Objective
To evaluate the effect of curcumin on the phosphorylation of transforming growth factor-β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) during endotoxin-induced lung injury in rats.

Methods
Eighteen pathogen-free healthy male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 180-220 g, were divided into 3 groups (n=6 each) using a random number table: control group (group C), lung injury group (group LI) and curcumin group (group CUR). Lung injury was induced by intra-tracheal instillation of lipopolysaccharide 5 mg/kg in 1 ml of normal saline in LI and CUR groups.Curcumin 200 mg/kg was injected intraperitoneally at 30 min before establishment of the model in group CUR, while the equal volume of dimethyl sulfoxide was given instead in group LI.The rats were sacrificed at 12 h after administration of lipopolysaccharide or normal saline, and lungs were removed for determination of the expression of TAK1 and phosphorylated TAK1 (p-TAK1) in lung tissues.The right upper lobe of the lung was removed for determination of wet/dry weight ratio (W/D ratio).

Results
Compared with group C, the W/D ratio was significantly increased, and the expression of TAK1 and p-TAK1 was up-regulated in group LI (P<0.05). Compared with group LI, the W/D ratio was significantly decreased, and the expression of TAK1 and p-TAK1 was down-regulated in group CUR (P<0.05).

Conclusion
The mechanism by which curcumin attenuates endotoxin-induced lung injury is related to inhibition of the phosphorylation of TAK1 in lung tissues of rats.

Key words:
Curcumin; Endotoxemia; Respiratory distress syndrome, adult; Transforming growth factor beta


Objective: To study the effectiveness of early low frequency electric stimulation of quadriceps on patients operated with total knee arthroplasty. Methods: Forty two patients operated with total knee arthroplasty were randomly divided into two groups. Patients in control group were received routine rehabilitation treatment,but treatment group received routine one and low frequency electric stimulation of quadriceps.VAS, swelling degree and KSS test were performed before and after the treatment. Result: One week later,the value of VAS,swelling degree and pain relieve,range of motor(ROM) and so on in treatment group.No significantly difference in joint stability and so on between the two groups after treatment. Conclusion: Early low frequency electric stimulation of quadriceps can improve function on patients operated with total knee arthroplasty.


A scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong discovered a technique in 2010 for creating a reliable test using only a blood sample from a pregnant woman. But applying the theory has been tricky. Even Dr Shendure's profile had a huge false positive rate for new mutations


The article examines two cholera epidemics that struck Michigan in the early 1830s, arguing that the conflict generated by these crises reveals underlying social tensions between one frontier city and its rural hinterlands. Building on Charles Rosenberg's classic The Cholera Years, it contends that his study underestimates the ferocity of the debate over how cholera spread in 1832 and the conflict that uncertainty generated. In Michigan, unlike the East, a furious dispute raged over the etiology of cholera, with newspapers in the countryside insisting that the disease was contagious and those in Detroit contending that the malady did not spread through human contact. Such disagreements produced different strategies for combating cholera. Although Detroiters shunned quarantines, their counterparts in the countryside quickly established these artificial borders to protect themselves from an urban pestilence associated with poverty, crime, and disorder. Tensions exploded into violence in the summer of 1832, when Ypsilanti officials shot at two stagecoaches allegedly seeking to violate the town's quarantine; the incident transformed the conflict over cholera from a regional into a partisan political battle, with Democrats defending and Whigs attacking the individuals who fired at the travelers. In examining such questions, the essay demonstrates the vital role that those living in the emerging West assigned to defending cultural and regional boundaries and suggests that tensions along cultural borders may have played a more important role in frontier communities than historians have been able to appreciate. Although historians recently have produced a growing body of work on national and cultural borders, they have not focused as much attention on less clearly defined boundaries, such as those separating cities from the countryside. Examining such barriers, particularly in western locations, may prove fruitful in the future.


M usculoskeletal disorders such as myalgia, tendinitis, tenosynovitis, some back disorders, and nerve entrapment syndromes, most notably carpal tunnel syndrome, are conditions associated with overuse and overexertion. Occupational and non-occupational factors contribute to the etiology of these disorders (Schwartz, 1992). The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a 10% increase in work related repeated trauma disorders from 1993 to 1994. This category includes noise induced hearing loss, but the predominant conditions were upper extremity complaints such as tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. However, it must be recognized that BLS distinguishes between occupational injuries and occupational illnesses. Cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) are classified as occupational illnesses, while back complaints are recorded as occupational injuries. Limited information is available about the costs of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders. Cost data were collected from records of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company from 45 states during 1989. Data were analyzed in 1992, allowing for closing cost data. Costs for lost wages and health care for upper extremity CTDs in the United States were esti-


For this reason, the key to solve the problem of rural financial development is to solve the problem of rural financial development. At present, the state has given important instructions to improve the rural financial ecological environment, but the relevant research on the evaluation of rural financial ecological environment in China is still insufficient. In view of this situation, this paper puts forward a BP neural network model for the comprehensive evaluation of rural financial ecological environment. First of all, this paper studies the relevant basic theory of financial ecology and ecological environment comprehensive evaluation. Through the research, this paper believes that the construction of rural financial ecological environment involves many factors, and each factor has a mutual influence. It is difficult to determine the influence of a single factor on the final result. Therefore, in view of this complex situation, this paper establishes a set of multi factor evaluation index systems including economy, policy, law, culture, etc. And these complex factors are trained by BP neural network. The training results were normalized to quantify the specific impact of each index on the rural financial ecological environment. Finally, in order to verify the actual evaluation effect of this model, a number of comparative experiments including validity verification, stability analysis, comparison and verification of different model error rates are carried out. Through the analysis of experimental data, we can see that the BP neural network evaluation model in this paper has good comprehensive performance and significantly improves the calculation accuracy compared with the traditional analytic hierarchy process.


Analytical reproducibility in scientific research has become a keenly discussed topic within scientific research organizations and acknowledged as an important and fundamental goal to strive for. Recently published scientific studies have found that irreproducibility is widely prevalent within the research community, even after releasing data openly. At Bielefeld University, nine research project groups from varied disciplines have embarked on a "reproducibility" journey by collaborating on the Conquaire project as case study partners. This paper introduces the Conquaire project. In particular, we describe the goals and objectives of the project as well as the underlying system architecture which relies on a DCVS system for storing data, and on continuous integration principles to foster data quality. We describe a first prototype implementation of the system and discuss a running example which illustrates the functionality and behaviour of the system.


ABSTRACT We looked at the diversity of NO2−oxidizers at field scale by examining isolates at clump scale and in microsamples of soil (diameter, 50 μm). The genetic distances (as determined by amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis performed with Nitrobacter-specific primers) in a small clump of soil were as large as those between reference strains from large geographical areas. Diversity in individual microsamples was shown by serotyping.


Objective
To investigate the expression of programmed death 1 (PD-1) and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) at mRNA level in children (≤5 years old) with tuberculosis (TB) and to investigate their roles in the development of childhood tuberculosis.

Methods
Peripheral blood samples were collected from 36 children with tuberculosis(TB) and 20 healthy children (≤5 years old). The peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated from the blood samples by using lymphocyte separation liquid. Real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR was performed to measure the expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 at mRNA level.

Results
The expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 at transcriptional level in the peripheral blood of children with pulmonary or extrapulmonary TB were increased as compared with those in healthy children (P<0.05). A more significant increase was observed in the expression of PD-L1 at mRNA level.

Conclusion
This study suggested that the expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 at mRNA level were increased in the peripheral blood of children (≤5 years old) with pulmonary or extrapulmonary TB, indicating that PD-1/PD-L1 might play a very important role in the pathogenesis of childhood tuberculosis.

Key words:
Tuberculosis; Children; Programmed death 1; Programmed death-ligand 1


The mechanism and effects of organo-montmorillonite(OMMT) on PA6/PP alloy were investigated.The addition of OMMT improved the tensile strength,flexural strength and flexural modulus of the alloy,however,the impact strength decreased to a certain extent.OMMT was mainly dispersed in the PA6 matrix.When OMMT content was no more than 5wt%,most OMMT was exfoliated in the PA6 matrix.OMMT greatly improved the compatibility of the PA6/PP blends.The compatiblization effect of OMMT may be described that the exfoliate clay platelets in the PA6 matrix effectively prevented the coalescence of PP dispersed domains.It also may be explained that the exfoliated clay platelets acted as the compatiblization of the grafted polymer. The exfoliated clay platelets made for the improvement of tensile strength and flexural strength of the blends. On the contrary,the existence of the clay platelets and the similar grafted polymer related with the clay platelets limited the yield of PP phase round the interface and decreased the impact strength.


Infrared heating technique is used for regeneration of diesel exhaust particulate filter which is simplicity in system structure and high reliability. The peak temperature and temperature gradient in the ceramic filter which can damage the ceramic are analyzed and found an effective method to decrease. The result from the experiments shows that the peak temperature and gradient can be decreased effectively by adjusting infrared radiation flux in the radial of cross section.


Abstract It is shown that a system consisting of a magnetic ring source in an air column having a central conductor and surrounded by an annular plasma column may give rise to a narrow beam radiation peak beyond the critical angle. The direction of the radiation peak depends upon the inner and outer diameter of the annular plasma column and on the plasma density. The amplitude of the peak depends upon the diameter of the ring source, and on the inner and outer diameter of the annular plasma column. The direction of the radiation peak is independent of the diameter of the ring source. It is suggested that the results presented can be used to design an electronically scannable narrow beam plasma antenna system.


