The deep water ( 1000-3000 m) circulation in the area east of Taiwan and the Philippines has been little studied . Moriyasu (1972) and Reid (1981) discussed the 3000 db surface (3000/1200 db ) and 2000 db surface (2000/3500 db ) circulations of the Philippine Sea Basin .respectively . They both showed that there may be a northward current close to the western margin of the Sea Basin . Recent analyses of two sets of deep sea hydrographic data yielded quite different results, i. e ., at deep waters in the area east of Taiwan and the Philippines southward countercurrents flow under the upper northward currents .The possible causative mechanism of these southward deep countercurrents is the blocking effects of the submarine ridge east of Suao and of the Ryukyu Islands Shelf on the northward flowing upper currents .The above-mentioned preliminary deductions were wholely based on consideration of the relative geostrophic current and calculation, though the reference surface (3500 db ) was very deep . It is su


Statistical comparison of the caryotypes of the four Mediterranean Anemone species: A. palmata L., A. coronaria L., A. pavonina Lamk. and A. hortensis L., is based on the dispersion areas of the T/Θ and L/C parameters estimated for each chromosomal pair. Chromosome alteration has been observed in both interspecific hybrids obtained. These alterations are more marked when the genome is transferred into an alien cytoplasm. The F1 hybrid A. pavonina × A. hortensis is fertile with some meiotic abnormalities. Sterility of the A. pavonina × A. coronaria F1 hybrid is caused by the failure of pairing. Chromosomal doubling by colchicine restored fertility. Phylogenic relations as established by morphological, biochemical and caryotypic characters, as well as by meiotic behavior of interspecific hybrids, are in good agreement. The lack of introgression of new characters into the cultivated species A. coronaria is due to interspecific sterility barriers. Nevertheless, the introduction of the coronaria genome into th...


Although online communities as formed by guilds in online games have been an important research topic, to date little work has been done mapping the social networks in such games due to a lack of the right data. Using Sony's census for Planet Side 2, the social networks for small outfits (guilds) were studied in a game where cooperation and competition are needed. Friend links mostly stay within the game's factions, but did cross faction lines. Small outfits typically linked to other small outfits of the same faction, but many had no links at all. A few may act as cross-outfit connectors. Despite the emphasis on large groups, small outfits of just two players were the most common. Communication affordances may play a large part in tie formation.


With a high percentage of Syrian refugees population in Jordan aged 18 - 35 years, the number of refugees that are willing to access the job market is very high. Therefore, many organizations try to make these refugees qualified by enrolling them within many educational and training programs in order to enhance their skills, thus make them able to find jobs. However, with the presence of many challenges that are facing Syrian youths in accessing the tertiary education system in Jordan, many organizations that offered scholarships at the tertiary education level couldn't achieve the highest possible number of beneficiaries. Accordingly, this study aims to highlight the obstacles and inappropriate practices of many tertiary education initiatives that led to a low number of beneficiaries, in order to overcome repeating such practices in the future.


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It is important to increase thermal efficiency in a spark-ignition engine for reducing carbon dioxide gas in exhaust emissions. One of the solutions is to increase the compression ratio of the engine. Then, knock is a barrier in increasing in compression ratio because of higher pressure and unburned gas temperature in the end gas region. Therefore, there have been many studies on knock. However, there was an interesting phenomenon under some conditions in a gas engine. There is no pressure oscillation in the end stage of combustion and rate of heat release increased. It is considered that the auto-ignition in the end gas region occurs without knock. In this study, the combustion behavior in the end gas region was visualized with an ultra-high-speed camera. In normal combustion case, the flame propagates in the end gas region. In the knock case, the auto-ignited part burns suddenly and leads pressure oscillation. Under the critical conditions, some shows knock and some shows normal flame propagation. However, in some cases, even if auto-ignition occurs, pressure wave is not produced. Then there is no pressure oscillation, that is, mild auto-ignition without knock can be confirmed. And the rate of heat release shows two peaks. The first peak is due to flame propagation and the second peak is due to auto-ignition in the end gas region. The combustion near the end stage become short and thermal efficiency is expected to be increased because of increase in degree of constant-volume.


A fast and secure handoff scheme based on mobility prediction is proposed for IEEE 802.11 WLAN environment, which uses mean handoff location model to select the AP to be scanned from neighbor APs graph, performs the processes of re-authentication and scanning in combination, and transmits detection frame in unicast mode. The method not only reduces the delay of the overall handoff process, but also protects the scanning process. The simulation result shows that this method reduces handoff delay significantly.


Experimental and numerical analysis about atomization and wall impingement process of hollow-cone fuel spray is performed by hybrid model and wall impingement model. The atomization process is modeled by using hybrid breakup model that is composed of Linearized Instability Sheet Atomization (LISA) model and Aerodynamically Progressed Taylor Analogy Breakup (APTAB) model. The Gosman model, which is based on the droplet behaviors after impingement determined by experimental correlations, is used for spray-wall impingement process. The LIEF technique was used to compare the results with those of experiment. The calculations and experiments are carried out at the ambient pressures of 0.1㎫ and 0.5㎫ and the ambient temperature of 293K.


169 married and 42 single women attending the Family Planning Clinic at Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical center were surveyed over a 4-month interval to study changes in sexual drives associated with oral contraceptives (OCs). 74.4% reported they were without side effects. The menstrual flow was decreased in 62% and increased in 4%. Duration of the menstrual cycle was decreased in 57% and unchanged in 41%. 34% indicated less dysmenorrhea while taking OCs. There were some differences between married and single women when questioned about their sexual drive. 68% of the married women and 71% of the single were without change in their libido. 21% of the married women felt that their libido diminished. 22% of single women experienced increased libido. 31% of the single women had a heightened sexual response while only 17% of the married women reported this. Sexual activity increased in 40% of the single women and 16% of the married women. Libido decreased as family size increased. There were only minor differences in changes among those who use different OCs. There was a progressive decrease in libido, sexual response, and sexual activity during the first 2-3 years of medication. After 5 years, however, sexual response was progressively heightened. Fear of pregnancy was uniformly lessened with OCs in 72-75% of all patients. Individuals may have changes in their sexual drives secondary to OCs. However, as many have increased as have decreased drive.


In this modern age there is a rapid increase in the number of vehicles and so is the number of car theft attempts as well. With the growing and strong stealing techniques, owners are in fear of having their vehicles being stolen from common parking lot or from outside their home, thus the protection of vehicles from theft becomes important and crucial due to insecure environment. Real time vehicle security system based on computer vision provides a solution to this problem, many of recent vehicle security systems performs image processing based and real time user authentication using face detection and facial recognition techniques and run on microprocessor control system fixed on board with the vehicle or online application on the cloud. The system also adds an extra layer of security thru a custom authenticating driver list of the vehicle before it could even power up which offers a safe environment [1]. This paper is covering the design of an integrated anti-theft control system for an automobile that primarily based on an advanced communication technology identified as LTE. Integrating with GPS and GSM, the vehicle location will be located and tracked as well. In the event of theft attempt or unauthorized person's trial to drive the vehicle, a text in format of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)/ Short Message Services (SMS) will be sent to the owner along with the location followed by a choice of actions such as tracking the vehicle, shutting it completely down, or locking all doors and calling the authorities [2]. This anti-theft control system could also be integrated the national Digitized ID card or UniCard as well. Index Terms IoT, Face Recognition, Vehicle Security Systems, National Identity ID, Digitized ID, Unified Card, Vehicle security, Anti-Counterfeiting, eID, Mobile ID, Authorization.


The angular distribution of elastically-scattered light can be used to infer the morphology of aerosolized soot aggregates, including the radius of gyration Rg. This procedure is mathematically ill-posed if the aggregate sizes are polydisperse, in which case the objective is to infer a probability density p(Rg). During this process, forward light scattering model is often approximated using Rayleigh-Debye-Gans Fractal Aggregate (RDG-FA) theory. This technique is computationally-efficient but limited in accuracy, and the resulting errors are magnified by the ill-posed nature of the problem. More precise approaches, like the multi-sphere T-Matrix method (MSTM), are too computationally-intensive and difficult to implement for widespread use. This paper presents a technique that combines the efficiency of RDG-FA and the accuracy of MSTM via the approximation error technique. The error function is derived from a principal component analysis (PCA) on error matrices generated for randomly-sampled aggregates having morphological fractal parameters sampled from distributions derived from the literature. The error model is then used to correct the RDG-FA kernel in the forward model for a particular set of fractal parameters. The model is then used to estimate probability densities for the p(Rg) size distribution parameters via Bayes' equation.


T he purpose o f th is paper is tw ofo ld . T he first one is to discuss various group topologies on inductive lim its o f topological groups, a n d unitary representations of inductive limit groups in a certain case, and the second one is to treat group topologies in the case of the group o f diffeomorphisms. Contrary to the affirmative statement in [1] o r in [5], the inductive lim it of topologies of an inductive system o f topological groups does not always give a group topology, or m ore exactly, the multiplication is not necessarily continuous with respect to the inductive limit topology (denoted by r i d ) . In P art I of this paper, we show this by a simple example in the case of abelian groups, and then discuss in general which kinds of group topologies can be chosen on an inductive limit group under the condition that they are weaker than T Hid • W e study in particular the case where inductive system is countable and essentially consists of locally compact g roups. (F or exact definition, see §2.3. and such a system is called a countable L C G inductive system in s h o r t ) . Then we prove that the inductive limit topology r,"d gives a group topology in this case (Theorem 2.7), and also that it is essentially a unique one under a mild condition (Theorem 5.6). Further, for a countable LCG inductive system, we discuss in a certain extent unitary representations and continuous positive definite functions of the inductive limit group G = lim G and prove that, under the same condition as for Theorem J 5.6, there exist sufficiently many of them so that the points of G can be separated (Theorem 5.7). Since there does not exist in general a Haar measure o n G, the important point of the discussion is the limiting process from the case of locally compact groups GI t o G. In Part II, we discuss the case of the group G =Diffo (M ) of diffeomorphisms with compact supports on a connected, non-compact, Cr-manifold M , 1 < r < co, a n d prove that the inductive limit topology T j n d never g ives a group topology (Theorem 6.1).


