In this chapter, we review data on psychiatric emergencies and related symptoms in asylum seekers. In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the migration of displaced people throughout the world, and mental health care for these highly vulnerable individuals is a major public health challenge for Western health systems. Current research often investigates asylum seekers and other immigrant or refugee groups on the basis of epidemiological data. Nevertheless, these people are exposed to different types of mental health risks and thus have to be assessed separately. This chapter will first consider available data on the prevalence of post-migratory stressors, psychiatric symptoms, and mental disorders that may underlie psychiatric emergencies for asylum seekers. How asylum seekers utilize mental health care services in the acute setting will be evaluated and current knowledge will be used to develop a decision-making algorithm for clinicians.


Abstract The Ritual of the Bacabs is an eighteenth-century Yucatec Maya language manuscript containing over forty healing chants and numerous remedies for a variety of illnesses. In this paper, I reconstruct features of colonial Maya ontology through an analysis of those healing chants accompanying treatments involving fire and heat. In particular, I demonstrate that the manipulation of fire and heat in autochthonous healing was a means of managing kinam, a 'force' which Maya past and present discern as a relative quality of things and people. Managing kinam occurs as the healer acts upon the material 'icons' (uayasba) of beings involved in the rite, including indigenous deities, medicines, and parts of the healer's own body. Furthermore, in contrast with Western semiotics, I argue that these chants exhibit a colonial Maya ontology in which uayasba signifiers are considered co-substances rather than substitutions.


2 Croatia: President Stjepan Mesic wins the first round of presidential elections, but faces competition from vice-president Jadranda Kosor in a second round. 4 Turkey/Israel/Syria: During a landmark visit to Israel, Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul speaks of Syria's readiness for peace talks. He seeks to repair Israeli–Turkish ties and end a diplomatic chill that followed the Israeli crackdown in Gaza last year. 5 Israel/Palestinian Authority: A bomb attack by Hamas injures 12 Israeli soldiers at the military base of Nagal Oz. 7 Italy: A crash involving two trains claims 17 lives and injures 60 in Bologna. 9 Israel/Lebanon: Israeli planes and artillery fire on suspected Hizballah positions in southern Lebanon after the killing of an Israeli soldier by militants. Palestinian Authority: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wins a landslide victory in the presidential election to succeed the late Yasser Arafat. Preliminary official results giveAbbas 62.3 per cent of the vote on a turn-out of about 66 per cent. 10 Israel: The Knesset approves a new coalition government formed by the nationalist Likud party of Ariel Sharon and the Labour Party of Shimon Peres. 11 Israel/Palestinian Authority: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas offers 'the hand of peace' to Israel and urges a resumption of talks based on the internationally-backed 'road map' to peace. 13 Israel/Palestinian Authority: Terrorists enter Israel from Gaza and open fire on civilians near the border, killing six andwoundingfive.Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim joint responsibility for the attack. 14 Spain/Morocco: On the eve of a visit by the Spanish king and queen to the North African kingdom, the Spanish government announces that it will award 23 civil honours to members of the Moroccan royal family and senior government officials. 15 Algeria: The government reaches an agreement with tribal leaders in the Kabylie region on the so-called al-Kseur platform; it includes language rights for ethnic Berbers.


We report on the experimental observation of internally-pumped optical parametric oscillation and initial stages of quadratic optical frequency comb generation in a lithium niobate microresonator under conditions of naturally phase-matched second-harmonic generation. © 2020 The Author(s)


This study examines the correlational relationships between local journal authorship, local and external citation counts, full-text downloads, link-resolver clicks, and four global journal impact factor indices within an all-disciplines journal collection of 12,200 titles and six subject subsets at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library. While earlier investigations of the relationships between usage (downloads) and citation metrics have been inconclusive, this study shows strong correlations in the all-disciplines set and most subject subsets. The normalized Eigenfactor was the only global impact factor index that correlated highly with local journal metrics. Some of the identified disciplinary variances among the six subject subsets may be explained by the journal publication aspirations of UIUC researchers. The correlations between authorship and local citations in the six specific subject subsets closely match national department or program rankings.


Socialism market economy is an economic system to promote social morality progress and individual morality maturity.The"demoralization"phenomenon is just the"temporary pain"accompanied by social reform.To strengthen the foundation of socialist morality construction:"five loves","three moralities" and to improve the individual morality level,our morality construction will speed up.


The plasma outside deposition (POD) process is the basic technology for production of large core multimode silica fibers with highly fluorine doped cladding. Due to the all silica fiber construction such fibers can transmit several 10 kW of light power even with a core of 100 μm or less. An overview of the current capabilities and trends in high power laser applications will be presented, including very large fibers, shaped core and cladding designs and fibers with multiple claddings or multiple cores. These concepts can be applied to transmission fibers as well as fiber lasers. Heraeus is supporting these new developments by offering a growing number of materials, preforms and services.


ABSTRACT The paper is concerned with force-sensorless estimation of human joint impedance utilizing an impulsive force. We analyze the dynamic response of a human joint induced by the impulsive perturbation and derive the relationship between the amplitude of the perturbation force and the initial value of the induced angular velocity. This relationship means that the force amplitude required by the estimation algorithm can be replaced with a specific value of the velocity, which leads to eliminating the need for force-sensing. In order to verify the force-sensorless impedance estimation experimentally, a wearable-type snap-through buckling mechanism is employed as the impulsive force generator. The experiments are carried out with a benchmark setup and a healthy male participant. The impedance estimation has been achieved without using any force sensor and performs good consistency with the specific mechanical impedance of the setup and with the ankle impedance reported by related works respectively. The obtained results thus indicate the feasibility of the proposed force-sensorless scheme. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


A study of smartphone displays, used in a museum support website, to produce pictograms of high quality legibility and intelligibility. The first goal was to produce high quality pictograms on smartphones that had figure thicknesses which improved the legibility and intelligibility. The second goal was to produce a museum support website for smartphones using pictograms of figure thicknesses indicated by the results of the experiments. The effectiveness of this website was verified through further experimentation at the museum. The results indicate that thin figures were ranked higher in terms of legibility and intelligibility.


This paper presents a re-description of the rise of comparative religion between 1870 and 1920. It argues that the reconstructions of the past depended on a critical evaluation of the presence. Using comparative methods, scholars identified elements of ancient, oriental and tribal religions in their own culture - in the beginning as survivals, later as powerful manifestations of a culture not subdued by rationality. Their historical reconstructions implied different diagnoses of the modern world.


Regulatory elements of the whey acidic protein (WAP) gene are widely used for the expression of transgenes into milk. Although high levels of transgene expression can be obtained using the WAP promoter, there can be problems in these transgenic animals such as abnormal development of the mammary gland. Towards the understanding of its function, the mouse WAP gene in embryonic stem (ES) cells was inactivated using a combination of homologous recombination and site-specific recombination. The endogenous locus was successfully targeted with a construct containing three loxP sites. After transient expression of Cre recombinase, two types of deletion events were seen in the targeted WAP locus, a complete deletion of the WAP gene and the neomycin-thymidine kinase (Neo-TK) selection cassette (type I deletion), and a deletion of the selection cassette only leaving the intact WAP gene flanked by two loxP sites (type II deletion). Both of these cell lines should facilitate the study of the physiological function of the WAP.


We present a preliminary comparison of the post-nova population with that of general cataclysmic variables (CVs). We particularly focus on the mass-transfer rate and its potential relation to the nova eruption. We find that the known post-nova sample exclusively consists of high mass-transfer CVs, but that this is more likely to be due to the shorter recurrent time for those systems, rather than the mass-transfer rate being affected by the eruption. Nevertheless, we find evidence for such an effect for specific post-novae, and that it is potentially related to the binary separation and to presence or absence of an accretion disc.


An antimicrobial and antifogging coextruded and oriented film having more than three layers comprising: an outer layer comprising a polymer selected from the group consisting of polypropylene homopolymer; ethylene-propylene-n-butene; ethylene-propylene; ethylene-n-butene; and mixtures thereof; a surface layer comprising at least one antimicrobial agent, at least one antifogging agent, and a polymer selected from the group consisting of polypropylene homopolymer, ethylene-propylene-n-butene, ethylene-propylene copolymers, ethylene- n-butene and mixtures thereof, wherein the thickness of the surface layer is between 0.5 -1.5 microns, and a core layer between the outer layer and the surface layer comprising a polymer selected from the group consisting of polypropylene homopolymer, ethylene-propylene-n-butene, ethylene-propylene copolymers, ethylene-n-butene and mixtures thereof, the film further comprising an inner layer between the surface layer and the core layer in which the inner layer has the same composition as the layer surface but anticmicrobianos additives.


This book gathered new information on the corrosion processes as well as the inhibition of mild steel in acid media by four quinoxalines compounds. The corrosion cost exceeds billions of dollars and modern science tends to remedy or limit these huge losses. One way to protect the corrosion is the use of organic inhibitors. The databases provide about 40,000 documents (papers, review, books ...), hence the growing interest in these investigations. We deal in this book, the effect of four types of molecules "quinoxaline" after an overview on the various quinoxalines studied, using several techniques are used as weight loss, polarization curves and spectroscopy Electrochemical impedance. In addition, we call upon the determination of the quantum indexes trying to explain and correlate between inhibtrice found efficiency and molecular structure.


To develop and validate a urinary diary, using the psychometric validation protocol applied to all International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ) modules.


Historians make practically no use of new intellectual tools from the social sciences that are revolutionizing fields such as law or political science, even though the tools lend themselves to the study of the past. True, they may not suit every historian, but why should we forsake methodological assistance that can broaden our perception of the past and help us decide what is important?


