Objective To evaluate the clinical value of laparoscopy in the detection and treatment of abdominal trauma. Methods The clinical data of 31 cases of abdominal trauma who received laparoscopic detection and operation in our department from May to Dec. in 2013 were analyzed retrospectively. There were 21 males,10 females,with an average age of 42. 7 years( ranging from 21 to 59 years old). The operation time,intra-operative bleeding volume,post-operative drainage volume and hospitalizaton were recorded. Results All the patients were definitely diagnosed with laparoscopy. Totally 23 cases were converted to open surgery,7 cases underwent laparoscopic operation successfully,the exploration was negative in one case. The operating time was 75- 360 minutes( mean137.5minutes). The intraoperative blood loss was50-2500 ml( mean706.5 ml). The average postoperative hospital stay was 4- 46 days( mean 22 days). All the patients recovered smoothly without operative complications,except one case occurred incision effusion. Conclusion Abdominal trauma can be definitely diagnosed with laparoscopy which is a mini-invasive and satisfaltory method and deserves to be widely applied in clinical practice.


This article analyzes the viability of utilizing a new performance-based development financing model related to funding medical equipment technology (MET) transfers to developing countries. In such an innovative model utilizing market-based incentives and public–private partnerships (PPPs or P3), social bond investors fund MET by receiving a social development 'bond' in exchange for a predetermined and agreed-upon amount of principal and interest to be paid only if the related MET project is deemed to satisfy certain predetermined, agreed-upon success metrics (as determined by a third party). Thus, the public sector only funds MET projects that are deemed successful based on the agreed success metric by all related stakeholders, with the MET transfer project being funded no matter what the circumstance. This performance-based model can complement existing funding models, which improves the transparency, coordination and efficacy of such MET development assistance projects in developing countries.


As society gradually relies on technologies to prevent dangers and detect the environment, the processing of data transmission and analysis becomes important. In recent years, firefighters are sacrificed during rescue missions. Even with the high-tech equipment in the current era, the lives of firefighters are not prevented in the fire scene. Thus, this research designs and develops an alarm system for hospitals and schools. The Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) technology and fire sensors are utilized and integrated to extract the conditions of the environment. In the system, the subscriber server collects the data on a personal computer. Also, the website and database server monitor the wards in a hospital. Integrating and designing the systems help to understand the emergent situation.


According to the Practice Bulletin number 156, obesity is the most common health care problem in women of reproductive age(1). Implications related to pregnancy are often unrecognized, overlooked, or ignored because of the lack of specific evidence-based treatment options.


Doctor Faustus presented by Shakespeare's Globe at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London. June 23–October 2, 2011. Directed by Matthew Dunster. Designed by Paul Wills. Music composed by Jules Maxwell. Choreography by Georgina Lamb. Text work by Giles Block. Movement work by Glynn MacDonald. Voice & dialect work by Martin McKellan. Fights directed by Kate Waters. Puppetry consultant Stephen Tiplady. Magic consultant Richard Pinner. With Charlotte Broom (Bad Angel, Alexander's Paramour), Michael Camp (Duke, Frederick, First Student, Cardinal of Padua, Covetousness), Richard Clews (Dick, First Scholar, Friar Sandelo, Envy), Nigel Cooke (Lucifer, Pope Adrian, Horse-Courser), Jonathan Cullen (Valdes, Pope Bruno, Carter, Gluttony), Arthur Darvill (Mephistopheles), Robert Goodale (Raymond, Old Man, Cornelius, Nan Spit), Paul Hilton (Faustus), William Mannering (Benvolio, Second Scholar, Third Student, Cardinal of France), Sarita Piotrowski (Helen, Pride), Pearce Quigley (Robin, Alexander), Iris Roberts (Hostess, Lechery), Beatriz Romilly (Good Angel, Duke's Servant), Felix Scott (Wagner, Emperor Charles, Wrath), Jade Williams (Duchess, Sloth), and Chinna Wodu (Beelzebub, Martino, Second Student, Archbishop of Rheims).


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book is full of colourful anecdotes and direct quotes made possible by a short-hand notation system he developed to transcribe conversations quickly. Although currently a professor at the University of California-Berkley, SánchezJankowski notes the positive influence that his own socioeconomic upbringing had on the study by allowing him to blend in more easily and reduce the validity threats his presence imposed. Store owners, public housing managers and other neighbourhood gatekeepers eventually sanctioned his presence, even after he relayed his intent as a college teacher taking time off to write a book about different neighbourhoods in the US. Starting with the state housing facility, the book explains the functional role that each institution plays in maintaining social order. The descriptions are rich with the mundane, the day-to-day that comprises the vast majority of the human experience. He offers pages on the role of names and nicknames in high schools and the signifi cance of dirt and noise in one's living space. A second chapter on each institution is devoted to analysing the agents of social change and preservation. Agents can be people, events, interactions and ideas. Some agents are external to the institution, like the macro infl uence of the economy and immigration or the micro infl uence of a neighbourhood fi re. Other agents are internal, like the teacher or gang in a high school or the tension produced between regulars and others in the grocery store. Each assessment follows this two-chapter pattern, which is conceptually orienting and adds to the narrative's flow. Still, it is neither repetitious nor formulaic. Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighbourhoods Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, 2008 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 487 pp. No price given, hardback; £14.95 paperback ISBN 978


Tom Kibble pioneered the idea that there were one or more symmetry breaking phase transitions in the very early universe, at which defects like monopoles, strings and domain walls would have formed. In the context of grand unified theories, or their extensions, this idea remains compelling: observing these defects would be one of the very few ways of directly confirming the theories. In contrast, inflationary theory invoked a strongly supercooled transition driving a period of exponential expansion which would sweep all such defects away. If inflation terminated slowly, quantum vacuum fluctuations would be amplified and stretched to cosmological scales, forming density variations of just the character required to explain the formation of galaxies. The ensuing paradigm has dominated cosmology for the last three decades. However, basic problems in the scenario remain unresolved. Extreme tuning both of the initial conditions and of the physical laws are required. There are many different versions, each with slightly different predictions. Finally, inflation brought with it the theory of a "multiverse" — a universe containing infinite number of different, infinite, universes — while providing no "measure" or means of calculating the probability of observing any one of them. I will discuss an alternative to inflation, in which the big bang was a bounce from a previous contracting epoch. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC has provided new evidence for such a picture by showing that, within the minimal standard model, our current vacuum is metastable. This opens the door to a cyclic universe scenario in which the electroweak Higgs plays a central role.


Previous worksup1-6/sup on an initial model system for the synthesis of polyaromatic dyes for potential use in solar energy collection used the Doebner modified Knoevenagel condensation. This project is continuing the work on this approach to establish its viability.


Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most malignant tumors with a very poor prognosis. Late diagnosis and lack of effective therapeutic method is the weak point in pancreatic cancer therapy. For pancreatic cancer clustering analysis, thirty proteins were selected from Wiki pathway and sequence comparison was prepared by Needleman-Wunsch algorithm. Similarity scores were obtained by comparing of these proteins and the relevant dissimilarity matrix was constructed. Graphical illustrations of clustering data were performed by R software using package cluster to find subgraphs with maximal density. Finally the interactions of these proteins with their neighbors that was obtained from Mentha, Reactome-Fls Databases by the application of PSICQUIC source in Cytoscape software are presented. The result of this study showed that CREB-binding protein and epidermal growth factor receptor are reported in Wiki Pathway Androgen receptor and most significant hub that involved in pancreatic cancer, but not in the high close relationship. In conclusion cell cycle and signaling pathway have highlighted its importance in pancreatic cancer, as well as its potential as a therapeutic target in PC.


Abstract Seeds of Medicago truncatula, a genomic model species for legumes, exhibit physiological and physical dormancy. Here, the factors influencing the germination behaviour of freshly harvested and stored seeds were investigated using several genotypes. Hardseededness is promoted when mature seeds are equilibrated at relative humidities (RH) below 75%. The release of physical dormancy during imbibition was dependent on the initial water content/RH that the seeds were dried to: the drier the seeds, the longer the imbibition time needed to break physical dormancy. The kinetics of physical dormancy release was slower than that of physiological dormancy, making it possible to uncouple both phenomena. Freshly harvested embryos without seed coverings germinated at the same speed as afterripened seeds. The depth of dormancy varied between different M. truncatula genotypes, from more to less dormant: DZA315.16>A17 (Jemalong)>R108>DZA45.5. This difference was eliminated by removing the endosperm. Collectively, these observations indicate that the endosperm is likely the main factor in the reduced germination of freshly harvested seeds. White light decreased germination speed of dormant seeds whereas it had no effect on non-dormant seeds. Recently harvested seeds were most dormant at temperatures above 17°C, whereas afterripened seeds germinated over a wider range of temperature. Fluridone could efficiently break dormancy, reinforcing the role of abscisic acid (ABA) synthesis. However, dormancy was not affected by gibberellic acid (100 μM GA3) or nitrate. The particular dormancy features unravelled here for M. truncatula, combined with the available genomic resources, make it a new, useful model for genetic and molecular studies which can complement those developed for Arabidopsis.


the psychogenic etiology of peptic ulcer at the present time than all other previous etiologic considerations.) The acid neutralizing drip procedures, which the author originated, are discussed in great detail. The author uses these much more frequently than do other physicians in the treatment of peptic ulcer. Apparently his unusually good results in obstinate cases is enough to substantiate his claims. Almost all the criticisms which have been lodged against this method are interdependent upon the technical difficulties in using the apparatus, the unnecessary discomfort to the patient, the severe fecal impactions that occur with the aluminum drip, and the presence of occasional severe erosive esophagitis and aspiration pneumonia. However, these apparently are negligible in a well-controlled hospital in which the physician works. It must be emphasized that the treatment is directed at the complete neutralization of gastric acidity to promote healing. This position is accepted by some and negated by others.


BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE
Although the characteristics of personality have been scarcely investigated in alcoholic patients who are candidates for liver transplantation (LT), a psychopathological evaluation is necessary in them.

PATIENTS AND METHOD
The personality questionnaire Mini-Mult was administered to 53 alcoholic and 20 non-alcoholic patients who were candidates for LT, and was re-administered to 18 alcoholic and 4 non-alcoholic patients at 1-3 months after LT.

RESULTS
Abnormal values in at least 1 of the 8 clinical Mini-Mult scales were observed in 62% of alcoholic patients. However, no significant differences were observed between alcoholic and non-alcoholic patients in relation to the intensity and frequency of abnormal Mini-Mult values. In those alcoholic patients re-evaluated shortly after transplantation, there was not a significant improvement in any of the Mini-Mult scales, with the exception of scale K (self-image).

CONCLUSIONS
Alcoholic patients candidates for LT show common alterations in some areas of the personality but the intensity is moderate and without significant differences with respect to non-alcoholic patients also evaluated as candidates for LT.


With the tremendous growth of ICT (Information and Communication Technology), we are able to generate, store, share and transfer enormous amount of information. World Wide Web have further made is easy to access the information anytime, anywhere in the world. With the advent of high capacity communication links and storage devices even most of the information generated is of multimedia in nature. Images have major share in this information and the number of image achieves are growing with the jet speed Just having the tremendous amount of information is not useful unless we do not have the methodologies to effectively search the related data from it in minimum possible duration. The relativity of the image data is application specific. Here to search and retrieve the expected images from the database we need Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system. CBIR extracts the features of query image and try to match them with the extracted features of images in the database. Then based on the similarity measures and threshold the best possible candidate matches are given as result. There have been many approaches to decide and extract the features of images in the database.
 Binary truncation Coding based features is one of the CBIR methods proposed using color features of image. The approach basically considers red, green and blue planes of image together to compute feature vector. Here we have augmented this BTC based CBIR as BTC-RGB and Spatial BTC-RGB. In BTC-RGB feature vector is computed by considering red, green and blue planes of the image independently. While in Spatial BTC-RGB, the feature vector is composed of four parts. Each part is representing the features extracted from one of the four non overlapping quadrants of the image. The new proposed methods are tested on the 1000 images database and the results show that the precession is improved in BTC-RGB and is even better in Spatial BTC-RGB.


Nonmuscle invasive tumors of the bladder often recur and thereby bladder cancer patients need regular re‐examinations which are invasive, unpleasant, and expensive. A noninvasive and less expensive method, e.g. a urine dipstick test, for monitoring recurrence would thus be advantageous. In this study, the complementary techniques mass spectrometry (MS) and Western blotting (WB)/dot blot (DB) were used to screen the urine samples from bladder cancer patients. High resolving MS was used to analyze and quantify the urinary proteome and 29 proteins had a significantly higher abundance (p<0.05) in bladder cancer samples compared with control urine samples. The increased abundance found in urine from bladder cancer patients compared with controls was confirmed with Western blot for four selected proteins; fibrinogen β chain precursor, apolipoprotein E, α‐1‐antitrypsin, and leucine‐rich α‐2‐glycoprotein 1. Dot blot analysis of an independent urine sample set pointed out fibrinogen β chain and α‐1‐antitrypsin as most interesting biomarkers having sensitivity and specificity values in the range of 66–85%. Exploring the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) also revealed that bladder cancer tumors are the likely source of these proteins. They have the potential of being useful in diagnosis, monitoring of recurrence and thus may improve the treatment of bladder tumors, especially nonmuscle invasive tumors.


This paper introduces the design process of hoisting scheme for exchange roaster vaporization cooler.It also describes the main features of hoisting scheme and application result.


Every significant index attests to the extraordinary growth of the electric-power industry throughout the first four and a half decades of the present century. Physical output multiplied forty times between 1900 and 1939, a record exceeded during this period only by the automobile and cigarette industries. Labor efficiency and efficiency in the use of fuel increased well above the average for industry generally, and yet employment rose ninefold. Fixed assets were approximately ten times greater at the end of the period than they were at the beginning. Electric rates—the cost of the product to the consumer—have declined throughout. Here is a record of very great progress, even for an industry that was in its infancy in 1900—increased investment, efficiency, employment, and output, and reduced prices. It raises some interesting questions for public policy, questions related both to the future of the electric-power industry and to possibilities in other fields where lessons drawn from this experience may be pertinent.


Unitary operations are a fundamental component of quantum algorithms, but they seem to be far more useful if given with a "quantum control" as a controlled unitary operation. However, quantum operations are not limited to unitary operations. Nevertheless, it is not a priori clear if a controlled form of these general deterministic quantum operations can be well-defined. This paper proposes a mathematically consistent definition of a controlled form of general deterministic quantum operations and, more generally, of quantum combs for utilizing controlled quantum operations and combs in quantum computation. We propose a "neutralization" comb, which transforms a set of input quantum operations to the identity operation, and study its controlled form based on our definition. We propose two new quantum algorithms for universal controllization of divisible unitary operations utilizing the most coherently controlled neutralization combs.


Under the "new retail" model, online, offline and logistics are integrated and developed. In view of the problems of offline end-of-line logistics terminals in the development process of the "new retail" model, this paper will explore optimization solutions for the distribution of logistics terminals, which will help improve the service quality and efficiency of new retail logistics. Service quality and efficiency. Based on the data of a certain station in Guangzhou (named A station) and API from Baidu, operations research, multivariate statistics and other methods are used comprehensively to explore the new retail community and logistics terminal layout optimization plan and simulate the optimization effect.


Hyperglycemia (HG) affects cellular organelle including mitochondrion in retina that diminishes mitochondrial biogenesis by downregulation of nuclear transcription factors peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor‐γ coactivator‐1 (PGC‐1α) and mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM). Mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to diabetic retinopathy (DR). Carotenoids reported to modulate mitochondrial biogenesis in HG. Aim of the study was to explore the role of lutein, oxidized lutein (purified upon UV oxidation of lutein) and drug metformin, on mitochondrial biogenesis in HG‐induced ARPE‐19 cells and rat retina. Results showed higher uptake of lutein and oxidized lutein in ARPE‐19 cells and rat retina of HG group than the control groups. Further, lutein and oxidized lutein augmented the AMPK phosphorylation and activation of mitochondrion signaling molecule TFAM (protein expression) and mRNA expression of PGC‐1α, TFAM, and nuclear respiratory factor 1 (responsible for mitochondria biogenesis) along with lowered reactive oxygen species in HG compared with control and metformin groups. Higher mRNA expression of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase subunits mt‐ND1, mt‐ND4, mt‐ND6, and cytochrome C that aid maintenance of mtDNA integrity was also evidenced. To conclude, lutein and oxidized lutein found to upsurge mitochondrial biogenesis in ARPE‐19 cells and rat retina under HG, which may be due to upregulation of AMPK phosphorylation. Finally, lutein and oxidized lutein may provide a therapeutic basis to ameliorate HG‐induced DR.


The global proliferation of the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely impacted public health, society, and the economy. To face the pandemic, managers are frequently required to make highly complicated decisions about financial reports. Earnings management occurs when managers modify financial statements for the advantage of stakeholders by evaluating opportunities in certain business activities. This paper investigates the impact of audit opinion and tax incentives on earnings management and leverage as a moderating variable among consumer goods manufacturing companies. A purposive sampling technique was performed to select 15 manufacturers in the consumer goods industry subsector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2019 and 2021, which matched the research criteria. This study's findings indicate that audit opinion and tax incentives influence earnings management among consumer goods companies in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Moreover, leverage was a moderating variable for audit opinion and earnings management, but it did not moderate the effect of tax incentives on earnings management.


In this paper, we present a deep learning solution to detect and correct anomalous values present in historical temperature timeseries, that are likely associated to human and weather instruments errors. Our solution consists in a joint peaks detection and end-to-end sequence prediction involving synchronous measurements of individual meteorological stations along with their neighboring peers. We designed our models in a way that the false positive rate (FPR) of the anomaly detection is minimized and the accuracy maximized, so that the historical records are corrected as less as possible. The method was applied to temperature records of 24 meteorological stations in Belgium, and allowed to automatically correct more than 80% of all errors in both max/min daily temperature records by modifying less than 15% of all the timeseries values, with an overall detection accuracy of 90%. The corrected temperature timeseries yielded a perfect match with respect to errors-free signals in several climate indicators. Our method can be potentially applied to other historical timeseries such as precipitation.


This study evaluates the role and relationship between SiO2 and Al2O3 contents of aluminosilicate material on the properties of Si-rich geopolymer systems using Australian fly ashes and existing published data. The selected fly ashes, with varying amounts of amorphous and total SiO2 and Al2O3 were assessed for their overall reactivity. XRD analyses yielded traces of sodalite in addition to conventional amorphous geopolymer phase for the fly ash mixtures with amorphous SiO2/Al2O3 = 3.31. The other two fly ashes with higher amorphous SiO2/Al2O3 ratio tended to produce sodium aluminosilicate zeolitic phases comprising mainly of Na-P1 zeolite and faujasite. These latter phases originate from Na2O–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O gel assemblages but the pathway appears to be governed by the available reactive SiO2 and Al2O3 in the reaction environment. However, indices based on the amorphous content or more precisely amorphous SiO2/Al2O3 ratio provided a relatively good correlation with the compressive strength of the final product.