The evolution of the shear-layer flowfield of a round transient turbulent jet is analytically investigated within the near-field of the jet over which the velocity potential core decays. The model ...


Ḥannā to external sources, such as the manuscripts he owned. In the afterword, Horta recognizes Ḥannā's distinctive contributions to the Arabian Nights collection. He examines the travel account through the lens of these stories told to Galland by Ḥannā. His analysis retrieves Ḥannā's place and stolen rights as the main player in the orphan tales, rather than Galland. Horta argues how the account of Ḥannā reveals the same characteristics of the stories he supplied to the Arabian Nights. Moreover, Horta evaluates what has been taken for granted in scholarship about the role of Galland in terms of developing the characters in the Nights and modernizing the stories and making them coherent. Comparing the Nights and the travel account, we can surmise that Ḥannā is more likely to have done what is usually attributed to Galland. Although Lucas had written a travel account that never mentions Hanna, the afterword sheds light on many parallels between the two accounts. Readers will appreciate the map of the travels at the beginning of the two volumes. At the same time, they will miss an image of the manuscript to get a sense of it during discussion of its orthography and handwriting, or at least a clear reference to the Vatican website where digital photos are available. It would have been helpful to add subtitles to the edition, or at least to the translation, to distinguish the different sections of the account and the narratives. Overall, the work is significant and brings new insights into the life and travels of an early modern Aleppan Christian.


This research aimed at exploring eco-friendly green synthesis of CuNPs using different plant species used for research purpose were Nyctanthes arbor-tristris (Night jasmine), Gardenia jasminoides (Cape jasmine), Tabernaemontana divartica (Crape jasmine), Cascabela thevetia (Yellow oleander), Clerodendrum inerme (Glory bower), Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (China rose) and Allamanda cathartica (Allamanda) for synthesizing CuNPs. Out of seven ornamental plant species CuNPs were synthesized from three species viz. Night jasmine, Yellow oleander, Allamanda which were confirmed through UV-VIS spectrophotometer in wavelength 250-450 nm. The SPR peak was recorded at 301.00 nm, 300.50 nm and 300.00 nm for Allamanda, Yellow oleander and Night jasmine respectively that confirmed the formation of CuNPs. FTIR analysis of CuNPs showed different functional groups such as O−H, N−H, S−H, O=C=O, C≡C, C=O, N−O, C−H, M−O for Allamanda, O−H, N≡N, N−H, C−Cl for Yellow oleander and O−H, C−N, −C≡C−, =C−H, N−O for Night jasmine. DLS study revealed the average size of CuNPs as 125 nm, 120 nm and 100 nm for Allamanda, Yellow oleander and Night jasmine respectively. Zeta potential recorded for Allamanda, Yellow oleander and Night jasmine were -13.7 mV, -10.03 mV and -12.6 mV respectively. TEM micrograph clearly indicated that all the green synthesized CuNPs were spherical in morphology and the average size were 14.05 nm, 16.96 nm and 11.58 nm for Allamanda, Yellow oleander and Night Jasmine respectively.


We have previously shown that the reactive center of human a-1-proteinase inhibitor (a-l-PI) contains a methionine at position P1 (Johnson, D., and Travis, J. (1978) J. Bid. Chem 263,7142-7144). The importance of this residue has been tested by oxidizing the inhibitor with increasing concentrations of N-chlorosuccinimide (SucNCl). Under the conditions utilized a maximum of 2 of the 8 methionyl residues of a-l-PI were modified even at very high concentrations of oxidizing agent (40 mol of SucNCl/mol of inhibitor). A continued disappearance of the immediate inhibitory activity towards porcine trypsin, porcine pancreatic elastase, and human leukocyte elastase was observed as the concentration of reagent was increased and reached a maximum value (over 96% inhibitory activity lost) when the 2 methionyl residues were oxidized. However, only moderate losses of chymotrypsin inhibitory activity were detected (25%). Significantly, if the oxidized inhibitor was incubated with the four proteinases for extended periods of time much of the activity towards porcine trypsin and human leukocyte elastase was regained but there was still no detectable inhibition of porcine elastase. NHz-terminal sequence analysis of a large peptide fragment obtained by papain digestion of the oxidized inhibitor confirmed that the reactive center methionine had indeed been oxidized. Gel electrophoresis of complexes formed between oxidized inhibitor and chymotrypsin, after sodium dodecyl eulfate treatment, were found to be stable. However, trypsin and leukocyte elastase complexes with oxidized n-l-PI were unstable. Furthermore, there was complete conversion of the oxidized inhibitor to a lower molecular weight form with both leukocyte and pancreatic elastase. These results, together with the protective effect toward cyanogen bromide cleavage of methionyl residues afforded by formation of native a-l-PI* trypsin complexes, strongly support the importance of protecting this inhibitor from chemical or biological oxidants. It is quite likely that cigarette smoke, as well as other air pollutants, contains, or is capable of forming, oxidizing agents which inactivate a-l-PI through conversion of the P1 residue, methionine, to the sulfoxide or sulfone form, thereby reducing the proteinase inhibitor activity normally present in the lung.


Work-integrated learning,university-enterprise cooperation mode of cooperative education is an important approach to cultivate high-quality skilled personnel. The tourism management of Heyuan polytechnic has carried collaborative-innovation Education mode of government,college,industry and enterprise and achieved good results, university-enterprise cooperation in tourism specialty in higher vocational colleges has a certain reference.


IntroductionTransplantation of the whole or part of the liver iscurrently the only well-established treatment of aspectrum of life-threatening liver diseases, includingacute liver failure, hepatic cirrhosis, and severalinherited metabolic diseases that result from anabsence or deficiency of hepatocyte-derived geneproducts [1]. Due to the shortage of donor organs,several bioartificial liver devices are currently underinvestigation in several centers [2]. Hopefully theywill prove to be effective in supporting patients withliver failure that are on the high urgency waiting-listfor liver transplantation [3]. In the inherited meta-bolic diseases of the liver, transplantation of hepato-cytes obtained from an allogeneic donor liver couldprovide specific liver functions. In addition, trans-plantation of isolated, autologous hepatocytes mayprovide a means for hepatocyte-directed ex vivo genetherapy [1,4].Much work has been done concerning hepatocytetransplantation in rodents, with intraportal andintrasplenic routes producing the best results withrespect to engraftment, function, and cell survival[5]. The optimal site and methods for implantationof isolated hepatocytes in large animals still remainsto be determined, despite its importance for clinicalapplication of hepatocyte transplantation. The aim ofthis study was to examine intra-abdominal, ectopicimplantation sites for hepatocyte transplantation in alarge animal model, i.e. in the pig.Materials and methodsAnimalsNine adult white female pigs were used, weighingbetween 40 and 44 kg. All procedures were approvedby the institutional guidelines of the Animal EthicalCommittee of the University of Amsterdam.After fasting overnight, induction of anesthesia wasachieved with intramuscular administration of keta-mine (10 mg/kg; Nimatec


In this thesis some new weighted integral inequalities for monotone functions in higher dimensions are proved. These results extend previous results in one dimension, and also those in higher dimen ...


Extreme precipitation events in Europe during the winter half of the year have major socio-economic impacts associated with floods, landslides, extensive property damage and life losses. In recent years, a number of works have shed new light on the role played by Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) in the occurrence of extreme precipitation events in Europe as was the case in major historical floods in Duero (Pereira et al., 2016) and Tagus (Trigo et al., 2015) rivers in Iberia. We analyse ARs reaching Europe, for the extended winter months (October to March), in simulations from six CMIP5 global climate models (CGMs) to quantify possible changes during the current century, with emphasis in five western European prone coastal areas. ARs are represented reasonably well in GCMs for recent climate conditions (1980-2005). Increased vertically integrated horizontal water transport is found for 20742099 (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) compared to 1980-2005, while the number of ARs is projected to double on average for the same period. These changes are robust between models and are associated with higher air temperatures and thus enhanced atmospheric moisture content, together with higher precipitation associated with extra-tropical cyclones. This suggests an increased risk of intense precipitation and floods along the Atlantic European Coasts from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia (Ramos et al., 2016).


In this paper, the performance of a proposed antenna selection algorithm is evaluated that is based on cooperative interference mitigation among neighbouring base stations. This algorithm has been evaluated in MIMO - OFDMA multicellular networks, for various bit rates per mobile user and blocking probabilities via extended Monte Carlo simulations. As results indicate, for 64QAM modulation type and 3/4/5 allocated subcarriers per mobile user, the proposed antenna selection approach can provide up to 50%/36%/25% gain on the mean number of active users in the network compared to the case where antenna selection is performed having as sole criterion the maximization of Signal to Noise Ratio.


AIZPURU OIHARBIDE, I. & P. CATALAN RODRIGUEZ (1984). The presence of the bombean in the Iberian Peninsula. Anales Jard. Bot. Ai«frirf41(l):143-146 (In Spanish). We report the presence of Carpinus betulus L. in the Iberian Peninsula, found in the localities of Aranaz and Yanci, in the province of Navarra. The presence of this species south of the Pyrenees was under question except for certain, very outdated, references which should probably be reconsiderad. The discovery is accompanied by floristic inventories from the area studied.


