In the treatment of acute cerebral infarction, it is important to remove the thrombus quickly without side effects such as intracranial hemorrhage. We have been developing a new therapy way of acute cerebral infraction using laser to solve some weaknesses of current devices and medicines. We use 532nm pulsed laser to remove clot without damage of vessel wall, but it is difficult to adjust position of the tip of catheter to a clot within an effective range. Then, we developed real time monitoring function to evaluate it. In a real-time monitoring function, we used 785nm CW laser added on 532nm pulsed laser, evaluated the 785nm laser which is reflected the tip of the optical fiber. A power of the reflected 785nm is based on the Fresnel equations, and time change levels of reflected 785nm reflects how bubbles generated by pulsed lasers disappear. In the result of evaluation of in vitro studies, it turned out that how its change is affected by the surrounding environment (e.g., hardness and viscosity around the catheter tip). If the area around the catheter tip is filled with liquid, the signal will disappear quickly and simply, and if there is a blood clot, it will be less likely to disappear and its shape is more complex and the key to these phenomena is how the shock generated by the pulsed laser propagates, and we hypothesize that it is a type of rebound due to cavitation.


After eight years of practice on the first hyper-flute prototype (a flute extended with sensors), this article presents a retrospective of its instrumental practice and the new developments planned from both technological and musical perspectives. Design, performance skills, and mapping strategies are discussed, as well as interactive composition and improvisation.


The heat transfer to an uncooled transonic singlestage turbine has been measured in a short-duration facility, which fully simulates all the nondimensional quantities of interest for fluid flow and heat transfer (Reynolds number, Prandtl number, Rossby number, temperature ratios, and corrected speed and weight flow). Data from heat flux gages about the midspan of the rotor profile, measured from d-c to more than 10 times blade passing frequency (60 kHz), are presented in both time-resolved and mean heat transfer form. These rotating blade data are compared to previously published heat transfer measurements taken at Oxford University on the same profile in a two-dimensional cascade with bar passing to simulate blade row interaction effects. The results are qualitatively quite similar at midspan. The data are also compared to a two-dimensional Navier–Stokes calculation of the blade mean section and the implications for turbine design are discussed.


Multi-frame human pose estimation has long been a compelling and fundamental problem in computer vision. This task is challenging due to fast motion and pose occlusion that frequently occur in videos. State-of-the-art methods strive to incorporate additional visual evidences from neighboring frames (supporting frames) to facilitate the pose estimation of the current frame (key frame). One aspect that has been obviated so far, is the fact that current methods directly aggregate unaligned contexts across frames. The spatial-misalignment between pose features of the current frame and neighboring frames might lead to unsatisfactory results. More importantly, existing approaches build upon the straightforward pose estimation loss, which unfortunately cannot constrain the network to fully leverage useful information from neighboring frames. To tackle these problems, we present a novel hierarchical alignment framework, which leverages coarse-to-fine deformations to progressively update a neighboring frame to align with the current frame at the feature level. We further propose to explicitly supervise the knowledge extraction from neighboring frames, guaranteeing that useful complementary cues are extracted. To achieve this goal, we theoretically analyzed the mutual information between the frames and arrived at a loss that maximizes the task-relevant mutual information. These allow us to rank No.1 in the Multi-frame Person Pose Estimation Challenge on benchmark dataset PoseTrack2017, and obtain state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks Sub-JHMDB and Pose-Track2018. Our code is released at https://github.com/Pose-Group/FAMI-Pose, hoping that it will be useful to the community.


This paper uses a financial macro-econometric model to compare and analyze the impact of macroprudential policy measures -- a credit growth restriction, loan-to-value and debt-to-income regulations, and a time-varying capital requirement -- on the economic dynamics through the financial cycle with the asset price bubble. Our analysis shows that although these macroprudential policy measures dampen economic volatility, it is possible that they reduce average economic growth, and the effects on the economic dynamics differ widely among macroprudential policy measures. In addition, the policy effects are changed dramatically by lags in recognizing the state of the economy. Our results also suggest that macroprudential policy measures can help contribute to more stable financial intermediation by raising the resilience of the financial system against risks.


P322 Frequency Response Modeling of Seismic Waves Using Finite Difference Time Domain with Phase Sensitive Detection (TD-PSD) K.T. Nihei* (Chevron Energy Technology Co.) & X. Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator) SUMMARY We examine an alternative approach for computing the frequency response of a heterogeneous anisotropic viscoelastic medium. The approach consists of running an explicit finite difference time domain (TD) code with a harmonic wave source out to steady-state and then extracting the magnitude and phase from the transient data via phase sensitive detection (PSD). The PSD algorithm requires integration over a single cycle of the waveform to obtain accurate phase


Abstract— Suspensions of purple membrane fragments showed obvious signs of degradation after illumination with intense pulses of light from 10 ns frequency doubled Nd: YAG laser at 532 nm with intensity densities in excess of 1 MW/cm2. Using controlled illumination, a small fraction of the bacteriorhodopsin protein molecules were randomly destroyed in samples with a low salt concentration (12.5 mM) and pH = 7.9. Calculations using information from the changes in the optical absorbance spectrum and transient changes in the optical absorbance spectrum during the photocycle support a model where one protein molecule of the bacteriorhodopsin trimer is photodestroyed, the other two protein molecules switch to a blue state. In the blue state, the protein molecules have a red shifted absorption, with a peak near 600 nm. The blue state molecules show transient absorption changes at 656 nm that are similar to the native bacteriorhodopsin, except the O state is missing or altered. Additionally, the changes in curvature of the purple membrane fragments that occur during the photocycle of intact protein molecules are severely depressed. The addition of salts to the photodestroyed suspension can change the blue state molecules back to a state with an absorption maximum at 568 nm. The salt ions probably shield the other members of the trimer from the photodestroyed protein. In these reconstituted samples, the O state is observed at 656 nm; however, the membrane bending is not observed.


The present paper tries to outline a model to enhance the transfer control within the METAL Machine Translation System. The model is being currently tested in the German-Spanish system which is under development in Barcelona and relies upon techniques belonging to the GPSG framework. The central idea is to extract from the transfer part of the phrase structure rules currently used by METAL all the relevant generalizable information about feature traffic and control dependences, and put it in form of language-dependent tables. This information is then accessed and handled by a few high-level rule operators, called during the transfer process, implementing three general feature principles. The grammar writer is thereby relieved from the tedious task of controlling all the feature traffic between nodes, this resulting in a clearer, shorter and safer grammar for the system.


The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things has led to the development of smart health. As a form of medical care that uses advanced Internet technology to realize better diagnosis and treatment of patients, smart health transitions medical services move toward real intelligence and greatly helps users. And in smart health, the secure sharing of personal health records (PHRs) is one of the main concerns of patients and medical personnel. Many attribute-based sharing models have been proposed to secure the sharing of PHRs, but there are still two problems to resolve. One is the potential disclosure of the patient data. The attribute-based model achieves flexible access control, but the access policies contain sensitive information of patients. The disclosure of the policy will lead to the leakage of data of the users. The other is the high computational and storage overhead, particularly in smart health systems with limited computing power. In this article, we present a Smart Health-Lightweight Fine-Grained Sharing (SH-LFGS) framework based on attribute-based encryption (ABE). It achieves a fully hidden access policy by adopting Viéte's formula. SH-LFGS introduces an online/offline mechanism in the PHR encryption phase and the outsourced verifiable decryption mechanism. Because the decrypting test requires only one bilinear pair operation, the SH-LFGS can achieve the task of lightweight computation. Analysis of the performance and security of the proposed model confirm its efficiency and security.


With the applicability of edge intelligence in various domains, anomaly detection, which aims to identify unusual and infrequent circumstances, is regarded as a regularly performed task to guarantee the health of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Generally, sensory data are gathered at the network edge and completely transmitted to the cloud, where computational-heavy algorithms are mostly adopted to determine the locations of anomaly. Considering the occurrence infrequency of anomalies, this strategy may transmit relatively huge volume of sensory data, which may reflect a healthy situation indeed, to the cloud. To mitigate this problem, this article proposes an accurate anomaly detection mechanism with energy efficiency in three-tier IoT–edge–cloud collaborative networks. Specifically, after gathering sensory data provided by IoT nodes in certain edge networks, the edge node applies the marching squares algorithm to generate isopleths, where an isopleth may capture the boundary of anomaly. A sensory data filtering mechanism is conducted at the edge tier, such that anomaly-relevant sensory data are transmitted to the cloud and, thus, the network traffic is decreased significantly. Thereafter, the boundary of anomaly is obtained, and the locations of candidate boundary nodes are determined by adopting the Kriging spatial interpolation algorithm at the cloud tier. These locations are traversed by mobile sensing nodes at edge networks, and their sensory data are gathered for boundary refinement. Extensive experiments are conducted on an air quality hazardous gas data set from Toward Data Science, and evaluation results show that our technique outperforms the state-of-the-art counterparts in boundary accuracy and energy consumption.


Lithiation of 1,4-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene with lithium diisopropylamide in tetrahydrofuran at -78 °C occurs under conditions at which the rates of aggregate exchanges are comparable to the rates of metalation. Under such nonequilibrium conditions, a substantial number of barriers compete to be rate limiting, making the reaction sensitive to trace impurities (LiCl), reactant concentrations, and isotopic substitution. Rate studies using the perdeuterated arene reveal odd effects of LiCl, including catalyzed rate acceleration at lower temperature and catalyzed rate inhibition at higher temperatures. The catalytic effects are accompanied by corresponding changes in the rate law. A kinetic model is presented that captures the critical features of the LiCl catalysis, focusing on the influence of LiCl-catalyzed re-aggregation of the fleeting monomer that can reside above, at, or below the equilibrium population without catalyst.