The automation of the excavation process requires consideration not only of the design and operation of the excavator drive and control systems but also of the mechanics of the excavation process itself. The paper therefore discusses the developments necessary in these areas in relation to the operation of a simple back-hoe arm. In particular, consideration is given to the ability of a typical excavator to apply a force over its operating envelope, to the design and operation of the hydraulic system, to the modes of operation available for the arm and to the need to gather information on the excavation process itself. In addition, the operation of an automatic excavator in relation to the overall site is examined and consideration given to the need for the provision and supply of information in the context of the site.


We have previously shown acupuncture to be effective in the clinical treatment of lichen ruber planus. In this investigation patients with disordered immunological parameters associated with lichen ruber planus were treated with a three week course of daily acupuncture. IgG, IgA, IgM; C3 and C4 complement fractions; α1-antitrypsin and α2-macroglobulin were measured before and after treatment. A return to within normal range was noted in a significant number of cases. We suggest that this is evidence for an immunomodulating effect of acupuncture.


The author discusses relations between the original and translation in terms of imaginary spaces. Target text is understood here as one of the possible images of the source text, from the perspective which could not be accessible to the original. In accordance with the concept presented here, artistic translation can be not so much reconstructed, as conceptually constructed, in the manner of a cubist object. Acts of creative reading are commented on by the author with examples of his own experimental translations from contemporary French poetry.


An electronic control unit (2) central unit (7) of the target value and the actual value (W Central unit (13) is a current target value of the drive unit (3) (I Thereby, the electric motor (4) is connected in accordance with the current target value (I In the monitoring operation, the central unit (7) of the electronic control unit (2), the electric motor (4) to check whether a safe state. When the electric motor (4) is not in the safety state, as the power of the electric motor (4) (U) is reliably cut off, the central unit (7) is first shut-off device (12) and the drive unit (3 ) to transmit a blocking signal (A1, A2). Furthermore, to generate test information (P) in the central unit (7) at least monitoring operation of the electronic control unit (2), for transmitting test information (P) to the driving unit (3). The central unit of the drive unit (3) (13), in the monitoring operation, if shutdown signal to the drive unit (3) (A2) is transmitted, whether the test information to the drive unit (3) (P) is transmitted , and inspection information (P) is to examine whether or not regular. Central unit on error (13) cuts off the power (U) of the electric motor (4) via a second shut-off device (16).


The fluorescence excitation spectra of jet-cooled oxalyl halides (COF) 2 and (COCl) 2 are measured and compared with their absorption spectra in the gas phase. High efficiency fluorescence of oxalyl fluoride molecules excited to the single vibronic levels of b g symmetry and high efficiency of nonradiative transitions for molecules excited to the single vibronic levels of α g symmetry are observed. High intensity hot band 7 0 2 8 0 1 is detected in the spectrum of oxalyl chloride. These results are compared with data for glyoxal (COH) 2 , obtained earlier.


Newsletter by Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED), written by Mario Marcel Salas. It discusses the case of Webb Boyd, a black man murdered by two security guards, and recent news in the trial of his killers, NAACP involvement, and community support.


Abstract : Interaction of high power laser radiation with matter has been considered. In particular, one- and multiphoton absorption coefficients in direct gap semiconductors have been calculated using a number of theoretical models and compared with experimental data. Selective multiple photon absorption by an anharmonic molecule has been treated including the effects of the rotational sublevels and the Stark broadening of the energy levels. The applicability has been examined of the extended avalanche breakdown process to describe window surface damage by pulsed CO2 lasers. A low-loss isolator for 5.26 micrometer radiation utilizing the Zeaman effect in gases has been proposed.


The effects of miniband width (Δ), applied electric field, and atomic layering thickness disorder present in real semiconductor superlattices (SL's) have been studied experimentally via transverse magnetotransport experiments on a set of n-type modulation-doped GaAs/Ga 0.7 Al 0.3 As SL's. X-ray diffraction and transmission-electron microscopy studies show that the thickness of any given layer may vary randomly by ±1 atomic monolayer from the well-defined average layer thickness. Current-voltage traces show a large drop in the high-field differential conductivity with a characteristic voltage that is proportional to Δ in the range 10


Value Stream Mapping is a paper and pencil tool that captures the state of the system at the state it was drawn. Simulation can be combined with value stream mapping to give it power and flexibility in order to dynamically capture the state of the system. Component-based modeling divides a simulation model into a number of smaller simulation models resulting in a set of simulation building blocks. This paper introduces the Value Stream Map Simulator using ExtendSim ® (VSMSx) as a powerful tool designed to facilitate the implementation of lean manufacturing by simulating the value stream map. The VSMSx empowers the traditional value stream map by combining it with simulation and add the dimension of time making it a powerful analysis tool. The VSMSx is designed to have its own library of blocks that look identical to the icons of the traditional VSM. These blocks can be used for the purpose of developing value stream maps as they are designed to be generic, reusable, and appear exactly like the traditional VSM icons. Compared to traditional value stream mapping, this tool outputs more accurate quantitative performance measures of various scenarios that allow better decision making. Inputs to the VSMSx can be of a deterministic or a stochastic nature that would accurately represent the value stream map variables with any data distribution. A database is developed especially for manipulating the inputs/outputs to the VSMSx. As a conclusion, the VSMSx is a tool that can pave the way for successful lean manufacturing implementations.


The welfare state as suggested and recommended by the Beveridge Report of 1942 and as subsequently applied since the mid 1940s, is a far cry to the welfare state which exists today in Great Britain, for, as a result of economic pressures, the recession, various other factors, and particularly the political ideology of the present Tory government under Mrs. Margaret Thatcher and Mr. John Major which has been in power since 1979, it becomes clear that the golden age of the welfare state has lost much of its shine. Should the present government continue in office after the next general election, it could well be that the welfare state will dwindle into non‐significance. Indeed, there is currently a crisis in the British welfare state when compared with the ideals of Beveridge of freedom from want and providing people with their needs.


We consider the problem of privately learning a sparse model across multiple sensitive datasets, and propose learning individual models locally and privately aggregating them using secure multi-party computation. In this paper, we report some preliminary experiments on distributed sparse linear discriminant analysis, showing both the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach on experiments using heart disease data collected across four hospitals.


Single crystals of Sr 2 Ta 2 O 7 and Sr 2 Nb 2 O 7 are grown by a floating zone technique. Strontium tantalate belongs to D 2 h 14 or D 2 h 17 space group at room temperature. Ferroelectric phase transition temperature is -107°C. The Curie-Weiss temperature θ 0 and the Curie constant C P are: θ 0 =161 K(=-112°C) and C P =0.84×10 5 K. Spontaneous polarization and coercive field are 1.9 µC/cm 2 and 0.4 kV/cm at -190°C, respectively. Strontium niobate belongs to C 2υ 12 space group at room temperature. Its ferroelectric phase transition occurs at T c =1342±2°C, with θ 0 = T c and C P =1.2×10 5 K, and second phase transition occurs at -156°C. Solid solution Sr 2 (Ta 1- x ·Nb x ) 2 O 7 exists in the entire composition range and its ferroelectric phase transition temperature increases markedly from -107°C to 1342°C, according to the increase of x . Phase transition temperatures of other solid solutions, partially replacing Sr by Ca, Pb or Ba, are also studied on ceramic samples.


The edge-to-edge technique is one of the surgical procedures for anterior mitral leaflet prolapse. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of this technique by using an in vitro mitral simulator. The results provide a useful suggestion and can be contributed to evidence-based medicine (EBM).


This paper attempts to explain why the Brazilian inter-bank interest rate is so high compared with rates practiced by other emerging economies. The interplay between the markets for bank reserves and government securities feeds into the inter-bank rate the risk premium of the Brazilian public debt.


Considerable attention has been given to the problems confronting the case worker, who, because of the nature of the problem with which he is dealing and the function of the agency within which he operates, must necessarily give service to the person seeking assistance within a limited amount of time. It is not my intention to discuss these problems but, rather, only to identify them as a background for the discussion of certain theoretical principles of social case work which the case worker can use for guidance in meeting them. The major problems thus confronting the worker seem to me to be the following ones: i. The rapidity with which relationship between the case worker and the person seeking assistance must be established. It is recognized that, while some kind of relationship is established within the first contact in any case-work situation, nevertheless in those situations in which the duration of contact is potentially a lengthy one there is opportunity for bringing about a later change in the quality of the relationship thus initially established; whereas in contacts of short duration it is imperative that the quality of relationship originally established be a positive one. 2. The rapidity with which the case worker must determine the nature of the problem, together with the person's potential strengths and resources for meeting it. There is neither time nor opportunity for a leisurely exploration of what is the matter or what the person can do about it. Both must be established "on the spot." 3. The rapidity with which the case worker must ascertain whether the necessary help can be given through this agency, and, if so, what kind of help is needed. This problem confronts every case worker in any agency within the first interview; but if the first interview may be the only one, it becomes heightened in importance. 4. The rapidity with which the case worker must explore the relation of the presented, or initial, request to the underlying causative factors which have precipitated it and to the problem as a whole. Often the specific request represents only the periphery of the problem. When the length of contact is necessarily of short duration, it becomes of utmost


The effect of carbonization temperature on the electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness, electrical resistivity, and mechanical performance of medium density fiberboards carbonized in a vacuum furnace under a gas flow of nitrogen (200 mL/min) between 400℃ and 1500℃ was investigated. The medium density fiberboards specimens carbonized below 700℃ showed stable and low electromagnetic interference values (1.3–7.6 dB) between 10 MHz and 1 GHz frequency. The electromagnetic interference (average 43.1 dB) of the MDF specimens carbonized at 800℃ were suitable for industrial applications. However, the MDF specimens carbonized above 900–1500℃ showed high electromagnetic interference values (66.8–84.6 dB). When the carbonization temperature increased from 600℃ to 700℃, the electrical resistivity of the specimens greatly decreased (180.9 × 103 to 137.5 Ω-cm). A further increment in the carbonization temperature (1200℃) had a small effect on the electrical resistivity (5.8 Ω-cm) of the specimens and no effect between 1300℃ (0.5 Ω-cm) and 1500℃ (0.5 Ω-cm). The carbonized specimens showed lower modulus of rupture and internal bond strength values than the untreated specimens but the differences between the strength values of the untreated specimens and the carbonized specimens decreased with increasing carbonization temperature. The modulus of elasticities of the specimens carbonized above 800℃ were higher than the untreated specimens.


