This study examines the place names shown on the 1:200,000 topographic map of the Lenin Peak area, located in southern Kyrgyzstan. A total of 125 place names were researched and divided into five distinct categories: names related to physical characteristics such as topography (77), names related to flora and fauna (23), names related to colour (17), names after people (13), and names with other meanings (44). The study argues that place names can be an important ecotourism resource for the area in question. Furthermore, this study includes nine place names that are not shown on the map but are regarded as potentially important for tourists. Developing ecotours using the place names may lead to an enhanced experience for tourists visiting the area.


We evaluate and compare the modal noise impacts in silica-based multimode fibers (MMFs) and plastic optical fibers (POFs) with same core diameters of 50-μm. In this experiment, we show that POFs fundamentally have higher tolerance to offset connection and lower modal noise than MMFs in terms of error-vector magnitude and speckle pattern.


The education of art is a special course, about which there is no definite criteria. Based on individuality, it is a quality-oriented education about harmonious self-development. The pattern of compound art education involves an attempt to alter present teaching content and teaching methods,so as to explore a new pattern which goes along with the world-wide trend of innovation and adjusts to china's social development.


Hyperspectral band selection (BS) is an effective means to avoid the Hughes phenomenon and heavy computational burden in hyperspectral image processing. However, most of the existing BS methods fail to fully consider the interaction between spectral bands and cannot comprehensively consider the representativeness and redundancy of the selected band subset. To solve these problems, we propose an unsupervised effective band attention reconstruction framework for band selection (EBARec-BS) in this article. The framework utilizes the EBARec network to learn the representativeness of each band to the original band set and measures the redundancy between the bands by calculating the distance of each unselected band to the selected band subset. Subsequently, by designing an adaptive weight to balance the influence of the representativeness metric and redundancy metric on the band evaluation, a final band scoring function is obtained to select a band subset that well represents the original hyperspectral image and has low redundancy. Experiments on three well-known hyperspectral data sets indicate that compared with the existing BS methods, the proposed EBARec-BS is robust to noise bands and can effectively select the band subset with higher classification accuracy and less redundant information.


The theatre of Peter Handke is exceptionally self-conscious, not simply in terms of the self-referentiality which is so common among modern playwrights, but in its overall assertion of itself as a self-sufficient entity. In its persistent characterization of itself as something apart from the elements of reality, dependent upon no references outside of itself, the theatre of Peter Handke is the culmination of the modern dramatist's concern with his own art. The remark which Beckett made of Joyce's work may be appropriately applied to that of Handke: "it is not about something; it is that something itself. ."1 The challenge of finding a form of "pure" fiction has been articulated in the theoretical writings of Gustave Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, and Oscar Wilde,2 among many others. And it has been implemented no more successfully perhaps than in Beckett's The Lost Ones. As Raymond Federman points out, that short novel attempts to be "the perfect voiceless fiction, which sets out to free itself of all connections with creator, narrator, voice, teller. . . ." It "establishes its own rules of order and chaos" and presents a form which, relieved of its mimetic function, is "free to create new meanings."3 One would think that in drama the fact of physical presence would make the challenge of creating a self-sufficient world even more difficult, but Handke has succeeded in creating just such an illusion in The Ride Across Lake Constance. In an essay entitled "The Film and the Theatre: The Misery of Comparison," Handke points to the nearly automatic need we have to compare: ... I see, outside in the street, wo streetsweepers cleaning the sidewalk with huge brooms. Both have orange and white striped


The author of this work, based on her own investigations of AxMO2 cathode materials (A=Li, Na; M=3d), has demonstrated that the electronic structure of these materials plays an important role in the electrochemical intercalation process. The proposed electronic model of intercalation [1-3] is universal and has outstanding significance with regard to tailoring the properties of electrode materials to the most efficient application in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.

The paper reveals correlation between electronic structure, transport, and electrochemical properties of layered LixCoO2, NaxCoO2 and LixNi1-y-zCoyMnzO2 cathode material and explains of apparently different character of the discharge/charge curve in LixCoO2 (monotonous curve) and NaxCoO2 systems (step-like curve). Comprehensive experimental studies of physicochemical properties of LixNi1-y-zCoyMnzO2 cathode material (XRD, electrical conductivity, thermoelectric power) are supported by electronic structure calculations performed using the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method with the coherent potential approximation (KKR-CPA) to account for chemical disorder. It is found that even small O defects (~1%) may significantly modify DOS characteristics via formation of extra broad peaks inside the former gap leading to its substantial reduction. Furthermore, the variations of the electromotive force of the Li/Li+/LixNi1-y-zCoyMnzO2 cell (for 0 < x < 1) remains in quite good agreement with the relative variation of EF on DOS calculated from the KKR-CPA method.


PurposeThe purpose of this study is to measure perceived service quality in local airlines in Turkey with the help of a survey that benefits from SERVQUAL by using a multicriteria decision making method. MethodologyTherefore, we evaluate three local airlines in Turkey in the context of perceived service quality and try to determine the best airline among them. We measure the perceived service quality in airlines with an interval type-2 fuzzy multi-criteria decision making method that aims to make unclear statements, which derives from decision makers, more meaningful. We apply a SERVQUAL based survey on consumers who experienced an airline service quality. FindingsConsidering the data obtained from surveys, we determine perception scores of decision makers through the factors that affects airlines service quality by using an interval type-2 fuzzy multi-criteria decision method. ConclusionConsequently, we determine the airline with the best service quality among three local airlines.


The authors have measured the low-temperature (0.02<T<10K) electronic conductivity, magnetoresistance and Hall constant in thin (20-200 nm) bismuth films. The aim was to study weak localisation, spin-orbit and electron-electron interaction mechanisms in this well suited material. The authors compared their data with theories of Hikami et al. (1980) and Altshuler et al. (1980, 1981). It was found that their data must be interpreted in terms of two independent mechanisms, i.e. electron-electron interaction and spin-orbit scattering. Weak localisation is completely suppressed by the strong spin-orbit scattering in this material.


Early life adversity significantly impacts organ development and predisposes animals towards greater risk of diseases later in life. In the previous research in pigs, long lasting intestinal barrier dysfunctions have been found to be associated with early weaning stress. However, the underlying mechanism is not fully elucidated. Intestinal epithelial functions are associated with the number and maturation of multicellular components, including enterocytes, goblet cells, Paneth cells, and enteroendocrine cells (EEC). Intestinal epithelial stem cells (IESC) give rise to the whole epithelium within 5 to 7 days. Such rapid turnover rate allows intestinal adaptation to stress conditions. We hypothesized that the early life stress impacted stem cells activities which would contribute to the long-lasting post-stress functional changes in intestinal epithelium. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the epithelium component cells and IESC proliferation and differentiation activities in an early weaning stress model in pigs. Piglets (n = 18) were obtained from commercial litters and were pair-weaned at the age of d 15 (early weaning, EW) and d 26 (late weaning, LW). Piglets were co-housed and raised under the same conditions. At the age of d 35, ileal tissues were isolated and fixed for morphological measurements. Intestinal crypts were isolated and cultured in the Matrigel matrix to form enteroids. The proliferation activities of IESCs were measured by enteroids morphology; differentiation capacity was measured by quantification of epithelial cell markers with and without chemicals-induced enteroids differentiation. Gene expressions and (or) staining of specific markers for IESCs (Olfm4, BMI1), enterocytes (ALP1), goblet cells (Muc2), Paneth cells (LYZ), and EECs (ChgA) in ileal tissue and ileal enteroids were also quantified. Data were analyzed by the student's t-test. Our results showed that EW significantly (P < 0.05) reduced ileal villus width and crypt fission rate, while no changes were found on villus height and crypt depth compared with LW control. The alterations of ileal epithelium components in EW pigs were indicated by significantly fewer number of EECs, greater number of the goblet cells, and reduced ALP1 marker expression. The enteroids formation and budding rates were both significantly suppressed in EW pigs, which indicated a reduced IESC proliferating activity. In the fully developed enteroids, gene expressions of LYZ, ALP1, BMI1, Olfm4, and Hes1 were least in EW, but Muc2 expression was greater compared with control. In the differentiation culture media, the enteroids from EW pigs exhibited significantly enhanced potential for goblet cell differentiation but reduced capacity for enterocyte differentiation compared with LW pigs. Overall, the results indicate that early weaning stress affects the programming and activity of IESCs, which leads to an altered epithelium cell population and intestinal functions. Further understanding of mechanisms regulating IESCs activity will shed light on novel strategies mitigating stress-associated intestinal dysfunctions.


Christina Landman is a professor of Theology at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. As an East African serving under her as a research fellow at the Research Institute of Theology and Religion since 2014, and as somebody whose articles have been published in the two journals where she has been the editor, I can only honour her by contributing to her festschrift and in basing my reflections on my understanding of theological education in tropical Africa, where she plays a critical role – despite my bias towards East Africa, and Kenya in particular. In other words, the goal of this article is to focus on the future of theological education in Africa, with special reference to Eastern Africa, and Kenya in particular. How has Africa journeyed with theological education since its inception in the 19th and 20th century? How is it reflected in the academic institutions of higher learning, in ministerial training, in general academic contexts and in local congregations (churches)? Is it Africanity without ethics? Does it have a future? In addressing these concerns, the article employs historic-analytical design in its endeavour to assess the efficacy of theological education as an agent of social transformation in 21st-century Africa. Considering that Africa cannot be identified as a single geocultural context and/or as a monolithic entity, the article builds its case by mainly referring to the Kenyan context. Its methodology includes an extensive literature review of some materials that are connected to theological education, participant observation and personal reflections as an educationist in an African context. The methodology will also include the Protestant divinity school that was established in Frere Town, Mombasa, and later shifted to Limuru, Central Kenya, in 1929. It is set on the premise that the future of theological education in Africa is guaranteed by the growing interest in theological education among the youth, especially in the 21st century.