We formulate a geometrical representation of the normalization of proofs in the multiplicative-exponential fragment of linear logic. In particular, our representation conserves the local nature of the normalization process --- a concern salient to the Geometry of Interaction paradigm of Girard et al. Our approach is based on the representation of linear proofs as certain kinds of higher-dimensional automata, modeled as Simplicial sets in an affine geometry. This representation draws significantly upon the ideas of Eric Goubault, Vaughan Pratt and others, using geometric simplices for modeling higher-dimensional automata. The novelty in our approach is using this essentially concurrent structure to anchor a second-level sequential representation --- that of the global history of the (development) of the proof-objects, encoded as a certain kind of homological data correlated with the simplicial structure. In the process-theoretic metaphor, these could be viewed as set of sequential traces of these automata, along with a minimal synchronization structure. The main motivation behind our approach is to develop extensional fully-abstract models of higher-type functional sequential computation, by using the (local) geometrical structure of Simplicial sets to enrich the (global) topological space of denotations. Additionally, it opens up a new way of looking at linear proofs as geometrically structured processes, along with the possibility of importing notions like equivalence and causal dependence from traditional process theory into the study of proofs.


Wireless local area networks (WLANs) are increasingly popular because of their flexibility. This spreading of WLANs comes with an increasing use of multimedia applications. Such applications are bandwidth sensitive and require a quality of service(QoS) that guarantees high performance transmission of continuous data. EDCA 802.11e used to supporting Quality of service for real time transmission over WLANs. But EDCA 802.11e week in Multi-hop case because of hidden station effect. however monitoring is difficult in network due to every time changing topology in mobile ad-hoc network(MANET)To resolve the problem of hidden terminal in this paper we use 802.11 MAC layer protocol which use a MIB (Management information Base) technique. A Simulation experiments - using the network simulator NS-2 are carried out to compare the performance of both protocols.


The calibration of radiation thermometers requires knowledge of the target size effect on the thermometer output, namely the size of source effect (SSE). The measurement of an instrument SSE allows to calculate a correction, or an estimation for this source of uncertainty. For a correct determination of SSE it is necessary to use large aperture radiation sources of uniform spectral radiance. We show here an experimental system to measure SSE at high temperature (up to 600 °C) with an enough large aperture of broad band radiation thermometer with output in terms of temperature.


Highlights significance of designing service delivery system, explains the integral role of customer in service production process, stresses the importance of customer-organisation interface, lists important ingredients of service package to be considered while designing customer interface, enumerates various dimensions of customer interface which can be positively made use of in design of service production and delivery system, discusses various ways and means of inducing and enhancing customer participation in service production and delivery system, emphasises the primacy of customer satisfaction in the evaluation of service organisation and finally concludes by pointing out the lopsided emphasis of librarianship on people-equipment dimension of customer-interface that too in terms of application software only.


Volume 62, no. 1, p. 14, column 1, line 20: "250 (mu)g each of yeast extract, peptone, and soluble starch ml(sup-1)" should read "250 (mu)g each of yeast extract, peptone, and soluble starch liter(sup-1)." [This corrects the article on p. 13 in vol. 62.].


: By and large, software testing can be well thought-out as a adept technique of achieving improved software quality as well as reliability. On the other hand, the eminence of the test cases had significant effect on the fault enlightening competence of testing activity. Prioritization of Test case (PTC) remnants one challenging issue, as prioritizing test cases remains not up in the direction of abrasion by means of respect to Faults Detected Average Percentage (FDAP) and time execution results. The PTC is predominantly anticipated to scheme assortment of test cases in accomplishing timely optimization by means of preferred properties. Earlier readings have been presented for place in order the accessible test cases in upsurge speed the fault uncovering rate in testing. In this phase, this learning schemes a Modern modified Harris Hawks Optimization centered PTC (M 2 H 2 O-PTC) method for testing. The anticipated M 2 H 2 O-PTC method aims to exhaust the possibilities the FDAP and curtail the complete execution time. Besides, the M 2 H 2 O algorithm is considered for boosting the examination and taking advantage abilities of the conservative H 2 O algorithm. For validating the enhanced efficiency of the M 2 H 2 O-PTC method, an extensive variety of simulations occur on contradictory standard programs and the outcomes are inspected underneath numerous characteristics. The investigational results emphasized enhanced proficiency of the M 2 H 2 O-PTC method in excess of the modern methodologies in standings of dissimilar measures.


AbstractThis paper explores the relevance of cooking skills to modern living and health promotion practices. Drawing on UK data and particularly the 1993 English Health and Lifestyles Survey but in terms common to many western economies, the paper explores the health education implications of the possible demise of cooking skills. The paradox of low skills and confidence alongside high interest in food is explored. The evidence linking cooking skills to health is explored. A schema of different policy and theoretical perspectives on the teaching of cooking skills is outlined. Although even within the UK there is variation in educational practice, a case is made for the inclusion of cooking skills within a co-ordinated health promotion approach, based on a health development framework. Cooking classes or some practical aspect of 'hands-on' skills could feature in a young person's curriculum at some stage at school as part of a wider education about life skills and citizenship. There is little point in purv...


Delay-based reservoir computing (RC) offers a simple technological route to implement photonic neuromorphic computation. Its operation boils down to a time-multiplexing with the delay limiting the processing speed. As most optical setups end up to be bulky employing long fiber loops or free-space optics, the processing speeds are limited in the range of kSa/s to tens of MSa/s [1]. In this work, we focus on external cavities which are far shorter than what has been realized before in experiment. We present the results of an experimental validation of reservoir computing based on a semiconductor laser with a 10.8 cm delay line, both integrated on an active/passive InP photonic chip built on the Jeppix platform [3]. The single mode laser operates around 1550nm with a side mode suppression of larger than 20dB.


The problem of electrohydraulic actuator controller design of a power loading test bench of aviation elements is discussed. An approach for identification of the test bench parameters is offered on the basis of relay feedback test. The proposed expressions give a possibility to find proportional-integral (PI) controller parameters of the test bench on the basis of time-scale separation technique (singular perturbation technique) and results of the relay feedback test. The proposed results allow to perform automatic selection of the controller parameters for the test bench of strength tests and to increase the accuracy of implementation of the power loading cyclograms of aviation elements that finally allows to accelerate process carrying out strength tests.


Every developed and developing country is experiencing economic problems. The good and bad of a country's economy, one of which can be seen from the unemployment rate. The research methodology used is associative and explanatory research with a quantitative approach. This study consists of the independent variables in the form of Economic Growth and Labor Force Participation Rate, the dependent variable is in the form of unemployment, while the intervening variable is in the form of the Human Development Index (IPM). The object of this research is 38 regencies/cities in East Java Province. With a period from 2017 to 2022. The type of data used is in the form of secondary data which includes journals and websites such as the Central Bureau of Statistics or BPS Statistik Indonesia. The data analysis method used is PLS-SEM (Partial Least Square Path Modeling) with the help of SmartPLS 3.0.
Based on the data and results of research that has been done, it was found that economic growth has a positive and significant effect on HDI (Human Development Index), economic growth has a significant positive effect on unemployment, the labor force participation rate has a negative and insignificant effect on HDI (development index). Man). The labor force participation rate has a negative and significant effect on unemployment, and the HDI (Human Development Index) has a negative and significant effect on unemployment.


Production system effectiveness determine to measure the sustainability of the established industries demands the development of a model for resolving global sustainable productivity challenges. The attributes (internal and external) of industrial failure were determined using questionnaire administration and oral interviews of industry experts in five (5) selected production companies in Nigeria: (Company A); (Company B); (Company C); (Company D) and (Company E). Production System Effectiveness (PSE) factors: Availability A, Performance P, and Quality Q were determined to arrive at manageable decision-making criteria under uncertainty, risk, or competition. Initial measures of PSE were based on the input internal factors (manpower, machine, material, energy, management, information/communication, money, and marketing), while sustainability decisions were determined using globally acceptable standards. The model was tested using data (weighted and normal) from the stated companies to determine their sustainability performances, while paired t-test statistic was used to test the levels of significant difference between weighted (WPSE) and normal (PSE) at 5%. The results indicated varying optimum decisions which were influenced by the nature/types of competition, risk, and standard of measure. The statistical result showed that there was a significant difference between the PSE and WPSE. These differences had little or no effect on optimum decision-making in all companies investigated.


1. A composition for the care of the oral cavity or body comprising an extract of roots of the plant Glycyrrhiza sp., Represents the extract substantially free of glycyrrhizic acid, the major components of the extract are prenylated flavonoids and roots extracted CO2 extraction method in the supercritical state. ! 2. of claim 1, wherein said extract composition of the oral care or body obtained from Glycyrrhiza uralensis, and the main components of the extract are licoricidin and licorisoflavan A.! 3. The composition of the oral care or body according to claim 1, wherein said extract is obtained from Glycyrrhiza glabra, and the main component of the extract is glabridin. ! 4. A composition for the care of the oral cavity according to claim 1, which is selected by the oral care selected from the group consisting of a dentifrice, toothpaste, means for cleaning dentures, dental floss, toothpicks, liquid for rinsing the oral cavity , mouthwashes, troches, chewing gums, dispersible tablets, chewable tablets and lozenges. ! 5. The dentifrice of claim 4, wherein said extract is present in a concentration of from about 0.002 to about 2.0 wt.%. ! 6. The means in which said extract is at a concentration for cleaning dentures according to claim 4, of from about 0.002 to about 2.0 wt.%. ! 7. The means for rinsing the oral cavity or mouth rinse of Claim 4, wherein said extract is present in a concentration from about 0.002 to about 2.0 wt.%. ! 8. A lozenge, chewing gum or lozenge of Claim 4, wherein said extract is present in a concentration from Prima


The class of L-contractive mappings was introduced by Cho [12]. In this paper, we provide some fixed point results for such mappings via a control function introduced by Jleli and Samet [14] in the class of partial metric spaces. Some illustrating examples are given.


