This report was produced at the request of ABB Robotics and the work was conducted at their facilities in Vasteras, Sweden.In the development of industrial robots the structures are slimmed to incr ...


Location-based encryption enhances security through integration of location data which is based on Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates into encryption and decryption processes. It allows data to be decrypted only at specific location(s) or within a specific area. However, this approach strictly relies on self-checked location data which can be easily bypassed. In this paper, we present an analysis of the security of the existing location-based key exchange methods together with our proposed improvements. Furthermore, we propose a novel method based on the existence of a Trusted Third Party (TTP). A TTP is an entity trusted by both sides and the location tracking is entrusted to a TTP rather than a client. We also demonstrate a working proof-of-concept for the proposed approach.


The dynamic properties of a styrene (S)-methyl methacrylate (MMA) diblock copolymer in semidilute solutions of toluene have been investigated by quasi-elastic light scattering. One relaxation mode has been found in the low-concentration regime near the overlap concentration C*. This mode is identified as the cooperative mode which is observed in semidilute solutions of the equivalent polystyrene (PS) homopolymer. A second mode appears simultaneously at higher concentrations. This slower diffusive mode is ascribed to the diffusion of the center of mass of the clusters formed by the copolymer molecules. The fast structural mode which is predicted by the theory1–3 is not observed. It is suggested that this mode, which must have a small amplitude, is hidden by the other two relaxation modes.


Adolescent eating disorder symptoms, depression and anxiety, the impact of their symptoms on their parents, and parental self-efficacy were assessed before beginning family-based day hospital treatment, and at 3 and 6 months post-assessment. Parents' self-efficacy increased during the first 3 months of treatment, and their knowledge and confidence in their effectiveness against the eating disorder continued to increase between 3 and 6 months post-assessment. Adolescent eating disorder symptoms, depression and anxiety, and the impact of the symptoms on their parents decreased between 3 and 6 months post-assessment. The results suggest that family-based treatment can be adapted to day hospital programmes for adolescents. The results also provide preliminary support for a treatment duration of at least 6 months.


Operative neuromodulation is the field of electrically or chemically altering the signal transmission in the nervous system by implanted devices in order to excite, inhibit or tune the activities of neurons or neural networks to produce therapeutic effects. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an important component of the therapy of movement disorders and has almost completely replaced high-frequency coagulation of brain tissue in stereotactic neurosurgery. This article presents the first DBS cases in Slovenia. In the article the technical features and adjustments of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and development of a new microdrive, which was clinically successfully tested, are described and discussed.


The Deep Learning (DL) on Supercomputers workshop provides a forum for practitioners working on any and all aspects of DL for science and engineering in the High Performance Computing (HPC) context to present their latest research results and development, deployment, and application experiences. The general theme of this workshop series is the intersection of DL and HPC; the theme of this particular workshop is the applications of DL methods in science and engineering: novel uses of DL methods, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), generative adversarial networks (GAN), and reinforcement learning (RL), in the natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering, to enhance innovative applications of DL in traditional numerical computation. Its scope encompasses application development in scientific scenarios using HPC platforms; DL methods applied to numerical simulation; fundamental algorithms, enhanced procedures, and software development methods to enable scalable training and inference; hardware changes with impact on future supercomputer design; and machine deployment, performance evaluation, and reproducibility practices for DL applications with an emphasis on scientific usage. This workshop will be centered around published papers. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published as part of the Joint Workshop Proceedings by Springer. Topics include but are not limited to: • DL as a novel approach of scientific computing – Emerging scientific applications driven by DL methods – Novel interactions between DL and traditional numerical simulation – Effectiveness and limitations of DL methods in scientific research – Algorithms and procedures to enhance reproducibility of scientific DL applications • DL for Science workflows – Data management through the life cycle of scientific DL applications – DL performance evaluation and analysis on deployed systems • Scalable DL methods to address the challenges of demanding scientific applications – General algorithms and procedures for efficient and scalable DL training – General algorithms and systems for large scale model serving for scientific use cases – New software, and enhancements to existing software, for scalable DL – DL communication optimization at scale – I/O optimization for DL at scale – DL performance modeling and tuning of DL on supercomputers – DL benchmarks on supercomputers • Novel hardware designs for more efficient DL – Processors, accelerators, memory hierarchy, interconnect changes with impact on DL in the HPC context As part of the reproducibility initiative, the workshop will require authors to provide information such as the algorithms, software releases, datasets, and hardware configurations used. For performance evaluation studies, we will encourage authors to use well-known benchmarks or applications with open accessible datasets: for example, MLPerf (https://github.com/mlperf/training) and ResNet-50 with the ImageNet-1K dataset (http://www.imagenet.org/archive/stanford/fall11 whole.tar).


