplink interference to the incumbent with less overhead. The simulation setup models the interference levels in New York City and its surrounding counties. The results show that mMTC uplink transmission can be enabled using our framework even on the coast of New York, where mMTC density is high, without causing a harmful level of interference to the incumbent.


A Western Han Dynasty copper furnace which is very precious was unearthed in Lu Jianao site in Daye City in December,2012. The article makes contrast between it and the copper furnace found in Tonglvshan of Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods from the perspectives in the location,layout,building furnace,technology and smelting level. It reveals the characteristics and influence of Tonglvshan diachronic copper furnace evolution.


Review Essay:
Chris Andrews, Roberto Bolano's Fiction: An Expanding Universe
Marshall Boswell ed., David Foster Wallace and 'The Long Thing': New Essays on the Novels
Stefano Ercolino, The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666


With the rapid development of multimedia technologies, the problem of how to retrieve a specified image from a large amount of image databases becomes an important issue. We propose a new method by approximating the statistical distribution of color histogram for image indexing and comparison. It becomes simple to compute the distance measure of two images by the proposed method. Also, our proposed method tolerates the generally considered problems when retrieving images such as transition, scaling and rotation. The represented features of the approximated distribution of the color histogram can also be used as the indices for the image database. Experimental results show that our proposed method is quite effective not only for the performance but also better results for image indexing and retrieval.


This paper presents the course outcomes, specific performance indicators, rubrics and teaching / learning methodologies / strategies adopted related to the 'Signals and Systems' course taught to the bachelor's students of Electrical Engineering. It will discuss the mapping of course outcomes, and specific performance indicators with the ABET Student Outcomes, the rubrics used for the assessments and evaluations related to each specific performance indicator and how Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is implemented in the course of 'Signal and Systems' by modifying the course teaching / learning strategy in course delivery related to the failing course outcomes. And the impact of these teaching strategies on the performance of students is discussed in detail. And conclusions are drawn based on the teaching and learning methodologies adopted for improvement.


Although the risk of death in populations with access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically declined, AIDS is still a leading cause [1], as it remains in populations unable to benefit from this life-saving intervention [2]. A large proportion of deaths due to AIDS are as a result of late diagnosis and/or late entry into care, [3,4] with individuals often presenting with life threatening opportunistic diseases. Conversely, if ART is started earlier in the course of chronic HIV infection, or if ART leads to recovery of the immune function in immunodeficient persons, the profile of underlying causes of deaths diversifies.


The rise in debt among youth to finance their higher education has engendered a great deal of discussion. Much of the attention has been focused on the angst that arises when the debt has to be repaid. This has been especially burdensome on students from lower-income households. While this is worthy of concern, another aspect of the educational-related debt that is being examined is whether the debt was worth it. More specifically, what is the association of the debt with the borrower's graduation from college? Some investigations not only consider the relationship between educational loans and college graduation but also include the influence of the student's family's income. A recent study by Min Zhan has augmented the latter inquiry by expanding the amount of debt to include credit card debt related to educational expenses (in addition to educational loans), as well as taking into account the influence of parental financial assets (net worth) on a student's completion of a college degree.1 What follows is a summary of her study.


Abstract. This study aims to determine students' mathematical communication skills using the Circuit Learning learning model. This research is a Quasi Experiment study with the design of the Randomized Subjects Posstest Only Control Group Design. The study population was all students of class X SMA N 1 Pasir Penyu. The sampling technique uses random sampling. The instrument used was a mathematical communication ability test in the form of a description. Data were analyzed statistically by the Independent Samples T-Test. Based on the results of the t test, tcount in the rejection area of H0 can be concluded that the mathematical communication skills of students taught with the circuit learning learning model are better than conventional learning.Keywords: Mathematical Communication, Circuit Learning.


In order to eliminate the inherent key escrow problem in identity-based public key cryptosystem,a new identity-based blind signature scheme without trusted Private Key Generator(PKG) was proposed.Under the random oracle model,the scheme was proved to be existentially unforgeable against adaptive chosen message and identity attacks from common attackers or semi-honest PKG,and the security was reduced to computational Diffie-Hellman assumption.For the forgery attacks from the malicious PKG,the legitimate signer can prove to the arbitration institution that the signature is forged by trace algorithm.


This brief article in the first section brings out the fact that the Heisenberg and the Schrodinger operators become identical if the operators correspond to a conserved quantity. In Section II solutions we show that for time independent operators 𝐴𝑆 that satisfy [𝐴𝑆,𝐻]=0 where 𝐻 satisfies the Schrodinger equation 𝑖ℏ𝜕𝜓𝜕𝑡=𝐻𝜓 we have 𝐴𝑆=𝑎 where 'a' is an eigen value of the stated equation. It is independent of space and time coordinates.


To inform conservation policy, we solicited scientist perspectives on a controversial conservation issue—the US Fish and Wildlife Service status review to relist gray wolves in the western United States on the Endangered Species Act. Our survey of authors of recent scientific publications on US wolves (n = 84; 26% response rate) indicated that about two‐thirds of respondents supported relisting. About 80% disapproved of Idaho and Montana wolf management plans and believed that they pose a threat to wolf populations in the western United States. Nearly half of respondents were unsure if population estimates of wolves in Idaho and Montana were accurate and reliable and about a fifth believed they were not. Both proponents and opponents of relisting primarily offered policy‐based arguments about state versus federal management, followed by biological arguments about threats to wolves, and social and ethical arguments about wolves and their management.


The present work of reflection proposes the approach of the concepts of clinical structures and mental health, starting from the position of psychoanalysis and the question is asked if it is possible to think the madness within them. To do this, it starts from an approach to training and symptom in psychoanalysis and psychology, pointing out the importance of differentiating the psychic from the organic, as well as the psychic from the mental. In this sense, the concept of mental health proposed by WHO is addressed and the place of psychology and psychoanalysis in this concept is questioned. In the same way a reflection is made around the questions: Is it possible to speak of madness in the XXI century, when psychiatry has tried to eradicate this term? To talk about crazy again is to return to a debate that has somehow been left out of the scientific debate? Is it possible to think nowadays the importance of elaborating a nosography that includes Insanity?


Narrow-band interference (NBI) suppression based on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), in which interference suppression threshold plays a key role, is widely applied in spread spectrum communication system. However, the traditional fixed threshold is not suitable in time varying scenarios. To solve this problem this paper proposes an iterative threshold algorithm based on overlap window which can efficiently mitigate NBI. Furthermore, simplified calculation of the iterative threshold and the structure of its FPGA realization are given. Simulations illustrate the validity of this algorithm, which improves the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) to 1.0484 dB from original SIR -30 dB.