Substituted enamides were prepared by a three-component reaction of lithiated alkoxyallenes, nitriles, and carboxylic acids. Their subsequent condensation with ammonium salts provided alkoxy-substituted pyrimidine derivatives. This two-step method e is highly flexible with respect to the substitution pattern at C-2 and it C-6. The C-4 and C-5 positions can smoothly be functionalized employing either Pd-catalyzed couplings or oxidation methods.


Theexpression ofa porcine genomicDNA segmentcontaining a major histocompatibility gene anditschromatin structure inmouse L cells havebeen investigated. Thetransformed cells, whichcontain about twocopies ofthe17.8kilobase pigDNA insert perhaploid genome, stably anduniformly expressmajor histocompatibility antigen on their surfaces. Thisexpression istheresult of differential transcription ofthe3-kilobase major histocompatibility gene;theother 14kilobases ofpigsequencesflanking thecoding sequence are nottranscribed. Although theentire pigDNA segmentispackaged intonucleosomes, onlythe transcriptionally active DNA sequences are packaged ina DNaseI-sensitive conformation. Theseresults suggest that theexpression ofthis foreign DNA is actively regulated inLcells. Theability tointroduce foreign DNA into mouseL cells (26) provides aunique system in whichtostudy theregulation ofgeneexpression, particularly ofisolated members ofamultigenefamily. Although information on the expression, integration, andnucleosomal packaging ofselectable genes, suchasthethymidine kinase gene(tk), isemerging (1,3,24), little is knownabouttheregulation ofexpression of nonselected transfected genes. Insomecases, suchtransfected genesareexpressed; inother cases, theyarenot. Expressed endogenous DNA sequences can bedistinguished byboththeir chromatin structureandtranscription. Whereas allendogenous DNA sequences areorganized into nucleosomes inchromatin (12), twolevels ofchromatin modification havebeenassociated withgeneactivity. Transcriptionally active genes arepackaged into


In this paper scheme of organization of local and global school network in Vojvodina is suggested, with possibility of using open source Moodle (www.moodle.org) distance learning system. Two main types of network are described, the one with central database server and the other with local database servers.


The present invention provides a method of achieving completely electrically rechargeable metal-air battery systems, and such systems. Rechargeable metal-air battery cell, and a metal electrode, and an air electrode, may comprise an aqueous electrolyte separating the metal electrode and the air electrode. In some embodiments, the metal electrodes do not need to be provided between may be in direct contact, with any separator or a porous membrane is also air electrode and the electrolyte in the electrolyte. Rechargeable metal-air battery cell may be electrically connected to each other via the St load connection between the air electrode of the first battery cell of the metal electrode and the second battery cell. Air tunnel, may be provided between the individual metal-air battery cell, in some embodiments, the electrolyte flow management system may be provided.


Many investigators have studied the factors underlying Japan's remarkable post–war economic development. Many of them discuss the contribution of engineering education to this development in terms of research and curricula. In this paper I focus on the relationships between the number of engineering (and science) graduates in Japan and some key economic indicators such as Gross National Product and value added. Trends in graduate numbers are analysed for some key industrial sectors in Japan.


THE communication problems of rural areas offer an unique opportunity for the application of automatic switching methods. In no other situation is the combination of factors so favorable. Automatic exchanges are particularly suited to rural needs, especially when they are installed as unattended units in connection with nearby attended exchanges. The principal benefit springs from the fact that in a small manual exchange the number of operators cannot be adjusted to take care efficiently of the maximum traffic, because too often there is not enough traffic to occupy the time of even one operator. The low traffic factor in rural areas therefore results in a twofold handicap — a handicap which only automatic equipment has been able to remedy. Experience has shown first that it is the infrequency of calls in an exchange, rather than high traffic, that makes the operator inattentive, and often causes delay in putting through calls. Service being the essence of all telephone facilities, this is a condition which cries aloud for a remedy.


This paper proposes a C-Stacking ensemble model for short-term prediction of water level time series. First, the method of complete empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) is used to decompose the original water level sequence into high, low frequency and residual sequences, and the method of wavelet threshold denoising is used to eliminate the noise of the high frequency sequence, and then support vector regression (SVR), back propagation neural network (BP) and long short-term memory neural network (LSTM) models are used as the primary learner to predict the denoised water level sequence, and finally the linear model is used to integrate the predicted values of the three primary learners to obtain the final predicted value. The experimental analysis of Hongze Lake water level data shows that the ensemble model has better prediction accuracy and applicability than a single model.


Generative design methods are capable of generating concepts and stimulating solutions based on robust and rigorous models of design conditions, design languages and design performance. The computer now becomes a design generator in addition to its more conventional role as draftsperson, visualizor, data checker and performance analyst. Motivated by the challenge to enable designers to easily develop meaningful input models of design intent to make best use of a structural generative method, this paper describes an initial combination of a generative design tool, eifForm, and an associative modeling system, Custom Objects, through the use of XML models. The current combined use is illustrated through an example involving generation of a set of 20 interrelated roof trusses with seven unique spans initiated by a parametric model of a saddle shaped stadium roof in Custom Objects. The paper concludes with a discussion of the synergies between associative modeling and generative systems and identifies future extensions aimed to exploit these synergies towards integrated performance-based generative design tools.


Abstract. As part of the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), ground-based measurements obtained from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) stratospheric ozone lidar and the NOAA stratospheric aerosol lidar at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, over the past 2 decades were used to investigate the impact of volcanic eruptions and pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) smoke plumes on the stratospheric aerosol load above Hawaii since 1999. Measurements at 355 and 532 nm conducted by these two lidars revealed a color ratio of 0.5 for background aerosols and small volcanic plumes and 0.8 for a PyroCb plume recorded on September 2017. Measurements of the Nabro plume by the JPL lidar in 2011–2012 showed a lidar ratio of (64±12.7) sr at 355 nm around the center of the plume.
The new Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology (GloSSAC), Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) Level 3 and Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on the International Space Station (SAGE III-ISS) stratospheric aerosol datasets were compared to the ground-based lidar datasets. The intercomparison revealed a generally good agreement, with vertical profiles of extinction coefficient within 50 % discrepancy between 17 and 23 km above sea level (a.s.l.) and 25 % above 23 km a.s.l. The stratospheric aerosol depth derived from all of these datasets shows good agreement, with the largest discrepancy (20 %) being observed between the new CALIOP Level 3 and the other datasets.
All datasets consistently reveal a relatively quiescent period between 1999 and 2006, followed by an active period of multiple eruptions (e.g., Nabro) until early 2012. Another quiescent period, with slightly higher aerosol background, lasted until mid-2017, when a combination of extensive wildfires and multiple volcanic eruptions caused a significant increase in stratospheric aerosol loading. This loading maximized at the very end of the time period considered (fall 2019) as a result of the Raikoke eruption, the plume of which ascended to 26 km altitude in less than 3 months.


This paper systematically examines the interrelations between equilibrium indeterminacy, endogenous entry and exit of intermediate input firms, and increasing returns to specialization within two versions of a parsimonious one-sector monopolistically competitive RBC model. The technology for producing an intermediate good is postulated to display internal increasing returns to scale in our benchmark framework, whereas positive productive externalities are considered in the alternative setting. We analytically show that either formulation will exhibit belief-driven cyclical fluctuations provided the equilibrium wage-hours locus is positively sloped and steeper than the household's labor supply curve. We also find that ceteris paribus our alternative macroeconomy is more susceptible to indeterminacy and sunspots than the baseline counterpart.


Objective To superselective uterine artery infusion chemotherapy through the dynamic observation of cervical tumor local,organizational changes in the pathology and serum SCC-Ag,and to investigate the role of superselective uterine artery infusion chemotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer.Methods Twenty cases of locally advanced cervical cancer,superselective uterine artery infusion chemotherapy,dynamic observation after chemotherapy in 21 days of cervical cancer local histopathology and serum SCC-Ag changes.Results After chemotherapy,the clinical efficiency was 70%,the reoperation rate was 67%;the pathological changes were:at early(1 week) time,there was the main cancer focus necrosis,and late(2-3 weeks),there were large areas of necrosis,even part of the pathological completely relieved,inflammatory cell infiltration of lymphocytes and fibrous tissue proliferated obviously;the SCC-Ag level of expressions significantly different before and after chemotherapy.Conclusion Superselective uterine arterial infusion chemotherapy can reduce the partial lesions of the cervical tumor,increase the resection rate,pathological change of cancerous tissue is closely related to the role of time with chemotherapy,the outcome for the tumor necrosis increased to reduce the level of tumor burden,to achieve the purpose of neoadjuvant chemotherapy.


An integrate process for stainless steel making called "ATAC" is developed using Top Injection equipment (TI) in Hoshizaki plant. ATAC process is a combination of Arc furnace melting, Top injection, Argon oxygen decarburization and Continuous casting, which has a large effect on cost down.Top Injection makes it possible to desulfurize at high rates, even in a low stirring condition. Capacity coefficient of TI method is five times larger than gas bubling method in same stirring condition. The operation of AOD becomes more easier than before, by applying TI refining method for making extra low sulfur stainless steel.As the result, the life of AOD lining increases from 190 heats to 275 heats, which results in the decrease of melting cost of 7%.


