【Aim】To screen the responsive genes of the silkworm( Bombyx mori) against infection by Beauveria bassiana in order to further elaborate its molecular mechanisms of defensing B. bassiana infection. 【Methods】High throughput Solexa sequencing technology was employed in the transcriptome analysis of silkworm larvae of the infected and uninfected( control) groups. Differentially expressed genes( DEGs) and their functions,classifications and pathways were analyzed by bioinformatics methods. Ten DEGs were further identified by fluorescence quantitative PCR. 【Results】With Solexa sequencing and bioinformatic analysis,377 DEGs including 236 up-regulated genes and 141 down-regulated genes were identified. KEGG pathway analysis indicated that there were both up- and down-regulated DEGs in any pathway. Twelve up-regulated DEGs and 26 down-regulated ones were involved in three significantly enriched KEGG( Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) pathways,i. e.,ribosome,aminoacyltRNA biosynthesis and spliceosome pathways. Both the quantitative PCR and Solexa sequencing results indicated that the immune response-related genes including lysozyme,heat shock protein,glutathione Stransferase and peptidoglycan recognition protein genes were all up-regulated. 【Conclusion 】 The differentially expressed genes identified in this study,especially those up-regulated ones,are possibly involved in the silkworm response against B. bassiana invasion. The genes related to immune response such as those encoding lysozyme, heat shock protein, glutathione S-transferase and peptidoglycan recognition protein may be directly involved in immune recognition and defense of the silkworm against the B. bassiana infection. The results provide a new basis and clues for clarifying the mechanisms ofinteraction between the silkworm and entomopathogenic fungi at the molecular level.


The paper describes half wave and full wave cycloconverter configurations for the speed control of induction motor. Analysis of V/f circuit is given. Speed reversal and slip limit schemes are discussed. Induction motor performance curves are presented.


Most of the chromite are deposited along distinctive fissure in an ultra-basic rock. The country rocks, such as serpentine and pyroxenite, which were attacked by alkaline ground water through the fissures were partly dissolved and altered into saponite filling the fissures of the serpentine and chromite bodies. The color of the mineral from No. 7 deposit of the Wakamatsu mine is greyish white and the luster is greasy; the specific gravity is 2.27 and the hardness is 2.5. In thin section, the mineral is colorless and isotropic, but it shows weak birefringence in another part of the same specimen. The mean refractive index Nm is 1.525. The differential thermal curve (Fig. 1) of the mineral shows that the mineral is a magnesium rich montmorillonite. The writer believes that the mineral is saponite, judging from the observation of the electron micrograph (Fig. 2). The mineral reacts with the saturated benzidine, and then assumes pale blue color. The mineral shows low content in (FeO+Fe2O3) and high contents in MgO, the montmorillonite of this kind, has not been reported in Japan. The formula can be expressed as (OH)4.02 (Si7.16 Al0.93)8.09 (Mg5.84 Fe''0.01 Fe'''0.09 Al0.06)6.00((Ca/2)0.28 Na0.09 K0.04)0.41 O19.98mH2O, which corresponds almost to the ideal formula of saponite suggested by Ross and Hendricks.


The influence of tongue weight on a Trailer-Mounted Recreational Vehicle (TMRV) is studied. A multi-body dynamic model of the TMRV was established, three typical vehicle stability tests were carried out. Tongue weight had different effects on the tractor and Recreational Vehicle (RV). According to different loads, the critical tongue weight range was given. In addition, the tongue weight of the existing models was optimized and suggestions for improvement were put forward. The analysis results show that the tongue weight should be within a reasonable range which can ensure the tractor understeer and keep the lateral stability of the RV.


"there can be no branch of the law in which Muslim peoples who are subject to the jurisdiction of the British courts, or courts trained in English traditions, have been made to suffer so many frustrations-by the judicial infusion of alien ideas, by misinterpretation or basic ignorance of the Islamic doctrines, and even by what can only be termed a rigidity of mind which ill-accords with this illustrious traditionas the law of waqf."1-J.N.D. AndersonMosques reflect the cultural landscape of coastal Tanganyika, yet the legal structures that sustained them have attracted only sporadic attention over the years. This article examines a conflict between an elderly waqf trustee and the colonial state in the township of Mikindani, Tanzanyika during the 1930s. Most scholarly work on Islam in East Africa focuses on larger, economically important Swahili towns; Mombasa and Zanzibar dominate the historical literature. Moreover, these towns became significant colonial spaces where Europeans established clear economic and administrative institutions. In contrast with these more formal Swahili settlements, Mikindani occupied a liminal position as a Swahili country-town, near a borderlands region within a poorly managed colonial state.2 Overland, Mikindani is roughly 552 km south of Dar es Salaam and forty- kilometers north of the Ruvuma River, in a shallow crescent-shaped inlet on the Indian Ocean.3 Mikindani's historical past was far richer than its condition under European rule.4 The town exhibited contradictory qualities depending upon perspective, its complex social composition, stone houses, and variety of mosques and temples suggested a cosmopolitan space.5 Yet, Mikindani declined in social and economic importance as German and British colonial rule shifted economic activities away from small coastal ports.6 By the 1930s, Mikindani existed on the spatial fringes of the colonial order, a district office with a minimal staff.7 Colonial officials claimed the town was "still a very insignificant place," I argue that this attitude helped to insulate Mikindani's religious endowments from larger shocks delivered by colonial efforts to reconfigure cultural practices to suit imperial economic needs.8To develop this argument, I will analyze a conflict between an elderly waqf trustee and the colonial state in the township of Mikindani during the 1930s. Asha binti Awadh refused to cooperate when approached by the district officer (DO) and land officer, who wanted to alter the buildings and land under her protection.9 Her indifference to their appeals exposed the presence of a waqf in Mikindani, but more significantly a female mutawalli (trustee) over a decade after the last known female mutawalli in East Africa.10 The British Empire's complaint against Bibi Asha binti Awadh's awqaf opened several avenues of inquiry to understand why a waqf in Mikindani endured longer than the far wealthier waqf held by Bibi Khole and Bibi Jokha binti Hamoud of Zanzibar.11 Two critical questions emerged in discovering Bibi Asha's refusal to cooperate with the colonial state: why did some forms of waqf manage to endure while others faded away? And what role (if any) did women play as benefactors, trustees, and heirs? This case study provides an opportunity to ascertain how an important religious institution endured in Mikindani, for decades despite colonial manipulations. It further shows how new interpretations of inheritance rights affected waqf trustees as colonial laws interfered with African and Muslim practices. Challenges to awqaf rights and disposal by the colonial state revealed how the rhetoric about African rights to land fell away as administrative needs for offices, roads, and other structures took precedence.Waqf and Colonial TraditionsSeveral different problems require further explanation before examining the wider implications of Bibi Asha's resistance to the colonial state. In addition to an analysis of how Africans and colonial officials approached legal conflicts during the 1930s, we must rise to J. …


The invention relates to a method and a test kit for enriching and detecting lentiviruses, especially HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Viruses) in complex biological samples e.g. body fluids. The viruses are bonded in suitable conditions to a solid phase, isolated, lysed and subsequently the viral nucleic acids are separated and optionally detected.


This work is based on the research supported by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF; grant 91570). The members of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP), the THRIP initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry, the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB) of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, South Africa.


The image is processed by an error-diffusion technique to reduce the number of bit-planes without significant quality degradation. The bit-planes of the resulting image are converted to Gray code and represented by a modified morphological skeleton which uses an increasing size structuring element. Redundancy in this representation is reduced with an algorithm motivated by a geometric sampling theorem. These reduced modified morphological skeletons are coded with an entropy coding scheme devised particularly for efficient skeleton coding. A post-processing operation. as well as the possibility of geometric progressive transmission, are also discussed.<<ETX>>


In order to culture the qualified clinicians, we should think about how to improve the quality of clinical practice of obstetrics and gynecology. It is of great importance to emphasize the teachers and students to value the teaching work together. Importance should be attached to the advantage of subject of academy, to make the clinical practice closer to practical, which has a perfect effect and will benefit our work.

Key words:
Clinical practice in obstetrices and gynecology;  The advantage of subject of academy;  Quality of clinical practice


Cowpea mild mottle virus (CpMMV), the causal agent of stem necrosis disease, has drawn attention of soybean producers in recent years due to yield losses in the main producing regions of Brazil. Serological methods for viral detection require the use of an antiserum of good quality to achieve specificity and sensitivity. The entire coat protein gene of a Brazilian CpMMV isolate was cloned into a bacterial expression vector and transformed into Escherichia coli BL21::DE3 for in vitro expression. The coat protein, fused to a His-tag, was purified under denaturing conditions by affinity chromatography using a Ni-NTA resin. After renaturation, the integrity and identity of the purified recombinant protein was confirmed by SDS-Page and MALDI-ToF/ToF mass spectrometer analyses. A rabbit was immunized with increasing amounts of the recombinant protein. The specificity and sensitivity of the antiserum was demonstrated by Western blot and indirect ELISA assays. The polyclonal antisera raised against recombinant coat protein proved to be a reliable tool for CpMMV detection.


We present results from a generic search for strongly-produced supersymmetric particles in pp collisions in the multijet + missing transverse momentum final state. The data sample corresponds to 2.3 fb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment at √ s = 13 TeV. This search is highly motivated by both theoretical and experimental considerations. In supersymmetry (SUSY) theories disfavoring fine-tuning of the Higgs mass, strongly-produced SUSY particles, including the gluino and top squark, are predicted to have masses on the order of a TeV. These particles also have some of the highest production cross sections in SUSY and give rise to final states with distinct, high jet multiplicity event signatures. To make the analysis sensitive to a wide range of such final states, events are classified by the number of jets, the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of the jets, the vector sum of the transverse momenta of the jets, and the number of b-tagged jets. The tails of the distributions of these variables make up a region of extreme kinematics for the significant standard model (SM) backgrounds. As these distributions are difficult to model in simulation, we model them using dedicated techniques and control regions in data for each background process. No significant excess is observed beyond the SM expectation. The results are interpreted as limits on simplified SUSY models. In these models, gluinos with masses as high as 1600 GeV are excluded at 95pct CL for scenarios with low χ1 mass, exceeding the limits set in Run I by more than 200 GeV.