Quantification of coastal processes provides a sound basis for engineering and management. On the calcarenite coast of S.W. Victoria, mean rates of retrogradation in cm/yr have been established, and checked by engineering tests such as the L.A. Abrasion Test. Longshore currents flow alternately east and west, and progress has been made in quantifying the ratio of E/W currents. Sand carried by these currents is trapped on projecting basalt promontories. The image analyzer has been found to be a rapid and accurate measurer of sand volumes. Coastal erosion has provided on average 0.5 m{3}/yr/m coast, whilst 0.05 m{3}/yr/m coast is provided by shells broken up into calcarenite. Thus 90% of the sand is recycled Pleistocene sand. As the Tower Hill volcano covered part of the coast shortly before the sea returned to its present level, it can be proved that the returning sea pushed no dune ahead of it. However, dunes stable for 2800 yr were destroyed by the hoofed animals introduced by Europeans. Port Fairy and Warrnambool are neighbouring towns with the same climate and wave regime, but in the 6000 yr since the sea returned to its present level, the coast at Warrnambool has retreated a quarter of a kilometre. No change in overall geometry has occurred at Pt. Fairy, though, as shown by the lava surface features of the basalt. Obviously different engineering designs are called for in such different coastal environments.


In this paper, we discuss recurrence of a 1-dimensional reinforced random walk. This walk was first introduced by Diaconis and was generalized by Davis [3]. Here, we follow Davis' formulation. The transition mechanism of this walk is as follows. First, at each edge [7, j + 1], we assign an initial weight w(0, j). If the walk starts at a site k € Z, then after a unit of time it will jump to its nearest neighbor sites k — 1, k + 1 with probabilities;


The invention provides a pleurotuseiorinopieutas cultivation material which is characterized in that tea seed shells and tea fruit shells are used as main raw materials and are supplemented with corn cores, bran, tea seed meal, a gypsum powder and other auxiliary materials, and the water content of the cultivation material is 63%-65%. The invention also provides a production method of the cultivation material. Compared with a wood dust cultivation material, the pleurotuseiorinopieutas cultivation material has the advantages that: one, the cultivation material has good gas permeability and strong water holding capacity, the growth speed of pleurotuseiorinopieutas mycelia is fast, and the sackful time is shortened; two, through natural accumulation of fermentation, lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, a pectic substance and other substances in the tea seed shells and the tea fruit shells are decomposed into simple substances which are beneficial for the pleurotuseiorinopieutas mycelia to absorb, the formation of pleurotuseiorinopieutas fruiting body primordia is promoted, so that the effective mushroom number is increased, and the yield is increased by 30% to 40%; and three, channels for cultivation raw materials are broadened, and the production cost is greatly reduced.


This study compares three different methods to evaluate the ability of Atmosphere Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) to simulate precipitation. Currently, AOGCMs are the most powerful tool to investigate the future climate but how to evaluate them is a relatively new research field. Thus, no standardized metric for defining a climate model's skill has been defined so far. The common way to proceed is to evaluate the model simulations against observations using statistical measures. However, precipitation is highly variable on both the spatial and temporal scales. We therefore suspect that metrics representing regional features of the modelled precipitation response to climate change are more suitable to identify the good models than statistical measures defined on a global scale. Here, we compare three different ways of ranking the climate models: a) biases in a broad range of climate variables, b) only biases in global precipitation and c) regional features of modelled precipitation in areas where future changes are expected to be pronounced. Surprisingly, the multimodel mean performs only average for the feature-based ranking, while it outperforms all single models in the two bias-based rankings. In the feature-based ranking, the models performing best can be different for each region or zonal band considered and identifying them each time newly depending on the purpose may allow for more reliable projections. Further, this study reveals that many models have similar biases and that the observation datasets are often located at one end of the model range. Our results suggest that weighting the models according to their ability to simulate the present climate might lead to more reliable projections than the "one model, one vote" approach that has been favored so far.


Metal oxides have been extensively used in environmental monitoring, breath analysis, and food quality assessment. This review summarizes the effects of nanoscale heterojunctions on enhancing the gas-sensing performance of metal oxide devices.


It has come to be considered axiomatic that a multiplicity of therapeutic methods in the treatment of a given disease connotes a paucity of cures attributable to any one method. Of no condition is this statement truer than of epilepsy. Sir William Gowers1casually mentions helminthiasis and ovarian and uterine abnormalities in a consideration of the etiology of epilepsy. In the same article he states that "it would be a waste of time to describe the various operations that have been advocated for epilepsy, whether on arteries or on the sympathetic nerves, which have their day and cease to be, not much to the credit of the profession." Block2quotes A. E. Russell as stating that "the fundamental factor underlying the epileptic fit is cerebral anemia." Russell in turn quotes Fox as "attributing the loss of consciousness and tonic spasm to cerebral vasoconstriction and the clonic convulsion to


ABSTRACT When a student makes that first presentation to his/her potential employer during a first interview, the presentation skills of the student is on trial. Very few students are naturals when it comes to presenting, as it is generally a learned skill. A student's greatest influence regarding professional presentations comes from his/her professors. When the classroom instructor possesses positive presentation skills, the student is being covertly mentored. Likewise, poor professor presentations negatively influence a student's definition and perception of what constitutes a professional presentation. This article discusses the need for instructors to reassess their performance in the classroom by continuously updating presentation skills in an effort to provide students the best possible presentation role models. Professors adopting this attitude reinvest themselves in their students' success by providing students the tools to make a positive and professional impression on current and/or future employers. Included in this discussion is a performance self-evaluation instrument by which all classroom instructors can benefit. As it is very difficult to "unring" a bell, it is very hard to unmake a mediocre first impression. Therefore, the presentation skills of a classroom instructor have a tremendous impact on students, one that they subconsciously emulate. By providing professional presentations, academicians better prepare students to communicate and, hence, compete more effectively in the workplace. After all, a college education is much more than just a college degree. THE INTRODUCTION In business, image is everything. Unfortunately, most students do not learn this harsh reality until they enter the workforce. This little tidbit of information for success in business is generally first discovered during a job interview, the opportunity for an individual to essentially sell his or her qualifications, or, in its most frightening of revelations, the first opportunity to provide a formal professional presentation. In its most basic terms, a presentation (be it written, oral, or visual) is a performance. It is acting out or communicating oneself. Presenting is also viewed as the art of persuasion. In classrooms across the globe, professors persuade students to value information imparted through lectures. Students, in turn, persuade professors that they have a fair grasp and understanding of the respective concepts through their performance on various assessments. When entering the workforce, students must persuade prospective employers to hire them. After students are hired, they routinely communicate both within and outside their respective organization through formal and informal venues . Prior to adapting to a company ' s communication business culture, the only primary communication resource a student has to draw upon is that which was used in the classroom. Presenting is a form of communication. As such, there is no argument that effective presentation skills contribute to employment and once in the workplace, produce a more effective and productive employee. The simple process of creating a presentation stimulates innovation and develops both organizational and communication skills - vital workplace abilities necessary for today's competitive workplace. Unfortunately, too few college students are provided basic presentation tools or positive examples to prepare them to effectively compete in today's workplace. The object and challenge of the classroom professor is to inspire students to succeed. When students succeed, professors succeed. How can professors accomplish this task when they, themselves, utilize stale and mundane classroom material? The goal of this paper is to elicit a commitment from academicians to assess their current presentation style, to identify and update the necessary skills needed for students in the academicians' respective disciplines, and to encourage the integration of these skills into both coursework lectures and curriculum. …


This paper deals with leak detection in liquid transmission pipelines. It focuses on improving the efficiency of a method based on negative pressure wave detection. A new algorithm for pressure wave monitoring has been proposed. The algorithm is aimed to precisely capture the corresponding characteristic points in the signal sequence of negative pressure waves caused by leakage. It uses median filtering of the calculating deviations of pressure signals measured along the pipeline. Adaptive alarm thresholds with reduced margins, based on statistical analysis of the calculating deviations of pressure signals, were used. Additionally, the algorithm is supported by a set of functions base on the calculation of the cross-correlation of the deviations which represent pressure signals from neighboring transducers. The developed technique has been tested on a physical model of pipeline. The pipeline is 380 meters long and 34 mm in internal diameter, and is made of polyethylene (PEHD) pipes. The medium pumped through the pipeline was water. Tests proved, that the proposed solution is sensitive to small leaks and resistant for false alarm (occurring disturbances). It is also capable of localizing the leak point with satisfactory accuracy, without significant delay.


RAABE, Renate de Oliveira. 2003. 115f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia de Produção) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção, UFSC, Estudo-Piloto e Proposta de Estágio Virtual à Distância em Engenharia de Usabilidade. Florianópolis. This work presents "Virtual Treinee" proposal as an pedagogical approach for distance learning of Usability Engeneering based on social interaction Vygotsky theory. "Virtual Treinee" was developed to allow probationers to work in a virtual manner in a virtual enterprise whith the intention of motivating, informing and mainly capacitating students of Usability Engeneering through practical activities similar to those of real enteprises. This work also presents the aplication of this proposal in a case-study and the respective conclusions of the experiment. The virtual enterprise was planted on a website as part of a virtual learning environment criated usind TelEduc tool. The experiment analysis shown the viability of the proposal and allowed to identify advantages, problems and its respective solutions. Key-words: Virtual Treinee; Distance Learning; Usability Engenneering; Social Interaction Theory.


