75 mice were kept as unirradiated controls (Table 1, Exp. 21). Two groups of 100 mice each were single dose irradiated as young and as young adult mice (Table 1, Exp. 22, 23) and two other similar groups were irradiated with fractionated dose starting at corresponding ages (Table 1, Exp, 24, 25). The animals were autopsied as soon as possible after their natural death. To get fresh preparations some animals were killed in a moribund state. The diagnosis of tumour was confirmed by histological examination.


This paper gives a general survey of activities on road safety education as carried out by organizations, institutions, and various social groups and people, outside the school system. At the same time it demonstrates the influence thereof on road safety education within schools, on parents and other educators, and on those engaged in research into educational methods. Finally, it shows how these activities are being developed in various countries throughout the motorized world. The paper is presented by Prevention Routiere Internationale (PRI), an international organization with representatives from 38 countries.


At present, with the continuous development of single object tracking(SOT) tracker, more and more SOT tracker are applied to multi-object tracking(MOT) tasks. However, in the traditional method of affinity computation, affinity model is used as the metric of Hungarian algorithm, which has the low discrimination rate of similar objects and leads to ID switch easily. In order to solve this problem, we propose a cost matrix optimization method based on spatial constraints under Hungarian algorithm. In the data association stage, Kalman filter is used to estimate the motion vector of the object, so that the current position of the object can be linearly predicted. The weight of the cost matrix is modified according to the spatial relationship between the estimated position and the detection results, which is used for the subsequent re-identification task. It is worth noting that the above methods do not need extra training and can be directly used in other multi-object tracking models. Our method has been evaluated on MOT16(46.7%), MOT17(49.7%), and achieved the effect of SOTA. The entire results can be found on MOTChallenge website1 .


Of the 20 million orphan and abandoned children1 in India, less than 1% grow up in child care institutions (CCI), as the State takes them into its care to implement their survival, protection and development or those children whose rights are violated within their existing family. On attaining age of 18, these wards of the State, who are Children in Need of Care and Protection (CNCP), are required to leave the care home and get mainstreamed into society. The task of planning the care and development of each CNCP child, from 6 to 23 years of age, should be tracked for skill development during the continuum of care and aftercare. The focus of the duty bearers, of the rights of the child and youth programmes in India, goes beyond providing food, shelter, education, health and to some extent skilling. With a lack of social context of living in a family, these youth do not learn to manage resources and negotiate relationships to strengthen their personal as well as social security.


Abstract : This Memorandum will try to draw some conclusions from the experience gained by the different implementations of modular compilation in Algol 68. This does not mean that is written only for the Algol 68 community. It is also produced for those working on new high level languages, notably Ada, in the hope that they may avoid some of the problems that have befallen the implementors of Algol 68.


Legal events, one of which is the death of a person, will cause legal consequences on how to follow up the management of the rights and obligations of someone who has died. Islam teaches a set of shari'ah laws regarding inheritance and will. The Medan Religious Court had determined the compulsory heir but it was sued by another heir. On the other hand, based on the Decision of the Supreme Court Number: 485K/Ag/2013, the plaintiff was declared as the compulsory heir and decided that the defendants were not. This certainly can lead to legal uncertainty. Regarding to this case, the author discusses the settlement of will in inheritance dispute because it raises several problems regarding the factor of inheritance dispute, settlement of inheritance dispute, and implementation of the will. The research in this thesis applies a normative juridical method which is an approach through legal research by examining the principles of law and law comparison. Based on the research results, the conclusion that can be drawn is that the factor causing inheritance dispute is the determination of inheritance to adopted child. Settlement of inheritance dispute, against the Decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia Number: 485K/Ag/2013, invalidates the determination of heirs and states that the Decision of the Religious Courts has no legal force. In addition, related to the settlement of the testament to the inheritance dispute against the Decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia Number: 485K/Ag/2013, the judge has determined to give a wasiyah waajibah (binding will) to the adopted child a maximum of 1/3 of the testator's inheritance.


In this paper, the sheet with hole for the finite element analysis, the location of maximum stress and maximum stress values are obtained under different load of edge of the hole, and the finite element analysis results compared with the classic Qi Erxi answers. This coincidence is not accidental, but it just shows their correctness. Therefore, we can use Qi Erxi answer when the calculation of the hole's edge stress concentration and the condition of the force and the boundary are simple; while the it is complex, the finite element analysis can be used.


SINGH M, MALHI Y & BHAGWAT SA. 2015. Aboveground biomass and tree diversity of riparian zones in an oil palm-dominated mixed landscape in Borneo. Logging, deforestation and oil palm plantations have increased forest fragmentation in Borneo. Given the extent of forest loss and logging, evaluating the ability of remnant forests, especially fragments and riparian buffers, to provide aboveground biomass (AGB) storage and retain tree biodiversity is essential. This paper examines the variation in AGB stocks and tree species richness of riparian buffers located in forests of different disturbance intensities situated at the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystem (SAFE) site in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Disturbance intensities ranged from pristine old growth forests to oil palm monocultures. The AGB of riparian buffers showed no significant variation between riparian buffers located in unlogged, once-logged and twice-logged forests but underwent sharp decline in heavily logged forests and oil palm (OP) plantations. However, riparian zones located within OP plantations exhibited significantly higher AGB than that of OP monoculture plantations. OP riparian buffers had the highest species richness although most were small, successional species. The retention of riparian buffers in OP plantations can yield AGB storage benefits while maintaining speciesrich assemblages of trees.


Purpose of Study: The research aims to produce a mobile-based system for decision making to choose majors for high school students.
Methodology: This type of research is development research using the Lee & Owens model and is validated by media experts and counseling teachers.
Main findings: This research resulted in a mobile application that combines three types of psychological tests, namely multiple intelligence, Riasec, and personality types, to facilitate students in determining their majors. The application has been validated by media experts and counseling guidance teachers.
Application of this study: The resulting mobile application can be used by counseling guidance teachers in grade XII high schools who are still having difficulty in determining college majors. Product trials were conducted at Wachid Hasjim High School Class XII with a research sample of 40 people.
Novelty/originality of this study: This application can speed up decision making and can be used to determine college majors.


Improvement of the environmental pressure of gas bearing can enhance the load capacity of dynamic gas bearing. This study analyzes the effect of environmental pressure on the dynamic characteristics of a bump foil gas aerodynamic bearing. Results show that an increase in the environmental pressure enhances the direct dynamic stiffness Kxx and Kyy and the direct dynamic damping Dxx and Dyy of gas film. The direct stiffness Kxx and Kyy and direct damping Dxx and Dyy of gas film increase with the increase of the environmental pressure of gas bearing. The load capacity of bearing is related to the direct stiffness of gas film. Therefore, the direct stiffness Kyy can be increased by increasing the environmental pressure of gas bearing, consequently improving the load capacity of the bearing.


Many fundamental studies have been carried out regarding waste water and hazardous gas treatment technology using the photolysis effect of . However, photolysis of both organic and organic-inorganic binders immobilizing makes permanent use impossible. In this study we manufactured a catalytic electrode by nickel- composite plating in order to immobilize . The surface properties according to the current density changes of cathode and concentration changes of powder in nickel plating bath has been analysed with EDX, XRF, SEM, Raman spectrometer etc. The characterization of the catalytic electrode in decomposition of organic compound has been obtained by using UV-Visible spectrophotometer through analysing concentration changes of methyl orange solution containing the catalytic electrode vs. time with projecting UV-light in the solution. The study shows that a catalytic electrode of nickel- composite plating with high-efficiency in decompostion of organic compound has been formed under high concentration of powder and low current density of cathode.


This paper proposes a new algorithm of digital audio watermarking based on the idea of SCS. This algorithm can design the embedding parameters constrained by performance of watermarking. The paper adds the watermarking on space domain and wavelet domain respectively, and compares its performance against the attack of additive noise ,MP3 compression and resample. Computer simulation proves that this algorithm is effective and stable.


Workshop proceedings A workshop entitled 'From measurement to profiles, phenomena and indices' was held in Milan in June 2005 at the 15th European Meeting on Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension. Since its foundation in 1998, the Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring of the European Society of Hypertension has held annual meetings devoted to blood pressure measurement and Blood Pressure Monitoring has published over 90 papers from these proceedings [1–92]. In addition, the Working Group has published a number of 'statement' papers directed towards practising doctors with the aim of improving the measurement of blood pressure in clinical practice [93–98]. These papers and those published in this issue reflect the underlying ethos of the Working Group, which is that accurate and informative measurement is mandatory for the diagnosis and management of hypertension and for research into hypertension. If the measurement of blood pressure is inaccurate, it follows that all other considerations, be they related to patient management or scientific enquiry, must be inappropriate and erroneous.


Rabinovich: "An Instrument for Calibrating and Tuning Waveguide Reflectometers' -Telecomm. & Radio Engng -Sep. 1973-pp. 40-43. Cronson, M. Harry, "A Six-Port Automatic Network Ana lyzer", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Tech niques vol. MTT-25, No. 12, (Dec. 1977). Hewlett-Packard Product Note 85610-13, "Measuring Non insertable Devices'HP 8510-13 Network Analyzer, Aug. 1, 1988. Ferrero, A. And Pisani, U., "The Port Network Analyzer Calibration Using an Unknown Thru", IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, vol. 2, No. 12, Dec. 1992, pp. 505-507. Froelich, R., "Measurement of GaAs FET Noise Param eters', Watkins-Johnson Co., vol. 13, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 86, pp. 2-11. Froelich, R., "Automated Tuning for Noise Parameter Mea surements. Using a Microwave Probe', Watkins-Johnson Co., Mar. 1989, pp. 83-96. Adamian, V., "Stable Source Aids Automated Noise-Param eter Measurements', The Time and Measurement Measure ment Notebook, Feb. 1988, pp. 51-58.