Home automation is a technology based on IoT.  It is focused on three layer architecture   (sensors and actuators, network layer, application layer). Network layer can be configured by many available technologies like Zigbee, Z-Wave, Insteon, X10, Bluetooth etc. Every technology has its own trade-offs. Every technology has its own architecture and functionality of that decides about security provided, interoperability possibility, its range, support of number nodes and their communication. Many other characteristics are also their which decides suitability of a particular protocol. Depending upon need (ease, security, low energy, integration etc.) a protocol could be selected. This paper has compared various parameters of these home automation protocols and their suitability for the application.


The multidimensional, ensemble-averaged, compressible, time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations in conjunction with mixing length turbulence model and shock capturing technique have been used to study the terminal shock type of flows in various flight regimes occurring in a diffuser/inlet model. The numerical scheme for solving the governing equations is based on a linearized block implicit approach and the following high Reynolds number calculations have been carried out: (1) 2-D, steady, subsonic; (2) 2-D, steady, transonic with normal shock, (3) 2-D, steady, supersonic with terminal shock, (4) 2-D, transient process of shock development and (5) 3-D, steady, transonic with normal shock. The numerical results obtained for the 2-D and 3-D transonic shocked flows have been compared with corresponding experimental data; the calculated wall static pressure distributions agree well with the measured data. The predicted transient responses of the flow to externally applied impulsive disturbance are consistent with results obtained via asymptotic analysis.


In its Coty Germany c. Parfumerie Akzente decision dated 6 December 2017, the Court of Justice reiterated the conditions of application of Article 101 TFEU to selective distribution agreements…


DNA is the media of hereditary information of living organisms on the earth. In eukaryotes, long genomic DNA is wrapped around core histones to form a nucleosome fiber. In addition, nucleosome fiber is organized three dimensionally as chromatin and folded within a tiny space such as a nucleus or chromosomes. In cellular functions based on DNA transaction including transcription and DNA replication, the cells must precisely execute the readout of information superimposed on genomic DNA. In this situation, a protein as molecular machinery needs to move around such complicated folded DNA and interrogate its target site, and the chromatin becomes a huge obstacle. Thus, chromatin structure and dynamics seem to be deeply related to diverse cellular functions but not merely packaging, and play a fundamental role in epigenetic regulation. Therefore, making the detailed observation and description of chromatin is essential to understand the various life phenomena in eukaryotes. The objective of this thesis is to contemplate the relationship between chromatin and epigenetics. To achieve this objective, multiple methods including genome-wide analysis of epigenetic regulation and live cell imaging of chromatin were performed. First, the epigenetic regulation and promoter types were analyzed based on genome-wide ChIP-Seq and DeepCAGE data. It was found that, in humans, broad promoters but not peak promoters had significant associations with histone modification and nucleosome position. Secondly, single nucleosome imaging was newly developed. To observe single nucleosomes in living mammalian cells, the histone was fused with photoactivatable (PA)-green fluorescent protein (GFP) and expressed in mammalian cells at a very low level. For single nucleosome imaging, an oblique illumination was used to illuminate a limited thin area within the cell. It was found that a small fraction of histone-PA-GFP was spontaneously activated without laser stimulation. Lastly, based on single nucleosome imaging, the chromatin structure and dynamics at single nucleosome level in a living mammalian cell and their variation related to different types of histone modification and chromatin associated proteins were successfully observed. Furthermore, numerous chromatin domains were identified throughout the cell cycle. These results will provide a basis of dynamic and flexible nature of chromatin toward understanding the function of chromatin in eukaryotic cell and allow new insight and perspective on the relationships between chromatin and epigenetics. Notes 慶應義塾大学湘南藤沢キャンパス先端生命科学研究会 2015年度学生論文集


Introduction: In the US, bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd) is one of the preferred treatment regimens in transplant-ineligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) based on the results from the phase 3 Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) S0777 study. Although the efficacy of VRd in transplant-ineligible or -deferred NDMM patients was demonstrated in SWOG S0777, clinical trials have strict eligibility criteria that may not translate to the real-world. There is limited real-world data on the characteristics and outcomes of non-transplanted patients with NDMM treated with VRd, especially in older, frail patients with comorbidities. This study aimed to address these knowledge gaps by evaluating the characteristics and outcomes of patients with NDMM who received VRd as first-line of therapy (LOT) in US oncology practice.
 Methods: This retrospective observational study included patients from the Flatiron Multiple Myeloma Core Registry who received VRd as first LOT between November 1, 2015 and February 28, 2021. The index date was defined as the first observed record of the VRd regimen. Non-transplanted patients were defined as those who did not receive a stem cell transplant (SCT) from the diagnosis date to the index date. Patients were excluded if they were <18 years of age on index date; were enrolled in a clinical trial; had other malignancies prior to the index date; had a diagnosis of amyloid light-chain amyloidosis prior to the index date; or had a SCT prior to index date. Demographics, clinical characteristics, and outcomes were assessed in the overall study cohort and among specific subgroups: older adults (≥75 years of age on index date); frail patients (frailty score ≥2, calculated using age on index date, Charlson Comorbidity Index during the pre-index period, and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status [ECOG PS] score on the closest date to the index date ≤90 days prior to and ≤7 days after the index date, patients with missing ECOG were not excluded); patients with high-risk cytogenetics, and patients with acute renal impairment ([RI], serum creatinine >2 mg/dL on the closest date to the index date or having diagnosis codes of ICD-9-CM 584.5-584.9, ICD-9-CM 586, ICD-10-CM N17.0-2, N17.8-9, and N19, measured ≤90 days prior to and ≤7 days after the index date). Duration of therapy was measured as the time between the index date and end of the LOT. Progression-free survival (PFS) was measured as time between the index date and disease progression or death, whichever occurred first. PFS did not account for treatment discontinuation for reasons other than progression or death. Disease progression was defined as a clinically meaningful increase in serum M-protein, urine M-protein, or the free light chain ratio according to the International Myeloma Working Group criteria. PFS was analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method.
 Results: A total of 2342 eligible NDMM patients treated with VRd as first LOT were identified, with a median follow-up of 21.0 months. A majority of patients were ≥65 years (64.3%), with the mean (SD) age at index date being 67 (±10) years. Most patients were male (53.3%), had International Staging System [ISS] stage I/II (48.4%; 33% missing) and the ECOG PS score 0/1 (63.5%; 22% missing). Of the 2342 patients, 597 (25.5%) patients were categorized as older adults (≥75 years of age); 1122 (47.9%) as frail; 374 (16.0%) as patients with high-risk cytogenetics; and 250 (10.7%) as patients with RI. About 28% of the patients received a SCT within 1-year of the index date. The median duration of therapy was 5.6 months. The median PFS for the overall study group was 33.2 months. Median PFS was substantially shorter for patients who were ≥75 years of age (22.8 months), were frail (28.7 months), had high-risk cytogenetics (25.1 months), or had RI (25.1 months) (Figure).
 Conclusions: The majority of patients with NDMM treated with VRd in the real-world setting were aged ≥65 years, were ISS stage I or II, had an ECOG PS score of 0 or 1, and had standard-risk cytogenetics. Median PFS observed in the real-world setting was shorter than that observed in the SWOG S0777 clinical trial. Patients who were ≥75 years of age, were frail, had high-risk cytogenetics, or had RI demonstrated shorter median PFS than patients in the overall study population. Alternate treatment options with demonstrated efficacy in the older, frail, and transplant ineligible patients are available.
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 Bortezomib, and lenalidomide are both FDA approved agents for treating multiple myeloma. The combination of bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone is commonly used in clinical practice and is listed as a preferred regimen in NCCN guidelines.


The computer aid teaching software's usage raises the learning and teaching efficiency and enthusiasm of students when they learn professional knowledge.It provides another alternative for the teaching reform.The computer teaching software's usage plays an important role in improving teaching methods,teaching efficiency and educational quality.The reasons are as follows: raising the students' interest,providing the simulative emotion and getting in the simulative situation,etc..At same time,the software has the following shortcomings: having less meaning,the meaning is older,and the purpose should be made clear,etc.In addition,the features of it are as follows: having a stronger compatibility,raising the students' interests by adopting the case study,providing the direct feeling like in the real situation by expressing the main points,providing answers by the UCP 600,etc..To improve teaching effect,teaching software should be treated as the aid tools to the teaching,expanding experimental places,changing experimental space,training the students' learning something by themselves and realizing the experiment over the intranets,etc..


Higher radix networks, such as high-dimensional tori and multi-level directly connected networks, are being used for supercomputers as they become larger but need lower diameter. These networks have more resources (e.g. links) in order to provide good performance for a range of applications. We observe that a sizeable fraction of the links in the interconnect are never used or underutilized during execution of common parallel applications. Thus, in order to save power, we propose addition of hardware support for on/off control of links in software and their management using adaptive runtime systems. We study the effectiveness of our approach using real applications (NAMD, MILC), and application benchmarks (NAS Parallel Benchmarks, Jacobi). They are simulated on representative topologies such as 6-D Torus and Dragonfly (e.g. IBM PERCS, Cray Aries). For common applications, our approach can save up to 16% of total machine's power and energy, without any performance penalty.


