Zirconia (ZrO2) ceramic and Nb were brazed using Ag-Cu-Ti powder without and with Mo-particle-reinforced. The effects of the brazing temperature, holding time and Mo content of the composite filler on the interfacial microstructures and joining mechanism of ZrO2/Nb brazed joints were investigated. By increasing the brazing temperature and holding time, the thickness of Ti3Cu3O layer increased and the thickness of TiO layer decreased, while the total thickness of the reaction layers increased slightly with the sufficient interfacial reaction. Meanwhile, the blocky Ti-Cu compounds gradually accumulate and grow up in the brazing seam. The calculated Ti activity increased first and then decreased as the Mo content was increased from 5 to 40 wt%. When the Mo content was 5wt%, only single Ti3Cu3O reaction layers formed adjacent to the ceramic substrate. By increasing of Mo particles, TiO layer became thicker. When 40 wt% Mo particles were added to the composite filler, Mo particles aggregated into larger clumps damaged the shear strength of brazing joint.


Background: The purpose of this clinical study was to establish liposuction and lipoinjection as a noncosmetic procedure in children to correct lipodystrophies. Methods: Liposuction, fat injection, or a combination of both was performed on 30 patients between 1994 and 2006 at Roberto del Rio Hospital or Clinica Alemana, Santiago, Chile. Liposuction was indicated in patients with excessive amounts of fatty tissue or tumor-like swelling. Combined liposuction and lipoinjection was performed on patients with deficit and excess in soft tissues. Lipoinjection was used for patients with soft-tissue insufficiencies. Samples of fat obtained by liposuction were submitted to histopathologic examination. Traditional tumescent technique was used for liposuction. The supernatant obtained by simple filtration was used for fat injection. Short- and long-term postoperative follow-up included registration of complications and assessment of aesthetic and functional outcome. The kappa test was used for statistical analysis. Results: Thirty patients, nine boys and 21 girls, were operated on, with an average age of 11 years (range, 4 to 17 years). A total of 43 procedures were performed: 27 liposuctions, 10 lipoinjections, and six combined procedures. Average hospital stay was 1.1 days. Of a total 20 patients who underwent liposuction, six required revision. Histopathologic study showed 19 lipomatoses and one lipoblastomatosis. Cosmetic outcomes based on Strasser scale were as follows: six excellent, 19 good, four mediocre, and one poor. Conclusions: Liposuction and lipoinjection as sole or combined procedures are safe methods for the pediatric population. They are well tolerated, with a low rate of complications and satisfactory aesthetic results.


An impact of environment on mortality rates is often modeled by a proportional hazards model. This model describes the memory-less property, when the mortality rate at a given instant of time depends only on current environment and does not depend on a history. In the presence of aging (degradation) this assumption is usually unrealistic and historydependent models should be considered. The simplest stochastic degradation model is the accelerated life model. We discuss both models and their generalizations for the cohort setting and apply the developed approach to the period setting for the case when environment (stress) is modeled by functions with switching points (jumps in the level of stress). We also consider notions of individual and population aging in a variable environment and suggest some stochastic measures suitable for the corresponding stochastic ordering.


The Hurst Exponent,H=0.641,can be obtained by doing the fractal test of Composite Index of Shanghai Stock Exchange as well as the normal distribution test of its logarithm yield,which proves Shanghai Stock Market not only obtains obvious constancy and tendency,not random walk,but also is of fractal structure.The cycle period on the average,N=60 weeks,shows that Shanghai Stock Market has strong ability in short-term behavior mode,so it is of high risk.And the logarithm yield conforms to stable-paretian distribution instead of normal distribution.In short,the Efficient Market Hypothesis should be rejected while fractal Market Hypothesis supported according to the test results.


Using a two-round longitudinal panel data set from the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY), the present study examined the roles of antidrug-related community activities at both individual and aggregate levels in the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. This study found a main effect of parent's antidrug-specific community activities on targeted parent-child communication about drugs. More interestingly, parents who did not actively participate in antidrug-related community activities were more likely to talk about drugs with their offspring after being exposed to the antidrug campaign ads than were their counterparts. In contrast, there was little evidence for a contextual effect of aggregate-level antidrug-specific community activities on targeted parent-child communication or for its cross-level interaction with campaign exposure. The implications of these findings for communication research and public health intervention efforts were discussed.


The alternating direction implicit finite difference time domain (ADI-FDTD) method is implemented for the efficient simulation of graphene antennas. The proposed approach is applied for nano-patch antenna and the numerical results are validated with respect to the conventional FDTD method. It is found that the proposed approach is approximately 58.6 % faster than the conventional FDTD method, in terms of simulation time, at Courant Freidrichs Lewy number (CFLN) = 80.


This study seeks to investigate the reporting conditions in the early coverage of the coronavirus crisis by the China correspondents of two Spanish newspapers: El País and ABC. After conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the correspondents, this study finds that they only started to focus on the viral outbreak once Wuhan city had been locked down. The interviewed correspondents faced logistical, political, professional and personal challenges while covering coronavirus in China due to the impossibility of entering Wuhan, censorship, difficulties in finding peo ple that would speak to them and the general uncertainty of the situation, respectively. They also showed diverging perceptions with regards to the implications of their role for intercultural dialogue. The present study helps to contextualize foreign correspondents' coverage of Covid-19 in China by shedding light on the factors that constrained their professional practice.


The rate of ammonium ion uptake by seven-week-old seedlings of Pinus radiata from complete nutrient solutions, when described in terms of the carrier hypothesis and the analogous theory of enzyme kinetics, had a Michaelis-Menten constant (KM) of 15.3 ^M/litre with a standard error of the mean equal to 5.6 ^M/litre. Although uptake rates at concentrations up to 110 ^M/litre were in accord with the Michaelis-Menten equation, anomalously high rates of uptake were observed at 230 ^M/litre.


Conference control has been studied for years but most researches focus on homogenous collaboration. There is no conference control framework for integration of multiple collaboration systems such as H.323, SIP and AccessGrid. In this paper we present a web-services based scalable conference control framework for such a heterogeneous collaboration system. Based on this framework, we implemented a prototype system to verify and refine our framework. This system can support various conferencing endpoints and communities.


This study shows the process design and forming analysis of permalloy shielding can that support the automobile multi-display parts to indicate the accurate information of car. This study is particularly important, since the accuracy of permalloy shielding can is known to affect the magnetic properties such as coercivity and permeability quite sensitively. The objective functions are defects such as hemming wind, hemming length, hemming wrap and tightness in prehemming process. The pre-hemming angle is considered as design parameter. The commercial finite element program PAM-STAMP™ was used to simulate the pre-hemming and hemming process. The ANN (Artificial Neural Network) has been implemented for minimizing of objective function and for investigating effect of punch angle relevant to the pre-hemming process. The results of analysis to validate the proposed design method are presented.


reputation, livelihood, or pocket of a citizen may be taken by bodies with only the vaguest of rules of procedure and from whom appeal to the courts is impossible. This trend is wrong. It should be the case that a doctor's professional competence can be challenged only in the courts and his professional conduct only before the G.M.C. But since the profession has done nothing effective to cope with overprescribing in the five years since the Brain Report3 linked it to drug addiction it is in no position to complain about the proposed legislation. The lesson is that in the coming review of the functions of the G.M.C. doctors should insist on disciplinary procedures that are swift, fair, and effective. Only if the profession's own court is seen to function well can it oppose the proliferation of other non-judicial bodies to carry out tasks that are properly its own.


The present work reports an experimental investigation carried out on a mini flume of 130 mm outer diameter. In this apparatus, in which a tangential turoidal flow is induced, one aims to simulate in laboratory, flow conditions similar to those observed in a natural estuary bed. The data were taken using a commercial 2D LDA system, enabling the simultaneous measurement of two velocity components. In the present experiments, it was investigated an aqueous solution of glycerine whose characteristics resemble those of the sediment laden fluid. It was also investigated the effect of a rough bed, moulded on a natural sediment. Various Reynolds numbers were investigated. The results show that local turbulence is closely linked to the onset of erosion. The presence of a rough wall increases the local turbulence levels and the occurrence of recirculation pockets in its vicinity.


In this paper, we apply the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) approach to demonstrate the continuous improvement in forecasting the manufacturing costs for a flat panel display equipment manufacturer. Soft systems methodology (SSM) was selected as a tool and applied to the improvement phase of the LSS approach, as it is a problem-solving methodology that is suitable for complex problems. A very important aspect of SSM is its reliance on being a participative process where knowledge and resultants can only be gained through debate. The purpose of the debate is finding a compromise that everyone can accept. The results show that the application of LSS approach with SSM effectively improves the supportive activities as well as the manufacturing processes.


22 Growing evidence suggests circadian rhythms, nutrition and metabolism are intimately 23 linked. Intermittent fasting (IMF) has become an increasingly popular intervention for 24


This book explores the role of proteases in biological control systems and diseases, examines their structures and evolution, and reviews the methods by which proteases and protease inhibitors are engineered. In addition, the use of recombinant DNA technology is explained throughout the volume. Specific topics examined include: the versatility of proteolytic enzymes, the intricate proteolytic control mechanisms in hemostasis and their application to thrombolytic therapy, the evolution of proteolytic enzymes, and the role of limited proteolytic processing in several biological control processes.


An experimental investigation of two-color polarization spectroscopy (TCPS) is presented based on the cesium 6S1/2 – 6P3/2 – 8S1/2 (852.3 nm + 794.6 nm) ladder-type system in a room-temperature vapor cell. The dependency of line shapes of TCPS on the power of a 852.3 nm pump and a 794.6 nm probe laser is measured in detail, and we confirm that the linewidth of TCPS in a counter-propagating configuration between the pump and probe laser beams is obviously narrower than that of a co-propagating configuration, due to the atomic coherence effect. It is helpful for laser stabilization of the excited state transition using TCPS without frequency modulation.