Abstract Aminopropyl chemically bonded phases for solid-phase extraction (SPE) and high performace liquid chromatography (HPLC) have been prepared. Surface characteristics of packings before and after chemical modification were determined by means of different physico-chemical methods e.g. porosimetry, elemental analysis, CP/MAS NMR, chromatography, etc. the obtained packing materials were compared with commercially available packings (Silasorb NH2 and LiChrosorb NH2). Prepared columns were applied for the isolation and determination of sugars origined from dried leaves of the Nicotiana tabacum. the columns were characterized by high coverage density of aminopropyl phase and high sorption capacity gave good and reproducible separation results.


Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is an important cause of death. It is important to identify factors predicting mortality of these patients. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the prognostic role of platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in patients with ACS. Materials and Methods: PubMed, Embase and Web of Knowledge databases were searched for relevant studies in, December 29th 2018. Studies investigating the association of PLR with mortality of ACS patients were included in the systematic review. Data extraction and quality assessment are performed independently by two authors. Meta-analysis of hazard ratios and the results of diagnostic statistical methods was performed. Results: A total of Thirteen studies with 17111 participants were included in the systematic review. Significant association between PLR and mortality rate was observed in all but one study. The pooled hazard ratios of short-term and long-term mortality in high PLR group compared to low PLR group were 2.187 (CI95: 1.56-3.06) and 2.40 (CI95: 1.69-3.42), respectively. Moreover, PLR showed a moderate prognostic accuracy for short-term and long-term mortality with area under the SROC curves of 0.710 and 0.668, respectively. Conclusion: PLR is significantly associated with mortality in ACS patients and can be used alone or in combination with other prognostic markers and scoring systems to stratify the risk of these patients.


The accurate detection and automatic control of liquid level has a positive effect on the safety of production as well as the quality and cost of products. For a long time, however, this problem has not yet been solved satisfactorily, because of the restriction of the physical and chemical properties of the measured medium and the condition of circumstances. This paper presents a new method of detecting liquid levels on-line accurately and of following them up automatically, in terms of refractivity of liquid boundary. This method, solving the problem in question perfectly and having a series of advantages, therefore, is at present applied widely.


Objectives To the clinical effect of minimally invasive operation in the treatment of ureteral calculi patients were observed. Methods 120 cases of ureteral calculi patients in our hospital from 2011 March to 2014 March were as the research object,using the method of random number will be divided into observation group and control group,60 cases in each group,patients in control group were treated with ureteroscopic stone treatment,the observation group were treated with minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy treatment. Results The two groups of patients with successful stone extraction rate( P 0. 05); compared with the preoperative,two groups of patients with BUN and Cr were better than those of before treatment( P 0. 05). Conclusions The treatment of ureteral calculi patients take ureteroscopic stone extraction method had no significant difference and the curative effect of minimally invasive percutaneous nephrolithotomy,treatment should be considered for patients with surgical indications.


A novel method for sample mounting to obtain powder diffraction from very small amounts of samples (ranging from micrograms down to a few nanograms), by using a combination of multiwire area detector, three-circle diffractometer, monochromatic Cu Kα radiation and 10 µm nylon loops, has been developed. This method exploits customary single-crystal approaches to collect the powder diffraction pattern, which overcomes many of the limitations of conventional powder X-ray diffraction.


In recent years,schema theory has been widely used in language teaching.Based on schema theory,combined with the Korean students learning Chinese listening problems,to be the object of teaching,teaching objectives,teaching content and methods,and several other aspects of foreign language teaching hearing designed to explore to improve the efficiency of Chinese language teaching listening effective way.


EVOH/MMT composite is prepared by melt intercalation, and the rheological property and water resistance performance of EVOH/MMT composite are described in detail. The results show that: The extrusive material is smooth and its performance is good,when the temperature is set at above 200 ℃ and the shear rate at about 20 rpm. The melt of EVOH/MMT composite is a type of pseudoplastic fluid, and the viscosity decreases with the increase of the shear rate, which is a shear-thinning phenomenon. The flowing property decreases and the viscosity increases, when the amount of montmorillonite increases. The viscosity of EVOH/MMT composite decreases with the increase of the temperature, and the change is puny, so the material can be processed in wide temperature. The water resistance of EVOH/MMT composite increases by 3.3%, with the results of measuring the water resistance of EVOH and EVOH/MMT composite.


A three-dimensional obturation and complete coronal and apical seal is one the important aims of root canal treatment. A tight apical seal is desired to prevent bacteria and their by-products from invading the apex and to prevent apical leakage. Apical leakage is considered to be the common cause for endodontic failure. Several technique was introduced for obturation of root canal. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of obturation technique on the risk of apical leakage and to evaluate vertical condensation cause the lowest risk of apical leakage. This study was a laboratory experimental with post-test only control group design. The sample used in this study was extracted permanent mandibular first premolar teeth, its amounts 27 samples which were divided into 3 groups: lateral condensation technique, vertical condensation technique, single-cone technique. The risk of apical leakage tested using a spectrofotometri uv-vis. The result showed the difference of the average value between three groups os samples. Obturation technique that had lowest the risk of apical leakage was vertical condensation technique 0,045 Abs. The difference effect was measured using data analysis One way ANOVA and LSD. The result showed that the difference in the effect of all tested samples p=0,000 (p<0,05). The conclusions of this study were had an effect obturation technique on the risk of apical leakage and vertical condensation technique cause the lowest risk of apical leakage.


This paper analyses characters of three short stories: "Hands", "Adventure" and "A Man of Ideas" of Winesburg, Ohio for exploring features of Anderson`s grotesques, using his definition. Despite the fact that all characters and their stories are completely different, it can be concluded that grotesque characters are common people of a common town, who gained their grotesqueness mostly in difficult or unusual living situations, that deformed their personality and made it static, unchangeable. Most of them suffer from their sensitivity to world's imperfections and tendency to escape reality.


Korea needs active technology exchange with foreign countries to streamline and promote technological development and market exploration. A survey on...


The current concern over single-use plastic has led to the formulation of policies aiming at limiting plastic use. We estimated the climate change impacts of replacing plastic drinking straws with those made from paper. We found that Kraft paper drinking straws could potentially lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional Polypropylene. Thirty three per cent of the total contribution of Kraft paper is related to indirect land use change as a result of the demand for land to grow the paper feedstock. Direct emissions of paper straws are also higher than their plastic counterpart. Our results suggest that replacing plastic straws with their paper counterpart may be an effective solution to address marine pollution, but may increase climate change impacts, thus warranting thoughtful consideration.


TAO Xing-zhi made two leaps in the process of cognition based on "learning by doing",a pragmatist educational theory proposed by John Dewey.Thus,Mr.Tao creatively put forward his well-known idea of "the combination of teaching,learning and doing" and supplied adequate proofs as well.The combination of teaching,learning and doing can be called both the methodology of Mr.Tao's life-educating theory and the essential method of vocational education.At present,if vocational education wants to put the idea on "the combination of teaching,learning and doing" into practice,the following should be done.First, obey the principle of "teaching students in accordance with what is needed" when setting up the college curriculum.Second,take an active part in exploring the teaching pattern of "the combination of industry and study".


A novel interdigitated flow field for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers composed of oxygen exhaust channels apart from liquid water feed channels has been developed for ground and space applications. This design can internally separate oxygen gas and liquid water between the flow channels, dispensing with water circulators for bubble removal and external separators with natural or centrifugal buoyancy. In this electrolyzer, pressurized liquid water is injected in the in-plane direction from the water channels to the catalyst layer through the hydrophobic microporous layer (MPL) of the anode porous transport layer. The produced oxygen gas is discharged in the through-plane direction of the MPL, taking advantage of the capillary pressure in the MPL. This study conducted liquid water permeability tests on the MPL with pressurized water. We find gradual permeability decreases with time for different liquid water pressures. The permeability will be a useful parameter for the optimal structural designs of this electrolyzer.


This journal issue includes s of papers presented at the conference. Topics discussed are: sleeping characteristics among primary school children in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka;cosmetic effects of post thyroidectomy scar and evaluation of patient satisfaction;post-vaccination symptoms of COVID-19 vaccines among adults in Galle;multiple chest trauma in a victim of road traffic collision;anatomical variations of renal vein in a group of Sri Lankan cadavers;hospital acquired infections among patients in Intensive Care Units in Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya;serum Vitamin D level among 1 to 5-year-old children in Galle Municipality and Bope Poddala MOH area.


The Smith–Lemli–Opitz condition (SLOS) is an autosomal latent different intrinsic peculiarity/mental impediment issue brought about by a natural mistake of post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis. Insufficient cholesterol union in SLOS is brought about by acquired transformations of 3β-hydroxysterol-Δ7 reductase quality (DHCR7). DHCR7 inadequacy hinders both cholesterol and desmosterol creation, bringing about raised 7DHC/8DHC levels, regularly diminished cholesterol levels and, significantly, formative dysmorphology. The revelation of SLOS has prompted new inquiries with respect to the job of the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway in human turn of events. Until this point, a sum of 121 unique changes have been recognized in more than 250 patients with SLOS who speak to a continuum of clinical seriousness. Two hereditary mouse models have been created which restate a portion of the formative variations from the norm of SLOS and have been helpful in explaining the pathogenesis. This smaller than expected survey sums up the ongoing experiences into SLOS hereditary qualities, pathophysiology and likely remedial methodologies for the treatment of SLOS.