The clastic sediments of the Middle and Upper Devonian are highly productive in the Saratov area on the Volga. For a more accurate knowledge of the conditions of oil-gas productivity of these sediments in the regions adjacent to Saratov and Volgograd, a clear idea must be gained on their present structure and paleostructure (more exactly, structural-facies plan) in these regions. All known attempts at restoration of these features have been influenced by the character of the modern structure of the younger sediments that is expressed in the northeast trend of such linear elements of the modern structural plan as the Ilovlin, Korobkov, and Medveditsa structural projections and the Yelshano-Sergiyev dislocation. These elements form a system parallel to the border structural terrace of northern Peri-Caspia. However, there are also transverse structures of northwest trend (Zhirnovsko-Linev block, Sovetsko-Stepnovka swell). The junction of these differently oriented dislocations probably caused the formation of unusual ring-like anticlinal zones and box-like structures. Similar structural arrangements indicate the possibility of the existence at individual stages of the geologic development of this territory of different paleostructural plans, characteristic of each of which is a predominance of one of the two above mentioned trends of the structural elements. In the paper the predominance of northwest trends in the paleo-structures of the clastic Devonian and Lower Cretaceous are substantiated, and features of the relationship of the corresponding paleostructural plans are described in connection with the practical importance of this


Lymphangiomas are benign proliferations of the lymphatic system and superficial vascularmal formationof lymphatic channel swhich is lined by endothelium. Lymphangioma circumscriptum(LC), is the most common form of cutaneous lymphangioma. It can be enabled congenital or adult period. The most common localizations are the proximal parts of limbs, oral cavity, axilla, shoulders, groin, buttocks which contains extensive lymphatic network. Scrotal involvement is very rare. Here a 22-year-old male patient who's complaints started on scrotum about two years ago, chronic hepatitis B carrier, lymphangioma circumscriptum diagnosed last clinical and histopathological examination is presented. In order to draw attention to this rare situation and to prevent over treatment, we planned to present this case.


The research deals with Educational Technologies: teacher training strategies for the use of ICT in a school in Palmas TO. The problem finds out what are the contributions of educational strategies for the use of ICT for the improvement of teachers in the rural school. It aims to know the contributions of educational strategies for the use of ICT for the training of teachers in the researched institution. The action research methodology was used, based on educational strategies developed at school. The results show that the teacher tries to build a teaching identity that Artigo Original Original Article Artículo Original Artigo recebido em 04/03/2020 aprovado em 25/08/2020 publicado em 31/10/2020.


Abstract Background Lung cancer screening with low‐dose computed tomography (CT) scanning (LDCT) is accepted as a screening tool, but its application to populations exposed to recognized occupational or environmental carcinogens is limited. We apply LDCT to a population with a predominantly nonoccupational exposure to a recognized human lung carcinogen, Libby amphibole asbestos (LA). Methods Patients in an asbestos disease clinic in Libby, Montana who were aged 50 to 84 years, greater than or equal to 20 pack‐year history of tobacco use (irrespective of quit date), and asbestos‐related pleuropulmonary disease on high‐resolution CT scan were offered free annual lung cancer screening over a 39‐month period. Results Of 2897 clinic patients, 1149 (39.7%) met eligibility criteria, and 567 (49%) were screened with 1014 low‐dose CT scans. Most screened patients had principally environmental (333 or 59%) or household exposure (145 or 25%) to LA. Seventeen primary lung cancers were identified, mostly in early stages: 10 at stage 1, two at stage 2, three at stages 3 to 4, and two at limited small‐cell cancers. The screening yield was 1.9 at baseline scan and 1.5% on the first annual scan. Conclusions Consistent with the guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and American Association of Thoracic Surgery, LDCT for early lung cancer detection should be offered to people with significant exposure to occupational or environmental human lung carcinogens.


This paper presents the results of research of the impulse control circuit of a DC motor by the PWM method using the MOSFET transistor. This control is with an active drive circuit with feedback by derivative of the current in the source circuit. The impact of the driver circuit on the speed and acceleration of the motor has been investigated and a comparative analysis of the experimental results obtained when driving with a conventional drive circuit was performed. The experimental results show higher acceleration and motor speed when driving with an active drive circuit.


Computer simulation is a common research method in the field of evolutionary game. This paper introduce a selection on the strategy of both buyers and sellers for participating in livestreaming e-commerce model by aiming at the current development of livestreaming e-commerce. We study the platform's third-party incentive mechanism to construct the buyers-sellers evolutionary game model by aiming at the hypothesis of bounded rationality. To slove the evolutionarily stable strategy by the stability principle, we figure out the systematic stable development conditions by the quantitative language, and conduct the numerical simulation for the evolutionarily stable strategy under different parameters by the Matlab. As what it was shown by the results: buyers and consumer's concern and investment on online livestreaming shopping form are closely related to its yield rate, cost, and interest acquired from "free riding"; Platform incentive has significant positive impact on the investment willingness of both game parties. As the gaining rate of investment income increases gradually, both game parties' probability of selecting concern and investment is increasing accordingly and many evolutionary stable strategies may emerge.


Abstract The nine complexes, (RC5H4)2Ti(O2CC6H4X)2 (R=H, CH3; X=H, o-Cl, o-OH, O-NH2, o-NHPh), have been conveniently prepared by the reaction of (RC5H4) 2TiC12 with 2 equiv. sodium salts of appropriate carboxylic acids in water containing acetylacetone. They have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR and 1H-NMR. The carboxylate ligands in the complexes coordinate to titanium atom in monodentate mode. The complexes contain functional groups (OH, NH2, NHPh), which are involved in strong intramolecular hydrogen-bonding.


The traffic measurement and monitoring are required to guarantee a QoS in BcN (broadband convergence network) environment. According to the increment of real-time service provision, traffic measurement is needed for real-time service in internetworking between different network service providers. Especially, it is an important issue that service problem break out in which network if an obstacle to service occurs in using real-time service (e.g. video conference). For this, we propose a method of traffic measurement using RTCP to measure network delay for real-time service in each network. Also with this method, we can detect and define which network has created a problem.


In order to provide more secure,efficient and scalable environment for the data results of Yangtze hydrometry innovation and the concerned systems,we introduced the concept of security domain and used the popular UTM(unified threat management)to do security building for hydrology core application,database and subnet in case of not changing network structure.We started from the needs of protecting Yangtze hydrology data application,and then described the system designing and implementation steps in detail.


The aim of this study was to examine the effects of different drying technologies on nine quality 2 characteristics of dried apples during a six month storage period at ambient temperature. In order to 3 assign weight factor to each quality parameters, the quality function deployment method was used. For 4 the purpose of this study, based on the quality parameters, a single total quality index has been 5 introduced. Apples were dried in supercritical CO 2 , air-dried or freeze-dried, and subsequently packaged 6 under different packaging conditions. At the beginning of the experiment, apples dried in scCO 2 had the 7 best scores. After six months, samples dried in scCO 2 and freeze dried apples both packed in AluPE with 8 100% N 2 scored similar. The six months shelf-life research revealed that measurable changes occur 9 during the second half of the shelf-life where it is possible to clearly distinguish differences in the overall 10 index of different dried samples.


In the title molecule, C 22 H 21 N, one of the two cyclohexane rings shows conformational disorder, with both major and minor conformers in half-chair conformations ; the other cyclohexane ring adopts a conformation intermediate between sofa and half-chair.


This 24-page special report of the Washington Monthly looks at how government can help entrepreneurs drive the next stage of U.S. economic growth. CONTENTSIntroduction: The Next Frontier - The future of America's economy is riding on its entrepreneurs. The future of its entrepreneurs is riding on government.By Paul KedroskyThe Need for Speed - Why is the United States still waiting for the future to download?By Nicholas ThompsonGreen Cards for Grads - The U.S. educates brilliant students from around the world, then sends them home to work for our competitors.By T.A. FrankGrid Unlocked - A smart, digital electric power system could bring vast energy-efficiency gains and a new wave of entrepreneurship--if Washington gets the regulations right.By Mariah BlakeA Shot in the Arm - How today's health care reform can create tomorrow's entrepreneursBy Jonathan Gruber


1-Bromobicyclo[1.1.1]pentane (3) is found to undergo solvolysis faster than t-butyl bromide in 80% aqueous ethanol, and gives 3-methylenecyclobutanol (7) exclusively. Products arising from capture of the bicyclo[1.1.1] pentyl cation (5) were not detected.


Empirical research suggests that gendered job-segregation have effects on men in the workplace consequent upon bias evaluations stemming from social norms regarding acceptable gender roles. These biases are capable of inducing workplace stressors that may affect the psychological well being of men engaged in female-dominated occupations. This study investigates the moderating role of work autonomy in the relationship between perceived gender discrimination and gender role conflict for men in atypical occupations. A cross-sectional survey method was used to collect data from a sample of 150 men in the occupations of nursing, librarian, and primary school teaching, and a hierarchical regression test analyzed hypotheses. Regression analysis demonstrated that perceived discrimination and work autonomy were significant predictors of gender role conflict (β = .60, p < .001), and β = -.62, p < .001, respectively). A moderated regression analysis was also conducted to test the assumption that job autonomy moderates the relationship between perceiving a discriminatory work environment and workers' gender role conflict. The analysis indicated that 79% of the variation in the dependent variable could be explained by the main effects and the interaction effects, F (4, 145) =140.58, p < .05). This interaction effect, although significant, accounted for a minimal incremental effect above and beyond the direct effects of perceived gender discrimination and work autonomy (ΔR2 = .008, F (1, 145) = 5.48, p < .05). Research implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.