Mangroves play a prominent role in obstructing water currents in riverbanks, shorelines, and coastal areas. Mangrove roots have the significant contribution to the resiliency of the vegetation structure. In this work, the flow characteristics past a cluster of circular cylinders (patch), which represents the mangrove roots, are investigated. We found that blockage parameter for a patch decreases with porosity for all Reynolds numbers. A von K\'arm\'an vortex sheet is predicted behind the patch with a periodicity which agrees well with experiment. In addition, the vorticity field for the least porous patch reveals a delay in the formation of von K\'arm\'an vortex street due to the small vortices in the near wake, whereas the vortices evolve in the far wake and produce a swirling flow


Open communication has been shown to be related to job satisfaction, organizational performance, and role clarity. Most measures of communication openness have been criticized as simplistic and imprecise. This paper describes the development of a Communication Openness Measure (COM) based on a well-defined construct, with excellent reliability and adequate validity.


Seepage flow numeration is an effective tool for simulation,dynamic analysis,effect evaluation and forecast of drainage process in rockmass.The dynamic process of the roadway drainage in the side slope is simulated by using boundary element numerical method.Results show that seepage flow coefficient tensor and drainage porosity of rockmass have an obvious effect on the drainage and the dynamic process,as well as the boundary element numerical method is effective on the drainage simulation of small section in size.


In the literature we can find many kinds of modular robot that can build a wide variety of structures. In general, finding an assembly order to reach the final configuration, while respecting the insertion constraints of each kind of modular robot is a difficult process that requires system-specific tuning. In this article, we introduce a generic assembly planner by constrained disassembly (GAPCoD) which works with all kinds of modular robots. It outputs a directed acyclic graph where vertices are modules needing to be placed before his child nodes. This graph is obtained through the disassembly of the desired structure submitted to user chosen constraints. We detail the compiler as well as the way to choose constraints and their influence on performance. The robots embed simple path planning algorithm to reach the destination and act as decentralized agents. Examples are provided to show the possibilities that the compiler offers with two very different robot systems and constraints.


This project work is on design and fabrication of a plastic compressor machine to compress plastic waste. The objective of this project is to help to reduce plastic waste mostly from domestically usage and turn into a paving brick that can be uses as decoration in a mini garden or walkway. This plastic compressor machine works using a modified old conventional oven to melt shredded plastic waste in a mould and let the melted plastic cooled and turned to a paving brick. The temperature to melt the shredded plastic waste of 450 grams is 250 degrees Celsius in 1 hour. The machine fabricated using recycled materials, which makes it cheap, easy to maintain and affordable.


After an introduction to the procedural planning theory (PPT) which was the mainstream urban theory of the 1970's, the theoretical debate at the end of 1970's is summarized. The critiques of PPT clearly pouted out that PPT was vacuous and obsolete. An argument is made for more attention to the formalism which was the epistemological obstacle within PPT and also to the important fact the development of planning theory has always been closely related to social change.


1995;107;312-315 Chest John J. Reilly, Jr Thoracotomy Management in Patients Undergoing Benefits of Aggressive Perioperative ement/312S http://chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/107/6_Suppl Wide Web at: information and services can be found online on the World The online version of this article, along with updated 0012-3692. ). ISSN: http://www.chestjournal.org/misc/reprints.shtml ( without the prior written permission of the copyright holder No part of this article or PDF may be reproduced or distributed 3300 Dundee Road, Northbrook IL 60062. All rights reserved. Copyright 2007 by the American College of Chest Physicians, Physicians. It has been published monthly since 1935. CHEST is the official journal of the American College of Chest


With the fast and continual growth of China's economy, the construction of the urban rail traffic is developing rapidly. The cables for urban rail traffic have a variety of products. This paper presents the series cables for urban subway, suburb railway and urban raised railway, including the product designation, type, application and matters needing attention in selecting cables.


Abstract In this work a new algorithm for quaternion-based spatial rotation is presented which reduces the number of underlying real multiplications. The performing of a quaternion-based rotation using a rotation matrix takes 15 ordinary multiplications, 6 trivial multiplications by 2 (left-shifts), 21 additions, and 4 squarings of real numbers, while the proposed algorithm can compute the same result in only 14 real multiplications (or multipliers—in a hardware implementation case), 43 additions, 4 right-shifts (multiplications by 1/4), and 3 left-shifts (multiplications by 2).


The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck/ Germany (FHL) have a well-established, dual-accredited, bi-directional exchange program in Electrical Engineering that is completely integrated into the curricula of both institutions. The basic layout of this tuition-neutral exchange program is shown in Figure 1. MSOE and FHL students spend the first two years at their home institution. During the first half of the second year, the students express their desire to participate in the exchange program. After fulfilling all academic requirements, students from both universities spend their third (Junior) year together at FHL and their fourth (Senior) year together at MSOE. The full academic year abroad provides the best aspects of an immersion type program, but in the company of fellow students from one's home institution. All courses taken abroad are in the English language and fully transfer ensuring no delay of the students time to graduation. Upon successful participation students receive accredited undergraduate Electrical Engineering degrees from both institutions. Over 180 students have participated successfully in this award winning 1 program since its inception 15 years ago with a success rate exceeding 98%. This paper is a longitudinal study of the academic performance of the U.S. students before, while, and after participating in this exchange program. Specifically, it tracks the student's performance in a number of technical and non-technical categories and demonstrates the effects of the ongoing course and program-level improvement process implemented between MSOE and FHL.


art of basket-making. Most believe a basket can be whipped-off in a few hours and that a woman will weave for pure pleasure, to pass the time, or to have a little extra money for frivolous expenditures. This is just not the case. Weaving is the work of a very skilled person who has learned her craft at an early age and has taken ten to fifteen years to perfect it. An average size basket (30 centimetres in diameter by 7 centimetres in height) will take typically twenty-five hours of solid weaving to complete. Slower weavers can take up to forty hours to make the same size basket. These figures do not reflect the amount of time and effort involved in the collection and preparation of the raw materials. Almost all weavers make baskets to earn money money that is needed to support their families, to buy food and clothing, or to pay school fees. The work must be sandwiched in between other daily tasks such as weeding the fields, pounding grain, cooking, and caring for children. Fortunately, most women skillfully manage to combine their weaving time with these other tasks. A basket can be woven while a baby nurses at the breast, while the weaver is on the lands watching for birds that will destroy her crop, or while she socializes with friends and family. Nevertheless, weaving is difficult and tedious work. Women often complain about pricking their fingers with the awl that is used to weave. After a day of almost constant weaving, a woman's back and neck will be quite sore.


. Children's privacy and data protection is essential in maintaining and fulfilling legal obligations in protecting children's privacy. The child is appointed as a defendant, witness or victim and legally the trial is declared closed to the public in order to protect the child's privacy. Since the trial is declared closed to the public, the identity of the child cannot be published, including when the verdict is declared. Problems arise when an excerpt of a verdict from a case related to children is published and displayed on the Supreme Court website demonstrating inconsistencies in protecting the child's privacy in the legal process. In some cases, it has been found that the court verdict displays the child's identity completely or partially. Even where there are verdicts that do not display the child's identity, information regarding the criminal cases may be clearly exposed in the verdict making it possible to find out personal information about the children as well. As such, through an analysis of secondary data and a review of the legal framework, this paper presents the protection of children's privacy data in judicial decisions as currently found in Indonesia, and its implications for children. It concludes by identifying how legal norms should rule the protection of children's privacy data in judicial decisions.


Tone in Lexical Phonology presents a number of proposals for tone, deriving in part from work in lexical phonology. The three major theoretical contributions are proposals regarding underspecification, discussion of 'accent', and discussion of the Wellformedness Conditions (WFCs), specifically the existence of universal spreading as part of the WFCs. The contribution of Lexical Phonology in this debate is not as much as one might have hoped for, but this is not surprising since, as the author points out, there is no reason to expect tone to operate differently from other parts of phonology. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of autosegmental and Lexical Phonology, and lays out some of the issues to be discussed in the following chapters. One of the assumptions which recurs throughout the work is that the universal content of the WFCs is 'association lines may not cross', and the sole universal association principle is one-to-one left-to-right mapping of tones to tone-bearing units (TBUs). This may be contrasted with the approach taken in Clements & Ford (1979), where an association rule provides the initial mapping between tone and vowel, which then triggers the automatic association conventions which apply to free tones in the environment of linked tones. Odden (1987) provides evidence from Kikuria that the variant of the association conventions proposed by Pulleyblank cannot be universal. In that language, the H tone of certain verbs is not mapped to the stem by the initial association rule; in such verbs, the H remains unassociated until after the default rule assigning L to toneless vowels. Thus ogese becomes bgese 'you should harvest' by default tone assignment and a tone-linking rule. Prior to the default rule, the H tone is unassociated and there are free vowels, so Pulleyblank's association conventions should give *ogese. Chapter n considers the role of downstep in tone, especially as it might shed light on the question whether the ' phonetic component' should be identified with post-lexical phonology or constitutes a separate component. The author assumes a metrical treatment of tone register (Clements, 1981), where a change in tone register reflects the boundary between two tonal feet. The question to be considered is how two tone registers are constructed, given a phonetic tone sequence such as HH. Pulleyblank argues that downsteps in Tiv are the reflex of floating L tones. An alternative view, which he argues against in the case of Tiv and Dschang, is that foot structure is built morphologically. The interesting theoretical issue which he considers is whether the phonetic interpretation of floating Ls as downsteps takes place in the post-lexical component, or in a separate phonetic component.