This paper addresses the problem of path negotiation among self-interested multirobot operators in shared space. In conventional multirobot path planning problems, most of the research thus far has focused on the coordination and planning of collision-free paths for multiple robots with some common objectives. On the contrary, the recent progress of technologies in autonomous vehicles, including automated guidance vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and manned autonomous cars, has increased demand for solving coordination and conflict avoidance in these autonomous and self-interested agents that pursue their own objectives. In this research, we tackle this problem from the operator perspective. We assume a problem setting where collisions between robots are avoided based on path reservation and negotiation. Under that circumstance, we propose a task-oriented utility function and a path negotiation algorithm for robot operators to maximize their task utility during path negotiation. The simulation and experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of our task-based negotiation method over a simple path-based negotiation approach.


Aim of this study is to formulate an algorithm based on neural network modelling to calculate the index of individual risk of breast cancer (BC). We examined 1440 women. All subjects aged 18 to 85 years. To achieve the objective used clinical, laboratory and instrumental methods (mammography, ultrasonography). Questionnaire method, methods for constructing artificial neural network models and logistic regression models, as well as the program «oncologist» are based on a neural network. 12 women of 360 clinically healthy women surveyed were assigned to high-risk group. The majority were women 41-50 age group (75 ± 0,1%). Women aged 51-60 totalled 16,7 ± 0,1%, in 31-40 years 8,3 ± 0,1%. In the «medium risk» assigned 95 women 26,4 ± 0,1%, in the « low risk « 253 women 70,3 ± 0,1%. Statistically significant differences (p < 0,001). Belonging to high-risk groups increases the reliability of the pathological process in 2.2 (CI 1,4-3,5 ) times (p < 0,001). In women at high and medium risk of developing breast cancer as a result of a comprehensive survey found suspected breast cancer one woman (by histological examination fibroadenoma), fibro-cystosis disease (FCD) in 18 women with one woman fibroadenoma of the breast. In the low-risk group for breast cancer FCD was detected in 4 women, nodules were not identified. Statistically significant (p < 0,001) risk factors were set up for each age group in the Bukovynskoy region, which make up the largest proportion. An automated system (based on a neural network, which allows you to create « high-risk « of breast cancer and precancerous diseases. Sensitivity of predictive models 79,8%, specificity 79,0% with 86,3% diagnostic accuracy.


The ageing process tends to impact negatively on driving ability and behaviour increasing the likelihood of accidents. Traditionally, research tends to have been top-down and as such misses the needs, motivations and attitudes of the drivers themselves. This research worked in-depth with a small number of older drivers using a grounded theory approach to elicit their needs and requirements with regards to the driving task. It identified a number of issues that previous research had highlighted, including shortened reaction times, increased fatigue and problems with glare but in addition emphasised some novel issues, including marinating the vehicle speed at a consistent level and issues with distraction. The role new technology has in meeting such needs is briefly discussed.


To provide a user interface to prevent erroneous operation while not impairing the sense of touch operation on the touch screen. The flying flick operation in a slightly distant position from the A surface 100a of the display 100. When the flying flick operation, the partial image obtained by enlarging the periphery of the coordinates directly under the fingertip, it is displayed over the original image. A touch operation contacting the finger on the display 10 on the partial image. Touch operation to the partial image is processed as a touch operation on the original image. Prior to the flying flick operation portion is also close to the fingertip on the display 100 the image is not displayed. Once away from the well surface of the finger after the partial image is displayed partial image disappears. .FIELD 1


But the subject innovation relates to a folding chair laying backpack, in a backpack having a back frame, constituting the back frame of the backpack 10 in the outer frame 20, 30 in a pair, a middle portion upper and lower ends and a hinge coupled to the rotation part; The upper end of the inner and outer frames 20, 30 and connecting the opposite ends of the sheet 40 so that a person can sit; The inner and outer frames 20, 30. At the bottom of the brace 12, wherein at the time of folding of the advancing state or expanded sheet 40 within the outer frame of the backpack (10) each comprising a brace engaging ring 23 of the 20 (30) is characterized in that so that the close contact with the back 11 of the backpack 10. As described above, the present design is thereby relieve the burden of the long time traveling by allowing you to perform a back role when writing because equipped with integrated folding chair in the back of portable backpack, travel, also when his backpack when resting When put down to the effect that lets you immediately function as a chair.


Significant wave height (SWH) is one of the most important descriptors for ocean wave fields. The polynomial regression (PolR) and Gaussian process regression (GPR) models are implemented to explore the effects of polarization and incidence angles on the SWH estimation from multi-incidence angle quad-polarization Gaofen-3 SAR wave mode data, based on the collocated data set of approximately 12000 Gaofen-3 wave mode imagettes, matched with SWH from the fifth generation reanalysis (ERA5) of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The results show that the model performance improves, as long as polarimetry information increases. The hybrid polarizations perform stronger than the co-polarizations or cross-polarizations alone, and they show better performance over the low to high seas. The lower incidence angles are more favorable for SAR SWH inversion. It is superior to introduce incidence angle in piecewise way, rather than to include it as an independent variable in the models. Then, the final PolR and GPR models, with the superior input scheme that includes the quad-polarized features and introduces the incidence angle in piecewise way, are assessed independently through a comparison with observations from altimeter and buoys. The accuracies of our SWH estimates are comparable or even higher than other published results. The GPR model outperforms the PolR model, due to the superiority of the added nonlinearity of GPR.


The present invention relates to a user interface system for a personal healthcare environment. Further, the present invention relates to a method of operation of such a user interface system. To provide a user interface system disabled user can easily use a recommended user interface system (1) comprising a plurality of user interface components (2,3,4), and further comprising an adaptation module (5), the appropriate distribution modules (5) adapted to the component (2,3,4) is adapted to automatically perform at least one user based on individuals with disabilities.


The article considers the topical issue of the author's consciousness of a poet in the context of the contemporary literary movement. S. A. Yesenin's early creative work belongs to the now debatable concept of neo-romanticism in the Russian literature of the turn of the 20 th century. Referring to the theoretical works of the time, the author defines the peculiarities of the neo-romantic aesthetics and poetics conditioned by the realization of the change in cultural epochs. The article studies a number of Yesenin's works written between 1914 and 1919 in the neo-romantic context to clarify the author's consciousness and the peculiarity of the poet's creative method. The article combines the historical and aesthetic-typological research approaches which enables the author to make clearer conclusions of the contemporary idea of Yesenin's creative work. The research elaborates the worldview and poetic peculiarities of the poet's early creative work.


Opacity is an important security notion for discrete event systems (DESs) to measure the secret behaviors leaked to an intruder. The intruder is usually modeled as a malicious observer who always attempts to infer secret behaviors based on his dynamical observations of the system. In our earlier research, we proposed several opacity measures for DESs from the perspective of fuzzy logic, in which the intruder is assumed to only infer the current secret behaviors. Considering that modern computers usually have a powerful computation ability and rich memory resources, this article presents a new opacity measure of DESs, called as fuzzy infinite-step opacity (FIO) measure, where the intruder is assumed to have the ability of inferring all the secret behaviors that occurred in the past. In addition, the properties and the calculation of the FIO measure are also investigated. The FIO measure can be used to assess the secret-leakage situations of fuzzy DESs attacked by powerful intruders. For the purpose of illustration, we present a practical application of the FIO measure in evaluating the privacy protection mechanisms in location-based services.


With this volume, the sixth of a monumental series (Khotanese Texts I, Cambridge 1945, Khotanese Buddhist Texts (Cambridge Oriental Series No. 3), London 1951, Khotanese Texts II, Cambridge 1953, Khotanese Texts III, Cambridge 1956, and Khotanese Texts IV, Cambridge 1961) Professor Sir Harold Bailey has finished the preliminary work of having the texts printed and has thus created a true Corpus Hvatanicum. The texts published in Khotanese Texts V are relatively small, some of them only comprising a few words or a single line, but bigger texts, especially from the Suvarnabhasasutra, pp. 106-119, the Aparimitayuh-sutra, p. 243 ff., the Siddhasara, p. 315 ff., the Samghata-sutra, pp. 328-344 (with a comparison with the readings in Sten Konow's edition, Saka Studies, Oslo 1932, p. 64 ff., from fol. 7a onwards), the Kausika-sutra, p. 356 ff., and the Sitatapatra-dharam, p. 359 ff., have also been included, so that Khotanese Texts V becomes above all a volume of Older Khotanese texts, as will be easily seen by noticing the frequently occurring gen. plur. in -ami compared with -am in e.g. the Siddhasara. A more exact classification of the different stages of the Khotanese language than one hitherto has been accustomed to, has, by the way, been given by Professor Bailey in the Preface p. VII f. (Older Khotanese = the linguistic stages la and lb, Later Khotanese = 2a and 2b; cf. to this M. J. Dresden's very detailed description of the difference between Older and Later Khotanese p. 404 ff. in The Jatakastava or "Praise of the Buddha's Former Births", Transactions of the American Philosophical Society N.S. Vol. 45, Part 5, Philadelphia 1955).