Creative Question-asking Ability(CQA) is a kind of intellectual trait or ability to produce or express new questions that are original, novel, and valuable, based on certain purposes, information and experiences. School education, family environment, and self factors influence the development of CQA of primary and middle school students. It can be cultivated by optimizing the developing environment, stimulating learning motivation, teaching question-asking methods, training thinking traits and offering accurate and timely feedback.


A trope for the mode of individual self-expression analogous of the regional character(s) of the American South in William Faulkner's short story, The Tall Men (1941), the rule of solus ipse corresponds to the state of individual in a fallen world of fears, anxieties, and uncertainties surmounted betwixt the World Wars. Binding Faulkner's characterization with his contemporaneous literary equivalents of the era, 'solipsism' appeared as an existential niche of the defying character of the modern individual. As an epitome of devastated American South in successive periods of Reconstruction, progressive era and Great Depression, Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha, thus, both maps and transgresses the boundaries of his Southern stories to the extent his characters trespass the border between the individual and collective experience. Due to his joint literary appeal for gathering the local color with internationalism, studies on Faulkner's writing have given utmost emphasis on his legacy in Modernist literature. This article aims to bring forth the defying character(s) of the American South in William Faulkner's short story, The Tall Men, whose rule of solus ipse grounds the inbred resistance against the grain of the demise imposed by the Reconstruction and its succeeding era of progressivism and the Great Depression in American history.


SUMMARY A protected linear polypeptide of 74 amino acids with the sequence of Escherichia coli 1 to 74 apo-acyl carrier protein (ACP) was synthesized by the automated solid phase method. The polypeptide was removed from the solid support and partially deprotected by treatment of the peptide-resin with hydrogen bromide and trifluoroacetic acid, and the product was purified by gel titration. The removal of protecting groups was completed by hydrogenation, and the prosthetic group, 4'-phosphopantetheine, was introduced enzymatically with holo-ACP synthetase. the product yielded a preparation in which 55 % of the protein in the purified fraction contained the prosthetic group. This synthetic 1 to 74 holo-ACP was as active as native holo-ACP in the malonyl pantetheine-CO2 exchange reaction which is dependent upon malonyl-coenzyme A-ACP transacylase and /3-ketoacyl-ACP synthetase.


The article examines the technical modernization of Siberian radio communications and broadcasting during the war period. Under the conditions of a large-scale evacuation of industrial facilities and the population to the Siberian region as well as the organization of new telephone and telegraph highways in the eastern direction wire telecommunications worked at the limit of its capabilities and could not cope with the load. In these conditions radio communication was often the only means of communication. Among the evacuated enterprises deployed on the territory of Siberia most of them were the enterprises of the radio industry. One of the main problems faced by the Siberian radio communications, in addition to the shortage of qualified personnel, was the lack of backup equipment, which the front desperately needed. Another difficulty was the restructuring of the radial telecommunication system which entailed the modernization of the transmitters of the main radio communication. In the conditions of an acute shortage of material resources for civil radio communications radio communication activities had to be seriously limited. In general, it was necessary to temporarily abandon the program of continuous radio coverage of the country developed in the pre-war period. First of all, the radio stations were set up at enterprises, city and rural streets and squares, in clubs, libraries, etc. At the same time, as far as possible, the park of radio points was expanded and the operability of radio centers was maintained. Thanks to the mobilization of internal reserves and measures of an administrativerepressive nature in Siberian radio communications it was possible to strengthen the material and technical basis. The industrial production of radio products (mainly for military purposes) was launched in Siberia. However, the quality level of radio communication was low. Since the main efforts were aimed at meeting the needs of the front and the liberated regions the total power of the Siberian radio network has not yet been able to match a large territory of the region and the average power of broadcast transmitters has also remained low. Development of broadcast networks was primarily happened in cities. So, a significant disproportion between the density of radio coverage in urban and rural areas preserved and increased.


Content-based phishing detection judges authenticity of the displayed Web page by extracting its features and comparing them with features of legal pages on internet. However, this method often judges a legal page illegal because of insufficient feature extraction. In this paper, we propose, implement, and evaluate two novel methods to improve the feature extraction, i.e., the site-keyword method analyzes not only the displayed page but also pages linked from it to extract more global features and the time-invariant-keyword method analyzes the past content of the displayed page to extract time-invariant features.


This review considers data regarding fundamental and applied investigations in human microbial ecology received over the last 15 years. Analysis of these data enabled the author to come to the conclusion that in natural habitats there are practically no metabolic processes or physiological functions of a living being that would not need a direct or indirect participation of symbiotic microbiota. The condition of the host microbial ecology should be considered one of the main biogenic factors that determine human health and disease. The author substantiates the necessity to create an international interdisciplinary programme 'Human microbial ecology: scientific and applied aspects', drawing widely on Russian scientists and other specialists for its realization. Some priority scientific and applied directions in the traditional, biochemical, molecular, evolutional, clinical microbial ecology, microecological toxicology as well biothechnological aspects of host microbial ecology are suggested. Their realization by an international association of scientists, clinicians and biotechnologists will allow accelerated working out and introduction of principally new microecological approaches for prophylaxis and treatment of many widely distributed diseases, as well utilization of the biotechnological potential of human normal microflora representatives in the microbial industry.


At present the diagnosis of melanoma is mainly performed based on the experience of each doctor. They need some objective measure for diagnosis of melanoma and nevus. But there are few researches on index for the diagnosis. This study deals with features of melanoma and nevus for computer diagnosis. First, we extracted the contour of lesions by image processing. One hundred five values of features were computed based on ABCD-rule. Discriminant analysis showed the accuracy of 96.0% (Specificity of 98.3% and the Sensitivity of 90.0%). The results obviously showed the difference between melanoma and nevus.


(57) Abstract: substances in pressurized propellant, in particular drug substance, the suspension i.e. liquid, filling device for injecting into the container, a filling system, and method. Said fill device comprises a-passage (20), a container valve shaft, extending from the head (141) of the body (139) of (138) (144) and the main body which conducts during use (4), the passage ( has a filling valve assembly (29) which is in conduction with the 20), selectively injecting propellant under pressure containing a substance in a suspension i.e. liquid therein, a filling actuator (7), - passage (20) and has a discharge valve assembly (48) in the conducting state, conducting selectively discharging the propellant under pressure containing a substance, a discharge actuator (10), - passage (20) in a state, receive a container (138) body (139) head (141) of the time use, and a container interlocking body (16), the container (138) is by a valve shaft (144), air Body (139) capable of selectively conducting the storage chamber (140) defined by comprising a metering chamber (143), the container interlocking body (16) is moved relative to the main body (4), Therefore, extended closed position to the valve shaft (144) of the container (138), suppressed the open position or alternatively by positioning among its intermediate position, in its intermediate position, the container metering chamber (138) (143) is It is closed to the atmosphere.


We consider the problem of ON-OFF privacy in which a user is interested in the latest message generated by one of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$ </tex-math></inline-formula> sources available at a server. The user has the choice to turn privacy ON or OFF depending on whether he wants to hide his interest at the time or not. The challenge of allowing the privacy to be toggled between ON and OFF is that the user's online behavior is correlated over time. Therefore, the user cannot simply ignore the privacy requirement when privacy is OFF. We represent the user's correlated requests by an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-state Markov chain. Our goal is to design ON-OFF privacy schemes with optimal download rate that ensure privacy for past and future requests. We devise a polynomial-time algorithm to construct an ON-OFF privacy scheme. Moreover, we present an upper bound on the achievable rate. We show that the proposed scheme is optimal and the upper bound is tight for some special families of Markov chains. We also give an implicit characterization of the optimal achievable rate as a linear programming (LP).


Hardbound. Contributions to the History of Occupational and Environmental Prevention not only contains most of the presentations from the First International Conference but also includes invited papers of high scientific relevance to enrich and complete the content of this book.Both this publication and the conference are major outcomes of a joint collaboration between Clinica del Lavoro of the Milan University and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) of Rome that implemented the International Network for the History of Occupational and Environmental Prevention (INHOEP), including the most active monodisciplinary segment of occupational health: that is the Scientific Committee of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH).This book is subdivided into seven chapters giving a rich insight into the history of occupational and environmental prevention: 1. Occupational and environmental health


Scanning the retinae of the human eyes with a laser beam is an approved diagnosis method in ophthalmology; moreover the retinal blood vessels form a biometric modality for identifying persons. Medical applied Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopes (SLOs) usually contain galvanometric mirror systems to move the laser spot with a defined speed across the retina. Hence, the load of laser radiation is uniformly distributed and eye safety requirements can be easily complied. Micro machined mirrors also known as Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are interesting alternatives for designing retina scanning systems. In particular double-resonant MEMS are well suited for mass fabrication at low cost. However, their Lissajous-shaped scanning figure requires a particular analysis and specific measures to meet the requirements for a Class 1 laser device, i.e. eye-safe operation. The scanning laser spot causes a non-uniform pulsing radiation load hitting the retinal elements within the field of view (FoV). The relevant laser safety standards define a smallest considerable element for eye-related impacts to be a point source that is visible with an angle of maximum 1.5 mrad. For non-uniform pulsing expositions onto retinal elements the standard requires to consider all particular impacts, i.e. single pulses, pulse sequences in certain time intervals and cumulated laser radiation loads. As it may be expected, a Lissajous scanning figure causes the most critical radiation loads at its edges and borders. Depending on the applied power the laser has to be switched off here to avoid any retinal injury.