Cased well sidetracking technology is rapidly developed and widely applied in recent years for its obvious advantages of improving oil recovery of old oil fields.Good production results and economic benefits are achieved by using the technique in Bamianhe Oilfield.When selecting well location and optimizing design plan,the authors advocate sticking to the following principles including restricting hole deviation,barefoot interval and horizontal displacement in the scope of 35 degrees,400 meters and 200 meters respectively,trying to decrease the work of changing direction and hole deviation to ensure smooth borehole and increasing the quality of sidetracking and cementing wells and the results of oil increase.


Article narrates the reforms, implemented by the Russian government at the beginning of 19 th century in Siberia that regenerated administrative and territorial structure of Yakut province.


A self-watering built-up flower bed designed to continuously supply an appropriate amount of water and air to soil filled in a flower bed by a capillary phenomenon is provided. The flower bed is simple in structure and installed anywhere regardless of location, need no careful observation to periodically supply water to plants and induces healthy growth. A built-up flower bed comprises: a flowerpot(1); a water discharge plate(2) perforated with a plurality of long holes to discharge water at a hooking jaw; a filtering member(3) to filter foreign material while preventing drainage of soil and foreign material through the long hole; an absorbing member(4) to absorb water being filled in a drainage way at the bottom of the flowerpot and to continuously supply water to soil(5) being filled on the filtering member; and an elbow type drainage pipe(15). In the flower bed, the drainage pipe is movably coupled to the flowerpot through the intermediation of a fastening device, a cap nut and a plurality of O-rings(O).


The occurrence of the Indo-Pacific porcupine puffer fish Diodon holocanthus (Linnaeus, 1758) was recorded on 17 November 2013 on the Gopalpur coast of the Ganjam district, Odisha, as the first distributional record of this species from the east coast of India. Recordings appeared to increase after the event of the super cyclone 'Phailin', which occurred during 12 October 2013. Since then, many incidents of bycatch were observed from the Gopalpur coast. This poisonous porcupine puffer posed a subsequent threat to local anglers by damaging their fishing nets and by reducing the catch of commercially important fishes. However, a lack of substantial information regarding this puffer from the Gopalpur coast makes it difficult to correlate the facts.


George W. Ruger Jr., 64, died Feb. 16 in Modena, New York. "George was an energetic person who loved to interact with people. He was the founder of Palladium Science Academy, which performed cool, ...


As the demand for long-term care institutions for the elderly (ILPIs) is expanding, and it will be relevant for public health systems to discuss the process of assessing the health conditions of its residents. In relation to these events, which has aroused the concern of society, the interaction of the elderly in a Long Term Care Facility for the Elderly (ILPIs) is an alternative to be considered. In view of this scenario, the aforementioned premises, the present study aimed to identify, through an integrative review, measurement instruments built specifically for the management and care of elderly residents, in long-term institutions. In view of the proposed objective, the care and management demands of the LTCF, a program to improve the quality of care based on the Person-Centered Care dimension, using instruments such as Observable Indicators of Quality of Care in Long-Term Care Institutions for the Elderly (IOQ) adapted to the national context in the Brazilian version of IOQ. It is urgent to reformulate public policies that guarantee a standardized assessment system for LTCF residents in Brazil, and it is a challenge to ensure that the instruments developed are able to spread and become effective in the daily lives of professionals at these institutions.


The rapidly changing field of bioinformatics is fuelling the need for suitably trained personnel with skills in relevant biological 'sub-disciplines' such as proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics, etc. But because of the complexity — and sheer weight of data — associated with these new areas of biology, many school teachers feel disenfranchised from this field. And it is precisely this type of biology that is making the headlines and evoking interest amongst lay-people and students alike. Yet by using suitable teaching aids, both teachers and students can engage with this 'frontline' area of the subject.