Microencapsulation is the process by which any active substances are coated with the help of very small capsules. The size of the capsules can range from one micron to several hundred micron values. The usage of these capsules is not limited to any field; it plays important role in many industries related to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food industries and in research applications as well. With the help of this latest technology encapsulation of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, flavors, omega-3 fatty acids, micro-organisms, enzymes, oils, peptides, protein hydrolysate, antioxidants and polyphenols is possible and there are many factors that play a vital role in the efficiency of microcapsules such as the concentration of polymer, rate of solvent removal, solubility of polymer insolvent, etc. microencapsulation can be done in many ways such as; spray drying, extrusion, lyophilization, coacervation, spray cooling, fluidized bed coating, co-crystallization and inclusion complexation. The article is a review of microencapsulation technology and lays emphasis on various substances that can be encapsulated with the help of this technique and different types of microencapsulation.


Barrel electroplating is an extremely useful method to coat a large number of components. Despite its successful use for many years it does have drawbacks, often stemming from poor electrolyte move...


An acoustic disturbance can be viewed as a waveform in space and time, or by the temporal or spatial frequency content of the acoustic disturbance. For each waveform and frequency viewpoint, the individual Green's function for acoustic radiation from a baffled transducer is available in the literature. The unified approach allows the Green's function for any given viewpoint to be transformed appropriately to obtain the Green's function for a desired viewpoint (personal conversations with the late Bill D. Cook). Given a Green's function for the acoustic radiation in a linear acoustic system, and the impulse responses of the other system components, the output can be determined for a given input. Choice of the most advantageous radiation impulse response/transfer function can reduce calculation time or provide physical insight for a problem of interest.


This paper deals with embedded systems modelling, mixed hardware/software codesign, and more generally structured codesign methodology for avionics systems. This methodology is based on two main concepts: multi-formalism specifications and a unified system model. The multi-formalism concept allows to combine partial specifications expressed in various formalisms. As a matter of fact, an embedded systems specification is usually spanned through more than one formalism, each one coveing one type of system functions. Partial system specifications are composed into a unified system model which also serves as a basis for hardware/software partitioning and analysis. The defined system model supports the main systemlevel concepts expressed in specifications formalisms and has lower abstract levels covering the behavioural and the register transfer levels.


A 56 year old patient who present as a simple right inguinal hernia for last 18 years was admitted and planed for right hemioplasty. All routine investigations were within normal limit and patient was posted for surgery on next day. No ultra sonography or x-ray of abdomen wa~ done as diagnosis in case of hernia is made by clinical examination. During surgery, as it was a direct hernia so simple reducing the sac and placing a mesh over it was decided. But as the sac was freed from all the adhesion a solid and hard structure is felt against the thumb and right index finger. The sac is thus open to rule out any other pathology and silver off white stone was found just below the sac. The stone was removed; closure of sac was done followed by placing a mesh over it. The stone was send for biochemical analysis, which was later diagnosed as calcium stone. Patient was on regular follow up and no evidence of recurrence or infection was seen. The main motive to present this case was to put stress that in a long standing case of inguinal hernia chronic, inflammation and i"itation may cause calcification and fibrosis of surrounding tissue which lead to formation of herniolithiasis (stone in hernia sac).


Abstract An innovative and efficient monoalkylation and nonsymmetrical 3,3-dialkylation of oxindoles has been achieved. First, the monoalkylation of 3-acetyl-2-oxindoles can be performed in good yields under mild reaction conditions using alkyl halides and benzyltrimethylammonium hydroxide (Triton B) as base at room temperature. This methodology is applied to construct the synthetically challenging compound 1,3-dimethyl-2-oxindole. Subsequent deacylative alkylation (DaA) of the alkylated 3-acetyl-2-oxindoles with alkyl halides takes place efficiently using LiOEt or by conjugate addition with electron-deficient alkenes in the presence of Triton B at room temperature under argon, affording the corresponding unsymmetrically 3,3-disubstituted 2-oxindoles. This simple methodology has been applied to the synthesis of precursors of horsfiline, esermethole, physostigmine, and phenserine alkaloids.


Abstract:This Catalonian translation of the Blitz era of Barcelona during the beginning of World War II depicts different snapshots of Spanish wartime life through the eyes of one individual in a particular setting, including a doctor in an overworked and overflowing hospital, a barman who observes the everyday minutia and people that filter through his establishment, and an otherworldly snapshot of the Clair de Lune, a safe, moonlit refuge for illicit lovers.


Ni-content dependence on magnetostriction, effective magnetic anisotropy and initial permeability for as-quenched amorphous alloys annealed at 500 was investigated. XRD showed that all the amorphous samples were partially nanocrystallized after annealing and a two-phase nanocrystalline structure with -FeCoNi(Si) and residual amorphous phase was formed. Ni-content exerts a significant effect on magnetostriction and effective magnetic anisotropy. With the increasing of Ni-content, the magnetostriction and effective magnetic anisotropy gradually decreases which results in the remarkable enhancement of initial permeability from to . Index Terms—Effective magnetic anisotropy, magnetostriction, Ni-doped FeCo-based nanocrystalline alloy, permeability.


A 32-year-old young female, P0+0, presented with fever, weakness, fatigue, dizziness, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting for last 10 days. She was amenorrheic for last 10 years. She was diagnosed as a case of hyperthyroidism 7 years back for which she was prescribed carbimazole. She also had diabetes mellitus (DM type I) for last 3 years, for which she was taking insulin irregularly, and alopecia for last 6 months. There was no family history of similar disorder. On examination of the patient, she looked ill. She was not obese. There was diffuse loss of scalp hair, and the rest of her general and systemic examination was normal.


Due to the trends of the increase in life expectancies and decrement in fertility rates, the world population is moving towards becoming an ageing nation. With the rise in the number of older people, the demand for long-term care services is expected to increase. Long-term care services are ubiquitous in the developed country, especially in the European region as the countries have become the aged nations. Apart from that, the cost for long-term care services differs for individuals based on the level of needs and the service provider, either public or private nursing home for long-term care. Due to the growing cost of long-term care services, a long-term care insurance policy may be seen as an alternative to covering the cost of long-term care services because the risk is mitigated for individuals. However, most Asian countries are not familiar with the long-term care insurance policy as there is no specific insurance policy for long-term care services offered yet in these countries. The essential factor in constructing a long-term care insurance policy is to identify the risks that are insurable to be included in the policy to be used later for pricing long-term care insurance policy in Malaysia. This study provides an in-depth review and understanding of the insurable risks associated with long term care insurance in European and Asian countries.


We illustrate the general concept of what we describe as elemental graphics: displays that aord direct visualizations of data with respect to fundamental questions that drive particular statistical methods. Attention is directed to methods that have both descriptive and inferential features through a focus on what can be seen as elemental graphics for analysis of variance. Our graphics are partly pedagogical in nature, highlighting the fundamental comparisons and outcomes made in the conduct of an ANOVA; however, their use readily extends well beyond pedagogy. These graphics can be helpful in the analysis of nearly any data set for which the corresponding method is applicable. The graphics were created using our graphical ANOVA R package granova. 1


In this paper, I investigate "motherhood" as it was constructed and practiced by Zimbabwean women in rural villages during the Zimbabwean war of liberation, through the analysis of a collection of thirty personal narratives of the war.' This war shook preexisting social and familial structures, presenting the women of the villages with the task of realigning their perceptions with the new social facts around them. I will concentrate on three interrelated themes: (1) the changes in maternal practice brought about by the war; (2) the disjuncture between the changed social world and the stock of concepts and language available to organize that world; and (3) the mobilization of the mother-child paradigm in order to meet various practical and political needs, and as a way of organizing perceptions of the war situation. The twentieth-century military struggle for Zimbabwe's emancipation from white minority rule began in 1972. It was a rural guerrilla war, characterized by hit-and-run and sabotage attacks by highly decentralized small units that operated in isolation from their commanders often for more than a year. The Rhodesian army had sophisticated armaments and logistical support, while the guerrillas had only their knowledge of the land and, guided by Maoist and Vietnamese tactical theories, the involvement of the peasantry. By the end of the war in 1979, the two liberation movements, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) with its army, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA), and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) with its army, the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), had infiltrated approximately 28,000 guerrillas into Zimbabwe from Zambia, Mozambique, and Botswana. Both liberation movements relied heavily on the villagers to supply and assist them. Their methods of obtaining support ranged from persuasion to coercion, and had different impacts on their hosts.2 Some welcomed the guerrillas both as children of the village and as liberators, others thought of them as, at best, a lesser evil than government soldiers. ZANU and ZAPU had an uneasy strategic alliance, the tensions of which were unfortunately played out in the villages of Zimbabwe. Their presence, and the


ed infections with anaerobic bacteria, they can be combined with for example metronidazole or clindamycin. Vancomycin can be used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus␣ aureus (MRSA)-species. Local antibiotics are only rarely used but antiseptic oral fluids with 0.2% chlorhexidine can be used in the prophylaxis against secondary infections in various diseases of the mucosal membrane. In contrast, surgery (tooth extraction, opening of abscesses, removal of foreign bodies or sequestra, drainage etc) and supportive measures (lactobacilli, Candida -prophylaxis, analgesics, intravenous fluid and nutrition, airway management, granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, hyperbaric oxygen, gammaglobulins, extra doses of glucocorticosteroids etc) are often very impor-tant. Antibiotics used in oral medicine can also lead to adverse events, and, for example tetracyclines also have non-antimicrobial effects.