Objective To investigate excretion profiles of the four major anti-oxidant active catechins, (-) epigallo-catechin-3-gallate (EGCG), (-) epicatechin-3-gallate (ECG), (-) epigallocatechin (EGC), and epicatechin (EC) in tea polyphenols (TP) in rats in order to provide experimental data for clinical uses and development of TP as a novel drug. Methods The above four catechins in urine, bile, and feces were simultaneously determined by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with ultraviolet absorption detector (HPLC-UV) assay with a binary gradient elution. The samples were extracted by ethyl acetate prior to HPLC. The quantification was carried out by peak area internal standard method. Following iv dosing TP 100 mg/kg to rats, the samples were collected at different time intervals up to 8 h (urine and bile) and 24 h (feces). Results The urinary Ae, 0-8 h (cumulative excretion amount over 8 h) of EGCG, ECG, EGC, and EC were, on the average, 150.83, 30.75, 116.69, and 254.56 μg, corresponding to fe, 0-8 h (cumulative excretion fraction of dose over 8 h) of 1.45%, 0.84%, 7.88%, and 10.73%, respectively; the biliary Ae, 0-8 h were 12.61, 42.64, 6.61, and 1.24 μg, corresponding to the fe, 0-8 h of 0.12%, 1.16%, 0.45%, and 0.053%,respectively. For fecal excretion, only EGCG and EGC were detected with Ae, 0-24 h of 7.38 μg (fe, 0-24 h of 0.07%) and 157 μg (fe, 0-24 h of 9.99 %), respectively. The fe, total (the total fe of 3 excretory routes) were 18.32%, 10.78%, 2.00%, and 1.64% for EGC, EC, ECG, and EGCG, respectively. Conclusion EGCG and EC are mainly excreted in urine, ECG in bile, and EGC in feces by reference to their Ae and fe. The excretion of the four catechins based on fe, total is ranked in order of EGC EC ECG EGCG. Only small amount of four catechins are recovered in urine, bile, and feces, indicating an extensive metabolic conversion of catechins in the rat body.


The central component of The Timed body is an interactive sampling of the performance, web and video project, Four Acts of Violence Leading Up to Now (Ellis, Corbet & Leach, 2006). The project, which premiered in Melbourne in September 2006, considers personal and glancing perspectives on the microtraumatic impacts of time.

This account of Four Acts in The Timed Body incorporates animated, aural and videographic components of the project, whilst talking to conceptual concerns for Henri Bergson's la duree. In it I attempt to sidestep the spatialised (mapped) body in which humans act as containers for memory, and instead offer a consideration and performed articulation of a temporality of remembering.

Although memory is conventionally linked with time, for Henri Bergson, time "is the spatialized, measurable counterpart of space, the other of space" (Grosz, 2004 p.279) that is already marked by the penetration of space. In Bergson's efforts to distil or untangle time and space he proposes 'the data of consciousness' as being temporal, in other words duration (la duree). Duration incorporates, by definition, newness and creativity and it is where "our memories are forged" (Cariou, 1999 p.102)


The invention relates to a method for accessing and sharing a personal computer file comprising personal and non-personal data in a network comprising: a first server (DMA - 300) for anonymous files based on an identifier (IDA); at least a second server (GED - 500; RGP a first system (1-1, 1-n) for accessing said first and second servers, comprising a DMN agent for generating a personal computer file and at least one encoding/decoding file and a lookup table (PLT) for the links between personal data and said anonymous identifier (IDA); and a second system (1000), wherein the method comprises the following steps: identification (login 402); downloading (403) a list of anonymous identifiers (IDA) associated with said identifier; generating a client list from the identifier (IDA) list and said table (PLT); selecting a client (405); downloading (406) the anonymous computer file; building (407) the personal computer file; updating (408) said personal computer file, the method being characterized in that it further comprises the steps of: downloading (409) a list of generic-resource identifiers from said servers; displaying (410) and composing a generic-resource selection list; optionally adding (411) personal resources generated by the provider; storing the anonymous computer file comprising the generic- and personal-resource selection list in said first server (DMA-300); creating (505) a connection identifier for said second system (1000) for said first and at least second server (300, 500, 700-800); generating at least one encryption key allocated to said second system (1000); transmitting the connection identifier, the encryption key(s), and the identifier (IDA) to said second system (1000) so as to enable the shared access to the anonymous computer file with the exception of any personal information.


Membrane technology is the most effective technology in the process of separation and purification because the separation of components can occur to the molecular level. Therefore the application of membrane technology in the biodiesel production process can provide high-purity biodiesel quality. In this research, the process of separating and refining palm oil biodiesel does not use the washing process, but it uses membrane separation technology. The membrane used is the ceramic ultrafiltration membrane 0.02 μm. The purification process was carried out at temperature 70°C and pressure 12 Psi (0.86 bar), flow rate of 39.53 L/min, circulation time of 3 hours with a feed of 10 L. After purification, an obtained biodiesel has physical properties as follows: Purity level 97.63% mass (total ester content) and 97.02% mass (methyl ester content), kinematic viscosity at 40°C is 5.70 (cSt), density 0.86 (g/cm 3 ), acid number 0.45 (mg KOH/g) and the saponification number 206.45 mg KOH/g. The values of the physicochemical properties have met Indonesian National Standard (SNI).


The Harris County traffic signal maintenance contract requires that the maintenance contractor provide two types of service: unscheduled maintenaance, and scheduled maintenance. The unscheduled calls which are designated as 'rush' or 'emergency,' are to be responded to within a maximum of 4 hours. The routine inspection, timing adjustments, and flashing signal resets are performed by 4 county-employed inspectors, each of whom is assigned a geographic area of responsibility. This advance team provides a back-up for office personnel for determining how the signal trouble call should be dealt with, thus eliminating excessive bucket truck and/or signal technican calls. All invoices ar produced via a database program that captures the data into flexible database files. Other details of the successful program are described.


Titania-zirconia mixed oxides and pure titania,zirconia were prepared by a coprecipitation method,the samples were calcined at different temperatures and characterized by nitrogen adsorption,X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetry-differential scanning calorimetry.Investigated the performance difference between single metal oxides and composite oxide as well as the influence of calcination temperatures on composite oxide property.After calcination at 550 ℃ for 2 h pure titania and zirconia are anatase and monoclinic(contains a little of tetragonal) while the binary oxide remain in the amorphous phase and keep high specific surface area(190.15 m2/g).XRD pattern of 600 ℃ calcined composite oxide showed the appearance of ZrTiO4 phase.With temperature increasing,composite oxides' surface areas decrease obviously(190.15~19.16 m2/g).The TG-DSC profiles given the phase transformation temperatures of TiO2-ZrO2 composite oxides and pure titania,zirconia(respectively at 713.5 ℃,440.2 ℃,445.7 ℃).


Two-dimensional nanomaterials hold great potential for next-generation energy storage and conversion devices. Here, we report a large-scale synthesis of high-quality ultrathin NiO nanosheets. The well-defined nanosheets show a graphene-like morphology with large planar area, ultrathin thickness (<2 nm), and high percentage of surface atoms. In comparison with the bulk material, the NiO nanosheets exhibit unique surface and electronic structure with considerable under-coordinated surface nickel atoms and crystal lattice volume expansion. The detected local coordination geometry and the electronic states endow the ultrathin NiO nanosheets with great potential in surface-dependent electrochemical reactions and catalytic processes. When used as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, the ultrathin NiO nanosheets exhibit a high reversible lithium storage capacity of 715.2 mA h g−1 at 200 mA g−1 current density in 130 cycles with an excellent cycling stability and rate capability. In particular, the large-area ultrathin 2D nanostructure can shorten lithium ion diffusion paths and provide a large exposed surface for more lithium-insertion channels. The large-scale and cost-efficient synthesis and the excellent electrochemical performance highlight the high-quality ultrathin 2D NiO nanosheets as a competitive anode material for lithium-ion batteries.