The current interest in the displacement of farm workers by machines should draw our attention to what may be an even more serious problem, the basic unemployment patterns of farm workers in California. There is widespread conviction that this problem is one of the most critical facing our rural communities, yet data that would enable us to describe it in even the most approximate terms is virtually nonexistent and difficult to obtain.


We study the expansion of a plane wave in terms of the prolate spheroidal vector wavefunction. An approach for computing the expansion coefficients has been presented. The numerical values of the spheroidal eigenvalues and the expansion coefficients g/sub n/ are given.


Psychological crises prevention and intervention of Chinese college students are the main emphases of psychological health education in Chinese universities, which become a research hotspot in recent years. This paper, according to Chinese college students' current situations, divides the college students' psychological crises into eight types: adaptive type, learningpressure type, love and emotional type, interpersonal relationship type, situational type, economy-pressure type, employment-pressure type, synthesizing type and so on, and gives different prevention and intervention measures for different types.


Designing sustainable energy policies heavily impacts the economic development, environmental resource management and social acceptance. There are four main steps in the policy making process: planning, environmental assessment, implementation and monitoring. We focus here on the first three steps that are performed ex-ante. We describe in this paper these steps tailored on the energy policy process. We also propose enabling technologies for implementing a decision support system for energy policy making.


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Objective To optimize the condition of converting murine naive CD4+ CD25-T cells ( effector T cells,Teffs) to CD4-CD8-double negative regulatory T cells ( DN Tregs) in vitro.Methods Naive Teffs from C57BL/6 mouse were isolated with magnetic activated cell sorting( MACS)and co-cultured with DBA/2 mature dendritic cells (mDCs) with different doses of recombinant murine interleukin-2 (IL-2).The percentage of converted DN Tregs was examined by flow cytometry after 6 days.Purified DN Tregs were co-cultured with CFSE labeled Teffs.The proliferation rate of Teffs were evaluated by flow cytometry.Results Without IL-2,the percentage of CD4-CD8-T cells was 6.21% ± 2.03%.With IL-2,the percentage was 14.77% ± 2.15% ( 25 ng/ml),21.29% ± 2.68% (50 ng/ml),43.45% ±4.45% (75 ng/ml),and 28.59% ±3.05% ( 100 ng/ml) respectively.The IL-2 concentration of 75 ng/ml signilicantly enhanced the conversion of Teffs to DN Tregs ( separately t =10.700,8.288,6.158,3.932,all P < 0.05).Highly purified DN Trega significantly suppress the proliferation of Teffs in vitro.Conclusions Teffs are converted to DN Trega in vitro with the LPS-activated allogeneic mDCs and that 75 ng/ml of IL-2 is the optimal concentration for the conversion of Teffs to DN Trogs in vitro.

Key words:
T-lymphocytes,regulatory; Dendritic cells; Cell culture techniques


This paper is a critical assessment of Chinese literature for children with reference to the People's Republic of China. It reviews literature for children in ancient and modern China. Children in ancient times could enjoy adult literature, mostly based on historical events and figures, of the highly romantic and adventurous kinds. In the post‐revolution era Chinese literature was imitative of the West, using fantasy and animal characterisation. In contemporary China the short story format is popular but realistic fiction is very rare. However, where children's literature excels is illustrations in picture books. Chinese children's picture books provide a visual feast because of the different art forms used, including classical Chinese painting style. Narrative style in picture books and short stories, on the other hand, lacks a child's narrative voice. More successful narration has been achieved by children's writers from elsewhere, e.g. Hong Kong and Taiwan. Contemporary Chinese literature is still rath...


Proper management of hospital inpatient admissions involves a large number of decisions that have complex and uncertain consequences for hospital resource utilization and patient flow. Further, inpatient admissions has a significant impact on the hospital's profitability, access, and quality of care. Making effective decisions to drive high quality, efficient hospital behavior is difficult, if not impossible, without the aid of sophisticated decision support. Hancock and Walter (1983) developed such a management system with documented implementation success, but for each hospital the system parameters are "optimized" manually. We present a framework for valuing instances of this management system via simulation and optimizing the system parameters using a genetic algorithm based search. This approach reduces the manual overhead in designing a hospital management system and enables the creation of Pareto efficiency curves to better inform management of the trade-offs between critical hospital metrics when designing a new control system.


Let be a sequence of independent random variables with common distribution and define the iteration , , . We denote by the domain of maximal attraction of , the extreme value distribution of the first type. Greenwood and Hooghiemstra showed in 1991 that for there exist norming constants and such that has a non-degenerate (distributional) limit. In this paper we show that the same is true for , the type II and type III domains. The method of proof is entirely different from the method in the aforementioned paper. After a proof of tightness of the involved sequences we apply (modify) a result of Donnelly concerning weak convergence of Markov chains with an entrance boundary


Voltage source converters that are dependable and of the highest quality are offered by Multilevel Inverter to convert DC power systems to the AC power grid. One of the intriguing technologies in the field of power electronics are multilevel inverters (MLIs) in various configurations. It is also possible to integrate a few DC sources in MLIs to create a singular output, reducing the number of isolated inverters, the overall component count, and losses. MLIs are the top converters in many applications because to their capacity for medium and high-power applications. In order to produce the levels for the stair case wave shape, this research work introduces a new configuration module for asymmetrical multilevel in which capacitors are employed as DC linkages. With two unequal DC sources, the suggested Box -type modular structure will produce more voltage levels. It is useful for a variety of renewable applications since it has two back-to-back T-type inverters and minimal parts. This module contains this structured method to lessen the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) rating and raise the quality of the sinusoidal output voltage.


This paper addresses the constrained control in relationship with time-delayed systems application. We are particularly interested in its potential application to driving simulation. Driving simulators are electro-mechanical structures that reproduce the environment of a driver (steering wheel, pedals, seat, road displayed on a screen,…) and are able to move within a restricted safe area on purpose to reproduce the driver's feelings and particularly the acceleration ones through the inner ear. Those movements are controlled by the Motion Cueing Algorithm (MCA) which consists in a Model-based Predictive Controller (MPC) converting in closed loop the expected acceleration to displacements all by observing the physical constraints. Its design is realized in a way to minimize the difference between effective felt acceleration and the expected one. In this application context, the movements inertia and communication protocols may induce delays between the computation block of the controller and the response that lead to serious discomforts of the humans in the simulators, known under the Motion Sickness symptoms. In the present paper, we revisit the control formulation for this motion cueing algorithm in a control perspective and propose a control strategy that compensates the delays in way to satisfy real-time constraints during implementation in a simple yet effective manner. The performance and limitation of a such strategy are discussed to raise the awareness on the design trade-off and decisions.


The effect of bio-polymer as compounding material in mechanical properties of HDPE is described in this study. 10% of bio-polymer was added to the HDPE and then mixed by using Brabender Plastograph machine using mixer and roller screw and then test specimens were prepared by injection moulding. The origin bio-polymer (VOP), HDPE and the compounding bio-polymer/ HDPE (CDM) were compared by using tensile test and the microstructure was investigated through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for the fractured surface of the samples. The tensile strength of CDM was found to increase that is 17.47 MPa compared to pure VOP that only 5.69 MPa while pure HDPE has the highest tensile strength that is 20.98 MPa. By adding 10% bio-polymer to the HDPE was increased up the strength at about 207.16% while pure HDPE produced 268.91% increment with VOP as the precursor. SEM of the VOP produced brittle fracture surface while CDM have brittle and ductile surface and HDPE has totally ductile surface with highest plastic deformation properties of all.


IT was shown during the past year by Dr G. Grijnsl who worked in Prof. C. Ludwig's Laboratory that the temperature of the urine in the pelvis of the kidney immediately after secretion is often higher than that of the blood in the aorta. There is thus a redistribution of the potential energy carried by the blood stream to the kidney together with the production of heat such as one is accustomed to associate with the functional activity of "secreting" glands like the pancreas or salivary glands. Now it is well known that atropine has an inhibitory effect upon the secretory activity of these glands. It became therefore of interest to determine how far the kidney would correspond in this respect, if at all, to the glands mentioned. Accordingly with the advice and permission of Prof. C. Ludwig, to whom my best thanks are due, I undertook an investigation into this subject, the results of which are given in the following pages.


The point of open systems acquisitions is to ensure that we obtain the most effective weapon systems possible—systems that are affordable, accommodate changing technology, and promote multiple sources of supply. Establishing a disciplined systems engineering approach is essential to achieving this goal. increasingly on commercial markets for affordable product development and support. So, as DoD's role shifts from being a technology producer to being a technology consumer, it relies more on commercial products whose design is not controlled by DoD and whose lifetimes are much shorter and more volatile than the weapons systems they support (e.g., years vs. decades). As a result, acquisition managers risk relying on unique products provided by a single supplier at high non-competitive prices and with little opportunity for technology insertion by other suppliers. Here we discuss the need for a rigorous systems engineering process that incorporates open systems concepts and principles—where resulting system designs more readily accommodate changing technology to achieve cost, schedule, and performance benefits by T he open system approach is both a technical approach to systems engineering and a preferred business strategy that is becoming widely applied by commercial manufacturers of large complex systems. It has the attention of Department of Defense (DoD) managers, who have mandated its use by DoD systems developers. Why? Because without such a change in system development practice, DoD risks being unable to afford to maintain continued superior combat capability. Today, legacy weapons systems continue to be developed with their own often-unique and frequently closed infrastruc-tures, making upgrading or modifying them over their expected lifetimes (20 to 40 years) both problematic and expensive. Also, reduced procurement budgets and increased dominance of commercial technology cause acquisition managers to rely


Reliable protections are the guarantee of the safe and stable operation of HVDC system. In order to avoid the mal-operation of the transmission line protection in HVDC system due to the lightning stroke disturbance, this paper studies the different characteristics of lightning disturbance and fault, and proposes a voltage deviation based lightning stroke identification method. The voltage deviation of positive pole is utilised to distinguish lightning disturbance from lightning fault, and the voltage deviation of negative pole is utilised to identify the fault type. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed lightning stroke identification method can distinguish disturbances form faults and judge the fault type correctly.