List of IllustrationsPrefaceMapsPart 1. Prologue Introduction: A Perfect Storm of People1. The Elements of Democracy: Free Speech, Free Assembly, and the Law2. The World of the Great CityPart 2. Public Order in Victorian London 3. London Before 18504. The Sunday Trading Bill Riots5. Prelude to Black and Bloody6. Black Monday, Bloody Sunday7. Taking Back TrafalgarPart 3. Violence and Control in the Empire City 8. New York Before 18709. The Battle Over Tompkins Square10. New York Under Control11. The Regulated CityPart 4. Epilogue 12. The Triumph of OrderAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex


AA 220 Matthew Mitchell  Guide to Records   - South Australian Museum Archives Finding Aid and Index to Records relating to Australian Aboriginal People


THE GROWTH of almost every great industry rests upon the progressive development of one or more key auxiliaries, devices, or processes vital to its functioning. As an example, the railroads have the air brake and the block signal without which modern high-speed railway trains could not be operated.


The Rental User Study and Local User Study were conducted as part of the TravTek Operational Test Evaluation. TravTek was an operational field test of an advanced traveler information and traffic management system (ATIS/ATMS). As part of the test, 75 TravTek equipped vehicles were rented to Orlando visitors. Other TravTek equipped vehicles were supplied to Orlando residents who were selected in part because they compile above average mileage in their daily driving. There were 2,896 TravTek rentals that averaged 4 to 6 days. Fifty-one local users were each given use of a TravTek vehicle for approximately 2 months. The focus of these evaluation studies was to obtain user perception and performance data related to use of system components in the TravTek vehicles. The vehicles were equipped to provide route planning, route guidance, and a data base of local services and attractions. The in-vehicle system included moving map and simplified turn-by-turn guidance displays supplemented by a synthesized voice guidance and traffic report feature. Questionnaires, debriefings, and automated in-vehicle data logs were used to gather evaluation data. Measures described in this report include: perceptions of utility, ease of use, safety, driver workload, frequency of use of system functions and features, and estimates of willingness-to-pay for the TravTek system as a whole, as well as for selected features. Both rental and local users reported the route planning and route guidance features of the TravTek system to be useful and easy to use. Users reported that they felt more attentive and less distracted when driving with the TravTek system compared to driving in similar situations without the system. TravTek was used on more than half of all trips. Renters with route planning and route guidance capabilities used those capabilities on more than half their trips. Local users also made extensive use of the route planning and route guidance capabilities. In route guidance, rental users drove most of the time with the simplified Turn-by-Turn Guidance Display with the synthesized voice supplement turned on. Although local users expressed a slight preference for the moving map Route Map display without the supplemental voice, they also used the Guidance Display with voice supplement on more than other display options. Users estimated that they would be willing to pay about $1000 for a system such as the one they drove. Users also indicated that they were willing to pay the most for navigation, route planning and route guidance features, and somewhat less for real-time traffic information and local information data bases.


Seven genera plant–parasitic nematodes, i.e. Criconemella sp., Ditylenchus spp., Helicotylenchus spp., Meloidogyne spp., Pratylenchus spp, Rotylenchulus spp. and Tylenchorhynchus were recorded in the rihzospher in tomato plants. Such genera differed greatly in their prevalence and levels of abundance. The genera of Helicotylenchus spp., Pratylenchus sp. and, Meloidogyne spp. were dominant. The genera Tylenchorhynchus sp., Rotylenchulus spp., Criconemella sp. and Ditylenchus spp. were the second most important genera. On the other hand, the genera of Meloidogyne spp. and Tylenchorhynchus sp. were the most frequently occurred. Regarding Peach orchards, there were nine genera plant–parasitic nematode, i.e. Criconemella sp., Ditylenchus spp., Helicotylenchus spp., Hemicriconemoides sp. Heterodera spp., Meloidogyne spp., Pratylenchus spp., Rotylenchulus spp. and Tylenchorhynchus spp. The genera Helicotylenchus spp. and Hemicriconemoides sp. were dominant. Genera, however Pratylenchus spp .and Meloidogyne spp. were the most frequently occurred. The environmental behavior of the nematicide residues, fothiazate in sandy loam soils in peach orchards and tomatoe plants were investigated under field conditions. In relation to the degradation pattern in the selected soils, the obtained results indicated that the nematicide residues were dissipated more rapidly in the soil planted with tomatoes compared with peach orchard soils.  The calculated half-life periods (t1/2) were 3.7 and 7.4 days for fosthiazate in soil planted with tomatoes and trees of peach.


The properties of the human eye retina, including space-variant resolution and gaze characters, provide many advantages for numerous applications that simultaneously require a large field of view, high resolution, and real-time performance. Therefore, retina-like mechanisms and sensors have received considerable attention in recent years. This paper provides a review of state-of-the-art retina-like imaging techniques and applications. First, we introduce the principle and implementing methods, including software and hardware, and describe the comparisons between them. Then, we present typical applications combined with retina-like imaging, including three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction, target tracking, deep learning, and ghost imaging. Finally, the challenges and outlook are discussed to further study for practical use. The results are beneficial for better understanding retina-like imaging.


192 Baheij pullets and 60 cocks, 28 wks of age, were used to investigate the effect of feeding different levels of protein and methionine on Baheij laying hens performance and reducing the environmental pollution of nitrogen. Birds were randomly assigned to twelve treatments in complete randomized factorial design (3X4) with three levels of protein (12, 14 and 16 %) and four levels of methionine (1.673, 2.000, 2.327 and 2.754% of crude protein) and housed in individual wire laying cages and fed isocaloric diets. Feed and water were provided ad-libitum throughout the experimental period. (28 – 48 wks of age). Different levels of portein (CP) insignificantly affected body weight (BW), egg production (EP), egg weight (EW), egg mass (EM) feed intake (FI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR). Increasing methionine level significantly increased EW and EM, and significantly improved FCR, while the other traits were insignificantly affected. However, the interaction between protein and methionine revealed that the best average EW was produced by hens fed 16% CP supplemented by 2.754 Meth % of CP. Wet and dry shell weight percentages, dry yolk weight percentage, and shell thickness were significantly increased by decreasing the protein levels in Baheij layer hen diets. Wet yolk weight, wet and dried albumen percentages and egg shape and egg yolk index were insignificantly affected by protein and methionine levels or by their interaction, while dried yolk percentage was significantly increased by increasing protein levels. Increasing protein levels significantly decreased hatched chicks percentages, while increasing methionine levels had the opposite results. Increasing protein and methionine levels significantly increased posthatch chicks weight and the interaction results indicated that the highest posthatch chick weight was recorded for hens fed 16% CP supplemented by the highest methionine level (2.754 Meth % of CP). Increasing protein levels significantly decreased plasma total cholesterol concentration, while methionine levels had insignificant effects. Decrease crude protein from 16 to 14 and to 12 % in Baheij diet led to significant reduction of nitrogen execrated by 33.82 and 45.45%. The layers fed the lowest levels of methionine in their diets (1.673% of CP) consumed the highest amount of nitrogen (5.46 g/day) and they avoided the lowest amount of nitrogen (0.72 g/day) in their excreta. The interaction between protein and methionine levels indicated that layer fed the lowest levels of protein (12%) consumed and excreted the lowest amount of nitrogen as compare to those fed the other levels of CP (14 or 16 % CP). Decrease protein and increase methionine levels significantly increased apparent dry matter and crude protein digestibility.


The present paper aimed to examine the extent to which the leadership style perceived by employees affects organizational development and employees' satisfaction with performance appraisal system and turnover intention between such relationships. For this purpose, this study utilized a descriptive survey method and collected data using questionnaires. The study sample included 245 participants. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results demonstrated that perceived leadership style has a positive effect on both organizational diagnosis and performance appraisal satisfaction, while turnover intention is only negatively affected by performance appraisal satisfaction.


In general, visual and IR imagery is degraded by turbulence caused by atmospheric conditions. Furthermore, this degradation gets worse for longer distances and thus especially hampers long-range observations. Existing processing algorithms for such data sets are based on the assumption of a static background. Indeed, our standard method provides good results for several land1 and harbor2 scenes, but this approach cannot be used for sea scenarios for two main reasons: the non-static background, and targets that have complex movements. At sea, turbulence can therefore affect the classification and identification of ships (e.g., for security and defense purposes). Although several other groups are working on super-resolution algorithms and turbulence mitigation techniques,3–5 a constant background is also assumed in those algorithms. In our standard turbulence mitigation method6—see Figure 1(a)—we first perform 'global motion compensation' (also known as registration) by estimating the alignment between subsequent image frames and compensating for the alignment differences.7 After registration, we apply so-called dynamic super-resolution (DSR). In this step, the aligned images are combined into an enhanced output image.8, 9 The requirement for good alignment is clear at this stage, i.e., if the alignment is poor, different parts of the scene will be combined. Following DSR, we perform a sharpening step to correct for blurring that is caused by the averaging of turbulence-induced local distortions in the images. We process color images by performing the super resolution step on the luminance image, and then merging this enhanced luminance image with the colors of the original images.10 With this standard algorithm, the first challenge in dealing with sea scenarios is that we use a static background with only enough structure for motion estimation. However, this is insufficient for most sea scenarios, i.e., when the water contains Figure 1. Flow diagrams for (a) the standard turbulence mitigation method, for low-turbulence situations, and (b) the region of interest (ROI)-based turbulence mitigation method, applicable for sea scenarios. Visualizations for (c) translation-only motion and (d) translation and rotation motion estimation methods are also shown.