We study the problem of dispersing a group of small robots in an unknown environment. The objective is to cover the environment as much as possible while staying within communications range. We assume there is no central control, the environment is unknown and with complex obstacles, the robots operate without any central control, and have only limited communications with other robots and limited sensing capabilities. We present algorithms and validate them experimentally in the Player/Stage simulation environment.


The top-down design mode accords with the design process for product.The skeleton model design is one of the method that top-down designs in pro/E.The skeleton model of Pro/E reflects the total structure and design project of product.The skeleton model promises scientific product design and the accuracy of assemble.With Pro/Engineer parametric design,a new method of skeleton model for body of organization is proposed.By skeleton model method,the parts of organization body is designed.The Parametric designs and the series designs is finished with change of the parameter of skeleton model.This system provides a simple and convenient modeling method.which is helpful to improve the designing quality and working efficiency and shorten the design cycle.The model can be applied to other similar parts of the design process.


cYTISINE VS NIcOTINE FOr SmOkING cESSaTION This randomized, pragmatic, open-labeled trial conducted in New Zealand compared cytisine against nicotine replacement therapy in a sample of 1310 adult daily smokers who had called the national quitline for support. Cytisine is a plant-based alkaloid similar to varenicline and acts on the same nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Four previous systematic reviews have shown that cytisine is more effective than placebo in both short-term and long-term abstinence, almost doubling the chances of quitting at 6 months. Participants in this study were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive cytisine for 25 days at no cost or low-cost nicotine-replacement therapy for 8 weeks, and both groups received behavioral support delivered via the quitline. The primary outcome was self-reported continuous abstinence at 1 month. Cytisine proved more effective than nicotine replacement therapy at 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, and 6 months, although the cytisine group had more selfreported and relatively minor adverse events, mostly nausea, vomiting, and sleep disorders. A planned subgroup analysis showed that cytisine was more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for women compared to men at the primary 1 month point. Limitations of the study included the potential for bias based on the open allocation to treatment, the difference in access to and length of the 2 treatments, the use of self-reported measures, and the study population—quitline callers—may be more motivated to quit than other groups of smokers.


Background and Objectives: The Forearm fractures are common among children and usually managed differently comparing with other similar injuries in adults. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors of forearm fractures in children. Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial study, 86 patients randomly were divided into two groups: group A (treated with a long arm cast method) and group B (treated with Sugar-Tong splint method). The risk factors of distal radial fractures were evaluated. Results: Eighty six children less than 15 years with the mean age of 12.24±2.24 years old were studied. The compared with a true transverse fracture, the 10 °, 20 °, and 30 ° of obliquity increased the likelihood of redisplacement 3.23, 5.82 ,12.14 times, respectively. Conclusion: The complete initial displacements of the fracture and increases obliquity of the fracture line are the most important risk factors for redisplacement.


We present a new mechanism to explain naturally and through a common flavour symmetry the mildly hierarchical neutrino masses with large mixings and the hierarchical Yukawa matrices with small mixing angles. Although this mechanism is not linked to a particular flavour symmertry, it is particularly simple in the framework of a SU(3) flavour symmetry. In this model, we obtain exactly maximal atmospheric mixing, large although not maximal solar mixing and a normal neutrino hierarchy. All neutrino parameters are basically fixed. For instance, we predict that the angle $\theta_{13}$ comes entirely from the charged lepton sector and, using the difference of the solar angle from maximality, we can fix the mass of lightest neutrino.


Photocatalytic reaction of CH4 gas with H2O vapor was examined over Pt/TiO2 around room temperature (ca. 323 K) in a flow reactor. H2 and CO2 were the main products, and only trace amounts of C2H6 and CO were also observed. After an induction period, the molar ratio of H2 to CO2 in the outlet gas became close to 4. Thus, the main reaction is suggested as the equation CH4 + 2H2O(g) → 4H2 + CO2, which can be referred to as photocatalytic steam reforming of methane (photocatalytic SRM), where the photoenergy is converted to chemical potential of products (= 113 kJ mol-1). The reaction would be promoted by photoexcited electrons and holes, which were generated by band gap photoexcitation of the TiO2 photocatalyst. The apparent quantum yield in the range 345−385 nm with high-intensity light (60 mW cm-2) was 0.6%, while the one in the range 240−270 nm with low-intensity light (2 mW cm-2) reached 2%. Highly active Pt/TiO2 photocatalysts consisted of anatase phase TiO2 having large surface area and enough loading...


Fluoropyrimidines 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and its oral pro-drug capecitabine are widely used in the treatment of solid tumors, including colorectal and breast cancer and cancers of the aerodigestive tract. Only a very small fraction of these drugs is transformed into active cytotoxic metabolites, while more than 80% of the administered dose is detoxified and excreted as metabolites (mainly fluorobeta-alanine, FBAL) in urine. The first and rate-limiting step in this catabolic pathway is catalysed by an enzyme called dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase or DPD which is coded by the DPYD gene. Of course, any decrease in DPD activity will increase the toxicity of these drugs. In relation to drug safety, it is generally accepted that about 20 to 25% of all patients treated with 5-FU or capecitabine will experience severe toxicity (grade ≥3) in relation to the treatment. In rare cases, estimated between 0.1 and 1%, such toxicity could be fatal for the patient. Since 1985 and the first description in NEJM of a fatal outcome in a patient treated with 5-FU and presenting with a DPD deficiency (1), it is now estimated that about 50% of all toxicity cases with 5-FU or capecitabine treatments are related to a DPD deficiency. In such cases, toxicity appears quite early on, during the first treatment cycles. In Caucasians, partial DPD deficiency is found in up to 8% of the patients while total DPD deficiency is found in up to 0,5% of them. This safety warning about fluoropyrimidines has already been shown on drug labels for a long time and EMA recommends, for instance, not using capecitabine in patients with total DPD deficiency. Similar warnings have been published by the FDA in relation to the use of 5-FU and the increased risk of serious or fatal ADRs in patients with low or absent DPD activity.


The aim of this study was to perform the Meta-analysis of the effect of the estrogen receptor gene PvuⅡ polymorphism on pig litter traits.The 33 papers identified from CNKI,WANFANG Data,VIP and PubMed(including 9 429 sows) were analyzed,and a Meta-analysis was performed to assess and combine the data.Under a random-effects model,litter sizes were significantly lower in the AA genotype group compared with those in the genotype AB and BB groups.Heterogeneity within and between studies was observed.In conclusion,the Meta-analysis demonstrated that the allele B and genotype BB were beneficial for pig litter traits.Heterogeneity between studies was mainly due to the effect of pig breeds and many other factors.


One of the most appealing topics in regional economics is the study of the time evolution of spatial inequalities. Recent emphasis on the need to achieve convergence among countries and regions (mainly within Europe) has revitalized interest in this type of study from a territorial perspective, implicitly assuming that spatial convergence helps to reduce the level of national inequality Within this general framework, this paper analyses the behaviour of percapita income inequalities across provinces in Spain over the long term. The first section consists of a summary of the well-known hypothesis of the inverted-U pattern of the time trend of spatial disparities. The second section identifies levels of interprovincial inequalities in Spain, and their evolution. The third section offers insights into the types of provinces where inequalities are most deeply rooted in Spain, as well as some of their causative factors. Finally, some conclusions are stated in the fourth section.