Objective To study the characteristics of birthweight and gestational age of third trimester fetal deaths which occurred before the onset of labour.


The method of liquidation of the map of viscous production wastes of additives is developed. The special collector of waste is developed for selection of waste from the card. Complex influence of the ground of waste of the oil refinery including three sections, a pond evaporator, a pond store of synthetic fatty acids, a dump of solid industrial wastes, the map of viscous production wastes of additives on the environment is investigated. It is revealed that the main pollutant are oil products (oil hydrocarbons), a steady trend of their accumulation in the environment is noted. The main fields of purpose of production wastes of additives are defined. They are applied as special additives at production of concrete and concrete goods and designs with increased requirements on water permeability, frost resistance, in quality of the plasticizing additives in concrete mixes, as the additive increasing elasticity and extensibility of bituminous coverings. Production wastes of additives in production of paints water and composite the general and special purpose are introduced. Production wastes of additives are used for recultivation of the lands polluted by oil and also purification of oil-containing sewage.


There is provided according to the invention a non-pressurised pharmaceutical liquid solution spray composition comprising: (i) buprenorphine; and (ii) a solvent comprising ethanol which composition is substantially free of chloride.


This study aims to describe the conflict of power in the Batam free trade zone (FTZ) area. After the issuance of Law Number 53 of 1999 concerning Regional Government, the impact on the status of Batam City became the City Government of Batam. The positive effects that occur, the Batam region has two bodies that have authority in its management, namely Batam City Government to carry out the functions of government and development by involving the Batam Authority Agency (BP Batam). The dualism of management in the Batam area has resulted in a conflict of authority between BP Batam and Batam City Government, resulting in a tug of interest between political actors who have interests in the Batam area, ranging from global level, national level to local level which influence each other.


Recent studies concerning the location of the reconnection line with single point measurements under stable solar wind and IMF conditions reveal that magnetic reconnection tends to occur along a continuous X-line of maximum magnetic shear across the dayside magnetopause. Exceptions to this continuous reconnection X-line are dominant southward IMF conditions (within ±25° of southward IMF) or a dominant IMF Bx component (more than 70% of the IMF in the Bx component) for which the reconnection line bifurcates, and exists along magnetopause regions where the merging fields are exactly anti-parallel.


The contribution is devoted to draft of fading curves in the 13 GHz frequency band for the worst month and the average year in Czechoslovakia climatic regions. For the draft were employed the experimentally gained time distributions of rain intensities, proper practical method and results of five years propagation experiment in the 13 GHz frequency band.


We appreciate that Brandstatter, Gigerenzer, and Hertwig (2008) agree that process models are indeed useful for advancing researchers' understanding of choice processes. Their statement that choices represent adaptive process is also welcome (see Payne, Bettman, & Johnson, 1993), as is the emphasis on multiple measures. However, we do disagree on two empirical matters.


Approaches to improve final grain production must consider yield stability, that is, ways to prevent yield losses. For example, flowering time affects yield and yield stability; if grains mature late, they may be literally caught out in the cold as late-season weather turns. Indeed, the application


Comparative characteristics such as composition, pH and water holding capacity (WHC) of muscles, thermal stability and textural quality of thermally set emulsions from pre - and post-rigor breast and thigh muscles of broiler and layer chicken have been studied. Protein and water contents were higher (P 0.05 for breast muscles) in muscles from broiler than those from layer birds. Higher pH of pre-rigor muscles was associated with higher (P<0.05) WHC compared to post-rigor muscles from both broiler and layer birds. Emulsions from pre-rigor breast and post-rigor thigh muscles were distinctly (P<0.05) more stable as compared to those from post-rigor breast and pre-rigor thigh muscles from both broiler and layer birds. Layer muscles produced more firm and gummy (P<0.05 for breast and P<0.05 for thigh muscles) emulsions (textural quality) than muscles from broiler birds.


In this paper, we propose a two dimensional (2-D) optimal linear detector (OLD) for radar target detection in compound Gaussian clutter and obtain an explicit relation of its coefficients for slowly fluctuating targets. We assume that the samples of signal and clutter are correlated in both range and azimuth directions, and the target detection in each radar cell is implemented by a 2-D samples collection of the received signal. In most conventional detectors, in each pulsation interval, the samples of echo of each radar cell are passed through a matched filter along the range, and a pre-detection is performed; then the binary results are integrated for successive echoes of that cell (along the azimuth). In fact, by applying the binary integration, we ignore the considerable correlation among 2-D data in the azimuth direction. In the proposed 2-D OLD detector, the correlation of signal and clutter in both range and azimuth directions is considered, aiming to improve the detection performance. Our simulations confirm that, this detector outperforms the conventional one dimensional OLD, as well as AND, OR, and "κ out of n" binary integrators.


Summary It was hypothesized (Experiment I) that the mere presence of an observer would facilitate performance on simple mazes and hinder performance on complex mazes, especially when the observer was unfamiliar to the S. A second study (Experiment II), addressed the apparent paradox between Zajonc's drive theory of social facilitation and generalizations stemming from Schachter's work on affiliation (the first indicating that the presence of others is arousing, the second suggesting that the presence of others is calming). The first study, which included 30 male undergraduate Ss and a female observer, supported Zajonc's hypothesis; the interaction between observer conditions (alone, familiar observer, unfamiliar observer) and maze complexity (simple, complex) was significant (p < .025). The second study, which included 64 male undergraduate Ss and a male observer, also supported Zajonc's hypothesis; the interaction between drive conditions (low fear, alone; high fear, alone; high fear, calm observer; high...


This paper studies the coordination problem under disruptions capturing by the change of market scale and price sensitive coefficient in a onesupplier-one-retailer supply chain system, gives the supply chain coordination scheme based on AQD(w1, w2, Q) and CLP (w, Q) policies. Our results show that supply chain can be full coordinated so that maximum potential profit is obtained for disruptions.


Abstract The injection-rolling nozzle is one of the most important components in polymer's continuous injection direct rolling process. The basic theory for molten polymer mould channel design and the advantage of extrusion channels lead us to design a new channel for the injection-rolling nozzle. Simulation results show whether the channel structure design is feasible, and will allow the molten polymer flow to be even, yet also optimized for uniform velocity. The finite element method is used to optimize several key structural parameters for nozzle, which are then used as optimization object parameters. Compared with the previous results, molten flow velocity is more uniform after optimization. The velocity difference of 0·3 mm s−1 is slower at the outlet compared with 60 mm s−1, and the total length of the nozzle has decreased. Finally, experiments results show that the channel with optimization has better flow speed uniformity.


of higher technology usually means less employment of human labor, which is more than abundant in China. A major task for Chinese planners will be to "locate more and more industry using labor intensive technology in the countryside," and at the same time develop urban (and suburban) industry so that it can absorb those people seeking to leave the countryside. Moreover, in the minds of Chinese leaders, the goal of growth seems to conflict with the goal of equity, or the goal of creating a classless society. Because of these constraints and preoccupations, China will have only limited opportunities for extending its influence abroad. Perkins may well be right.


Examines the effects of growth opportunities — in the form of export-induced demand in Bangladesh — on four types of employment: formal, casual, unpaid, and self-employment.


The article presents the results of research on the possibilities of providing heat-cooling and electricity supply systems to autonomous consumers located far from centralized energy supply in the southern regions of Uzbekistan (Bukhara and Kashkadarya) based on renewable energy sources. In these regions, the average daily relative solar energy is 4.5 kWh/m2/day, the average wind speed is 5.5...8.5 m/s, the relative energy is 300...580 W/m2, and the underground low-potential temperature at a depth of 3...5 m, on average, is +10...+12oC. Analyzes of scientific research conducted on the development and reliability of trigeneration systems in the world are presented, and the possibilities of using these systems in our region are based. A combined solar-wind power plant, which is adapted to the climatic conditions of the southern regions of Uzbekistan, works efficiently in weak wind currents and high temperature regimes, and a complex energy system consisting of geothermal heat pumps that produce continuous heat and cold energy in different temperature regimes is offered. The proposed complex power plant allows for continuous and reliable energy supply to autonomous consumers located far from the centralized energy supply.


This introductory chapter provides an overview of the ways of interpreting monstrosity, relevant for this study on good comics monsters. These interpretations center on the othered, abnormal body, animation, and emotionality, which in turn lead to themes of ambiguity, rebelliousness, and immersive entertainment (including immersive visualizations and relatable, human attributes). The chapter also introduces the theoretical of the imaginary (Wolfgang Iser), remediation (Jay D. Bolter and Richard Grusin), and presence (Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht) which are used in the book to highlight the transfer of Romantic characteristics to comics monsters, their inspirations, and their functioning.
Romantic monsters and their related themes are introduced in the last section. These include, solitude and the quest for self-comprehension, the aestheticization of the sordid, nostalgia for older, pre-modern worlds, prominence of the spectacle, and emotional excess as well as ambiguity and rebellion—are then introduced in the last section.


The present invention relates to new 5 (hydroxyalkyl) 1 phenyl 1,2,4 triazole derivatives, the method for preparing this compound, the pharmaceutical composition containing this compound and this compound or composition are used to treat and/or the purposes of prevention disease, particularly treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular disease and kidney trouble.


South American blastomycosis (Paracoccidioidomycosis) has been previously imaged using 67Ga imaging. We present a case of North American pulmonary blastomycosis successfully imaged with 67Ga. Clinical, radiologic and biopsy findings are correlated.