This paper aimed to determine the extent of practice of the soft skills of student interns along the dimensions, namely: collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, leadership, and selfregulation. Specifically, this paper purposed to ascertain significant differences in the extent of practice of the soft skills of student interns along the aforementioned dimensions and when they were grouped according to sex, program, and campus. Furthermore, the challenges that the student interns encountered in the acquisition of soft skills were also identified. The respondents were the 345 student interns of Carlos Hilado Memorial State College enrolled during the School Year 2018-2019. Employing the descriptivecomparative research design, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to gather data about the soft skills of the respondents. Mean, Independent Samples t-test, One-Way ANOVA, and frequency were used to gather data. The findings reveal that the extent of practice of the six soft skills among student interns when they were taken as a whole was high. There was no significant difference in the extent of practice of the six soft skills when they were classified according to sex. However, there was a significant difference in the extent of practice of the six soft skills when they were classified according to campus and college. The top five challenges that the student interns encountered in the acquisition of soft skills were lack of selfconfidence, fear of committing mistakes, fear of being laughed at, being anxious about others' impressions or reactions, and lack of confidence in their knowledge or abilities.


Graph algorithms demonstration on graphs can be created by the user with multiple algorithm descriptor tools on a graphical interface.


Abstract Samples of hypnotically susceptible individuals and simuIator-controle were asked to perform 2 objectionable acts: cutting up the American flag and mutilating B Bible. 25% of all Se declined to carry out one or the other of the experimental taska. While no conclumom can be drawn about the power of hypnosie to induce objectionable behavior, the findings appear to indicate clearly that objectionable behavior, as opposed to dangerous, criminnl, or anthocial behaviors, can be used to test the coercive power of hypnosis.


Provided is a method for determining if a device on a pre-existing CMOS integrated circuit is a p-channel device or an n-channel device. The method comprises etching the contact etch stop layer (CESL) which occurs at different rates on the two different CESL types thus allowing the device type to be determined by examining how much non-etched material is left.


In this study, we report the production of β˝-Al 2 O 3 solid electrolyte by using Seydisehir α-Al 2 O 3 . Alumina has to be low grain-sized to ensure α-β phase transformation. Therefore, grain refining process was applied to high grain sized Seydisehir alumina by jetmill grinding. Seydisehir alumina was calcined at 1200 0 C for 2 hours. After calcination, calcined Al 2 O 3 and Na 2 CO 3 were mixed during 2 hours in the mill. The samples were pressed and sintered to obtain β˝-Al 2 O 3 . β˝-Al 2 O 3 was obtained after sintering at 1550°C for 1 hour. Due to the formation of β˝-Al 2 O 3 , it is observed that dielectric properties increased.


This paper gave a briefly introduction to the Bellini Vicenezo's life and his creative inclination and focused on the research and analysis about the opera Norma,it tried to summarize his expressional skills and characteristic for describing the thespian character-Norma in terms of vocal style structure,musical structure,counterpoint,accompaniment,vocal skills.


Changing demographics and characteristics of biomedical engineering undergraduate and graduate students demand adaptation in BME programs that aim to be successful in the new millennium. Demographically, the total number of college-aged students is declining or holding steady, depending on data source, while the number of students enrolling in BME is increasing. For science and engineering as a whole, the percentage of Caucasians and Asians choosing to major in science and engineering is holding steady or declining while the percentage of African Americans, Hispanic, and native Americans choosing science and engineering is increasing. Similarly, while the number of males earning degrees in science and engineering is relatively steady, the number of females earning such degrees is increasing. Of all engineering programs, biomedical engineering has the greatest proportion of women students. In addition to demographic changes, characteristics of student populations in engineering programs are changing. Engineering students and their parents are more informed consumers of educational offerings and have increasing expectations of a BME program. Disturbingly, engineering students are more likely to cheat than their peers in other majors and the percentage of those cheating is increasing. These many factors present challenges that must be addressed by BME programs wishing to be at the forefront of education in the new millennium. This talk includes a more detailed presentation of demographic and student characteristic trends followed by discussion of several strategies to attract and retain the increasing pool of women and minority students in BME programs without sacrificing quality or discouraging other student populations. Some of the issues to be discussed include faculty diversity, recognition of barriers and challenges, student survival tools, equity in the classroom, and deterrence of cheating.


In this paper we examine the operating performance of non-US firms that enter major US stock exchanges using American Depositary Receipt (ADR) programs. Our dataset consists of 108 capital-raising and non-capital-raising firms from twenty four countries, cross-listed on major US stock exchanges during the period 1994-2004. We provide evidence that capital-raising cross-listed firms experience improvements in their operating performance after the listing, relative to a non-cross-listed matched sample of firms and relative to the pre-listing period, whereas non-capital-raising cross-listed firms out-perform a non-cross-listed matched sample of firms for both the pre-listing and the post-listing periods. These results suggest that the type of ADR program conveys information about changes in the post-listing operating performance. Moreover, both capital-raising and non-capital-raising cross-listed firms have positive abnormal returns due to the cross-listing and these abnormal returns are positively related with the post-listing abnormal changes in operating performance, suggesting that the market anticipates the post-listing abnormal changes in operating performance. Results are robust after adjusting for various firm and country risk characteristics. Copyright (c) 2009 The Authors Journal compilation (c) 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.


The resonator method was used to excite a microwave current in a superconducting tin film. The hysteresis of the critical current was studied to determine the relaxation time of the order parameter.(AIP)


Three rumen cannulated goats were used to investigate the effect of NaOH and NH3 treatment (2.74%DM} at ensiling on digestion, nitrogen utilization and in situ protein degradation of low moisture alfalfa silage, Wilted alfalfa was sprayed with water (control), NaOH or NHs solution, and fed to goats after 6 months storage in a 3× 3 Latin square design. Both alkali treatments increased the pH value, NH3-N and butyric acid of the silage, but NH3-treated silage preserved as much amino acids as control silage. The two alkali treatments could not improve digestibilities of fibrous components (NDF, ADF and cellulose), and NaOH addition significantly reduced the digestibility of crude protein. The NaOH treat-


7058 Background: IM 400 mg daily is the front-line treatment of CP CML, but provides only 50% major molecular responses (MMR) at 18 months (Mo). We designed a phase III randomized multicenter open-label prospective trial comparing IM 400 mg/d (n=159) with 3 experimental arms: IM 600 mg/d (n=160), IM 400 mg/d + s/c cytarabine (Ara-C), (20 mg/m2/d, d15-28 of 28-day cycles) (n=158) and IM 400 mg/d + s/c Peg-IFN2a (90 μg/wk) (n=159). Pts were allocated at a 22.214.171.124 ratio, stratified by Sokal risk groups. Molecular assessments were centralized and blinded. An interim analysis of 636 pts was planned based on an IS BCR-ABL/ABL ratio <0.01% (Optimal Molecular Response, OMR) at 1 year (α=0.85%, β=10%).

RESULTS
636 pts were recruited between 9/2003 and 10/2007, median age 51 (18-78) yrs, 62% males, median follow-up for alive pts 36 (12-62) Mo. At 3 Mo, 88% of pts achieved complete hematologic response. Complete cytogenetic response (CCyR), MMR and OMR rates are presented (Table). MMR rates at 6 and 12 Mo were higher for IM-PegIFN as compared to IM-400 (p<10-3). At 18 Mo the cumulative OMR rates were 22% (IM-400), 28% (IM-600), 25% (IM-Ara-c), 43% (IM-PegIFN). Grade 3/4 neutropenia and/or thrombocytopenia occurred during the first year in 8% IM-400, 14% IM-600, 41% IM-Ara-C and 40% IM-PegIFN arms respectively. Grade 3/4 non-hematological toxicities occurred in 19% IM-400 (edemas, muscle cramps), 30% IM-600, 27% IM-Ara-C (diarrhea) and 31% IM-PegIFN pts (skin rashes, asthenia). Within the first 12 Mo, discontinuation of experimental treatment occurred in 8% IM-600, 39% Ara-C and 45% PegIFN pts.

CONCLUSIONS
Although a significant number of pts reduced or stopped PegIFN within the first year, significant improvements in molecular response rates were observed in the IM-Peg IFN arm and may translate into survival benefit. [Table: see text] [Table: see text].


Shipping companies are one of the parties that are vulnerable to becoming victims of default in a charter party agreement, thus in practice shipping companies as carriers always apply clauses of retention rights and sell cargo clauses in their charter party agreement. This research is a follow-up to earlier research that has discovered that charterers often commit acts of default, where this research focuses on legal protection for shipping companies in the event of default by charterers. This research is qualitative research using normative juridical research methods based on laws and case approach. A Charter party agreement is a legal relationship between the carrier and the charterer where the carrier binds himself to organize the transportation, nn the other hand the charterer binds himself to make payments. By the act of default committed by Bintang Sarana Laut, Co. Ltd. (charterer), Bendera Bahtera Kemenangan, Co. Ltd. (carrier) can terminate the agreement unilaterally without prejudice to their rights to demand reimbursement of costs, compensation, and interest. The law also gives the rights to Bendera Bahtera Kemenangan, Co. Ltd. to request guarantee before the cargo is delivered to Bintang Sarana Laut, Co. Ltd. But if Bintang Sarana Laut, Co. Ltd. doesn't wish to provide any guarantee, Bendera Bahtera Kemenangan, Co. Ltd. can store the cargo and may file a lawsuit against Bintang Sarana Laut, Co. Ltd. and make a request to the court to give power for Bendera Bahtera Kemenangan, Co. Ltd. to sell the cargo as payment for charter and storgae fees. The method used by Bendera Bahtera Kemenangan, Co. Ltd. in resolving the default disputes in the charter party agreement is through a consensus deliberation mechanism.


clustering in data mining is a supreme step towards organizing data into some meaningful patterns. It plays an extremely crucial role in the entire KDD process also as categorizing data is one of the most rudimentary steps in knowledge discovery. Clustering is used for creating partitions or clusters of similar objects. It is an unsupervised learning task used for exploratory data analysis to find some unrevealed patterns which are present in data but cannot be categorized clearly. Sets of data can be designated or grouped together based on some common characteristics and termed clusters, the implementation steps involved in cluster analysis are essentially dependent upon the primary task of keeping objects with in a cluster more closer than objects belonging to other groups or clusters. Depending on the data and expected cluster characteristics there are different types of clustering algorithms. In the very recent times many new algorithms have emerged which aim towards bridging the different approaches towards clustering and merging different clustering algorithms given the requirement of handling sequential, high dimensional data with multiple relationships in many applications across a broad spectrum. The paper aims to survey, study, and analyze few clustering algorithms and provides a comprehensive comparison of their efficiency on some common grounds.