PROFESSOR A HAROLD SOMERS in A his article in the December, 1960 issue of the National Tax Journal1 analyzes the effects of the taxation of capital gains employing some of the erroneous assumptions which appeared in his original article.2 Specifically, these assumptions were 1 ) a downward sloping to the right demand curve for a given security, and 2 ) as a point of departure, " the absence of a tax on capital gains ".3 When one poses more realistic assumptions, namely, 1 ) that the demand for a given security is more accurately represented by a horizontal demand curve because other securities are nearly perfect substitutes, and 2 ) that capital gains are taxed at rates lower than those applicable to ordinary income (or more accurately, after Henry Simons, yields 4) one arrives at quite different conclusions.


Safe distribution of drinking water plays an important role in improvement of potable water quality. In the transmission of drinking water from waterworks to household, the distribution network is the main factor affecting the water quality in community; therefore, reconstruction of pipe network in community is an effective measure for improving the water quality in distribution system. Before the reconstruction starts, to make demonstration on the necessity of reconstruction and the scheme gives a security for the project to achieve the scheduled targets. Water quality analysis, immersion test of pipes and valves, and techno-economic analysis are the important means for selection of the optimal option.


Review of Art & The Nation State, The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland, by Róisín Kennedy (Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021), 292 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78962-235-5, $105,49


The examination of chiral compounds is a fundamental task in pharmaceutical industry. An
observation was made in Egis PLC during preparative method development on Chiralpak AD column in
polar organic mode. The experiments with mixtures of methanol and IPA revealed that with the increasing
methanol percentage the enantioselectivity was increased, then ceased and only recovered after washing
the column with IPA.
After deeper exploration of the phenomenon, a standard procedure was defined to test other columns
containing similar chiral stationary phases. We examined columns with different particle size, coating
technique and manufacturer. We saw that the amylose derivatives have similar results, but we did not
obtain any separation on the cellulose derivative. The results on amylose derivatives have been compared.
For further investigation Lux Amylose-1 was selected. Plot of selectivity against the IPA/methanol
ratio gave a hysteresis curve. Further experiments demonstrated that the best separations can be
completely overlooked if inappropriate method screening sequence is used. Recommendations for
appropriate screening practice are given.
By generating the van't Hoff plot from experiments at different temperatures, enthalpy-driven
mechanism was indicated. Thermodynamic parameters were calculated.
Mixtures of IPA and ethanol also produced the same hysteresis-phenomenon. In this case the optimal
separation was found at an alcohol ratio different from which was found in the IPA/methanol case.
Normal phase experiments were also carried out using heptane with mixtures of IPA and ethanol as
polar organic modifiers. Hysteresis was observed again. The resolution and selectivity of the best
separation was worse than in the polar organic mode.
To the best of our knowledge, the above detailed crucial dependence of selectivity on the previous
solvated state of the column has not been described so far in polar organic solvent chiral chromatography.
The phenomenon was also observed at the same alcohol ratios with another compound having completely
different structure. We concluded that the separation changes of our test substances shed light on a
characteristic conformation change of the stationary phase in certain alcohol mixtures. The change takes
place near the compositions resulting in the best separations, which may be useful in the chromatography
of compounds recognizing these unique conformations.


In this paper, the modeling for the harmonic dissector in minimal invasive surgery (MIS) is proposed. This model is the series connection of a mass-spring-damper system and a nonlinear system. The former is based on the mechanical property of the dissector, and the latter is in the fundamental of the hysteresis description of the piezo-actuator, which is the driving part of the dissector. In addition, based on hysteresis compensation and force control, this paper also proposed a method which can be used to identify the stiffness of the object which is clipped by the dissector. In terms of the stiffness identification, this paper only introduces a theoretical approach. As for the experimental validation, it will be carried out in the future work.


This article broadens our understanding of politics from being something only to do with politicians and the State or government and shows how ordinary things like food get implicated and compromised by it.


This paper reviews three different total offset assumptions that the author has encountered in forensic economic practice that can be empirically assessed with standard data sources. A 'total offset' assumption is an assumption that two different variables, one that tends to increase damages and one that tends to reduce damages, can be eliminated from consideration by assuming that one of the variables 'totally offsets' the other variable. The 'total offsets' considered are between wages and the discount rate, between the cost of living and the discount rate and between medical care cost increases and the discount rate. Each 'total offset' is considered in terms of (1) requirements of law; (2) economic accuracy; and (3) assistance in understanding by a jury. The paper provides data for the relative values of supposedly offsetting variables over a number of time periods for various interest rates compared with wage growth rates, the CPI and the MCPI.


A case report involving a 76‐year‐old male is presented. The signs and symptoms represent a difficult diagnostic problem. The physical signs are dependent on a knowledge of the distribution of fat and fascia in the region involved. The importance of this distribution, both physiologic and pathologic, is the subject of a brief commentary. © 1995 WiIey‐Liss, Inc.


The invention relates to corn strong flour and a production method thereof, and belongs to food processing technologies. The production method comprises: screening mature corn grains to remove impurities, performing dry-method decrustation and degerming, crushing, acid-fat combined weakening, thermal insulation rolling grinding, high-temperature extrusion, drying, ultrafine grinding and the like to produce corn strong flour possessing good bonding force, plasticity and extensibility. The corn flour of the invention is suitable for adjusting of plastic dough used to process of staple food such as breads, steamed breads, noodles and the like, so that corn is widened in application scope. The production method has mild conditions, no pollution, no generation of waste residues, waste gases and harmful substances; and no chemical reagents are used, so that the product is safe to take.


· Hazard-determining components of labelling: Alcohols, C12-15, ethoxylated · Hazard statements H318 Causes serious eye damage. · Precautionary statements P280 Wear eye protection / face protection. P305+P351+P338 IF IN EYES: Rinse cautiously with water for several minutes. Remove contact lenses, if present and easy to do. Continue rinsing. P310 Immediately call a POISON CENTER/doctor. · 2.3 Other hazards · Results of PBT and vPvB assessment · PBT: None. · vPvB: None.


The ARS multispectral imaging system with three-band common aperture camera was able to inspect fecal contaminants in real-time mode during poultry processing. Recent study has demonstrated several image processing methods including binning, cuticle removal filter, median filter, and morphological analysis in real-time mode could remove false positive errors. The ARS research groups and their industry partner are now merging the fecal detection and systemically disease detection systems onto a common platform using line-scan hyperspectral imaging system. This system will aid in commercialization by creating one hyperspectral imaging system with user-defined wavelengths that can be installed in different locations of the processing line to solve significant food safety problems. Therefore, this research demonstrated the feasibility of line-scan hyperspectral imaging system in terms of processing speed and detection accuracy for a real-time, on-line fecal detection at current processing speed (140 birds per minute) of commercial poultry plant. The newly developed line-scan hyperspectral imaging system could improve Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)'s poultry safety inspection program significantly.


Antipsychotics used in the treatment of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are generally associated with potential adverse effects. They mainly act by blocking dopaminergic uptake by binding to its receptors in the post synaptic nerve terminals. However their potential peripheral and extra pyramidal adverse effects have led to patient non-compliance of medications. Hence a clear understanding of the adverse effects associated with antipsychotic therapy could ultimately yield better therapeutic outcomes and increase patient adherence to medications. The study was designed to analyse the common adverse reactions caused by antipsychotic medications. Olanzapine was found to be associated with greater risk of adverse effects and hence the plasma concentration of olanzapine was monitored.