In this paper a species of Rhotanella Fennah, newly recorded from China, is described as new to science. The type specimens are kept in the Entomological M useum of the Northwestern Agricultural University.Rhotanella novemmacula, sp. nov. (Fig.1 )Very similar to Rhotanella lautereri Zelazny, but different from it in the following characters: 12 piceous spots along base of costa and one before apical margin on tegmina; a piceus triangular mark in the 3rd costal cell adjacent to subcosta; the cross vein between Cu1 and Ms4 not level with the small cell at base of Ms4;Ms4 branched at the cross vein linking the bases of Cu1 and Ms4;aedeagal structures;greater in size.Holotype ,Mengyang, Yunnan, 7- VI - 1991, coll. Wang Yinglun and Cai Wanzhi.


In 1999 the facile self-assembly of the red emitting phosphor yttrium oxide europium (Y2O3:Eu) from solution using a sacrificial micellar phase was reported. The micellar phase was assembled using the alkyl ammonium salt (C12H25NH3)Cl in an ethanolic solution. The resulting fine powder had smaller particles, ranging in size from 0.1 to 1.0 μm, than the commercial cubic Y2O3:Eu phosphor. In this work we used a longer chained aliphatic amine, C16H33NH2, as fuel.


Objective To summarize the experiences of early diagnosis and management for abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS). Methods 11 patients were diagnosed with indirect measuring pressure in abdominal cavity and clinical characters, and given exploratory laparotomy, decompression and drainage for abdominal and gastro-intestinal cavity or non - operations. Results One of the patients died from respiratory failure after operation, one of them from infectious shock due to contamination in abdominal cavity accompanied with split of total layers within the wound,two of them from MODS.Mortality was about 36.3 percent in this group. Seven of them were cured and discharged from the hospital. Conclusions The keys to early diagnosis of ACS included continuously monitoring changes of pressure in abdominal cavity and systemic conditions.It is helpful to definiting surgical indications and the opportunity to perform operations. The patients were ill with moderate or severe ACS especially,should be given exploratory laparotomy,decompression and drainage early. The prognosis could be improved.


Based on the questionnaires retrieved from 215 students from University of Malaya,this paper gives a comparative study of several social appellatives used in China's mainland and in Malaysia and concludes that different social and political ideas,social systems and values are the factors that cause their differences in usage.


In this article presents a list of exercises, which is lead to forming of logical speech of secondary and high school pupils. We gave a psycholinguistical comment to every exercise. Also, we made a conclusion that the list of exercises, which we worked out allows to realize a differentiated approach in learning this topic.


Due to complex surface conditions,geological conditions and blank exploration of the west slope in Jilin oilfield.The data processing is the difficulty during the Jilin oilfield processing history.According to the characteristics of the data,we explore and apply sets of processing system.A set of 2-D seismic data processing method is developed for complex surface conditions.


The Wang et al ms is an interesting study of the impact of warming and acidification on physiological responses. The main significant effect was seen with the molecular biology – the hsp response. Some analyses of the other parameters measured (eg. heart rate) were equivocal. I suggest reduce the emphasis on the latter and concentrate on the hsp data. Reduce the text on non-significant results. I have questions on methods that need to be addressed before a full picture of the outcomes of the work


We studied the photoresponse of Pb(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O3 (PZT) thin films by measuring the current–voltage (I–V) curve at several ferroelectric polarization states illuminated by a monochromatic 3.5 eV UV light. The photocurrent in Pt/PZT/Pt capacitors was sensitive to the polarization state, and the poling voltage-dependent photocurrent showed very asymmetric hysteresis behavior. The capacitance that is dependent upon the thickness of the samples was first measured. Then, the capacitance of the interfacial layer at a state with no interdiffusion between Pt and PZT film was extrapolated by using an equivalent circuit model. The result of the extrapolation was 28.1 μF/cm2.


Batteries are one of the most important components in many mechatronics systems, as they supply power to the systems and their failures may lead to reduced performance or even catastrophic results. Therefore, the prediction analysis of remaining useful life (RUL) of batteries is very important. This paper develops a quantitative approach for battery RUL prediction using an adaptive bathtub-shaped function (ABF). ABF has been utilised to model the normalised battery cycle capacity prognostic curves, which attempt to predict the remaining battery capacity with given historical test data. An artificial fish swarm algorithm method with a variable population size (AFSAVP) is employed as the optimiser for the parameter determination of the ABF curves, in which the fitness function is defined in the form of a coefficient of determination (R2). A 4 x 2 cross-validation (CV) has been devised, and the results show that the method can work valuably for battery health management and battery life prediction.


Operation room IV Medication Management will discuss the automated device system and activation in the operating room. Discuss
the customized IV medication management system. Discuss the experience at CCAD with OR IV Medication management. Completely
automated system using automated dispensing machines and computerized physician order entry. ADM and stock of medication in
op- erating room are completely managed and controlled by pharmacist.


Many epidemiological studies have shown up the frequent association of ar terial hypertension (HT) with atherosclerosis of different localizations. How ever, many of the drugs used to treat HT are contraindicated in patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD), because they cause unfavorable metabolic changes or vasoconstriction. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of a proven hypotensive drug, captopril, on the peripheral circulation. The drug appeared to be effec tive in improving blood flow to lower limbs, prolonging the pain. Free interval and increasing the angle/arm arteral pressure index.


We extend recent results of S. Machihara and H. Pecher on low regularity well-posedness of the Dirac-Klein-Gordon (DKG) system in one dimension. Our proof, like that of Pecher, relies on the null structure of DKG, recently completed by D'Ancona, Foschi and Selberg, but we show that in 1d the argument can be simplified by modifying the choice of projections for the Dirac operator. We also show that the result is best possible up to endpoint cases, if one works in Bourgain-Klainerman-Machedon spaces.


This paper provided a new strategy to construct a portfolio to replicate the reference index.The strategy tracks the index based on a more excellent stock selection technique.The method we proposed broke the traditional framework which should pre-designate a stock pool to construct portfolio in literature.The empirical results show that this method brought relatively small tracking error even with fewer stocks,and simultaneously the strategy performed better than the current stratified sampling strategy.We applied this method in the analysis of the future-spot arbitrage of CSI 300 stock index futures,and found out this strategy get more arbitrage return than the existing method.


On the basis of the theories of gap acceptance and probability, the theoretical passing capacity of the advance right-turn vehicles under two planning approaches was investigated. A mathematic model for using interweaving area to enhance the passing capacity of the advance right-turn vehicles was proposed. By this model, the running efficiency of the two planning approaches was compared where the average delays were taken as the assessment index. In a junction where motor vehicles were allowed right-turn in advance, the first approach was applied if it meets the demand of right-turn motor vehicle capacity; otherwise prolonging the interweaving area to increase the passing capacity was adopted to reduce the average delay of the right-turn vehicles. Prolonging the interweaving area is an applicable approach to solve practical problem although it enlarges the conflict zone.


A taxonomic account is given of Plutella xylostella, a serious pest of crucifers worldwide. The paper lists various changes in the nomenclature from the initial description of this insect by Linnaeus in 1758. A detailed account of morphological characters of mature larva, pupa, and adult is given along with description of a closely related species, Caunaca sera, which also feeds on crucifers. Distinguishing characters of P. xylostella and C. sera are described.


1 , ^ INTRODUCTION 2 DESCRIPTION OF STUDY AREA 2 METHODS 6 Water Temperature ^ Macroinvertebrates 6 Young-of-Year Fish and Minnows 7 Adult Fish 7 Fish Population Estimates 7 Age and Growth Analysis 9 Mountain Whitefish Food Habits 9 Instream Flow Assessment 9 RESULTS 11 Water Temperatures and Flow Patterns 11 Macroinvertebrates 1"^ Plecoptera 17 Ephemeroptera T7 Trichoptera i ' Dipt era 17 I) i sr us.s i on • i / RKSULTS-FISH POPULATIONS ^0 SpeciL's Distribution 20 Resident Fish Populations 20 Mountain Whitefish 20 Trout • 29 Other Sport Fish 40 Migratory Fish 40 Nonsport Fish 43 Forage Fish 43 Pesticide Analyses 44 Canada Goose Ner ting 44 Instream Flow Assessment for Channel Morphology 52 Dominant Discharge/Channel Morphology Concept , 52 High Flow Period Assessment 53 Instream Flow Assessment for Riffles and Pools 53 Summary of Target Instream Flow Recommendations 59 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 59 LITERATURE CITED 64 '


With th practical experiences of following the Code for Forest Asset Assessment,the authors have found some limits in the application of the Code.Based on their own understanding of the Code and professional knowledge on forest asset assessment,the authors propose some remedies for the Code.It is highly recommended that the Code should be revised.


This article deals with one of the most complicated problems «T.Shevchenko and the Bible».
Such important aspect as а reception of the Bible in Shevchenko's poetry is investigated. The peculiarity of the
poet's «dialogue» with the Old Testament, which consist of incarnation prophet's type and motive is analyzed.
And at this level the originality of his creative individuality is revealed.
Key words: Bible, Old Testament, prophet, motive, type.


OBJECTIVE
The purpose of the 2 studies presented in this article was to determine the clinically appropriate dose of doxercalciferol capsules that is required to maintain similar intact parathyroid hormone control when converting from intravenous (IV) paricalcitol or doxercalciferol.

DESIGN
Both studies were multicenter, open-label, randomized designs comprising the following 3 periods: a screening period, a 5-week run-in period, and a 5-week treatment period.