Computer Lab Management in Higher Vocational Colleges from the numerous and complex, a program to restrict the ef-ficiency of management, to optimize the management, will make the work efficiency can be improved. In this paper, the optimalmanagement of computer laboratory management software to optimize the use of control and optimization of human resources man-agement of the computer laboratory are discussed.


A multilayer printed wiring board having a conductor circuit of an internal layer and further via a resin insulating layer a conductor circuit of one or more outer layers on a substrate. A strain gauge having a resistive element sandwiched by resin films made of a polyimide or a thermoplastic resin is buried in the substrate. An electrode connected to the resistive element is exposed from the resin film, and the exposed electrode is connected electrically to a viahole provided in the substrate. Such a multilayer printed wiring board and a test body for a printed wiring board are disclosed. Even if the resin insulating layer cracks because of a shock test and so forth, the resin film layer prevents progress of the crack, thereby not damaging the resistive element constituting the strain gauge. Strain information not only on a substrate surface layer but also on a desired portion can be measured accurately, and therefore, an actual stress loaded on the substrate can be measured accurately.


In this paper, we extend Parikh' work to the non-stationary black hole. As an example of the non-stationary black hole, we study the tunnelling effect and Hawking radiation from a Vaidya black hole whose Bondi mass is identical to its mass parameter. We view Hawking radiation as a tunnelling process across the event horizon and calculate the tunnelling prob-ability. We find that the result is different from Parikh's work because dr H dv is the function of Bondi mass m ( v ).


Proposed is a wavelength-division multiplexed orthogonal frequency-division multiple access passive optical network (WDM-OFDMA-PON) for both wired and wireless OFDM signal access, by using a tunable generation scheme of a flat optical comb. 17 comb lines with 30 GHz space and no more than 0.5 dB flatness are obtained theoretically and experimentally. The obtained flat optical comb is used as the optical source for 17 WDM channels in the proposed WDM-OFDMA-PON. A 16-quadrature amplitude modulation OFDM signal achieving 10.85 Gbit/s traffic data is modulated onto each channel with double sideband modulation and the transmission for both wired and wireless access has been successfully demonstrated by experiment.


A Darrieus-type vertical axis wind turbine is disclosed which includes a vertically extending rotor tube mounted on a support structure with two or three rotor blades of troposkein configuration on the rotor tube for rotating the tube in response to wind energy and thereby drive a generator to produce electrical power. The turbine includes an erection hinge which permits assembly of the rotor tube and blades at close to ground level followed by upward hinging of the rotor assembly to a vertical position. It also includes a system for automatically lubricating the top bearing upon erection and a system for visually tensioning the guy cables.


Because it plays such an important role in determining the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in MR imaging and because it is one of the few elements of the imaging system that is easily modifiable by engineers and physicists, the radio-frequency (RF) detector coil has been the subject of significant research. More recently, investigators have begun using arrays of RF coils. RF coil arrays have already found widespread use in MRI, and should become more widely used as applications increase. Presently the most important use of RF coil arrays are to increase the SNR per unit time, increase the available field-of-view, or some combination of the two. Dynamic imaging appears to be another important potential application. An introduction to the theory and application of RF coil arrays is provided in this paper, and examples of several applications are shown.


A new X-ray synchrotron source for the UK is the top priority in a review of synchrotron radiation science currently before the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC). The review panel, chaired by Michael Woolfson, a physics professor at York University, states that the £71m medium-energy source (MES) should be built by 2001. The review also recommends that the UK should find a partner to build a vacuum-ultraviolet/soft X-ray, low-energy source (LES) as part of an ambitious 15-year "three-source" strategy covering the spectral range between 5 eV and 120 keV photons. The high-energy part of the strategy is based on the French European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and the total cost of the plan, including construction and operations, is £375m.


Based on the content of walnut in main production areas of Sichuan, considered the main climate elements and applying the clustering methods, the ecological quality reginalization of walnut was preceded the first time. The distribution of walnut can be divided into three sub-distributing regions, namely northwest region, middle basin and south region and southwest region, which offered important direction for cultivation and management of walnut in Sichuan.