Thousands of women and children in Iran have been poisoned in recent months, in a campaign that appears well planned and highly co-ordinated. The attacks come as authorities struggle to suppress a popular movement led by Iranian women calling for fundamental change to the Islamic Republic.


Passive optical network (PON) is the leading technology being used for delivering last-mile connectivity without any active components in the distribution network. In this paper, we focus on an un-amplified hybrid tree-ring PON architecture that carries the benefits of both the tree and the ring architectures. Through simulation, we demonstrate the optical performance of the system and focus on the physical layer performance impact of interchannel and intrachannel crosstalk due to non-ideal WDM multiplexers/demultiplexers and optical switches in the system.


Synergistic Combination has been described in human and veterinary medicine as to solve the anthelmintic resistance and overcome it. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the anthelmintic efficacy of combination of the herbal plants; Citrus aurantifolia; Egyptian lemon seeds extract and mebendazol against mixed infection with Ancylostoma caninum and Toxocara canis. A total number of 25 local Egyptian dogs naturally infected with A. caninum and T. canis were used in the experiment. The animals were randomly divided into 5 groups, five dogs each. Group A; animals were non infected non treated control one, group B; animals were naturally infected with both A. caninum and T. canis and not treated. The infected C, D and E groups; animals were treated in serials with mebendazole alone, Citrus aurantifolia seeds extract only and the latter were treated with combined therapy mebendazole and Citrus aurantifolia seeds extract. The treatment extended 2 weeks; 3 times per week; day after day. The results showed that treatment with the different anthelmintic gives a variable efficacy, but the high efficacy was produced by the combination treatment of mebendazole and Citrus aurantifolia seeds extract which produce significant decrease in fecal egg count (FEC) and the percent of FEC reduction of A. caninum and T. canis reached to 100% and 98.2%, respectively. The hematological assay during different period of treatment and after recovery were done and the infected treated dogs with combined therapy of C. aurantifolia extract with mebendazoles, showed blood parameters (Hb, RBCs, PCV, WBCs, total protein and albumin concentration) reaching to normal values of non-infected untreated control group.


Micro-displacement machining of precision abnormal surface is one of the key technologies of processing precision curve surface. Currently, there are lots of driving elements of micro-displacement, in which piezoelectric ceramics driving has unique advantages from the view of control precision and manipulability. But the displacement output of PZT (Piezoelectric Translator) is so small and is influenced by the output frequency that the application is greatly restricted on the occasions of high frequency response as well as larger displacement output. This paper firstly analyzes the static and dynamic driving characteristics of PZT and on the base of experiment, effective machining range and method of improving output quality are presented according to the PZT. Meanwhile, one way of outputting larger displacement on condition of higher frequency response is proposed.


Asia up until the Asian Synod of 1998. Here he focuses particularly on the FABC's conception of the church's ministry and mission in Asia as the engagement in a triple dialogue with the Asian poor, Asian religions, and Asian cultures (22-37), and the centrality of the reign of God for the church's identity (69-77). That these concerns gradually combined with one another is evident in the final statement of the FABC's fourth assembly: "Seeking the Kingdom that Jesus proclaimed is really to build it in the concrete experiences of the social, political, economic, religious and cultural world of Asia.... The struggle for fullness of life in Asia is a seeking of the Kingdom" (76). Part 2 consists of two chapters and-i-to the mind of this reviewer---don't quite seem to fit in the book. The first chapter presents short biographies of a number of "East-West bridges": Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, and Raimon Panikkar; the second chapter reflects briefly on Asians who have migrated to the United States and on what gifts they bring to this society. Part 3, however, continues the saga of the Asian bishops as their "new way of being church" comes under suspicion and, to some degree, collides with the vision of church supported by central authorities in Rome. Chapters in this section tell the story of the preparations for, engagement in, and aftermath of, the Asian Synod of 1998, and how the Asian bishops put up strong resistance to some of the perspectives about mission and dialogue that Rome insisted on at this time. One Filipino bishop, Fox reports, asked the pope if he saw any difference between the Asian Synod and the previous Synod of North and South America. "No," the pope replied; "each has the same secretary general." To which the bishop answered: "Yes, Your Holiness, the same secretary general, the same methodology, the same pope." But as others said: "Yes, they have filtered out our contributions. When we return to our countries, we shall also be filtering their documents" (183). Indeed, the papal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia (like all other post-Synodal documents entitled pointedly "the church in" rather than "the church of") was described by Indian theologian Michael Amaladoss as "a document for Asia but not from Asia" (189). But the Asian bishops have quietly gone about their business of developing a truly Asian understanding of Christianity. The picture Fox paints of the Asian church is-e-thanks to the FABC~that of a church with strong, Vatican II-inspired leadership. He sees theologians and bishops working closely together, steeped in the reality of Asian peoples, and perhaps increasingly independent of a central authority that they believe really doesn't understand them. Fox may be too optimistic, however. The FABC certainly has produced a number of beautiful and quite visionary documents; but it is not always evident whether its vision has been appropriated by on-the-ground clergy and Asian laity alike. Nevertheless, as one bishop equally optimistically put it at the Roman Synod: "We've got the ideas; we've got the theologies; the rest will follow" (179). One may certainly hope so. As Christianity enters a new era where Asian, African, and Latin American Christians form the majority (and there is even talk of a Third-World pope), Thomas Fox has written convincingly that the West-s-and the rest of the church-shas much to learn from the continent where, after all, Christianity first began.


Latent variable modelling has gradually become a standard tool and an active area of research in medical statistics. By latent variable, we mean any random variable whose realizations are not observable. Alternative names for latent variables include random effects or random coefficients, frailties, common factors, latent traits and latent classes. This proliferation of terms is somewhat unfortunate because it obscures the similarities of different latent variable models. As pointed out by Skrondal and Rabe-Hesketh,1 latent variables represent phenomena such as true values measured with error, hypothetical constructs and unobserved heterogeneity and can be used to generate flexible multivariate distributions and combine information about individual units from different sources. The five papers in this issue cover all of these uses of latent variables and apply latent variable models to a wide range of problems in medical research. The first paper, Classical latent variable models for medical research by Sophia RabeHesketh and Anders Skrondal, reviews common factor, item response, latent class and structural equation models. In these models, latent variables typically represent true scores or hypothetical constructs. In Latent class and finite mixture models for multilevel data sets, Jeroen Vermunt extends latent class models to a multilevel setting with subjects nested in clusters. To allow for unobserved heterogeneity, the model for latent class membership includes a discrete cluster-level latent variable. In the third paper, Joint modelling of mixed outcome types using latent variables, Charles McCulloch uses latent variables to produce flexible multivariate distributions for joint modelling of responses of different types. He derives the marginal expectations and covariance matrix induced by the latent variables. In Biometrical modelling in genetics: Are complex traits too complex?, Håkon Gjessing and Rolv Terje Lie describe biometrical genetic models for family data in which latent variables represent the effects of genes and shared environment on complex traits. They discuss the problems that large sample sizes are required to obtain reasonable precision and that it is difficult to separate genetic and environmental effects in complex family designs. In the final paper, Bayesian latent variable modelling of multivariate spatio-temporal variation in cancer mortality, Evangelia Tzala and Nicky Best propose Bayesian spatiotemporal latent variable models for multiple related diseases. The models are used


An improved ultrasonic lithotriptor probe for performing fragmentation and removal of calculi deposits in the kidney and upper ureter wherein high frequency sound waves are utilized to disintegrate the calculi or stones based on placing the probe against the stones and causing them to disintegrate due to the ultrasonic energy. The probe is coupled to a transducer which drives it and the probe is hollow and aspiration is utilized to remove the particles of the stone through the probe. The probe extends into the transducer which prevents the probe from clogging. Also, the end of the probe which engages the stone is provided with a slit so as to prevent it from being clogged by the stone so as to cause the aspiration to be interrupted when the end of the probe extends into the confines of the stone in that the split will allow liquid to pass through the probe and continue to cool it and to remove fragments through the probe.