SETTING
Dialysis centers in the United States.

PATIENTS
Patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease receiving dialysis 3 times weekly for a minimum of 6 months and with recent intact parathyroid hormone measurements between 15.9 and 63.7 pmol/L (150 to 600 pg/mL) were included.

INTERVENTION
After a 5-week fixed-dose IV paricalcitol or doxercalciferol run-in period, subjects were randomized to doxercalciferol capsules for the 5-week treatment period. Conversion factors for the paricalcitol study were 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 times the current paricalcitol dose. Conversion factors for the doxercalciferol study were 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 times the current doxercalciferol injection dose.

RESULTS
The predicted conversion factor for paricalcitol injection to doxercalciferol capsules was 0.92, whereas the factor for doxercalciferol injection to doxercalciferol capsules was 1.49. No statistically significant changes in serum calcium and phosphorus levels were found in either study. The nature of adverse events was consistent with the administration of an active vitamin D therapy to patients with chronic kidney disease receiving dialysis.

CONCLUSION
The studies demonstrate patients on dialysis can be safely and effectively converted from IV paricalcitol or doxercalciferol to oral doxercalciferol.


The1-azobenzene-3-thiazoly-triazene(ABTT) as a chromogenic reagent was synthesized and its color reaction with zinc has been investigated.In the presence of the surface active agent Triton X-100 and in the Na2B4O7-NaOH medium of pH 11.0,ABTT forms a red complex with Zn(Ⅱ).The apparent molar absorbtivity of the complex is 2.7×104 L·mol-1·cm-1 at 525nm(λmax).The molar ratio of Zn(Ⅱ) to ABTT is 1:4.Beer,s law is well obeyed in the range of 0~460μg/L for zinc.The method has been applied to the direct determination of cadmium in waste water with satisfactory results.


I am well aware of the reasons underlying what I take to be George Ryga's support for a "Canadian Content" quota (CTR 1) and I think, if I read his reasons accurately, that I am in some sympathy with these reasons, if not with his suggested solution. We all know that figures can be fudged to make things seem as they are not. I personally don't think that quotas are the answer — they seem to me to invite fudging; but if I am wrong and quotas are the answer, I become very interested in the question: "How do you tell a Canadian Content when you see one?" Is Michael Cook, for example, naturalized? If he isn't yet but becomes so, will his subsequent plays be Canadian Content and his earlier ones not? Or will all of his works be beatified retroactively? (And please don't respond by giving me the date of his naturalization because it's not really germane; I mention it as an example of the futility of quantification).


ABSTRACT A novel satellite cross-calibration method is proposed using image pairs with large view zenith angle observations. Previous studies on cross calibration have focused primarily on image pairs with nadir or small view zenith angles, while this study introduces a technique for large view zenith angle observations using bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) correction. This technique was applied to images from the wide field of view (WFV) onboard the GAO FEN-1 (GF-1) satellite and Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors as it transited over the Dunhuang site in China. A total of 62 image pairs, collected from 2013 to 2016, were used in the cross-calibration process. However, only 12 of 62 image pairs included a small view zenith angle difference (less than 10°), while the other image pairs featured a large view zenith angle difference. An experimental time series calibration was conducted using the proposed technique as well as conventional cross-calibration methods for comparison purposes. Time series calibration results also showed an attenuation trend for GF-1 WFV sensor and produced a calibration equation for day since launch (DSL). Then, the calibration equation by DSL was compared with four vicarious calibration results carried out over the Dunhuang test site from 2013 to 2016 to demonstrate its consistency. The calibration coefficients using the proposed method were also compared with the coefficients from other cross-calibration methods, taking the vicarious calibration coefficient as the reference. The comparison results showed that the calibration coefficients using the proposed method were with higher calibration accuracy and higher calibration frequency than other cross-calibration methods. The cross-calibration uncertainties caused by difference influence factors were analysed quantitatively. The results showed that the calibration uncertainties were decreased from 35.03–44.60% to 5.95–8.26% after BRDF correction, which demonstrated the proposed method to be superior for processing large view zenith angle images. These results suggest the proposed technique could be an effective new tool for future time series satellite calibration.


Like pyridine 1-oxide, 4-ethyl-6-methylpyrimidine 1-oxide reacts with phenyl isocyanate ; the products in the latter case are 2-anilino-4-ethoxy-6-methylpyrimidine and 1, 3-diphenyl-1-(4-ethoxy-6-methyl-2-pyrimidinyl) urea. In contrast to this reaction, phenyl isothiocyanate transformed the same N-oxide into 7-methyl-3-phenyl-2, 3-dihydrooxazolo [4, 5-d] pyrimidine-2-thione.


In this paper, we derive an easily computed approximation to European basket call prices for a local volatility jump-diffusion model. We apply the asymptotic expansion method to find the approximate value of the lower bound of European basket call prices. If the local volatility function is time independent then there is a closed-form expression for the approximation. Numerical tests show that the suggested approximation is fast and accurate in comparison with the Monte Carlo (MC) and other approximation methods in the literature.


A very large class of kinetic growth processes manifest oscillatory behaviour in a variety of physical quantities such as the propagation of the growing interface and the density of the resulting cluster. We demonstrate that these oscillations should generically display quasiperiodic behaviour. Using a formalism based on the projection method for quasicrystalline spectra, we elucidate general features such as the dominant frequency and amplitude of the oscillations. We also briefly discuss the effects of interfacial roughening on the spectra of the oscillations.


In order to reveal the variation relation of ice storage capacity with time of the encapsulated ice-storing unit accurately so as to control the system efficiently,grey control theory is applied to predicting ice storage time of ice storage air conditioning system.In the paper,three models(the basic model,modifying mode and topologic model) were built and the corresponding program was also compiled.The calculating results indicate that the data generated by the modifying model and the topologic model approximated well to the experimental data.Using this method we could predict the time taken by ice storage with any ice thickness accurately,thus providing reliable basis for controlling the running of air conditioning system efficiently.


Abstract The mechanism by which bacteriorhodopsin (BR), the light-driven proton pump from the purple membrane (PM) of Halobacterium halobium, arranges in a 2D hexagonal array has been studied by reconstitution of BR in complexes of two types of bilayer made either with PM-derived lipids or with PM lipids and 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC). The unit cell dimensions of the 2D protein crystals, determined by correlation averaging analysis of freeze-fracture electron micrographs, were compared with the lattice constant of the PM. In complexes made with delipidated BR and with the polar lipids extracted from H. halobium cells (HHPL), BR trimers are arranged in a hexagonal lattice with the same lattice constant of 5.9 ± 0.2 nm as found in the PM. In BR-containing complexes made with PM-derived lipids and DMPC at several protein:lipid mole ratios, BR trimers are also arranged in a hexagonal lattice, but with a unit cell dimension of 9.2 ± 0.2 nm, which is about one-third larger compared to that measured in PM (Michel et al. , 1980). In a subclass of this type of complexes, orthogonal BR arrays were observed with a lattice constant of 5.9 × 9.9 ± 0.2 nm. It appears that insertion of DMPC into the BP/PM-derived lipid complexes increases the center-to-center distances in both array types by a discrete amount.


The aim of this work was to apply mathematical-computational modeling to study the interactions of haloperidol (HLP) and biperiden (BPD) with human (HSA) and bovine (BSA) serum albumin in order to verify the competition of these drugs for binding sites in HSA, using intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence quenching data. The association constants estimated for HPD-HSA was 2.17(±0.05) × 107 M−1, BPD-HSA was 2.01(±0.03) × 108 M−1 at 37 °C. Results have shown that drugs do not compete for the same binding sites in albumin.


OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study is to investigate the potential bene ts of Gelam honey (GH) in promoting proliferation of ex vivo cor- neal epithelial cells (CECs) and its effects on the phenotypical features.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Corneal epithelial cells were isolated from the corneas of rabbits (n = 6). The optimal dose of GH for CEC proliferation in both basal medium (BM) and cornea medium (CM) was determined via MTT (3-[4, 5-dimethyl thiazolyl-2]-2, 5-diphenyl tetrazolium bro- mide) assay. Morphology, gene and protein expressions, and cell cycle analysis of CECs were evaluated via phase contrast microscopy, real- time polymerase chain reaction, immunocytochemistry, and ow cytom- etry, respectively.

RESULTS
Corneal epithelial cells cultured in 0.0015% GH-supplemented media (BM + 0.0015% GH; CM + 0.0015% GH) demonstrated optimal proliferative capacity with normal polygonal- shaped morphology. Gelam honey potentiates cytokeratin 3 (CK3) gene expression in accordance with the cytoplasmic CK3 protein expression while retaining normal cell cycle of CECs.

CONCLUSION
Culture media treated with 0.0015% GH increased CEC proliferation while preserving its phenotypical features. This study demonstrated the potential devel- opment of GH-based topical treatment for super cial corneal injury.


144The individual in international law — Nationality — Expatriation — Loss of nationality — South African citizen — Acquisition of foreign citizenship — Whether entailing loss of South African citizenship-Meaning of acquisition — South African Citizenship Act 1949 — The law of South Africa


This paper contributes to the understanding of strategic sourcing through resource combination, with focus on knowledge interactions. The IMP approach, and especially the resource combination framework, views knowledge interaction as embedded in business relationships. Knowledge is understood as having soft and hard aspects and involving both inter- and intra-organizational interactions, as well as emergent physical and organizational resource combinations, such as IT systems, aimed at enabling virtual organizing, and humans acting as boundary spanners. Two case studies of enterprise journeys are conducted. Especially the last five years both companies experience change in the resource combination, first the physical and then the organizational, adjusting the mechanisms to improve knowledge interaction and competence within their value chain and inter- and intra-organizational processes. One SME, re-organizes its processes and integrates knowledge through a specific resource and knowledge interaction setup and breaks out of the SME category; the other, medium sized, de-organizes into an SME and does some resource combination through virtual organizational elements, emphasizing virtual knowledge interaction through IT systems and through the concentration of offshored activities using physical, intermediary control elements. As resource combination and knowledge interaction becomes more complex, the companies shift from more loose relationships to tighter subsidiary types.


s: The Chinese Geophysical symposium on GPS held in Wuhan, China, from Sept. 17 to 21, 2000. The new progress of GPS in China are shown and some problems are discussed. Many excellent ideas about how to develop the new GPS technology and establishment of new rules on high precision data processing and interpretation are given during the symposium.