Thick hydride vapor phase heteroepitaxy of some III–V, II–VI, and III–VI binary and ternary semiconductor materials such as GaAs, GaP, GaP, GaAsxP1‐x, ZnSe, and GaSe is performed on GaAs substrates and orientation‐patterned GaAs templates. Up to 500 μm thick GaAs, GaP, GaP, GaAsxP1‐x, and ZnSe layers are deposited in single growths or after a regrowth. The GaSe layers deposited through van der Waals heteroepitaxy are up to 4–5 μm thick. When possible, growths are also performed homoepitaxially as the comparison of growth rate and layer quality indicates similar or better results in some of the heteroepitaxial cases. Material analysis using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, high‐resolution X‐ray diffraction, and energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy indicate smooth surface morphology, uniform layer thicknesses, high crystalline quality, and gradual substrate‐to‐layer material transition in the cases of heteroepitaxy. Respectively, the growths on the templates prepared by an optimized polarity inversion technique (assisted by molecular‐beam epitaxy) reveal excellent domain fidelity and good infrared transparency. The samples grown on templates are intended for frequency conversion devices operating in mid and longwave infrared. The layers grown on plain substrates are meant to support applications in optoelectronics, renewable energy, sensing, and solar cells.


Possible conformations of X‐D‐alanyl4‐D‐alanine5 and its analogs X‐L‐analyl4‐D‐alanine5 X‐D‐alanyl4‐L‐alanine5, X‐D‐butyl4‐D‐alanine5, X‐D‐alanyl4‐D‐butyric acid5, X‐D‐valyl4‐D‐alanine5, and X‐D‐alanyl4‐D‐valine5 have been analyzed by theoretical methods. These studies suggest that L‐alanine and D‐valine at the 4 or 5 postion of the pentapeptide moiety of peptidoglycan will drastically reduce the cross‐linking in peptidoglycan biosynthesis, whereas the effect of D‐ butyric acid will be marked at the 4 postition and modeate at the 5 position. This is in good agreement with experimental results. The cross‐linking enzyme transpeptidase requires a specific confroamation for the 4th and 5th residues for optimal binding.


The mechanism of reactive extraction was investigated by analyzing the extraction behavior of propionic acid using Alamine 336, TRPO, and TBP dissolved in hexane, 1 octanol and 2 octanol. The results showed that the association agent affects the distribution coefficient D , which also depends on the diluent properey. Co extraction occursed for octanol dissolving Alamine 336 with D first increased and then decreased with increasing association agent concentration in the organic phase. D increased with increasing association agent concentration for phosphorus bonded oxygen bearing extractants, TRPO and TBP, in the organic phase, with D for TRPO larger than that for TBP. Because octanol bonds to phosphorus bonded oxygen bearing extractants by H binding, D was larger when hexane was used as the diluent at lower loadings of the association agent in the organic phase. A mathematical model developed to describe the equilibria of reactive extractions at the interface in the organic phase predicts the extraction behaviors with good accuracy.


This paper uses the Vrânceanu congruences method to describe the subriemannian geometry of the nonholonomic hypersurface given by a Gibbs-Duhem-Pfaff equation. In Section 1 we build a system of independent congruences, strongly connected to the Gibbs-Duhem-Pfaff form. These determine a Riemannian space V6 and a Riemannian nonholonomic hypersurface V65. Section 2 describes the bilinear covariant. Section 3 gives the Levi-Civita connection components with respect to the orthonormal congruences. Section 4 presents the equations of geodesics of the hypersurface V65. Section 5 analyzes the curvature tensor of the nonholonomic GDP hypersurface. Section 6 describes the vector subspace of the bilinear covariant coefficients and Section 7 the vector subspace of Ricci rotation coefficients. Section 8 introduces the Steiner hypersurface of Ricci coefficients with four indexes. Section 9 underlines the tools and the originality of the results.


Resonance Raman overtone progressions of I2 in an Ar crystal are computed using the time dependent formula of Raman scattering which has been known to possess distinct computational advantages over the Kramers–Heisenberg–Dirac sum‐over‐states method, especially when treating condensed phase systems. The symmetrized split operator fast Fourier transform method, which provides a simple and accurate algorithm, is applied to computing the time evolution of the vibrational wave packet involved in the time dependent formula. Our calculated result based on Heller's time dependent formula is in qualitative agreement with the experimental one of Grzybowski and Andrews, but there are some discrepancies between them (for example, the overtone enhancement with the 530.9 nm excitation is not so strong as the experimental one). Those discrepancies are ascribed to the adopted assumption that the line shape for a vibronic transition is a Lorentzian and it is independent of the vibrational level in the excited electronic ...


In the last few years, wine industry has been characterised by profound changes that have determined an intensification of competition on a global scale. The aim of this study is to identify the firms' internal factors that most influence the export intensity and the ability to fit into the international market of the Italian wineries producing sparkling wines through a resource-based view (RBV) approach. Results of our study supporting the findings of previous empirical researches presented in this paper. In particular, the main factors affecting export intensity are: innovation degree and intensity of investment in advertising and promotion, among firms' characteristics, and abroad experience, proficiency of foreign languages, educational level, and perception barriers, among managers' characteristics.


In this paper, we present the calculation on the performance of High Gain Harmonic Generation (HGHG) UV to DUV Free Electron Lasers (FELs) at the NSLS. Based on the beam quality and the available undulators at the NSLS, the calculation shows that it is possible to produce fully coherent DUV FEL down to 500 Angstrom, with a peak power of several hundred Mega Watts. One further attractive feature is the possibility to produce ultra short radiation pulses based on such a HGHG scheme.


Abstract Work on the original Geodetic Tavistock Theodolite was commenced in the autumn of 1931, and after suitable tests this instrument was sent out to East Africa and used on the East African Arc. Bt Major M. Hotine, R.E., writing in the E.S.R. of April 1935 (no. 16, vol. iii), stated: "The Tavistock instrument, although a first model, gave uniformly satisfactory service throughout and was used for over half the main angular observations."


This article sheds some light on the role of Islamic finance as a model for promoting innovative financial solutions that can play a potent role in achieving theUN recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). First, Islamic finance offers strong preference for risk-sharing arrangements allowing both the entrepreneur and the financier to contribute to the success of the investment. Second, Islamic finance offers potent instruments to foster domestic resources mobilization for financing productive activities. For example, Sukuk, (Islamic bonds) is a financial instrument that suits well the funding of sustainable infrastructure. Third, Islamic finance offers models for solidarity-based financing with important features of social sustainability and with the ability to alleviate poverty and increase the resilience of the poor. Overall, Islamic finance is based on the Islamic approach to social progress founded on the need for balanced development covering both material and spiritual development.


BACKGROUND: The early use of statin with intensive regimen has been recommended by the recent guidelines as the prevention of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) related events among the high-risk patients. Meanwhile, the inconsistent statin utilization for targeted patient in current practice is still an issue. AIM: This study aims to review the utilization rate of statin among patients with ACS. METHODS: A systematic search of relevant studies published between inceptions to June 2020 was conducted in PubMed. Patients and intervention domains were used to build up the searching formula. A study was eligible for inclusion if it was an original study of patients with ACS and it examined the utilization of statin. The risk of bias was assessed using Axis and NOS checklist. RESULTS: Among the 49 eligible studies, 38 were cohort studies while the others were cross-sectional studies. The utilization rate of statin at hospital admission ranged from 16% to 61% while 25% to 75% during the hospitalization. Of the total studies, 35 studies reported the statin rate at discharge ranging from 58% to 99%. Almost all studies revealed the reduction of statin utilization rate along the follow-up period. The number of statins prescribed was found to be lower among female and elderly patients. CONCLUSION: Despite the established benefits of statin among patients with ACS, our study revealed that statin was underutilized for secondary prevention after ACS. To improve patients' clinical outcomes with ACS, efforts should be made to increase optimal treatment and compliance with a statin. Edited by: Eli Djulejic Citation: Dewi PEN, Thavorncharoensap M. Statin Utilization among Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Systematic Review. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2021 May 14; 9(T4):267-278. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.5807


The article presents the analysis of the cultural policy of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) which influenced the society of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).


We show that the discrepancy between the Tully–Fisher relation and the luminosity function predicted by most phenomenological galaxy formation models is mainly caused by overmerging of galaxy haloes. We circumvent this overmerging problem, which is inherent in both the Press–Schechter formalism and dissipationless N-body simulations, by including a specific galaxy halo formation recipe into an otherwise standard N-body code. This numerical technique provides the merger trees which, together with simplified gas dynamics and star formation physics, constitute our implementation of a phenomenological galaxy formation model. Resolving the overmerging problem provides us with the means to match both the I-band Tully–Fisher relation and the B- and K-band luminosity functions within an Ω=1 sCDM structure formation scenario. It also allows us to include models for chemical evolution and starbursts, which improves the match to observational data and renders the modelling more realistic. We show that the inclusion of chemical evolution into the modelling requires a significant fraction of stars to be formed in short bursts triggered by merging events.


South Korea achieved an economic take-off in a short period of time,and created a world-renowned "Han River Miracle",which South Korea emphasizing the coordinated development of education and the economy in its development process,and inseparably adjustments the higher education strategy according to the economic development timely.The article intends to explore South Korea's higher education in the period of economic take-off,so as to put forward the experience to China's current education reform.