Objective: To determine the frequency of thyroid disorders in patients of type II diabetes mellitus at Pak Emirates Military Hospital Rawalpindi.
Study Design: Cross sectional analytical study.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at Pak Emirates Military Hospital Rawalpindi, from Jul 2017 to Jun 2018.
Material and Methods: The study focused on patients with type-II diabetes mellitus presenting to outpatient department of Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi. Ages ranged from 30 years to 70 years and patients who had a previous co-existing thyroid disease or taking drugs that affect thyroid function were excluded. Glycosylated hemoglobin levels were done and Thyroid stimulating hormone levels was used to screen patientsfor thyroid dysfunction.
Results: Mean age of the participants was 54.89 ± 1.10 years. A total of 334 patients [186 (55.7%) males and 148 (44.3%) females] were analysed. Among them 233 patients (69.8%) were euthyroid, 52 patients (15.6%) had subclinical hypothyroidism, 34 patients (10.2%) had subclinical hyperthyroidism, 9 patients (2.7%) had hypothyroidism and 6 patients (1.8%) had hyperthyroidism.
Conclusion: The frequency of thyroid disease was significantly higher in patients with type II diabetes mellitus as compared to the general population and thus patients with type II diabetes mellitus should be screened.


Methanol and hot water extracts of 71 samples of 56 kinds of marine products were subjected to inhibitory test for cyclicAMP phosphodiesterase (cAMP PDE), cytotoxic and anti-viral screening tests. Among them, 7 extracts of marine products showed a significant inhibition for cAMP PDE and 5 extracts showed a significant cytotoxicity against KB cells at concentrations under 20 µg/ml. Eight extracts of marine products showed higher therapeutic indexes against herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1).


This Chapter argues that blockchain technologies structurally tend towards 'judicialisation' and challenge the traditional, state-centric notions of jurisdiction and enforcement. The first part sets the scene by locating the emergence of blockchain technologies within the broader debate concerning the relationship between national and transnational law. Such a contextualisation is crucial, in order to develop a reliable understanding of the impact of this set of technologies on the state's capacity to preserve its central role in the administration of justice through a system of courts. Against this background, the second part investigates the effect of blockchains and smart contracts on the notion of jurisdiction, drawing lessons from the historical evolution of the concept and applying them to the current technological reality. Relying on empirical data, it is argued that the growth of blockchain technologies has given rise to a proliferation of private arbitral systems, generating a new division of labour between state courts and private adjudication. Finally, the third part of the Chapter considers the emergence of self-enforcing smart contracts and its consequences for the traditional view whereby the state maintains a monopoly over the use of force.


The purpose of the article is to identify ways to ensure that the educational process in higher education institutions meets the modern requirements of social development. The methodology of the comprehensive study allowed to identify priority areas of adaptation of universities to changes in the external environment; to summarize the main comprehensive measures to ensure the quality of education; to substantiate the feasibility of organizing continuous monitoring of the market of educational services to promptly provide the educational institution with the information necessary to make effective decisions; to generalize and supplement the principles of the adaptive process in higher education institutions; to develop recommendations for the formation of a support system for the adaptive process in higher education institutions. Methodology. The study is based on a systematic approach to the substantiation of the nature and directions of adaptation of the HEI to changes in the external environment, to the formation of a system to support the adaptation process of the HEI. It is shown that the priority directions of adaptation of the HEI are determined in relation to a particular educational institution and should include: reforming of the educational institution in accordance with modern requirements; implementation of market ideology; innovative development of the educational process; provision of modern education; development of interaction with employers – customers of educational services; diversification of funding sources. The scheme of information support for HEI adaptation to the requirements of the external environment was developed. The study of adaptive activities of successful HEIs allowed to complement the principles of reform and transformation of the organizational and economic foundations of HEIs with the principles of adaptive process organization, such as the practical experience of purposeful modernization of other HEIs to solve similar problems; analysis of the current situation of the HEI, the market of educational services and the prospects for their development; reliance on the corporate culture of the team; integrated systematic approach to economic and social problems; project approach to the formation and implementation of measures to ensure the adaptation program. The results of the study show that the system to support the process of adaptation in higher education is a set of management tools, which are based on the principles of adaptation process organization; adaptation strategy is aimed at improving the quality of education, competence of graduates; policy of adaptive management and reform of the educational process; development of market logic; development and implementation of programs to improve educational and scientific activities and their organic combination; diversification of educational activity; internal institutional restructuring; application of collective and individual forms and methods of economic, social, moral, psychological and other types of stimulation to intensify the adaptive process. Practical implications. An algorithm for forming a system to support the adaptation process in higher education institutions, including organizational and economic tools of institutional support for continuous adaptation process to coordinate the activities of the HEI with the dynamic conditions of the external environment, was developed. Value/originality. Determination of ways to ensure compliance of the educational process in the university with modern requirements of social development should be based on understanding the essence of the concept of adaptation of the university to changes in the external environment as a process of purposeful change in the educational and scientific activities of the university and its units to the current and future changes in the external environment to ensure effective functioning, addressing certain goals and objectives of development, compliance of graduates' competencies with the requirements of the current and prospective labor market, competitiveness of the institution on the market of educational services; the essence of adaptive management as a process of creating conditions for the implementation in the educational process of society's requirements for quality, up-to-date knowledge received by graduates of the educational institution, compliance with the requirements of the current and future economy.


ABSTRACT This article aims to analyse the conditions of the institutionalisation and transformation of the official memory of slavery in contemporary France, and to theorise a new version of the memory which I will call public memory. This theorisation will be put to the test of an ethnographic study, which has been conducted over several years, on associations servicing people originating from the French Antilles, and spearheading the struggle for the remembrance of slavery.


In this paper, a framework for the automatic pronunciation scoring is presented. The system included three modules which are pronunciation parameter database , evaluation model based on artificial neural network and automatic scoring module .The Mandarin Proficiency Test to be completed by computer-aided evaluation, not only can remove the human factor to establish uniform standards, but also save time, improve efficiency, accelerate the promotion and popularization of mandarin.


A twisted $\bar{\partial}_f$-Neumann problem associated to a singularity $(\mathscr{O}_n,f)$ is established. By constructing the connection to the Koszul complex for toeplitz $n$-tuples $(f_1,\cdots,f_n)$ on Bergman spaces $B^0(D)$, we can solve this $\bar{\partial}_f$-Neumann problem. Moreover, we can compute the cohomology of the $L^2$ holomorphic Koszul complex $(B^*(D),\partial f\wedge)$ explicitly


Objective To evaluate the effect the treatment of proximal tihial fractures with A(less invasive stabilization system) and B(reconstruction plates).Methods Fifty-nine patients with proximal tibial fractures(51 tibial plateau fracture)were treated with LISS and reconstruction plates for in-fixation.The characteristics and advantages of LISS and the functions of the knee were evaluated. Results The period of following up was 4 to 31 months.3 cases had superficial wound infection and 1 case suffered deep delayed infection and changed external fixation later.Other fractures were healed without any complications.The knee HSS scores were excellent in 22cases(A);17(B),good in 6 cases(A);8(B).Conclusion The tibial LISS worked well at angle stabilization and anti-pull out in the treatment of the proximal tibial fracture with a good protection on the soft tissue and blood supply,The LISS provides stable fixation、a high rate of union and low rate of infection for proximal tibial fractures,which is much better than reconstruction plates.


This is the first reported case in which a Logothetopulos pack was utilized to achieve pelvic hemostasis in a patient requiring a cesarean hysterectomy for placenta accreta with postpartum hemorrhage. The Logothetopulos pack is an easily constructed gauze tamponade method that proved to be life-saving in this case.


Tumors derived from smooth muscle occur in all segments of the gastro-intestinal tract. They are most common in the stomach and rarest in the colon. Of 28 leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas, reports of which were collected by Geschickter, only 2 were located in the large intestine and both of these, one benign and one malignant, were found in the rectum. The case report which follows is of interest, therefore, because of the rarity of the lesion. It is also of interest because, owing to certain roentgenologic characteristics, the histologic structure of the tumor was suspected before operation. A man, forty-six years of age, registered at the Mayo Clinic on July 3, 1941, complaining of attacks of pain in the upper left portion of the abdomen. The first attack had occurred more than a year previously. The pain had been accompanied by a temperature of 102· F., a sensation of chilliness, and several watery stools. Relief followed a bowel movement or the passage of gas by rectum. In the three months prior to regi...


Introduction 1 1. Definition and estimation of Sobol indices 2 1.1. Exact model 2 1.2. Estimation of S 3 2. Asymptotic properties: exact model 4 2.1. Consistency and asymptotic normality 4 2.2. Asymptotic efficiency 6 3. Asymptotic properties: metamodel 8 3.1. Metamodel-based estimation 8 3.2. Consistency and asymptotic normality 8 3.3. Asymptotic efficiency 11 4. Numerical illustrations 12 4.1. Exact model 13 4.2. Gaussian-perturbated model 14 4.3. Weibull-perturbated model 14 4.4. RKHS metamodel 15 4.5. Nonparametric regression 16 References 19


Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted increasing interest as a unique class of topological quantum materials. One distinct property of HOTIs is the crystalline symmetry-imposed topological state at the lower-dimensional outer boundary, e.g. the zero-dimensional (0D) corner state of a 2D HOTI, used exclusively as a universal signature to identify higher-order topology but yet with uncertainty. Strikingly, we discover the existence of inner topological point states (TPS) in a 2D HOTI, as the embedded"end"states of 1D first-order TI, as exemplified by those located at the vacancies in a Kekule lattice. Significantly, we demonstrate that such inner TPS can be unambiguously distinguished from the trivial point-defect states, by their unique topology-endowed inter-TPS interaction and correlated magnetic response in spectroscopy measurements, overcoming an outstanding experimental challenge. Furthermore, based on first-principles calculations, we propose {\gamma}-graphyne as a promising material to observe the higher-order TPS. Our findings shed new light on our fundamental understanding of HOTIs, and also open an avenue to experimentally distinguishing and tuning TPS in the interior of a 2D sample for potential applications.