Optimization is the most essential criteria in the structural design process. In the composite structure design process one must deal with many design variables such as number of layers, plate thickness and orientation of laminate. In this paper an overview on the optimization of stacking sequences in the polymer matrix composite material (PMC) from the latest literature is illustrated. Occurrence of damage by low velocity impact in polymer matrix composites are detected by using various detection methods is briefly described. In damage detection, the image segmentation techniques will be useful for the future researches. The purpose of this work is to do a literature study and finding the significant research gap by comparison of various optimization methods and damage detection methods.


Graphene has many advantages that make it an attractive two-dimensional (2D) support for heterogeneous catalysts. It not only allows the high loading of targeted catalytic species, but also facilitates the mass transfer during the reaction processes. These advantages, along with its unique physical and chemical properties, endow graphene great potential as catalyst support in heterogeneous catalysis.


In 1999 Alfonso de Senillosa, Spanish entrepreneur, after finishing his studies in the United States, decided to create Workcenter SGD. The company was born on the basis of following the same idea and services that Kinko's® created successfully in the United States, with nearly 1,300 retail stores devoted to reprographic services. Nevertheless, in four years the company went far ahead of the original idea, developing new technologies that helped manage the growth, control operations, and reduce costs. By 2005 the company had grown up to 20 stores all over Spain and Senillosa was celebrating his 38 th birthday while deciding his next step in the company's future leveraging on the technology and operations already designed.


According to the problems of cold waterlogged paddyfi eld, such as low temperature in soil, and lacking supply in soil available phosphorus at early growth period of early rice, the experiments studied the effects of different phosphorus application methods(spreading application, centralized application, combined application with activator, and combined application of organic phosphorus fertilizer and inorganic phosphorus fertilizer) on soil nutrition supply and rice yield, and discussed the way to improving utilization rate of phosphorus fertilizer. The results showed that the yield of early rice can be increased signifi cantly by applying phosphorus fertilizer in cold waterlogged paddyfi eld; in comparison with conventional spreading application of NPK fertilizers, the methods that combined application of organic phosphorus fertilizer and inorganic phosphorus fertilizer, centralized application of phosphorus fertilizer, and combined application with activator effectively increased the contents of aluminum phosphate salt and calcium phosphate salt and the number of aerobic bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes, enhanced utilization rate of phosphorus fertilizer. Thus, those methods were the optimal phosphorus application methods for improving cold waterlogged paddyfi eld and increasing yield of early rice.


A co-precipitation method was developed to separate and pre-concentrate Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) ions using an organic co-precipitant, chrysin without adding any carrier element termed as carrier element-free co-precipitation (CEFC). Analytes were determined using flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). The influence of analytical conditions, such as pH of the solution, quantity of co-precipitant, standing time, centrifugation rate and time, sample volume, and interference of concomitant ions were investigated over the recovery yields of the trace metals. The limit of detection, the limit of quantification and linearity range obtained from the FAAS measurements were found to be in the range of 0.64 to 0.86 µg L–1, 2.13 to 2.86 μg L–1 and 0.9972 to 0.9989 for Ni(II), Cu(III) and Zn(II) ions, respectively. The precision of the method, evaluated as the relative standard deviation (RSD) obtained after analyzing a series of 10 replicates, was between 2.6% to 3.9% for the trace metal ions. The proposed procedure was applied and validated by analyzing river water reference material for trace metals (SLRS-5) and spiking trace metal ions in some water samples. The recoveries of the analyte metal ions were between 94.7-101.2%. © 2015, Malaysian Society of Analytical Sciences. All rights reserved.
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This paper presents a computer aided approach to the design of fixed and floating end plates in gear pumps. Account is taken of the relative tilt of the plates and gears and of the hydrodynamically and hydrostatically generated pressures between the gears and end plate. Criteria for achieving load and moment balance are outlined and the effects of cavitation discussed. It is shown that the approach leads to an understanding of the behaviour of wear plates and enables the effect of changes in plate design to be assessed.


We present new near-infrared J and K imaging data for 67 galaxies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) survey used in the determination of the SFR density of the local Universe by Gallego et al. This is a sample of local star-forming galaxies with redshift lower than 0.045, and they constitute a representative subsample of the galaxies in the complete UCM survey. From the new data, complemented with our own Gunn−r images and long-slit optical spectroscopy, we have measured integrated K-band luminosities, r−J and J−K colours, and Hα luminosities and equivalent widths. Using a maximum likelihood estimator and a complete set of evolutionary synthesis models, these observations allow us to estimate the strength of the current (or most recent) burst of star formation, its age, the star formation rate and the total stellar mass of the galaxies. An average galaxy in the sample has a stellar mass of 5×10^10 M_⊙ and is undergoing (or has recently completed) a burst of star formation involving about 2 per cent of its total stellar mass. We identify two separate classes of star-forming galaxies in the UCM sample: low-luminosity, high-excitation galaxies (HII-like) and relatively luminous spiral galaxies (starburst disk−like). The former show higher specific star formation rates (SFRs per unit mass) and burst strengths, and lower stellar masses than the latter. With regard to their specific star formation rates, the UCM galaxies are intermediate objects between normal quiescent spirals and the most extreme H II galaxies.


The problem is to considerer a parabolic equation depending on a coefficient a (t), and find the solution of the equation and the coefficient. The objective
is to solve the problem as an application of the inverse moment problem. An
approximate solution and limits will be found for the error of the estimated
solution using the techniques of inverse problem moments. In addition, the
method is illustrated with several examples.


In this paper we study the qualitative properties of a mild solution of the problem Cauchy problem for the heat equation. We prove that every mild Cauchy problem is a slowly varying at infinity function. The result is applied to study solutions of the Neumann problem for the heat equation.


Some prop sals by Clark and Terrell for multiple working models that may apply to the Lapila cultural complex are examined in the light of existing evidence and their defects set out in relation to the presumed state of each of the ten variables used to construct the models . Another model in which the state for each of eleven variables seems plausible given current evidence is then proposed. It is concluded that additional and probably more com plex models arc required to further an understanding of this cultural complex but their for mulation and testing require data not available at present.


The effect of dietary lipid on brain mitochondrial fatty acid pattern was examined by feeding pregnant Sprague Dawley rats with diets containing 10(C), 2(D-2), 0.5% (D-0.5) of corn oil. At birth one half of the control fed 0.5% diet (D-0.5B) and at weaning, D-0.5% rats were rehabilitated(D-0.5 R) with the control diet. Throughout the experimental period, body and brain weights and total protein content of brain were determined, and the brains were analyzed for mitochondrial fatty acid pattern. Body and brain weights of the deficient groups were a little higher than that of the control group during the lactation period. After weaning, however their increasing tendency slowed down and the significant difference disappeared. Furthermore, at 6 and 7 weeks of age D-0.5 group rats were significantly (P to , which may be a good indicator of lipid deficiency, showed significant differences between the control and the deficient groups. These observations, therefore, provide an evidence that the alteration of dietary lipid can affect the fatty acid composition and functions of brain mitochondria.


Employment has always been a source of worry among university graduates. The unemployment rate is possibly the most well-known labour market indicator and certainly one of the most regularly mentioned by the media in many countries, as it is thought to best reflect the lack of employment at the national level. In nations that collect data on the labour force, it gives the broadest measure of the labour market situation, along with the employment to population. A quantitative survey was conducted to scrutinize how halal science graduates could get themselves employed in the halal food sector. The survey questionnaires were designed and targeted at those who venture into the halal food business. The study resulted that the halal food producer may gain the lowest and highest monthly income of less than five hundred and more than five thousand respectively. Thus, with the good marketability of halal food and resources, there is a vast opportunity for these halal graduates to venture into businesses selling halal food as they can implement all knowledge; they gained in their halal science studies at the University.


The sequences of two regions flanking the 5'D1 domain of 28S rRNA of 13 vertebrate species were determined by direct rRNA sequencing through reverse transcriptase extension of DNA primers. Comparative treatment of these new data and previously reported rRNA sequences was undertaken with special reference to phylogenetic affinity of Amphibia by using some programs of Felsenstein's PHYLIP 3.3 package. The results obtained suggest that Amphibia is rather a biphyletic than a monophyletic group, and that birds and mammals are the closest relevant. These data were compared with those obtained on Vertebrata by using an analogous comparative analysis of 18S rRNA sequences.