International harmonization of staging evaluation and response criteria is needed for childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood Hodgkin lymphoma. Two Hodgkin lymphoma protocols from cooperative trials in Europe and North America were compared for areas in need of harmonization, and an evidence‐based approach is currently underway to harmonize staging and response evaluations with a goal to enhance comparisons, expedite identification of effective therapies, and aid in the approval process for new agents by regulatory agencies.


Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are a new class of green solvents used to dissolve non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for potential non-aqueous liquid administration applications. Several NSAIDs are readily soluble in various DESs to a high concentration. Aspirin, a hydrolabile NSAID, was 8.2-fold more stable against cleavage in DES than in water.


"Sexual acts with child under 14 years, are more common every day more than imaginable, this occurs throughout the country, and the Colombian government has not yet efficient enough structure to provide the support and help needed to children victims of this criminal behavior, which occur in children, depression, sadness, anxiety, etc., affecting you in on how your present and future social development. While there have been great efforts and there are entities such as ""believe in you"" that engaged in this re-socialization and support of children, facing one of the guidelines of the large cluster problem in casualties and very few entities such as foundations to serve them similar to the above, while this is the only one whose objectives focus on the rehabilitation of disturbed children due to sexual abuse, although government entities and the state try to co-assist in their public policies with some activities to the issue, and coupled with the little structure focused on the rehabilitation of minors is ineffective by some officials of both state and private entities in the accompaniment to children, adolescents."


In this paper, we propose a new duplex scheme based on the multi-carrier transmission technology, multi-carrier division duplex (MCDD). MCDD exploits a time-spreading technique, the aim of which is reducing an impact of inter-link interference due to loss of orthogonality. When MCDD exploits the time-spreading with one of spreading factor, we regards this one as orthogonal frequency division duplex (OFDD), which we proposed in our previous literatures. On the other hand, when MCDD exploits greater than one of spreading factor, we regards this one as multi-carrier code division duplex (MC-CDD). We investigate how time-spreading improves the performance of MCDD system in the presence of carrier frequency offset by computer simulation. From the results, we confirm that OFDD is tolerable to the inter-link interference due to the normalized carrier frequency offset of up to 0.1. We also confirm that MC-CDD with time-spreading reduces the impact of inter-link interference and improves the performance even when the normalized carrier frequency offset is 0.5.


The initiative shoot condition of the ballistic equation of rocket gun is still general,but on the warship,the ship mov- ing will make the solution of the equation great deviation.In order to reducing the deviation,the paper in vents an amend to the ship moving during solving the equation systems of ballistic of the rocket gun on the ship.The result of simulation shows that the ship moving will make great deviation,the amend model is f some value.


With the advancement in wind and solar technology, now large wind-farms and PV systems are being integrated in the power system. This brings new level of challenges for both protection and planning engineers. This paper reviews the renewable power generation technologies available in the current market and challenges in integrating these in the grid. An introduction is provided for the renewable energy available; including wind, solar and ocean etc. This paper also discusses an example of the large renewable project including system planning; establishing the type of generation sources available and discussion of benefits. The paper also discusses the information required for the planning engineer, types of study and challenges before integrating in the existing system. In the end this paper discusses a real life example and sub-synchronous resonance interaction between wind-farm and series capacitor.


In this paper, a spectrometer based on compressive sensing is proposed to recover sparse spectrums. Compressive sensing can reduce the required travel range provided by MEMS actuators, and a single-pixel detector is employed to collect the encoded light to reduce the overall construction cost.


For a long time, literature has identified some psychophysiological metrics that proved reliable to assess cognitive states in controlled conditions. Smaller, more reliable and more affordable sensors made the industrial community plan to design systems that would adapt themselves to the ability of their users to operate them. Thus an important human factors question must be asked: what is the impact of such a feedback on users' performance and cognitive workload? Does the display format of this feedback have an influence over subjects? What if the feedback provides erroneous data? We designed a protocol to compare the influence of providing a cognitive load assessment gauge versus raw data versus no feedback in a Multiple Objects Tracking task. Reliability of this feedback was also evaluated. Performance in a dual task paradigm, pupil dilation and questionnaire were used to assess cognitive load. Trials duration and learning effect were used as control results. Raw feedback showed a negative effect while low reliability showed inconsistent results.


If we could only read each other's hearts, we should be kinder to each other. If we knew the woes and^ bitterness and physical annoyances of our neighbors, we should make allowances for them which we do not know. We go about masked, uttering stereotyped sentiments, hiding our heart-pangs and our headaches as artfully as we can ; and yet we won der that others do not discover them by intuition. We cover our best feelings from the light; we do not .so conceal our resentments and dis likes, of which we are prone to be proud. Often two people sit close to gether, with " I love you " in either heart, and neither knows it. Either think, " I could be fond ; but what use of wasting fondness on one w'ho does not care for it ? " and so they part and go their way alone. Life is a masquerade,' at which* few unmask, even to their very dearest. And though there is need of much masking, would to heaven we dared show plainly our real faces from birth to death, for then some few, at least would truly love each other.


OBJECTIVE
To probe into the mechanisms of thread implantation at Zusanli(ST 36) and Chinese herbs in treatment of chronic renal failure(CRF).

METHODS
CRF rat model was made by Platt subtotal nephrectomy. They were divided into 5 groups, sham operation group, model group, Chinese herbs group, thread implantation group and thread implantation plus Chinese herbs group. After treatment of 8 weeks, serum parathyroid hormone (PHT), transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) expression in residual renal cells, malondialdehyde(MDA) content in the residual renal tissue, serum urea nitrogen(BUN) and creatinine(Scr), protein in urine and pathological changes were investigated.

RESULTS
The above indexes after treatment by thread implantation at acupoint, Chinese herbs, and acupoint thread implantation plus Chinese herbs showed begin reversion, especially, the most obviously improvement in the acupoint thread implantation plus Chinese herbs treatment group.

CONCLUSION
The mechanism of acupoint thread implantation and Chinese herbs in improvement of CRF is related with decrease of PTH, inhibition of TGF-beta1 expression, decrease of MDA content and resisting lesion of renal fibrosis.


The article analyzes Brazil-Africa relations between 2003 and 2006, aiming to demonstrate that the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva injected a new dynamic to Brazil's relations with the African continent. The discourse and diplomatic practice of the Lula government have combined to help build preferential alliances with partners within the arena of South-South relations. In this context the text argues that South Africa, Angola and Nigeria are essential political and economic partners in Brazil's diplomatic strategy for the African continent.


Regional features and unsolved problems of labor in Russia in the context of the topic, which was proposed and discussed at the meeting, discussion club Academician OT Bogomolov «Unfair and arbitrary wage one of the reasons for the degradation of Russian society» (Institute of Economic Strategies RAS, 11 December, 2013).


A 52-year-old woman was admitted to the medical department of an external secondary care centre for progressive weight loss and diarrhoea. Three and a half months before the current presentation, the patient had received a percutaneous endoscopy gastrostomy (PEG) due to severe malnutrition caused by dysphagia in the setting of bulbar impairment by obstructive hydrocephalus. The current symptoms had started several weeks before the presentation and did not respond to changes of oral diet or enteral nutrition. The patient reported a weight loss of 2 kg; laboratory testing revealed an elevated C reactive protein (43 mg/L), hypoalbuminaemia (17 g/L) and hypophosphataemia (0.7 mmol/L) but no further abnormal results. Levels of faecal calprotectin were …


A large public tier-1 university hosted an autonomous vehicle on campus for a 12-week demonstration. Throughout the deployment, the vehicle was operated autonomously and used 5 safety operators from the student population to take over shuttle operations, as necessary. Daily and weekly surveys as well as pre-and post-study interviews were used to investigate how operators' trust developed and changed over time as well as the relationship between trust and operational issues that varied in severity. Results revealed that there was not a significant relationship between trust and severity of operational issues. Trust levels appeared to remain relatively consistent before, during and after the deployment.


We have mainly focused on the elucidation of the physical skills of sports players. We have especially evaluated these skills from the biomechanical data obtained from sports. In this study, we analyzed the swing motions of skilled and unskilled baseball players by using two tri-axial acceleration sensors and two high-speed cameras. We showed some results of the skill rules of the swing motions by the skilled and unskilled players. It was also indicated that acceleration sensors are more convenient than the motion capture system for extracting skills from some data.


Lepisorus plants belong to Polypodiaceae family which mainly distribute in Asia and some in Africa.China is the distribution center of this genus,and a variety of plants within the genus have high medicinal and ornamental value.The taxonomy,morphology and anatomy,palynology,cytotaxonomy,chemical components,pharmacological action of Lepisorus in the domestic and international literatures were summarized;the utilization of Lepisorus plants in landscaping and medicine were discussed;the problems in the development and utilization of it were pointed out,and its reasonable exploitation was prospected.