Abstract Mössbauer spectroscopy obtained with the sample at low temperatures and subject to large magnetic fields is discussed in terms of its use in analysing the naturally occurring polymorphs of FeOOH and the common growth precursor, ferrihydrite. Experiments on well-characterized synthetic samples provided benchmark results. A relatively simple means of quantitative analysis was used, in which sextets of Voigtian-shaped lines were summed and least-squares fitted. The results are discussed in terms of the magnetic structures of each compound.


In 2002, from mid-April till the end of June, a survey of raptors was performed in the Kłodzko Region (Lower Silesia, SW Poland), an area of 1 540 km2, reaching altitudes between 300-1425 m a. s. l. Additionally, earlier data, collected since the 1990s, were used for estimation of the population size. Fourteen raptor species were recorded. Among them ten were considered as breeding or probably breeding. Besides the Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was not counted, the most abundant were the Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus). The Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) and Hobby (F. subbuteo) occurred in high numbers as well. Interesting records include possible breeding of the Peregrine (F. peregrinus) and Red Kite (Milvus milvus), Black Kite (M. migrans) and an observation of Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) and the Saker (F. cherrug). The methods employed were certainly insufficient in the case of the Goshawk (A. gentilis) and Sparrowhawk, and thus the numbers obtained for these species should be considered as minimum.


The art and process of character design flows from understanding the world a character lives in and how that world affects his or her actions, personality, and storyline, and also inspires a character's dress, poses, and accouterments. This thesis was influenced by the overwhelming prevalence of action-oriented female characters who are demeaned through suggestive poses, clothing, and degrading actions that sexualize the characters whether they are weak or strong; this is often done with no logical reason from the perspective of the character. In this thesis, the process of character design will be shown through the author's character Joanna. The author will illustrate Joanna's physical design with digital drawings to show her as a beautiful woman who dresses and acts according to her background without over sexualizing and objectifying her. BUILDING A BETTER CHARACTER MODEL 4 Building a Better Character Model The Art and Process of Character Writing and Design Character design is much more complex than drawing a character with a beautiful or alluring appearance. Before a character's design can truly take form, the creator must fully understand the world in which the story takes place and give the character a suitable look. In direct contradiction to this idea, many prominent character designers, especially designers of female characters, focus on sexualizing the characters at the expense of plausible proportions and sensible clothing, as well as place the characters in poses inconsistent with their personalities and backgrounds. The artwork in this thesis is based upon the in-depth process of character design to portray the main female character of a story as an attractive woman without over sexualizing her. Character Conceptualization The World When beginning to a write a new character or storyline, the author must first study the world in which the character lives. Fictional characters with logical and consistent backstories are heavily shaped and defined by their environments. The actions that propel the storyline must also tie into the fictional world, or the character driving the plot will seem irrational. David Herman (2002), author of Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative writes: BUILDING A BETTER CHARACTER MODEL 5 To tell and comprehend stories is to operate within a system of probabilistic rules in which events are preferentially (but not absolutely or inevitably) viewed as goal-directed actions--these actions in turn forming part of a large sequence of actions within a storyworld. (p. 28) For instance, if a young girl grew up alone in a frigid city in a fantasy world, she would likely be malnourished by her mid-teens. Her clothes would be ragged items pulled together to protect herself from the elements. This girl would be hardened by her life, her years of being alone, and having to defending herself. Though she might be lonely, she might also be defensive and suspicious when other people try to help her. If she were suddenly forced to make an important decision, she should act in accordance with her background. However, if the same young girl grew up in a higher class urban society, she would be well fed, well dressed, and less suspicious of others; she would probably have a hopeful outlook on life, potentially leading her to a different choice than her impoverished fantasy-world counterpart. If either girl made a decision inconsistent with their respective backgrounds, it should show the natural progression of their character arcs and the influence of the new people and environments around them. Those new characters should, in turn, flow from the changes made in the overarching world by the story. As Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein (2008) write in their book Analyzing Narrative Reality, "Discern the big stories of local culture with a constant eye towards their individual articulations. Approach the big and little stories as reflexively related, not categorially distinct, dimensions of narrativity" (p. 144). Later, they continue, "If public places . . . have big stories, the stories return to storytellers to shape their own accounts and their identities, roles, and relationships. These identities, roles, and BUILDING A BETTER CHARACTER MODEL 6 relationships, in turn, exemplify and ramify big stories" (p. 148). To paraphrase the idea, small narratives based around characters should stem from and interact with the larger narratives of the world in which the characters live. Another aspect that should be understood before a character can be fully fleshed out and visually designed is the fact that a world is not static. The actions of the characters in the world change the world. Georg Henrik von Wright (1966) articulates: Acting [is] intentionally bringing about or preventing a change in the world . . . Giving a complete description of an action requires describing three items: (a) the initial state, or the state in which the world is at the moment when the action is initiated; (b) the end state, or the state in which the world is when the action has been completed; and (c) the state in which the world would have been had it not been for the action in question. (p.p. 123-24) For instance, if Character A shot Character B, the reason for the shooting should stem from the world in which Character A lived. When Character A shoots Character B, he changes the world in at least some small way. If a character performs an action in a story, there should be a reason for the action to take place; otherwise, his action weakens the integrity of the storyline. Female Character Clothing and Objectification There is precedence in comic books, video games, and other forms of entertainment to have female characters dress, pose, and act in a sexually provocative manner. Karen E. Dill and Kathryn P. Thill (2007) write that of the female characters in their study's large sample size, 80% of the female character were sexualized, scantily clad, or were treated as a vision of beauty (p.859). Usually, there is no logical reason BUILDING A BETTER CHARACTER MODEL 7 from a character's perspective for the character to be scantily clad or sexualized. Similar situations carry over to other popular forms of entertainment. According to Julia T. Wood (1994), women are typically put in secondary roles in commercials, music videos, and other widely viewed media. These women are usually portrayed as though their only value is as an object of male desire. Wood also notes that women are often shown in various states of undress, while men are usually fully clothed (p.p. 34, 36). A more recent paper by Rachel M. Calogero, Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, and J. Kevin Thompson (2011) demonstrates that the trend has continued: "Media exposure spotlights women's bodies and body parts while depicting women as the target of a non-reciprocated male gaze" (p.6). Since the author's character depicted later in this thesis will be in graphic novel format, it seems only appropriate to focus on comic book heroines to illustrate the habitual lack of appropriate clothing on popular female characters. The three characters pictured below are, from left to right: Psylocke, a masterful psychic ninja. Elektra, a highly trained assassin. Jean Grey, otherwise known as The Phoenix, one of the most powerful forces in the Marvel universe (see Figure 1). Despite the fact that these three women are regularly engaged in combat and are extraordinarily skilled, powerful beings in the Marvel universe, none of these women dress appropriately for their situations. The costumes each of these women wear leave them naked for all intents and purposes. Their musculature, breasts, and buttocks are clearly defined despite the women technically being clothed. Each of these women is portrayed in a borderline pornographic manner, which is not aligned with their extraordinary, superheroic feminine characteristics. When designing a character based on BUILDING A BETTER CHARACTER MODEL 8 her background and lifestyle and not on making a female character a sexual object, a designer can rarely dress powerful women who participate in combat like swimsuit or bodypaint models without compromising their characters. Figure 1: From left to right: Psylocke, Elektra, and Jean Grey/The Phoenix. Some clarification is necessary; there is nothing wrong with having a female character who embraces her sexuality and dresses accordingly. However, female characters currently express their sexuality constantly with their appearances, to the detriment of any other aspects of their characters. Therefore, these women are being objectified instead of empowered by the unbalanced emphasis on their sexualiy. A strong female character should clearly show other facets of herself besides just her sexuality; in the context of her broader and deeper characterization, depictions emphasizing her sexuality then demonstrate her empowerment and control over her own femininity rather BUILDING A BETTER CHARACTER MODEL 9 than reducing her to an object. Character designers have a responsibility to recognize the line between empowerment and objectification and design their characters accordingly. The reason that recognizing the line between objectification and empowerment is important is briefly outlined by Dawn M. Szymanski, Erika R. Carr, and Lauren B. Moffitt (2011): "Research on the psychosocial correlates of sexual objectification is supportive of feminist theorists' assertions that sexually objectifying experiences and selfobjectification have negative impacts on the psychosocial and relational well-being of women" (p. 109). Other research presented by Barbara L. Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts (1997) elaborates on the harmful nature of objectification by presenting research on women exploring the adverse effects of being treated as a collection of body parts whose main function is pleasing other people. To summarize, objectification damages many women by pushing them to alter their perspectives and see them


To prevent the loss of fiber strength, ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers were treated with an ultraviolet radiation technique combined with a corona-discharge treatment. The physical and chemical changes in the fiber surface were examined with scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared/attenuated total reflectance. The gel contents of the fibers were measured by a standard device. The mechanical properties of the treated fibers and the interfacial adhesion properties of UHMWPE-fiber-reinforced vinyl ester resin composites were investigated with tensile testing. After 20 min or so of ultraviolet radiation based on 6-kW corona treatment, the T-peel strength of the treated UHMWPE-fiber composite was one to two times greater than that of the as-received UHMWPE-fiber composite, whereas the tensile strength of the treated UHMWPE fibers was still up to 3.5 GPa. The integrated mechanical properties of the treated UHMWPE fibers were also optimum. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 463–472, 2004


Transplantation of purified allogeneic hemopoietic stem cells (SC) alone is characterized by a decreased risk of graft-vs-host disease but increased incidence of engraftment failure. It has been established that the facilitating cell (FC) promotes allogeneic SC reconstitution and results in donor-specific transplantation tolerance across MHC disparities, without graft-vs-host disease. Although the requirements for this facilitating function are not well-characterized, it is known that facilitation is dependent on FC expression of a unique heterodimer consisting of the TCR β-chain (TCRβ) and a 33-kDa protein, FCp33. The current study confirms that CD3ε and TCRβ expression are present on the FC at the time of transplantation and demonstrates that the majority of cells in the FC population express the TCR signaling molecule, FcRγ, rather than the more conventional CD3ζ receptor. Of particular significance, we have now demonstrated that FC-mediated allogeneic SC reconstitution is critically dependent on FcRγ expression and that FcRγ coprecipitates with the TCRβ-FCp33 heterodimer. The mandatory requirement of TCRβ and FcRγ for FC function provides the first evidence of a previously undescribed role for FcRγ in the facilitation of allogeneic SC reconstitution and establishes that FcRγ is part of the TCRβ-FCp33 complex uniquely expressed on FC.