In the Boso Peninsula, the Cenozoic marine strata, especially of younger Cenozoic age, are well exposed successively, and full of fossils along the Yoro, Obitsu and Minato Rivers. Although calcareous nannoplanktons are abundant in these strata, the study on them has rarely been done except by TAKAYAMA (1967), NISHIDA (1976, 77) and MAEDA and SAWANO (1978).This study was planned in order to find out the stratigraphic distribution of the assemblages of calcareous nannoplankton from the Anno Formation along the Inokawa River, which is the uppermost tributary of the Obitsu River in the Central Boso.Calcareous nannoplankton floras were obtained from 32 horizons as shown in Fig. 2. A total of 16 species of calcareous nannoplankton belonging to 10 genera were identified. Among calcareous nannoplankton floras, Reticulofenestra japonica was very abundant through the lower horizon to upper one of the formation. The lower horizon was characterized by the abundance of R. pseudoumbilica, Cyclococcolithina leptopora and Cy. macintyrei, and the middle horizon by existence of R. pacifica and Coccolithus productus. On the contrary, in the upper horizon, Pseudoemiliania lacunosa and Gephyrocapsa caribbeanica increased in number, while the genus of Discoaster decreased distinctly.It is worthy of note that R. pseudoumbilica could not be seen in the uppermost horizon of the formation. Based on the remarkable facts of the first appearance of R. pacifica, Ps. lacunosa and G. caribbeanica, and the extinction of Sphenolithus abies and R. pseudoumbilica, the calcareous nannoplankton floras of the Anno Formation were divided into 6 assemblage zones.Judging from the characteristics of the assemblages, it is thought that the Anno Formation was deposited from the late stage of early pliocene to middle pliocene in geologic age.


This paper analyzes a dynamic relational contract for employees with reciprocal preferences. A model of a long-term employment relationship is developed that implies that generous upfront wages activate the norm of reciprocity and then are more important when an employee is close to retirement. In earlier stages, direct incentives promising a bonus in exchange for effort are more effective. Hence, direct and reciprocity-based incentives reinforce each other and should be used in combination. Moreover, a more competitive labor market may increase the utilization of reciprocity-based incentives. This paper was accepted by Axel Ockenfels, behavioral economics and decision analysis. Funding: This work was supported by Hardegg'sche Stiftung, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [CRC TRR 190], and the Austrian Science Fund [Grant P 33307-G]. Supplemental Material: The online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4657 .


Based on the volcanic geology, seismicity and the data from etectromagnetic deep exploration in earth the relation between volcanic tectonic environment and seismicity is dis- cussed. In the light of tectonic environment restraint, horizontal and spatial distribution characteristics of the seismicity relate directly with strength and pattern of the fault activity in volcanic region. A more significant change of electricity structure of underground media both east and west side around the Iaoheishan mountain agrees with seismicity concentration and shows a strong part of shallow stratum activity in recent volcanic region.


Contemporary Design acts towards the possibilities and challenges of human comprehension in its complexity and the reading and analysis of this time, people and their ways of being in the world, possibilities, expressions, projects, products, objects, environments and services material or immaterial to give voice and expression to the different sensitivities and differentiated subjectivities (both designer and user) changing methods and highlighting the role of individual or collective authorship by expanding perceptions and diversities.Its purpose is to explore in contemporary design the universe of the sensitive on the way to political, social and citizenship action based on the awareness of current issues. In this sense, this text presents a brief historical resumption of the social issues in the field of design examining the constitution of new frontiers and territories in their relationship with society intermingling aesthetics, politics and the question of the sensitive. It takes Ranciere's "the share of the sensitive" as a reference and texts that underlie the issue of social responsibility of designers, and how this issue is being addressed today. The theoretical framework adopted includes the following authors: Manzini (2015), Rancière (2009), Weber (2008, 2010), Margolin (2006, 2004), Cooper (2005), Heller and Vienne Glaser (2003, 2013), Krippendorf (2000), Redig (1978, 1977), Papanek (1971). This text was developed from the results of exploratory research with a qualitative approach and adopts the following methodological steps: literature review, documentary research and case studies that guided the analyzes and syntheses presented.