Recently, a considerable amount of research has been focused on inverse biometrics, that is, regenerating the original biometric sample from its template. In this work, the first reconstruction approach to recover hand geometry samples from their feature vectors is proposed. Experiments are carried out on the publicly available GPDS Hand DB, where the method has shown a remarkable performance, after reconstructing a very high percentage of the hands included in the dataset. Furthermore, the proposed technique is general, being able to successfully reproduce the original hand shape sample regardless of the information and format of the template used.


Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a serious and irreversible brain condition that leads to the degeneration of cognitive and memory functions. The medical field has found deep-learning models to be effective in addressing this neuro-degenerative disorder causing brain damage and mental deterioration. Deep-learning methods are found to be effective in tasks such as identifying patterns in medical images and assisting with diagnostic decisions. Transfer learning, which utilizes a pre-trained model for a new task, can be particularly beneficial when data is limited. Using transfer learning, researchers have been able to accurately detect AD. In this work, a fusion of deep-transfer learning models and custom models are used to process clinical data and MRI images of AD patients as well as normal cohorts. Features from input MRI axial slices are extracted using EfficientNet-B3 and ResNet-152, and a two-layer fully connected network are employed to obtain features from clinical data, resulting in an accuracy of 99.65% in AD and NC classification through a fivefold cross-validation.


"This paper deals with the topic of historical inheritance and literary discourse through a prismatic lens. It focuses on Nadine Gordimer, a well- known white South African writer of Anglo-Jewish and Eastern European origins, who always stood up against racism and the colonialist legacy which deviously paved the way for the apartheid system in her country. In particular, light is shed on "The Amateurs", one of her earliest short stories and a piercing portrayal of South African segregation policies during the 1940s. At the same time, Gordimer engages here in a critical dialogue with the English fin de siècle and the comedy-of-manners genre by recollecting an episode from her youth, when she happened to play Gwendolen's role in an amateur staging of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. As we shall see, "The Amateurs" is a semantically poignant story where the threads of European literary tradition, metatheatricality and personal memory are powerfully interwoven."


ABSTRACT In counterinsurgency, U.S. officials often feel trapped by a localally who appears unable to survive the departure of U.S. forces. Advocates for withdrawal argue that only a deadline to depart will induce local governments to accept greater burdens, while critics of this position argue that plans to withdraw embolden insurgents. We argue instead that American leaders gain leverage from U.S. public opinion favouring withdrawal. Analysis of 200+ U.S. demands of local allied governments in Vietnam and Iraq suggests that public pressure for withdrawal is associated with greater local compliance, but that formal U.S. withdrawal plans does not motivate compliance.


This paper analyzes tonal domains in Danyang and Shanghai by applying stress rules cyclically through syntactic bracketing. Section 1 presents the data, followed by the analysis in section 2. In section 3, I discuss how Danyang and Shanghai relate to recent debates on the relation between prosodic rules and syntax, in particular how independent the former are from the latter, and how syntax-phonology mismatches may arise.1


Independence is, as often said, one of the most important factors in child's personality development, and of the most interesting subjects in the field of child's growth. In this report on child's independence, two subjects were studied. One was to analyze the factors of independence of 8 & 9-year-old from their replies to the questionnaire developed by the author mainly referring to the "Diagnostic Test of Independence (D.T.I.)" . The questionnaire included 45 items with a 4-point scale for responses. The second subject was to find correlation between the factors of 'independence' and 'causal attribution' measured with Kambara et. al.'s Causal Attribution Scale for lower grade primary school children. These two scales were distributed to 136 third-graders. As a result, the following six factors of independence were extracted : 1. Self-decision-making, 2. Autonomous life style, 3. Spontaneous self expression, 4. Decision for action, 5. Steady life style, 6. Challenging. It was also found that a relation between 'independence' and 'causal attribution' was most distinct with factors No. 4 and No.6.


One of the collection joins types in Object Oriented Database (OODB) is collection equi-join. The main feature of collection joins is that they involve collection types. In this paper we present our experience in implementing collection equi-join algorithms by using Message Passing Interface (MPI). In particular, it layouts the fundamental techniques that are used in the implementation and that may be applicable to other collection joins. Two collection equi-joins discussed here are Double Sort- merge and Sort Hash Join. The implementation was done on a clustered environment and employed a data parallelism concept.


The Bridgeboro Limestone, a rhodolith- and coral-bearing limestone in southwestern Georgia, has been assigned to the Vicksburgian Stage (Lower Oligocene) of the Gulf Coast based on the occurrence of the bivalves Chlamys (Anatipopecten) anatipes (Morton) and C. (Lyropecten) duncanensis Mansfield. This assignment is further substantiated by the recent recognition of the distinctive bryozoan Tubucellaria vicksburgica Canu and Bassler. The Bridgeboro also contains the larger foraminifera Lepidocyclina (Lepidocyclina) mantelli (Morton), L. (Nephrolepidina) yurnagunensis Cushman, and L. (Eulepidina) undosa Cushman, an assemblage indicative of the Lepidocylina (s.s.) subzone of the Eulepidina Zone of Early Oligocene age. These foraminifera are also characteristic of the Duncan Church beds of the Florida panhandle, and an assemblage of isolepidine and eulepidine Lepidocyclina also occurs in the Glendon Limestone of Alabama. On the basis of larger foraminifera, macroin vertebrates, and physical stratigraphic relationships, we propose that the Bridgeboro, Duncan Church, and Glendon are biostratigraphically and lithostratigraphically correlative. The Glendon Limestone has been previously assigned to nannoplankton zone NP22, and also occurs within the Cassigerinella chipolensis–Pseudohastigerina micra planktonic foraminiferal zone, both of Early Oligocene age. Based on correlation with the Glendon, the age of the Bridgeboro is thus Early Oligocene (Rupelian), middle Vicksburgian.


Maybe. In the worst-case scenario, long term efficiency will stabilize 10% below annealed efficiency. But the more relevant question is: what will be the end of life (EOL) efficiency for a typical mission? Presently, the highest stabilized efficiency for a 1 ft2 module is 8.5%. Based on studies from JPL and Wayne State, combination of radiation created defects and annealing at operating temperature will cause typical EOL efficiencies slightly lower than this. An end of life array efficiency of 8% might be expected with current a-Si technology.


The article considers the sources of personal origin (letters, diaries, and memoirs) that reflect the serious and dramatic conditions of life of Leningrad and its citizens in the initial period of the siege of 1941-1942.


[Abstract] Measurement of the incorporation of radionuclides such as 3H-thymidine is a classical immunological technique for assaying T cell proliferation. However, such an approach has drawbacks beyond the inconvenience of working with radioactive materials, such as the inability of bulk radionuclide incorporation measurements to accurately quantitate T cell divisions, and an inability to combine proliferation analyses with simultaneous evaluation of the expression of cellular markers in divided cells. By labeling T cells with reactive dyes such as CFSE, Celltrace Violet, and others that are partitioned equally between daughter cells at each cell division, one can relatively easily track generations of proliferated cells and their expression of various molecules by flow cytometry. FoxP3+ regulatory T cells (Treg) are critical mediators of immune tolerance and evaluation of their functionality is an important step in characterizing many immune models (Rudensky, 2011). Classically CD4+ Treg and conventional or "responder" T cells have been isolated based on their surface expression of CD25 (Treg: CD4+CD25+, Tresp: CD4+CD25-). However, we and others have noted that populations of CD4+CD25cells express the FoxP3 transcription factor and have suppressive function. Therefore we have utilized the transgenic FoxP3-EGFP mouse to facilitate live purification of suppressor and responder populations based on EGFP (and thus FoxP3) expression. Here we present our adapted protocol for assaying regulatory T cell suppression of Celltrace Violet-labeled responder T cells.


The objective of study was to evaluate the effectiveness of co-culture between amylolytic fungi  Aspergillus niger and lipid accumulating yeast Candida orthopsilosis for lipid accumulation on cassava waste. When grown in 5 % starch medium, all microbes was able to grow, but best growth was observed on Aspergillus niger , other microbes grew slower. Moderate growth was observed  on Saccharomycopsis fibuliger .  The two isolates were then selected for further studies. Aspergillus niger and Saccharomycopsis fibuliger were amylolytic microbes. The amylolytic activities were affected by temperature, pH and nitrogen sources.  Optimum temperature and pH for enzyme production were 30°C and 7.0 respectively. Both yeast extract and sodium nitrate were good nitrogen sources for amylase production. On cassava waste, the highest biomass and total lipid content were obtained by co-culture of Aspergillus niger and lipid accumulating yeast Candida orthopsilosis . Major lipid composition was oleic acids and strearic acids. The ability of co-culture of Aspergillus niger and lipid accumulating yeast Candida orthopsilosis grew and accumulated lipid on cassava waste would suggest that these culture were candidate for biofuel production.