Debris flow is composed of solid grains of different sizes. the characteristics of grain size distribution reflect the movement mode and dynamic conditions of the fluid, and have different effects on the movement of debris flow. Due to the high variability of debris flow materials, the granular interaction is bound to affect the fluid properties. The grain size distribution (GSD) of debris flow satisfies the formula: P(D)=CD-μexp(-D/Dc), where, GSD parameters μ and Dc can comprehensively reflect the change of grain composition. with μ reflecting the structure and variation characteristics of fine grains, and Dc reflecting the range of grain size. Field surveys in various regions indicate that the GSD parameters are distinct in materials of flow, source, and deposition. The GSD parameters of source soil and deposition soil are random and discrete, while the GSD parameters of fluid samples show obvious negative power function form: Dc= aμb (Figure 1). This shows that the grain composition of debris flow contains some dynamic information. In this paper, we use natural soil materials in a typical debris flow valley to conduct a series dynamically mixing and rotating experiments to simulate the flow evolution, and explore the change of grains under the action of dynamics and the effect of grain adjustment on the mobility of debris flow. The results show that the GSD shows a significant regularity after dynamic rotation. The specific performance is that μ and Dc change from the initial random discrete state to negative power correlation (Figure 2), and the appearance of this correlation corresponds to the best mobility of debris flow. At the same time, the Malvern laser grain size analyzer was used to analyze the specific surface area of fine grains (<0.20 mm) in the dynamic rotation experiment. The results show that with the increase of dynamic time, the specific surface area increases according to power law, and when the time reaches about 100 minutes, the growth slows down, and the specific surface area changes little. The experimental results are helpful for a deep understanding of the dynamics of debris flow.


Objective To observe the analgesic effect of radio nuclides 89Sr(89SrCl2) on bone metastases,and summarize the nursing experience.Methods 58 cases with different bone metastases recieved 89SrCl2 treatment in the same dose(ie 4mci/person) intravenous administration,and the follow-up time was from 3 months to 1 year after treatment.Results After the treatment,the total effective rate was 85.89%,with no serious adverse reactions.Conclusions Treated metastatic bone cancer pain by 89SrCl2 was effective,the majority of the patient's quality of life can be improved.The lesions in bones were shrinked or disappeared in most patients.It played the role of life-prolonging remission of disease,and it is safe and effective treatment.


Suppose that A., wishing to pick up a certain television channel, goes to a professional dealer, and silently buys an aerial without otherwise making known his purpose to the seller. After installation, it becomes apparent to A. that the aerial is not powerful enough to provide adequate reception. Meanwhile, B., from a neighbouring town, also buys an aerial from his local professional seller without uttering a word, and installs it on his roof. He is then told by the municipality that the installation of an aerial is subject to the granting of a permit, which is refused. The aerial has therefore to be removed. Must the first dealer have volunteered information as to the power of the particular aerial to pick up the particular channel? Ought the second seller to have come forward with information as to the need for a permit? Kessler and Fine have written that '[a]n investigation of the scope of the "duty to disclose" on a comparative law basis is most rewarding; it leads us straight to the heart of the philosophy underlying the law of contracts'.2 Anyone who, seduced by these words, undertakes an examination of English and French law's treatments of situations such as the above will observe that, despite an initial convergence, there is now every indication of an important divergence of solutions.


Fusion power production in tokamaks uses discharge configurations that risk producing strong type I edge localized modes. The largest of these modes will likely increase impurities in the plasma and potentially damage plasma facing components, such as the protective heat and particle divertor. Machine learning-based prediction and control may provide for the automatic detection and mitigation of these damaging modes before they grow too large to suppress. To that end, large labeled datasets are required for the supervised training of machine learning models. We present an algorithm that achieves 97.7% precision when automatically labeling edge localized modes in the large DIII-D tokamak discharge database. The algorithm has no user controlled parameters and is largely robust to tokamak and plasma configuration changes. This automatically labeled database of events can subsequently feed future training of machine learning models aimed at autonomous edge localized mode control and suppression.


Sustainable development being the buzz word nowadays has found its extension in almost every field. Its increasing inevitability can be extended to something as basic as the concept of freedom. The work in this article is essentially inspired by Isaiah Berlin's 'Two Concepts of Liberty'. This paper aims at defining social freedom and presents the current status of women in the society within that framework. This paper not only dismisses the idea of Positive and Negative freedom as incompatible but establishes the necessity of both to attain the desired social freedom by women. The objective of the paper is to establish the need and importance of women social freedom for sustainable development of the society.


Pedagogical activity as an instrument for the reproduction of cultural-historical types The article considers pedagogical activity as a product and instrument of reproduction of cultural and historical types. It is asserted that the pedagogical tradition and ideals of upbringing reflect the basic values that have been formed in the course of the development of these types. The author distinguishes three main types of pedagogical traditions and ideals of upbringing: sociocentric, anthropocentric and dualistic. It is shown that pedagogical activity is the main means of preserving the otherness of cultural-historical types.


Hip pain is a common condition in primary health care and can present a diagnostic dilemma for clinicians. The differential diagnosis of hip pain is broad and several sources can generate pain. The ...


Real-time simulation is a familiar technique for testing hardware and software in the loop and for operator training. An important parameter of these simulations is the frame-time necessary to capture the dynamics of the system being simulated. Modern power electronic systems, using higher frequency pulse-width modulation (PWM) converter control demand frame times that are significantly shorter than those found in most real-time simulators. The paper describes an approach to real-time simulation that is capable of achieving the frame times of 10 /spl mu/S and less required for this application. It is a scalable technique that uses arrays of digital signal processors on commercially available boards plugged into a conventional desktop computer. Analog and digital interfaces provide for the connection of real hardware to the simulation. Although the technique has so far been applied only to power electronic systems, it is capable of being used in a wide range of applications in which frame times of less than 10 /spl mu/S are required.


Since the discovery of the top-quark at the Tevatron collider in 1995, enormous efforts have been devoted to the precise determination of its properties and in particular of its mass, mtop. Together with precision electroweak measurements, mtop can be used to check the Higgs boson mass (mH) dependencies on mtop and the W boson mass (mW) within the Standard Model, and to constrain the allowed mass range for heavy particles predicted by Standard Model extensions. In this paper a review of the current experimental and theoretical uncertainties affecting the top-quark mass measurements at the Tevatron and the LHC is provided: strategies and techniques adopted to evaluate the main systematic uncertainties within the various experiments are summarised and compared, highlighting, when appropriate, complementarities and differences which are important ingredients to set the basis of a future world mtop combination.


In Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia during an evolution of some 25 million years, a unique, rich, and highly diverse, biocoenosis has developed, in which some three-quarters of the ca 2,400 plant and animal species are endemic. Conditions for its survival include stability of the chemical composition and water temperature of, particularly, the deeper parts of the Lake. Recently the large-scale development of wood-processing industries has had, as described in the present paper, an increasingly destructive influence on this biocoenosis. This destruction seems irreversible as the deeper parts of the Lake, which goes down to 1,620 metres, cannot be renewed.


Glottic tumors might cause severe airway problems due to their location. Manipulations with endotracheal intubation may increase the severity of airway problems. This case reports presents our experience with a patient who was admitted with acute disphonia and respiratory stress, diagnosed with laryngeal tumor following CT, and underwent biopsy under general anesthesia. In the light of similar cases in the literature, our report aims to present airway management of this patient who had to go through difficult ventilation and intubation during the anesthesia induction due to a glottic mass


Objective: To establish rabbit models of Mongolian medicine"Nian"nature abdominal tingle in immature and mature fever stages by Escherichia coli, and to provide disease models for related studies of Mongolian"Nian"nature abdominal tingle, immature and mature fever syndromes. Methods: 16 rabbits were randomly divided into experimental group(8 rabbits)and control group(8 rabbits), the experimental group was intraperitoneally injected 1 ml Escherichia coli(3×108/ml), and injected four enterocoelia points to establish model, the control group was injected with saline. The body temperatures of two groups were continuously measured, and the general conditions, symptoms were observed and compared. Results: The body temperature in the experimental group rapidly rose after modeling 70 minutes, about 80 minutes reached high fever, the high fever lasted about 240 minutes, and after 380 minutes, the temperature began to drop slowly to the basal body temperature level. In the process of fever, the mental condition, activity, fever, chill, hair, fleece, breath, heartbeat, ear, blood vessels of ear edge, eye, nose, tongue, eating and drinking, urine color, urine odor, fecal color, odor and hardness and so on were regularly changed. The symptoms appeared in temperature rise period accorded with the immature stages of Mongolian medicine"Yin"nature warm disease, and the symptoms appeared in fever platform period accorded with the mature stages. There were significant differences between two groups. Conclusion: The symptoms of rabbit fever model established by intraperitoneal injection of Escherichia coli accord with the immature and mature stages of Mongolian medicine"Yin"nature warm disease, and can be used to study related Mongolian medicine"Nian"nature abdominal tingle in immature and mature fever period.


The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of chronic, debilitating, and poverty-promoting parasitic, bacterial, and some viral and fungal infections, are among the most common causes of illness of the poorest people living in developing countries. Abiotic environmental factors are important in determining the distribution of disease-causing vectors and their life-cycles. HyspIRI observations can be merged through a Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) be used to drive spatially-explicit ecological models of NTD vectors distribution & life cycles. Assimilations will be driven by observational data LDAS and satellite-derived meteorological forcing data, parameter datasets, and assimilation observations. HyspIRI hyperspectral measurements would provide global measurements of surface mineralogy and biotic crusts important in accessing the impact of dust in human health. HyspIRI surface thermal measurements would also help identify the variability of dust sources due to surface moisture conditions and map mineralogy.


Chiral a,@-unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones are highly reactive and highly diastereoselective dienophiles in Diels-Alder reactions promoted by dialkylaluminum chlorides. A cationic Lewis acid-dienophile complex is proposed to account for the observed exceptional reactivity and endo/exo selectivities. Acrylate and (E)-crotonate carboximides bearing phenylalaninol-derived oxazolidinones undergo rapid and selective cycloadditions with the relatively unreactive dienes isoprene and piperylene at temperatures as low as -100 OC. Intramolecular cycloadditions of (E,E)-2,7,9-decatrienimides and (E,E)-2,8,10-~ndecatrienimides proceed with high diastereoface selectivity and virtually complete endo/exo selectivity. In all cases, high yields of diastereomerically homogeneous products may be obtained by simple recrystallization or silica gel chromatography. Nondestructive chiral auxiliary removal is facile with even the most sterically hindered Diels-Alder adducts. The enhanced diastereoselectivities observed in Diels-Alder reactions of phenylalaninol-derived dienophiles are shown not to be steric in origin but a result of electronic interactions involving the phenyl ring. The technique employed to expose this electronic effect, comparison of diastereoselectivities in analogous alkylation and Diels-Alder reactions, directly provides transition-state structural information.