Malaria is a disease which is transmitted through the bite of Anopheles mosquito. This study aimed to analyse the difference of type of Anopheles larva breeding places between low malaria case area, namely Mandor Village, and high malaria case area, namely North Amboyo Village, both in Landak Regency, West Kalimantan Province. The samples of Anopheles mosquito breeding places was acquired through accidental sampling from all Anopheles larva breeding places and spatial mapping of breeding place points. The data were analyzed using Chi-square test and Mann-whitney test. This study found 70 breeding place points which consisted of 8 types of place, namely dig well, drilled well, Illegal Gold Mining (PETI) well, puddle, fish pond, sewer, swamp, and rice field. The lowest larva density in Mandor Village was at PETI well (0.48/dip) and the highest was at dig well (0.75/dip). In North Amboyo Village, the lowest density was at number 3 dig well (0.2/dip) and the highest was at rice field (2.3/dip). It can be concluded that there was a significant difference of Anopheles breeding places between low and high malaria case areas.


We examine behavior in a two-stage group contest where intra-group contests are followed by an inter-group contest. Rewards accrue to the winning group, with winners of the intra-group contest within that group receiving a greater reward. The model generates a discouragement effect, where losers from the first stage exert less effort in the second stage than winners. In contrast to previous frameworks of sequential contests, we show that a prior win may be disadvantageous, generating lower profits for first stage winners as compared to losers. We consider exogenous asymmetry between groups arising from a biased group contest success function. Although the asymmetry occurs in the second stage, its effect plays out in the first stage, with higher intra-group conflict in the advantaged group. Experimental results support the qualitative predictions of the model. However, losers from the first stage bear a higher burden of the group contribution than deemed strategic.


Abstract The Nonuniform Magnetic Reconnection model presented by Priest and Lee (1990) was the first to incorporate several features observed in previous numerical models, in particular the highly curved field in the inflow region, which relaxes one of the key assumptions of the classical Almost-Uniform reconnection model of Petschek (1964). Also present is a strong jet of plasma emerging from the reconnection region along the separatrix and a negative current spike at the outflow from the central diffusion region. In this paper we present a generalisation of the Priest-Lee model to include pressure gradients in the inflow region, so relaxing the other main assumption of the Petschek and Priest-Lee models, namely that the inflow is current-free or potential. This produces several reconnection regimes similar to those described by Priest and Forbes (1986) in their Unified Almost-Uniform solutions, where significant pressure gradients are included, but their inflow, like Petschek's, is almost-uniform with s...


Polymer therapeutics are advancing as an important class of drugs. Polymers have already demonstrated their value in extending the half‐life of proteins. They show great potential as delivery systems for improving the therapeutic index of drugs, via biophysical targeting and more recently with more precision targeting. They are also important for intracellular delivery of nucleic acid based drugs. The same frameworks that have been successfully applied to improve the small molecule drug development can be adopted. This approach together with improved pathophysiological disease knowledge and critical developability considerations, imperative given the size and complexity of polymer therapeutics, provides a structured framework that should improve their clinical translation and exploit their functionality and potential. Progress in understanding the right target, gaining the right tissue and cell exposure, ensuring the right safety, selecting the right patient population is discussed. The right commercial considerations are outlined and the need for a multi‐disciplinary approach is emphasized. Crucial developability factors together with scientific and technical advancements to enable pharmaceutical development of a quality robust product are addressed. It is argued that by applying this structured approach to their design and development, polymer therapeutics will continue to grow and develop as important next generation medicines.


Occupancy grid map (100) for a vehicle (F), comprising a plurality of cells (Z) arranged in a grid, characterized in that the cells (Z) of the occupancy grid map (100), depending on a driving situation of the vehicle (F), are adapted to said driving situation.


A total of 98 sex offenders, including 32 incest offenders, 38 pedophiles, 28 sexual aggressives, and 7 exhibitionists, were compared for defensiveness, assertiveness, aggressiveness, and empathy, employing the Interpersonal Behavior Survey (IBS) and Empathy Scales. The measures overall failed to distinguish defensive and violent sex offenders from those less defensive and nonviolent. Results showed that a number of IBS scales as well as the Empathy scale lacked internal consistency. The measures need further development to examine the theoretically important measures of assertion, aggression, empathy and defensiveness in sex offenders.


A theoretical and a mathematical model is presented to determine the entropy generation on electro-kinetically modulated peristaltic propulsion on the magnetized nanofluid flow through a microchannel with joule heating. The mathematical modeling is based on the energy, momentum, continuity, and entropy equation in the Cartesian coordinate system. The effects of viscous dissipation, heat absorption, magnetic field, and electrokinetic body force are also taken into account. The electric field terms are helpful to model the electrical potential terms by means of Poisson–Boltzmann equations, ionic Nernst–Planck equation, and Debye length approximation. A perturbation method has been applied to solve the coupled nonlinear partial differential equations and a series solution is obtained up to second order. The physical behavior of all the governing parameters is discussed for pressure rise, velocity profile, entropy profile, and temperature profile.


To the Editor.— In the report entitled, "Renal Allotransplantation for Bilateral Renal Tumors," (210:1721, 1969), Case 2, known to have tuberous sclerosis, had what appears to have been benign mesenchymomas (hamartomatous angiomyolipoma) in both kidneys necessitating the removal of one. In a similar case (Arch Intern Med120:70-80, 1967), a patient having benign mesenchymomas bilaterally without evidence of tuberous sclerosis underwent a right nephrectomy in 1962 and a left nephrectomy in 1965, necessitating the implantation of an arteriovenous shunt and maintenance extracorporeal hemodialysis. A renal homotransplantation from a fraternal twin (by Dr. David Hume) in 1966 was successful. This should lend further strength to Dr. Jochimsen's projection of eventual successful transplantation in his patient when the patient's condition eventually warranted removal of the remaining kidney.


This prospectively designed study was done to evaluate growth of 133 healthy full-term infants who received breast milk (B) or infant formula (F) as essentially the only source of calories during the first 6 months of life and who were followed through age 9 months. By analysis of variance, both sex and feeding had significant effect on gains in length and weight (p< 0.01). Weight-for-age centiles (WAC) and length-for-age centiles (LAC) were computed using NCHS reference data and are summarized for B and F infants by age (mos):NCHS reference data, based principally on formula-fed infants who received solid foods in the early weeks of life, may not be entirely appropriate to evaluate growth of today's infants breast-fed according to current recommendations.


Recently, several three-axial MEMS-based force sensors have been developed. This kind of force micro sensor is also called tactile sensor in literature for its similarities in size and sensitivity with a human mechanoreceptors. Therefore, we believe these three-axial force sensors being able to analyse textures properties while sliding on a surface, as would do a person with his finger. In this paper, we present one of these sensors packaged as an artificial finger, with a hard structure for the bone and a soft rubber for the skin. Preliminary experiments show a good sensitivity of the finger, as its ability to sense the periodic structure of fabrics or to differentiate papers from fabrics calculating a friction coefficient. Its performance for discrimination of different surfaces is then estimated on fine textures of 10 kinds of paper. Supervised classification methods are tested on the data. They lead to an automatic classifier of the 10 papers showing good performances.


Community-acquired pneumonia keeps a dominate position in the structure of infectious mortality factors in the world. Immune and metabolic disorders are studied before and after standard medical therapy in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. The patients included in the research had laboratory criteria which indicated presence of immune inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, and activation of lipid peroxidation. Standard treatment does not normalize the majority of modified parameters of immune and metabolic status that set conditions for seeking methods of disorders correction by the use of various drug combinations of immunomodulatory and antioxidant action in complex pharmacotherapy.


The four-wheel steering electric vehicles are considered as ideal autonomous vehicles, and the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is widely adopted in path tracking control. The choice of $Q$ and $R$ matrices is an essential problem in LQR design. However, the weights of the LQR controller are typically designed based on empirical methods, which are cumbersome and inefficient when the scenario changes. This study proposes an adaptive LQR path tracking controller. The parameters of $Q$ and $R$ matrices are optimized through a new fitness function of the genetic algorithm and form an offline table. Finally, an online adaptive LQR controller is developed by selecting $Q$ and $R$ through looking up the table. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed controller in improving tracking accuracy and vehicle stability simultaneously. The max lateral acceleration can be limited to 2.65m/s2 with high tracking accuracy at low speed. Moreover, it can still track the reference path at high speed.


The prospective application of flexible electronics is feasible by shielding the silicon ribbons from damage in the structure. The silicon failure in the design of strain isolation for stretchable and flexible sensors is analyzed by FEM. The destruction of the silicon circuit is different with the change of the thickness of the PDMS layer in stretchable sensors. Owing to the fact that the PDMS layer is not infinitely thick in the application, the purpose of the paper is to provide a reference for choosing the thickness of the PDMS layer in the design of stretchable sensors.


This paper focuses on ArF and iArF photoresist shrinkage. We evaluate the shrinkage magnitude on both R&D resists and mature resists as a function of chemical formulation, lithographic sensitivity, SEM beam condition, and feature size. The results lead to a much improved understanding of the mechanics of the shrinkage phenomenon, with many implications for SEM metrology as the industry moves to smaller target features. A key finding is that smaller features shrink less but at a much faster rate than larger features and that this behavior is very dependent on the interaction volume size of the electron beam relative to CD.