The combination of K-means clustering and v-SVM gives a improved classified method which built a classified model with strong ability to distinguish based on the correlation.The model is applied in the exploration geochemical research in some places of Inner Mongolia,it which made clear in the similarity among the studied elements,and established v-SVM classifier to realize the delineation of combination anomaly.


Objective: To observe the mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine Jianshenfang Chongji(JSF) in treating patient of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Methods:Sixty lumbar vertebrabone fracture patients with postmenopausal OP were selected.According to the criteria of osteoporosis(OP),sixty postmenopausal women were diagnosed as having osteoporosis by checking the bone mineral density(BMD) with dual energy X-ray densitometer.Sixty cases were allocated randomly to two groups:JSF group and control group.JSF group were treated with Jianshenfang Chongji,control group were treated with alendronate sodium.Before and after the treatment,the levels of E2,IL-6,ALP,BGP in serum were determined,BMD were measured too.Results:Along with treatment time lengthening,The levels of E2、BGP、ALP were gradually raised.IL-6 was descended obviously.Two groups of identicaltime compartments compared,E2 had obvious difference.Conclusion: JSF can increases bone formation and decreases the bone resorption.This may be relation with the increasing of E2.The increased expression of E2 may restrain the cells producing IL-6,which leads to the decreased expression of IL-6;the decreased expression of IL-6 restrain the bone resorption,and this is one possible important effect mechanism for JSF.


A capacity-achieving low-density parity-check(LDPC) code is applied to interleave-division multiple-access(IDMA) system,and the associated codingspreading tradeoff problem is investigated.The required minimum SNR for reliable data and voice transmission based on the bit error rate(BER) of 106 and 10-3 over AWGN channel at different code rates are sought to explore the coding-spreading tradeoff.Simulation results show that the optimal LDPC code rates in LDPC-coded IDMA system are between 0.4 and 0.5 for reliable communication services over AWGN channel.The performance advantage of the proposed system is significant,compared with the traditional convolutioncoded IDMA system at 0.5 code-rate.


Facile construction of the complex saxitoxin (STX) skeleton is carried out by using a novel, conformationally controlled, guanidine cyclization process that relies on the use of neighboring group participation. The utility of this methodology is verified by its employment in syntheses of both natural and unnatural STX derivatives.


The breathing circuit supplied with the Bird ventilator is satisfactory for use by the patient for nebulization therapy. The nebulizer and the expiratory valve, although near the patient, are not much of a problem because the patient can hold this assembly in his hands during use. However, if this ventilator is to be used to assist the patient's ventilation for long periods, this arrangement is cumbersome and inconvenient. Moreover, the position of the nebulizer changes with the movement of the patient, so that nebulization may become inadequate. In order to overcome these difficulties, the Q circuit has been designed. In this arrangement, the nebulizer and the expiratory valve are situated away from the patient. When such a circuit is not immediately available an acceptable alternative can be improvised at little expense from commonly available items of equipment. In the original arrangement, the metal tube B from the ventilator is connected to the expiratory valve through the nebulizer (fig. 1). The patient


Trilobite larvae of the horseshoe crab Limulus or unusually heavy wave action. Within 2 additional polyphemus L. develop from eggs deposited within intertidal sediments. Most of these larvae emerge from sediments during the summer. We have found that a smaller component of the larval population on a Delaware Bay (New Jersey, USA) beach can delay emergence, and remain alive within the sediments until the following spring. Overwintering trilobites were distributed in a 3 m wide band in the mid-tide region, at sediment depths > 15cm. 103 to 104 live trilobites have been found throughout winter and into early spring, This phenomenon may be ecologically significant, since emergence of overwintering larvae in early spring occurs at a time when predation by birds is minimal. Sediment disturbance by winter storms may be the major factor limiting the survivorship of overwintering cohorts. Adult horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus L. deposit eggs within intertidal beaches from Maine, USA, to Yucatan, during spring and early summer (Shuster 1982). A large concentration of spawning L. polyphemus occurs in lower Delaware Bay (New Jersey, USA) (Shuster & Botton 1985, Botton et al. 1988), first appearing in late April. Peak numbers of horseshoe crabs are generally associated with spring high tides during May and June, although a small spawning population persists through July and August (Botton 1984a, Shuster & Botton 1985). Eggs develop through the larval stage ('trilobite') within the sand. The developmental rate of embryos is temperature dependent (French 1979, Jegla & Costlow 1982, Sekiguchi 1988), but under typical field conditions in Delaware Bay, trilobites are common within beach sediments 3 to 4 wk after fertilization. Rudloe (1979) found that tnlobite emergence was correlated with full moon ' Addressee for correspondence weeks, trilobites molt into the benthic first posthatch juvenile stage (Sekiguchi et al. 1988). Based on these findings, one might predict that no trilobite larvae should remain within beach sediments by late summer. In this paper, we present field evidence that tnlobite larvae of Limulus polyphemus overwinter on sandy beaches of Delaware Bay. This previously unknown life-history phenomenon is discussed with respect to the ecology of these beaches and the population biology of this species. Material and methods. The study area was located near the Rutgers University Shellfish Research Laboratory in Cape May County, New Jersey (cf. Fig. 1 in Botton et al. 19881, an optimal area for horseshoe crab spawning along the western shore of Delaware Bay (Shuster & Botton 1985). The beach is ca 12 m wide with a 6" slope. The beach was sampled at low tide on 33 dates between January 1989 and January 1992 at ca 3 to 4 wk intervals, with the exception of the period from 6 July 1990 to 14 January 1991. Replicate transects were established 1 m apart on the beach from the spring high water mark to mean low water. Only the mid-beach region is discussed in this paper, because no overwintering trilobites were found above or below this zone. Three stations on the transect, within the midbeach region, were established at 1.5 m intervals. The exact position of each station was fixed relative to a reference marker located in a vegetated area above the high tide line. Transects were established north or south of this reference marker in order to avoid sampling the same region consecutively. Plots within a station along the transect were 35 cm on a side (area 0.1225 m'). We sequentially excavated 5 cm slices of O Inter-Research 1992 290 Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 88: 289-292, 1992 sediment within the plot frame, from the surface to a maximum depth of 25 or 30 cm. Sand from the entire slice was mixed thoroughly, and a 1 1 sediment sample was placed into a plastic bag. Samples were refrigerated (5°C) for laboratory analysis, which commenced within a few days. In all, 682 samples were taken. Three separate aliquots of sand (usually 80 ml, but occasionally less in samples containing large numbers of eggs) were washed through a 1 mm mesh. Horseshoe crab eggs, embryos and trilobite larvae, and other macrofauna were counted. To compute trilobite density (expressed as tnlobites m-2), the average of the aliquots for a particular depth was summed over all depths from surface (0 to 5 cm) to bottom (down to 25 to 30 cm). Densities for replicate transects were averaged for purposes of plotting. Throughout this study, samples of live trilobite larvae were separated from the sand and maintained in plastic Petri dishes with filtered sea water in order to determine their competency to molt to the first post-hatched juvenile stage. Results. Overwintering trilobite larvae of Limulus polyphemus were found during 3 of the past 4 winters in Delaware Bay (Fig. 1). In January 1989, live trilobite larvae of the 1988 year class were discovered in beach sediments at depths of 15 to 25 cm. These larvae persisted throughout March, but were absent from the sediments by mid-April 1989. The 1989 year class of horseshoe crab trilobite larvae were first detected in mid-June, ca 1 mo after adult horseshoe crabs were observed to begin their spawning activity on the study beach. By October 1989, there were still over 7000


The history of the NSDAP in the years I924-7 is crucial to the study of the emergence of national-socialism as a totalitarian movement and its subsequent success. It was during these years that Hitler established himself as the undisputed leader and the NSDAP as the most powerful and effective group on the extreme right of German politics. By I927 Hitler had secured absolute control over the party machine and had established a central headquarters in Munich whose directives could command the unconditional obedience of all the provincial organizations. Furthermore, it was the membership of these years which was to provide a large part of the leadership of the Third Reich. This development was associated with a struggle between the Munich headquarters and an association of provincial party organizations in north-west Germany. The issues in this struggle concerned matters of both policy and organization. Should the party be autocratically run and rigidly centralized, or should the provincial organizations have some say in the formation of policy ? Should the party programme remain vague and not be taken seriously as the basis for action, or should it represent a blueprint for government with a distinctly socialist emphasis ? Should the party attempt to win mass support while at the same time being careful to conciliate the social groups which controlled the economy and the State, at least until power had been acquired, or should it concentrate on winning the workers irrespective of whether it thereby antagonized these groups ? What was the best way of achieving the revolution on which all were agreed and what sort of a revolution should it be? On the answers to these questions would depend what sort of party the NSDAP was to become. Previous accounts of this dispute, based on the polemical writings of Otto Strasser, who was a participant but also later an


Resetting the present invention positioned between the housing 2 and the dose dial sleeve 50, the piston rod 10, the drive sleeve 26 associated screws to the piston rod, the drive sleeve 26 and the housing (2) sleeve 30 and relates to a dose dial and drive mechanism for use in the drug supply including the dose display. When the dose dial sleeve to move towards the second end of the housing sleeve is reset resets be moved toward the second end of the housing together with the dose dial sleeve is the dose display to a zero position; When the dose dial sleeve and / or reset sleeve to move toward the first end of the housing, the dose dial sleeve and / or reset sleeve to be brought into engagement with the drive sleeve of the housing both the piston rod and the drive sleeve It is advanced towards the first end. Drug supply, the dose dial and drive mechanism, a plurality of doses cartridge, the pen-shaped syringe