Introduced plant pathogens have major ecological impacts in many parts of the world. While the spread of pathogens can be strongly mediated by the composition and structure of local host plant communities, little is known about effects of plant community structure on invasion dynamics of introduced pathogens. The progress of infection by the invasive pathogen Phytophthora ramorum in coastal California woodlands varies greatly among localities, and some of this variation might be explained by local variation in tree species composition and forest structure. The degree to which patterns of P. ramorum infection depend on the abundance and type of host species present was examined in 202 randomly located plots within a 275 km2 region in eastern Sonoma County, California.


The characterization of cell types in the rostral pars distalis, proximal pars distalis and pars intermedia of the Bagre fish hypophysis during the reproductive cycles, as well as a cytochemical study of mucosubstances were undertaken. The cytophysiological relationship among the different acidophilic, basophilic and chromophobic cells with the several hypophyseal hormones was also considered.


A cryogenic interferometer/spectrometer (FTIR) has been developed at Utah State University as part of the CIRRIS-1A experiment for flight aboard the space shuttle. The inter-ferometer has been configured to optimize its operation by a payload specialist who may not have experience with interferometry but has had payload-specific training. CIRRIS-lA incorporates an automatic sequencer which can be used to operate pre-planned measurement routines. However, a command and monitor panel in the orbiter allows the payload specialist to select which measurement routines control the experiment; it also displays system and subsystem monitor values on its CRT display. The specialist can actuate various internal calibration sources and monitor interferometer performance by viewing the resulting waveforms on a video monitor. An automatic alignment system is provided in case the interferometer needs to be realigned during flight. Detailed operational procedures have been developed to guide the specialist through planned measurement and malfunction procedures and will be flown as part of the payload flight data file to allow in-flight anomalies to be resolved with minimal aid from the ground.


We examined the reduction of the core loss of Mg-Mn-Zn ferrite for deflection yoke cores. We tried to decrease hysteresis loss by selection of composition and additive, because hysteresis loss is much larger than eddy current loss in Mg-Mn-Zn ferrite having high resistance. We succeeded in decreasing hysteresis loss and improved the core loss approximately 30 compared with conventional materials. And ad the result of a simulation, we can expect that the rising temperature of it smaller than that of our conventional materials for deflection yoke at high frequencies and high magnetic flux density.


ObjectiveTo investigate an effective method to isolate neural stem cells(NSCs).MethodsNSCs were dissociated by digestion with trypsin, EDTA and different doses of Dispase,and serum-free culture techniques and immunohistochemistry techniques were used to verifying the dissociated.ResultsA lot of single neural stem cells were obtained by using Dispase to digest neurosphere, and the cells could keep its structure and morphology.ConclusionIt is an ideal method by using Dispase to digest neurosphere for isolating NSCs.


The impact of various wellsprings of endomycorrhiza organisms on bean stew seedlings was directed in the net place of Soil Science Division, HCAST, Kalanki. The endomycorrhiza growths from different sources including an outlandish assortment were remembered for this examination. Soil-based endomycorrhiza inoculum was utilized at the pace of 50 g/pot. It was discovered that the development, biomass yield and supplement take-up of vaccinated seedlings were essentially higher than those of uninoculated seedlings. Such higher development and supplement take-up gave off an impression of being because of advantageous impacts of endomycorrhiza parasites. The exhibition of the indigenous endomycorrhiza inocula was obviously superior to the intriguing inoculum regarding biomass creation and supplement take-up. Vaccination with endomycorrhiza parasites assisted with creating solid and vivacious seedlings with quicker development. This would help diminishing the nursery life and in this manner lessen the expense of seedling creation. It is normal that the endomycorrhiza vaccinated seedlings may perform better in the field trail since the parasites could colonize with the roots.


THE extremely labile diabetic patient presents a problem in management that can often be only partially solved by manipulation of the diet and insulin. A high proportion of such patients are found among the adults who have received insulin for a number of years for a growth-onset type of diabetes. The factors contributing to this "brittle" state are poorly understood. Somogyi1 has emphasized the role of excessive insulin dosage although simple reduction in dosage too often results in an increasing frequency of periods of ketoacidosis. The capricious response of such patients to insulin therapy suggests among other things an altered . . .


Time-resolved intrinsic reaction rate of catalytic vapor deposition of methane into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and hydrogen on supported Ni catalysts was determined under different reaction temperatures (773–973 K) and feed compositions (PH2 = 0–0.29 atm, PCH4 = 0:28–0.71 atm) and the microstructure of the produced CNFs was characterized by Raman and TEM. The results showed that, increasing the reaction temperature, methane partial pressure and decreasing hydrogen partial pressure increased the initial reaction rate but generally led to fast catalyst deactivation. A high carbon yield per unit catalyst was obtained as a compromise between initial reaction rate and catalyst deactivation rate. The microstructures of the produced CNFs had a close relationship with the initial reaction rate. The CNFs produced with high initial rate tended to have a small angle between the graphene layers and the growth axis, thin diameter and a hollow core. This phenomenon can be used for monitoring and controlling the CNFs synthesis process.


Introduction: In situ biosignature identification on Mars for MSL and the future ExoMars and Mars 2020 missions is primarily based on the analysis of organic molecules in recognition of the fact that other kinds of biosignatures (morphological, mineralogical) may be difficult to conclusively interpret [1]. However, the preservation of any organic component (abiotic or biogenic) on the surface of Mars is controlled by a number of physico-chemical factors including oxidation and radiation degradation [2] resulting in destruction of at least the labile molecules, although the more refractory components may survive [1]. Present understanding of the habitability of Mars indicates that it was most habitable during the preNoachian and Noachian (and possibly earliest Hesperian) periods. Thus, missions such as MSL and ExoMars (also probably Mars 2020) are and will be concerned with evidence of habitability and possible biosignatures in these ancient terrains. From a microbial point of view, the early habitable, anaerobic volcanic and hydrothermal environments on Mars were very similar to those on the early Earth [3,4]. Study of microbial habitats and their preserved traces in Early Archaean rocks 3.5-3.2 Ga is therefore highly relevant for Mars. The early life forms were anaerobic and included chemotrophs, as well as more evolved phototrophic forms based on sunlight as an energy source [5]. The former in particular are good analogues for possible martian life [1,4]. Their traces are preserved as morphological fossils, organic components, isotopic signatures and biominerals [5]. Of especial relevance for Mars, however, are the carbonaceous biosignatures. Study of the structural and compositional attributes of these biosignature types and their distribution can aid the search for, and understanding of, possible organic biosignatures in martian materials. *N.B. The study presented here is the result of 10 years of work by a consortium that includes: B. Cavalazzi, F. Foucher, J.N. Rouzaud, S. Derenne, M. Bourbin, A. Verchovsky, V. Pierson, J. Watson, I. Wright, Y. Marrocchi, A. Meibom, S. Mostefaoui, F. Robert, L. Lemelle, A. Simionovici, M. Salomé, G. Southam, L. MacLean, S. Wirik, V. Thiel.


We present the study of three bright Early-Type galaxies hosted in groups or poor clusters: NGC 1399, NGC 1404 and NGC 507. We used ROSAT HRI, PSPC and, when available, higher resolution Chandra data to study the structure of the X-ray halo. The halo center of NGC 1399 and NGC 507 is dominated by a bright emission peak coincident with the position of the optical galaxy. This central peak is not explained by cooling flow models and is likely to be produced by kinetically heated stellar material. Within the effective radius, the hot gas distribution is tracing the galactic potential due to luminous matter. At larger distances the halo dynamics is dominated by dark matter extending on group and cluster scales. The NGC 1399 complex morphology further requires that the dark matter distribution has a hierarchical structure or that environmental effects are producing departures from hydrostatic equilibrium. We found significant density fluctuations in the hot gas distribution of both NGC 1399 and NGC 507, some of which are explained by the interaction of the radio-emitting plasma with the surrounding ISM. The remaining structures may be the result of galaxy-galaxy encounters, wakes produced by the motion of the galaxy through the ICM or may reflect the inhomogeneity of the cooling process invoked by many authors to explain the failure of the standard cooling-flow models. NGC 1404 represents a puzzling case since, despite its similarity with dominant cluster members, significant differences are found in the hot gas properties. These conflicting evidences can be explained by environmental effects, such as stifling of galactic winds by the ICM. Finally, we studied the population of discrete sources found in proximity of the two dominant galaxies.


To study the inhibition of polysaccharide from Spirulina(Arthrospira) platensis in alkaline lake of Erdos plateau to tumor and the regulative effect on immunity.The sarcoma 180(S180) was transplanted in the abdominal cavity and then the survival times,the survival states,tumor appearance,tumor distribution were observed through S180 ascites sarcoma in mice treated with the different dosages polysaccharide from S.(A.) platensis,immune organ indexes were detected.The results showed that the survival times were extended,the survival qualities were increased,the tumors were inhibited in certainly range.Immune organ indexes of S180 ascites sarcoma in mice treated with the different dosages polysaccharide were higher than S180 ascites sarcoma in mice untreated,but the effects of the medium dosage were the best significant(P0.05).The differences were not significant compared with the different dosages.It concluded that polysaccharide from S.(A.) platensis in alkaline lake of Erdos plateau could inhibit growth and spread of S180 ascites sarcoma in mice,improve survival quality,and stimulate growth of immune organ,and enhance its,immune function.