This paper aims to understand the stability domain of a missile target system modeled under the TPN (True Proportional Navigation) guidance laws and to give suitable and useful methods to achieve stability by varying certain parameters in the system. We have used Laplace method to convert the nonlinear equations of motions into the frequency domain in order to find its stability. A Bode plot of the system is also plotted to give a better understanding of the system stability.


The development of business opportunities in today's era brings many benefits as well as in coffee shops. Coffee Shop is a place to relax or gather with friends, family to release boredom, after daily activities, and Coffee shop enthusiasts are quite well known both from teenagers to parents, where coffee shop fans must have an ability to visit the coffee shop. This research has a goal to generate a decision support system (DSS). Which is where the decision support system (DSS) has utility as a tool to make the best coffee shop decisions overall. By setting the TOPSIS (Technique For Order Preference By Similarity To Ideal Solution) method by getting the preference value as the first rank. So with this, the best coffee shop is found in alternative A04 with the highest score of 0.9911 on behalf of Arata Coffee


Presented is an open solution based approach to fault tolerant Ethernet for process control networks. This unique approach provides fault tolerance capability that requires no change of vendor hardware (Ethernet physical link and Network Interface Card) and software (Ethernet driver and protocol), yet it is transparent to control applications. The open fault tolerant Ethernet (OFTE) developed based on this approach performs failure detection and recovery for handling single point of network failure and serves regular IP traffic. Our experimentation shows that OFTE performs efficiently, achieving less than 1 ms end to end LAN swapping time and less than 2 sec failover time, and that concurrent application and system loads have little impact on the performance of failure detection and recovery operations.


The constrained rank minimization problem has various applications in many fields including machine learning, control, and signal processing. In this paper, we consider the convex constrained rank minimization problem. By introducing a new variable and penalizing an equality constraint to objective function, we reformulate the convex objective function with a rank constraint as a difference of convex functions based on the closed-form solutions, which can be reformulated as DC programming. A stepwise linear approximative algorithm is provided for solving the reformulated model. The performance of our method is tested by applying it to affine rank minimization problems and max-cut problems. Numerical results demonstrate that the method is effective and of high recoverability and results on max-cut show that the method is feasible, which provides better lower bounds and lower rank solutions compared with improved approximation algorithm using semidefinite programming, and they are close to the results of the latest researches.


This is an expository paper dealing with Bayesian inference for three important mixture problems in quality and reliability. The traditional approach for estimation in these situations is the method of maximum likelihood. The corresponding inference based on large-sample theory can, however, be misleading in situations where the large-sample normal approximation is not adequate. The Bayesian approach, on the other hand, has been viewed as computationally intractable due to the complex nature of mixture models. Recent advances in Bayesian computational methods have alleviated this problem considerably. We illustrate the use of data augmentation methods for doing Bayesian inference in these applications. While the framework is formally Bayesian in nature, it can also be viewed as a computational device for calculating the likelihood function and doing likelihood-based inference. An additional advantage of data augmentation methods is that no further complications arise when failure time data are grouped or censored.


Abstract Several introductionary reactions of isoflavone metabolism by Fusarium fungi are reported. Fusarium avenaceum hydroxylates formononetin in the 3′-position yielding 3′,7-dihydroxy-4′-methoxyisoflavone (calycosin). 3′-Hydroxylation of biochanin A to 3′,5,7-trihydroxy-4′-methoxyiso-flavone (pratensein) has been observed with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lini. Depending on the growth medium Fusarium proliferatum metabolises formononetin either by 7-O-methylation or by 4′-O-demethylation.


Seventeen alkaloids were isolated from the air-dried leaves of Alstonia villosa and their structures characterized. One of the seven new alkaloids was elucidated to be (19Z)-5α-methoxyrhazimine, having a 3, 4-dihydroquinoline nucleus.


The unknown, be it what exists in the deepest ocean trench or in the farthest outreach of space, has always served as food for the imagination of mankind. The discovery that human life could be successfully sustained in space opened mankind's eyes to the infinite possibilities that were uncovered, but also raised a plethora of questions concerning the hazards linked to space travel and possible settlement of planets other than Earth. Extensive research has been conducted to determine the risks associated with space travel and to develop countermeasures against them. However, much remains to be discovered before long-term space missions are considered a feasible option. In this thesis, we considered two stressful conditions found in space that are radiation and microgravity, and we developed and used various models of space simulation. To that end, either acute or chronic irradiations were applied respectively before or during microgravity simulation on endothelial cells and on fibroblasts. These models were used to address two concerns of the European Space Agency (ESA), which are related to the cardiovascular risks associated with spaceflight and to the possibility of vertebrates reproducing in space.


We have endeavored to develop a formaldehyde-free electroless copper deposition process. A suitable bath has been optimized with glyoxylic acid as a reducing agent. The bath parameters, such as temperature and the concentration of reducing and complexing agents, were studied. The influence of glyoxylic acid on the deposition of copper was studied by galvanostatic polarization measurements. SEM studies were also carried out to ascertain the structure of the copper deposits.


Phantom pain in children and youth with congenital amputations: prevalence and clinical characteristics x Introduction: Pain is a crippling pathology, which has been addressed in children only in recent times, and phantom pain in congenital amputees was a complication unthought to exist some years ago, considering theories that described that they lacked biological maturity enough to experience it. Currently, there is literature that recognizes a prevalence of phantom pain of 3.7 to 20% in congenital amputees. Overall objective: To evaluate the in vivo amputee population of Instituto Teletón Santiago, to determine incidence, lapses prevalence and clinical characteristics of phantom pain in these patients. Patients and Methods: A prevalence descriptive study was carried out, with a review of the clinical files to register demographic and clinical variables and application of a telephone survey to the total number of Instituto Teletón Santiago patients who agreed to participate and had the consent of their parents. We included all patients aged 10 years and over; excluding those with associated hearing loss, or inability to contact for administrative reasons. Results: 57 patients, mean age 18,6 years, 59,6% with longitudinal deficiency. No patient refered phantom pain during de last month in the study population. The lapsic prevalence was 7,0%. 24,6% of the population studied reported phantom feeling at som time in their lives and 5,3% had phantom pain during the last year. Conclusion: There is phantom pain in the population of congenital amputees in the prevalence ranges found in the international literature contributing to the existing evidence. This is the first study in our country that evaluates pain in congenital deficiencies and constitutes a baseline for additional studies.


We report a surprising absence of PMSE (Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes) in VHF radar observations of the southern summer high-latitude mesosphere. Our observations cover about twenty days during January-February, 1993, from King George Island, Antarctica.


The prediction of changes in velocity distribution and channel bed morphology is significant in open channel management and design. This paper implements experimental work to realize and quantify the effect of rigid aquatic bank weeds on vertical velocity profiles and channel bed morphology. In the experimental work, weeds were given a staggered distribution using three distances of 25, 50, and 75 mm, unilaterally and bilaterally, with Froude numbers ranging from 0.11 to 0.30, achieving 168 scenarios. Results for the tested weed cases showed that the average velocity was directly proportional to the weed density and approached the Froude number. By comparing the smooth and weeded velocities, it was found that the velocity inside the infested reach was close to the downstream velocity and exceeded the upstream velocity by about 10% and 41%, respectively. Scour depths along the centerline of the vegetated reach for the bilateral weeds were higher by 11% to 33% than those for the unilateral weeds. The maximum observed depth of the scour holes along the smooth bank was about 30% to 60% of the maximum scour depth at the middle line. Finally, to quantify the results, multiple regression analysis was performed to develop empirical equations to assist in the water management process.


Although temperature is determined by power dissipation, minimizing the power consumption of digital systems leads to a reduction in heat dissipation and cooling requirements, to reduce packaging cost of microprocessors to keep the chip at an acceptable safe bound level without unnecessarily limiting performance. It has become a first-class design constraint in microprocessor's development for highperformance computing systems including advanced architectures (Lee, 2011). Dynamic supply voltage scaling (DVS) is an excellent way to reduce power consumption. The DVS unit dynamically trade processor's throughput for energy-efficiency by scaling down the supply voltage as well as clock frequency such that the actual delay of the chip meets the target performance. The low power DVS controller design is becoming highly integrated. Several researches have been published recently in the literature of power and energy management. C. Xian et. Al. in (Xian et al., 2008) presents a DVS scheme for multitasking real-time systems with uncertain execution cycles for saving more energy than the existing solutions while guaranteeing hard deadlines. Y. Zhu and F. Mueller in (Zhu et al., 2004) presents a novel approach combining feedback control with DVS schemes targeting hard real-time systems with dynamic workloads, the method relies strictly on operating system support by integrating a DVS scheduler and a feedback ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT


The article compares the literary representation of some aspects of the Russian provinces in the novel of Ivan Goncharov "Oblomov" and of the Austrian provinces in the novel of Adalbert Stifter "Indian Summer." The comparison shows interesting affinities.


Extracellular mitogen preparations from NY5 and S84 strains of streptococci induced different responses among rabbit, guinea pig, and mouse lymphocytes. Evidence of T-cell mitogenicity is presented.


BACKGROUND
Mitochondrial respiratory activity is associated with hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury.