Volumetric titrations of technetium(IV) solutions with $Ce^I^V$ have been performed with potentiometric, biamperometric and bipotentiometric detection of the equivalence point. Precipitation titrations of both $Tc^V^I^I$ and $Tc^I^V$ solutions have been also performed with tetraphenylarsonium or poophonium chlorido solutions and radimetric detection of the equivalence point.
A conductometric titration of technetate(VII) solutions has been also proposed and coulometric titrations of techetate(VII) solutions with electrogenerated Tin(II), have been carried out.


The reaction of 2 mol equivalents of triphenylphosphine with diphenyldiselenyldiiodine (Ph2Se2I2) produces the charge transfer (CT) complex Ph3PSe(Ph)I in quantitative yield; this compound represents the first report of a CT complex of a tertiary phosphine that contains a pseudohalogen.


In this paper we construct a hedonic house price index for Macedonia, for the period 2000-2008. Then we investigate whether house prices in Macedonia are in line with the fundamentals, finding a positive answer.


We discuss the growing interest to measure associated-quarkonium production in a number of channels at the LHC. Whereas back-to-back production of quarkonium + isolated photon provides a unique way to extract gluon TMDs, observables such as quarkonium + W/Z can be of great help to better understand the quarkonium production mechanism as well as to shed light on double-parton scatterings. Along these lines, we also argue that quarkonium-pair production is a potentially rich source of information which only has started to be harvested. Finally, we discuss the relevance of studying the production of quarkonium + heavy-quark, as e.g. J/psi + charm and Upsilon + non-prompt J/psi.


Context. We present the very first wide-field, 11′ by 11′, optical spectral mapping of M 16, one of the most famous star-forming regions in the Galaxy. The data were acquired with the new imaging Fourier transform spectrograph SITELLE mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). We obtained three spectral cubes with a resolving power of 10 000 (SN1 filter), 1500 (SN2 filter) and 600 (SN3 filter), centered on the iconic Pillars of Creation and the HH 216 flow, covering the main optical nebular emission lines, namely [O II]λ3726,29 (SN1), Hβ, [O III]λ4959,5007 (SN2), [N II]λ6548,84, Hα, and [S II]λ6717,31 (SN3).
Aims. We validate the performance, calibration, and data reduction of SITELLE, and analyze the structures in the large field-of-view in terms of their kinematics and nebular emission.
Methods. We compared the SITELLE data to MUSE integral field observations and other spectroscopic and narrow-band imaging data to validate the performance of SITELLE. We computed gas-phase metallicities via the strong-line method, performed a pixel-by-pixel fit to the main emission lines to derive kinematics of the ionized gas, computed the mass-loss rate of the Eastern pillar (also known as the Spire), and combined the SITELLE data with near-infrared narrow-band imaging to characterize the HH 216 flow.
Results. The comparison with previously published fluxes demonstrates very good agreement. We disentangle the dependence of the gas-phase metallicities (derived via abundance-tracing line ratios) on the degree of ionization and obtain metallicities that are in excellent agreement with the literature. We confirm the bipolar structure of HH 216, find evidence for episodic accretion from the source of the flow, and identify its likely driving source. We compute the mass-loss rate Ṁ of the Spire pillar on the East side of the H II region and find excellent agreement with the correlation between the mass-loss rate and the ionizing photon flux from the nearby cluster NGC 6611.


advances that followed. It is possible that the protests could have been quelled without the deadly military assault on the capital. But Brown's own account of the massive popular opposition to martial law, including the open support for a negotiated solution in the party apparatus and the state-controlled media, along with widespread protests in sympathy across China, suggests there was a real potential for a spiraling process of political disintegration, itself dependent on contingent decisions by a variety of actors. To discount this possibility is to assume, at least implicitly, that certain outcomes could be ruled out from the beginning and perhaps were not so contingent after all. Deng Xiaoping and figures like Li Peng were convinced that the risk was real, and there is much in Brown's account to suggest that their fears were not completely unfounded. Subsequent events from East Germany to the Soviet Union demonstrated that concessions would not necessarily have quelled popular challenges, and open disagreements among national leaders would only have accelerated them. The wave of upheaval elsewhere in the Communist world, after all, was almost entirely unanticipated and was hard to imagine even shortly before it happened. Perhaps the Chinese authorities could have quelled the protests in Beijing without bloodshed, but the regime's retrospective claims about these events—that the military operation and subsequent purges and reprisals bought China decades of stability and a firm foundation for the country's economic and political rise—bring up larger historical questions that are beyond the scope of this book.


Women facing middle age and beyond are pressured by a cultural idea/of slimness. The authors review literature pertaining to the factors affecting the societal perceptions of body image and address relevant counseling interventions, specifically, group therapy based on narrative theory, that are aimed at this population. ********** Over time, there has been a "shift in society to a preference for thin-figured women" (Lin & Kulik, 2002, p. 115). One need not look far to find a media flooded with messages placing importance on youthful, ultrathin appearance, especially for women. Such thin, idealized women can be found portrayed on the evening news, competing in beauty pageants, and in other forms of media or entertainment. In fact, Thompson and Heinberg (1999) reported that less than 10% of women appearing on television appear to be overweight. Even today's fashion and trends are marketed to women with extremely slender figures. Many women, including those who do not appear on national television, have internalized the message that to be beautiful and attractive, one must also be youthful and slender--often to the point of emaciation. Thus, few women can meet the sometimes unhealthy and unnatural criteria for the "thin ideal" (Deeks & McCabe, 2001; Sussman, Truong, & Lim, 2007). This ideal, which has become increasingly smaller over time, is now at a height of 5' 7" tall and a weight of 110 pounds (Byrd-Bredbenner & Murray, 2003; Cusack, 2000; McKinley & Hyde, 1996). It is noteworthy that the average American woman is a bit shorter than this ideal height at 5' 3 3/4 and weighs quite a bit more at 152 pounds (Jones & Buckingham, 2005). With such a gap between the idealized (and perhaps unnatural) model and the typical woman, it should be no surprise that most women today have reported being dissatisfied with their body, no matter how old they are (Liechty, Freeman, & Zabriskie, 2006; Van den Berg & Thompson, 2007; Webster & Tiggemann, 2003). In fact, Hurd (2000) conducted a study with women ages 61 to 92 years and found that 77% of women reported negative attitudes about their weight. In another study, middle-aged women were found to associate their body image, including sexual attractiveness, weight, and physical condition, with their overall happiness (Stokes & Frederick-Recascino, 2003). Sometimes this dissatisfaction becomes more than a state of unhappiness; serious mental disorders including depression, anxiety, and other psychological symptomatology may also occur. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which affect both young women and middle-aged women, are also frequently associated with unnatural societal expectations for women's bodies (Forman & Davis, 2005). Body image dissatisfaction among middle-aged women may have its roots in several domains. For example, Tiggemann and Lynch (2001) suggested that dissatisfaction with body image is associated with aging, partly because of the increasing gap between realistic body appearance and the thin and slenderized ideal of beauty. Women facing middle age and beyond are pressured not only by this cultural ideal of slimness but also by a society that does not necessarily view the bodies of older women with high esteem (Deeks & McCabe, 2001; Mangweth-Matzek et al., 2006). This is problematic because natural landmarks across a women's life span, such as childbirth, menopause, and stressors related to divorce or family death, increase the likelihood that women may gain weight as they age, thus contributing to body image dissatisfaction. Despite the statistics indicating that middle-aged women struggle with body image dissatisfaction and weight concerns, studies about how these women are influenced by environmental and sociocultural demands are mostly absent from the literature. Most research has focused on adolescents or young adult women (Forman & Davis, 2005; Lewis & Cachelin, 2001). …


Ten thousand quatrains in Tang Dynaty by Hong-mai innitiaten the upsurge of selecting Tang quatrains in Song Dynasty.For this reason,many quatrains in Tang Dynasty can be preserved.The edition of this book is complicated.Hong-mai printed the book for the second time,make it was into 100 volumes.Then it was partly revised by Wu-ge of Song Dynasty and changed into 101 volumes.The Song edition of this book has lost,only leaving two kinds of Ming edition to the world.Chen-Jing xue from ming Dynasty renew the book again according to the W's edition.As there were much errors inothe innitial edition from Hong-mai,Zhao-huan guang in Ming revised it again and changed it into 40 volumes.