The organ samples from a victim who died of organotin contaminated lard were studied by the technique which involved gas chromatography-flame photometric detector (GC-FPD) and inductively coupled p...


The adherent stromal layer in long‐term bone marrow cultures (LTBMC) provides the cellular environment necessary for the in vitro proliferation and differentiation of pluripotential hematopoietic stem cells. The role of humoral hematopoietic growth factors, colony‐stimulating factors (CSF) in the regulation of hematopoietic cell production in this system is poorly understood. We have recently isolated and cloned an adherent cell line, D2XRII, derived from murine LTBMC. Plateau phase 25 cm2 cultures of 2 × 106 D2XRII cells in 8.0 ml produced CSF‐1 (M‐CSF) at around 100–150 units/0.1 ml medium. Following X‐irradiation there was a dose‐dependent decrease in the production of CSF‐1 to a plateau of 50% of control levels at 10,000 rad. Higher doses did not produce a further decrease. The X‐ray dose reducing CSF‐1 production to 50% was 100‐fold above the lethal dose as measured by clonagenic survival following trypsinization and replating. Trypsinized replated viable adherent but nondividing X‐irradiated D2XRII cells were maintained for up to 8 weeks after irradiation and demonstrated continuous production of CSF‐1. The data indicate significant divergence of two biologic effects of X‐irradiation on plateau‐phase marrow stromal cells: physiologic function of adherence and CSF‐1 production, versus proliferative integrity. This divergence of effects may be very relevant to understanding the mechanism of X‐irradiation‐associated marrow suppression and leukemogenesis.


Gastrointestinal Nematode worms have serious impacts on infected birds and humans, among other causing anemia, digestive problems and decreased immunity. This research aims to find out the species and density of Nematode worms in the gastrointestinal tract of the muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) sold in Flamboyan Market Pontianak. Samples of worms were taken from January to March 2016. The number of samples observed was 90 muscovy ducks. The Nematode worms that found fixed with Formalgliserin (FG) solution. The identification was carried out in the Laboratory of Zoology at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Tanjungpura University Pontianak. 3 of 90 samples of muscovy duck were infected by gastrointestinal Nematodes. The research discovered two species of gastrointestinal Nematode worms i.e. Ascaridia galli and Heterakis gallinarum. A. galli had a density rate of 0.024 ind/ml and H. gallinarum at 1 ind/ml. The frequency of presence of H. gallinarum was lower (1,11%) and A. galli (2,22%).


Old-fashioned street lighting strategies, i.e. always on street lights, can pose a significant energy wasting, especially in the areas with low amount of traffic at night. This paper presents review of several Smart Street Lighting (SmSL) strategies, which promise energy saving. For selected strategy, also known as Light on Demand (LoD), a energy consumption models for defined scenario are developed and the results are presented.


Abstract Nematodes attack a wide variety of economic plants in New Zealand. This paper lists the major pest species and discusses the extent of crop losses. The most economically important crop nematodes are the potato cyst nematodes Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis, which threaten both yield and export status. The problems caused to the potato industry by the lack of nematode survey information, the high costs of diagnosis, and the limited control options are discussed. In pasture, white clover productivity, competitive ability, and N‐fixation are limited by clover stem nematode (Ditylenchus dipsaci), root‐knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla), and clover cyst nematode (Heterodera trifolii). Research on these nematodes is described, including recurrent selection of white clover for resistance, field‐based selection for tolerance, the study of nematode biology and life cycles, and the study of rhizosphere micro‐organisms antagonistic to the root nematodes. Research into nematode parasites of past...


Recent developments in the field of U.S. Landscape preservation are described, especially the proposals being formulated for the Federal Register, and the existing Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. Future conferences, with historic landscape interest, are listed and a basic reading list provided-including two publications (olmstead's papers relating to California, 1863-1865; an annotated reading list on preserving historic landscapes) due out in 1990.


The existing studies rarely reveal the reasons for the digital currency price fluctuation from the perspective of internal interaction and contagion. Therefore, to fill this research gap, this paper comprehensively adopts the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC-) GARCH model and wavelet coherence analysis (WTC) to reveal the internal correlation and formation reasons of digital currency price fluctuations. Our research has the following findings: (1) the price fluctuations of digital currency are highly related. Through the observation of the dynamic conditional correlation coefficient graph, it is found that the price fluctuations have a strong time-varying trend, manifested as a 'contagious' characteristic. (2) During the outbreak of COVID-19, most digital currencies have shown positive resonance in the short, medium, and long term, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the correlation and contagion of digital currency price fluctuations. (3) In the short term, Bitcoin is the main 'contagious source' of digital currency price fluctuation. But in the medium and long term, Ethereum and Ripple, which are closely related to the real economy, have a greater impact and become the new 'contagious source'. Generally speaking, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple are the internal causes of instability in the digital currency market. Finally, based on the empirical conclusion, this paper proposes that the digital currency portfolio should be optimized to meet the investment demand;strengthen digital currency regulatory cooperation, and improve regulatory efficiency. Let the digital currency return to the 'currency' attribute and serve the real economy.


To the Editor.— I compliment Griffin et al on their recent report on the successful use of nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation in their pediatric practice. However, I strongly disagree with their statement that they consider the use of diazepam~with nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation to be contraindicated (unless, perhaps, they were referring specifically to their pediatric population). We have used (as have others) nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation with carefully titrated intravenously (IV) administered diazepam for several years in plastic surgical procedures performed on adults under local anesthesia. We have found this combination of sedative agents to be safe and effective. Our anesthesiologist colleagues share this opinion. I regret that such a statement with the word "contraindicated" becomes part of the literature, and I submit this letter to refute it.


I review recent constraints on and claimed detections of a time-varying fine-structure constant $\alpha$, and discuss our own work, particularly on the effects of $\alpha$ in the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. Our results are consistent with no variation in $\alpha$ from the epoch of recombination to the present day, and restrict any such variation to be less than about 4%. The forthcoming MAP and Planck experiments will be able to break most of the currently existing degeneracies between $\alpha$ and other parameters, and measure $\alpha$ to better than percent accuracy.


Introduction There is no doubt that the greenhouse effect exists and is responsible for the fact that the mean temperature of the earth's surface is already warmer by about 330C than it would be if natural greenhouse gases were not present. If it were not for this natural greenhouse effect we would not be here today. Measurements from ice cores taken from ice laid down during a period of 160 000 years show that temperature of the earth has been closely associated with the amount of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. The specific aspects ofcause and effect are not entirely clear, but it seems likely that the changes in these two gases were at least in part responsible for the major changes in global temperature which occurred between the ice ages and interglacial periods. The concern now is about the enhanced green-house effect which is occurring as a result ofanthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are greenhouse gases which all have both natural and human sources, but chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are only produced as a result of industrial activities. Major greenhouse gases are shown in Table 1. Water vapour and ozone are also important greenhouse gases. The effect of ozone on climate is strongest in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Although stratospheric ozone has decreased, it is predicted that ozone in the upper troposphere should have increased. At ground level, ozone concentrations in the northern hemisphere have tended to increase as a result of complex chemical reactions involving oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Thus, the overall influence of ozone on climate is likely to be complex. Carbon dioxide is produced mainly by the combustion of fossil fuels and also by deforestation. Methane is produced in rice paddies, in the stomachs ofruminants and by the burning of biomass and ventilation of natural gas. Agriculture may play a part in the increase in nitrous oxide. There are a number offeedback mechanisms which may play a role, both in determining the rate of increase of greenhouse gas concentrations and in determining the response of climate to increases in greenhouse gases. Potential feedbacks which may affect concentrations of greenhouse gases include the capacity of the ocean and of plants to take up carbon dioxide, and the impact of temperature rise on methane emissions from natural wetlands and rice paddies. Water vapour will increase as the planet warms and will act as a positive feedback to the process. It seems likely that, in general, they will tend to elevate concentrations of greenhouse gases to a higher level than might otherwise have been the case. The oceans act as a buffer to temperature change, and a distinction therefore has to be made between the projected realized rise in temperature at a given time and the projected final rise to which the world is committed as a result of the greenhouse gas concentrations at that point in time. The realized rise at a given time accounts for about 60-80% of the final rise. Although carbon dioxide is the least effective greenhouse gas on a weight-for-weight basis, its contribution to global warming is the largest and amounts to around 50% of the change in radiative forcing from 1980-1990. This is because of the large amounts emitted. General circulation models are used to examine the possible changes in climate which may occur in the future. They are three-dimensional mathematical models of the climate system and the most advanced of them take into account feedbacks due to changes in water vapour, clouds and the ocean. However, because of the limited understanding of many of the processes involved and the potential for a number of