This paper aims to present results of research conducted with graduates of the Pedagogy course , with training in early childhood education and early years of elementary school and its role in school management. Highlights that the training required to act in school management was a long time given to the course of Pedagogy . This training was the restructuring of the curriculum of the course, from the opinion of CFE 252/69, which printed the license administration, supervision, orientation and inspection giving the school the title of graduate education specialist. This model was subjected to considerable criticism by polarizing the training of teachers and pedagogue and fragment the pedagogical work. Such criticisms have contributed to the course Pedagogy to take over the training of teachers for early childhood education and early years of elementary school. Locally the graduates of this training in school management act, this suggests that discuss the implications of training, focused on the teaching of early childhood education and early years of elementary school, to act in school management. To this end, the discussion focuses on building a common national base for training of teachers and how they drive the configuration of the of the Pedagogy course. So , evidence that the unfolding of this process alters the landscape of the work of the pedagogue in school , especially in schools of the state of Parana , whose job as a teacher pedagogue is occupied by public tender by the licensee in Pedagogy .


Objective: The aim of this study is to estimate the status of cutaneous manifestations in HIV-infected patients and its co-relationship with the CD4 cell count at a tertiary care centre at Bastar, Jagdalpur. Material and Methods: In this study, 137 HIV-positive subjects were enrolled. Information on demographics i.e. weight, height, socioeconomic status, age, educational status, sex, laboratory parameters (CD4 counts) and treatment regimens were noted, and patients were examined for skin disorders by a dermatologist. Data were analyzed using Chi-square test for categorical variables. Results: Majority of the patients resided in a rural area (65.69%), and belonged to low socioeconomic and educational status; 30.65% were housewives, 23.35% drivers and 16.78% laborers respectively. The predominant mode of transmission was heterosexual contact (94.16%). The most common HIV-related dermatological manifestations were seborrheic dermatitis (74.16%), xerosis (52.5%), generalized skin hyperpigmentation 56 (46.67%), onychomycosis 53 (44.16%), pruritic papular eruption 27 (22.5%), oral candidiasis 21 (17.5%), photo dermatitis 21 (17.5%) and scabies 4 (3.33%). Significant correlation with low CD4+ cell counts was found for oral candidiasis ( P P 0.03), while other disorders like seborrheic dermatitis ( P 0.22), xerosis ( P 0.25) and onychomycosis ( P 0.08) were not statistically significant. Conclusion: This study showed a high prevalence of dermatological manifestations in HIV-infected subjects, and they occur more frequently with progression of HIV and decline in immune functions. So, early diagnosis and management of skin disorders can improve the quality of life of HIV-infected subjects.


Figure 1. A man in 50s presented with anemia and elevated white cell count. His hemoglobin was 9.7 g/dL and white cell count was 19.3 3 10/L, with neutrophils amounting to 13.2 3 10/L. His platelets measured 64 3 10/L. Peripheral blood evaluation showed numerous tear-drop cells and a leukoerythroblastic appearance (a). The bone marrow trephine biopsy showed hypercellular marrow and thick irregular bony trabeculae (osteosclerosis) (b). There were dilated sinuses with areas of intrasinusoidal hematopoiesis. The megakaryocytes were increased in number. They were seen in clusters and there was wide variation in their size and nuclear lobation. Large megakaryocytes and cells with hyperchromatic nuclei were also noted (c and d). CD34 immunostain showed no excess of precursor cells but highlighted intrasinusoidal hematopoiesis (e). CD42b immunostain (f) highlighted the abnormal megakaryocytes and myeloperoxidase immunostain (g) highlighted dominance of myeloid lineage cells in some of the fragments. The reticulin stain (h) highlighted diffuse increase in coarse reticulin fibers and focal presence of collagen, which stained brown. The marrow reticulin was graded as MF-2. In addition, there was evidence of V617F mutation in the JAK2 gene.


A new adaptive signal-preserving technique for noise suppression in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is proposed based on spectrum subtraction. The proposed technique estimates a model for the power spectrum of random noise from the acquired data. This model is used to estimate a noise-suppressed power spectrum for any given pixel time course by simple subtraction of power spectra. The new technique is tested using computer simulations and real data for event-related fMRI experiments. The results show the potential of the new technique in suppressing noise while preserving the other deterministic components. Moreover, further analysis using principal component analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) shows a significant improvement in both convergence and clarity of results when the new technique is used. This suggests the value of the new technique as a useful preprocessing step for this type of signal.


We theoretically study abnormal mode splitting in a one-dimensional photonic crystals (PhCs) micro-cavity composed of highly dispersive metamaterials and dielectric. In particular, the abnormal split peaks can be posited in normal and anomalous dispersion regions, respectively. The normal split modes in conventional all-dielectric PhCs are always blue shifted owing to the propagating phases in two kinds of dielectrics decrease with incident angle. Here, based on the phase variation compensation between anomalous dispersion metamaterials and the dielectric, the dispersion of the split mode can be offset and thus red shift abnormal modes splitting can be realized. Moreover, such abnormal splitting modes can be either tuned by the optical properties of the PhCs, but also by the dispersion characteristics of the material. The abnormal splitting modes will possess potential applications for angle-tuned etalon filters, angle-dependent optical sensor, nonlinear optical devices, and so on.


This paper is purposed through establishing the electromagnetic analysis model based on ANSYS solenoid valve module to obtain the magnetic line of force,flux density,electromagnetic strength and electromagnetic force analyze the binary relation between electromagnetic force and voltage under the stable state,and get the relational expression of F/U through MATLAB,so as to optimum design the driving voltage and to optimum design the structure parameters of solenoid valve,such as shape of electromagnet,turns,suction area,magnetic material,reset spring,etc.


The efficiency of polymeric coatings as corrosion protective materials for carbon steel alloy in sea water was evaluated by different methods: electrochemical techniques (open circuit and potentiodynamic measurements), analytical and spectroscopic techniques (inductive coupled plasma, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction). The study was made using ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM)/poly&!lpar;ethylene&!rpar; (PE) blend of different ratios. The effect of blend ratio on corrosion protection efficiency was investigated. The best results for corrosion control were achieved using samples with 2 mm thickness. The data obtained reveal that applying adhesive on the substrate increases the protective properties of the coatings. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Various CdS quantum dots (QDs) have been synthesized on the TiO2 nano porous by chemical bath deposition method with times different immersing. The size and morphology of CdS QDs can be observed from scan electron microscope and transmission electron microscopy images. Based on UV- Vis absorption measurement and photocurrent density-voltage characterization, the results display that compared with the device with the uniform size particles, the device with various size CdS QDs shows the better performance with higher short-circuit current density, open-circuit voltage, and power conversion efficiency.


The work continues a series of articles devoted to the study of Mari taboos. Prohibitions in the descriptions of certain rites were recorded in ethnographic research and travel notes of the XIXth century. By the end of the XXth century, taboos as a separate genre of folklore were not allocated sequentially in Mari folklore. Most researchers attributed taboo to superstition and considered them as part of religious beliefs. In separate headings Mari taboos are presented in the writings of T. Yevseyev, V. Vasilyev, N. Popov. To some extent, the existing gap in the study of taboo filled by the works of the author of this article. The study determined the genre specificity, revealed similarities and differences with other minor genres of Mari folklore superstitions, beliefs, as well as connections are established within the system of prohibitions. Taboos feature a harmony of composition, brevity. This contributes to their accessibility, durability assimilation. A clear explanation of the reasons for the existence of the prohibition or the consequences of its violation provides stability of the taboo. In addition, the inclusion of a taboo in myths, fairy tales, songs, true stories, personal stories seen as features of the functioning and stability of the reasons for the prohibitions.


Charles O. Lerche teaches political science, international relations and international management at several institutions including: the University of Limburg/Maastricht, the University of Kent at Canterbury's Brussels School of International Studies, and Boston University Brussels. He is coauthor of Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective, and has published articles in academic journals on African politics, and peace and world order studies.


: In this article, a meta-analysis method was used to examine the relationships between challenging-hindrance stressors and employee innovation with 149 independent samples (N=46261), findings showed that: (1) Challenging stressor and subgroup's - work complexity and task conflict have a significantly positive correlation with employee innovation. While hindrance stressor had a significantly negative correlation with employee innovation. (2) Compared with individualism orientation, under the background of high collectivism orientation, high power distance, and a long-term orientation, the hindrance stressor had a stronger and significantly negative correlation with employee innovation, while under the background of high collectivism orientation, the hindrance stressor had a significantly positive correlation with employee innovation. (3) Compared with other-rating, when the data comes from employee self-rating, challenge stressor had a stronger and significantly positive correlation with innovation, and hindrance stressor had a stronger and significantly negative correlation with innovation. (4) Compared with longitudinal study, in the cross-sectional study, challenging stressor has a stronger positive effect on employee innovation, while data collection time has insignificant moderating effect on the relationship between hindrance stressor and employee innovation.


In this presentation we discuss the activities undertaken in the UK through the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) initiative, part of the wider Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Programme. We will present the aims of the PSDI initiative, our initial scoping work and trials, and suggest how this project can and should interact with other related initiatives on a national and global scale.
Physical Scientists are crying out for a socio-technical data infrastructure that connects existing experimental and computational facilities. We believe that a cross-discipline and cross-technique digital infrastructure that builds on and bridges across existing initiatives, while these continue to serve their particular fields, is crucial to, and the best way to achieve global collaborations in the 21st century.