Hydrolysis products of aqueous yttrium nitrates obtained by sol-gel method at room temperature, under atmospheric pressure without any templates and structure directing agents were investigated by thermal analysis combined with mass spectrometry of thermolysis products, XRD and scanning electron microscope with elemental EDS analyzer. Formation of yttrium hydroxonitrocarbonates with various ratio depending on synthesis conditions was found. The samples obtained at 8.5 pH with hydrolysis time at least 40 min using ammonia water solution have the least quantity of impurities and demonstrates the most visible layered morphology. The most explicit layered morphology and the least amount of impurities were revealed in the samples obtained at 8.5 pH with hydrolysis time at least 40 min using ammonia water solution as a hydrolytic agent.


Evaluation of the gastric lavage as a tool for the analysis of the brown trout diet The efcacy of the method of extracting stomach content, by means of the procedure of stomach washing through a pump, based on Seaburg's original model (1957), has been studied. The effectiveness of the method is not related to the size of thesh, but rather to the prey's own morphological characteristics, the degree of repletion of the stomach and the extent of digestion of the food. Thus, the effectiveness of the method is inversely related to the degree of repletion. Furthermore, bigger prey having rigid structures, such as Aeshnidae and Caddisies with cases are more difcult to expel. However, the observed differences in the effectiveness of expulsion between preys with similar characteristics are due to the extent of their digestion. Nevertheless, the average effectiveness of the method is high and in excess of 80 %. It is therefore a relatively simple and effective methodology and the reason why its use is appropriate for obtaining stomach content samples in young and adult brown trout.


Small businesses are often faced with funding challenges in developing economies which constraints their growth and long term survival. This study examines the existence and role of business Angels as a source financial, human and social capital to overcome challenges of funding for small businesses in Nigeria. The research aims to strengthen the framework that seeks to provide detail understanding of the benefits that business angels can bring to small business in developing economies, considering the gap that exists in this regard. Data for the study were obtained using questionnaires and analyzed using Kolmogorov-Simirov (KS) test. The finding reveals, that Angel financing is a viable alternate source for financing small businesses in Nigeria. Recommendations proffered include the need for publicity on the activities of angels to support other government programmes on small business financing. There should also be an enabling environment for angel venture networks to participate in economic growth and development of small businesses in Nigeria.


Rural China is being remade in the wake of a massive exodus of young people to work in the cities and coastal areas. The core rural population is now middle-aged, and is caring for both parents and grandchildren. In this process, women and men are creating new patterns of kinship and social ties across distance and generations. This article draws on research that combined household analysis with focused life-history methods to explore these departures through a focus on three illustrative cases from upland west China.


The invention discloses a three-dimensional positioning method and system for the mammary gland. The method includes the steps that 1, whether calibration is conducted or not is judged, if not, step 2 is executed, and if yes, step 3 is executed; 2, the original point position of three-dimensional positioning of the target mammary gland is determined, and a three-dimensional coordinate system is established based on the original point; then a simulated target point is selected, an error value is obtained after contrast of motion, and compensation is conducted according to the error value; 3, positioning operation is conducted on the nidus point through a positioning needle, a positioning guide wire of the positioning needle is released after positioning is completed, and a target area is locked. According to the three-dimensional positioning method and system for the mammary gland, a normal software procedure is established in mammary gland three-dimensional positioning system software in cooperation with clear prompt information, and a fixed working procedure meeting the clinical application requirement is established; meanwhile, an automatic positioning error calculation procedure is introduced into the working procedure, and precision of the positioning operation is achieved objectively and quantitatively.


The Joseon Dynasty compiled the household register every three years. The objects of registration in the household register were, at least legally, the entire household. In order to elevate the effectiveness of compiling the household register the government provided even some institutional devices. Nevertheless, in spite of the intent of the state, the number of households and mouths entered in the household register was limited and did not totally reflect reality. Rather, as time passed, the compilation of the household register tended to become formalistic. In spite of this, it can hardly be denied that the household register is an excellent source of data that can realistically confirm the relationship between household and family, statuses, and occupational roles. The household register can be utilized in various fields of research, and this has been the case. Regrettably, however, there are few moves to investigate what kind of data the household register contains, that is to say, the household register per se.