In general, it is hoped that prevention and earlier diagnosis of cancer will lead to decreased mortality rates. This is particularly true for malignant melanoma, for which there is strong epidemiologic data that skin cancer is associated with ultraviolet radiation from the sun [1,2••]. Strategies that limit overall exposure to the sun and also minimize the burning effects of the sun should reduce the incidence of melanoma and other skin cancers. However, it has been difficult to prove that regular use of sunscreen lotions can protect against melanoma. This is in part due to several confounding factors in the epidemiologic studies conducted to date. In particular, those with a history of sunburns are subsequently more likely to use sunscreens, and ongoing sunscreen use may appear as a risk factor; however, the real cause would be prior excessive sun exposure. In addition, it is also important to carefully evaluate the type of sunscreen use. Until recently, the majority of sunscreen products were effective in protecting against only ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation. Newer sunscreen lotions also protect against UVA radiation, though with variable effectiveness. In this issue, Martin Weinstock (pp 159–162) reviews the optimal usage of sunscreens to prevent sunburns and the controversy on the utility of sunscreens to reduce the risk of melanoma. The article concludes that the slogan "Slip! Slop! Slap!" (slip on a shirt, slop on the sunscreen, slap on the hat) remains a reasonable strategy for skin cancer prevention, although more carefully conducted studies are needed to address the overall benefit of sunscreen use in individuals who at risk for melanoma.


Coordination mechanisms are proposed in a supply chain consisting of one supplier and one retailer with supplier's cost asymmetric information in a normal scenario firstly. After supplier's cost disruption has occurred, coordination mechanisms for revising production plan in a irregular scenario are developed. Impacts of supplier's cost disruption on retail price, wholesale price and retailer's as well as supplier's expected profits are investigated through analytical and numerical analyses.


In this paper, we investigate the moderating role of the agency conflict between controlling and minority shareholders on the investment-risk relationship. When the ownership-control structure is c...


SUMMARY. The estimated average number of bacteria in the gut of laboratory-cultured Nais variabilis was 100.4 × 104. This compares with values of 6.7 × 104 and 32.8 × 104, respectively, for N. variabilis and N. barbata obtained from a river.

Comparison of the viability of heterotrophic bacteria in the food and gut of N. variabilis indicated a decline in viability of up to 99.6% during the passage of bacteria through the gut. The estimated gut retention time was 39 ± 8 min at 18°C and therefore loss of viability is unlikely to be due to long retention in the gut. Loss of viability is, however, a prerequisite of bacterial digestion by the worm and provides circumstantial evidence that ingested bacteria are used as food.

No conclusive evidence was obtained indicating (a) preferential ingestion of certain kinds of bacteria, (b) that the gut environment was selectively hostile to the particular kinds of bacteria studied or (c) that worms had a specialized gut micro-flora.


The present invention relates to aircraft engine mounting device, the aircraft engine mounting device described in the base frame to the aircraft engine located to the upper side; It is rotatably coupled to the shaft at both sides of the base frame with lateral support pedestal for supporting the both sides of an engine mounted on the base frame; The mounted to the bottom side of the base frame and connected with the lower side of the engine unit of the lower side coupled to the upper and lower spar; Is placed on the floor the other side of the base frame, the lower support supporting the lower one side of the engine, to enable the upper and lower spar; Wherein is the coupled to saptal both ends to the base frame aircraft engine mounting device to be provided with a peripheral support frame enclosing the periphery of the engine mounted on the base frame, according to this invention is additionally the conventional engine transfer and mounting operation the lowering from a device that was performed in the device transferring and mounting a city by to occur engine transport and attached inconvenience on the operation of the engine, at the same time is effective to achieve higher operating efficiency it is possible to maximize the operational stability have.


It's an anthropomorf schematic figure made in three dimensions with a piece of stoneware of 93 centimeters high. The frontal face of the image that should have had the work o decoration more interesting, unfortunately, hasn't been conserved in his totality. Are very interestings the resemblances that has this figure with the most of 120 statues-menhirs of the Rouergue's group in the southeast of France, fact that carry us to propose a cronology for the statua-menhir of Ca l'Estrada of 3300-2200 cal. BC similar to this group of France.


It is disclosed a device for detecting a fault arc in incident light, a sensor for the detection of absorption lines of the incident light; and an evaluation unit, which generates in the presence of characteristic absorption lines comprises an evaluation.


The subprime crisis in the USA triggered the global financial crisis.The academic circles believe that the reasons causing this subprime crisis include defects in financial market,loosen financial supervision and management,improper monetary policies,destruction of real estate bubbles,excessive credit loan and speculation etc..However,all these are not the fundamental reasons for this subprime crisis.Marx's law of proportion-based harmonious development of social production and average rate of profit explain the reasons and influences of the subprime crisis in depth,and reveal that dummy economy separating from entity economy will definitely damage the entity economy finally.In fact,the subprime crisis in the USA is a great regulation of the imbalanced world economy.In the contemporary world,Marxian economic theories are still of great practical significance.


the article is a description of the laboratory testing of transient heat flow in small-size samples of concrete and analysis of the impact of spacers made of a polyurethane material to the flow and the temperature distributions in the sample. this problem affects the working of concrete structural members exposed to a wide range of temperatures, and the thermal stresses generated in them, especially when the heat flow is analysed by a combination made of a flexible connection. the results can be used in issues related to the durability of concrete elements and their connections.


Since 1880s unidirectional power flows in electrical distribution networks (DNs) have been known as the usual case. But after 1990s due to the installation of new entities such as distributed generation (DG) units and battery storage systems (BSSs) bidirectional power flows would be the future case. Recently, a combined problem formulation for active-reactive optimal power flow (A-R-OPF) has been developed to utilize the economical benefits of operating both low- and medium-voltage active DNs (ADNs). In this paper, some technical and economical aspects of allowing reverse A-R-OPF in ADNs are highlighted. This is achieved by considering a real medium voltage ADN with a high penetration of wind and battery stations. The results show that considering a price for reactive energy in ADNs will lead to a huge amount of reverse reactive energy. This new phenomenon needs to be considered in operating and planning future ADNs.


This Master Thesis encloses the results of a project conducted in collaboration with Scania CV AB in Södertälje. The project is focused on architecture analysis when modularization methods are applied to a complex system. Scania has a known and successful history in modularization, which it is claimed to play an essential role in becoming one of the world's leading companies today. Therefore, the Product description methodology department within Scania wanted to investigate an engine subsystem in order to have a better understanding of its current architecture. For this purpose, there have been implemented suitable modularization methods. The Extreme High-Pressure Injection (XPI) system was chosen by the author for investigation and modularized using two different methods: Heuristic method and DSM (Design Structure Matrix) method using IGTA++ clustering algorithm. The resulted clusters from both methods were analyzed and compared with the ones from the current architecture. Based on these analyses a modular architecture was finally suggested by the author. The thesis identifies the architectural differences after applying the modularization methods and highlights the possible factors which may influence the analyses results. It also reveals the DSM analyses show most similar cluster proposals with the current architecture. The evolution of the system configuration is also investigated by having its previous version as reference. Another purpose of the thesis is to answer the research question regarding the system's flexibility when it comes to technology shift.