New York City bears the almost inconceivable burden of keeping billions of wheels rolling through its 6,033 miles of streets, despite gigantic structural metamorphoses, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, and constant repairs to the street system. The article presents the twentieth century history of New York City street movement; it discusses the present traffic program; it looks at what is being done in enforcement; and examines plans for future traffic control.


The canopy of individual trees has a negative affect on the accumulation of snow around tree boles, resulting in a decrease in snow depth inward from the edge of the canopy to the tree trunk. The relationship between the canopy and the distribution of snow depth has been modeled in various methods, including a Monte Carlo technique, and incorporate factors such as snow-ground interface temperature, air temperature, and shape of the tree well profile. The influence of trees on snow distribution has an effect on the total volume of water available in the snowpack of a forest stand and is important when determining the overall water budget of the forest. Experiments were conducted during the winter of 2007 near Cameron Pass, Colorado to investigate variations in snowpack characteristics between individual conifer trees and adjacent forest clearings. Measurements of depth, density, snow profile temperature and snow water equivalent (SWE) were taken in eight cardinal directions around ten trees (five Picea engelmanii, four Abies lasiocarpa and one Pinus contorta) and in the clearing to determine a) if there are significant variations in these characteristics around an individual conifer with respect to direction, b) how these characteristics (namely SWE) compare with those in the opening, and c) what correlations can be made between SWE around an individual tree and SWE at the stand scale. Underlying the snow measurements are auxiliary tree data, including diameter at breast height, estimated tree height, distance of canopy edge from the tree bole, ele- vation, and distance as well as direction to neighboring trees. Meteorological data from the adjacent Natural Resources Conservation Service Joe Wright SNOTEL sta- tion were used to evaluate consistency and reliability of the data.


In the December 1997 issue, a report by Desrosiers et al. (2) described a novel herpesvirus in rhesus macaques (named RRV for rhesus rhadinovirus) with similarity to human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8 or KSHV for Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus). In this article the authors listed various diseases that occur in macaques, including lymphomas and lymphoproliferative diseases, and speculated that "a causative role for RRV in these or other diseases would greatly facilitate studies of pathogenesis and vaccine and drug development." Earlier the same year another report, by Rose et al. (4), described molecular sequences of two gammaherpesviruses in macaques associated with a proliferative disease in macaques called retroperitoneal fibromatosis (RF). This article also described the close genetic similarities between these new viruses (called RFHV for RF-associated herpesvirus) and HHV-8. HHV-8 is strongly implicated as a necessary cofactor in human Kaposi's sarcoma (reference 1 and references therein). Therefore, availability of a monkey model in which pathogenesis with related viruses can be studied could prove to be very valuable. It is important to properly describe the genetic and functional relationships between these gammaherpesviruses. A comparative analysis of the available sequences is presented here.

In comparing the published sequences from RFHVMn, RFHVMm (RFHV variants from Macaca nemestrina and Macaca mulatta, respectively) and RRV, we noticed that contrary to our expectations RRV is not identical to RFHVMm despite the fact that both are gammaherpesviruses found in rhesus macaques. This finding has prompted us to evaluate the phylogenetic relationships between these three gammaherpesviruses from macaques and other gammaherpesviruses. Tables Tables11 and and22 list nucleotide and amino acid sequence identities between fragments of the DNA polymerase and glycoprotein B gene fragments of primate gammaherpesviruses, including the newly described RFHVMm, RFHVMn, and RRV. Based on these comparisons, HHV-8 appears to be more closely related to RFHVMm and RFHVMn than to RRV.

TABLE 1

Nucleotide and amino acid identities between DNA polymerase gene fragments of primate gammaherpesviruses

TABLE 2

Nucleotide and amino acid identities between glycoprotein B gene fragments (319 bp) of primate gammaherpesviruses

In Fig. Fig.11 and and22 we present phylogenetic trees based on the same nucleotide sequences as used in Table Table1,1, generated using the programs PROTDIST and NEIGHBOR (neighbor-joining method) from the Phylip package for computerized phylogenetic analysis (University of Washington, Seattle). In this tree, RFHVMm and RFHVMn cluster with HHV-8, whereas RRV branches off independently. Numbers at the branch points indicate bootstrap values obtained through implementation of the SEQBOOT and CONSENSE programs of the Phylip package. Despite the limited amount of sequence information, these values show that the branch points for RFHVMm and RFHVMm, HHV-8, and RRV can be reliably assigned, at least for the DNA polymerase gene sequences. The tree based on the glycoprotein B sequences has a topology similar to the DNA polymerase tree.

FIG. 1

Phylogenetic tree of selected herpesvirus DNA polymerase gene fragments. Abbreviations: EHV-2, equine herpesvirus 2; HVS, herpesvirus saimiri; MHV68, murine herpesvirus 68; EBV, Epstein-Barr virus; HSV-1, herpes simplex virus type 1; CMV, human cytomegalovirus. ...

FIG. 2

Phylogenetic tree of selected herpesvirus glycoprotein B gene fragments. See legend to Fig. Fig.11 for abbreviations. GenBank accession numbers for RFHVMm and RFHVMn glycoprotein B gene sequences are {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"AF061447","term_id":"3850989","term_text":"AF061447"}} ...

These data suggest the existence of two phylogenetically distinct groups of gammaherpesviruses in macaques, both of which are related to HHV-8. Based on the limited sequence comparisons presented here, the members of the RFHV group seem most closely related to HHV-8 and more sequence information in particular from the RFHV variants is needed to confirm this observation. Both RFHV variants were first detected in tissue sections from macaque RF. Similarities between RF and Kaposi's sarcoma have been noted in the past (3), with the suggestion that RF in macaques could serve as a useful animal model to study Kaposi's sarcoma pathogenesis. The high degree of similarity between HHV-8 and both RFHV variants supports that observation. At this point, no disease has been described in association with RRV and it will be interesting to see whether RRV infection in macaques is associated with pathogenesis related to that seen associated with HHV-8 infection in humans.


In RC frame buildings, there are mainly two structural systems, Primary structural system and secondary structural system. The primary structural system to resist lateral load are beams and columns. Besides, primary structural system, some elements also contribute to lateral load resistance. These elements fall in the category of secondary systems. Secondary system can be structural secondary like staircase, structural partition etc and non-structural secondary like storage tanks, machinery etc A special case of structural secondary members which are normally designed for non seismic force are concrete staircase. There exist a large number of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings that are gravity load designed and constructed in actual seismic areas. Many of these structures were constructed in areas that are not considered seismic at the construction time or although they were located in seismic areas at that time, the earlier codes did not include seismic provisions or may have specified lower levels of seismic loads. Due to the high cost of replacement, many old structures are still in service far beyond their design life. Besides, gravity load designed structures may perform in a no-ductile manner with dangerous modes of failure. Before the 1980's the design of the structure, both in seismic and in non seismic area, did not consider the presence of the stair, although the stair offers a higher strength and stiffness influencing considerably the distribution of seismic forces. It is well known that the stair could be a vulnerable part of the structure attracting the seismic action; in the meanwhile its stiffness could preserve the structure from collapse if it was adequately designed and built. If the stair is not well designed it can lead the structure to collapse, in particular if only gravity loads are considered into the design or the reinforcement detailing is not adequate.


This research is aimed at finding the throughput rate of convoy movement in a transportation network. The primary goal of the study is first to find the throughput rate that will facilitate an estimate of the time to logistically deploy one unit, omnidirectionally (radially), to different localities during different elapsed times. The concept of average speed on a linked road is used to estimate the throughput rate of the vehicles. Several models for physical boundary conditions have been established to estimate the turning delay time in a convoy movement through streets in an urban environment under different conditions of road geometry. Special cases are also evaluated to study the capability of the general models. As a primary emphasis of the study, delay time at a turning is modeled to estimate the individual arc capacity and linked-arcs capacity. A model to estimate the average velocity in a linked road is developed to determine the average throughput rate of a route for a convoy movement. In all modeling approaches, detailed descriptions of the derivations are illustrated with numerical examples and figures.


This paper estimates the costs of implementing a broad ranging set of conservation practices on Iowa's landscape. A water quality model is combined with economic cost estimates to predict the improved water quality and costs associated with this set of conservation practices identified


This article aims at discerning struggles accomplished by the novel's central female character Maria for transforming her mediocre life into a better one. Her notion of making a better life, as she trusts, is through earning a substantial amount of money after working the assigned tasks decently and convivially regardless the nature of the tasks. Her journey from her nation Brazil to an alien nation Switzerland indicates her resilient determination for a hard struggle for the betterment of her life. Her encounters with ups and downs, and cheers and tears during her chores in diverse fields make her realize the reality of life through her perception of the essence of true love, fake love, body and soul. This article is grounded on a qualitative analytical research in which the primary data that are qualitative or nominal in nature are taken from the novel under study, whereas the secondary data are extracted from other related books and journal articles. Its conclusion based on Maria's journey, deeds and hardship suggests that life is full of struggles; and it is quite necessary to move up the stairs of hardship to raise the level of life. Money, though it is not an end, is one of the momentous means of transforming a lowly life into a better one to some extent.