Abstract : The U.S. Army currently uses the root mean square of elevation and power spectral density to characterize road/terrain (off-road) roughness for durability. This paper describes research aimed toward improving these metrics. One method currently under consideration involves running a relatively simple, yet vehicle class specific, model over a given terrain and using predicted vehicle response(s) to classify or characterize the terrain. A precedent for this concept is the International Roughness Index or IRI, used in the highway industry to rate road roughness. This paper will provide a summary of the research done to date on this problem.


This invention relates to a hydraulic displacement control device in the form of a hydraulic cylinder (1), provided with means (2, 2 ') for detecting the positions of the cylinder which are in the form of two pneumatic circuits each opening through an outlet orifice at one end of a pneumatic chamber (3) in axial extension of the hydraulic cylinder (1) .The characterized in that the means (2, 2 ') of the ram position detecting open in the pneumatic chamber (3) along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of said chamber (3) and each cooperating in one position of the hydraulic cylinder, with a joint device (4) for sealing, by controlled pressure, of corresponding outlet orifice, connected in movement with the piston of the hydraulic cylinder (1) .L'invention is more particularly applicable in the field of fixing and positioning of the pieces on machine tools, in particular worked ant at a high rate, in particular the clamping and abutment parts.


Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the processing of human languages by means of computers ranging from speech processing to semantics. Information extraction (IE) is an important part of NLP. It collects information from unstructured or semi-structured documents and stores them in a structured form. Event Extraction (EE) is an important subtask of IE. Its goal is to extract event information from unstructured documents. The task of event detection is the identification of event-occurrences in texts. Most events belong to verbs in texts and verbs usually denote events. But other parts of speech (e.g. noun, participle) can also denote events. Because of the ambiguity, words analysis is insufficient; also, the context must be analyzed. Besides event detection another important task is to determine the roles of the events discovered. It is known as Semantic Role Labelling (SRL). It is the task of natural language processing to detect the semantic arguments of a sentence predicate and to classify them according to specific roles. This dissertation is concerned with computer processing of events expressed in natural languages. Its main tasks are event detection, event classification and the labelling of their semantic roles.


Because of the outbreak of Covid 19, the entire world is thinking of new strategies, preventive measures to safeguard the human life from the widespread of the pandemic. The areas where people are affected are marked as containment zones and people are not allowed to exit out of those areas. Similarly, new people are not allowed to enter inside those areas. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to track the Covid zones, to enhance and tighten the security measures. A geo-fence is created for the containment zone. The person who enters or exits out of that particular zone will be monitored and alert message will be sent to that person's mobile.,After tracking the location of a suspicious individual, the geo-fenced layer is mapped in the area and then the virtual perimeter is used for further trapping process. This geo-fenced layer can be viewed by the citizens as soon as it is updated by the Covid monitoring team. The geo-fencing is a concept of building a virtual perimeter area. This virtual perimeter monitoring system helps in monitoring the containment zones effectively. It reduces operational costs by using an automated system based on wireless infrastructure. It also alerts the authorities immediately to catch the violators. Thus, it helps to speed up the process of inspecting the containment zones and monitoring the individuals who violate the rules given by government.,The proposed methodologies will be an effective way to track the Covid's communal spread. But the workflow of the system demands the required data sets and permission in legal manner to set up the environment that maintains the constitutional law and order in practice. The application developed was a prototype to display how it works if the required data sets are provided by the government. There are several tracking models that are released across the world such as Aarogya setu (India), Trace together (Singapore) and Hagmen (Israel). All these models are based on Bluetooth proximity identification; though Bluetooth proximity identification is helpful for high range in a short distance, the privacy concern is debatable one. Using modern technology, it is so easy to crack the individual gadgets and with Bluetooth enabling it makes things even worse. Thus, it is important to maintain the tracking a safer and secure one, and another issue with those Bluetooth-based applications is that tracking can be done only if the user enabled the Bluetooth option, if not the entire functioning would become a mess. The proposed methodology of tracking without Bluetooth will ensure data security also.,This was developed as a project by our third-year students of the Department of Information Technology of our college.


These days, growing attention has been focused on further development of polymer solid electrolytes for the improvement of energy devices. Although PEO derivatives have been extensively studied so far, these electrolytes exhibit limited lithium transference number because of strong coordination of polar ether oxygens toward lithium ion. As an approach to solve this problem, immobilization of anion to polymer matrix has been commonly examined. However, only modest ionic conductivity is generally observed in such systems due to limited number of mobile carrier ions. On the other hand, another approach has been examined by several research groups. Incorporation of anion receptor into polymeric electrolytes results in selective cation transport or enhanced ionic conductivity[1]. We have recently examined synthesis of a series of well-defined organoboron polymer electrolytes by hydroboration polymerization or dehydrocoupling polymerization [2]. Taking advantage of these polymerization systems, variety of organoboron electrolytes showing selective ion transporting property were prepared.


IntroductionMaximal oxygen consumption testing is suggested to be regularly included between training blocks of athletes in order to monitor changes in fitness throughout the season. However, despi ...


Functional Safety Assessments(FSAs)are undertaken in addition to the traditional safety lifecycle activities of verification,validation and functional safety audits.These safety lifecycle activities are typically planned and executed directly by the Safety-Related Systems project team implementing phase(s)of the safety lifecycle.The purpose of a FSA is to independently ensure that functional safety has been achieved within the specific scope of supply for the organization(s)in the context of the safety lifecycle.


The development of wireless communication technology has led to the depletion of frequency resources and the need for frequency sharing. Therefore, we focus on beamforming, a technique that provides strong transmission gain in a specific direction, and consider sharing in space-time by managing directivity through scheduling. However, the number of combinations of beams that can be irradiated in a given time is enormous, and effective beams must be selected while minimizing the amount of calculation. In this study, we established a simple beam selection algorithm based on radio propagation data from ray tracing simulations and terminal location data from base stations. In this paper, we characterize this algorithm and show that it is a highly efficient selection method compared to other methods.


We report on a study of the effects of laboratory activities that model fictitious laws of physics in a virtual reality environment on (1) students' epistemology about the role of experimental physics in class and in the world; (2) students' self-efficacy; and (3) the quality of student engagement with the lab activities. We create opportunities for students to practice physics as a means of creating and validating new knowledge by simulating real and fictitious physics in virtual reality (VR). This approach seeks to steer students away from a confirmation mindset in labs by eliminating any form of prior or outside models to confirm. We refer to the activities using this approach as Novel Observations in Mixed Reality (NOMR) labs. We examined NOMR's effects in 100-level and 200-level undergraduate courses. Using pre-post measurements we find that after NOMR labs, students in both populations were more expertlike in their epistemology about experimental physics and held stronger self-efficacy about their abilities to do the kinds of things experimental physicists do. Through the lens of the psychological theory of flow, we found that students engage as productively with NOMR labs as with traditional hands-on labs. This engagement persisted after the novelty of VR in the classroom wore off, suggesting that these effects are due to the pedagogical design rather than the medium of the intervention. We conclude that these NOMR labs offer an approach to physics laboratory instruction that centers the development of students' understanding of and comfort with the authentic practice of science.


For implementation of exercise with blood flow restriction (BFR), cuff pressures should be based on arterial occlusion pressure (AOP). Limb circumference and blood pressure have been identified as predictors of AOP and used to set appropriate exercising cuff pressures. However, it is unclear whether these predictors are consistent across BFR cuffs of varying width. Our purpose was to compare predictors of lower-body AOP in a variety of commonly utilized cuff widths. We hypothesized that limb circumference would be a stronger predictor when using narrower cuffs while blood pressure would be a stronger predictor when using wider cuffs.Healthy normotensive adults (women=44, men=76; age:23±4yrs; BMI:25±4) underwent measurements of thigh circumference (TC) and systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Lower-body AOP was assessed (via Doppler ultrasound) in the post-tibial artery in a seated position with an 11, 13, and 18cm wide pneumatic cuff. Models of hierarchical linear regression were constructed to predict AOP in each of the cuffs using TC, SBP, and DBP as predictor variables. A linear mixed effects model including AOP as the outcome variable was fit. The model included fixed effects of TC, SBP, DBP, cuff width, TC x cuff width, SBP x cuff width, and DBP x cuff width, and a random intercept for participants.AOP was 188±28, 170±20, and 152±15mmHg, for the 11, 13, and 18cm cuff, respectively. For the 11cm cuff, TC (β = 0.66, part = 3.46), SBP (β = 0.17, part = 0.48), and DBP (β = 0.21, part = 3.46) were significant predictors that explained 74% of AOP variability. For the 13cm cuff, TC (β = 0.56, part = 2.06), SBP (β = 0.25, part = 0.48), and DBP (β = 0.22, part = 0.59) were significant predictors that explained 69% of AOP variability. In the 18cm cuff, TC (β = 0.35, part = 0.10) and SBP (β = 0.48, part = 0.72) were significant predictors that explained 57% of the AOP variability. There were significant main effects of TC, SBP, DBP, and cuff width on AOP, and significant interactions of TC x cuff width and SBP x cuff width (all P<0.05). Results indicated that when using a narrow cuff, AOP was largely based on TC and when using a wider cuff, AOP was based mostly on SBP. Differences are likely due to wider cuffs transmitting pressures more efficiently into underlying soft tissues, thereby reducing the influence of TC on AOP and shifting greater influence towards blood pressure. Our results support and expand on previous work in a small sample (n=12) reporting that AOP depends more on TC as cuff width decreases. Together, these data provide evidence that cuff width should be considered when selecting factors to estimate AOP and establish appropriate pressures during lower-body BFR exercise. This work was supported by the Michigan Tech Health Research Institute This is the full abstract presented at the American Physiology Summit 2023 meeting and is only available in HTML format. There are no additional versions or additional content available for this abstract. Physiology was not involved in the peer review process.