The currently accepted flat-ΛCDM Standard Cosmological Model accounts for the existence of two major energy components, Cold Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and for the flatness of the metric. Despite the theoretical framework of the Standard Cosmological Model is well outlined and generally accepted by the scientific community, there are still an amount of unresolved issues, which span from the definition of the initial conditions, to the physical nature of the major components of the Universe. The appearance of today's large scale structure depends on the initial conditions and on the metric and energy properties of the Universe. Thus, from the observable characteristics of these structures, it should be possible to impose constraints on the cosmological model's defining parameters. In this context, Cosmic Voids are a major component of the largescale distribution of matter in the Universe. They emerge out of the density troughs on the primordial Gaussian field of density fluctuations and are between the largest observable structures in the Universe (Guzzo and The Vipers Team, 2013; Nadathur, 2016). With their relatively simple structure and shape, voids are useful probes of a variety of cosmic parameters and have indeed been shown to possess great potential for constraining Dark Energy and testing theories of gravity (Krause et al., 2013; Sutter et al., 2014b; Pollina et al., 2016). In spite of their popularity as cosmological tools, a gap of knowledge between Cosmic Void observations, simulations and theory still persists. Voids are for their nature only mildly non-linear and tend to become more spherical as they evolve (Icke, 1984), which suggests that their evolution should be easier to reconstruct than that of positive perturbations. Therefore, the spherical evolution approximation is particularly suited for describing the expansion of cosmic voids (Blumenthal et al., 1992). This approximation was used to build a theoretical model for the prediction of the void statistical distribution as a function of size (Sheth and van de Weygaert, 2004, hereafter SvdW), with the same approach used to derive the halo mass function. Since the Dark Matter halo distribution provides a large amount of cosmological information, the negative of this information should also be found in the Cosmic Void distribution. However, the SvdW model of void size function has been proven unsuccesful in reproducing the results obtained from cosmological simulations: previous works could only fit the observed distributions with a SVdW size function in relaxed conditions (i.e. letting the lower threshold δv vary to better represent the data), since voids found in simulations are usually under-predicted by models (Colberg et al., 2005; Pisani et al., 2015; Nadathur and Hotchkiss, 2015). This undermines the possibility of using voids as cosmological probes. The goal of our thesis work is to cover the gap between theoretical predictions and measured distributions of cosmic voids. To this end we develop an algorithm to identify voids in simulated tracer distributions,


Abstract : No current standard exists for any aspect of Explosive Ordnance Disposal suit performance. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Office of Law Enforcement Standards asked the US Army Natick Soldier Center (NSC) to develop a standard for future EOD suits. As part of the development of the EOD Personal Protective Equipment (EOD PPE) standard, NSC's Ergonomics Team evaluated several ergonomics aspects of current commercial EOD suits. The tested suits are the latest available to agencies for purchase. The suits were tested to determine their baseline or current performance level. This performance level will be used to develop minimum acceptable performance levels and representative test methodologies for future EOD suit development. This report details the ergonomics tasks and tests and their results used in developing benchmarks.


Understanding the formation mechanisms of complex fracture networks is vitally important for hydraulic fracturing operations in shale formation. For this purpose, a hydraulic fracturing experiment under a core-plunger scale is conducted to investigate the impact of the bedding plane angle, borehole size, and injection rate on fracture initiation behaviors of laminated shale rock. The results on rock properties demonstrate that the anisotropic characteristics of shale rock are reflected not only in elastic modulus but also in tensile strength. The results of fracturing experiments show that the bedding plane dip angle and borehole size have significant effects on fracture initiation behaviors, in that fracture initiation pressure (FIP) decreases with the increase of those two factors. The impact of injection rate, by contrast, has no obvious variety regulation. The above data is further used to validate our previously proposed fully anisotropic FIP model, which shows better agreement with experimental results than those using other models under various parameter combinations. Finally, a postfracturing analysis is performed to identify the fracture growth patterns and the microstructures on the fracture surfaces. The results show that the hydraulic fractures (HFs) always grow along mechanically favorable directions, and the potential interaction between HFs and bedding planes mainly manifests as fracture arrest. Meanwhile, the roughness of fracture surfaces is physically different from each other, which in turn results in the difficulties of fluid flow and proppant migration. The findings of this study can help for a better understanding of the fracture initiation behavior of laminated shale rock and the corresponding fracture morphology.


We have calculated the resonant-tunneling conductance for two-dimensional samples. For a disordered system, most of the resonant peaks in the conductance are Lorentzians with height less than 1 (in units of ${e}^{2}$/h), but in some special cases two resonant peaks can be very close and overlap, and the maximum conductance can be larger than 1. In a magnetic field, the height and width of the resonant peak fluctuate when the magnetic flux through the area of the localized state changes by roughly unity. The fluctuation in the peak height is the same order as the quantity itself. There is some evidence that the average localization length may increase slightly with the magnetic field.


Freeze start is a challenge in the commercialization of PEM fuel cells. In this study, ice formation in cell layers is investigated through experiments and simulations. Segmentation of the fuel cell on the test bench allows to determine the local distributions of current density and high frequency resistance over the active cell area. The location and timing of ice formation are analyzed in the experiments. It is shown that the formation of ice lenses can be detected by local measurements of the high frequency resistances. Then, a multiphysical CFD model is built and validated with the measurements and the commonalities and differences between the model results and the experiments are studied. It is shown that the model determines the freeze start behavior very well in wide operating ranges. Together with the findings from the experimental investigations, the model will finally be used to investigate local ice formation in detail.


Attitudes concerning the acceptance of black students on a Deep-South campus were measured by three surveys conducted during the first six years of desegregation. A strong and consistent trend toward increasing acceptance was analyzed using analysis of variance techniques, revealing that in- creasing liberality of incoming freshmen played a major role, but that even greater changes were associated with the student's academic year. Further analysis indicated that the latter changes were not, as traditionally held, of academic origin but, like the changes in enrolling freshmen, indicators of the pervasive influence of mass cultures and media. Academic tradition was also questioned by the finding that the observed relative liberalism of the Arts and Sciences students could be ac- counted for by differential recruitment, rather than the supposedly highly liberalizing effects of the curriculum. By implication, present attempts to limit cultural evolution through control of the mech- anisms of formal education are ineffective anachronisms. Desegregation of the public schools continues to be a major issue in American politics, even though over sixteen years have passed since the 1954 Supreme Court decision (Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas). Public attention has gen- erally been held by a succession of dramas played out in the lower-school setting, but on a few occasions the symbolic confrontation has taken place on college campuses. Since 1956, when the first attempt to desegregate its main campus was accompanied by riots (Simpson and Yinger, 1965:503), the University of This content downloaded from 18.104.22.168 on Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:21:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms


The current study examined the effects of leadership style (charismatic or autocratic) on followers' internal and external attributions for their organization's success or failure. In addition, role incongruence between the leadership style and gender was examined within the context of attributional error. Confirming the hypotheses, the results showed a three-way interaction between leadership style, gender and organizational outcome. Supporting the role incongruity theory, when there was role incongruence between the leadership style and gender (i.e., the female autocratic leader), the attributions for failure were more unfavorable toward the leader. The effect of leadership style on internal attributions for failure was mediated by likeability of the leader. Overall, the current study was the first experimental investigation of the effects of leadership style, organizational outcomes, and gender on attributional biases within a single design.


Goals The primary aim of this study was to further evaluate the efficacy of peginterferon plus nitazoxanide without ribavirin using a 4-week lead-in. Background The initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C with nitazoxanide used 12 weeks of nitazoxanide monotherapy before combination therapy with peginterferon with or without ribavirin. Study This open-label pilot study enrolled 44 treatment-naive patients with chronic hepatitis C (40 with genotype 4; 3 with genotype 1; and 1 with genotype 2). The patients received oral nitazoxanide 500 mg twice daily for 4 weeks followed by nitazoxanide plus peginterferon alfa-2a 180 μg weekly for 36 weeks and were then followed for 24 weeks. The results of this study were compared with those from an overlapping historical trial using 12 weeks of nitazoxanide lead-in. Results A sustained virologic response (SVR) was achieved in 80% of patients, which was similar to the SVR rates in the historical trial, that is, 79% and 61% in patients treated with and without ribavirin, respectively. A rapid virologic response occurred in 59% of patients, which was also similar to the rapid virologic response rates in the historical trial (64% and 54% in patients treated with and without ribavirin, respectively). All 4 patients with genotypes 1 and 2 had an SVR. Conclusions The nitazoxanide lead-in phase before combination therapy with peginterferon can likely be reduced from 12 weeks to 4 weeks without compromising virologic response rates. In addition, treatment of chronic hepatitis C with peginterferon plus nitazoxanide without ribavirin is promising and requires further study.


This paper reveals that the female discourse has experienced the process from flourish to declination,by analyzing Gaia's authority in the creation and family,the goddesses' position on Mount Olympus and Orestes' killing his mother but finally being forgiven.


One major setback of thermoacoustic engines—when comparing them with "conventional" heat-engines or refrigerators—is their low power density. In this work a new attempt for achieving higher power densities was undertaken. The stack of a thermoacoustic engine, which usually consists of parallel plates much longer than the acoustic displacement amplitude, was substituted by parallel-plate segments, which were only a fraction of the displacement amplitude long and randomly orientated to each other. This alternative stack arrangement was expected to benefit from improved heat transfer characteristics and an anisotropic thermal conductivity. A simplified numerical model confirmed these expectations. Experiments with a thermoacoustic heat pump were carried out. The experimental results qualitatively agreed with the numerical model. At most, the power density was raised by approximately 50%. The coefficient of performance—defined as useful heat output divided by work input—increased by approximately one-third.


Using data collected from a sample of 228 enterprises, the paper exami nes how supportive human resource practices affect organizational commitment in different organizational cultures. Results show that supportive human resource practices in group culture affect positively employee affective commitment; suppo rtive human resource practices in culture of control orientation (hierarchical a nd / or rational culture) affect positively employee continuous commitment; and supportive human resource practices in culture of internal orientation(group and / or hierarchical culture) affect positively employee normative commitment.