Summary form only. Transparent conductive thin film (indium tin oxide, ITO) is mainly used for information display elements such as liquid crystal display and touch panels. We propose a film forming method which gives the energy only to deposited film by using an infrared laser, while the substrate is maintained at low temperature. The laser wavelength is in proportion to excitation energy corresponding to a stretching vibrational mode of the irradiated molecular bond. An ordinary IR free electron laser (IR-FEL) is used as this laser The IR-FEL has a continuously tunable wavelength.


Children's health is characterized by a decrease in the resistance and sensitivity of the environment to harmful chemical effects. The body and organs of children are closely related to the causes of the external environment and affect all their functions physical and chemical causes of the external environment. Many scientists who deal with population urbanization and environmental and hygienic conditions believe that studying the relationship between environmental causes and children's health is


4,338,089 7/1982 Shaper et al. ....................... 518/707 Primary Examiner-Howard T. Mars Attorney, Agent, or Firm-John M. Duncan 57 ABSTRACT In a two-stage process for the conversion of H2-poor syngas into hydrocarbons and oxygenates in which uncoverted syngas from the first stage product is con verted in a second stage into paraffins over a Ni, Co or Ru catalyst, the H2/CO molar ratio of the feed for the second stage is adjusted to the required value of 1.75-2.25 by blending this feed with an H2-rich syngas with an H2/CO molar ratio of at least above 1.75 which latter gas has been obtained by subjecting a small por tion of the feed for the first stage to a high temperature (above 325° C) CO-shift.


We describe the cytomorphology of seven cases of metaplastic carcinoma of the breast studied by fine‐needle aspiration cytology and by histology. All seven cases contained foci of ductual adenocarcinoma. This finding was combined with heterologous mesenchymal elements in four cases, a spindlecell pattern of growth in one case, and extensive squamous‐cell metaplasia in two cases. Both carcinomatous and metaplastic components were present on smears in four cases (57%). Thus in three cases (43%), the diagnosis was not possible on smear material alone. Differential diagnostic considerations are discussed.


In this paper, we present the results of gallium implantation/doping in silicon using focused ion beam (FIB) to realize gallium (Ga) doped piezoresistive pressure sensor. We have performed optimization of various FIB parameters and demonstrated that with this approach, a gauge factors of about 100 and a sheet resistance of 1-2 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{k}\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula>/square can be achieved using optimized FIB doses in range of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$5\times 10^{17}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>–<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$8\times 10^{18}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> ion/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{m}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. The results open a novel and simple way of fabricating piezoresistors especially on nanoscale structures where lithography can be challenging. [2016-0178]


\Ye all know how Soon armchair philosophy gets away from reality.... It is not through the frequency of visits that one inspires and aids the principals of the schools to better management and the teachers to better instruction. I t is what one carries to a school, how one sees the vital principle involved, and most of all, the ability to suggest in a way that is not irritating but enlightening, that make the visit of the superintendent or supervisor valuable. Constant inspection of the insignificant noted in short calls-so short as to be minus. the courtesy due to a teacher, the courtesy of hearing a recitation or an exercise through from beginning to end-is evidence of over-supervision, which is to be deplored. Schools are unified, methods are harmonized, not through over-supervision by superintendent or principal, but by a truly democratic supervision which wotld make conscious and effective in every member of the education department the truth that the public school exists to strengthen character and efficiency in the individual, citizenship and activity in the nation.


Periodic soliton structures are shown to be energetically favourable in a certain range of parameters of the Frenkel-Kontorova model. These structures form cascades which can be obtained from each other by a scaling transformation.


LiNbO3 crystals with periodically alternating ferroelectric domains have been produced using laser‐heated pedestal growth. Domain thicknesses as small as 1 μm have been achieved. This material was applied to room‐temperature, quasi‐phase‐matched frequency doubling to generate light at wavelengths as short as 407 nm, using the d33 and d22 nonlinear coefficients. The measured conversion efficiencies and wavelength and temperature tuning bandwidths are consistent with an effective interaction length of ≊320 μm (>230 domains). An initial test with high‐intensity focused blue beams showed that the periodically poled material exhibits no discernible photorefractive damage effect.


A new type of surface wave antenna utilizing an unsymmetrical radial surface wave is proposed in this communication. The antenna consists of an inductively reactive surface coincident with the ρ-plane of a cylindrical co-ordinate system. This surface is confined between two conducting vertical walls. The surface wave field propagating radially outward in such a structure is studied inside the antenna. The on-axis gain of such an antenna is calculated theoretically and compared with experimentally observed value. It is found that such an antenna has several desirable features.


The environment in which ancient glass is buried can easily affect it and cause it to weather. During the weathering process, an extensive exchange of internal elements with environmental elements can change the composition ratio, thus affecting the correct determination of its category. Therefore, studying surface weathering characteristics and classifying glass artifacts is very important in archaeology. For the existing batch of relevant data (surface weathering, color, decoration, type, and chemical composition) of ancient glass artifacts in China, we first did the pre-processing work of relevant data, removing the outliers and adding the missing values for subsequent use. Then we used R-type and Q-type systematic cluster analysis to construct a subclass classification model based on systematic cluster analysis to obtain the appropriate chemical composition and use it as an indicator to classify glass artifacts into subclasses. Then we used the fisher discriminant analysis method to construct a fisher discriminant analysis-based glass-type identification model. With the help of the above model, we identified the type of glass artifacts belonging to unknown categories.


Innate immunity, while not self-reactive, has been shown to play a role in the development of autoimmune diseases. The Smyth line (SL) chicken is an animal model for human autoimmune vitiligo, a pigmentation disorder resulting in development of white areas of the skin. To compare innate immune activity in SL chickens that developed vitiligo (SLV) to those that did not (non-SLV), blood was collected from SLV and non-SLV chickens at 6 wks of age, when none of the chickens exhibited signs of vitiligo, and again at 14 weeks of age when half (n = 6) of the chickens had developed SLV. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated and cultured with and without lipopolysac-charide (LPS) stimulation to examine production of nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxidative species (ROS), as well as, cytokine expression at the transcriptome level by quantitative RT-PCR. While there were no differences in PBMC ROS production between SLV and non-SLV chickens at both ages, PBMC NO production was higher in SLV compared with non-SLV, independent of LPS stimulation and age (main effect P < 0.05). Additionally, compared with PBMC from non-SLV chickens, gene-expression of interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-4, IL-8, IL-10 and inducible nitric oxide synthase was higher (P < 0.05) in LPS-stimulated PBMC from SLV chickens. This was especially evident at 6 wks of age before the chickens exhibited signs of vitiligo (i.e., loss of pigmentation in growing feathers). The heightened innate immune responsiveness observed in SL chickens that eventually developed vitiligo suggests a role of innate immunity in vitiligo onset in this chicken model. P310 Oral antibody to interleukin-10 prevents growth suppression by coccidia infection. Coccidiosis (Eimeria sp. infection) has been estimated to cost the poultry industry $1 billion annually. Recent work suggests that IL-10 knockout mice are more resistant to protozoan infection. Induction of IL-10 has been implicated as a strategy used by coccidia to suppress inflammation and evade immune detection. Here we attempt to decrease growth suppression due to coccidial infection using antibody to chicken interleukin-10 (IL-10), a cytokine responsible for downregulation of inflammatory processes. Egg antibody directed against 4 hydrophilic, antigenic and accessible peptides of IL-10 were produced in Single Comb White Leghorn laying hens and measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Egg yolks were collected and lyophilized; the yolk powder was added to feed at 3.41g/Kg feed to determine broiler growth response following a mild coccidia infection. Chicks fed the anti-IL-10 antibodies (plus control …


The Commonwealth government's announcement in December 1998 of "Australia's Oceans Policy" heralds a bid to use agreed
environmental principles as a basis for better-integrated Commonwealth-State planning and management of our marine assets.
The Policy defines a comprehensive implementation structure which should ensure consultation at all levels and a better link to the
ministries of the relevant Commonwealth portfolios.
A focus on "ecosystem-based planning and management" reduces emphasis on some areas which could benefit from a clearly stated
national policy. Marine science and the systems for delivery of data and information are not accorded any particular importance in the
implementation of the Policy.


Purpose: Peritoneal dialysis associated peritonitis (PD peritonitis) is an important complication in maintaining. There have been only a few reports on the clinical outcome of initial no-growth peritonitis (INGP). Methods: We reviewed 332 episodes of PD peritonitis between January 2002 and August 2009. INGP was defined as PD peritonitis with no growth of etiologic microorganism within 3 days of peritonitis. INGP was compared with initial positive growth peritonitis (IPGP) in view of clinical manifestations and outcomes. Results: We divided PD peritonitis episodes into two groups: INGP (n=90) and IPGP (n=242). Peritonitis-related mortality was 5.6 % in INGP, while 0.8 % in IPGP (p=0.017). Further relapse was noted in INGP (10.0%) than in IPGP (vs. 4.1%; p=0.041). Salvage antibiotics were used more frequently in INGP (21.1%) than in IPGP (vs. 11.6%; p=0.027). Odds ratio of INGP to IPGP for peritonitis-related mortality was 7.14 (95% CI 1.36-37.51; p=0.017). Growth of mycobacteria or fungi increased the risk of peritonitis-related mortality with an odds ratio of 18.11 (95% CI 2.99-109.89; p=0.013). In multivariate analysis, growth of mycobacteria or fungi was the only independent risk factor for peritonitis-related mortality with an odds ratio of 10.63 (95% CI 1.27-88.75; p=0.029). Conclusion: INGP revealed poorer outcome than IPGP. Higher growth rate of mycobacteria or fungi in INGP than in IPGP accounted for the poor outcome. Thus one should make vigorous efforts to detect surreptitious organism when there is no growth by 3 days, especially for the possibility of either mycobacteria or fungi.