The trend for increased data rates and mobility in broadband wireless communication systems requires that systems be designed to operate with high spectral efficiency in wideband channels. Such requirements make OFDM an attractive transmission technology due to the fact it exploits the computational efficiency associated with frequency domain equalisation. This has lead to the analysis of the applicability of such techniques to existing systems (1)(2). In particular, the 3GPP-UMTS system, where HSDPA offers a significant increase in performance by using multi-code W-CDMA transmission, is considered herein. This paper proposes a computationally efficient solution that performs equalisation and despreading using frequency domain processing, enabling the same equaliser to be used for both OFDM and W-CDMA. The solution is thus particularly applicable to devices that support fixed-mobile convergence where multi-mode support of these two transmission techniques is likely to be required. A complexity analysis is included and performance is verified though simulation.


Urban wastewater treatment concessionary project requires that investments of the project must be recovered by the final consumer charging.Therefore,how to determine prices of sewage treatment service is the core element of the concession business.In this paper,the pricing principles of urban sewage treatment concessionary project were proposed by the analysis of sewage treatment concessionary goals.By applying the relevant principles of microeconomics,the marginal cost pricing,average cost pricing,two-parts pricing were compared and researched.It points out that two-parts pricing method is in line with the principles of effective pricing and workable ways.


Justander was in order the third Demonstrator in Botany (1789–1794) at Abo Akademi. The main duty of demonstrators were to instruct medical students on the subject of medicinal plants. Justanders personal history is not well known. He defended to both Carl Niclas Hellenius and Pehr Adrian Gadd one theses, and supervised one himself, in order to obtain a docentship at Abo Akademi. In that one new species, Festuca obliqua, and its four varietes are described as new. These validly published names have completely been overlooked. All material was probably lost at the Great Fire of Abo in 1827.


Chronic inflammatory disorders of the nasal and oral cavities can result from a variety of external and internal causes such as infections, chemical exposures, traumatic injuries or surgery, cancer, medications or radiation therapy. The impact of these conditions on chemosensation has been characterized to varying degrees, and these chemosensory losses can be severe and long-lasting. In spite of the adverse impact on the patients, our understanding of the specific mechanisms underlying inflammation-associated chemosensory loss is limited, and therapeutic options are few and often are ineffective or only transiently effective. The lack of consistent diagnostic tools and criteria for defining these disorders has presented a challenge to researchers attempting to understand the chemosensory impact of inflammation. However, new insights into inflammatory pathways and tools to examine their activity in chemosensory tissues provide an opportunity for identifying targets for new therapeutic approaches. This symposium brought together researchers with diverse perspectives to present the current views, new findings and approaches, and highlight needs for further research in this area.

Pathophysiological studies of nasal and oral disorders
Welge-Lussen reviewed the clinical cases of olfactory and taste disorders1. The severity of olfactory disorders ranges from reduced olfactory functions to permanent anosmia. Most of these olfactory disorders are caused by nasal inflammation, particularly the sinonasal disorders (SND). Nasal infection, upper respiratory tract infection and allergic response can lead to different types of SND: acute rhinitis, hyposmia, anosmia or allergic rhinitis. It seems that these olfactory defects are not just due to nasal congestion but rather are attributable to the altered olfactory epithelium. Understanding how the alteration initiates and progresses will provide molecular and cellular bases for diagnosis and treatment of these nasal disorders.


Geometric activities are a great way for children, especially those in elementary school, to enter into the mathematical world. To handle, discover, invent, recognize, and identify progressively geometric forms, the child is required to play in space and time with multiple tools and material in order to create new and representative forms. The results obtained have high performance and it helps the teacher to achieve some objectives in all domain of learning, and in particular in the acquisition of transversal skills such as writing and reading. Our suggestions set out ways of improving the objectives set in relation to the undeniable importance of the use of geometric shapes in the practice of graphic art in elementary schools.


This essay examines the phenomenon of the return of transnational adoptees to Korea, as represented in the popular media. I argue that television shows and films melodramatize adoptees' narratives to produce new narratives that promote the idea of a globalized South. The essay contexualizes this process of melodramatization within Hallyu, a contemporary renaissance in Korean arts and entertainment.


To analyze the causes leading to high exhaust pressure and low economic efficiency of a 600 MW steam turbine due to non-uniform flow field distribution existing at exit of the exhaust passage,numerical simulation was conducted to the exhaust passage with double back-pressure condensers,and subsequently a reasonable scheme to improve the flow field distribution was proposed by installing guide devices into the exhaust passage.Simulation results show that the problem caused by specific structure of the exhaust hood,steam exhaust from boiler feed pump turbine and the existence of low-pressure heater can be solved by reasonably installing guide devices into the exhaust passage,after which the total pressure loss coefficient will be increased by only 0.5%-2.5%,but the static pressure recovery coefficient will be increased by6.4%-8.8%,while the uniformity coefficient will be raised by 10.4%-13.4%.


AquaticHealth.net is an online intelligence system dedicated to tracking and forecasting aquatic animal disease outbreaks. It scans the internet on a regular basis for opensource content (such as news articles, journal articles, and tweets from Twitter) related to aquatic animal health. It also allows anyone to manually submit content. The system automatically detects location information in the content so that it can be plotted on a Google Map and tags it with useful key terms. All users can browse content and generate reports and maps by search terms, filtered date ranges, tags, locations, etc., and receive RSS feeds and email updates. Authenticated users can tag, edit, and classify all reports; and they can add and refine the search terms that the system uses to find content. AquaticHealth.net also includes a wiki-blog devoted to emerging issues in aquatic animal health. Authenticated users can edit and update blog entries on diseases and other topics related to aquatic animal health. The result is an online intelligence system for aquatic animal health that is social at almost every level, and provides real-time and relevant information to decision-makers in a practical, efficient and timely manner.


In the last few decades, significant progress has been made in the field of Process Control and instrumentation and offers a unique controller named CRONE, which is a noninteger controller to ascertaining the solution of the system under various model uncertainties. This paper proposed to analyzes the performance of CRONE controllers for a mechanical domain of Active Suspension System. To avoid vibration and providing a comfortable vehicle should design the active suspension system using CRONE controllers. The work reveals the design and implementation of CRONE controllers for a Mechanical Active Suspension System (MASS). The mathematical modeling of the transfer function for MASS is analytically derived and analyzed performance is obtained by MAT lab Simulink. The simulation results of the servo response for the CRONE controller are recorded. The Third Generation of CRONE (TGC) controller performance is analyzed in terms of error indices and time-domain parameters. In addition to that, the conventional ZN-PID controller is designed and compared with the TGC controller. Hence it is concluded that the performance of the TGC controller proves superiority over the ZN-PID controller.


In this study, we measured the low-temperature resistivity of amorphous two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) indium-zinc oxide, indium-gallium-zinc oxide, and indium-tin-zinc oxide films with a wide range of carrier densities. To determine their critical characteristics at the metal-insulator transition (MIT), we used the Ioffe–Regel criterion. We found that the MIT occurs in a narrow range between kFl = 0.13 and kFl = 0.25, where kF and l are the Fermi wave number and electron mean free path, respectively. For films in the insulating region, we analyzed ρ(T) using a procedure proposed by Zabrodskii and Zinov'eva. This analysis confirmed the occurrence of Mott and Efros–Shklovskii (ES) variable-range hopping. The materials studied show crossover behavior from exp(TMott/T)1/4 or exp(TMott/T)1/3 for Mott hopping conduction to exp(TES/T)1/2 for ES hopping conduction with decreasing temperature. For both 2D and 3D materials, we found that the relationship between TMott and TES satisfies TES ∝ TMott2/3.


Abstract : This report documents a one-year effort in which some of the results of an earlier research and development project were prepared for implementation at a Recruit Training Command. This project concerned computer-based instruction for recruit company commanders in the affective and communication skills areas. In an ongoing continuation of this effort, the more complete preparation, implementation, and evaluation of these capabilities are underway. The programs involved the use of a stand-alone computer-based system for evaluating and training company commanders and for obtaining information needed for managing Recruit Training Command operations in general. In accomplishing these functions, the computer controlled the operation of a video tape player and a card reader in addition to some more traditional components of a computer-based training system. A new computer language was developed especially for facilitating the transfer of some programs previously prepared in PLATO IV coding to a form compatible with the current computer system.


An archaeological survey report of the proposed site of Timber Creek Trail in Lewisville, Texas, performed to determine whether any historic resources were located on the proposed construction sites.


This chapter foregrounds alternative approaches to Canadian Arctic Cinemas, identifying and examining practices and aesthetics that emphasize the hybridized, situated, and local. The chapter highlights some of the most distinctive aspects of Canadian Arctic filmmaking traditions: the innovative use of technological forms, multiple and varied distribution practices, a continual return to processes of historical re-enactment, variegated documentary film practices, and the rise of Arctic Indigenous filmmaking. In alignment with many contemporary Canadian film historiographies, the chapter emphasizes the central importance of narrowcast, multimedia, documentary, video arts, and expanded cinema to the nation's work, which is quite distinct from many aspects of American and European cinematic traditions and practices. The Arctic cinematic/moving image traditions and practices considered include participatory and documentary filmmaking, Inuit television, Indigenous filmmaking collectives such as Isuma and Arnait, le cinéma vécu, the re-release of archival works as acts of repatriation, multiscreen and expanded cinemas, and IMAX.


The paper aimed at establishing an experimental system for RACK1 gene function study and providing the intermidiate material for further studying the RACK1 gene function in rice.Util-izing over-expression technology,the RACK1 gene cloned from leaves of rice was inserted directly into the plant intermediate expression vector pCAMBIA1301,from which an over-expression fusion gene and a plant expression vector pCAMBIA1301/R were constructed.Genetic transform-ation to rice was mediated by EHA105.Transgenic assays were performed using GUS report,PCR and Southern Blotting.Result showed that the over-expression fusion RACK1 gene had been integrated into rice genome.