This paper is to follow up on prior work on a mass-actuated airplane that is controlled by internally moving masses instead of conventional control surfaces. The mass-actuated aircraft effectively has two control variables: the internal positions of two control masses, one of which is moved longitudinal along the body x-axis and the other is moved laterally along the wings. Prior work showed that the mass-actuated aircraft cannot have a trimmed turn at constant altitude without side slip angle. This work investigates whether zero-sideslip-angle turn is possible by two methods: (i) a conventional rudder is used in addition to the two control masses in constant altitude turns, and (ii) only the control masses are used in turns without the constraint of the constant altitude.


Evolving modes of representation and communication continue to redefine the flow of information between designer, fabricator and manufacturer, while nimble means of fabrication recalibrate customization. As various types and scales of design practice reveal, opportunities for strategic collaboration between designer and fabricator abound. The work illustrated is the result of the first phase of a university-industry partnership with a global manufacturer of metal façadesystems. Our industry partner sought to capitalize upon the alternate perspective the students and by extension, the academy afforded to reconsider the standard metal façade panel that has served as the core of their business. We sought to structure a collaboration that strategically leveraged the material expertise of our industry partner while encouraging structured experimentation by the students, that was initially unconstrained from the myriad of technical and economic considerations associated with building cladding systems.


The purpose of this paper is to explore various means to increase the welfare finance for welfare state. The increase of public finance for welfare is essential to build the next stage of welfare state in Korea. There are several approaches to enlarge the welfare finance. First approach is tax cut policy based on the supply side economics. Its logic is that tax cut induces firms enlarge the investment and consumers spend more, increasing tax revenue through vitalizing economic conditions. Lee Myungbak administration took this policy option. Second approach is tax increase of the rich. According to this approach, the marginal tax rate of income tax and corporate tax should be made higher. And new bracket of higher income and larger corporations should be added in income tax and corporate tax. Third approach is universal tax increase. This approach means the increase of the proportional tax such as value added tax. Tax burden over the middle class would be increased by this approach. Fourth approach is tax substitution. This approach suggests the increase of land tax and the decrease of income tax and corporate tax as such. This paper suggests the 'tax increase of the rich' approach for welfare finance until the universal welfare model will be settled in the future. The marginal tax rate of income tax and corporate tax should be made higher, and new bracket of higher income and larger corporations should be added. This paper insists that multiple means for welfare finance should be made attempts. The reallocation ofpublic finance between social welfare and the other spheres is proposed. And the reforms of tax expenditure system and social insurance system are included among policy options for welfare finance.


Abstract Stream temperature is a fundamental physical factor that affects the distribution and abundance of salmonids, but empirical inconsistencies exist regarding the nature of this relationship in wild populations. We sampled trout populations composed primarily of cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki but also including brown trout Salmo trutta and brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis at 102 reaches on 24 first- to fourth-order streams across a thermally diverse montane landscape. Curves fit to scatterplots of density and biomass versus mean July–August stream temperatures suggested nonlinear, dome-shaped responses. Peaks occurred near mean stream temperatures of 12°C; x-intercepts were near 3°C and 21°C. We conclude that inconsistencies in previously reported temperature–abundance relationships for wild trout populations may have resulted from sampling only a subset of the thermal environments occupied by a species. Researchers analyzing this relationship should be cognizant of the range of temperatures s...


AUTHORS: Bruce K. Ferguson, Associate Professor, School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; and P. Rexford Gonnsen, Principal, Beall, Gonnsen and Company, 555 Research Drive, Athens. Georgia 30605. REFERENCE: Proceedings of the 1993 Georgia Water Resources Conference. held April 20 and 21, 1993. at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, Editor, Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens. Georgia.


To assess the impact of projects planning on profitability of the biogas generating plants in Malaysia. Project planning is at the heart of the project life cycle, and tells everyone involved where you're going and how you're going to get there. The planning phase is when the project plans are documented, the project deliverables and requirements are defined, and the project schedule is created. It involves creating a set of plans to help guide your team through the implementation and closure phases of the project. The plans created during this phase will help you manage time, cost, quality, changes, risk, and related issues. They will also help you control staff and external suppliers to ensure that you deliver the project on time, within budget, and within schedule. It is an essential aspect for success. Briquette manufacturing is fairly new in Malaysia and most companies have an amazing concept but dismally fail at execution due to lack of planning. Production in Malaysia dates back to the 70s but it has been limited to small scale only recently are more studies being done on biogas and their use, which has a sparked a market frenzy. Globally, 52% of the world's population are using non-renewable energy for cooking and heating. This represents a huge market share for the briquette plant globally. The projection in growth of profitability is directly attributable to unavailability of cooking fuels especially in developing countries and biogas are mostly preferred due to low emissions. The uptake of biogas in Asia has however been low due to lack of awareness by consumers of clear advantages of the product. This study aimed at determining the role of project planning in influencing Profitability of the biogas plant in Malaysia. The study was a literature based in which a desk top review was conducted to derive themes. The study found a positive and significant relationship between financial resource planning and Profitability. The results also indicated that human capital planning and Profitability were positively and significantly related, material requirement planning and Profitability were positively and insignificantly related. The study concluded that the aspects of project planning adopted in this study: financial resource planning, human that capital planning and time management planning positively and significantly influences profitability volume in biogas plant, except for material requirements planning which was found to positively but insignificantly influences Profitability. The study recommended that the management of plant should strive to implement project planning strategies such as financial resource planning, human capital planning, time management planning and material requirements planning because they have been found to influence Profitability. Keywords: Project, Planning, Profitability, Biogas generating plants, Malaysia, Human capital.


Widely used as a wood preservative and also in many polymeric applications for protection against insects and rodents. Copper naphthenate or more specifically copper naphthenate solution which consists of 20% copper naphthenate mixed with white spirits or mineral turps type solvents have been popularly reintroduced in the market as a formulation which is effective in its primary purpose of being a wood preservative and yet provide positive benefits with respect to safety of human health and environment. Thus a win-win solution to a problem with no minimal side effects is what has been propagated.


In late December 2019, health officials of China reported a cluster of pneumonia with an unknown aetiology, which was later discovered as a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the World Health Organization (1). Virus spread over the mainland in China with an alarming morbidity and mortality rate. In about two weeks from discovery of the first case, another was reported from Thailand denoting international threat (2-3).


Objective To construct Rab25 siRNA expression vector in order to explore the new method of ovarian cancer gene therapy.Methods According to Rab25 mRNA sequence in the Genebank,a pair of 64-nt oligonucleotides,each containing the sites of restriction endonuclease at both ends,were designed and synthesized.Oligonucleotides were annealed and ligated with linearized pSUPER by T4DNA ligase.The recombinants(named pSUPER /Rab25 siRNA) were finally sequenced and identified by enzyme cutting and sequencing.Results Rab25 siRNA expression vector was successfully constructed and identified by double endonuclease digestion.Sequence analysis of inserted fragment revealed the same sequence as synthesized siRNA oligonucleotides.Conclusion Rab25 siRNA expression vector has been successfully constructed,which will facilitate further studies of Rab25 function and its application in the treatment of ovarian cancer.


Edward Fletcher Battersby ("Ted") was brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand. After qualifying at the University of Otago, he was a houseman in Christchurch before working his passage to England as a ship's doctor. After junior posts at Barts and Great Ormond Street, …


The results of first-principles density-functional theory and the local-spin-density approximation [L(S)DA] with a Hubbard Coulombic $U$ and projector-augmented wave method electronic-structure calculations for the layered two-dimensional organic-based magnet $[{\text{Fe}}^{\text{II}}(\text{TCNE}){(\text{NCMe})}_{2}][{\text{Fe}}^{\text{III}}{\text{Cl}}_{4}]$ are reported. The $\text{L}(\text{S})\text{DA}+U$ method accounted for the on-site Coulomb interaction between the ${\text{Fe}}^{\text{II}}$ and ${\ensuremath{\mu}}_{4}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{[\text{TCNE}]}^{\ifmmode\bullet\else\textbullet\fi{}\ensuremath{-}}$ ions. The results from the spin-polarized calculations are in agreement with the antiferromagnetically coupled ferrimagnetic ground state. The magnetic moments for ${\text{Fe}}^{\text{II}}$ and ${[\text{TCNE}]}^{\ifmmode\bullet\else\textbullet\fi{}\ensuremath{-}}$ are 3.70 and $0.27\text{ }{\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\text{B}}$, respectively, which are reduced from the sum of the isolated ions (4 and $1\text{ }{\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\text{B}}$, respectively) due to antiferromagnetic coupling, which are in accord with molecular-cluster model calculations. Spin-polarized partial density-of-states calculations reveal strongly spin-polarized ${\text{Fe}}^{\text{II}}{[\text{TCNE}]}^{\ifmmode\bullet\else\textbullet\fi{}\ensuremath{-}}$ conduction and valence bands. The highest majority band primarily consists of a ${\text{Fe}}^{\text{II}}\text{ }{d}_{xz}$-based band with hybridization $(\ensuremath{\sim}33%)$ by a ${[\text{TCNE}]}^{\ifmmode\bullet\else\textbullet\fi{}\ensuremath{-}}$ $p$ band at 2.60 eV below the Fermi level $({E}_{\text{F}})$, and the highest minority band primarily consists of a ${[\text{TCNE}]}^{\ifmmode\bullet\else\textbullet\fi{}\ensuremath{-}}$ $p$ band with hybridization $(\ensuremath{\sim}40%)$ by ${\text{Fe}}^{\text{II}}\text{ }d$ bands at 0.09 eV below ${E}_{\text{F}}$, and the materials is an insulator.