Background A critical care unit admits on a daily basis patients who are critically ill or injured. The condition of these patients' may deteriorate to a point where the medical practitioner may prescribe or decide on a 'do not resuscitate' (DNR) order which must be executed by a professional nurse, leading to moral distress which may manifest as poor teamwork, depression or absenteeism. Objectives To explore and describe factors contributing to moral distress of critical care nurses executing DNR orders. Design The explorative descriptive qualitative design was selected to answer the research questions posed. Methods Critical care nurses of a selected public hospital in Gauteng Province were selected via purposive sampling to participate in the study, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Particpants A shift leader assisted with selection of participants who met the eligibility criteria. The mean age of the participants was 36 years; most of them had more than five years' critical care nursing experience. Twelve critical care nurses were interviewed when data saturation was reached. Thereafter two more interviews were conducted to confirm data saturation. A total of 14 interviews were conducted. Results Tesch's eight-step method was utilised for data analysis. The findings were classified under three main themes: moral distress, communication of DNR orders and unavailability of psychological support for nurses. Conclusion The findings revealed that execution of DNR orders is a contributory factor for moral distress in critical care nurses. National guidelines and/or legal frameworks are required to regulate processes pertaining to the execution of DNR orders. The study further demonstrated the need for unit-based ethical platforms and debriefing sessions for critical care nurses. Contribution of the study The main contribution of this study was to explore and describe the factors contributing to Moral distress when executing a DNR order. This study raised awareness amongst healthcare providers on the factors contributing to moral distress amongst critical care nurses. This study highlighted the importance of developing national guidelines and legal frameworks pertaining to execution of DNR orders. This study alluded to the value of initiating debriefing sessions for critical care nurses involved in the execution of DNR orders.


Due to the strong volatility of renewable energy, there is a certain deviation between the actual output and the planned output. Therefore, two-way interaction between the generation side and the demand side is considered, which has important guiding significance for realizing the economic operation of virtual power plant. Therefore, the composition structure and operation mode of the virtual power plant are studied. By analyzing the effects of load side and generation side on the optimal scheduling of virtual power plant, an optimal scheduling model of virtual power plant based on multi-objective optimization of load - generation side was established. The results of example analysis fully prove that the optimized scheduling strategy of virtual power plant built in this paper can enhance the capacity of new energy consumption and reduce the operation cost of power grid.


This study uses a backpropagation neural network to determine the evenness of the chayote chip dough. The Tcs3200 Color Sensor mounted on the stirrer alt is used as a sensor to determine the color of the chayote emping dough. A regression score of 1 indicates that the input and target data match in the test results of the artificial neural network, which has an objective error (MSE) value of 0.0096306 achieved in the 313th epoch. Changes in RGB color readings on the TCS sensor from min values ??<40 and max values>52 in mixing dough are influenced by distance and light intensity which will be converted in the form of frequency.


This monograph presents a study on the exposure to noise of a Rock band drummer. Firstly, a bibliographical study is carried out aiming at the collection of studies already carried out on this topic and the main consequences of frequent exposure to noise in hearing health. After that, measurements of exposure to the drummer's noise are made during a rehearsal and a show with the Rock band. By comparing the experimental results obtained with the tolerance limits presented in NR-15 and NHO-01, it is noticed that the level of exposure to the musician's noise during the show is high and is above the limits allowed by the current norms. If this exposure is frequent, the musician is subject to damages in the auditory health, therefore, control measures are suggested, aiming at reducing the exposure to noise.


In recent decades, great researchers have focused on the development of simultaneous localization and mapping. Thus, SLAM technology (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) has gone through a great technological evolution over the years. The present investigative work shows a chronology of milestones in the evolution of the SLAM of mobile robotics until today with a comparison of the main techniques that have been developed, aiming to identify the most suitable algorithm to perform a generation of 3D SLAM in real time in terms to improve accuracy, speed, and robustness among other aspects. These features will help to reduce mapping reconstructions errors, to improve the localization of a robot, and to provide greater reliability of the environment worked. This analysis will be established under some specific research criteria and as a prelude to a project focused on making a mobile robot capable of providing relevant information for search and rescue of people in critical situations, situations in which where it will be essential to perform SLAM 3D reliably and in real time. Thus, the present work it is focused to do an important systematic analysis regarding mobile robotics on the need to reason in a world that is sometimes confusing, sometimes dynamic and changing.


With the idea of providing new compounds capable of chelation with metal ions, certain derivatives of diazines, containing the ferroin (NCCN) group have been prepared.


A geometrical method is used in order to solve in closed form the localization conditions for rate-independent solids. Critical conditions as well as orientations of localization planes are so given for quite general constitutive equations


OBJECTIVE
To translate, adapt and validate shorter version of positive affect and negative affect scale on Pakistani corporate employees.

METHODS
This cross-sectional study was conducted in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi from October 2014 to December 2015. The study was completed into two independent parts. In part one, the scale was translated by forward translation. Then it was pilot-tested and administered on customer services employees from commercial banks and the telecommunication sector. Data of the pilot study was analysed by using exploratory factor analysis to extract the initial factor of positive affect and negative affect scale. Part two comprised the main study. Commercial bank employees were included in the sample using convenient sampling technique. Data of the main study was analysed using confirmatory factor analysis in order to establish construct validity of positive affect and negative affect scale.

RESULTS
There were145 participants in the first part of the study and 495 in the second. Results of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the two-factor structure of positive affect and negative affect scale suggesting that the scale has two distinct domains, i.e. positive affect and negative affect.

CONCLUSIONS
The shorter version of positive affect and negative affect scale was found to be a valid and reliable measure.


The study examines a specific kind of storytelling: a principal character of the story being told is present and actively participates in the activity. Using video data and giving attention to what the present principal character does in the interaction as well as the teller of the story, the paper demonstrates that a storytelling in multi-party face-to-face interaction is a public, multi-party, and embodied interactive field. The study also explicates the ways in which participants of storytelling in face-to-face interaction take up a stance to the story and to other interlocutors as the story unfolds. The findings of the study suggest that stance should be understood as a social, public and interactional concept. The study emphasizes that the nature of storytelling in social interaction can be properly understood by describing how individual participants construct the telling of story in concert with one another and consequentially achieve their public existence.


Rangelands Animal Ecology Habitat use patterns of sympatric deer species on Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado. D. G. Whittaker and F. G. Lindzey. 2004. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:1114–1123. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 3406 Cherry Ave NE, Salem, OR 97303). Although spatial overlap and dietary overlap were high between mule deer and white-tailed deer, seasonal differences in habitat use patterns resulted in spatial segregation, thereby allowing the 2 species to coexist.


the expansion of the threat spectrum has also entailed changes in the requirements made of strategic crisis management. today, horizontally and vertically networked efforts of all relevant actors and institutions are required within the framework of a holistic crisis management approach. in conceiving such "homeland security" systems, two approaches have emerged – an institutional one and a process-oriented one. in the case of Switzerland, both aspects can be detected, although key questions about crisis response and leadership structures remain to be answered.


Objective To assess the diagnostic value of dynamic enhanced magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) in special types of breast cancers.Methods The dynamic enhanced MRI features of 13 patients with histopathologically verified special types of breast cancers were reviewed.Results Characteristic MRI representations were found in 6 cases of multicentric breast cancer, 4 cases of multifocal breast cancer and 2 cases of occult breast cancer.Extensive and multiform lesions without characteristic were found in one case of inflammatory breast cancer.Conclusion Dynamic enhanced MRI of the breast is of great value for diagnosing of occult breast cancer, multicentric and multifocal breast cancers. The diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer should be combined with clinic informations and be differentiated with the acute mastitis.


|B| Cardinality of set B. Cn Cycle with n vertices. Cn ⊙ K1 Crown graph. C n One point union of k copies of Cycle Cn. D2(G) Shadow graph of G. diam(G) Diameter of G. E(G) or E Edge set of graph G. e f (n) Number of edges with edge label n. fn Fan on n vertices. Fn Friendship graph with 2n+1 vertices. Fn nth Fibonacci number with special reference to chapter 5. G = (V (G),E(G)) A graph G with vertex set V (G) and edge set E(G). G1[G2] Composition of G1 and G2. Gv The graph obtained by switching of a vertex v in G. Hn Helm on n vertices. Kn Complete graph on n vertices. Km,n Complete bipartite graph. K1,n Star graph. M(G) Middle graph of G N(v) Open neighbourhood of vertex v. N[v] Closed neighbourhood of vertex v. Pn Path graph on n vertices. rn(G) Radio number of G.


A new concept for wavelength independent receiver for low cost and reduced complexity wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) system is presented. The main idea behind the receiver design is the use of a single optical delay interferometer to demodulate the in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of the WDM signal before entering the demultiplexing unit of the receiver. The receiver is validated through BER measurements by means of discrete components showing a negligible variation (less than 1dB) of the required OSNR at BER=10-5 over the C band. The design of a possible photonic integrated version exploiting bidirectional propagation in arrayed waveguide grating filters is also presented.


The microstructure,hardness,fatigue crack propagation and fatigue fractograph in the fusion zone(FZ) and heat affection zone(HAZ) of TA15 electron beam welded(EBW) joint were studied in this paper.The results indicate that the microstructure in FZ is characterized by bulky aciculate martensite,and in HAZ,the microstructure is composed of α' martensite + lamellar α and β.That is,it shows a transition from FZ to base material(BM).The hardness of FZ is largest,that of BM is the lowest,and HAZ with between them.The fatigue crack propagation rate is closely relative with their microstructure.The HAZ containing more plastic lamellar α exhibits a better resistance to the fatigue crack propagation than FZ.