The construct of intelligibility in L2 speech has primarily been operationalized functionally in terms of speech being classified as intelligible if the listeners successfully recovered the intended message (Munro & Derwing, 1995). In this paper, I will operationalize intelligibility psycholinguistically in terms of spoken word recognition. We do not need to invoke any special machinery for intelligibility in bilinguals; monolinguals and bilinguals process speech in the same way (Libben, 2000; Libben & Goral, 2015). Listeners have to segment the speech stream and the parser maps the phonetic elements onto higher-level linguistic representations such as phonemes, syllable nodes and metrical feet. The role of experience in the listener is modelled analogously to high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) via broadening the prior likelihood (in a Bayesian sense) of the mapping of an L2 phone onto an extant phonological category. I conclude by discussing pedagogic implications, and suggesting that pedagogic models that advocate a single non-native variety of English, which will be intelligible to all ears (i.e. parsable by all grammars), are problematic psycholinguistically.


Based on the rate equations, the hyperchaos of two-section semiconductor laser has been studied and the condition of hyperchaos has been presented. We realize the synchronization of chaos using the chaotic driving method, and also find the parameter′s range for hyperchaotic synchronization through calculating the relationship between the maximum conditional Lyapunov exponents and the driving intensity.


This article outlines the history of American nationalism and analyzes the reasons for its recent increase. The paper describes the benefits and dangers of American nationalism for the United States and the world. It identifies the decreasing share of the American middle class and the increasing minority population as the reasons for the recent rise of American nationalism. This study is based on the research method of literature review. Data sources included books from John Fousek, which argue for the merging of American nationalism and American international intervention in the Cold War. This study also cites several Trump speeches to argue for Trump's nationalist tendencies and Trump's contribution to American nationalism. This study outlines the journey of American nationalism from its origins in opposition to British colonial rule to its legitimization of American expansion into the West and its merging with American international interventionism during the Cold War. It discusses the reasons for the recent extremes of American nationalism due to the shrinking American middle class and the growth of ethnic minorities. The recent rise of extreme nationalism around the world has exacerbated conflicts within and between many countries and has threatened world peace and the democracy of various countries. The significance of this study is to outline nationalism in the United States, explain the reasons for the rise of nationalism in the United States, and warn of the dangers of extreme nationalism in the United States and around the world.


Of the various preservative treatment compositions tried on experimental mild steel rods held in the open and required for use in re-enforcement, a mixture of 2 parts of cement +1 part of paint (Paint P.F.U. Priming G.S. Brushing Red Oxide of Iron Zinc Chromate, IHA-0541) has been found satisfactory, as revealed from exposure trials carried out for 4 months, during which the treatment has withstood the severe rains and humid conditions.


The present global situation of COVID-19 pandemic has broke through regional, revolutionary, philosophical, spiritual, social, and educational barriers. By utilizing an interconnection of network, an Internet of Things enabled medical system is useful for regular monitoring of COVID-19 patients. It also aids in improving patient experience and reducing re-hospitalizations. The arrival of the IoT has effect on reducing healthcare costs and enhancing the treatment outcome of affected patients. As a result, the goal of this study is to analyze and emphasize the overall applicability of the well-established IoT concept by providing a conceptual outlay to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2023 Author(s).


Abstract Because the slag can be a major source of soil and groundwater pollution, understanding the release and leaching behavior of hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)], from chromium-containing slag is critical. We report Cr(VI) behavior after static and dynamic leaching from chromium-containing slag deposited at a ferro-alloy manufacturing plant in Hunan province, China. Bench-scale experiments indicate that the main factors influencing the dissolution release of Cr(VI) include the solid-liquid ratio, soak time, agitation, acidity, particle size, and water dynamic flow. Based on the parameters obtained from the dynamic leaching experiment, a Cr(VI) release and leaching model was developed and applied to the study area. The model can quantitatively predict the extent of Cr(VI) pollution of soil and groundwater under atmospheric precipitation.


In this paper, a compact planar millimeter-wave diplexer based on GaN-on-Si is proposed. The diplexer is composed of two bandpass filters with enhanced out-of-band suppression. Hybrid resonators constructed by shunt stubs and series interdigital fingers are introduced to design the bandpass filter, which is able to manipulate transmission zeros by tuning the loading stubs, and affect the bandwidth. The diplexer has the operating frequency band of 24.5-27.5 GHz and 37-40 GHz with more than 30 dB suppressions in the stopbands and better than 30 dB output isolation. Besides, the size of the diplexer is about 0.11λ0 × 0.25λ0, where λ0 is the minimum wavelength in the operating frequency band.


Adverse radiation effect (ARE) in the brain is the reactive inflammation, vasculitis, and necrosis that occurs as a complication of radiotherapy. There are two main categories of ARE that result in vasogenic cerebral edema: first, a residual irritant mass of the targeted lesion; and second, radiation-damaged perilesional normal brain tissue in a reactive state. Radiation injury leads to fibrinoid and coagulative necrosis of different cell types and fibrinoid necrosis and hyalinization of vessels. The clinical consequence of ARE is neurologic impairment secondary to vasogenic edema in the normal brain. Neuroimaging may aid in differentiating tumor recurrence from ARE. However, imaging studies are not definitive, and their utility in this setting remains controversial. The management of patients with ARE is dictated by symptom occurrence. The definitive management of symptomatic ARE is craniotomy and resection. Alternative therapies include bevacizumab, laser-interstitial thermal therapy, and reirradiation.


Based on the concept of bounding surface, the bounding surface elastic-plasticity model was developed in the base of Mohr - Column yield function, and the dynamic constitutive model of the roadbed soil was established. The dynamic reflect of the soil was calculated with the model under the earthquake load, the calculation result was compared with the triaxial test result, it was found that the model can simulate the dynamic character of the soil under earthquake load well. The model was implemented into the FEM software-ABAQUS. The dynamic triaxial test result was simulated with a self compiled program, and make comparison to the ABAQUS calculation result with this model, the implementation achievement was proved to be correct. The techniques to perform seismic response analysis of earth dams were introduced taking an idealized model as an example, and it quasi-complement the deficiency of the current design criterion.


Reforming and innovating the talent cultivation model is one of the most important elements in building of model higher vocational colleges.Connected with the building situation and process,the paper discusses the following aspects:the reforming and innovating the talent cultivation model of the study-work combination,building a new curriculum system based on post core competencies cultivation as main contents and taking quality education throughout the entire process,reforming the teaching mode,combining deeply between college and enterprise based on taking the base building of post practice as the carrier,and constructing the teachers team of"dual-qualification"structure.


The difference of allelpphthic effect for 120 accessions of different rice germplasm on barnyardgrass were evaluated by using field test and treatment of leaf extracts.The result showed that there were significantly difference of allelopathic effect potential among rice germplasm groups,especially under the field conditions.The order of control effect on barnyardgrass growth was traditional varietyimproved varietyintroduced foreign varietyhybrid rice,and the value of relative factors of allelpphthic effect on seedling fresh weight and seedling dry weight of barnyardgrass was larger than that of relative factors of seedling height.According to the result of leaves water extract experiment in lab,the control effect of traditional variety on barnyardgrass growth was stronger,although the difference of allelpphthic effect were smaller among rice germplasm groups,and control effect on root length of barnyardgrass was bigger than that on seedling height.The frequency of higher allelopathic varieties in traditional variety was higher than that of other germplasm groups.Therefor it is very important to evaluate the allelpphthic effect of traditional variety in the future.


We have measured the Q branch vibrational Raman cross sections of the hydrogen halide gases HCl, HBr, and HI relative to that of N2. We also measured the variation of the HI cross section as a function of the incident laser frequency. The absence of preresonance behavior in HI suggests that the virtual states primarily responsible for Raman scattering lie near or above the ionization potential. This in turn implies that the variation of the Raman cross section among the hydrogen halide molecules results primarily from a variation in the magnitude of the dipole matrix elements rather than from a variation in the energy of the virtual states involved.


The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon, by Brian E. Vick. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014. 448 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). This engaging work provides an innovative approach to the Congress of Vienna by placing its deliberations in a wider political, cultural, and social context. The author, Brian E. Vick, construes both diplomacy and the Congress in broad terms that encompass the festivals, publications, marketing, salons, and other influences on the Congress' work. His emphasis on "the embeddedness of diplomacy and its actors in the wider and deeper culture and political culture" (330) of the time affords both a better understanding of the Congress' decisions and an opportunity to see a set of issues that have previously evaded the historian's gaze. The result is a fresh account that skillfully historicizes the world of the Congress while also identifying a significant role for diverse historical actors, not least of all women. The book begins with a deft analysis of the broader political field of the Congress era before turning to a series of specific diplomatic battles that Vick presents in a new light. The first three chapters--on festivity and display, the press and the market for memorabilia and entertainment, and salon culture and elite networks--rest on the proposition that neither diplomats nor diplomacy were "set apart from broader society, culture, and ideas" (1). Rather, Vick underscores the utility of opening up the analysis to "the second rank of political actors," including not only diplomats and statesmen but also "the wider society of politically engaged individuals with potential influence on political discourse or political decisions" (7). Vick's exploration of festivals, merchandising, and salon cultures allows us to perceive how the preoccupations of this larger society were crucial in shaping the political settlement that emerged. Here we see a curious combination of the military and the religious, the sublime and the crassly commercial, the courtly and the popular, the medieval and the modern--all shaped by the agency of women as well as men. The intents of those who organized festivities or published pamphlets were often subverted or otherwise altered as their consumers invested those products with their own interpretations. Patriotism and religiosity were not merely sentiments to be cultivated and expressed but also became cultural commodities and multimedia entertainment, with entrepreneurs stepping in to promote forms of politics that still repelled established regimes. Salons brought statesmen and rulers into direct contact with broader publics whose influence on politics proved significant. Turning to specific diplomatic issues, Vick departs from general histories in important ways, though at points he seems more concerned with filling holes than with fundamentally reinterpreting the Congress. He devotes an entire chapter to religious politics, focusing above all on the Jewish question but also exploring the reconstruction of the Catholic Church and the development of religious liberty. Vick detects in these discussions humanitarian arguments and a universalizing language of human rights more developed than one might expect. …


PURPOSE: A hydrogel for wound dressings and a preparation method thereof are provided to be applied to the skin regeneration treatment. CONSTITUTION: A preparation method of a hydrogel for wound dressings comprises: a step of manufacturing an aqueous solution by mixing a biocompatible polymer, a polyhydric alcohol, and beta-glucan; a step of molding the manufactured aqueous solution in a gel state sheet form; a step of packing the manufactured sheet; and a step of radiating radiation to the packed sheet. The content of the biocompatible polymer is 1-50 weight%. The content of the polyhydric alcohol is 1-20 weight%. The content of beta-glucan is 1-10 weight%.