This article examines the forms of cooperation between Public Entities and no profit organizations, focusing on the difference among the previous legislation and the latest Code of the Third Sector. In particular, such study fosuses on the legal tools of programming, co-planning and accreditation.


This paper introduced the CCM mould hydraulic oscillation and its application in Angang,and analysed the defect of surface quality with the primary oscillating parameters. We look measurements to optimize the hydraulic oscillating parameters in practice, greatly improving the slab surface quality and decreasing the rejection of cross surface crack and cross comer crack .


Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are one of the main representatives of cyber-physical systems (CPS), where the digital data generated in several forms, such as geolocation, distance, and camera data, are used for the physical functionality of the vehicles. The utility of these data, especially camera data for computer vision projects, has contributed to the advancement of high-performance cyber-physical applications. However, location inference attacks, which involve extracting knowledge from camera data to track and estimate user locations are potential privacy threats to AV-generated camera data. In this paper, we propose LIFT (Location InFerence aTtack), a robust geo-localisation technique to exploit subjects' location privacy in a distorted GAN-based (Generative Adversarial Network) camera dataset. LIFT improves image matching of distorted query images by formulating a distinctive image nearest neighbour selection with the scale-invariant feature technique (SIFT) for feature detection and optimised pairwise clustering technique. We evaluate the performance of LIFT on the 200k Google street-view data as the reference data and 500 distorted image data (using the data generated from the Auto-Driving GAN technique) as test query data. We show that the localisation accuracy of LIFT outperforms the benchmark techniques by 20%.


The algorithmic small-world phenomenon, empirically established by Milgram's letter forwarding experiments from the 60s, was theoretically explained by Kleinberg in 2000. However, from today's perspective his model has several severe shortcomings that limit the applicability to real-world networks. In order to give a more convincing explanation of the algorithmic small-world phenomenon, we study decentralized greedy routing in a more flexible random graph model (geometric inhomogeneous random graphs) which overcomes all previous shortcomings. Apart from exhibiting good properties in theory, it has also been extensively experimentally validated that this model reasonably captures real-world networks. In this model, the greedy routing protocol is purely distributed as each vertex only needs to know information about its direct neighbors. We prove that it succeeds with constant probability, and in case of success almost surely finds an almost shortest path of length Θ(log log n), where our bound is tight including the leading constant. Moreover, we study natural local patching methods which augment greedy routing by backtracking and which do not require any global knowledge. We show that such methods can ensure success probability 1 in an asymptotically tight number of steps. These results also address the question of Krioukov et al. whether there are efficient local routing protocols for the internet graph. There were promising experimental studies, but the question remained unsolved theoretically. Our results give for the first time a rigorous and analytical affirmative answer.


The first-principles calculations and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used to explore the effects of boron nitride (BN) doping and an external electric field on the diffusion of gases...


Semiconductor structure comprising: a substrate (10); one or a plurality of in the substrate (10) provided in trenches (15a-d); and a conductor track (30) having a first terminal (A1) at a first end and a second terminal (A2) at a second end, wherein the conductor (30) is folded in such a way in or the grooves (15a-d) that their length within a respective groove (15a-d) is at least twice the depth grave, characterized in that is provided by a highly doped well in the substrate (10) (70), in which the trenches (15a-d) and the conductor track (30) are embedded.


Crushed agricultural limestone is used extensively throughout New Zealand to raise the pH of the country's largely acidic soils. The materials used are quarried from areas of varying mineralogy and levels of purity and are measured in calcium carbonate neutralizing equivalence, which must be greater than 65%. About half of the agricultural limestone used in New Zealand is applied by aircraft due to the terrain of the pasture land in production. The flow properties of limestone are of interest, as a number of accidents have occurred as a result of the limestone failing to discharge from the hoppers of the aircraft applying it. A copy of the Carr-Walker annular shear cell was used to measure the strength characteristics of crushed agricultural limestones from New Zealand. Measurements were also made on samples of the same materials using a Schulze RST-XS 200 mL tester, and the results were compared. Five limestones were tested and multipoint loci were produced, from which four point powder flow functions were obtained. In addition, wall yield loci were compared, and hopper opening and half angle were calculated to compare the design differences resulting from the yield loci of each shear cell. The results from the Carr-Walker cell were less conservative for cohesive materials than those obtained from the Schulze cell, which performed more closely to the Jenike shear cell. These results are consistent with earlier findings that the Jenike shear cell did not offer design criteria that provided agreement with engineering practice for some materials.


Summary In response to the stress of serial bleeding, ether exposure, or physical restraint, serum TSH was depressed more quickly and to a greater extent in young than in old male rats. These results suggest that the hypothalamo-hypophy-seal mechanisms which mediate inhibition of TSH release are less sensitive in old than in young male rats.


Photoluminescence (PL) effects have never been observed on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) due to their complex structures. Here, a nanocomposite film composed of 6.5 wt% multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and PEEK polymer was prepared and the individualization of MWNTs was achieved. PL effects were observed from this nanocomposite film which cannot be ascribed solely to either PEEK or MWNTs, but are likely be an unusual property of the nanocomposite generated from its unique composite structure.


The transfer component of a machine translation (MT) system typically comprises three aspects, namely the transfer structure used to transfer source into target structures, the (set of) transfer rules and the transfer process, which interpretes the set of transfer rules to derive the target from the source structure. The transfer structure can be formally considered as a term and the set of transfer rules as a term-rewrite system, which is terminating if a well-founded ordering on the terms can be deened, but not connuent. Most of the interpreters of rewrite systems require both termination and connuence. This paper is concerned with the transfer process and presents a well-founded ordering on the terms representing the transfer structures and an algorithm for the interpretation of terminating and non-connuent rewrite systems, which is used within the transfer component of the MT system of the project KIT-FAST 1 at the Technical University of Berlin. The other aspects concerning the transfer component will be dealt with in Weisweber 89b].


Transit (also known as public transport) is often advocated as a good alternative to private automobiles for satisfying the transportation needs of urban commuters. Transit systems are characterized as attractive solutions to alleviate the current environmental issues without constraining peoples mobility (Schiller, Bruun, and Kenworthy 2010, Miller 2014). The expectations from transit systems to be accessible, affordable and safe often led to a high degree of government regulation of transit systems in many parts of the world. However, these regulations often caused severe financial problems for these systems, primarily because the costs of providing such high level of service were not fully recovered by the fare revenues collected by the transit operators (Vuchic 2005). This situation raises the question of what would happen if a transit system were to place more emphasis on the profitability (or loss reduction) objective. In this paper, we introduce a versatile mathematical modeling and algorithmic framework that allows transit operators to explore the impacts of incorporating the profit maximization objective into their capacity planning and pricing decisions. Given that driving (and subsequent parking) of personal vehicles is a major alternative to using transit in many cities, especially for daily commuting needs, our approach consists of a game-theoretic model of the interactions between the decisions of transit and parking operators. Under this approach, transit operator and parking operator are both modeled as decision-makers whose optimal decisions depend on each others decisions.


Dear Editor, Erosive osteoarthritis (EOA) is generally considered an uncommon subset of osteoarthritis (OA), targeting interphalangeal (IP) joints and characterized by an abrupt onset, marked pain, functional impairment, inflammatory symptoms and signs, including stiffness, soft tissue swelling, erythema, paraesthesiae and a worse clinical outcome than non-erosive OA of the hand (HOA). Laboratory tests are usually negative, despite clinical findings of inflammation, even though a slight increase of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and high sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP), although at low degree, are noticeable. Furthermore, in a previous study, we showed the absence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP), in blood samples of a group of EOA patients. Erosive osteoarthritis is defined radiographically by subchondral erosion, cortical destruction and subsequent reparative change, which may include bony ankylosis. Moreover, in the early stages of this disease, the differential diagnosis between EOA and other arthritis types, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriatic arthritis (PsA), may pose a challenge. Rheumatoid factor (RF) is a family of autoantibodies that recognizes the Fc part of IgG molecules and exists as IgA, IgG and IgM isotypes. The present study is aimed at detecting for the first time the prevalence of sera IgA, IgG and IgM RF in patients affected by EOA, compared to patients with nodal osteoarthritis (NOA), RA and healthy subjects. HOA diagnosis was made according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for HOA. EOA and NOA were defined by European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations. RA is defined by the ACR criteria. Thirty-two consecutive patients with EOA (five men and 27 women, median age 59.2 years, range 49–75), attending the outpatient Rheumatology Unit of Siena Hospital, were enrolled in the study. Each patient showed the common EOA radiographic findings. The control group included 30 patients affected by NOA, 32 RA patients and 30 healthy subjects, sexand age-matched. For all the studied subjects, co-morbidities such as infections, cancer, renal and liver diseases, cryoglobulinemia, scleroderma, Sjogren syndrome, autoimmune thyroiditis, PsA, undifferentiated spondyloarthropathies, gout and pseudogout, were excluded. After informed consent was obtained, serum samples were stored at )20 C until tested to anti-CCP antibodies and IgA, IgG and IgM RF. Anti-CCP antibodies were tested by FEIA technique, by using EliA system (Phadia Diagnostics, Freiburg, Germany); IgA, IgG and IgM RF were assessed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) commercial kits (Orgentec Diagnostica, Mainz, Germany). We considered positive every IgA, IgG and IgM RF > 20 U/mL. All EOA patients, NOA patients and healthy controls were negative for anti-CCP, IgA-RF, IgG-RF and IgM-RF. In the RA group, 77% of the patients were found to be positive for anti-CCP, 35% for IgM and IgG RF and 52% for IgA RF. Although a relationship between EOA and RA was first suggested by Ehrlich, there have been few studies concerning the serological tests for RF in EOA. In our study the detection and quantitative measurement of RF in various immunoglobulin classes (IgA, IgG and IgM) was performed using ELISA, for its specificity and sensitivity. Using this technique, in the literature we found that the majority (up to 70–80%) of RA patients presented an increase of two or three RF isotypes. Our study suggests that the combined detection of the three isotypes of RF and of anti-CCP antibodies may be helpful in the differential diagnosis between EOA and RA, especially in equivocal cases. The absence of the three isotypes of RF and of antiCCP antibodies in the serum of the EOA patients International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases 2011; 14: e49–e50