This paper proposes a new design method to minimize the cause of parasitic oscillation in zero-current-switching (ZCS) DC-DC converter. The parasitic capacitance in switche is considered in circuit operation, a design of the ZCS DC-DC converter is optimized by proposed design method. With some prerequisites and assumptions, the waveform equations of the parasitic oscillations are analytically derived. The equations show the essential condition to suppress the parasitic oscillations and designing procedure of the auxiliary circuit. A 90 VDC/385 VDC, 300 W, operating 200 kHz prototype has been built and evaluated. The experimental results confirmed the validity and switch loss reduction effect of the proposed design method. The main switch loss has been measured approximately 37% smaller than conventional design method.


The objective of this test is to irradiate an NPR fuel element inner tube in the ETR 3 {times} 3 Loop. the NPR fuel element is a tube in tube type. Both tubes are Zircaloy-2 clad uranium metal. The inner tube is identified by the Hanford designation NINI. In GEH-10-43 we plan to measure an NINI tube after each cycle for four cycles. An NPR inner tube with slightly larger diameter has been run in the ETR Hanford 3 {times} 3 Loop. Two NINI elements are now running in the 3 {times} 3 Loop.


It has long been recognized that the magnitude of the surface area may bear an important relationship to other properties of soils and soil colloids. While many attempts (5) have been made to obtain the specific surface area, the results obtained so far can be considered, at best, only as approximations or estimates. Emmett, Brunauer, and Love (?) pointed out that the measurement of physical adsorption of nitrogen at -183°C. offers means for calculating the surface area of colloidal solids, and have demonstrated the applicability of the method to soils by applying it to Barnes and Cecil soils and to the colloids derived from them. The work described in the present paper is an extension of this method to a number of representative soils and colloids of the great soil groups, and to a few minerals known to occur in the soils. Measurements were also made of the adsorptive capacity of the soils and soil colloids for nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide at 0°C. A slight modification of the adsorption apparatus made possible measurement of the density of the soils and colloids by the use of helium gas, a non-adsorbable gas at. 0°C. The use of helium gas has certain advantages over the commonly used pyknometer method employing liquids because it assures a more complete penetration of the interstices of the solid and precludes the possibility of any chemical or physical changes during the measurement.


"Imagine if we wanted to start a new core processing company," says CEO Tom Stumb, Nashville Bank and Trust. "It would be easy to create a technology that blew away the competition--that is, in comparison to the task of getting a bank to agree to be that first, third, or even tenth client." The plainspoken Stumb knows a little something about starting ventures, having helped to launch the $112 million assets bank in 2004 aimed at the region's high net worth market. "Bankers can be a very reticent bunch," he notes, adding, "If you've ever worked in a place of any size, you'll know it's typical to talk about any number of system changes that need to be made and realize that many of them just never happen." Hoping to avoid a similar fate, Stumb outsourced his new bank core processing business to Fidelity National Information Services and went with a PC--that is, its core processor software is housed on a PC at Fidelity rather simply having it as a front-end to a mainframe hiding, like Oz, behind a silver curtain. The choice of the low-cost, nimble, core processor has never given him a moment of regret. It was also far from the legacy norm when he did his evaluations of which core processor to select. But speed, not being contrary, motivated him. As one of the most active user-group members for Fidelity BankPac, Stumb knows that system upgrades don't drag on. In one example, he described Fidelity's simplification of data field population. "It used to be that names and addresses needed to be keyed in multiple times--at the deposit platform, the core, for debit card and check reorders, and for systems like OFAC scanning," the CEO recalls. No longer. "Within 90 days of my request, the vendor set it up so that all the systems were pre-populated with common information and no re-keying was required." A need for new applications--or features--can cause a new bank to choose one vendor over another, or lead a bank IT team down the hard road of swapping out the technology that lies beneath, but it turns out that any number of factors can instigate core replacement. Tom Brydon, North American banking industry marketing director with Accenture, Charlotte, N.C., says that de novos are small enough to run with most platforms. As they take on branches and deposits, those systems can be taxed. And so, scale becomes an issue rather quickly. Certainly this is the case at the threshold of about $1 billion, but it could be sooner. Above that, vendor selection can be guided by a need for latitude with operations, whereby web-based applications that can be centrally managed, upgraded, or transitioned to a new geographic region, would be a good choice. "Beyond that, banks make decisions based on ease of integration and application feature sets," Brydon explains. In the rest of this report, we let the bankers tell their stories of operational renewal from the core. Discipline for the big swap out Capitol Bancorp Ltd., Lansing, Mich., is a $3.4 billion-assets community bank developer with 53 banks in its family and dual headquarters in Lansing and Phoenix. In 2005, it needed to modernize its slew of community banks in an ambitious, two-year project schedule to keep the company in line with other business objectives for further, multi-state growth. "We had an aging system and we knew it wouldn't be supported much longer," says Dave Dutton, chief information officer. "We had to get a jump on simplifying the technology." As he recalls it, the epic conversion project ultimately required military precision to pull off: 34 sites were converted in the required timeline and 19 de novo banks were opened up during the conversion period. A hub and spoke model of project management was developed, whereby personnel from the current core replacement exercise were joined by nearby personnel from the next-to-convert in the region. This way, staff gained experience on doing the technical work before conducting their own swap out. …


Background: The survey result ofSDKI (Basic Survey of Indonesian Demography and Health) in 2012 on KRR (Adolescents' reproductive health) shows that approximately 9.3% or 3.7 million adolescents have had sexual intercourse, while the result of SKRRI (Survey of Adolescents' Reproductive Health) shows that approximately 7% or 3 million adolescents have had sexual intercourse. One of the environmental factors on adolescents' reproductive behavior is the family factor. Adolescents who have had premarital sexual intercourse mostly come from broken homes, which has many conflicts and problems. Aim: The study investigates the correlation between parents and children relationship and adolescents' sexual behavior at Bantul. Method: The study used a cross-sectional approach and analytical correlation. The total sampling technique was used to draw 81 respondents as the samples. The data were analyzed using Chi-square statistical test. Result: The chi-square statistical test result showed that 34 respondents had a good relationship with their parents (42), and 16 respondents had a lack of relationship with their parents. Forty-seven respondents (58%) showed negative sexual behavior. P-value was 0.015 (p<0,05), meaning a correlation between parents' close relationship and adolescents' sexual behavior at senior high school in Bantul. Conclusion: There is a correlation between parents and children relationship and adolescents' sexual behavior at senior highs schools in Bantul. Adolescents and parents should be more open to each other in discussing their problems, especially their reproductive health because it is one of the ways to build a good relationship between parents and adolescents Keywords: relationship, adolescents' sexual behavior, parents and children


S Oral Presentations Population genomic study of an introduced ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus Yi-Hong Ke1, Anna Bazzicalupo2; Sara Branco2, Rytas Vilgalys1 1Department of Biology, Duke University, 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University Suillus luteus is one of the most widely-introduced ectomycorrhizal fungi in the world. During the forestation of pine around the world, S. luteus has been introduced to North America, South America, South Africa and Oceania from its native Eurasian distribution. We sequenced 153 S. luteus genomes from native and introduced populations. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that S. luteus populations from Australia, New Zealand, and South America each possess novel SNPs that place them into well-supported monophyletic clades. Australia and New Zealand form a single clade in the ML tree, suggesting either shared common ancestry, or recent admixture. PCA and admixture analysis support the populations in exotic areas clustered together at continental level, and that all exotic population are divergent from European source population except North American individuals. Both PCA and admixture analysis imply Australia population and New Zealand population have undergone recent admixture. These results suggest that (1) exotic populations on different continents are descended from independent colonization events (2) Australia and New Zealand likely represent two independent introduction events, while subsequence migration homogenize the genetic components (3) North American population has similar genetic components as European populations, probably reflecting recent history of introduction followed by limited population expansion and reproduction.


Overview of making democracy work. Critics to putnam's theories. Making democracy work and its impact on future development policy and research.


OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide; in the United States alone, over 2.7 million individuals are affected. Various risk factors for glaucoma are known and include age, race/ethnicity, genetics, and ocular measures. Despite numerous studies, molecular and environmental factors that contribute to glaucoma remain elusive. Our objective was to conduct a genome-wide association for glaucoma among black and white HRS respondents, and to determine the feasibility for future analyses examining shared genetic markers between glaucoma and other comorbidities, behaviors, and environmental risk factors. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of Americans over the age of 50. Supported by the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, the HRS is designed to provide reliable data on the decisions, choices, and behaviors of people as they age and respond to changes in public policy, the economy, and health. The study obtains information every two years about income and wealth, health and use of health services, work and retirement, and family connections. Through its unique and in-depth interviews, the HRS provides an invaluable and growing body of multidisciplinary data that researchers can use to address important questions about the challenges and opportunities of aging. Because of its innovation and importance, the HRS has become the model and hub for a growing network of harmonized longitudinal aging studies around the world. Saliva was collected on half of the HRS sample each wave starting in 2006 and respondents were genotyped on the Illumina Human Omni2.5-Quad (Omni2.5) BeadChip at the NIH Center for Inherited Disease Research. We accessed survey results to evaluate prevalence of glaucoma in this dataset and performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) adjusting for age, sex, and significant Principal Components and stratifying by self-reported race (White / Black). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Of 8179 respondents passing quality filters, 6409 (78.40%) were white and 985 (12.05%) were black. Self-reported glaucoma prevalence was 7.85% and 16.34% in white and black respondents, respectively. White respondents had a mean age of 76.97 (SD 7.53) and were 57.25% female. Black respondents had a similar mean age of 74.96 (SD 7.27) and were 62.54% female. More than 87% of both groups were assessed in 2012. Preliminary GWAS analyses did not replicate known glaucoma loci and no variants attained genome-wide significance. A suggestive variant (p<1e-05) in the black population was within 10kb of a known locus, rs1196998. Future analyses will evaluate genetic association with combinations of glaucoma and comorbidities. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Glaucoma risk is higher in minority groups than in whites, and the majority of reported genetic studies of glaucoma have been performed in individuals of European descent. It is imperative to better understand the role of genetics, environment, and health behavior in glaucoma risk. Further, understanding common mechanisms underlying diseases that co-occur with glaucoma could illuminate novel disease mechanisms that can be targeted for early intervention and/or treatment.