Summary This paper intends to discuss the hydrocarbon potential of an area in the North West corner of the Sarawak Deep water region, herein referred to as North West Luconia (NW Luconia). With very little well data available, the area could be considered a genuine deep water frontier. The study area is located on the junction of three major basins namely East Natuna, west Luconia, and North Luconia. The basin architecture and sedimentation pattern in the study area can be correlated to the nearby basins. The area extends from the present day shelf to an ultra deep water region with water depth in excess of 2000m ( figure 1b ). Due to data limitations, this study is largely driven by sparse regional 2D lines and conceptual regional models. Integration of 2D seismic interpretation, limited potential field data and well data suggest the possibility of a new hydrocarbon province in this frontier region. A number of potential exploration plays have been identified, some of which have never been tested in the deep water region of Sarawak.


The machine learning regression model is based on the assumption of normal distribution. In this paper, we mainly study the probability distribution of the machine learning model and the effect of the convergence values of different loss functions on the probability distribution model. Based on the idea of robust regression and the assumption of homogeneous variance of the model, we solved the statistical solution of two-dimensional regression problem by using least square method. The maximum likelihood estimation parameters of the probabilistic model are obtained by using the maximum likelihood estimation method. In order to compare the solving parameters of the two methods, the convergence values of L1 loss function and L2 loss function are used for the regression verification. Through the mathematical and statistical rigorous derivation, obtained two important conclusions; First, under the condition that the data satisfies normal distribution and is based on the assumption of homogeneous variance, the probability model conforms to the multivariate gaussian distribution. Secondly, the model satisfying the multi-gaussian distribution has little influence on the parameter estimation under the condition of the large number theorem, that is, the multi-gaussian distribution model has good tolerance to the loss function.


Lathyrus sativus L. (chickling vetch) has potential among grain legumes for its tolerance to dry conditions and its adaptability to unfavourable environments . Furthermore the chemical composition of the seeds shows high crude protein content and low levels of cholesterol . For these reasons this species could have considerable potential in the sustainable crop systems of the marginal areas of southern Italy. But increasing the amount of Lathyrus sativus cropping is subject to the evaluation of the potential grain yield in the pedoclimatic condition of the hilly environments of south Italy. The purpose of the present work is to evaluate the grain yields of 25 ecotypes of chickling vetch belonging to the collection assembled many years ago in south Italy by Iannelli . Of these ecotypes 17 have light coloured seed and 8 have dark coloured seed. The trial was carried out in a two year period in a hilly area of southern Italy (700 m a.s.l.). The experimental design was randomised blocks with 3 replications. The biological cycle, grain yields and yield components were determined for all the ecotypes. The results showed differences between the ecotypes with grain yields ranging from 0.7 t.ha to 2 t.ha. High grain yields were generally related to high 1000 seed weight. References 1. Sarno R., Stringi L. (1979). Proc. Cong. "Prospettive delle proteaginose in Italia", Perugia, pp. 565-570. 2. Senatore F., Basso F. (1994). Fatty acid and sterol composition from seeds of some Lathyrus ecotypes. La Rivista Italiana delle sostanze grasse 71, 567-569. 3. De Falco E., Basso F., Iannelli P. (1991). Morphological and productive features of ecotypes of chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus L.). Agr. Med. 121, 99-109.


The present invention discloses an apparatus for separating an object 101, the apparatus 101 comprises: a laser 103, which is configured to emit a laser beam having a Gaussian irradiance profile 105; beam shaping device 115, which is configured to re Gaussian irradiance profile shaped laser beam 105 emitted from laser 103, in particular, the beam shaping device 115 having a plurality of aspheric lenses 117, 119 to redistribute the irradiance of the laser beam 105 in order to reduce the laser beam 105 is used to change the effective irradiance of the radiation spectrum of the isolated object. And conventional laser beam having a Gaussian irradiance profile compared to a non-uniform, by reallocating the irradiation of the laser beam 105, a laser beam of such radiant energy can be more effectively transmitted to the semiconductor laser wafer 102 separation. The present invention also discloses a method of separating objects.


The application of knowledge engineering principles to a visual tracking system is explored. A simulation incorporating the properties defined and developed here is presented and discussed. The study includes methods drawn from systems science, computer operating systems theory, cognitive psychology, fuzzy set theory, and physiology. It is shown that it is possible to create a viable intelligent tracking system from a systems design which parallels current knowledge of human cognition.


This article is an interview with U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard. He was on the Russian Mir 18 mission. Launched to the space station from Baikonur on March 14, 1995, he returned to Earth on the Shuttle 115 days later. With the completion of that mission, Thagard holds the U.S. record for the most time spent in space. Topics of discussion during the interview include: the cultural isolation faced by an American astronaut on a Russian space facility; the physiological and psychological effects of long-duration space flight; the problems of loss of bone and the radiation environment; readaptation to gravity on Earth; and, recommendations to the designers of the Alpha station.


We write to express our continued concerns about the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA") and our willingness to assist you in determining how best to improve enforcement of legitimate trade secret rights. Unfortunately, the new DTSA appears to simply combine many of the provisions of the two pieces of legislation that were introduced in 2014 (S. 2267 and H.R. 5233). As a result, it addresses few of the concerns raised in the January 2015 article and the August 2014 letter. Moreover, the sponsors have failed to explain how the DTSA improves existing trade secret law, nor how it will specifically address the harms that it purports to mitigate. Thus, the August 2014 letter and January 2015 article remain highly relevant to an analysis of the DTSA's benefits and drawbacks.


A term infant has hypotonia and bilateral undescended testes

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The infant was delivered via vaginal vertex route and required minimal resuscitation. Apgar scores were 9 at 1 and 5 minutes. The birthweight was 2,698 g. Soon after delivery, the infant appeared to be lethargic and hypotonic with no real cry. Brief physical examination revealed bilateral undescended testes.

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Abstract Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. cv. Parcour) grown at eight levels of nitrogen (N) fertilization (0–765 mg/pot) was exposed to ambient (390 ppm) and elevated (690 ppm) carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations for 83 days. Plants were cut three times and dry matter yields determined for each harvest. At final harvest, dry weight of root and stubble biomass was determined, as N concentrations of all plant fractions were determined. Carbon dioxide enrichment effects on yield and total plant biomass increased with increasing N fertilization. The weaker CO2‐related yield enhancement at low N supply was due to the plants inability to increase tiller number. Root fraction of total plant biomass at final harvest was increased by high CO2 and decreased by N supply. Root biomass was significantly increased by CO2 enrichment and for both CO2 treatments the N supply for maximum root mass coincided with the N supply for reaching maximum total plant biomass. A significant correlation between root fraction of ...


Coffee sequential flowering events detection and flower density estimation is essential to predict the ripening time and yield of coffee. In this study, we detected coffee flowering events automatically based on estimated flower densities in high spatial time-series digital images, using a multi-scale region based flower segmentation method. The study area is a coffee plantation in Lujiangba in the Yunnan Province of China. There are 5 flowering events in the coffee flowering period. A digital camera obtained 24 RGB images at each shooting time of day (8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 17:30) by automatic adjusting the sensor with 3 depression angles and 8 azimuth angles during the coffee flowering period from March 1st to May 31st. For segment the flowers in one image, multi-scale regions were primarily generated by equally-sized superpixel segmentation and subsequent superpixel merging process. Next, the feature vectors of each region were extracted by color moments (CM) operator and local binary patterns (LBP) operator. Afterwards, the support vector machine (SVM) classifier trained on these features was applied to recognize the flower regions. Thus, the percentage of flower pixels referred as flower proportion (FP), which can estimate the image-based flower density, was calculated in preparation for detecting flowering events of time-series images. In this stage, coefficients of Recall, Precision and intersection over union (IoU) were employed to evaluate the performance of segmentation methods on 14 test images at threes depression angles and then the best flower segmentation algorithm and the optimal angle can be determined. In the stage of flowering events detection, the FPs of different shooting time multitemporal images under the optimal depression angle were calculated and plotted. Then, a threshold of FP, K, was selected to determine whether an image is on a flowering day. To determine the best shooting time for flowering events detection, Recall, Precision and IoU were also employed to evaluate the performance of time-series images shot at 11 time of day for flowering day detection. The results show that the images shot at the depression angle of 77.5 degree is the optimal depression angle for flower segmentation and meanwhile our proposed method achieves the best performance with Recall, Precision and IoU of 84.89%, 74.83% and 65.46% respectively. In the test of flowering day detection of 11 shooting time multitemporal images, the time-series images shot at 13:00 is superior to the time-series images shot at other time of day, with Recall of 65.00%, Precision of 100% and IoU of 65.00% when the K set as 0.4%. Meanwhile, all flowering events can be detected except the fifth event which has few flowers and the FPs of time-series images can correctly indicate the flower densities of each events. In conclusion, our approach can estimate the image-based flower density and detect the coffee sequential flowering events in small fields, so the results can be used for coffee fruit maturity prediction and yield estimation.