Purpose – Historically, the study of the world's economy was classified into Micro-economics and Macro-economics. Perhaps, contemporary economists should learn from the universe which we are part of. Let us name this as "Uni-economics." Many scientists have found that sunspots affect human behavior. Some research findings even relate the 11-year periodic cycle to war and peace of mankind. It is also widely known in the medical profession that sunspot radiation actually affects our human body. With all these evidence in mind, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how sunspot activities can affect business growth since 1960s when the global economy was building up fast since the Second World War. Design/methodology/approach – The econometrics methodology deployed is in three steps. First, time series techniques were deployed to track down the changes of Sunspot Counts over the last 48 years on the world's four main financial indices, i.e., S & P, FTSE, Nikkei and HSI. Second, the long run function of ...


Class fragmentation is an important task in the design of Distributed OODBs and there are many algorithms handling it. Almost none of them deals however with the class fragmentation order details. We claim that class fragmentation order can induce severe performance penalties if not considered in the fragmentation phase. We propose here two variants of an algorithm for finding the optimal class fragmentation order in a DOODB. In both variants we capture all class relations (inheritance, aggregation) and we determine a class fragmentation order where precedence conflicts induced by relation cycles are eliminated in such way that the strongest links be maintained.


Email is ubiquitous. Estimates in 2009 were that 97% of UK adult internet users across all generations and demographic groups had used email.1 While professionals and the majority of industry would struggle without email, health care has not embraced this type of interaction and there is no accepted way for patients to email their doctor, with health care utilising more traditional methods of communication like post and telephone.

General practice is no exception to this; a GP could describe an inbox full of circulars and management mailings, but would not consider email as an integral part of their practice. Email is commonly offered by practices for repeat prescriptions and making appointments, but its use for direct contact with the doctor is not commonplace. However, there are GPs and practices in the UK that do offer email consultation; surveys indicate that up to 25% of GPs in the UK have exchanged emails with patients.2 Analyses of email consultation show the most reported use is to provide the doctor with an update on their health condition, seek information about medication, or ask about a health concern.3 For doctors who have tried email use, it tends to be with small numbers of selected patients.4

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The potential for mHealth solutions is steadily increasing due to an enormous growth in the area of mobile networks and the mobile Internet. However, not only the general connection is becoming faster and more stable, but also the mobile devices themselves are becoming even more advanced. Nowadays, these devices are able to acquire physiological data and transfer them to e.g. a physician or technician to be analyzed before an actual appointment. Using these technological advantages, more and more evidence could be used for diagnosis and treatment. Instead, long preparation and delay are part of everyday practice nowadays and information and data acquisition take up much time before diagnosis.This paper describes a general concept for a centralized screening / pre-diagnosis system for mobile sleep laboratories. The system is designed to have as little influence as possible on the usual sleep environment, but still allows a medically usable recording of sleep activities and health parameters. Furthermore, the concept covers the access possibilities of the attending physician as well as the back-flow of a final diagnosis. Finally, we report on the resulting challenges of such systems with respect to privacy.


This paper offers an approach to the seafaring religiosity of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age until the Classical period. The speech that we propose leans on those main well-known today archaeolo- gical sources, among which we should include different artistic and epigraphic sources, as well as those sanc- tuaries dedicated to Poseidon and votive seafaring, besides varied literary stories and mythological narrations. Such sources remark the importance granted by the Greeks to Nature, and in particular to the powerful mari- ne element, embodied in the figures of different gods, and whose anthropological and cultural projection sha- ped, in great measure, the fate of the Greek civilization. The marine element was considered by the Greeks as essence of the man's life and as place of rest for the eternity. It is not strange that the superstitions, the beliefs, the myths and all luck of religious practices dedi- cated to serve as nexus of union between the man and the gods rectors of the marine means, have constituted one of the most excellent aspects in the old religiosity of Greece, and have converted this natural environment, so next to the daily human life, in a religious element, cardinal in the configuration of the cultural and social identity of the Greek world.


This case has excited some interest inasmuch as it has been diagnosed and treated by several physicians for very varying diseases. The same complex of symptoms has led the physicians to widely different conclusions. A few have diagnosed some form of stomach trouble, and one, Meniere's disease. My conclusions will be given after reviewing the history and symptoms of the case. J. A. B., aged 41 years, a business man, was referred to me for examination, by Dr. W. H. Weaver, who has him on treatment for his ear disease. It is by the consent of Dr. Weaver and the patient that I report the case. He complains of recurring attacks of dizziness, nausea, vomiting and tinnitus. The tinnitus is likened to the roar of a distant moving locomotive. When the right ear is stopped the subjective noises cease. Stopping the left ear has no effect on the subjective noises.


Temperature information is collected with the AT89S51 single chip as the control core and digital temperature sensor DS18B20 as the thermometric element.The current greenhouse temperature is analyzed and the temperature parameters are adjusted so as to meet the demand of the growth of crops and provide an optimum temperature environment in an effort to substantially improve the yields and quality of crops.


The decaying plasma present within an experimental vacuum switch following the forced extinction of a 250-ampere arc across silver electrodes is studied. Ions and electrons are collected by applying a 6-volt potential across the vacuum device at various predetermined delay intervals after arc extinction. The magnitudes of the peak currents collected by this means vary from about ½ ampere a few microseconds after arc extinction to less than a milliampere 200 microseconds later. The results suggest that this current is principally due to ions having an initial density of 4 × 1012/cm3and moving with an average velocity of 2.6 × 105cm/s. The movement of these ions is nearly independent of the applied potential.


A hotel and its employees have a dispute regarding wages, so the employees go on strike. Republicans and Democrats cannot come to terms on a health care bill, so the legislation languishes in Congress. Two countries have ideological and political disagreements, so they decide to go to war. All of these are examples of destructive intergroup conflict. In this chapter we outline several approaches to reducing intergroup conflict grounded in psychological research. The conflict reduction methods we discuss include the consideration of future consequences, reduction of group influence, and reconciliation of underlying interests. Our hope is that the strategies we outline can and will be implemented by group members, leaders, and facilitators seeking to reduce intergroup conflict.

Keywords:

intergroup conflict;
conflict resolution;
cooperation;
consideration of future consequences;
reduction of group influence;
reconciliation of underlying interests;
interests;
rights and power


The bounded convergence theorem on the Riesz space-valued C hoquet integral is formalized for a sequence of measurable functions conver ging in measure and in distribution. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 28B15; Se condary 28A12, 28E10


We generalize the multiple cover formula of Y. Toda (proved by Maulik-Thomas) for counting invariants for semistable coherent sheaves on local K3 surfaces to semistable twisted sheaves over twisted local K3 surfaces. As applications we calculate the $\SU(r)/\zz_r$-Vafa-Witten invariants for K3 surfaces for any rank $r$ defined by Jiang for the Langlands dual group $\SU(r)/\zz_r$ of the gauge group $\SU(r)$. We generalize and prove the S-duality conjecture of Vafa-Witten of K3 surfaces for all higher ranks based on the result of Tanaka-Thomas on the $\SU(r)$-Vafa-Witten invariants.


Harmonizable processes form an important class of nonstationary stochastic processes. In this paper we present a theory of higher-order moment spectra (polyspectra) for the harmonizable class. We show that there are four basic quantities, the n-th order moment function, the n-th order time-varying polyspectrum, the n-th order ambiguity function, and the n-th order spectral correlation function that need to be considered. We offer interpretations of the polyspectra in terms of Hilbert space inner products. Based on the inner product interpretations, we derive two novel definitions of n-th order polycoherence. The polycoherences are objective measures of stationarity to order n, which can be used to construct various statistical tests.


Knee replacement with an artificial joints is ultimately for the purpose of ameliorating extreme pain and dysfunction from devastation of the joint caused by arthritis deformans, chronic rthumatism, injury, etc. Many types of artificial joints have been developed, and are currently in use, yet we are still at the stage where there has been no conclusion as to which type is superior. Since 1976 to the present, we have used the Okayama University Type Mark II and Kyocera Type Alumina Ceramic surface replacement type artificial knee joints, on 24 patients for the total of 33 joints. The patients consisted of 17 cases of RA and 7 cases of OA. The age range at the time of the surgery were from 28 years to 72, with the average age being 54 years. Clinical results were determined by comparing the patients' conditions before and after surgery, based on JOA judgement criteria concerning the three items of pain, range of movement and walking capacity. OA and RA were treated separately. Regarding pain, 6 areas were investigated: no pain, pain when standing up, pain from walking, pain when moving without a load, pain when going up and down stairs and last of all spontaneous pain. For the range of movement 3 items where investigated: extension lag, F. T. A. and quadriceps fermoris


Production function is one that determines the output of a firm, an industry, or an entire economy for all combinations of inputs. This paper engaged Cob-Douglas production functions to test the factors effective on walnut (Juglans regia) production in Hamadan, Fars and Semnan provinces. The cross-sectional data collected from 383 Walnut Growers by questionnaire with interview schedule. The variables of this study were Zulonfloo poison, labor, machinery, Iron fertilization, water and acreage. The Cob-Douglas production function selected as the most appropriate model to analyze the walnut production function. Econometric analysis results revealed that walnut growers have used the factors of production in the second area of production. The Findings also showed the elasticity of factors production such as Zulonfloo poison, labor, machinery, Iron fertilization, water. The result showed that there is increase of Returns to scale in walnut orchards of Hamadan, Fars and Semnan provinces. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p312


Objective
To study the efficacy and feasibility of the " one-stage and two classification" method to treat concomitant gallbladder stones and common bile duct stones.

Methods
56 consecutive patients with concomitant gallbladder stones and common bile duct stones in Central Hospital of Huzhou were treated with the " one-stage and two classification" method from January 2013 to January 2017. According to the size and quantity, common bile duct stones were divided into difficult stones and non difficult stones. In plan A (n=35), endoscopic stone clearance and laparoscopic cholecystectomy were undertaken in a single operation to treat non difficult stones, In plan B (n=21), laparoscopic cholecystectomy and CBD exploration without T-tube insertion were undertaken in a single operation to treat difficult stones. The operation success rate, postoperative complications, hospitalization stay and follow-up outcomes were analyzed.