The conversion of methane via oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) to transportable liquid fuel has been investigated to utilize remote natural gas effectively. A conceptual view of this new process for gasoline production was developed on the basis of reviews of other conventional OCM processes and sensitivity analyses. The process developed, referred to herein as "original", is characterized as follows: (1) application of a circulating fluidized bed with a riser reactor to the OCM process because of its high efficiency of heat removal, temperature controllability, and ability to deal with high space velocity reaction; (2) application of a bubbling fluidized bed reactor with an internal heat exchanger for the control of heat generated to oligomerization process; (3) design of split feed of recycled gas, which is composed of recycled unconverted methane with byproducts, into the reaction process (the CO2 to be methanated by H2 skips over the CO2 absorber and is directly fed to the methanation reactor); (4)...


Abstract Horse racing is a unique weight-making sport which requires jockeys to maintain a chronically low body weight throughout an extended racing season. These athletes typically eat one main meal per day when racing and often depend on racecourses for food provision. To date, racecourse catering provision to jockeys in Ireland has not been assessed. The aims of this study were to evaluate food provision at racecourses in Ireland, assess jockeys' satisfaction with current food provision and to explore key stakeholders' perceptions of current food provision. An audit tool was used to evaluate current food provision at 25 of the 26 Irish racecourses. The audit was scored out of 44.5 points and each racecourse was categorised as < 50% 'Requires nutritional guidance from a dietitian/sports nutritionist', 50–60% 'Bronze', 61–75% 'Silver', 76–90% 'Gold', > 90% 'Platinum'. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with jockeys (n = 125), racecourse managers (n = 2), racecourse catering managers (n = 2), and race day caterers (n = 1) to establish their perspectives on current food provision. Quantitative data were analysed using SPSS and qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis. Audit scores ranged from 14.5–27.5. Based on their current food provision, nine racecourses were identified as 'Requiring nutritional guidance from a dietitian/sports nutritionist', 13 were categorized as 'Bronze' and two as 'Silver'. Grade 3 racecourses achieved significantly lower audit scores than Grade 1 and 2 racecourses. Jockeys' satisfaction ratings were positively associated with audit score. The main themes identified by jockeys included hot food, autonomy over food choices, and greater variety of foods. The main themes identified by managerial and catering staff were categorised under two domains, including perceptions of and factors influencing current provision, and barriers to and facilitators for improved provision. Support from a dietitian/sports nutritionist was identified in 22 of the 25 racecourses to improve food provision to support the needs of modern-day jockeys. Recommendations include development of minimum standards for weigh room food provision and basic training for catering staff on healthy, appetizing foods that are conducive to making weight. Guidelines endorsed by the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board (IHRB), Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and the Irish Jockeys Association (IJA) should be developed and food provision at racecourses should be audited regularly. Achievable racecourse-specific interventions should be implemented to improve the provision of food and nutrient delivery to this athlete population.


Abstract The aims of this article are to describe breast-feeding patterns in a sample of 141 Italian first-time mothers who had all done paid work during pregnancy, and to place these results in the context of Italian Maternity legislation. Data show a relatively high frequency of initiation and long duration of breast-feeding: 87% of mothers put the baby to the breast during their hospital stay; of the whole sample, 38% breast-fed for at least 24 weeks, and 33% for longer. Mothers who had resumed their job after the birth breast-fed longer than those who stayed at home. Type of job and working hours had no effect on breast-feeding duration, while post-partum leave did: the longer the leave, the longer mothers breast-feed.


Objective: Assessment of impact of health intervention on KAP and hypertensive status of patients in an urban slum of Mumbai. Material and Methods: A cross- sectional study was conducted at Shivaji Nagar urban slum which is a field practice area of Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, of TN Medical College Mumbai. Hypertensive patients above 40 years of age were included in this study. The information was gathered by personal interview using semi- structured proforma. Results: Out of 340 subjects 176 (51. 76%) were males. Before intervention 83.42%, 69.11%, 73.24% patients had poor knowledge, attitude and practices respectively which decreased to 25%, 21.76%, 33.81% respectively. Mean systolic BP, Diastolic BP, Body mass index and weight was also decreased as practices of patients improved to after health intervention. There was improvement in self care practices and life style modification factors. Conclusion: People have to be educated through mass media on hypertension and its risk factors. The health workers have to play part by educating the people and also themselves being an example in avoiding the risk factors for hypertension like consumption of fatty food, alcohol and smoking. People have to be educated on the importance of


Several reviews and researches are being conducted to enhance and change the policies and regulations of the Victorian EPA. The resources needed for the industry to adapt the compliance and adjust to the new enforcements are shown to be the major concern for the remodeling.