AIM
To determine in vitro whether hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury may be detected regardless mitochondrial respiratory activity.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
Twenty-four heartworm-free mongrel dogs of either sex were randomized in the following groups: control, sham-operated dogs; I60, dogs subjected to 60 min of liver ischemia; I30/R60, dogs subjected to 30 min of ischemia e 60 min of reperfusion of liver; I45/R120 animals subjected to 45 min of ischemia and 120 min of reperfusion of liver. Blood and liver samples were taken after surgery to be processed. Mitochondrial respiratory activity was measured with a Clark-type oxygen electrode and mitochondrial membrane potential was calculated. lactic dehydrogenase, aspartate amino transferase and alanine aminotrasferase activities were determinated using laboratory kits, and malondialdehyde content in liver samples was estimated.

RESULTS
The group I45/R120 showed increases of serum aminotransferase, lactic dehydrogenase and malondialdehyde in liver samples. Whereas no changes were registered in mitochondrial respiratory activities and mitochondrial membrane potential, a tendency of decrease in the rate of active respiration (state 3) could be observed.

CONCLUSION
Under the conditions of this study, the results suggest the data from mitochondrial respiratory activity could show no significance difference among groups in hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury. Hepatic ischemia reperfusion injury can be detected regardless mitochondrial respiratory activity.


This project starts out from one of those awkward moments when one's mobile phone sets off with a loud noise in situations one would definitely not want it to; e.g. at the opera or in an important meeting. The design challenge is how a mobile phone, as a computer device that appears in several different human contexts, could come to adapt its behavior to the situation. Is there a way for a mobile phone to know, or at least have a clue, which notification modality would be the most appropriate?Our prototype design detects if a user is within a certain distance from another user. If so, the two users' mobile phones automatically set up an ad-hoc network and exchange information about notification modality. It makes use of a near-field communication technology using magnetic fields rather than traditional radio waves.


The organising and conducting the events on "Health and Safety" as an important form of organisation of pupils' extracurricular activities aimed to forming personal, subject and interdisciplinary competencies related to the pupils' safety culture are covered. The description of the experiment, which was conducted on the basis of the Irkutsk Municipal Budget Educational Institution Lyceum № 2 is proposed. The results of a survey conducted to determine the level of the event's efficiency are presented. The main difficulties in conducting military and sport games and relay races are revealed, the ways to overcome them are suggested. The need to prepare teachers to be judges at various stages of the competition, the importance of organizational issues (for example, setting time limits of the test), the need for improving the communication and coordination are underlined. The peculiarities of the events related to the specifics of the educational institution are commented. Also the features of the educational event conducted by the intraschool public body "Narkopost" aimed to the formation of ideas about healthy lifestyle and its components are considered. Dynamics of different years researches (2012-2014) allows to see the positive changes in the mind of pupils, that determine the specific of actions related to safe behaviour in various spheres of life and human activity.


Adolescents who use the emergency department (ED) have higher rates of mental health and substance abuse problems than other adolescents and might


Lily(Lilium L.)is one of the important commercial flowers;It is used for ornamentation,medi- cine and food;China is the natural distribution center of genus Lilium;So it is significant to study germ- plasm resources of Lilium;This paper summarizes the status of its natural distribution,systems of classifi- cation,collection,investigation,conservation and innovation,and in addition analyses the existent prob- lems and puts forward some ideas and suggestions on the development of germplasm resources of Lilium in the future.


Preston's arguments demonstrate how sociopolitical forces are instrumental in cultivating misconceptions about tradition and submission. As a scholar and teacher, she admits that her background in feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories had previously encouraged her to locate submission in opposition to freedom, because such theoretical frameworks prefer the "individual who subverts norms and traditions" (156). However, Preston surmises that even within the most liberal of structures lie acts of submission. In her fourth chapter she explores her own experiences as a university teacher to create a compelling example of how "liberal democracies sometimes hide their demands for submission under other labels" (60). Providing a fascinating teaching exercise using the noh-influenced Bertolt Brecht Lehrstück (teaching piece) opera Der Jasager, Preston demonstrates how "authority and submission are distributed to teachers and students as part of their assigned or reassigned roles" (151).


The design and implementation of the small and medium-sized enterprise(SME) customer management system is introduced in this paper.The system is developed using the technical tool such as VB,SQL Server.The system is designed used three C/S construction,including customer type administration module,client management module,reminder administration module and communication manage-ment module.It can achieve a variety of customer-related information in a systematic,standardized and automated.The practice result in-dicated that system operational and the security and the maintainability are all perfect and doing all humanity.


What is the potential for combating and reducing these biases? While devaluation with age is true for women and men, there is clearly a difference. - Garner, 1999 The double standard of aging" is a phrase heard so frequently that it seems a truism. The social worth of women has been linked more closely with their physical appearance compared to the situation for men, and these social valuations decline more markedly with age for women than they do for men (e.g., Hurd, 2000). Looking "old" is viewed more harshly for women across diverse cultures and also, apparently, for people of different sexual orientations, extending beyond heterosexual bias (Harris, 1994). As encapsulated by Garner (1999), "women lose their social value simply by growing old. Men are more likely to be evaluated and rewarded for what they do" (p. 4). This article looks into biased constructions of gender and aging, reflected in the mass media, embedded in social policies, and evidenced in differential treatment of older women and men in healthcare encounters. The main question is how we as individual women and men perceive ourselves as we grow older. Do we "buy into" cultural stereotypes of gender and aging, or do we resist such stereotypes? In addition to the potential for resistance at the level of individuals, what is the potential for reducing ageism in society more broadly? The aim is to explore these questions, recognizing that specific forms and relative virulence of ageism extend beyond gender to also encompass ethnicity, social class, sexuality, and other forms of social differentiation and inequality. MEDIA PORTRAYALS The role of mass media as cause or consequence of cultural values has long been contested. At minimum, the media reflect dominant values in a society: Whether, and how, older women and men are portrayed represents one measure of how ageism and sexism are embedded in the social fabric (e.g., Holbrook, 1987). Older adults of both sexes are underrepresented in U.S. popular films and television programs relative to younger age groups, and older women are even less likely to appear on screen than older men (Bazzini and McIntosh, 1997; Sanders, 2002). When older characters are portrayed, women are more frequently depicted in negative stereotypes and shown as less successful compared to older men. Similar findings regarding the portrayal of older women and men on screen have been reported in other western countries (e.g., Kessler, Rakoczy, and Staudinger, 2004). Older adults also are underrepresented in advertisements relative to younger age groups, and negative portrayals increase with the age of individuals featured (e.g., Peterson and Ross, 1997). Studies of advertisements from the 1950s through the 1990s have found, however, that images of older people in U.S. television and print advertising have become more positive over time (Miller et al., 1999; Miller, Leyell, and Mazachek, 2004). The researchers concede that these "positive images" nevertheless convey stereotypes of aging. Older people featured in advertisements are portrayed most frequently as stereotypic "golden-agers" (either as adventurous or "productive" elders) or as "perfect grandparents." Further, these images are more often utilized for older women featured in advertisements than for older men. A more nuanced consideration of media portrayal of women as golden-agers is found in Pedersen's (2002) in-depth study of a Kellogg's cereal print advertising campaign, with the slogan, "Look good on your own terms." These advertisements use direct messages as well as humor and exaggeration to "suggest that a healthy body is beautiful and that feeling healthy is more important than looking good according to media standards" (p. 170). At the same time, the advertisements also send the message that "anyone can become slim and beautiful by eating Special K [cereal]" (p. 181). Pedersen concludes that in so doing, this popular advertising campaign reinforces the very gender stereotypes and ageism that it purports to challenge. …


Multiple births or twinning in cattle is viewed as a natural phenomenon that still needs to be explored in the genetic aspect. The occurrence of twinning birth in cattle has been found in Indonesia both on beef and dairy breeds, however, the frequency is very low. This study aimed to identify the genetic variation of the candidate loci of Bovine chromosome 10 (BTA10) to control twinning in beef and dairy cattle in Indonesia. At least 57 historical twin births of both beef and dairy breeds across Central Java with the highest twins in cattle, were identified in 2017 during the dry season. The ratio of twin calves was relatively similar between female and male calves. Male twins showed the highest number (37.8%), while freemartin heifers were also highly born (28.9%) among twin births. Forty-nine heads out of 152 heads were sequenced on the partial regions in BTA10 that were highly homologous with the ovulation rate gene. DNA sequences polymorphism was identified at three regions in the BTA10 among twins of Simmental, Ongole, Limousin, Simmental-Ongole, and Holstein Friesian cattle. A significant association was not revealed between identified SNP and twinning birth potential in all breeds. Notably, one SNP (A/G) at 410 nucleotides in the consensus sequence of BTA10-2 appeared to be highly significantly associated with twinning birth potential in beef cattle of the Simmental. Taken together, this SNP would be a potential genetic marker for early selection of twinning birth which is promising for dramatic improvement of beef cattle production.


Presented in: Poster Session Sunday, May 3, 1998, Poster number 145 † 617 Sugar intake in infancy in early childhood is an area of investigation with surprisingly few studies, with most of the research done in adults. The aim of this study was to determine whether early vs. late introduction of solid foods and commercially prepared (CP) vs. parents choice (PC) of solid foods affects sugar intake. Based on adult data, we hypothesized that children with high sugar intakes will compensate their total calorie intake with lower fat; high sugar will be weakly correlated with high lean mass, and a high early sugar intake will result in a high intake later.


Ho Chi Minh City is known for crazy traffic! There are viral videos and photos all over the internet that show the chaotic dance of traffic happening ...


A framework was developed and hypotheses generated in an attempt to "open the black box" that is the conflict process and examine the communication between the disputants to see the ways in which i...