Results
Fifty-six patients were enrolled in the study. Fifty-one patients were treated by the " one-stage and two classification" method. Among them, thirty-two patients followed treatment plan A. Three patients were converted to plan B because of failure of bile duct intubation. Nineteen patients were treated by plan B. One patient was converted to laparotomy, and another underwent T-tube drainage. The incidence of complication was 7.1%. Post-ERCP pancreatitis happened in one patient. Post ERCP bleeding happened in another patient (1.6%). Bile leakage occurred in one patient, and incision infection occurred in one patient. There were no deaths. During a follow-up of 6-24 months, no stone recurrence and bile duct stenosis were observed.

Conclusion
The " one-stage and two classification" method was an effective and feasible alternative to manage concomitant gallbladder stones and common bile duct stones.

Key words:
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP); Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration; Gallstones; Common bile duct stone


Given the individual and systemic stress endured by children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic, research examining culturally responsive school experiences and supports to enhance resilience is critical. This study examined the relationship between caregivers' perceptions of COVID-19 impact, mental health distress among children and caregivers, and school-based sociocultural protective factors, including culturally responsive practices in schools and the relationships between teachers and caregivers, concurrently and longitudinally. Data were collected from caregivers of elementary-aged children at two-time points from March to April 2020 (N = 174) and one year later in 2021 (N = 114). Regression analyses revealed that COVID-19 impact positively predicted and parent-teacher joining negatively predicted mental health concerns among children and families, concurrently and longitudinally. Furthermore, there was a positive relationship between caregivers' perceptions of teachers' social awareness and justice practices and mental health symptoms for children in 2020. Parent-teacher joining longitudinally moderated the relationship between COVID-19 impact and caregivers' mental health concerns. This study provides implications regarding sociocultural resilience factors that should be considered in schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.


Gas pressure drop of a Multi-Liquid-Inlet rotating packed bed(MLI-RPB) was studied by using air-water as a model system. Effects of rotational speed, gas flow-rate, and liquid flow-rate on the gas pressure drop were investigated. Experimental results show that the gas pressure drop increases with the increase of rotational speed and gas flow-rate. Under low gas flow-rate condition, gas pressure drop is not sensitive to the variation of flow-rate. However, under high gas flow-rate condition, flow-rate increase can result in a higher pressure drop. In addition, gas pressure drop experiments in a traditional RPB with the same rotor size as the MLI-RPB were also studied. The results indicate that the pressure drop in the MLI-RPB is smaller under the same operating conditions.


In order to assess the trustworthiness of information on social media, a consumer needs to understand where this information comes from, and which processes were involved in its creation. The entities, agents and activities involved in the creation of a piece of information are referred to as its provenance, which was standardized by W3C PROV. However, current social media APIs cannot always capture the full lineage of every message, leaving the consumer with incomplete or missing provenance, which is crucial for judging the trust it carries. Therefore in this paper, we propose an approach to reconstruct the provenance of messages on social media on multiple levels. To obtain a fine-grained level of provenance, we use an approach from prior work to reconstruct information cascades with high certainty, and map them to PROV using the PROV-SAID extension for social media. To obtain a coarse-grained level of provenance, we adapt our similarity-based, fuzzy provenance reconstruction approach -- previously applied on news. We illustrate the power of the combination by providing the reconstructed provenance of a limited social media dataset gathered during the 2012 Olympics, for which we were able to reconstruct a significant amount of previously unidentified connections.


Part 1 Atlas of normal anatomy. Part 2 Atlas of brain pathology. Part 3: congenital abnormalities cerebral trauma supratentorial tumours infratentorial tumours haemorrhagic vascular disease non-haemorhagic vascular disease infections and inflammatory diseases neurodegenerative and white matter diseases hydrocephalus advanced techniques in neuroradiology.


Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are bled for biomedical purposes to produce Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), a valuable material used to detect endotoxins in medical devices and implants. Previous studies generally found mortality from the bleeding process of 5–15% with one study reporting 29% for females; the 15% value is now used for management purposes. However, most of these studies looked only at males, did not mimic handling practices typical of the biomedical facility in Massachusetts, or harvested females after the spawning season when much of the actual biomedical harvest occurs. Female mortality is of particular concern because they have greater importance than males for population dynamics, are preferentially harvested, and are more likely to be physiologically stressed than males because of energy outlay for egg production. We examined the mortality of unbled female horseshoe crabs versus that of crabs bled by the local biomedical company and either returned directly to water, or held overnight as is the current practice. Mortality of Control (unbled) crabs was low (3%) and differed significantly (p < 0.001) from that of either bled group (22.5% and 29.8% mortality, respectively); the two bled groups did not differ significantly from each other (p = 0.31). Mortality rates in bled treatment groups were double those used in current management of the biomedical fishery. The bait and biomedical fisheries are managed differently because biomedical is considered a low-mortality "catch and release" fishery. States and interstate management agencies may want to re-examine policies surrounding biomedical horseshoe crab harvest based on these results.


Objective To study the effect of high glucose and high insulin on cardiac fibroblast proliferation. Methods The neonatal rat cardiac fibroblasts were cultured and treated with different factors.Cell proliferation was measured with cell number and the DNA synthesis assayed with thymidine intake method,the percentage of S+G_2+M in cell cycle. Results After being treated with high glucose,high insulin,high glucose and high insulin,the cell number,DNA synthesis,the percentage of S+G_2+M in cell cycle were increased significantly(P0.01) compared with control group.High glucose and high insulin group showed a further increase compared with high glucose group and high insulin group(P0.01).Conclusions High glucose and high insulin can coordinately promote proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts.


The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) is a measure widely used in the studies carried out in various fields of applied psychology. This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Romanian version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). To assess the factorial structure and validity of MSPSS (Study 1), 556 Romanian adolescents completed the MSPSS together with measures of overall life satisfaction, satisfaction with family, probability of engaging in risk behaviors, negative affective disposition, and suicidal risk. The factorial structure was counter-validated in a second sample of 702 adolescents (Study 2). In a third study, 149 adolescents completed the MSPSS twice, to estimate test-retest reliability. The data resulted from the exploratory factor analysis indicated three factors that accounted for 73.67% of the total item variance. Comparative analysis of four hypothetical measurement models showed the superiority of the three-factor model. Multi-group data analysis revealed the invariance of the factorial model across adolescent's gender and age. In the three samples, the internal consistencies of the MSPSS subscales were found to be high (Cronbach's α = .86-.91). The values of test-retest reliability were: Family = .79, Friends = .78, Significant other = .78, and total MSPSS = .78. Also, evidence for the concurrent and construct (discriminant) validity is presented. Girls reported higher levels of all types of social support as well as total support. Compared with adolescents living in disintegrated families, those from intact families reported higher levels of social support from their families. The MSPSS is a valid and reliable short measure that can be administered to explore the perceived social support from family, friends, or significant other among adolescents. * Corresponding author. Associate Professor, PhD E-mail address: email@example.com V. Robu, A. Sandovici, M. Ciudin/ Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education and Didactics 66


Idle-listening and unproportional use of relay nodes is the biggest challenge for energyefficiency and longevity wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments. While existing Low power listening (LPL)-based MAC protocols employ the concept of micro sleep periods of 5ms to catch packets destined to the radio while alleviating idle-listening Next to idlelistening, an equally critical problem for the longevity of WSNs is the unproportional use of some nodes for relaying, which depletes the energy at these frequently used nodes.We propose a novel coordinated sleep/wakeup protocol SNOOZE NAP focus on avoiding the overhead of distributing complex, large sleep/wakeup scheduling information to the nodes. SNOOZE NAP piggybacks onto the relayed data packets the seed of the pseudo-random generator that encodes the scheduling information, and enables any recipient/snooper to calculate its sleep/wakeup schedule from this seed. In essence, SNOOZE NAP trades off doing extra computation in order to avoid expensive control packet transmissions. Through real implementation it shows that SNOOZE NAP eliminates the idle-listening problem and proper load balancing efficiently and achieves low-latency, and low-cost relaying of data packets for random routing protocols


Glass fiber is first pre-treated with water solution of coupling agent and then mixed homogeneously with caprolactam monomer. The mixture is heated, dewatered, added with catalyst and activating agent, cast fast in preheated mold to produce the cast composite nylon material with high-content reinforcing glass fiber of the presnt invention after demolding. The composite material thus prepared has relatively higher tension strength, tensile elastic modulus, bending strength and bending elastic modulus.


While much in the history of "madness" has changed over the course of time, one of the most consistent—yet sometimes overlooked—features of that history has been the presence of the visual arts.


From electrochemical potentiodynamic and potentiostatic techniques, the electrodeposition mechanism and kinetics of palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) onto a glassy carbon electrode (GCE), from Pd(II) ions dissolved in the choline chloride-urea deep eutectic solvent (reline) at 343 K, is reported for the first time. From the analysis of the potentiostatic current density transients, using the model developed by Palomar-Pardavé et al. [Electrochim. Acta, 2005, 50, 4736-4745], shows that the PdNPs electrodeposition occurs by multiple 3D nucleation and diffusion controlled-growth with the simultaneous reduction of residual water on the PdNPs growing surfaces. This model renders not just the quantification of the palladium nucleation kinetics parameters, but effectively allows deconvolving the individual contributions to the total current; thus, from the integration of the j-t plots of these contributions. It was demonstrated that the charge amount of each process depends on the deposition time and applied overpotential. From SEM images it was possible to verify that the palladium deposits were constituted by PdNPs and from XPS measurements that these PdNPs were formed by a metallic palladium (core) and Pd(OH)2 (shell).