Efforts to examine the role that dispositions play in cognitive activity are likely to be repaid in understanding further how individuals think, act and develop. This paper discusses theorising and empirical work which proposes that the dispositions underpinning cognitive activity need to become more central to deliberations about how individuals think about and engage in skilful vocational practice. Such activity has consequences for how and what is learnt as well as individuals' ongoing development. Central to the analysis provided in the paper is a consideration of Nunnaly's (1976) classification of dispositions as interest, attitude and values. Having reviewed ideas about the dispositional underpinnings of skilful knowledge, the paper reports a study examining how individuals construct knowledge associated with their vocational practice. This study provides tentative findings about the source of dispositions and their role in vocational activity. From these findings, it is claimed that dispositions are socially sourced through individuals' histories and their participation in communities of practice. It is proposed that these sources influence thinking and acting and, hence, cognitive development. Hence, the dispositions which influence how individuals think and act are sourced socially. The paper concludes by advancing some implications for instruction.


Lipid contents and the composition of fatty acids of fillets from Chilean salmon ( Salmo salar ) were determined under different conservation methods: fresh salmon, frozen salmon, water-conserved canned salmon and frozen salmon in long-term storage. Fatty acid contents were determined by gas chromatography. The fillets had high lipid levels, ranging between 9.71 and 12.86%. All samples presented high levels of monounsaturated fatty acids, between 363.69 and 425.30 mg g -1 of total lipids, followed by polyunsaturated fatty acids (294.46 - 342.45 mg g -1 of total lipids) and saturated fatty acids (203.32 - 223.17 mg g -1 of total lipids). Although samples revealed different lipid contents, all proved to be great sources of omega-3 fatty acids, regardless of the manner of conservation.


he Reverend Robert Woodall can still remember the rattlesnakes that he killed, sometimes beneath the car where his small children had to stay while he and his wife worked in the fields picking apples in central Pennsylvania. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Woodall had left behind the life of a sharecropper in Mississippi to become a migrant farm worker. Each year, he would begin harvesting crops in Florida and then gradually move north along the Atlantic coast, picking oranges, peaches, apples, and any other crop that happened to be in season. He ended in late summer to mid-autumn picking apples in southcentral Pennsylvania's Adams County. Woodall and his wife often had trouble finding child daycare while they worked. When this happened, the Woodall children had to come to the fields and stay by the car beneath the shade of a tree, out among the rattlesnakes. T


Three-dimensional cultures of pancreatic islet cells in porous scaffolds or hydrogels have been constructed as a biohybrid artificial pancreas. A thin mesh of a PLGA-collagen hybrid was used to culture rat RIN-5F cells. The hybrid mesh was coated with laminin, fibronectin, vitronectin, type IV collagen, and poly(L-lysine) were evaluated and mesh without coating was used as a control. Cell adhered and proliferated on all of the coated and uncoated meshes. The cells formed spheroids in the uncoated, poly(L-lysine)-, fibronectin-, vitronectin-, and type IV collagen-coated hybrid meshes, while forming a layered structure in the laminin-coated hybrid mesh. Cell adhesion on the coated PLGA-collagen hybrid meshes was higher than that for the uncoated hybrid mesh. The laminin-coated hybrid mesh showed the greatest level of adhesion. The insulin secretion capacity of RIN-5F cells was at the same level for all coated and uncoated PLGA-collagen hybrid meshes and higher than that of cells cultured on cell culture plates. The 3D cultured PLGA-collagen hybrid meshes promoted insulin production capacity. Gene expression analysis showed that genes encoding insulin I, insulin II, and the pancreatic transcription factor PDX-1 (pancreas/duodenum homeobox 1) was expressed. These results indicate that the PLGA-collagen hybrid meshes support adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation of RIN-5F cells that allows culturing pancreatic islet cells on 3D constructs.


Malformations of the polymicrogyria spectrum can be mimicked in rodents through neonatal transcranial focal cortical freeze lesions. The animals presenting the malformations present both altered synaptic events and epileptiform activity in the vicinity of the microgyrus, but the comprehension of their contribution to increased predisposition or severity of seizures require further studies.


We provide a new theory for visualizing the rf traveling acoustic wavefront in real time, with which we have not only obtained a steady visible image of the rf acoustic traveling wavefront—a moving phase object—but have also got rid of some confused concepts of the stroboscopic method.


In the field of networking, software-defined networking (SDN) has obtained a lot of concentration from both academic and industry, and it aims to provide a flexible and programmable level of control, beside obtain efficient control and management of network systems. For such reasons, the software-defined networks (SDN) can be deemed as an essential task to accomplish these requirements. In the datacenters and networks, the SDN is used to allow the administrators of the networks to start programming, controlling, changing, and managing dynamically the network behavior with open interfaces and a reflection of lower-level functionality because the need for SDN-like switching technology has become evident for many users of network equipment, especially in large data centers. There are many algorithms and applications that have been considered in SDN such as (FP-MA), EON, (EQUAL-APP) (VONCR-APP), and (T-SDN) as use cases for approval purposes because the SDN provides several focal points to the power, operation, and administration of extensive range networks. This paper aims to review Optical Network using SDN, where many types of research papers are present techniques to improve near-optimal traffic engineering and management; measurement and monitoring of the significant parameters of the optical networks and manage the cross-layer issues such as debugging and testing.


CLEARANCE & COPYRIGHT: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR FILM AND TELEVISION, 3RD ED. Michael C. Donaldson. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2008, 505 pp. Almost all other aspects of human conduct can be effectuated through an oral agreement. That is not true for rights that flow through copyright. Donaldson, Clearance & Copyright (304) With this statement, it is clear why filmmakers need a text such as Clearance & Copyright, not only to protect their creative work, but also to understand when and how they can use others' copyrighted creative work. Clearance & Copyright is written by entertainment lawyer Michael Donaldson. In Its third edition, it has become the standard for filmmakers without a legal background or a budget to afford an entertainment attorney on speed dial. The text is designed for both narrative and documentary filmmakers and is careful to point out the differences that pertain to each. And there are differences. Mr. Donaldson does not differentiate between student and professional films with regard to copyright use, except to point out that if a film is going to be screened outside of a classroom, It has to follow the laws of copyright. As a legal text designed for non-lawyers, Clearance & Copyright answers many questions filmmakers have about what can be used in their films, in terms of ideas, images, and sound. Donaldson uses the first section ofthe text to go over general copyright and clearance Issues with examples and history to explain and demonstrate the law. Next, he uses the filmmaking process to explain further details, from obtaining the script to production and sound, through distribution and protection of the finished film. In the first section, Donaldson gives a brief history of copyright and explains what It covers and how long a copyright lasts. He then offers details on "fair use," giving several examplessome with conflicting outcomes. Helpfully, he offers his own set of clear guidelines on "fair use" to provide some clarity to this murky area ofthe law. Documentary filmmakers will benefit greatly from this information. Also helpful for documentary filmmakers is his chapter on public domain. Again, there is much gray area, but Donaldson provides clear guidelines that will help keep the final film out of court. Part 2 addresses using a script that you acquired or co-wrote. Donaldson details many pitfalls one must watch for that could cause serious issues if not addressed up front in a contract with the screenwriter. He also addresses the common question of copyrighting your own script. In addition to protecting your script and providing other legal benefits, Donaldson also points out that copyrighting your script is required to work with Screen Actors Guild (SAG) actors. The third section ofthe text covers production Issues. Donaldson answers questions such as, Can you have a copyrighted or trademarked name in your film or documentary? Can you show a magazine or book? Can your actors or those you interview wear a shirt with a trademark on it? This section also addresses the rights of actors in films and those who appear in your documentary, as well as others involved in the creation of your film such as the crew and investors. Also in this section, Donaldson addresses the use of copyrighted music and the ven/ complex and difficult tasks of not only determining who owns the copyright to a specific piece of music but also contracting to use the music itself. He explains this for using film clips too. In the last section, Donaldson addresses issues that come up after a film is made, including title clearance, errors and omissions insurance, copyrighting one's completed film, and copyright infringement. Much is daunting, complicated, and expensive, especially fora low- or no-budget short or documentary. But all of it is necessary and needed information if your film finds distribution. The text, as any legal text will, has two admitted and inherent drawbacks for student filmmakers. …