Summary Allostratigraphic correlation of the Cardium Formation in the subsurface and outcrop of southern Alberta provides a framework in which facies and stratal geometries are examined. Facies mapping within an allostratigraphic framework indicates two major relative sea-level falls, punctuated by a major transgression. Higher-frequency relative sea-level changes superimposed on this long-term trend have a magnitude of ~12 m and a frequency of ~250 k.y., and are regional in extent; these relative sea-level changes are best explained in terms of glacioeustasy.


The methods for the optical signal conversion based on the optoelectronic system "relief grating - liquid crystal" and liquid-crystal (LC) cells using S- or twist-effect have been presented. New schemes forming the basis for realization of bistable LC devices, optoelectronic logic elements and systems of electrically-coupled LC elements intended for the production of laser oscillations at the constant input intensity have been proposed. It has been demonstrated that with the use of varying parameters of optoelectronic feedback one is enabled to set up both regular and chaotic intensity oscillations, to control the frequency and form of these oscillations, to realize functional changes of logic elements. The developed LC systems have been introduced into the educational practice of students mastering modem information techniques.


The Center serves as a gallery of photonics
art, that exhibits the cross-fertilization of
artistic talent and the application of light.


This paper presents acoustic parameters (APs) that were motivated by phonetic feature theory and employed as a signal representation of speech in a hidden Markov model (HMM) recognition framework. Presently, the phonetic features considered are the manner features: sonorant, syllabic, nonsyllabic, noncontinuant and fricated. The objective of the parameters is to directly target the linguistic information in the signal and to reduce the speaker-dependent information that may yield large speech variability. To achieve these goals, the APs were defined in a relational manner across time or frequency. For evaluation, broad-class recognition experiments were conducted comparing the APs to cepstral-based parameters. The results of the experiments indicate that the APs are able to capture the phonetically relevant information in the speech signal and that, in comparison to the cepstral-based parameters, they are more able to reduce the interspeaker variability.


Over the past few years, William Kentridge's work on paper, animated film, and in the theater has been exhibited or produced at many of the major centers of art around the world. In 1998 his work Ubu and the Truth Commission was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., among other venues, and his new production of Claudio Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse was performed in Brussels and Zurich in September 1998. In spring 1999, Kentridge had a solo exhibition of his work at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and his new film Stereoscope, on the Johannesburg property developer Soho Eckstein, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.


In order to improve the reliability and safety of the Electric Power-steering System(EPS) system,the integrity robust fault-tolerant control strategy was used to the design the feedback controller for EPS System.Based on the Lyapunov stability theory and Lyapunov functions,the rule of robust fault-tolerant control which has function integrity for the sensor failure in the linear continuous system,which has some degree of the uncertainty of parameter fluctuation was studied.The sufficient-and-necessary conditions for the system itself robustly be stabilized and its design method and steps were given.By applying such integrity robust fault-tolerant controller for the EPS system,the data simulation results showed that the EPS close-loop system not only has no sensitiveness to the sensor failure,which means that EPS system can stably work under some sensor failure condition,but also has robust stability for limited parameter uncertainty.


An overview of hardware developments allowing digital communication and data handling at a 1-Gb/s rate is presented. The signal processing hardware includes a 1-Gb/s QPSK modem, 500-Mb/s bit synchronizer - signal conditioners, and a test system. The data handling equipment includes developments for multiplexing, demultiplexing, recording, and analog-to-digital conversion. The signal plus noise performance of the modem and the bit synchronizer - signal conditioner is discussed.


Three important immunosuppressive agents, rapamycin, FK506, and cyclosporine were discovered based on their antifungal activities, with detection of their immunosuppressive properties coming later in the process of pharmacological characterization. Much of the mechanism of immunosuppressive activity is understood in molecular detail, and this information has contributed not only to improved clinical immunosuppressive therapies, but also to our understanding of signal transduction processes in the immune system. The mode of action of rapamycin, FK506 and cyclosporine on fungi is also being unraveled in molecular terms not only as a tool to understand immunosuppression, but also due to a renewed interest in these compounds as antifungal agents. Such studies reveal similarities as well as differences in the mode of action of these compounds on lymphocytes and fungal cells. Interaction with signal transduction systems is evident in both cases, with rapamycin interacting with rapamycin/FK506 binding proteins, and cyclosporine interacting with the cyclophilins. Crystallographic studies on FK506 and rapamycin analogues bound to defined fragments of their binding protein (FKBP) as well as structure similarity modeling have helped delineate crucial structural differences between the interaction sites in man and fungi. The mode of action of these compounds as antifungal agents will be presented in detail. Structural analogs that retain antifungal activity with concurrent loss of immunosuppressive activity are presented in the context of their chemistry, their mode of selective interaction with fungal cells, and their possible development as antifungal agents.


People in comparative literature have devoted themselves to looking for some concepts and terms communicable in cross-cultural context, among which Allegory is found to bear such a commonality and is hence used both in the West and in China. The present author, by taking WANG Guo-wei's translation and literary critical practice as example, argues that, in particular historical context, each poetic idea cannot stand aloof but is associated with others; that is, its meaning has risen from its reference to other poetic ideas and even the whole poetic ideology of that particular cultural tradition. As allegory has a historical engagement in Western culture, it is hard for it to come to terms with the Chinese poetics. In fact, the ancient Chinese poetic meanings and values have their own poetic discourse; for example, Bi and Xing (Chinese metaphor) are more appropriate such choices.


We calculate the nonleptonic weak decays of hyperons in the Skyrmion model of baryons. The weak-interaction chiral Lagrangian is that known from kaon decay, providing a zero-parameter description of the decay amplitudes. In the S waves the PCAC (partially conserved axial-vector current) relation is verified, but the magnitude emerges as a factor of 3 too small, probably indicating a slow convergence of the chiral expansion. In the P waves, new and important terms are found which are not included in standard analyses. These modify the PCAC treatment of hyperon decay and can provide the resolution of the long-standing S-wave/P-wave puzzle.


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With the rapid economics development in the past 30 years of reform and opening up,there are huge changes in economics and society.With the expansion of cities,farmers,who have left the land in some areas quickly,have become subcitizens.Was there subcitizen phenomenon in the process of industrialization in the West? Our study suggests that in the western society there is only the similarity to our country's sub-citizen phenomenon.


Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes which includes central obesity, raised blood pressure, dyslipidemia, and elevated fasting glucose [1]. More specifically, the Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III), which is the National Cholesterol Education Program's (NCEP) guidelines for cholesterol testing and management, defines MetS as having any three (3) of the following: large waist circumference (WC), elevated systolic (SBP) or diastolic blood pressure (DBP), elevated triglycerides, low high density lipoprotein (HDL), or elevated fasting blood glucose [2]. MetS has become a public health concern in recent years because of the dramatic increased risk of heart disease [3-5], stroke [6-8], diabetes [911], and mortality [12-14] among patients who suffer from it. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a broad measure that most often involves an individual's subjective view of their own physical and/or mental health status [15]. HRQOL is an outcome measure commonly used in health science research, Research Article Exercise Medicine Open Access eISSN: 2508-9056


We summarize the new method for the correction of participant fluctuations in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. It allows to estimate a fluctuation baseline in comparison to a useful signal. In particular cases of a weak signal compared to baseline, it allows to cancel the baseline contribution from participants.


THE BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCING BARS OF DIFFERING SURFACE GEOMETRY AND METALLURGICAL QUALITY UNDER FLUCTUATING STRESSES HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED UNDER SERVICE CONDITIONS WHEN ACTING AS BEAM REINFORCEMENT. THE LIMITING RANGE OF STRESS FOR VARYING RATIOS OF IMPOSED AND DEAD LOAD, AND THE EFFECT OF FLUCTUATING STRESSES ON THE DEFORMATION AND FORMATION OF CRACKS IN THE CONCRETE BEAMS WERE RECORDED. /AUTHOR/


It has been known for some time that the motility of the stomach is usually increased and that the gastric secretion is frequently diminished in diabetes mellitus. In pancreatic diabetes the ferments or zymogens are, according to those who have studied them, frequently affected; the pancreatic ferment, the muscular ferment, and the glycolytic ferment are deficient, suppressed or not activated, and glucose does not undergo combustion, but is excreted in the urine. The few cases that form the basis of this paper were studied with the object of investigating the secretion of pepsin in patients with diabetes mellitus. As diabetes mellitus is not a common disease, and as digestion is usually good in diabetic patients, one does not have occasion to examine the functions of the stomach in many of these patients. Some of these patients, however, complain of stomach distress, and some other patients have stomach disease, although they


20 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables.-- Issue title: "Proceedings from the Eleventh European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics"; Oleg Vasyutinskii, Jean Maruani, Piotr Piecuch, Gerardo Delgado-Barrio and Stephen Wilson, eds.


The abrupt shift to remote instruction in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the intersection of two emerging trends in international higher education: English-Medium Instruction (EMI) and online learning. This paper investigates lecturer's talk in the EMI classroom in two different learning formats – face-to-face (F2F) and online synchronous video lecture (SVL) – at the University of Bologna. By making use of a discourse analytical and multimodal framework, this study shows that in SVL lecturer's talk tends to be less monologic and is characterized by a greater variety of speech acts. Furthermore, given that online settings provide lecturers with a wider variety of modes, "[m]ultimodal competence plays a crucial role in effective interactive lecturing, especially when the language of communication is other than one's own" (Morell, 2018, p. 70). The findings of this study have implications for designing customized support training for EMI lecturers.