Red spinach leaves (Amaranthus tricolor L) is one of the plants that functions as an antioxidant that is very strong because of the high flavonoid compounds. Cream is a semi-solid dosage form containing one or more dissolved or dispersed medicinal ingredients into the appropriate base material. The purpose of this study was to determine whether red spinach extract (Amaranthus tricolor L.) can be formulated into an antioxidant cream preparation with a variety of extract concentrations. The cream was formulated with variations of F1 extract (2%), F2 (2.5%), F3 (3%), F4 (positive control) containing vitamin E, F5 (negative control). Physical testing of the preparation included organoleptic tests, homogeneity, viscosity, pH, dispersion, adhesion, cream type, and frezee and thaw. The absorbance data was used to measure IC50. The results of the data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA with a 95% confidence level. The antioxidant activity test results showed IC50 formula 1, formula 2, formula 3, formula 4, formula 5 respectively 31,187 ppm, 30,935 ppm, 29,522 ppm, 10,382 ppm, 257,462 ppm. Formula 3 is a formula of antioxidant cream preparation of red spinach leaf extract (Amaranthus tricolor L) which has the best activity against antioxidants by DPPH. There are differences in physical stability in each antioxidant cream formula of red spinach leaf extract (Amaranthus tricolor L).
Keywords: red spinach leaves, antioxidants, creams, DPPH


A process is disclosed for the preparation of zinc alkyl chain growth products via a catalysed chain growth reaction of an alpha-olefin on a zinc alkyl, wherein the chain growth catalyst system employs a group 3-10 transition metal, or a group 3 main group metal, or a lanthanide or actinide complex, and optionally a suitable activator. The products can be further converted into alpha-olefins by olefin displacement of the grown alkyls as alpha-olefins from the zinc alkyl chain growth product, or into primary alcohols, by oxidation of the resulting zinc alkyl chain growth product to form alkoxide compounds, followed by hydrolysis of the alkoxides.


Magnetic fields can alter the rate, yield or product distribution of chemical reactions2,3. This thesis is concerned with the — relatively uninvestigated — effects of weak magnetic fields B0 ∼ 1mT found in nature. This thesis is motivated by a desire to lay firm physico-chemical foundations for discussion of the biological effects of magnetic fields. It presents new theoretical tools and applies them to interpret experimental measurements.


This paper presents a methodology and algorithm for generating diffeomorphisms of the sphere onto itself, given the displacements of a finite set of template landmarks. Deformation maps are constructed by integration of velocity fields that minimize a quadratic smoothness energy under the specified landmark constraints. We present additional formulations of this problem which incorporate a given error variance in the positions of the landmarks. Finally, some experimental results are presented. This work has application in brain mapping, where surface data is typically mapped to the sphere as a common coordinate system.


A novel method for non-contact detection of photoacoustic signals is presented and experimentally demonstrated. The approach is based on time varying speckle pattern analysis and suggests a more robust alternative for interferometric and refractometric solutions.


Renal-cell carcinoma (RCC) most often metastasizes to the lungs, liver, and brain. Metastases of RCC to the pancreas are very rare. In the last decade, only a few cases of metachronous metastasis of kidney cancer to the pancreas have been reported in the literature. This article presents a case report of a 75-year-old female patient with a 16-year history of treatment of clear-cell carcinoma of the kidney, in whom pancreatic metastases were detected twice. Renal-cell carcinoma may have an indolent course with late relapse or may show dissemination. It is important to establish new recommendations for long-term follow-up in patients after radical treatment


This paper presents a prototype of web-based collaborative design system that is being developed to ease difficulties experienced by geographically distributed design project team members in collaborative decision making. The primary goal for such a system would be to provide a platform where project information can be effectively shared with any of the project participating agents from anywhere and with a very few limitations on the computing device.


These last few years, several supervised scores have been proposed in the literature to select histograms. Applied to color texture classification problems, these scores have improved the accuracy by selecting the most discriminant histograms among a set of available ones computed from a color image. In this paper, two new scores are proposed to select histograms: The adapted Variance score and the adapted Laplacian score. These new scores are computed without considering the class label of the images, contrary to what is done until now. Experiments, achieved on OuTex, USPTex, and BarkTex sets, show that these unsupervised scores give as good results as the supervised ones for LBP histogram selection.


Excerpt The occurrence of papilledema with severe anemia is a very rare phenomenon. Despite the high incidence of iron-deficiency anemias of all etiologies, the literature covering the past 50 year...


Tumors have adapted various cellular antidotes and microenvironmental conditions to subsist against photodynamic therapy (PDT) and chemodynamic therapy (CDT). Here, the development of reactive oxygen species (ROS)‐activatable liposomes (RALP) for therapeutic enhancement by simultaneously addressing the critical questions in PDT and CDT is reported. The design of RALP@HOC@Fe3O4 features ROS‐cleavable linker molecules for improved tumor penetration/uptake and ondemand cargo releasing, and integration of Fe3O4 and an oxaliplatin prodrug for smart regulation of hypoxia tumor microenvironment. Glutathione stored by the tumor cells is consumed by the prodrug to produce highly toxic oxaliplatin. Depletion of glutathione not only avoids the undesired annihilation of ROS in PDT, but also modulates the chemical specie equilibria in tumors for H2O2 promotion, leading to greatly relieved tumor hypoxia and PDT enhancement. Synergistically, Fe (II) in the hybrid RALP formulation can be fuelled by H2O2 to generate •OH in the Fenton reaction, thus elevating CDT efficiency. This work offers a strategy for harnessing smart, responsive, and biocompatible liposomes to enhance PDT and CDT by regulating tumor microenvironment, highlighting a potential clinical translation beneficial to patients with cancer.


This project described methods of early identification and implementation of various interventions used to increase achievement of students at risk in grades three, four, and five at John D. Floyd Elementary School in Spring Hill, Florida. The 51 children who qualified for and were enrolled in the dropout prevention program had achievement scores below national and state norms. Possible causes of the low achievement scores included poor attendance, retention, inconsistent time on task, inappropriate teaching strategies, large class size, inadequate material, nonsLequenced curriculum, and unstructured computer instructional time. Individual education plans were designed for children and interventions included curriculum revision, specific teaching strategies related to individual needs, increased use of technology and manipulatives to reinforce instruction, positive reinforcement of lessons, consistent disciplinary practices with rewards, and guidance activities to develop self-image. After implementation of the program the achievement scores of the targeted students increased. Eleven appendixes provide copies of: (1) suggested criteria for identification of students; (2) additional criteria; (3) an alternative program statement of eligibility; (4) an opportunity matrix; (5) a parent current status survey; (6) a teacher survey; (7) a parent evaluation survey; (8) a dropout prevention program checklist; (9) a student behavior contract; (10) a program statement of eligibility; and (11) student assessment results. Contains 31 references. (MDM) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. ********************************AA********************************* U 5 DEPARTMENT OP EDUCATION Offce of Educational Refearch and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 'This document has been reproduced as eceived from the person or organization originating it 0 Mmor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view of opinions staled in this docu. merit do not necessarily represent official OE RI position or pohcy Early Identification and Interventions for Elementary Students at Risk of Not Succeeding in School Janet Yungmann Principal John D. Floyd Elementary School Hernando County Schools Spring Hill, Florida A Major Applied Research Project Report presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education Nova University National Ed.D Program for Educational Leaders Gainesville HI Ouster


Static and dynamic evaluation of pelvic floor disorders with an open low-field tilting magnet V. Fiaschetti , D. Pastorelli , E. Squillaci , V. Funel *, M. Rascioni , A. Meschini , C. Salimbeni , P. Sileri , L. Franceschilli , G. Simonetti a Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiation Therapy, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy b Surgery Department, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy


Objective: The present study was performed to evaluate the success rate of the lip repositioning surgery by assessment of the soft tissue changes and the relapse associated with that procedure. Methods: six female patients were included in the study who suffered from gummy smile ranging from 4-6 mm due to hypermobility of the upper lip or short upper lip. Pre-operative measurement of the amount of gingival display during smiling was recorded digitally using Adobe Photoshop cs6 through well standardized photographs. Lip repositioning surgery was performed under local anesthesia for all patients by removing a strap of epithelium through an elliptical outline followed by primary closure of the wound by interrupted 0-5 resorbable suture. All patients were followed up at 14 days, 4 months, 8 months and 12 months, postoperative assessment was done by measuring the same preoperative measurement. Results: Post-operative measurements at 14 days follow up, showed marked reduction in the gingival display. However complete relapse was observed at 4smonth and thereafter. Conclusion: Lip repositioning surgery isn't an effective technique in addressing excess gingival display with almost complete relapse associated with the procedure.


We systematically investigate the speed of sound in QCD matter under different conditions in the grand canonical ensemble within the Polyakov loop improved Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. The numerical results indicate that the dependence of speed of sound on parameters like temperature and chemical potential can be indicative of QCD phase transition. Some new features of speed of sound are discovered, for instance, the hierarchy of sound velocity for $u(d)$ and $s$ quark at low temperature with the increasing chemical potential and the squared sound velocity approaching to almost zero in the critical region. We also formulate the relations between differently defined sound velocity using the fundamental thermodynamic relations. Some conclusions derived are useful for hydrodynamics simulation and calculation of transport coefficient of bulk viscosity.