Human tissues are generally very lossy to millimeter-waves. To diagnose human health condition using millimeter-waves, measuring the reflection coefficient may be useful. In such the case, low loss part is applicable to obtain the information from deeper area of human body. Some parts of human body, which are relatively low loss for millimeter-waves, for example a fingertip with nail and a tooth, can be applied as a part for diagnosis. In this paper, a new technique is proposed to obtain blood sugar level by measuring reflection coefficient to be applied to these parts using millimetre-waves. In the measuring blood sugar level, the reflection change can be referred as the change of blood glucose level. Furthermore, in order to diagnose dental caries noninvasively, reflection coefficient in millimetre-waves is measured and compared to that of sound tooth. The reflection change from the tooth in time domain shows that the caries can be detected by millimetre-waves.


We experimentally manipulated the strength of selection in the field on red‐winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) to test hypotheses about contrasting selective forces that favor either large or small males in sexually size dimorphic birds. Selander (1972) argued that sexual selection favors larger males, while survival selection eventually stabilizes male size because larger males do not survive as well as smaller males during harsh winters. Searcy (1979a) proposed instead that sexual selection may be self limiting: male size might be stabilized not by overwinter mortality, but by breeding‐season sexual selection that favors smaller males. Under conditions of energetic stress, smaller males should be able to display more and thus achieve higher reproductive success. Using feeders that provisioned males or females but not both, we produced conditions that mimicked the extremes of natural conditions. We found experimental support for the hypothesis that when food is abundant, sexual selection favors larger males. But even under conditions of severe energetic stress, smaller males did not gain larger harems, as the self‐limiting hypothesis predicted. Larger males were more energetically stressed than smaller males, but in ways that affected their future reproductive output rather than their current reproductive performance. Stressed males that returned had smaller wings and tails than those that did not return; among returning stressed males, relative harem sizes were inversely related to wing and tail length. Thus, male body size may be stabilized not by survival costs during the non‐breeding season, nor by energetic costs during the breeding season, but by costs of future reproduction that larger males pay for their increased breeding‐season effort.


memorial, various attempts have been made to obtaini a radical cure of lhernia. It is not our intention to enter on any examination of those various methods, many of which have failed, but to describe briefly the one -which Dr. Lafond seems to hav-e employed at Paris for many years with considerable success, and which is described at length in the pamphlet now before us. In order to obtain the radical cure of hernia by means of a truss, we must fulfil two indications; first, the pad must be so constructed as to obliterate, by its pressure, the opening through which the hernia passes; and, secondly, this obliteration must be rendered permanent, othervise the hernia will return as soon as the truss is removed.


Introduction Surgical simulation is valuable in neurovascular surgery given the progressive rarity of these cases and their technical complexity, but its use has not been well described for pediatric vascular pathologies. We herein review the use of surgical simulation at our institution for complex pediatric aneurysmal malformations. Methods A retrospective review of patients treated for middle cerebral artery aneurysmal malformations with surgical simulation assistance (SuRgical Planner [SRP]; Surgical Theater, Mayfield Village, OH) during a 2-year period at Rady Children's Hospital of San Diego was performed. Results In 5 pediatric patients with complex MCA aneurysmal malformations (mean age = 33.2 ± 49.9 months), preoperative 3-dimensional (3D) interactive modeling informed treatment planning and enhanced surgeon understanding of the vascular pathology. Availability of intraoperative simulation also aided real-time anatomical understanding during surgery. Specific benefits of simulation for these cases included characterization of involved perforating vessels, as well as an enhanced understanding of flow patterns within associated complex arteriovenous fistulas and feeding vessel/daughter branch anatomy. Despite the complexity of the lesions treated, use of simulation qualitatively enhanced surgeon confidence. There were no perioperative complications for patients treated with open surgery. Conclusions Surgical simulation may aid in the treatment of complex pediatric aneurysmal malformations.


SIR,-It is true that the positive predictive accuracy of all the available tests for predicting the ar?hythmic death in patients after myocardial infarction is low and that more specific tests are needed. Because our study was cross sectional it cannot give information on the predictive accuracy of an occluded infarct-related artery. However, it was the first study to show the beneficial effects of perfusion of an old infarct scar on the electrophysiological substrate. We agree that in this type of cross sectional comparison it is difficult to achieve 1:1 matching of all the factors that may influence arrhythmogenesis. None the less the study was specifically designed to match the patient groups for ejection fraction, wall motion abnormalities (including presence of ventricular aneurysm), and number of previous infarctions' (tables 1 and 2). No conclusions about the benefits of revascularisation can be based on the data of our study,' but we hope that a randomised prospective trial that is underway will give insights into the potential beneficial effects of angioplasty of the occluded infarct artery on the arrhythmic substrate. HEIKKI V HUIKURI Division of Cardiology Department ofMedicine Oulu University, Central Hospital, 90220 Oulu, Finland


This paper describes a case study carried out to quantify the benefits achieved from the application of model predictive control (MPC) to regulate the pH in a brine dechlorination process. A mechanistic model of the process was developed and used to design a PI controller with feedforward compensation. The model was also used to quantify the potential benefits of commissioning an MPC controller on the process. Following the analysis with the mechanistic model, the designed MPC scheme was applied to the actual process. Through real-time results, it is shown that the deployment of this controller led to substantial improvements in disturbance rejection capabilities when compared to the existing PI controller with lead–lag feedforward compensator. The improved disturbance rejection led to a reduction in pH variation which resulted in reduced operational costs, more reliable production, and improvement in the efficiency of the dechlorination process.


The magazine market in China has been changing steadily as global media corporations have brought their international titles into China and as local Chinese titles have had to transform in order to meet the changing market and the arrival of advertising-driven content. This article analyses the changing visual styles, linguistic genres and language styles in the women's lifestyle magazine Rayli over the past ten years, showing how these increasingly seek to foster identities, ideas and values appropriate to a global culture ideology of consumerism.


This article provides a discussion of how fieldwork can enhance the preparation of school leaders, and how this emphasis on practical, experiential learning can expose students to the wide array of challenges facing public schools. We discuss ways to transform traditional and procedural fieldwork objectives of our students to those that address social justice leadership.


Abstract The first case in which lithium toxicity and leucocytosis with hypomania appear to have been induced by the selective serotonin reuptake blocking antidepressant, fluoxetine, is described. The possible pathophysiology of this interaction is discussed.


This paper deals with an extension of Park's transformation to model permanent magnet (PM) non- sinusoidal machines by means of the so-called pseudo-dq axes reference frame. Speed and torque vector control can then be implemented resulting in a motor drive performance close to that of sinusoidal PM machines drives. Similarly, the proposed control algorithm is derived by decomposing the machine current into two components, one being linked to the torque and the other one to its flux. The paper discusses the benefits resulting from the use of vector control in a brushless dc motor drive. Both simulation and experimental results are used to validate the proposed motor drive model and the related control strategy.


Quantitative methods for both transient stability assessment and control decision making are urgently required for coordinating the economy and security of the power market. These methods should be able to identify all potentially unstable modes, to show their stability margins, to recognize dangerous reloading directions, to calculate their limits of generation and interface flow, to estimate the stability domain in the injection space and to optimize preventive/emergency actions. Besides, it should be fast enough for tracking system changes. FASTEST integrates EEAC, a unique and rigorously quantitative method, with numerical integration software such as ETMSP, a state-of-the-art time domain simulation program, is just such a tool. This paper presents its principle, development and applications.


Introduction tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS. The growing burden of TB/HIV co-infection continues to strain the healthcare system due to association with long duration of treatment. This is a catalyst for poor adherence to clinic appointments, which results in poor treatment adherence and patient outcome. This study evaluated the factors associated with adherence to clinic appointments among TB/HIV co-infected patients in Johannesburg, South Africa. Methods this was a cross-sectional study that involved 10427 patients ≥18 years of age with HIV infection and co-infected with TB. We used a proxy measure "md clinic appointments" to assess adherence, then multivariable logistic regression to evaluate factors associated with adherence. Results one thousand, five hundred and twenty-eight patients were co-infected with TB, of these, 17.4% attained good adherence. Patients with TB/HIV co-infection who were on treatment for a longer period were less likely to adhere to clinic appointments (AOR: 0.98 95% CI: 0.97, 0.99). Conclusion duration on treatment among TB/HIV co-infected patients is associated with adherence to clinic appointments. It is therefore vital to reinforce public health interventions that would enhance sustained adherence to clinic appointments and mitigate its impact on treatment adherence and patient outcome.


Extensions to VHDL have been defined in order to produce a compiler that allows for system design with synthesizable and non-synthesizable multi-chip subsystems. The compiler has been completed and this paper presents a case study that has been made to evaluate the merits and limitations of this approach. Finally, a brief discussion is made of the error generation. Capability that results from the use of formal methods in the definition of the VHDL language extensions.


The utility model discloses a novel pilot hydraulic system of a pilot oil feed valve on engineering machinery, and the system comprises the pilot oil feed valve connected with other shared pump resources. The oil outlet of the pilot oil feed valve is connected with the oil outlet of the pilot oil feed valve; the pilot oil feed valve comprises a P1 oil inlet connected with the oil outlet of a shared pump resource, a P2 oil inlet connected with the oil outlet of the shared pump resource, a first stage shuttle valve, a second stage shuttle valve, a reducing valve, a spillover valve, a check valve, an electromagnetic lockup valve and a PR oil outlet. Because the pilot hydraulic system fully utilizes the existing working pumps, steering pumps or other shared pump resources on an engineering machine to feed oil for a pilot system, and additionally adding a pump does not need; the oil consumption amount of the pilot system is small without influencing on the working of other systems, thus the number of pumps is reduced, the cost of elements is lowered, and the connecting pipelines are simplified.