In  the  literature, several approaches  of  designing  a  DCT/IDCT-based image compression system have been proposed.  In this paper,  we present a new RTL design approach with as main  focus developing a  DCT/IDCT-based image compression  architecture  using  a  self-created  algorithm.  This  algorithm  can efficiently  minimize  the  amount  of  shifter -adders  to  substitute  multiplier s.  We call  this  new  algorithm  the  multiplication  from  Common  Binary  Expression (mCBE)  Algorithm. Besides this algorithm, we propose alternative quantization numbers,  which  can  be  implemented  simply  as  shifters  in  digital  hardware. Mostly, these numbers can retain a good compressed-image quality  compared to JPEG  recommendations.  These  ideas  lead  to  our  design  being  small  in  circuit area,  multiplierless,  and  low  in  complexity.  The  proposed  8-point  1D-DCT design  has  only  six  stages,  while  the  8-point  1D-IDCT  design  has  only  seven stages  (one  stage  being  defined as  equal  to  the  delay  of  one  shifter  or  2-input adder). By using the pipelining method, we can achieve a high-speed architecture with latency as    a  trade-off consideration. The  design has been synthesized and can reach a speed of up to 1.41ns critical path delay (709.22MHz).


A general q-state nonintersecting string model for q Z 2 is studied, and solved, using a graphical approach. This model, of which special cases were first introduced by Stroganov and Schultz, has recently drawn further attention because of its relation to Potts models. In its simplest version, a uniform, separable nonintersecting string model on a quadratic lattice, it corresponds to a q*-state Potts model with Potts-spins on every other lattice face. We first formulate the related star-triangle equation which we solve in terms of a line-variable parametrization. Such a parametrization of a solution of the star-triangle equation leads to a simple and direct graphical derivation of an inversion relation for the partition function. Our graphical analysis also shows that the inversion relation holds if certain boundary effects can be neglected, as we shall give a special finite lattice from which the inversion relation can be read off immediately. This relation is next solved under appropriate analyticity assumptions, again using a simple and direct approach, and the result is applied to obtain exact solutions for specific string models.


Objective To study the CT diagnosis of mucous plugs.Methods 15 cases of mucous plays confirmed by pathologic and bronchofibroscope examinations、 were given general CT and HRCT scanning.The CT results were analyzed.Results Bronchial mucous plugs were presented as divarication,clubs,nodus and cystic form on CT scanning.which distributed respectively in 5 cases,3 cases,5cases and 2 cases.Three patients complicated with pulmonary atelectasis,and after the mucous plugs was taken out by bronchofibroscope,the pulmonary atelectasis was improved.Conclusions CT is the best method for finding bronchial mucous plugs,but the bronchofibroscope is still the final diagnosis means.


In the frame of discrete particle model for modeling of granular materials,there exist two main types of mathematical models for modelling interstitial liquid,i.e.the discrete(liquid-bridge) and continuum models.The liquidbridge model is mainly used for low moisture content and is not able to model the fluid transport within a porous medium.To model fluid flow through a porous medium and its interaction with the solid grains of the medium,a continuum model should be employed.In this paper a coupled discrete particle-continuum model for wet granular materials is developed.The solid particles are described by discrete particle model,and the motion of the interstitial fluid phase and its interaction with the solid phase are described by continuum scheme governed by the averaged N-S equation.In light of SPH approach,the characteristic based SPH method is presented for numerical modeling of pore fluid flow.A numerical solution procedure based on discrete element method and characteristic based SPH for wet granular materials is formulated.Numerical results demonstrate the capability and performance of the proposed scheme in modeling the interaction and exhibit influences of interstitial fluid flow upon the loading capacity and deformation of the solid particle assembly.


This work studies the influence of finite (or partial) optical coherence on the transport of intensity for object images, and presents an iterative scheme to treat the phase retrieval. With the plane wave decomposition technique, the couplings between the fields of object images and that of optical (random) de-coherence are treated as a Fourier convolution, and the outcome fields follow the transport of intensity equation (TIE). An ensemble of realizations of the (outcome) fields thus determines the statistical properties that correspond to the actual measurements. Simulation results of the proposed method show a significant increase in the accuracy for phase retrievals that have finite optical coherence.


Two approaches are used to analyze the sustainability of the current account deficits of Cameroon in order to find out whether current economic policies are sound enough to guarantee the country' s financial solvency. The first uses a structural procedure to compare current account deficits relative to an optimal benchmark using the Campbell-Shiller's methodology. The second uses a reduced form approach to test for intertemporal budget constraint through cointegration tests between imports and exports plus net transfer payments on foreign obligations. Our results suggest that the current account imbalances for Cameroon based on data from the period 1970-2002 are "excessive" and the deficits are currently unsustainable


An American attorney directing a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program supporting privatization of urban and industrial land in Georgia since autumn 1997 describes the procedure whereby previously privatized enterprises can acquire the land beneath and surrounding those enterprises. This program, incorporating experience derived in commercial land privatization elsewhere in the former USSR and designed to emphasize transparency and minimize fees and paperwork, is compared with alternative approaches utilized in other republics. A procedure whereby enterprises not meeting land privatization criteria may lease land from the state, and whereby local authorities may sell vacant land, also is described. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: D23, R33, R52. 20 references.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a new compound useful as an intermediate for deoxyfluoro-β-cytidine, which is an antiviral agent and an anticancer agent, and capable of giving β-anomer or β-anomer nucleoside in a higher yield than α-anomer. SOLUTION: A compound of formula I [R is a hydroxy protecting group; R 1 and R 2 are each H, a (substituted) 1-8C alkyl or a (substituted) phenyl; R 3 is a 1-8C alkyl], e.g. α-3-phenylcarbamoyl or 5-benzoylmesylate. The compound is obtained, for example, by reacting 1-methylsulfonyl-2,2-difluoro-3,5- dibenzoylribose(dibenzoyl-α-mesylate) of formula II with sodium methoxide in THF, then reacting the reaction mixture with acetic acid to obtain a compound of formula III and subsequently reacting the compound with an isocyanate of the formula R 1 NCO in the presence of triethylamine. COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO


This research is based in Sociolinguistic approach, focusing on different speech stylebetween males and females using particular communication strategy (lexical hedge,tag question, apology and interruption) in mixed-gender and non-mixed-genderconversation


The Criminal Annals of the History of the Han Dynasty basically covers the origin of law, the history and change of the development of legal systems, especially the reforms of criminal punishments by the various emperors since the Pre-Han Dynasty. Its theoretical keynote exerted strong influence on the development of criminal annals for later generations. The Criminal Annals of the History of the Han Dynasty are not only historiographic materials for our research of the judiciary system and judiciary practices but also important documentation for the researches of the relationship between morality and law, especially the profound Confucian ideas embodied therein.


the article analyzes one of the priority directions of actions on five priority directions of the development of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017–2021 Improvement of state and public construction. The author presented proposals to improve the effectiveness of public administration.


Only selected tubes are subject to a change of environment, which minimize the risks for temperature deviation and ice crystal formation. Furthermore, storage and retrieval of a vile take less than 20 seconds. Storage in a gasiform nitrogen phase ensures complete biological preservation. Utilizing a 2D bar-code reduces the risk of vile mix-ups to a minimum. To enhance data quality and allow easier integration of data from heterogeneous resources we will implement a data management, which will use an ontology coded inWebOntology Language 2. For this purpose we will re-use and extend the pre-existing ontology OMIABIS [1] which is developed by UAMS in cooperation with BBMRI Sweden and based in theMIABIS [2] dataset.


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 The unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19 has created a scope to increase domestic violence against women all over the world. In Bangladesh where domestic violence is already prevalent, the lockdown period and stay at home orders can give the perpetrators more time to engage in violence. Isolation, social distancing, anxiety and stress about pandemic along with domestic violence can deteriorate the mental health status of the victims.

Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network (TRIN) Ltd. conducted an online survey among the Bangladeshi population to understand the ongoing scenario of domestic violence. The questionnaire was disseminated through social media and the website of TRIN.

Among the 136 participants (male=25.7%, female=74.3%), 36.8% (n=50) have faced domestic violence at any time of their lives. 24.2% of the participants have experienced domestic violence during this period of lockdown and the participants identified "Increase in different types of mental stress" as one of the key causes to increase domestic violence in this period. 96.3% and 93.4% of the participants respectively thought that the victims and the participants need mental health care. However, 62% of the victims did not have any clear idea about the available mental health services for them.

This period of global health crisis has already opened a new window for telemedicine and telepsychiatric interventions can be useful in this regard as it can ensure mental health services 24/7 maintaining anonymity. Immediate telepsychiatry support can reduce the mental health burden among the victims and also can help the perpetrators to mitigate their violent behaviors towards the family members.


Several NAD(P)(+)-dependent dehydrogenases were partially purified from Halobacterium halobium. When salt (2M (NH4)2SO4) was replaced with glycine betaine (4M or 6M), the zwitterion stabilised activity less completely than the salt. Nevertheless most of the enzyme activity still remained after 90h, e.g. 70% for malate dehydrogenase. This level of stabilisation permitted non-denaturing gel electrophoresis in 4M betaine after dialysis to replace salt. Coomassie Blue staining showed good separation of the proteins, and activity staining, hitherto impossible for halophilic enzymes, readily identified the individual dehydrogenase bands. Transfer of activity-stained gels to Coomassie staining solution halted background formazan staining and showed up activity and other protein bands in contrasting colours.


Flame stabilization and the mechanisms that govern the dynamics at the flame base have been subject to numerous studies in recent years. Recent results using a combined Large Eddy Simulation‐Conditional Moment Closure (LES‐CMC) approach to model the turbulent flow field and the turbulence‐chemistry interactions has been successful in predicting flame ignition and stabilization by auto‐ignition, but LES‐CMCs capability of the accurate modelling of the competition between turbulent quenching and laminar and turbulent flame propagation at the anchor point has not been resolved. This paper will consolidate LES‐CMC results by analysing a wide range of lifted flame geometries with different prevailing stabilization mechanisms. The simulations allow a clear distinction of the prevailing stabilization mechanisms for the different flames, LES‐CMC accurately predicts the competition between turbulence and chemistry during the auto‐ignition process, however, the dynamics of the extinction process and turbulent flame...