We wish to comment on the recent article by Pacheco et al.1 Based on the WOMAN trial findings,2 Pacheco et al recommend tranexamic acid (TXA) for treating postpartum hemorrhage. In the context of postpartum hemorrhage burden, we acknowledge that the WOMAN trial findings are of major clinical interest. However, key issues regarding the trial's methodology and main findings cast doubt about using TXA for all cases of established postpartum hemorrhage worldwide. Firstly, the majority of patients were recruited in lowor mid-income countries with high maternal mortality rates. The high death rates from hemorrhage in the TXA and placebo groups (1.5% and 1.9%, respectively) may be due to the lack of massive transfusion protocols and hemostatic-guided resuscitation at study sites. Because death rates from hemorrhage are substantially lower in the United States3 and other developed countries,4 we question the external validity of the trial's main findings. Secondly, key data were not reported, including: types of blood components transfused (plasma, platelets), presence and extent of coagulopathy (including hyperfibrinolysis), injury severity, and time to cessation of hemorrhage. Therefore, one cannot determine the contribution of TXA to survival benefit. Thirdly, from a mechanistic standpoint, it is unclear whether hyperfibrinolysis is a key causative or contributory factor for life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage. The Kruithof et al study5 was cited as recent evidence linking activation of the fibrinolytic pathway to severe hemorrhage.1 However, this study examined lytic parameters in only 10 postpartum women who delivered 30 years ago,5 and relations between these parameters with blood loss were not reported. The lack of between-group differences in transfusion use reported in theWOMAN trial raises questions about howTXA,mechanistically, induces a survival benefit. What is urgently needed are obstetric studies to examine the incidence, timing, and extent of hyperfibrinolysis among women with postpartum hemorrhage and efficacy studies to determine whether current TXA regimens attenuate blood loss and hemorrhagerelated morbidity. Lastly, TXA is not a magic bullet to fix or resolve postpartum hemorrhage etiologies, such as uterine atony. Therefore, TXA is not a true treatment but an adjunct, which should neither replace nor substitute key aspects of postpartum hemorrhage management, including: uterotonic therapy and medical and surgical interventions.


Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) is a story of a young man, Goldmund, who wanders around aimlessly throughout medieval Germany after leaving catholic monastery school in search of 'the meaning of life.' Goldmund is learning important things by plunging into experiences. The ways of learning about life employed by an artist contrasts with that of a thinker, Narcissus. The philosophical analysis of characters' chapter-wise development in this novel and the importance of events for describing human development pattern delineates how Hermann Hesse, 'a writer of man's interior' presents his hero undertake self exploration within himself and into the world he lives. This book proclaims that Hesse's thinking alludes to the interior of an individual journey than the exterior of it. His views provide a deep revelation about all the aspect of human life.


In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that is robust against the effects of objects that are relatively unaffected by camera motion and can accurately detect camera motion even in high resolution images. First, for more accurate camera motion detection, a global motion filter based on entropy of a motion vector is used to distinguish the background and the object. A block matching algorithm is used to find exact motion vectors. In addition, a matched filter with the angle of the ideal motion vector of each block is used. Motion vectors including 4 kinds of diagonal direction, zoom in, and zoom out are added additionally. The experiment shows that the precision, recall, and accuracy of camera motion detection compared to the recent results is improved by 12.5%, 8.6% and 9.5%, respectively.


Objective and Method:To assess the correlation between degree of left ventricular(LV) concentric hypertrophy and systolic function. Results:There was curve correlation between systolic function(FS corrected by heart rate) and degree of left ventricular concentric hypertrophy(ratio of LV mass to cavity volume, LVM/LVCV). The curve correlation equation was:^y=-31.139 x 2+146.192 x 1-130 43. When LVM/LVCV ratio was 2.35, FS corrected by heart rate reached its maximum: 41.63. Conclusions:In the early stage of LV concentric hypertrophy, the LV systolic function enhanced, however when LV concentric hypertrophy was developed to a certain degree,the decompensation of LV systolic function ensued.


An optical computer has been constructed employing an artificial intelligence, early vision, processing technique to perform precision horizon location in scanning horizon sensors. It is well known that the second derivative of the horizon signal crosses zero at the point of maximum slope and is thus an optimum point to minimize instrument errors. In contrast to conventional techniques the Bulls EyeTM Locator performs the double differentiation optically, thus circumventing most of the noise limitations imposed by electronic differentiation and analog/digital signal processing. Differentiation is implemented spatially by subtracting the signals from an inner circular and an outer annular field of view (FOV). The result is a method of horizon location which is insensitive to scan speed and crossing angle variations, along with inherently rejecting radiance errors. Optimization of on-orbit performance is reviewed in detail. Several embodiments of the locator are discussed, including a proprietary single-element pyroelectric detector. Technical implications are explored, specifically, our development of an extremely low cost, high accuracy, wide dynamic range family of horizon sensing instruments.


INTRODUCTION: Bone and joint infections, including osteomyelitis and septic arthritis, are often difficult to treat and require prolonged courses of antimicrobial therapy in association with surgical drainage or debridement. Delayed or ineffective treatment of these orthopedic infections, due to their poor vascularity, causes significant morbidity in terms of pain, loss of function with need for further surgery and antibiotics. Most of these infections are caused by Gram-positive cocci including Staphylococcus spp. and enterococci, increasingly resistant to commonly used antibiotics such as methicillin and other β-lactam agents 1 .


Making top-down human pose estimation method present both good performance and high efficiency is appealing. Mask RCNN can largely improve the efficiency by conducting person detection and pose estimation in a single framework, as the features provided by the backbone are able to be shared by the two tasks. However, the performance is not as good as traditional two-stage methods. In this paper, we aim to largely advance the human pose estimation results of Mask-RCNN and still keep the efficiency. Specifically, we make improvements on the whole process of pose estimation, which contains feature extraction and keypoint detection. The part of feature extraction is ensured to get enough and valuable information of pose. Then, we introduce a Global Context Module into the keypoints detection branch to enlarge the receptive field, as it is crucial to successful human pose estimation. On the COCO val2017 set, our model using the ResNet-50 backbone achieves an AP of 68.1, which is 2.6 higher than Mask RCNN (AP of 65.5). Compared to the classic two-stage top-down method SimpleBaseline, our model largely narrows the performance gap (68.1 APkp vs. 68.9 APkp) with a much faster inference speed (77 ms vs. 168 ms), demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method. Code is available at: https://github.com/lingl_space/maskrcnn_keypoint_refined.


The Challenge of Terrorism In 2002, the International Council on Human Rights Policy published a report entitled Human Rights After September 11 , based on an international seminar of distinguished human-rights scholars and practitioners (International Council on Human Rights Policy, hereafter ICHRP, 2002). The title implied that human rights after 9/11 were different from human rights before 9/11. How could that be? Human rights are commonly thought to be 'timeless', because they are grounded in 'the dignity and worth of the human person'. However, they have a history. After the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the struggle for human rights took place in a world dominated by the Cold War and the consequences of decolonization. The period from the mid-1980s to 2001 witnessed a surge of human-rights optimism, as many countries made the transition from authoritarianism to democracy. There were human-rights disasters in this period, such as the Rwandan genocide and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, but, overall, the idea of human rights moved from the margins to the centre of international politics. The events of 9/11 seemed to bring an abrupt change. The dominant terms of political discourse became 'terrorism', 'security' and 'war'. It is true that 'terrorism' was represented as a threat to Western values, including human rights, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq toppled two regimes that had been massive human-rights violators. Nevertheless, human-rights activists have generally believed that the 'war on terrorism' has created new challenges for their cause.


Campbell & Fung ( Psychiatric Bulletin , January 2007, 31 , 10-13) highlighted some important deficiencies in safety of patient interview rooms. We conducted a similar audit of 119 interview rooms in southern Hampshire in 2004, which was a repeat of an earlier study by local trainees in 2000. We


The problem of this study was to investigate how good and poor comprehenders utilize passage structure and task instructions to acquire information from a prose passage. To give a more detailed picture of what type of information processing occurred during reading, both verbatim and paraphrase items were used to assess comprehension.There were two strong but nonsignificant patterns in the data for task instructions. Poor readers were sensitive to both attribute and relation instructions. Good readers, however, were not affected by attribute instructions, but were sensitive to relation instructions. The results for good readers tentatively suggest that they encode attributes as a natural part of reading, but only encode relationships when they are specifically instructed to do so. Based on these results, three observations were made. First, good readers appear not to be easily affected by text organization, but poor readers may be aided in comprehension by slight improvements in the organization of the text. Second, all students need more assistance and practice in drawing inferences from the text. Third, written instructions may be a weak aid for increasing the comprehension of poor readers and may help good readers attend to information they would normally miss.


In liquid machines, nuclei are newly produced each time before cavitation starts and there are two different causes for the production: one is flow separation and the other is contact motion between solid surfaces. This chapter experimentally demonstrates such cavitation inception with a concrete example of an oil hydraulic poppet valve in which both flow separation and solid contact are supposed to occur.