In this article, conductive composite foams were developed by in situ polymerization of aniline on polyurethane (PU) foam. After the polyaniline (PANI) deposition process on the interior surfaces of the porous PU foams, the nonconductive PU foams became conductive composites. The morphology of coating has been observed by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The PANI-coated foam has been characterized chemically by means of energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) and spectrometric analyses. The thermal characterization has been carried out by means of differential scanning calorimetery (DSC). The developed PANI-coated foam was subjected to compression tests in Zwick/Roell tensile tester, and electrical resistance was recorded during the tests to study the pressure-sensing mechanism. The stability of the developed sensor was characterized with respect to temperature and humidity using programmable environmental test chamber. The SEM studies revealed the deposition of PANI onto the PU surface, and the presence of sulfur content in PANI-coated foam was found through EDX analysis. The treated foam showed increase in light absorption during spectrometric analysis. From DSC studies, it was found that there is reduction in the melting temperature of PU foam after PANI coating. The conductive foam exhibited varying electrical properties with respect to compression. It was found that a linear relationship existed between change in electrical resistance and applied pressure up to 100 N/m2, and the changes are less beyond this, making it suitable for pressure sensor applications for 0–100 N/m2 pressure range.


(a) Texas Education Code (TEC), §31.002, defines instructional materials as content that conveys the essential knowledge and skills of a subject in the public school curriculum through a medium or a combination of media for conveying information to a student. The term includes a book; supplementary materials; a combination of a book, workbook, and supplementary materials; computer software; magnetic media; DVD; CD-ROM; computer courseware; on-line services; or an electronic medium or other means of conveying information to the student or otherwise contributing to the learning process through electronic means, including open education resource [open-source] instructional material.


The box says that my son's breakfast cereal "may help lower cholesterol." I reflected, as I watched him eat, that this would be false only if a randomised trial had been conducted and the confidence intervals for cholesterol reduction had excluded a clinically relevant effect. Even then …


not only of the three sponsoring international organizations and their goals but also of the varying concerns with direct practice, education, policy and politics in many parts of the world. These endeavors reflect my own view of the meaning of the word &dquo;international.&dquo; If I have succeeded; at least occasionally, to widen horizons, to shake preconceived assumptions and to challenge traditional points of view while at the same


Some digital signal processing applications, such as FFT's, request multiplications with a group (or, groups) of a few predetermined coefficients. In this paper, based on the variation of the modified Booth encoding method, an efficient modified Booth multiplier design method for predetermined coefficient groups is proposed. In the case of pulse-shaping filter design used in CDMA, it is shown that by the proposed method, area and power consumption can be reduced up to 44% and 48%, respectively, compared with the conventional designs. Also, it is shown that in the case of 128-point radix-24 FFT, the area and power consumption can be reduced by 18% and 36%, respectively


A 41-year-old man was referred for radiofrequency catheter ablation of recurrent AV reciprocating tachycardia. An ECG recorded 6 years earlier had demonstrated delta waves consistent with a left lateral accessory pathway; however, recent ECGs demonstrated no evidence of preexcitation. In the electrophysiology laboratory, 2:t accessory pathway conduction was present during atrial pacing at cycle lengths between 590 and 400 msec (Fig. 1). Preexcitation was never observed at cycle lengths longer than 590 msec or shorter than 400 msec. Single atrial extrastimuli resulted in preexcitation at coupling intervals between 600 and 350 msec (Fig. 2). What is the mechanism of intermittent preexcitation in this patient?


Chinese population is numerous. Energy resources are limited. The ownership of per capita resource is far lower than the world average level. China is in the process of industrialization and urbanization, but energy resources are consumed and environmental pollution is serious. The energy crisis and environmental protection has restricted our country economy development and social harmony. As a source of energy consumption and environmental pollution, power industry is one of the important fields of energy saving and emission reduction. The reasonable power dispatch is the breakthrough to reduce the energy consumption and environmental pollution. In this paper, we first introduce some operations on interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, such as Heronian mean (HM) operator and Dombi operations, etc., and further develop the induced interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy Dombi weighted Heronian mean (I-IVIFDWHM) operator. We also establish some desirable properties of this operator, such as commutativity, idempotency and monotonicity. Then, we apply the I-IVIFDWHM operator to deal with the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problems. Finally, an illustrative example for evaluating the energy-saving and economic operation of power systems is given to verify the developed approach.


Facial injuries are the most disturbing situations in pediatric patients. The treatment options for the traumatic injuries in pediatric group is controversial as any surgical intervention in young children may disturb the jaw growth or may even cause damage to the tooth buds in the jaws. The anatomical complexity and the high osteogenic potential of the bones in growing children allows successful outcome of conservative approaches for facial bone fractures. This case report documents successful conservative management of mandibular parasymphysis fracture using Lateral Compression Open Cap Splint (MacLennan) in 3 year old patient.


This work analyzes the character actor's method in the cinematographic character's construction. Aiming at expanding to enlarge the studies of actor as film form, in consonance to the construction of the mise-en-scène. And to contemplate that mark, the study corpus it is the British actor's Daniel Day-Lewis game in six films, and they are them: My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989), In the Name of The Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993), Gangs of New York (Martin Scorcese, 2002), The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller, 2005), There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) and Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012). It is intended, with the analyses, to understand the method of performance and the actor's persona and consequently her influence in the construction of the mise-en-scène, revisiting, also, the actor-acteur's theory.


The soaring popularity of business practices in the social sector has elicited numerous calls from academics and practitioners to adopt appropriate methodologies to quantify and compare social value creation. Contributing scholars consider it a great if not impossible challenge to compare social value creation of different, unrelated heterogonous interventions. We help bridge this research gap by developing a conceptual framework that allows us to compare the effectiveness of social interventions serving the different needs of different treatment groups in different socioeconomic and institutional contexts. We do so by bringing insights from both the literature on subjective well-being and the literature on organizational effectiveness theory into not-for-profit and social entrepreneurship research, as well as into the literature on program evaluation.


The paper presents an attempt to formulate a new approach to the problem of predictive assessment of the reliability indices of different types of electric vehicles based on a universal stochastic model of the operations of electric drive vehicle, which practically can be applied to implement of modern maintenance strategies for any kind of electrical transport to improve its reliability, safety and fault tolerance.


FIELD: engines and pumps. SUBSTANCE: proposed system comprises flow solid catalyst carrier with multiple channels. Every said channel extends from inlet opening beginning to its end. Note here that first section of said channels is coated by first three-component catalyst capable of accumulating oxygen, while second their section is coated with second three-component catalyst with decreasing ability of oxygen accumulation or without such ability. Said system comprises also one oxygen pickup arranged to interact with, in fact, solely with exhaust gases that interacted before with three-component catalyst of decreased ability of oxygen accumulation without said ability. EFFECT: stoichiometrically balanced exhaust gas composition.


In this project it is addressed the problem of binary classi…cation i.e. we want to …nd a model F : X! f0; 1g for the dependence of a class c on x from a set of samples D = fct;xtgt=1 with ct 2 f0; 1g. The approach is to combine multiple base learners with the use of probabilistic models. In particular, I used the methodology presented by Ghersen…eld for doing regression in complex time series[1], but adapting it for classi…cation, which I called Cluster Weighted Classi…cation (CWC). I present the resulting methodology, highligthing the main changes that had to be done for the adaptation. The …nal algorithm is then tested with benchmark datasets[2][3] and compared against the results obtained with some of the algorithms developed so far. Finally I used the probabilistic language used in the methodology to try to theoretically compare CWC against the boosting algorithms. 1 Introduction In this project it is addressed the problem of binary classi…cation i.e. we want to …nd a model F : X! f0; 1g for the dependence of a class c on x from a set of samples D = fct;xtgt=1 with ct 2 f0; 1g. The approach is to combine multiple base learners with the use of probabilistic models. In particular, I used the methodology presented by Gershenfeld et. al. for doing regression in complex time series[1], but adapting it for classi…cation, which I called Cluster Weighted Classi…cation (CWC)1. The 1This is a continuation of the project that I made last quarter for the class CS242. That project was mainly about the application of boosting methods to address the Machine Learning Contest and the …rst step towards the implementation of this methodology.


AIM: To evaluate the efficacy of levocarnitine in treating patients with acute exacerbation of chronic pulmonary heart disease.METHODS: 126 patients were divided into two groups randomly:60 patients in control group were treated with conventional therapy for inhalling oxygen,controlling infection,relieving asthma,expelling phlegm and diuresis;66 patients in test group were treated with 3 g/d levocarnitine,i.v.drip for 14 days in addition to conventional therapy.RESULTS: The total effective rate in test group was superior to that of control group(P0.01).The arterial blood gases,cardiac index,ejection fraction and right ventricular internal diameter were improved significantly(P0.01) in two groups.The test group was remarkably improved compared with control group after treatment(P0.01).CONCLUSION: Levocarnitine is effective in treating patients with acute exacerbation of chronic pulmonary heart disease.