The long shadows of fall are beginning to descend reminding us that the leisurely pace of summer gets ratcheted up a few notches. For many of us, activities this time of the year take on a life of their own and we are caught up in a myriad of tasks. Your International Alliance for Invitational Education is also caught up in the increased tempo. The Leadership Institute held in Ottawa, Canada was a sell out this October, and plans for the next World Conference scheduled for October 12-15, 2000 is already building a head of steam. A pre-publication announcement of Invitations to Dialogue: The Legacy of Sidney Jourard, which is sponsored by the Alliance, will also be found in this issue of the journal.


Key Points Question What is the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes among long-displaced Syrian refugees in northern Jordan and what is their level of access to care? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 1022 randomly sampled households of Syrian refugees, the biologically based prevalence of hypertension and diabetes was moderately higher than self-reported prevalence. Among the participants, 57.4% had 1 or more complication, 82.8% were obese or overweight, 49.1% sought care in the past month, and 26.8% missed their medications in the past week. Meaning These findings suggest that long-term disease management is inadequate, in that Syrian refugees were generally aware of their diagnoses and had access to medication, but complications and factors associated with severe disease were highly prevalent.


A facile UV-Vis spectrophotometric method for quantitative determination of Al3+ ion based on chromophoric Alizarin Red S (ARS) was carried out. ARS reagent was used as an organic chelator for Al3+ ion to form ARS–Al(III) complex. The yellow-coloured ARS changed to reddish-orange hue after reaction with Al3+ ion and formed ARS–Al(III) complex at optimum pH 4. ARS reagent yielded linear concentration range over 0.1–1.0 ppm Al3+ ion and a fast response time of ∼35 s. The reproducibility study for ARS–Al(III) complex was found to give satisfactory relative standard deviation (RSD) values of 2.4–3.1%. The ARS reagent demonstrated good photostability over an 8-hour experimental period. An attempt has been conducted to physically immobilize ARS reagent onto newly synthesized photocurable poly(n-butyl acrylate) [poly(nBA)] microspheres, followed by reflectometric transduction of ion recognition event. The micro-sized poly(nBA) spheres has been confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The colour change of the immobilized ARS, i.e. before and after reaction with Al3+ ion was found to be similar to the ARS solution analysis at pH 4. The acrylic-based optical microsensor showed potential to accommodate both quantitative and semiquantitative in situ evaluation of Al3+ ion concentration in environmental water and biological fluids.


The electrochemical behaviors of 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol on polythionine/carbon nanotubes modified GCE were investigated by cyclic voltammetry.The experimental conditions were optimized.The results showed that the modified electrode possessed excellent electrocatalytic activity towards the oxidation of both 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol.Oxidation peak currents had good linear relationship with the concentration of 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol in the range from 2.0×10-7 mol·L-1 to 2.0×10-5 mol·L-1.The modified electrode showed high sensitivity,excellent reproducibility and long-term stability.The proposed method was successfully examined for real sample analysis and the obtained results were satisfactory.


DESCRIPTION OF NURSING CARE TYPHOID FEVER
FOR IN CHILDREN WITH HYPERTHERMI
IN ANGGREK WARD TABANAN
 HOSPITAL2018

ABSTRACT

Typhoid fever (typhoid abdominalis, enteric fever) is an acute infection of the gastrointestinal tract caused by Salmonella thyphosa bacteria. The most common problems caused by typhoid fever are high fever (hyperpyrexia), continental febrile, decreased consciousness (sopor, coma, or delirium), severe complications such as dehydration and acidosis, perforation. This study aims to determine the description of nursing care in children typhoid fever with hipertermi in orchid brsu tabanan in 2018. The type of research used is a descriptive study with case study design of at least two nursing documents observed in depth using documentation studies by observing patient nursing documents. The data collection tool in the form of study guide of documentation can be a check list that should be filled by the researcher which consists of two choices (yes / no). The results showed that there were similarities between two patients with typhoid fever who experienced hyperthermia in documenting nursing care in the room but had some differences with the theory used as a reference by researchers. This indicates that the documentation of nursing care is influenced by the theory used as a reference by nurses in the Anggrek Room of BRSU Tabanan and researchers, therefore it is expected that in his assessment to be studied in depth.

Keywords: nursing care, typhoid fever, hyperthermia


Active imaging technology can perceive the surrounding environment and obtain three-dimensional information of the target. Among them, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) imaging systems are one of the hottest topics in the field of photoelectric active imaging. Due to the small size, fast scanning speed, low power consumption, low price and strong anti-interference, a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) based micro-scanning LiDAR is widely used in LiDAR imaging systems. However, the imaging point cloud will be distorted, which affects the accurate acquisition of target information. Therefore, in this article, we analyzed the causes of distortion initially, and then introduced a novel coordinate correction method, which can correct the point cloud distortion of the micro-scanning LiDAR system based on MEMS. We implemented our coordinate correction method in a two-dimensional MEMS LiDAR system to verify the feasibility. Experiments show that the point cloud distortion is basically corrected and the distortion is reduced by almost 72.5%. This method can provide an effective reference for the correction of point cloud distortion.


It has been recently shown by H.Weber and J.C. Mourrat, for the two-dimensional Ising-Kac model at critical temperature, that the fluctuation field of the magnetization, under the Glauber dynamic, converges in distribution to the solution of a non linear ill-posed SPDE: the dynamical $\Phi^4_2$ equation. In this article we consider the case of the multivatiate stochastic quantization equation $\Phi^{2n}_2$ on the two-dimensional torus, and we answer to a conjecture of H.Weber and H.Shen. We show that it is possible to find a state space for a spin system on the two-dimensional discrete torus undergoing Glauber dynamic with ferromagnetic Kac potential, such that the fluctuation field converges in distribution to $\Phi^{2n}_2$.


This paper explores the emergence of subnational corporatism, in which state governments support interest groups that in turn lobby the federal government. Using both extensive interview materials and micro-level campaign finance data, it examines how the expansion of export agriculture has transformed politics in Mato Grosso, Brazil's largest soybean-producing state. Over the past decade, commercial farmers have greatly increased their investment in politics, forming new lobby groups and dominating both municipal and state elected offices. In addition, agrarian elites have used their new control over the state government to institute mechanisms for financing their interest groups. As governor, Blairo Maggi - Brazil's so-called King of Soy - created a system of mandatory contributions by all soybean farmers to a new state-level farmers' association, raising millions of dollars each year. Because this association's primary activity involves lobbying the national government for subsidies, this development raises interesting questions for the study of both federalism and corporatism. Building on the empirics of the case of Mato Grosso, this paper explores the theoretical and conceptual issues of subnational corporatism.


For color identifying of fingertips is vulnerable to environmental impacts. A hand contour extraction method and fingertip recognition method based on skeleton data was presented. Firstly, Microsoft Kinect camera obtain information on the human skeleton, converted three-dimensional information of hand skeleton point into two-dimension on RGB map, the position of hand was found quickly.Then, use OpenCV detection algorithm based on color palm information extraction regional palm from the background image. Finally, the robustness of the characteristics of poor focus distance method presents an improved factor Experimental results show that the method can detect the contour of straight and curved fingers successfully and it can be used in a dark environment.


Virtual SATCOM is wireless communication at SATCOM speed on a HF Skywave channel without a physical satellite. Why: DOD needs a SATCOM alternative to mitigate the space vehicle vulnerability. The ionosphere is an underutilized channel that can mitigate the risk. Our modeling has shown the ionosphere can be harnessed to communicate at long range (3000 km) and high speeds (>12 Mbps). Compared to SATCOM, current HF protocols are too slow. We are developing a Virtual SATCOM system. It is a high bandwidth HF communications channel that can match SATCOM throughput at a reduced cost and vulnerability. RF waves in the HF band (3-30 MHz) transmitted into the ionosphere are refracted (bent) back to earth thousands of kilometers down range. However, the ionosphere is an inhomogeneous, anisotropic, non-linear time-varying environment. Modern communications techniques can adjust to the dynamic environments. One area of our research is to provide evidence that this concept will work in the dynamic ionosphere environment. We needed a precision modeling tool of the ionosphere plasma with an iterative ray tracing simulation capability that shows channel paths from transmitter to receiver. We are using a tool called PHaRLAP to model the environment. PHaRLAP is an over the horizon radar (OTHR) program developed by the Australian Defense Science and Technology Group to analyze OTHR systems. We have modified the program to support wideband communications research. Our simulations show that an HF agile communication system can significantly improve throughput. The model ingests data from the International Reference Ionosphere to calculate the plasma grid. Our system will be able to service mobile users (e.g., maritime, expeditionary and aviation) using steerable beamforming apertures with ultra-wide bandwidth signals (3MHz). This is exciting research that can reduce cost and increase access to long range high data rate wireless communications.


The paper is about the impact of EV charging stations on the electric load of smart buildings, with particular attention to the energy communities. The paper shows the results of a case study presenting the sizing and profiling of charging systems for electric vehicles integrated into a smart grid under construction in the town of Campobasso, Italy. After having described and examined the main variables that characterize the system, the work focuses on the profiling of the electrical power absorbed by the building and the loads deriving from the charging stations of electric vehicles. The intensive use of software and databases available online has been essential for the analysis of the random and stochastic values of the model developed. 4 different scenarios are studied, varying according to the number of charging electric vehicles. These scenarios are analyzed for three different typical days of winter, summer, and mid-season. The different scenarios are compared qualitatively and quantitatively through the introduction of specific KPIs, which indicate the value of the power and the energy consumption of each specific asset, as can be seen in the results. Finally, various hypotheses are proposed regarding the integration of a storage system and the shifting of electric vehicles charges, for a more efficient energy exchange between the building and the network.