For a universal Coxeter system (W,S) and a realization, we give a topological formula for the local intersection forms Iw,x, where w is a reduced expression and x is an element of W . This formula is given in terms of the generalized Cartan matrix determined by the realization. For this purpose, we calculate compositions modulo lower terms of degree zero Libedinsky's light leaves. In fields k of characteristic p > 0, ranks of local intersection forms over k are used to define the p-canonical basis of the Hecke algebra. Furthermore, these numbers govern the direct sum decomposition of Soergel bimodules over k.


Objective To study allogenic tendon transplantation to reconstruct interarticular ligament by dual beam ligament scilicet for anteromedial beam (AM) and posterolateral beam (PL) to re-establish anterior cruciate ligament(ACL), to achieve the condition that can restore or re-establish the ligament with the power of vitodynamics articular genu curvature movement is equilibrate and when the joint is convolution it can stabilize it. Methods 67 cases were undergone ACL reconstruction using allogenic tendon. Through elliptic tunnel on the side of condyles of femur, using transversalis nail fix method that Arthrax company provided, and through double tunnel tibia to reconstruct ACL for AM and PL with crushing nail. Results 67 cases were followed-up for 12~36(18.4±3.8) months. Before operation Lysholm score was 34.47±1.5, after operation 3 months it was 78.35±3.4, 6 months it was 81.88±3.3, 12 months it was 87.76±2.1, 18 months it was 89.70±3.5. These cases that have arthrodial cartilage injury influence the Lysholm score of after operation. Conclusions Allogenic tendon can achieve the requirement of ligament recipient site, dual beam ACL re-establish consistent with 4 connecting rod curvature biologic motor pattern of ligament of knee joint, gyratus stability is good. Operative procedure is simple, and effect is good.


Seminal plasma proteins (SPP) are fundamental for oocyte fertilization by sperm
 cells. In bovine, the structure and function of SPP have been widely described in
 several studies, where the spermadhesin family has been highlighted. Spermadhesin
 proteins are closely related to sperm motility and viability along with protecting the
 sperm cells against oxidative stress. Spermadhesin-1, also known as acidic Seminal Fluid
 Proteins (aSFP), exhibits a redox activity that protects the sperm cells from reactive
 oxygen species (ROS), an important feature that could be taken in advantage to improve
 the postthaw seminal quality of sperm cells after cryopreservation processes. Therefore,
 the aim of this research was to produce heterologous aSFP using Escherichia coli as a
 cell factory. For this purpose, the DNA sequence of aSFP was inserted into a pDAss
 plasmid, containing a six-histidine tag (6xhis). The obtained construct was used to
 transform BL21 (DE3) E. coli competent cells. The expression trials were developed at
 three different temperatures (37°,25°, and 16°C) and two different concentrations of
 Isopropyl-β-D-1-thiogalactopiranoside (IPTG) as the expression inductor (0.5 y 1.0 mM).
 The aSFP-H6 produced was purified by affinity chromatography, and the peptide sequence
 was verified through mass spectrometry. Results evidenced the best conditions for the
 recombinant aSFP-H6 production (16°C and 1.0 mM of IPTG). In this sense, the viability
 and the conditions to produce heterologous bovine aSFP were described and could be
 further used to enhance cryopreservation bovine sperm mediums.


Retinoic acid, the progenitor of retinoids, was tested in 1960's by Gunter Stüttgen and Rudolf Baer who discovered its beneficial effects in disorders of keratinization.[1] Subsequently, retinoids have been found to be very useful in the treatment of acne, especially as they affect both keratinocytes and sebocytes. Topical retinoids act primarily on the keratinocytes and they do so by binding with specific receptors in the nucleus. [2] There are two types of receptors – retinoic acid receptors (RAR's) and retinoic X receptors (RXR's), each of which has three subtypes: alpha, beta, and gamma. RAR gamma is the most ubiquitous RAR in the human skin and is thought to be the main mediator of retinoid effects on keratinocytes. Adapalene and tazarotene are receptor selective retinoids, whereas tretinoin and isotretinoin are nonselective.[2]


To derive a generic approach for accurate localization and characterization of susceptibility markers in MRI, compatible with many common types of pulse sequences, sampling trajectories, and acceleration methods.


ABSTRACT Satirical news and its effects on outcomes such as appreciation and persuasion have gained considerable currency as a topic of research in mass communication studies. Through the framework of construal level theory, we investigated whether different levels of spatial distance influence these effects. In a between-subjects experiment, participants in the United Kingdom (UK; n = 282) and New Zealand (NZ; n = 370) read a satirical or non-satirical news text summarizing a study reporting on the negative impact of increased digital device screen time on young children. Depending on condition, the texts referred to entities and locations in either the participant's own country (spatially close) or a foreign country (spatially distant). Results showed significant main effects of satirical news on audience perceptions, emotions, and attitudes. While there were no significant interactions between article type (satirical vs. regular news) and spatial distance (close vs. distant), our results indicated that satirical news was associated with higher perceptions of spatial distance for both the UK and NZ participants as well as higher perceptions of social distance for the NZ participants. Exploratory indirect-effects analyses found several indirect effects of satirical news through increased perceptions of spatial and social psychological distance on audience emotions, text perceptions, and attitudes. We take these results as initial evidence suggesting spatial and social distance are potential variables to consider in future investigations of satirical news.


Introduction: To investigate the effect of minimally invasive percutaneous plate osteosynthesis for treatment of proximal humerus fractures in osteoporotic patients with philos plate. Methods: A prospective study was conducted at Department of Orthopedics, M.M.Medical College, Mullana Ambala, from July 2005 to November 2010. A Total of 108 cases of proximal humerus fractures were treated with minimally invasive percutaneous plate osteosynthesis with philos plate. According to Neer classification, 89 cases had two part fractures, 19 had tree part fractures . Results: All the 108 cases were followed up ranging from 12 to 18 months with an average of 14 months. Radio graphically, union was observed in 92 patients at the end of 10 weeks. In 10 patients, times to union were 16 weeks. Six patients underwent autogenous bone grafting because of nonunion after 16 weeks. The mean Constant-Murley score was 86 (range 74-92). The functional results of the shoulder, according to Muley scores, were classified as excellent in 85.15% cases, good in 9.25% cases and fair in 5.55 cases. Conclusion: Minimally invasive percutaneous plate osteosynthesis for treatment of proximal humerus fractures in osteoporotic patients with philos plate shows good results and less complication. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol. 12 No. 02 April'13 Page 140-145 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v12i2.14941


Objective To study the clinical effect and safety of Itraconazole for the treatment of pulmonary fungal infection.Methods Totally 61cases of pulmonary infection patients were randomly divided into the treatment group 30 cases and the control group 31 cases.The control group was given Fluconazol,The treatment group was given Itraconazole.Then the clinical data and the treatment course were retrospectively analyzed.Results After treatment,the treatment group total effective rate was 73.3%,the control group,total effective rate was 51.6%.The difference was statisticully significant(P0.05).Conclusions Itraconazole treating pulmonary fungal infection was safe and effective.


1. A method (100) creating a solder joint (58) between the anode plate (52) and a piece of graphite (56) X-ray tube (38), said method (100) comprising: - receiving (102), anode plate (52) and graphite piece (56); - placing (104, 106, 108) barrier layer (66) having a thickness of about 2/1000 inch, and a layer (62) of solder having a thickness in the range of 4/1000 to 6/1000 inch between the anode plate (52) and a piece of graphite (56), a barrier layer (66) between the graphite piece (56) and a layer (62) solder heat u (110) barrier layer (66) with a layer (62) to create a solder between the anode plate (52) and a piece of graphite (56) is a brazed joint (58) .2. The method (100) according to Claim. 1, wherein the anode plate (52) and / or a piece of graphite (56) are annular on forme.3. The method (100) according to Claim. 1, wherein the anode plate (52) includes a substrate (53) from a molybdenum alloy such as an alloy of titanium, zirconium and molybdenum (TZM) .4. The method (100) of claim. 3, wherein the anode plate (52) further includes a focal track (54) built into a substrate (53), the focal track (54) formed of material which are struck into it electronically beam (46) generates X-rays (84) such as volfram.5. . A method (100) according to claim 1, wherein the accommodation (104, 106, 108) includes sebya- applying (104) a barrier layer (66) on a piece of graphite (56); applying (106) a layer (62) of the solder to the barrier layer (66) and positioning (108) the anode plate (52) on the layer (62) pripoya.6. The method (100) of claim. 5, wherein the barrier layer (66) is applied to the graphite piece (56) using one of the physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or electrolytic pokrytiya.7. The method (100) according to Claim. 1, wherein the barrier layer (66) and a layer (62) placed between the respective solder anode plate surfaces (52) and the graphite piece (56) for soldering them to one drugomu.8. The method (100) according to Claim. 1, wherein the barrier layer (66) is a material with the


Most of the data available for the toxicity of fumigants are for adult insects but some of the immature stages are more difficult to kill. Consequently immature stages may survive although all the adults are killed, and the pest population may reappear after an apparently successful fumigation. The question must always be asked, especially in the tropics, whether these are survivors of the fumigation or invaders that have spread from other produce, but it is seldom possible to answer it with confidence. In any event, the development of a population in a parcel of produce is very similar whatever the source of the insects, except that the immature stages that survive the fumigation will emerge as virgin adults. Laboratory experiments with poisons usually provide data from which probit regression lines relating mortality to dosage can be calculated. The value of the LD50 is the standard basis for comparing poisons and is the value generally quoted for each fumigant and insect species. It is most frequently determined with samples of 100 insects or fewer