In this paper we introduce results from the analysis of the acoustic signal obtained from the experiments realized in non-homogeneous electric field. We analyzed the acoustic signal from the acoustic sensor in audible band. The acoustic signal transmitted from the object is unique for specific conditions. Exploitation of the audible band for the PD detection is difficult in outdoor bias level. The advantage of this method consists in simple results evaluation and also in the fact that it is not needful galvanic connection with the measured specimen. Słowa kluczowe: aktywność wyładowań, izolacja elektryczna, szum akustyczny.


The classic approach to the construction of a mathematical model to simulate traffic movements in a dense road aetwork, such as a Central Business District (CBD), includes the need to prepare a complete Origin Destination (O-D) matrix of vehicle trips into and through the network. Subsequent steps in the model deal with the coding of the road network and the assignment of the 0-D matrix onto the network. The acquisition of reliable origin destination data to create the 0-D matrix is very often a tedious and costly exercise The use of traffic count information as an alternative method of 0-D data creation needs consideration. Using the Simulation and Assignment of Traffic in Urban Road Network (SATURN) suite of computer programs, the task of simulating the prevailing traffic conditions may be considerably facilitated and hence reducing the cost of a traffic study in a CBD area. The present project report deals with that particular issue in the context of a small CBD in South Africa. The results show that saving can be achieved in the data collection.


Objective To evaluate that Tramadol use to substitute Morphine after the Cesarean Section at patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is useful. Methods 60 ASA Ⅰ~Ⅱ pregnant women is full due date, at epidural analgesia to have Caesar, were allocated into three groups (n=20 in each)at the time after the operation. Group Ⅰ (No PCEA) pull out the epidural tube then send back ward. Group Ⅱ (PCEA use Morphine) 0.15% Bupivicaine+Morphine0.05mg/ml+Droperido10.05mg/ml; GroupⅢ(PCEAuse Tramadol) 0.15% Bupivicaine+Tramado12mg/ml+ Droperidol 0.05mg/ml. Two groups all arrange the load amount is 10ml, the continuous amount is 2ml/h PCA is 0.5ml/time, the lock time is fifteen minutes. Record the maximal pain score by VAS, the height of womb, the amount of milk secretion. Record the maximal satisfaction score by VCS, the time of first milk, the time of peristalsis recover, the number of times of PCA and the uncomfortable of patient's feeling, Results Statistically significant different was found between the Group Ⅰ to Group Ⅱ and Group Ⅲ in respect to the result of pain controlled, the maximal VCS score, the time of first milk, the amount of milk secretion in 24 hours, the time of peristalsis recover. (P0.05). And no statistically significant difference was found between the Group Ⅱ and Group Ⅲ in respect to the result of pain controlled (P0.05). 3 patients were found somnolence in Group Ⅱ(15%), 3 patients were found itch at skin in Group Ⅲ(15%), and Group Ⅲ found none, there are statistically significant different was found between the two groups(P0.05). The other side effects such as nausea / vomiting respiratory depression and gastric distention were similar between the two groups. Conclusions Tramadol was to substitute Morphine after the Cesarean Section at PCEA is useful and safe.


Forging New Links Ajoy Gupta ALL over South-Last Asia today, there is a feeling of uncertainty and apprehension about the immediate future, ft is not a feeling of desperation or of impending danger, but an undercurrent of insecurity and future instability. Consequent upon the UK decision to leave this region by 1971 and the Paris talks for settlement of the Vietnam problem, these countries have to solve their complex problems of political and economic security either by themselves or by mutual help and co-operation.


It is reported the anesthetic protocol used for two dogs subjected to thoracic wall resection due to neoplasms at the Roque Quagliato Veterinary Hospital, University Center of Integrated Faculties of Ourinhos, Sao Paulo. A female Poodle aged 10 years and a male rottweiler aged 1.25 years were anesthetized with isoflurane, local anesthesia of respectively six and seven intercostal spaces using 2% lidocaine and 0.5% bupivacaine, and continuous rate infusion of morphine (0.1 mg/kg/h), lidocaine (50 μg/kg/minute) and midazolam (0.1 mg/kg/h). Postoperatively, both animals received epidural morphine at 0.2 mg/kg and fentanyl at 2 μg/kg in 0.9% NaCl for a total volume of 0.3 mL/kg. A wound soaker catheter was left in place during the subsequent 48 hours for administration of lidocaine and bupivacaine at a total of one toxic dose for each day, divided into five applications. Postoperative prescription comprised tramadol at 4 mg/kg and metamizole at 25 mg/kg every eight hours for seven days, and meloxicam 0.1 mg/kg every 24 hours for three days. Both dogs recovered quietly from anesthesia and no signs of pain were detected during the next seven days. This anesthetic protocol is recommended for thoracic wall resection in dogs.


In this paper, we present a novel dual-polarized frequency selective rasorber. Based on an equivalent circuit model, the operation principle and design method are studied and analyzed. The rasorber exhibits an absorption band between two transmission bands. The lossy layer is achieved by introducing four resistors into a square loop slot, which contributes to the absorption band from 4.08GHz to 9.84GHz. The bottom layer is configured with a square loop slot with parasitic U-slots. Simulations are carried out and show that. From outside to inside, under the normal incidence, the insertion loss of the rasorber is about -1.23dB at 3.68GHz and -1.65dB at 9.22 GHz. In the meantime, the reflection is less than -10dB from 4.08GHz to 9.84GHz, a relative bandwidth of 83%. From inside to outside, the structure behaves as a dual-band pass filter. The insertion loss of the rasorber performance is about -1.25dB at 3.66GHz and the other one is about -1.47dB at 9.28GHz. For the two cases of oblique incidence of 30°, the rasorber can still maintain a good performance. Therefore, the proposed rasorber has a good application prospect in broadband stealth equipment with duplex communication.


We characterise the magnetism of self-assembled FenN nanocrystals, combining core level spectroscopy with first-principles theory. Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases are found, which are magnetically ordered at room temperature.


She mentions that everyone is doing well and was happy to hear that the Moore's were doing well also. She mentions that although it has been raining the crops are still drying up.They finished what thrashing and have about 900 bushels. She then says that Sissie with have good company with Dinkie and the children. On the other side is a letter from William Dodd. He mentions that they have had very dry weather and is hurting the crops. Althought the thrashing of the wheat went well and they will be able to get a good price on it.


In the studies on dissociation patterns of clusters using a single focusing mass spectrometer, product ions decomposed between a main slit and an entrance of a magnet appear in mass spectra at mass Map= Mpro2/Mpre, whereMpro denotes the mass of product ions and Mpre; mass of precursor ions. In the case of decomposition from cluster size nto n-m(n>m), the product ions appear at size of (n-m)2/n. When n is much larger than m, (n-m)2/n is very close to (n-2m), and it is difficult to resolve the dissociated n and undissociat ed (n-2m) cluster ions. In order to study on decomposition patterns of clusters, we attached the TOF function to the sector type mass spectrometer and detected product ions. We attached the chopper in front of the main slit to get the pulsed beam and use silver clusters as the sample.


With the rapid development of economy and the emergence of all types of schools,.The competitiveness of unversities becomes a matter of survival.This paper attempts to analyze the connotations of the core competitiveness of universities and propose strategies as to how to update ideas concerning school management,capability of education and integrating resources with the aim to enhance the core competitiveness.


The rapid expansion of automated digital data processing has created a need for low-cost analog data acquisition, display and control equipment. This implies low-cost D/A and A/D conversion equipment. This paper describes the resulting family of linear integrated circuits satisfying this need.


1 Acknowledgments The permission of the Australian Statistician to use confidentialised data from the federal government's Business Longitudinal Survey, and to publish findings based on analysis of that data, is gratefully acknowledged. Responsibility for interpretation of the findings lies solely with the author. Abstract The principal objectives in this paper are to compare and contrast marketing management practices for a longitudinal sample of 871 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Australian manufacturing sector that have embarked upon different development pathways; and to examine possible connections between SME growth and the choice of marketing management practices. The results indicate that the marketing management practices that appear to have a strong positive relationship with growth are: a product orientation, use of budget (sales) forecasting, use of formal strategic or business plans, performance comparisons with other businesses and use of formal networking. The findings generally do not support prescribing the marketing concept as it applies to large companies but do tend to support Carson and Gilmore's (2000) Situation Specific Marketing concept as it applies to SMEs. The findings also tend to suggest that, in the SME context, network marketing should be incorporated into the traditional marketing paradigm rather than displacing it as part of the relational marketing paradigm.


This paper describes the teaching of an immersive environments class on the Spring of 2011. The class had students from undergraduate as well as graduate art related majors. Their digital background and interests were also diverse. These variables were channeled as different approaches throughout the semester. Class components included fundamentals of stereoscopic computer graphics to explore spatial depth, 3D modeling and skeleton animation to in turn explore presence, exposure to formats like a stereo projection wall and dome environments to compare field of view across devices, and finally, interaction and tracking to explore issues of embodiment. All these components were supported by theoretical readings discussed in class. Guest artists presented their work in Virtual Reality, Dome Environments and other immersive formats. Museum professionals also introduced students to space science visualizations, which utilize immersive formats. Here I present the assignments and their outcome, together with insights as to how the creation of immersive environments can be learned through constraints that expose students to situations of embodied cognition.


The inclusive production of light mesons in pp-scattering is considered in the framework of reggeon phenomenology with supercritical Pomeron. Available low-energy data can be explained with three reggeon particles taken into account. With the obtained results rapidity and pseudorapidity distributions for light-meson production at LHC energies are predicted.