Thresholding which is a crucial part of image segmentation has been known to help in the unification of objects and moreover, it will attenuate the noise within the regions of interest which ultimately, leads to significantly better results. Rubber latex concentrate, which is essentially an intermediate state between suspensions and solutions, is the raw material for making many common household and industrial products. A common measure of its quality is the mechanical stability time, which is defined as the time at the first onset of flocculation when the latex is subjected to the physical stress from rotating it at speeds of 14,000 rev/min. Nevertheless, the common approach to determine this, based on the widely adopted ISO 35 & ASTM 1076 standards[3, 4] relies heavily on the experience, eye sight and analytical skills of the human operator when presented with the extracted samples taken at regular time intervals[5]. In this paper, we propose a new approach to determine the mechanical stability time of the sample but as it involves particle enumeration, we will show how multi-thresholding based on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) can significantly improve the accuracy of this enumeration.


The design of a sliding correlator based direct sequence spread spectrum system is described. The design philosophy was simplicity, keeping in mind the need for system flexibility. The major design issues are signal generation and synchronisation. A direct digital synthesis signal generator was used to verify transmitter operation and to test the correlator performance under conditions such as additive Gaussian noise and co-channel user generated interference. Experimental results for attributes such as process gain agree well with theoretical expectations.<<ETX>>


This essay poses the progressive loss, in the last decades, of the location in the
productive system as soon as identity of the citizenship, what, from anarchistic attitudes,
has comported two fundamental lines of dissidence and social protest. Firstly, from the
development of ideological frames that refuse the employee work, because it shows the
alienation and the establishment support. And second, from the positions of those who
see in the consumption the mechanism for the social transformation, through strategies
based on a political utilization of the income. Along the text we illustrate with examples
and concrete proposals both lines of behaviour, that shows the evolution from the homo
laborans to the homo consumens.


In this paper,the establishment of a kind of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis method of vinyl chloride monomer component in the first through the impure vinyl chloride monomer available in commercially by analysed; secondly,the vinyl chloride monomer was purified through the self-designed dewatering and purification device,and the purity of vinyl chloride monomer is more than 99. 95%. The highly purified chlorine ethylene gas is the for the basement of prepared the standard material of vinyl chloride. The purification device and the analysis method are convenient and reliable for the laboratory to purify and prepare standard substance about toxic and harmful gases,and provide a new way.


Introduction: The article presents epidemiological data on the cases of kidney cancer in Turkistan region depending on age and sex.
Purpose: Assess the incidence and neglect of kidney cancer in the Turkestan region.
Material and methods: Mathematical and statistical methods recommended by the Ministry of Healthcare were used.
Results: In 2013-2018 South Kazakhstan region there is a incidence of kidney cancer among men-4.4, among women-3.2 respectively. In addition, among cancer, kidney cancer is 8 among men and 12 among women. The maximum incidence peak is 50-59 years. This means that the prevalence of the disease among the working-age population.
Conclusion: Thus, conducting a statistical analysis of the oncological state in the Turkestan region, we note: an increase in the incidence of kidney cancer, as well as a comparative increase in mortality, and finally an increase in the five-year survival rate. However, the increase in the number of patients first identified at stage IV proves that the level of oncological vigilance is still low.


The wetland and riparian communities associated with most inland Australian rivers rely on periodic flooding and drying cycles for their healthy maintenance and ecological functioning. Community composition, structure and location are determined primarily by elevation and hence access to flood waters. As most inland rivers are heavily regulated, determination of the timing and size of environmental flow releases from water storages is essential for the proper management of these areas. Modelling of flood surface gradients across large floodplains is one means used to determine which areas of the floodplain and consequently which vegetation communities will be flooded for a given environmental flow release. Traditionally, these gradients have been determined by cell-based analysis using aerial photography and contour maps. Various Landsat TM derived water detection algorithms and L-band SAR backscatter thresholding techniques were explored to detect floodwater boundaries during flooding of a large wetland area on the Macquarie River in central western New South Wales, Australia. These were used in conjunction with a Digital Elevation Model of the area in a GIS environment to model the flood surface gradient and determine the relationships between elevation, flooding and distance from flood entry point. Results showed that automated determination of the flood surface gradient from the satellite imagery achieved better results than manual cell-based analysis and facilitated more accurate modelling of the effects of flow releases. The development of such techniques will permit better use of water resources for sustainable management of important wetland and riparian communities in the future.


The TaiwanICDF has recently commenced technical cooperation projects with three of its partner countries in Central America. These projects include the "Healthy Avocado Seedling Reproduction Project" in Honduras, the "Rice Seed Research, Development and Pr


The use of ultrasound to promote chemical reactions is called sonochemistry. The effects of ultrasound observed during organic reactions are due to cavitation, a physical process that creates, enlarges, and implodes gaseous and vaporous cavities in an irradiated liquid. Recently, the sustainability of chemical reactions has gained strength in scientific and political discussions. In this context, sonochemistry is discussed as being a matchingmethod for promote chemical reactions. Such (often called "green") techniques can help to reduce the total of undesired dangerous chemicals and solvents, decrease energy utilization and boost the selectivity towards the given product(s). In the field of organic synthesis, green chemistry rhymes with relevant choice of starting materials, atom economy, methodologies that minimize the number of chemical steps, suitable use of benign solvents and reagents, efficient strategies for product isolation and refinement and energy minimization. In that context, alternative methods and especially ultrasound can be a fine addition towards achieving these green needs. certainly, sonochemistry is known as being one of the most capable green chemical methods. [1] This review is devoted to the most striking results obtained in green organic sonochemistry.


1. The ecological safety problem and technical risk 2. The concept mechanism in the sphere of ecological safety and risk 3. Analysis and ecological risk management 4. Assessment of the hazard of an accident at an industrial facility 5. Organizing the safety system in emergency situations in the technical sphere 6. Ecological insurance in the sphere of ecological risk management 7. Conclusion Glossary Bibliography


Alex Avdeef [1] and Samuel Yalkowsky [2] have independently studied the solubility and ionization properties of an investigational drug (NSC-639829). In the study conducted by Avdeef and coworkers, the pKa value derived from Henderson-Hasselbalch (HH) equation was 4.70, which was different from the value of 3.76 as determined experimentally by the Yasuda-Shedlovsky plot using the pKa values obtained from co-solvent UV titrations. The authors then invoked an ionization-precipitation-aggregation model by assuming the formation of a positively charged dimer to generate the theoretical solubility-pH profile. In their implementation, the pKa was fixed at 3.76, while the S0, and the aggregation equilibrium constant were treated as adjustable parameters. To this end, the authors obtained a reasonably good fit between the model and the experiment. The S0 value as determined using this approach appeared to be in line with the previously reported value [2].