So far, the researches on ultimate control right of listed companies are still limited in the analytic mode of share control chain. Under that analytic mode, it is not only very difficult for the researchers to conquer the confidentiality of the ultimate shareholder, but also so hard for them to make quantitative analysis on the real degree of control of the ultimate shareholder systematically. Basing on that, we try to use social capital theory to construct an analytic framework of social-capital control chain, logically starting from the social network ties of the ultimate shareholders and their control rights, to find out whether they mobilize these social capital to acquire the ultimate control right. Then we use our new analytic framework to deeply analyze the common and particular types of ultimate control right of listed companies and the dynamic evolutional institution. This new analytic framework can supply the gap of the analytic mode of share control chain, and it helps us find out the real ultimate shareholder, accurately measure and analyze their control right. So our studies create a new perspective for the research on ultimate control right in listed companies.


A technique is presented for computing multidimensional time-dependent flow fields that avoids much of the inefficiency typically found in finite difference calculations. The technique initially divides the flow field into regions, each containing a mesh of general quadrilateral cells chosen to provide spatial resolution of the local features of the flow. A finite difference operator of second order accuracy, consisting of a sequence of one-dimensional operators (each operating at near maximum Courant-Friedrich-Lewy number) is then constructed for each region. Numerical results illustrating the technique for inviscid flows about simple bodies that generate shock waves, embedded shock waves, and expansion fans are presented and compared with exact theory.


An upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis is a rarely encountered diagnosis in the primary care setting, but should be part of the primary care provider's differential diagnosis when a young and physically active patient presents with unilateral upper-extremity swelling, pain, venous distention, or decreased range of motion. Diagnosis is often delayed. This report highlights the importance of early utilization of appropriate diagnostic imaging modalities to avoid delay of the diagnosis. Treatment options are discussed.


A second order error resistant watermarking approach based on spread spectrum is presented in this research. At the heart of the proposed solution lies the concept of twice modulation of the watermark sequence and the selection of the host image coef- ficients based on the Multi-Threshold Wavelet Codec (MTWC). DSSS approach has been widely used in the communications to cover the message signal (narrow band) over the large noise signal (wide band). The resulting signal provides excellent low error probability and is hard to detect the message signal. DSSS used with error correcting codes makes it possible to recover the mes- sage even after severe signal distortions. MTW technique helps in determining the actual wavelet coefficients that need to be water- marked so that the watermark sequence is robust.


Nissen and Toupet fundoplication are the predominant procedures in the treatment of large hiatal hernias. Nevertheless, these techniques may cause relevant side-effects such as increased bloating or dysphagia, thus impairing the patient's quality of life.

 To evaluate the mid-term outcome after mesh-enforced hiatoplasty and anterior fundoplication in large hiatal hernia repair.

 Prospective single-center study investigating the clinical, endoscopic and radiological outcome after laparoscopic, mesh-enforced hiatoplasty and anterior fundoplication in patients with large hiatal hernias.

 Ninety-nine patients were operated between 2012–2022 and met all the inclusion criteria including postoperative computed tomography (CT). 68% were female, mean age was 71 ± 10 years, 72% of the patients needed proton pump inhibitors (PPI) prior to surgery. In all patients, more than 20% of the stomach was located supra diaphragmatic, in 65% more than 50% of the stomach was herniated. Mean operation time was 152 ± 45 minutes, there were no major intraoperative complications and one short-term postoperative complication demanding operative revision due to early recurrence. Mean length of stay was 5.1 ± 1.9 days. Upper endoscopy was performed in 94% after 16 weeks and showed a correct position in all cases. Clinical and CT follow-up were obtained in all patients after 1.6 ± 1 years. 87% had a correct position of the fundoplication in CT, 6% had a slippage and 7% a recurrent hernia. Two patients needed operative revision. 84% of patients reported their clinical outcome as excellent, 10% as good. Mean Gastrointestinal Qualitiy of Life Index was 126 ± 14. 98% of patients would perform the surgery again.

 Mesh-enforced hiatoplasty and anterior fundoplication in large hiatal hernia repair is safe and leads to a high rate of patient satisfaction. The radiological outcome poorly correlates with clinical symptoms or patient reported outcome.


Spatial and temporal regulation of developmental gene transcription often involves regulatory sequences found in noncoding DNA separate from the gene's promoter. Conservation of a noncoding region (CNR) across divergent species may indicate a regulatory region critical to basic morphogenesis. CNR‐green fluorescent protein (GFP) constructs can demonstrate spatial and temporal activity; however, characterization of regulatory modules within a CNR requires quantitative, in addition to qualitative, analysis. Here we describe a novel application of flow cytometry in the characterization of CNRs.


The original goal of this work was to establish links between two mathematical fields which are theoretically quite distinct but practically closely related: the Grassmann-Cayley (GC) algebra and the theory of linear lattices (LL). A GC algebra is essentially the exterior algebra of a vector space, endowed with the natural dual of wedge product, an operation which is called the meet. Identities between suitable polynomials in a GC algebra express geometric theorems in a very elegant language, as was first shown by Barnabei, Brini and Rota. The leading example of a linear lattice is the lattice of subspaces of a vector space. In general, a linear lattice is a lattice of commuting equivalence relations, for which an elegant proof theory was first developed by Haiman. Inequalities between LL polynomials express geometric theorems which are characteristic free and dimension independent. The main link between GC algebras and linear lattices developed in the present dissertation is the proof that a large class of GC identities introduced by Hawrylycz with the name Arguesian identities of order 2, has a lattical counterpart, and therefore the correspondent geometric theorems are lattical. Since the proof theory for linear lattice is based on a graphical procedure, exploiting a class of graphs larger than the class of series-parallel graphs yielded two new ideas, as described next, the first of which is closely related to a study developed by Crapo. The main result in the GC setting is the introduction of invariant operations associated to every suitable graph, which generalize the sixth harmonic on the projective line, and the correspondent expansion of the operation as a polynomial in the GC algebra. Issues concerning reducibility and composition of such graph operations are also investigated. In the LL setting, the notion of a LL can be refined to isolate lattices in which all graphical operations defined in a GC algebra can be defined as well. We introduce this new class of lattices, for which we choose the name strong linear lattices, which more closely capture the geometric properties of lattices of projective spaces. It turns out that with little extra assumption, the algebra of the underlying field of a strong linear lattice -if anycan be almost completely recovered with little effort and elegant graphical proofs. Thesis Supervisor: Gian-Carlo Rota Title: Professor of Mathematics


Unlike those traditional clustering algorithms, the spectral clustering algorithm can be applied to non-convex sphere of sample spaces and be converged to global optimal. As a entry point that the similar of spectral clustering, introduce improved weighted fuzzy similar matrix to spectral in this paper which avoids influence from parameters changes of fuzzy similar matrix in traditional spectral clustering on clustering effect and improves the effectiveness of clustering. It is more actual and scientific, which is tested based on UCI data set.


With the increasingly severer situation of employment,the employment psychological balance of graduates is becoming deviating,and a wide range of psychological problems is coming up,which deserves our attention and diacussion.This paper analyzes the common psychological errors of employment,and discusses the measures for adjusting the employment psychology of graduates from the aspects of adjusting psychology consciously and psychologically integrating the large social environment to find out the measures to promote the full employment of graduates.


The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body and has various functions, especially the function of metabolism and detoxification. The liver is an organ that is prone to damage because the liver parenchyma cells are the main target of the binding of free radicals that can cause oxidative stress. Free radicals can cause lipid peroxidation, this results in the breakdown of DNA strands and oxidizes biological molecules in cell membranes and tissues, causing lesions in the liver tissue. Over the last few years, the use of antioxidants derived from natural ingredients in Indonesia has grown. White oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostrestus) is a mushroom that is often consumed by Indonesian people and has been widely studied by researchers as an herbal therapy for various diseases. Various studies have stated that extracts from oyster mushrooms have hepatoprotective activity because of their exogenous antioxidant content. The oxidant content of oyster mushrooms are phenolic compound, ergothioneine (ERG), vitamin C, and vitamin E. These exogenous antioxidants have the ability to reduce hydrogen donors and increase the synthesis of endogen antioxidant in the body namely glutathione (GSH) to prevent oxidative stress in the liver.


The tests for dynamic compressive properties of 2D-C/SiC composites' Z-direction were performed in low temperature circumstance by using the SHPB system.The low temperature was made by controlling the ratio of coefficients between alcohol and liquid nitrogen to be obtained.The key issue to apply high strain rates to the 2D-C/SiC was to design the geometrical size of the shaper in the SHPB system.The test results of the dynamic loading were successful.Results indicate that 2D-C/SiC composite material show pseudo-plastic behavior at dynamic loading conditions in low temperature circumstance owing to a lot of internal microcracks in the initial composite material,so it does not exhibit typical brittle failure when the composites were destroyed,but it shows the strain softening phenomenon significantly when the stress reaches the compressive strength of the composites,and the specimens have experienced a large deformation before destruction.As the temperature decreases,the dynamic compressive strength of composites' Z-direction increases,but the failure strain decreases.At low temperatures,the interface between the internal fiber and matrix in the 2D-C/SiC composites enhances the binding force of the interface,and the more strength interfacial force can lead to a more strength high compression.