In an attempt to increase reading performance at university level. This study aims at perceiving the experiential determinants of EFL students' online reading performance. Data were collected from 182 undergraduate students' self-rated questionnaire based on the assigned Indonesian folklores in English version through the online reading platforms. Data analysis used descriptive statistics and factor analysis. The results showed that EFL students' reading habits and reading frequencies and trends were very supportive, whilst reading effectiveness and reading for pleasure supported their reading performance. Tests of chi-square's four variables were statistically significant indicating the proportional majority of online reading activity. Meanwhile, the Principal Components Analysis (PCA) indicated two components and variables under the eigenvalues' square root. The interpretation of two components was coherent with the pilot results on the online reading readability scale, analyzed the use of positive and negative affect items as undertaken from the pattern and structure matrix for PCA with the Obliging rotation. EFL students' online reading is engaging accordingly since students accomplished their reading performance based on individual accessibilities and habits to understand the contents of genres. This study concludes that EFL students' online reading performance has been practically facilitated by the technology devices multiply. Hence, four online reading variables increased EFL students' reading awareness and performance accordingly.


CD44 is a cell‐surface receptor for hyaluronan, a major glycosaminoglycan component of extracellular matrix. The objective of this study was to define the role of CD44 in endothelial barrier function and its downstream signal. Using cultured pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells, we found that blocking CD44 with high molecular weight HA (HMW‐HA) increased electric resistance in hydrogen peroxide‐stimulated endothelial monolayers, indicating a protective role of blocking endothelial CD44 signaling in the regulation of microvascular permeability. To confirm this finding in vivo, intravital microscopy was conducted in the rat mesentery. Our result showed that intravenous administration of HMW‐HA prevented plasma leak caused by the inflammatory mediator PAF. Western blot analysis indicated that oxidative stress and CD44 activator (i.e., CD44 antibody IM‐7) caused comparable Src activation (Y416 phosphorylation) in endothelial cells. The protective effect of HMW‐HA on endothelial barrier function was associated with inhibition of Src phosphorylation at Y416. Inhibition of Src activity by PP2, a selective inhibitor for Src‐family kinases, blocked CD44‐induced barrier dysfunction. Taken together, these results suggest that activation of endothelial CD44 increases microvascular permeability through Src phosphorylation. Supported by NIH RO1 HL061507, HL070752, GM097270 and HL096640.


Sources of antibiotic resistant organisms, including concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), may lead to environmental surface and groundwater contamination with resistant enteric bacteria of public health concern. The objective of this research is to determine whether Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Yersinia enterocolitica, and enterococci resistant to clinically relevant antibiotics are present in surface and groundwater sources in two eastern North Carolina counties, Craven and Wayne. 100 surface and groundwater sites were sampled for Salmonella, E. coli, and enterococci, and the bacteria isolated from these samples were tested for susceptibility to clinically relevant antibiotics. Salmonella were detected at low levels in some surface but not groundwater. E. coli were in surface waters but not ground in both counties. Enterococci were present in surface water and a small number of groundwater sites. Yersinia was not found. Bacterial densities were similar in both counties. For Salmonella in surface water, the most frequent type of resistance was to sulfamethoxazole. There was no ciprofloxacin resistance. There were a few surface water E. coli isolates resistant to chloramphenicol, gentamicin, and ampicillin. Enterococci in surface water had very low levels of resistance to vancomycin, chloramphenicol, ampicillin, and streptomycin. E. coli and enterococci are present more frequently and at higher levels in surface water than Salmonella, but groundwater contamination with any of these organisms was rare, and low levels of resistance can be found sporadically. Resistant bacteria are relatively uncommon in these eastern N.C. surface and groundwaters, but they could pose a risk of human exposure via ingestion or primary contact recreation.


This report documents the results of a 200%, double-ended, cold-leg-break, loss-of-coolant-accident (LOCA) calculation using the TRAC-PF1/MOD1 computer code. The reactor system represented a typical United States/Japanese pressurized water reactor with a 15 x 15 fuel bundle arrangement 12-ft long, four loops, and cold-leg Emergency Core Cooling (ECC) Systems. Conservation boundary and initial conditions were used. Reactor power was 102% of the 3250 MWt rated power, decay heat was set to 120% of American Nuclear Society Standard 5.1, highest core lifetime values for power peaking and fuel stored energy were used, and the LOCA occurred simultaneously with a loss of offsite power. Best estimate assumptions were used for the break flow model, fuel rod heat transfer and metal-water reaction correlations, and steady-state fuel temperature profiles. A flow blockage model, having the capability to account for the effects of cladding ballooning or rupturing, was not used. Except for these best estimate assumptions, the boundary and initial conditions were consistent with those used in licensing calculations. Maximum fuel rod temperatures were 1380 K (2020/sup 0/F) and 1040 K (1410/sup 0/F) on the hottest evaluation model rod and hottest best estimate rod, respectively. The high reported values or fuel cladding temperature were a directmore » consequence of the conservative boundary and initial conditions used for the calculation, primarily the 2% overpower condition, the core decay heat assumption, and the degraded ECCS. The calculation demonstrated successful core reflooding before 1478 K (2200/sup 0/F) cladding temperature was exceeded on any fuel rod. 7 refs., 47 figs., 5 tabs.« less


For critical theory, antisemitism should not be analyzed as an isolated matter, but as an integrant part in a specific socio-historical constellation. Starting up from a brief general view of contemporary constellations of antisemitism, the paper analyzes the contributions of Critical Theory on this topic, which enable to comprehend the limits of Enlightenment as well as of the social transformations leading to new configurations of antisemitism. Analyzing the role that some of the fundamental elements underlying antisemitism the civilizing process, the dialectics of bourgeois emancipation, the commodity form and the subjectivation processes , the present paper aims to understand the relationships between old and new antisemitism, and specially to critically shed light on the diagnostic of a "structural antisemitism"


City commercial banks are very important financial intermediaries to the entire financial system,and their development will lead to the common development of weak economy in our country,which is also vital to the economic performance of the whole country.This paper describes the meaning of the competitiveness of commercial banks;then it establishes the financial evaluation index system on the competitiveness of city commercial banks,with comparative analysis as well;finally,it proposes the main points to improve their own competitiveness.


The approaches to tax control organization, used in Russian Federation and in foreign practice, are studied. The tendencies of change of global experience in tax administration organization and tax risks control are investigated. The problems of tax evasion were studied from the viewpoint of impact on state security threat. The problems of fiscal performance at regional level are analyzed, and the evaluation of impact of shadow sector on the economic stability of the Federation constituent is provided (at the material of Dagestan Republic). It was revealed the necessity to strengthen the interdepartmental interaction of tax administrators with other executive authorities in the process of execution of control measures. It was substantiated the reasonability to extend the usage practice of indirect methods of tax base computation in tax control organization. It was suggested a complex of recommendations, aimed at the improvement of tax administration and better tax collection, as a factor for security increase of Russian Federation and its regions. [Musaeva K.M. The increase of tax administration effectiveness, as a factor of shadow sector validation and growth of economic security. Life Sci J 2014;11(7s):229-233] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 46


The sedentary way of life and bad alimentation habits of people from developed countries promotes the development of cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays the percentage of deaths provoked by cardiovascular diseases increases every day and it is now the major cause of death in these countries. For the last few decades a major effort in developing new methods to detect cardiovascular complications has been done and several new parameters, such as pulse-wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (AI), are now used to access cardiovascular risk. ! During the course of this project, optical probes capable of recording the arterial pressure waveform were developed and tested. These probes used two photodiodes, separated by 3 cm, as sensing elements and due to their configuration, the measure of local PWV in human carotid was possible. The recorded signals were direct measurements of the pressure waveform. The developed algorithms were capable of accessing the time delay between these two signals and therefore calculating the correspondent PWV. To validate the developed algorithms and probes, three test benches, capable of simulating the pressure waveform and its propagation properties were assembled.


Rotating instability in various types of fans, compressors, and pumps is considered as one of the symptoms of unsteady phenomena such as rotating stall or surge, and it is observed before a rotating stall as an amplitude increase in the power spectra of velocity fluctuation and/or radiated noise. In this paper, the cause of rotating instability in a centrifugal blower with a shrouded impeller is investigated through both experiments and numerical simulations. Experimental results show that the rotating instability may be attributed to unsteady vortices rotating along the impeller periphery and that a discrete noise component induced by the rotating instability is mainly caused by the interaction between unsteady vortices and the impeller discharge flow. A significant amplitude increase within a frequency band at almost half the blade passing frequency is found to be caused by an irregular change in the vortex rotating speed as well as by an irregular time interval in the train of generated vortices. In the numerical study, the structure and circumferential characteristics of the rotating vortices are investigated by a visualization technique using Q-definition. Circumferential characteristics of the rotating vortices may be largely influenced by the steady characteristics of the impeller discharge flow field, which are determined by the geometric configuration of the impeller and the scroll casing.Copyright © 2012 by ASME


An NM-64 neutron monitor latitude survey made by road transport in the summer of 1965 in Canada, the United States, and Mexico was extended, in the summer of 1966, to the western seaboard of the United States and Hawaii. In 1966 in the vicinity of Mt. Hood (2.43 GV), Palomar Mt. (5.71 GV), and Mt. Haleakela (13.3 GV) advantage was taken of the possibility of changing altitude without significant change of geomagnetic cutoff. At each of these places also a smaller lead polyethylene neutron monitor was flown at seven different pressure altitudes between 530 mm Hg and 140 mm Hg. The airborne monitor was calibrated in terms of the NM-64 when the transport van was at 10 000 ft on the summit of Haleakela. It was found that graphical smoothing of vertical trajectory cutoffs in latitude and longitude eliminated an unnatural kink in the latitude curve near Mexico City. The 1965 and 1966 rates were adjusted to May 12–13, 1965, the date of the IQSY maximum, using data from a fixed monitor and allowing for the depend...