Objective:To investigate the relationship between the gene polymorphism of interleukin-10 (IL-10), and the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis(LN) and clinico-pathological characteristics in patients with LN,and to assess its role in the molecular diagnosis of LN. Methodology:DNA was extracted from 100 healthy volunteers and 246 patients with LN. PCR-RFLP was used to detect -592 A/C polymorphism in IL-10 gene promoter. The distribution of IL-10 genotypes was compared between healthy controls and LN patients to evaluate the relation of IL-10 with the susceptibility to LN, and among patients with LN-Ⅳ, Ⅴa, Ⅴb and Ⅱ to assess the role of IL-10 in diversified immuno-pathological lesions in LN. The clinico-pathological characteristics of LN patients with different IL-10 genotypes were analyzed. Serum IL-10 level of patients with different IL-10 genotypes was detected by ELISA method. Results:No significant difference was found in the distribution of IL-10 gene polymorphism between healthy controls and patients with LN. Patients with genotypes carrying allele C had higher DAI, severe proteinuria and hematuria, and higher frequency of glomerular thrombi than those with genotype AA. Patients with LN-Ⅳ had higher frequency of genotypes AC and CC, related to higher IL-10 production, than those with LN-Ⅱ and Ⅴa. The serum level of IL-10 in patients with three genotypes displayed a tendency of CC AC AA, which did not reach a statistical significance. Conclusion:The -592 A/C polymorphism in IL-10 gene was related to disease activity of SLE, and clinico-pathological injury of LN. Patients with genotypes carrying allele C, related to more IL-10 production, had higher risk of diffuse proliferative lesion. Our data indicate that the individual differences in responsiveness to IL-10 may influence the clinico-pathological characteristics of LN.


Objects of the operation.—This type of operation must not be confused with nerve-grafting, which one hopes will eventually become so successful that few, if any, cases of paralysis will remain uncured. It is essentially a palliative operation and, like a cock-up splint to a cut musculo-spiral, it serves as an internal grafted surgical splint to counteract the overaction of the opposing muscles. In addition to this surgical stay effect, the loops of fascia are now attached to muscles other than the facial, such as the temporal and masseter; and when these muscles are voluntarily contracted, a movement simulating facial expression is produced. . Emotional response is, of course, out of the question unless an intensive training is ever found to produce an associated movement.


Abstract The taxonomy of Anomobryum julaceum and allied species with axillary bulbils in Europe and Asia is reviewed. A. concinnatum is regarded as a distinct species, occurring in W. and C. Europe, SW., N. and C. Asia and N. America. A. bavaricum has often been confused with A. concinnatum, but differs in its more numerous, small, reddish bulbils and in leaf shape; it is known only from the European Alps. The Asian A. nitidum also has numerous small reddish bulbils but it differs from A. bavaricum in leaf shape and bulbil form. A lectotype is designated for A. nitidum, of which A. gemmigerum and other nominal taxa are regarded as synonyms. Information is presented on geographical ranges and habitats of the four valid species.


Abnormality of atlanto-axial joint in Down's syndrome has been recognized gradually. We operated upon two cases of os odontoideum with spinal cord compression. A fifteen-year-old girl with significant neurologic compromise was treated by posterior fusion of C1 to C2. But she died of pneumoria five months after surgery. Another case was a two-year-old girl with progressive neurologic deterioration. Posterior fusion of C1 to C2 was performed but fusion was not achieved. We operated again and solid fusion was obtained.On the basis of our experience, we emphasize that a routine X-ray check up and early diagnosis are important and rigid internal fixation and firm external fixation are also necessary.


The triggering and regulation of B lymphocytes is an(very)essential fact in immunology.
It's clarification would be of great help to the understanding of the mechanism of some dise-
ases especially those characterized by hyper-or hypo-function of B lymphocytes.In this review,
the modern concept of activation, proliferation and differentiation of human B lymphocytes
and their regulation is briefly introduced, which is obtained from studies in both polyclonal
activation system and antigeninduced aatigen-specif system.


A recently developed theory of the pressure broadening of microwave absorption lines resulting from transfer of rotational energy in molecular collisions has been applied to calculations of the linewidth of rotational absorption lines of a number of linear and symmetric‐top molecules broadened by collisions with linear molecules and inert‐gas atoms. In such cases, shorter‐range forces such as dipole–quadrupole, quadrupole–dipole, quadrupole–quadrupole, and dispersion interactions are important as well as dipole–dipole interaction. In general, the agreement between the theoretical calculations and previously reported measurements is quite satisfactory. The application of the experimental technique as a method for determining molecular electric quadrupole moments is analyzed, and values for the molecular quadrupole moments of OCS, N2O, NO, CO2, N2, and H2 are obtained from earlier data.


A self‐healing block in self‐organizing network consists of two modules, namely cell outage detection and cell outage compensation (COC). This chapter presents a data‐driven analytics framework for autonomous outage detection and coverage optimization in an LTE network that exploits the minimization of drive test functionality as specified by 3GPP in Release 10. The outage detection approach first learns a normal profile of the network behaviour by projecting the network measurements to a low‐dimensional space. For this purpose, the multi‐dimensional scaling method in conjunction with domain and density based detection models, one class support vector machine based detector and local outlier factor based detector, respectively, are examined for different network conditions. The low‐dimensional representation of network measurements facilitates data modelling and allows the anomaly detection algorithms to obtain a better estimation of data density. To optimize the coverage and capacity of the identified outage zone, a fuzzy based reinforcement learning algorithm for COC is proposed.


BACKGROUND
Current treatment regimens for inhalation injury are mainly supportive and rely on self-regeneration processes for recovery. Cell therapy with mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) is increasingly being investigated for the treatment of inhalation injury. Human amniotic MSCs (hAMSCs) were used in this study due to their potential use in inflammatory and fibrotic conditions of the lung. This study aimed at demonstrating that hAMSCs can be atomized with high viability, for the purpose of achieving a more uniform distribution of cells throughout the lung. Another aim of this study was to set ground for future application to healthy and diseased lungs by demonstrating that hAMSCs were able to survive after being sprayed onto substrates with different stiffness.

METHODS
Two methods of atomization were evaluated, and the LMA MAD780 device was selected for atomizing hAMSCs for optimized delivery. To mimic the stiffness of healthy and diseased lungs, gelatin gel (10% w/v) and tissue culture plastic were used as preliminary models. Poly-l-lysine (PLL) and collagen I coatings were used as substrates on which the hAMSCs were cultured after being sprayed.

RESULTS
The feasibility of atomizing hAMSCs was demonstrated with high cell viability (81 ± 3.1% and 79 ± 11.6% for cells sprayed onto plastic and gelatin, respectively, compared with 85 ± 4.8% for control/nonsprayed cells) that was unaffected by the different stiffness of substrates. The presence of the collagen I coating on which the sprayed cells were cultured yielded higher cell proliferation compared with both PLL and no coating. The morphology of sprayed cells was minimally compromised in the presence of the collagen I coating.

CONCLUSIONS
This study demonstrated that hAMSCs are able to survive after being sprayed onto substrates with different stiffness, especially in the presence of collagen I. Further studies may advance the effectiveness of cell therapy for lung regeneration.


We introduce and study a new combinatorial optimization problem, the Seismic Vessel Problem (SVP), that arose in an industrial application. SVP generalizes the Stacker Crane Problem. We suggest a transformation from SVP to the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem. We report our computational experience with solving SVP instances drawn from industrial practice (geophysical seismic acquisitions).


An in vitro test for the development of corneal opacity in response ocular irritants was first proposed by Muir (1984). This test required the clamping of a bovine cornea between two chambers filled with physiologic saline and measuring the transmittance of white light through the cornea using the voltage output of a photocell. This was followed by exposure of the epithelial surface of the cornea to a surfactant and subsequent measurement of light transmittance, with a decrease in transmittance due to development of corneal opacity interpreted as a toxic effect of the surfactant on the cornea.


To derive meaning from words has been in ancient China, one of the most fascinating topics in the literary circle, which has exerted great influence on the artistic flavor and poetical style of ancient Chinese literature. Beginning with a probe into the cause of discussion over the relation of words and meaning, this author has expounded the aesthetic value and the quality of a semantic features of the following phraseology: good book lies in what is left written; a good speech lies in what is left unsaid; implication lies between the lines. The purpose of the analysis is to apply the ancient Chinese literary theory to modern writing and bring such theory more in line with western linguistic philosophy.


In this paper the rare and precious tree species resources and their utilization actualities in Xiaojianchong Forest Farm, Shucheng County were elaborated. The causes for the scarcity of the rare and precious tree speices were analyzed and some directional modification and cultivation measures were put forward. The related benefit analysis and suggestions for their effective protection were made.


In combination with engineering practice, the fixed-point placing technology for breakwater pavement Accropodes is briefly introduced. By applying simple mathematical calculation method to placing technology, not only placing quality is guaranteed, but also construction speed is raised.


The Vega Baja region lays on the lower course of the Segura River (southeastern Spain). It is one of the six traditional "huerta" European landscapes and has an ancient, extensive, and complex network of irrigation and drainage channels. The accumulation of floating waste causes numerous economic, environmental, and landscape problems in its irrigation infrastructures, hindering farmers' water management practices. This work classifies and estimates the total volume of floating waste at various points along the Segura River and its irrigation channels as a first systematic approach to define and quantify the problem of floating waste accumulation. Aerial images taken by a drone were analyzed over time and a manual count of residues was performed on selected points. The results obtained show that reeds and residues of riparian vegetation represent more than 95% of the floating debris volume measured on the riverbed. Anthropogenic waste, which represents less than 5% of debris volume, was characterized, finding that plastics of domestic sources are the most abundant by count (14.9%) and only a reduced part of the floating waste can be attributed to agricultural activities (3.8%). Assessing the type and origin of the floating waste is essential to inform the actions required in order to avoid the floating waste reaching the Mediterranean Sea.