ABSTRACT
The aim of this work was to determine the total phenol (TPC), total flavonoid (TFC), tannins contents (TCs) and antioxidant properties of pomegranate (Punica granatum) peel powder coproduct (PPP) in view to its application in the food industry as ingredient. The antioxidant activity of the PPP was determined by means of four different antioxidant tests (2,2′-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl, ferric reducing power, ferrous ion-chelating and thiobarbituric acid reactive substance) and the TPC, TFCs and TC were also determined. The PPP showed a content of TPC of 54.84 mg gallic acid equivalents/g sample; a TFC content of 42.36 mg rutin equivalent /g sample and a TC of 21.25 mg catechin equivalent/g sample. As regards the antioxidant properties, PPP has good antioxidant activity at all concentrations tested (0.2, 0.5, 1 and 10 g/L) and all methods used, but in general terms, this activity is lower than that shown by the positive control (butylated hydroxytoluene) used.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
The pomegranate peel extracts could be suitable for applications on the food industry because they are an important source of phenolic, flavonoids and tannins compounds; indeed, the antioxidant properties of this extract could be very appreciated in a big number of food processing to avoid its spoilage during processing but also during storage period. Other important reason for their suitability is their natural origin, which consumers find comforting.


Since humans have been thinking about the human condition, "What is wisdom?" and "How might we attain it?" have been central questions we ask about our lives. The target article of Grossman and col...


The USSR steel EP-838 is a high-manganese (13.52), low-nickel (4.22) steel that also has lower chromium and molybdenum than type 316 stainless steel. Tensile specimens of 20%—cold-worked EP-838 and type 316 stainless steel were irradiated in the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the coolant temperature (~50°C). A displacement damage level of 5.2 dpa was reached for the EP-838 and up to 9.5 dpa for the type 316 stainless steel. Tensile tests at room temperature and 300°C on the two steels indicated that the irradiation led to increased strength and decreased ductility compared to the unirradiated steels. Although the 0.22 yield stress of the type 316 stainless steel in the unirradiated condition was greater than that for the EP-838, after irradiation there was essentially no difference between the strength or ductility of the two steels. The results indicate that the replacement of the majority of the nickel by manganese and a reduction of chromium and molybdenum in an austenitic stainless steel of composition near that for type 316 stainless steel has little effect on the irradiated and unirradiated tensile properties at low temperatures.


The real estate project-groups have a large scale, are highly interrelated and have complex formation. According to the characteristics above, in this paper, the author analyzed difficulties in implementation of project progress control from the perspective of real estate enterprises. This paper used space network structure model on the base of project-group management theory and synergy theory, put forward the method and process of the real estate enterprise project-group progress control. In addition, this paper proposed collaborative process and adjusting method of progress management based on project-group management office (PMO) as the core to ensure the realization of project schedule objectives.


Three bands in the high-resolution infrared spectrum of trans-1,2-difluoroethylene have been examined. An A-type band at 1274 cm -1 due to in-plane CH bending, υ 10 (b u ), and a C-type band at 874 cm -1 due to out-of-plane CH bending, υ 6 (a u ) have been fully analyzed


Electric vehicles are already a reality although their development and spread in urban context are encountering resistance especially due to the lack of electric vehicle charging facilities. Small electric in-wheel motors are perfectly suited to urban driving and their low electric energy consumption can also guarantee a sufficient daily mileage. The present paper proposes a rear wheel drive electric vehicle powered by two hub motors whose torque requests can be independently commanded by two separate inverters. This torque management fits well with a torque vectoring (TV) system that can improve the vehicle manoeuvrability, even at low speed. The TV can be implemented in a low cost programmable control board that can be used in any type of vehicle. The considered TV system was tested in a prototype quadri-mobile developed in an industrial research and development program called HiQuad.