At its most superficial rhetorical level, ABC's hit television show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, equates the condition of the family home with the condition of the bodies inside the home.  If the home is 'fixed', then the people who live in that home will be 'fixed', as well.  In this essay, I consider the ways that Extreme Makover: Home Edition constructs the human body as disabled through the medium of architecture, helped along by reality television's version of Christian sacrificial atonement.


Objective: To investigate the long-term quality of life(QOL) in the treatment of primary or secondary pneumothorax,two surgical methods,video-assisted thoracic surgery(Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery,VATS) and posterolateral thoracotomy(posterolateral thoracotomy,PT),were assessed in this prospective study.Methods: The quality of life questionnaire,EORTC QLQ-C30 Chinese version,was used to assess the patient's quality of life.All the 60 patients from December 2008 to December 2009 in our department treated for primary or secondary pneumothorax were collected in this study.The QLQ-C30 scores of preoperative and postoperative 3,6 and 12 months were compared each other.Results: First,there was no significant difference in the function of preoperative and postoperative quality of life.In the lateral thoracotomy group,patients with lower physical function 6 months after surgery,and in the 12 months postoperative emotional function increased.It was significantly increased in the 1,3,12 months.In the symptoms of VATS group,dyspnea was increased at one month after surgery,and economic hardship rose at 1,3,6 months after surgery.In posterolateral thoracotomy group,pain was increased at 1,3 months after surgery.Fatiguea was reduced at 6 months after surgery,and dyspnea was increased at 12 month after surgery.In the posterolateral thoracotomy group,physical function was decrease at 6 months after surgery,and emotional function increased at 12 months after surgery.Second,compared with the VATS group,the patient's postoperative quality of life was lower physical function 6 months after surgery in lateral thoracotomy group.On the contrary,the 12 months after surgery emotional function was increased in lateral thoracotomy group.The overall condition score was increased in 1,3,12 months postoperative.Dyspnea increased 1 month after surgery,and decreased 12 months after surgery in VATS group compared with posterolateral thoracotomy group.In posterolateral thoracotomy group,the pain was decreased 1,3 months after surgery,and fatigue was reduced 6 months preoperative.Economic hardship was reduced also 1,3,6 months after sugery.Conclusion: Compare the preoperative and postoperative quality of life,we found that surgery can improve the quality of life in patients with pneumothorax.Compare the two methods of postoperative quality of life,the functional recovery of VATS group was faster than the PT groups,and symptoms have its own advantages and disadvantages.


This brief describes a phase-domain oversampled ranging method for high-resolution low-cost frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar systems, aiming for human health monitoring applications. To overcome the limited bandwidth problem for fine ranging resolution in the conventional FMCW radar systems, a ΔΣ ranging digital-intensive receiver architecture is proposed to achieve both wide capture range and fine resolution by utilizing a digital phase rotator and a 1-bit ΔΣ time-to-digital converter. A prototype 4-GHz FMCW radar receiver designed in 0.18-μm CMOS exhibits subcentimeter ranging capability from onboard modulation measurement, consuming 26 mW from a 1.6-V supply.


This bibliography presents annotated entries that cover a variety of autobiographies written thus far in South Africa. Though it covers material from the Boer War to the present, it emphasizes recent works describing the struggle for freedom in South Africa with special emphasis on labor movements.


Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm facilitates the design of large systems as a set of loosely coupled services interacting with each other. These services, in turn, can be combined to form a more complex service. But, for services to be useful, they must satisfy non-functional requirements, especially security-related quality of service. Unfortunately, software vulnerabilities expose these services to malicious actors, and make them susceptible to attacks. Therefore, security quality of service is critical in order to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability for system data and services. Due to the distributed and decentralized nature of services, publishing and guaranteeing security quality of service are crucial so that potential applications and clients can make use of the provided services. In this paper, we will first discuss how Intrusion Tolerance Quality of Service (IT-QoS) can be modeled and specified. Then, we will show how a recovery-driven intrusion tolerance architecture is able to ensure differentiated levels of S-Reliability, an important IT-QoS for a Service.


Based on finite element method,a series of two-dimensional plane strain models of typical framework and underground station were built to study the influence of superstructure on infrastructure's dynamic response with various ground motion inputs,spacing between constructions,stiffness and damping of subsoil,foundation buried depth and floor and stiffness of superstructure.Results show that earthquake wave exerts a tremendous influence.Interaction diminishes rapidly with the increasing of the structure gap when the damping of subsoil decreases and the foundation buried depth and floors' number of superstructure increases,interaction gradually augments.The effect of superstructure's stiffness on interaction is negligible.


The suitable choice of a benchmark portfolio is a critical problem prior to using the information ratio, as the performance ranking of funds depends on this choice. In this paper, a method to optimize benchmark selection taking account of the investor's preferences is proposed and applied to a case study of performance for 29 market indicators on stock exchanges throughout the world. The method that relies on recent results in optimization theory requires defining the opportunity set to select the benchmarks, this set being Footsie in the case study. The computational process and numerical results are presented through tables and figures, the accuracy of the method being also numerically tested.


Abstract The distorted physics (DP) technique of Bryan and Lewis is applied to an ocean GCM to allow longer time steps to be taken. The model includes a hybrid vertical mixing scheme for tracers, consisting of a Kraus–Turner mixed layer model and a Richardson number–dependent diffusion term. The model also includes rotation of the diffusive tracer fluxes along the isopycnal surfaces, according to the scheme of Redi. The focus of this paper is on the interaction of DP with this mixing scheme, rather than on the physical performance of the scheme itself. With standard parameter settings as used in a recent climate change study, the equilibrium solutions produced in a long integration using DP and a time step of 1 day are not robust and drift on switching back to the standard time step of 1 h (without DP). Three regions are affected: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the Greenland–Iceland–Norwegian (GIN) Sea, and the base of the tropical mixed layer. The drifts are found to be due both to the DP technique i...


The results of research carried out on rats, assessing the influence of chronic intoxication with ethanol, methanol, and ethylene glycol on hydrogen peroxide concentration in internal organs – brain, lungs, liver, kidney, and heart – are presented in this paper. It was shown that the organ most exposed to the detrimental activity of ethanol, methanol, and ethylene glycol is the heart: the greatest increase in hydrogen peroxide concentration was ascertained in this organ. The highest rise in the hydrogen peroxide concentration in all the organs (with the exception of brain) was noted in the case of intoxication with ethylene glycol. Ethanol revealed its antioxidant properties in the brain and kidneys, causing a decrease of the hydrogen peroxide concentration. The lungs turned out to be the only organ in which an increase in hydrogen peroxide concentration occurred during chronic intoxication with all the examined alcohols – ethanol, methanol, and ethylene glycol.


: As a key national news website, People's Daily Online plays an important role in shaping and spreading the image of foreign countries. As a country with which China has established an all-round strategic partnership, Germany frequently appears in the reports of People's Daily Online. This paper uses content analysis and case study to analyse the reports on Germany's politics and economy in the second half of 2021 on People's Daily Online, summarize the political and economic images reflected, and analyse the characteristics of the images and the reasons for their formation.


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The invention relates to a medical electrode plaster, which comprises a flexible stretchable body surface electrode and a protective film, wherein the flexible stretchable body surface electrode comprises a flexible substrate, an electrode unit, an electrode lead, a lead connection point and an insulating layer; the electrode unit, the electrode lead and the lead connection point jointly form an electrode assembly; the electrode assembly is arranged on the flexible substrate; the electrode unit is connected to the lead connection point via the electrode lead; the insulating layer is arranged on the flexible substrate and is used for covering the electrode lead; the flexible substrate and the insulating layer are made of polydimethylsiloxane; and the protective film covers the electrode assembly so as to form protection. The invention also relates to a preparation method for the medical electrode plaster. The medical electrode plaster disclosed by the invention has favorable flexibility, deformation capability and biocompatibility, can form favorable conformal attaching with skin and can be used for joints, such as elbows, wrists and knees, which usually carry out gross movement.


To solve the problems that campus mobile hosts are connected with network at anytime and anywhere,we briefly produce a project that WIAN is based on campus original Infratructure Network.In this paper,we briefly introduce IEEE802.11 standards and network structure of WLAN,and then expound design models and communication process of this project.


A 78-year-old woman was status-post colon resection for poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the sigmold colon with lymph nodes positive for metastatic disease. Three months following surgery, her CEA levels were found to be markedly elevated. In addition to the radionuclide studies, ultrasound of the liver confirmed the presence of multiple lobulated, solid lesions in the right lobe of the liver. These lesions corresponded to the areas of decreased activity in the liver on liver-spleen and hepatobiliary images. In view of known adenocarcinoma, these lesions presumably represent metastatic disease to the liver. Peripheral increased activity surrounding these metastatic lesions to the liver on Tc-99m dllsopropyl iminodiacetic acid images represented an unusual presentation.