In this study, a transversal cut of a revolution surface body is inspired to obtain a planarised ultra-wideband antenna. The revolution surface body is based on an inclined conical form to obtain a directive radiation pattern and a triangular reflector to increase the directivity. Once the optimal inclined angle is obtained, the three-dimensional body is segmented obtaining a triangular cut, and the planarised radiator is optimised in order to improve the matching over the required bandwidth. To achieve so, the edges of the radiator are convex-shaped and the resulting antenna performs from 2.8 to 13.1 GHz, for an S
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FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to connecting devices for connecting the protective device of knife with a housing of gardening tool. The connecting device comprises a connecting element and a removal preventing device. The connecting element is made with an ability to move in the direction of connection for connecting the protective device with a garden tool. The removal preventing device is provided on the protective device and is made to ensure loosening of the connecting element in a direction opposite to direction of connection. The said removal preventing device prevents accidental removal of untwisted connecting element. EFFECT: increased reliability of protection of connecting element from falling out. 16 cl, 21 dwg


This study assessed the role of aversive stimulation on digging behavior in the golden hamster. In Experiment 1, hamsters previously submitted to electric shock decreased their digging latency relatively to baseline levels. In Experiment 2, a high level of light produced shorter latencies, higher duration and higher number of bouts of digging than a low level of light. These results are consistent with the hypothesis of digging behavior as an immediate defensive strategy in hamsters.


We study the spontaneous emission from a coherently delocalized exciton state in a double quantum dot as a function of the distance between the dots, focusing on the similarities and differences between the cases of radiative (long-range, dipole) and tunnel coupling between the excitons in the dots. We show that there may be no qualitative difference between the collective emission induced by these two coupling types in spite of their essentially different physical properties.


Teukolsky equations for j s j ¼ 2 provide efficient ways to solve for curvature perturbations around Kerr black holes. Imposing regularity conditions on these perturbations on the future (past) horizon corresponds to imposing an ingoing (outgoing) wave boundary condition. For exotic compact objects (ECOs) with external Kerr spacetime, however, it is not yet clear how to physically impose boundary conditions for curvature perturbations on their boundaries. We address this problem using the membrane paradigm, by considering a family of zero-angular-momentum fiducial observers (FIDOs) that float right above the horizon of a linearly perturbed Kerr black hole. From the reference frame of these observers, the ECO will experience tidal perturbations due to ingoing gravitational waves, respond to these waves, and generate outgoing waves. As it also turns out, if both ingoing and outgoing waves exist near the horizon, the Newman-Penrose (NP) quantity ψ 0 will be numerically dominated by the ingoing wave, while the NP quantity ψ 4 will be dominated by the outgoing wave — even though both quantities contain full information regarding the wave field. In this way, we obtain the ECO boundary condition in the form of a relation between ψ 0 and the complex conjugate of ψ 4 , in a way that is determined by the ECO ' s tidal response in the FIDO frame. We explore several ways to modify gravitational-wave dispersion in the FIDO frame and deduce the corresponding ECO boundary condition for Teukolsky functions. Using the Starobinsky-Teukolsky identity, we subsequently obtain the boundary condition for ψ 4 alone, as well as for the Sasaki-Nakamura and Detweiler functions. As it also turns out, the reflection of spinning ECOs will generically mix between different l components of the perturbation fields, and it will be different for perturbations with different parities. It is straightforward to apply our boundary condition to computing gravitational-wave echoes from spinning ECOs, and to solve for the spinning ECOs ' quasinormal modes.


OBJECTIVE
To determine the type and sensitivity pattern of causative organisms of septicaemia in intensive care unit, to prepare a guideline for empirical antibiotic therapy.

SETTING
Department of pathology and adult medical intensive care unit, PNS SHIFA (Naval Hospital), Karachi.

METHODS
The study was conducted from January 1997 to June 1999. Blood specimens for culture were drawn from patients who developed symptoms/signs of bacteraemia/septicaemia 48 hours or more after admission in medical ICU. The specimens were inoculated into Brain Heart Infusion broth. Subcultures were done on days 1,2,3,5,7 and 10. The isolates were identified by standard biochemical tests. Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates was studied by Modified Kirby Baur method.

RESULTS
Eighty-six aerobic organisms were isolated. They included Staphylococcus aureus(n = 34), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (n = 13), Escherichia coli and Enterobacter spp(n = 9 each), Klebsiella pneumoniae(n = 8), Acinetobacter spp and Serratia spp(n = 5 each), Citrobacter diversus(n = 2) and Proteus vulgaris(n = 1). On antibiotic susceptibility testing, 48.18% Staphylococcus aureus isolates were methicillin resistant. Susceptibility to other common drugs was also quite low while 100% of these were susceptible to vancomycin and amikacin. In case of gram negative rods more than 80% were resistant to ampicillin and cotrimoxazole. Susceptibility to gentamicin was as low as 25% for Klebsiella pneumoniae to 44.4% in case of Escherichia coli. Susceptibility to the third generation cephalosporins and the quinolone tested (ciprofloxacin) varied between 50-75%. All these isolates except Pseudomonas aeruginosa were susceptible to imipenem and amikacin.

CONCLUSION
In view of the isolation of antibiotic resistant organisms, vancomycin in combination with amikacin or imipenem are the drugs of choice for empirically treating blood stream infections in ICU. Infection control procedures and antibiotic control policies can help to tackle this problem.


Saloni Mathur on Geeta Kapur, When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India; Gwen Allen on Amy Newman, Challenging Art: Artforum 1962–1974; Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell, eds., Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smiths, and Wiener; Rachel Baum on Sue Taylor, Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety; Therese Lichtenstein, Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer, and Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer (ICP); Britta Erickson on Wu Hung, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century; Juli Carson on Louise Lawler, An Arrangement of Pictures; Nadja Rottner on Molly Nesbit, Their Common Sense


Introduction The last few decades have been marked by a groundbreaking digitalization process, that is, the information conversion from its original form into that expressed in binary numbers. Computer-processed information is subsequently converted into analog format, so that it can be used. Recently, information is created directly in digital format. Nowadays, everything concerning information generation and transmission deals with the use of computers. Currency, which is an information carrier par excellence, has followed this trend more slowly and even today it is still in the early stage of the digitalization process. Every day a huge amount of analog currency is handled by IT platforms and the use of so-called digital currency is increasingly widespread, but the next step, which is the direct generation of digital currency, has not been accomplished yet. In 2009, digital currency took shape for the first time and in the same year a protocol governing the generation and transfer of Bitcoin1 was implemented by an unknown programmer or group of programmers.


A fast miniature plasma focus device 'FMPF-1' has been designed and constructed to be used as a compact and portable pulsed neutron source. It has 2.4μF capacitor bank formed by 4 capacitors, operates at 14kV and delivers 80kA peak discharge current in a quarter time period of ~400ns. The system operates with deuterium gas and produces average yield in the order of 10 5 – 10 6 neutrons/pulse in 4p sr. in the filling gas pressure range of 4 to 9mbar. A distinct and sharp dip in the current derivative signal indicates strong pinching action with subsequent emission of hard x-rays (HXR) followed by a neutron pulse. The neutron flux measurement has been performed with 3He proportional counter. Plastic scintillator (NE102A) coupled with high gain photomultiplier tube has been used for obtaining time resolved information of HXR and neutron emission. The overall dimensions of the apparatus, which includes capacitor bank, spark gap switch and the focus chamber is 0.2m × 0.2m × 0.5m and the total mass of the system is ~25kg.


The types of packaging used for transporting nuclear materials by different means are described. Some operational problems encountered are discussed and the means of solving them are outlined.


In this work, a hole mobility of one million in germanium is reported. This extremely high value of 1.1 x 106 cm2V-1s-1 at a carrier sheet density of 3.0 x 1011 cm-2 is observed in a strained Ge quantum well structure grown by reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition (RP-CVD) and is nearly an order of magnitude higher than previously reported values.


The present invention relates to a time slot allocation management method and device. The method comprises: receiving a time slot allocation request sent from outside; judging whether an available time slot linked list exists for a TE link specified in a time slot allocation request; if not, generating a corresponding available time slot linked list; and allocating time slots according to the time slot allocation request and the corresponding available time slot linked list. In the present invention, the corresponding available time slot linked list is generated when the TE link is generated or the time slot allocation request arrives. In a subsequent time slot application and release process, operations needs to be performed only on the available time slot linked list, thereby greatly improving the work efficiency. In time slot application, a link query manner rather than a poll manner is adopted, thereby greatly reducing time slot fragments brought in the time slot allocation process, and ensuring the capability of the link bearing large granularity services as much as possible. The linked list is for the TE link rather than a transmission interface, thereby effectively solving the problem of bundled link time slot allocation.


Public transportation provides people with mobility and access to employment, community resources, medical care, and recreational opportunities in communities across city. Public transportation also helps to reduce road congestion and travel times, energy and oil consumption. Bus is the most public transportation use in public transit area. Nowdays, with the modern life style the public transit services should improve their system to reach more efficient time information to the passengers. In this paper, the development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) base bus arrival time monitoring system will be highlight in order to provide an efficient time monitoring system. This system will provide riders with real time information to help them catch buses without spending time longer than necessary waiting for the bus to arrive.


Collision is a frequent issue involved in the real world of robot soccer game.This paper brings forward the collision models of robots,robot with the ball and robot with the ground walls using geometrical method.The study provides a foundation for the development of soccer robot system simulation platform and robot's motion control.