Mitochondria play a pivotal role in the orchestration of cell death pathways. Here, we show that the control of ubiquitin dynamics at mitochondria contributes to the regulation of apoptotic cell death. The unique mitochondrial deubiquitylase, USP30, opposes Parkin‐dependent ubiquitylation of TOM20, and its depletion enhances depolarization‐induced cell death in Parkin‐overexpressing cells. Importantly, USP30 also regulates BAX/BAK‐dependent apoptosis, and its depletion sensitizes cancer cells to BH3‐mimetics. These results provide the first evidence for a fundamental role of USP30 in determining the threshold for mitochondrial cell death and suggest USP30 as a potential target for combinatorial anti‐cancer therapy.


There has been no lack of research on the variation of comparative adjective forms in contemporary English, but our understanding of comparison strategies is still limited, with respect to individual patterns of adjectives, as well as sociolinguistic factors (e.g. formality). This article presents a quantitative investigation of selected disyllabic adjectives in comparison (i.e. ample, bitter, common, complete, costly, deadly, empty, friendly, kindly, likely, obscure, remote, robust, severe, simple, sober, wealthy), based on the 2001–2005 issues of two different types of newspapers in British English (i.e. Daily Mail and The Independent). Our analysis reveals that, although previous studies have shown that some factors have an effect on the comparative alternation between the inflectional and periphrastic forms (e.g. costlier and more costly, respectively), these factors do not affect all adjectives equally. We also found that, for many adjectives, periphrastic comparison is more likely to be preferred in the less formal newspaper (i.e. Daily Mail). The present study also explores the strategies employed when selecting comparative forms for superlative adjectives and shows that factors which are influential on the comparative formation are not always effective on the superlative comparison.


For both ends of the reactor with a parallel transmission lines, a method using Fault-phase voltage of low frequency component to Discrimine of the fault nature in Recovery voltage phase. In this method, different frequency bands is obtained by S-transform for Recovery phase of the faulted phase voltage capacity ,compare the low frequency part , in advance , determining the nature of the fault. Through theoretical analysis and a large number of verification of PSCAD, This method can effectively distinguish the fault type.


This study aims to develop a concept of Immigration's organizational culture known as "PASTI AKTUAL", the acronym for Professional, Accountable, Sinergy, Transparent, and Innovative. While AKTUAL stands for Active, Creative, Trusted, Prominent, Credential and Logic. This article uses a qualitative descriptive approach. The data are collected from various literatuures and resources such as scientific journals, relevant book, and other academic resources. The results of the study shows that the organizational culture based on "PASTI AKTUAL" has been accordance with Immigration core values and organizational vision. However, to internalize these values into individual action in order to creating new organizational culture, Immigration needs a role model in leadership, effective communication, appropriate training, and practical action.


ABSTRA C T We report here evidence for significant transverse spread of the light production region in bright Leonid meteors. One Leonid meteor has an apparent spread in the light production region of about 600 m perpendicular to the flight path for the meteor, that transverse spread persisting for at least 0.3 s. We have also detected short-duration, jet-like features emanating from a bright Leonid meteor recorded in 1998. These jet-like features have maximum spatial dimensions up to 1.9 km. While we cannot definitively rule out instrumental artefacts as a cause for these jet-like features, they may be evidence of motion contributing to the observed spatial spread in the light production region.


Abstract Whole-cell cellular fatty acid (CFA) composition was utilized to determine if Bacillus thuringiensis serovar kurstaki (HD-1) larvicides produced by different manufacturers could be distinguished from each other and to determine whether these larvicides were distinguishable from isolates deposited in public collections. This study analyzed Biobit, Dipel, Foray, Thuricide, and the non HD-1 larvicides Delfin and Javelin, as well as the 1971 and 1980 Standards of HD-1. Isolates of HD-1 deposited in the collections of the American Type Culture Collection, Bacillus Genetic Stock Center, Pasteur Institute, and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) were also analyzed. The data were grouped by hierarchical cluster analysis based on the unpaired-group method using arithmetic averages (UPGMA). Samples that linked at a Euclidean distance ≤2.0 units were considered to belong to the same fatty acid strain. Isolates of HD-1 from commercial products and deposits of HD-1 in the public collections and Standards were polytypic; 22 separate fatty acid strains were identified in the 1971 and 1980 Standards and 35 fatty acid strains were identified in the public collections. The type strain for Btk contained multiple fatty acid strains; three fatty acid strains were present in both the Bacillus Genetic Stock Center and the Pasteur Institute collections. In contrast, the type strain for serovar kurstaki in the USDA collection (HD-73) was monotypic and its fatty acid strain did not occur in other collections. We could distinguish between HD-1 and non-HD-1 larvicides using CFA composition. We conclude that CFA analysis may be used to identify commercial products.


Abstract : Observations were made at Bamako in the Republic of Mali on the central line of the eclipse at a point with coordinates lambda = 8 deg 00 min 06 sec W, phi = 12 deg 38 min 03 sec N, at 320 m above sea level. Information reported indicates that the following active formations were on the sun on eclipse day and may have been associated with an increase in radio emission: four flocculi with an intensity of 1 and one flocculus with an intensity of 3. The coronal lines were weak and there were no sunspots or pores, but on the day before the eclipse the group of spots labeled No. 113 with a total area S sub p = 12 was observed within the limits of the intense flocculus (the maximum value S sub p = 92 was observed on 22 July). This group had disintegrated by eclipse time, but their source did continue to emit at lambda 3.16 cm. The location of the source is marked on a figure, which also contains a synoptic map of the sun, the path of the moon, and the graphs of the eclipse (ephemeris time).


AIM: To investigate clinical outcome and the treatment related complications in patients with hematological malignancies undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell mixed allogeneic HLA haploidentical bone marrow transplantation. METHODS: We analyzed retrospectively the clinical data of 33 hematological malignancy patients from January 1995 to January 2003. RESULTS: Seventeen (51%) of all 33 developed mild or moderate oral mucitis,1 severe hemorrhagic cystitis,1 hepatic VOD,1 leukoencephalopathy, 1 cerebral edema after TBI,1 interstitial pneumonia due to tuberculous preurisy during transplantation.10 cases evaluable were analysed: 3 cases developed mixed chimera,and 2 cGVHD. With a median follow up of 42 months (range 6 to 96), 19 patients(57.6%) are still in disease free survival, 4(12.1%) patients died from transplantation related toxicity, 8(24.2%) relapsed post transplantation,2(6.1%) developed MDS post transplantation. CONCLUSION: These results indicate that autologous hematopoietic stem cell mixed allogeneic HLA haploidentical bone marrow transplantation can induce GVL effect and reduce relapse post transplantation,without an increased incidence of transplantation related mortality or toxicity.


On February 21, 2003, California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added carbon black to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens. The listing was based on the reclassification of carbon black as a Group 2B agent (possibly carcinogenic to humans) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). However, IARC noted in its evaluation of carbon black carcinogenicity that end users of certain products are not exposed to carbon black per se, because carbon black is bound within the product matrix, and OEHHA has restricted the listing of carbon black to "airborne, unbound particles of respirable size". The objective of the present study was to determine if carbon black is bound within the polymer matrix in printer toners or if free, unbound carbon black is detectable in printer toners. Thirteen toners in five different polymer matrix categories from five manufacturers ranging from small workgroup printers to large production printers were analyzed. Both toners with and without surface treatment additives were included in the present study. The results of the present study showed that carbon black was bound in the polymer matrix of the tested printer toners and that free, unbound carbon black was not detectable in the tested printer toners. Therefore, the results support a conclusion that carbon black in printer toners is not subject to consumer warning under Proposition 65.