ment Opportunity, Occupational Safety and Health, Labor Law Reform, and Public Employee Unions. The five parts of the book are uneven in their focus and their coverage of the alternatives in the areas. For example, part 1 consists of five chapters and seventy-four pages while part 3 contains one chapter with a total of eight pages. The chapters in part 1 range in nature from personal ruminations on full employment to an examination of specific effects of CETA programming. The lone chapter in part 3 is an attempt to determine the support for OSHA among local union leaders and some of their alternative approaches to safety regulation. Part 4 includes, among others, a paper providing a simple description of the Labor Law Reform bill of 1977, an essay arguing for more worker control over management of pension funds, and an empirical attempt to discover factors that relate to change in state workmen's compensation laws during the 1972-77 period. With such differences in coverage among parts and the lack of any theme or thrust among the chapters in each part, the reader is left with little sense of continuity or meaningful organization of what he has read. The editors' main contribution appears to have been to group the papers into five parts. They certainly have not provided any integrative framework or even meaningful discussion coordinating these most disparate papers. The extent of their efforts to provide integration or an overview consists of some terse notes (one or two sentences) about each chapter in the twopage introduction. Even these notes often prove to be rather valueless since they point out that an author "presents some surprising conclusions" or "discovers some interesting facts." There is little indication of how these studies may help us understand policy alternatives or how they specifically contribute to the objective of the book. The editors might have served the purposes of their book and the needs of the reader better if they had provided a thorough introduction or, at the beginning of each part dealing with a new policy area, developed some discussion summarizing current policy alternatives, political pressures, or legislative thrusts so that the reader could put the subsequent chapters in some context or perspective. The individual papers vary dramatically in quality and significance. The objective of the book is to present "substantive analysis" of policy alternatives; yet some of the chapters are little more than historical reviews of legislation and policy in certain areas (chapter 2), superficial summaries of proposed legislation (chapter 10), or one person's perspectives on what should be done regarding employment policy (chapter 1). A few chapters are interesting and informative even if they are not complete analyses of policy alternatives. For example, chapter 5 by Kenneth Tolo is a thoughtful assessment of the problems and barriers affecting the best use of CETA for preapprenticeship training; chapter 11 by Edwin M. Epstein is an interesting review of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and the subsequent growth of corporate political action committees; and chapter 12 by Laura Katz Olson is an interesting and provocative essay arguing that workers need to gain more control over management of their pension funds to make certain such funds are used to assist their interests and create political and social change. Many of the other papers are of lesser quality and, in this reviewer's assessment, make less significant contributions. Some of the papers presenting statistical analyses seem to be careless or else the authors do not give the reader much credit for understanding the analysis. One paper states conclusions based on a regression model but provides no coefficients, for example (p. 55); others use regressions with rather low R2 coefficients (.085 to .174) to explain various phenomena (in chapters 4 and 16, for example); still others provide no R2 coefficients for reader consideration (chapter 13). Additionally, some do not give the size of samples used (chapter 13), and others do not give scale values or factor loadings and do not provide rejection levels for statistical tests (chapter 9). In conclusion, with the exception of a few essays, the book will not be of great benefit to the student of human resources and labor relations. For someone with little knowledge of employment and labor relations policy, it will likely be viewed as a set of disparate articles with marginal benefit in terms of developing an understanding of policy in the areas identified. For the more sophisticated reader familiar with U.S. policy, the book offers a few useful chapters but little in terms of overall depth or really new and significant research. James A. Craft Professor Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh


Therapy with 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT, Zidovudine®) has become standard to improve both the quality of life and the survival of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIt)S) and AIDS-related complex (1). Isotopically labeled forms of AZT and its nucleotides are of particular importance in the continuing study of the mechanism of AZT action (2, 3) as well as its pharmacology (4). We report here a fast and simple approach for the preparation of [a-32 P]-AZT 5'-triphosphate, the proximal inhibitor of the HIV reverse transcriptase. This method, in contrast to earlier approaches to the preparation of nucleoside triphosphates (5-7), does not require the use of anhydrous conditions, special reagents, or specific enzymes. Phosphorylation at the 5'-hydroxyl of AZT was accomplished using a modification of the method of Biebricher (6) and Lohrman and Orgel (8) for monophosphate synthesis while the procedure of Hoard and Ott (9) was employed for triphosphate synthesis. The following solutions were introduced into a 13 x 100 mm glass tube: NH4H 2 PO 4 (1 X10 ~ 5 M), 10 ul; urea (1 x 10-4 M), 40 /il; AZT (lxl0-5 M), 25 y.\; [ 32 P]-NHtH 2 PO 4 (-200 mCi/mmol, 1.0 mCi/ml), 1.0 ml. This solution was reduced to dryness in vacua at room temperature on a Savant Speed-Vac concentrator. The resulting residue was then taken up in 25 /d of H 2 O, and this solution also was reduced to dryness under the same conditions. The tube containing the dried residue was transferred to an oil bath and the reaction mixture was heated at 100° for 7 h. At the conclusion of this period, the tube containing the reaction mixture was placed in a P 2 O 5 desiccator overnight. Dry DMF (125 /il), dry pyridine (12.5 /il), and 1,1 '-carbonyldiimadazole (1 mg, 6.17 /tmol) were added and the resulting mixture was stirred for 1.5 h at room temperature. Methanol (0.5 /tl) was added to destroy excess carbonyldiimadazole, and, after an additional 30 min of stirring, tetrabutylammonium pyrophosphate in dry DMF (1 /il of a 0.5 M solution) was added. This solution was stirred for 2 h at ambient temperature, and then H 2 O was added. Purification of the desired labeled triphosphate was accomplished by HPLC. The entire reaction mixture was applied to a Beckman Ultrasphere ODS column (4.6 mmx25 cm). A gradient elution program of 15 %-100 % buffer B into buffer A over 30 min …


The ASDEX Pressure Gauge is, at present, the main candidate for in‐vessel neutral pressure measurement in ITER. Although the APG output is found to saturate at around 15 Pa, below the ITER requirement of 20 Pa. We show, here, that with small modifications of the gauge geometry and potentials settings we can achieve satisfactory behaviour up to 30 Pa at 6 T.


The Upper Cambrian Rose Run Sandstone in eastern Ohio includes mixed siliciclastic and carbonate lithofacies, deposited in a shallow marine, tidallyinfluenced, environment. A study of 17 wells including 4 cores with total thickness of 21 m, from Holmes County (well# 2892), Coshocton County (wells# 2989 and # 3385), and Morgan County (well# 2923) reveals 14 siliciclastic and 5 carbonate lithofacies. Intertidal deposits include heterolithic wavy bedded sandstone and mudstone (lithofacies SMw), heterolithic lenticular bedded sandstone and mudstone (lithofacies SMk), heterolithic flaser bedded sandstone and mudstone (lithofacies SMf), interbedded planar laminated sandstone and mudstone (lithofacies SMl), interpreted as tidalites, massive mottled sandstone (lithofacies Smm), and massive mudstone (lithofacies Mm). Subtidal clastic deposits include medium-scale planar tabular cross-bedded sandstone (lithofacies Sp), herringbone cross-bedded sandstone (lithofacies Sx), massive sandstone (lithofacies Sm), glauconite-rich massive sandstones (lithofacies Smg), hummocky stratified sandstone (lithofacies Sh), and laminated mudstone (lithofacies Ml). Interbedded carbonates include dolomudstones (lithofacies Cm), bioturbated and mottled dolo-mudstones (lithofacies Cmm), dolopackstones with rip-up clasts ("flat-pebble conglomerate") (lithofacies Cpmr), dolo-packstones with mud drapes ("cryptalgal lamination") (lithofacies Cpl), and convoluted bedded dolomudstone (lithofacies Cmmc). The Rose Run Sandstone in this region is interpreted to be deposited in a shallow marine environment of normal salinity with extensive tidal flats, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposition, strong tidal influence, and reworking of carbonate materials. This study reveals compartmentalization of Rose Run Sandstone at different scales. The reservoir quality is mainly controlled by amount of dolomite cement, quartz and feldspar overgrowths, and clay content, which influences porosity and possibly permeability. Interlaminated clay/mud baffles are common small-scale features. Textural and mineralogical


The use of Energy Management Systems (EMSs) allows obtaining remarkable advantages for both end-users of electrical energy and grid operators. These systems can take advantage of a suitable forecasting of load demand and meteocli-matic variables tied to power generation. In facts, the forecasting ability enables a more effective planning of the power allocation. The aim of this paper is the development of a forecasting module that can be interfaced to EMSs to deliver a 24h ahead forecasting. The module is based on a suitable Artificial Neural Network (ANN), namely the nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input (NARX) ANN. Such an ANN has been implemented using Tensorflow library and writing Python code. It has been trained using a public solar irradiance dataset, and several tests have been performed to assess its performance with different numbers of output units, hidden layers, and neurons per hidden layer. The obtained results show that the obtained forecasting module has good performance and is suitable for embedded implementation and online operation to support EMSs.


A method and apparatus for controlling an alarm in a medical diagnostic device, wherein an alarm is generated when a measured value for a physiological parameter is outside a specified range. The method continuously calculates a baseline value and sets a dynamic threshold associated with and continuously tracked to this baseline value. The method determines the amount of time that the measurement exceeds the dynamic threshold and the amount that exceeds the threshold. The alarm is triggered based on the amount of time that exceeds the threshold and a combination of the amounts. Preferably, the combination is an accumulation or some function of the accumulation.


Reactive powder concrete is a new composite material of super high strength cement- based first developed by France. It owns super high mechanical performances, excellent durability, lower shrinkage and creep performances. Safety, reliability and durability of the project construction can be guaranteed forcefully by using this material. However, the cost of its preliminary preparation is rather high, furthermore, there is not enough design experience on its project application.


Tobacco consumption is the single most important avoidable risk factor in the growth of non communicable diseases all over the world [1]. Tobacco use is world's number one killer and it kills up to half of its regular users. About 22% of women in developed countries and nine percent of women in developing countries smoke tobacco. In addition, many women in south Asia chew tobacco. Tobacco causes negative effects on a person's health as soon as he/she starts using it in any form either regularly or occasionally. Tobacco kills both men and women but sex-specific differences exist. There are many gaps in the data about the health impact of tobacco use on girls and women of all ages and throughout the life-course. The use of multiple forms of tobacco in India complicates the efforts to reduce its overall impact on public health. In order to reverse the rising tobacco epidemic by effective health policies, community based epidemiological studies on tobacco use are required to quantify the problem and to identify the determinants and their distribution.