This experiment was conducted at the Soil Microbiology section of Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, CSK HPKV, Palampur in pea and sesamum crop during rabi, 2008 and kharif, 2009.There were eight treatments with randomized block design (RBD). The soil was silty clay loam in texture, pH 5.2, cation exchange capacity 10.3 c mol (p+) kg-1, organic carbon 9.5 g kg-1, available N and P (267.1 kg ha-1 and 10.2 kg ha-1) during this study. The yield attributes and yield of both crops were recorded and an increase in number of pods per plant, grains per pod, green pod yield, vine yield, number of capsule per plant, grains per capsule, seed yield and stover yield and this increase was observed in those treatments where integration of organic and inorganic sources were applied. The highest yield and yield attributes were recorded in treatment T6. Quality parameters were also recorded highest in treatment T6.


The present invention relates to compositions and methods for their preparation for fat, and more particularly, phosphatidylcholine, based on the total composition (Phosphatidyl choline) 2 to 12% (w / v) containing a phosphatidylcholine; 5 to 12% oil phase solvent containing (w / v) and the remaining amount of water directed to a composition for fat and methods for their preparation. Phosphatidylcholine, solvent oil and water comprising the composition for lipolysis of the present invention is effective in even melting fat without causing edema, erythema, tissue necrosis, inflammation.


Objective This meta-analysis aimed to update knowledge about the association between the SLC4A7 variant rs4973768 and breast cancer incidence. Methods Studies were identified from relevant digital databases. Fixed- or random-effects models were used to calculate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Statistical Q and I2 tests and sensitivity analyses were used to detect interstudy heterogeneity and test the statistical stability of overall estimates, respectively. Egger's tests were applied to detect publication bias among included studies. In silico analysis was used to ascertain increased expression of SLC4A7 mRNA in rs4973768 with the mutant allele. Trial sequential analysis was used to calculate the study's sample size. Results The overall odds ratios reflected a positive correlation between the SLC4A7 rs4973768 polymorphism and susceptibility to breast cancer in five genetic comparisons of alleles T and C, and tests revealed significant heterogeneity in the allele comparison. After stratification by ethnicity, heterogeneity in Asian and White populations substantially decreased (Ph = 0.984, I2 = 0%) and remained stable (Ph = 0.083, I2 = 46.3%), respectively. The mutant allele was associated with increased expression of SLC4A7 mRNA in rs4973768. The cumulative z curve indicated that our conclusions were robust. Conclusions Our updated consequence shows that the SLC4A7 rs4973768 polymorphism is associated with increased breast cancer risk.


Community composition For characterization of the community composition the total biofilm DNA was extracted. The ribosomal DNA of Eubacteria was specifically amplified by PCR and the amplicons were separated with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). A similar bacterial population can be found on hydrophobin-coated and uncoated glass-slides. Biofilm on hydrophobin-coated surface Change of surface hydrophobicity The surface hydrophobicity of coated surfaces was determined by contact angel measurements (CA). A long incubation time (16h) and high incubation temperature (80°C) increased the surface hydrophobicity of hydrophobin-coated surfaces significantly (original material: glass, CA 11°).


Abstract: Recently, the code division multiple access (CDMA) technique has become the most widely communication technique, because of its varity of applications. The well-known matched filter (MF) is considered as the optimum filter that recovers the CDMA signals. However; its performance recently becomes unsatisfying. This is due to increasing the multiple access interference (MAI), in addition to the other channel impairments such as the fading or the multi path interference (MPI). In this paper, an adaptive minimum mean square error-maximum likelihood (MMSE-ML) receiver is presented as an alternative solution to overcome the drawbacks of the MF receiver. This adaptive MMSE-ML receiver uses adaptive aided tentative coefficients in addition to the basic adaptive coefficients to increase the tracking ability of the channel impulse response variations. The performance of the adaptive MMSE-ML receiver is compared with the traditional adaptive MMSE receiver over a frequency selective fading channel. Moreover, the performances of both the presented and traditional adaptive receivers are compared with the performance of the MF under the same condition. It is found that the performance of the adaptive MMSE-ML receiver is much improved using the proposed technique.


The invention relates to a semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof. First, a first substrate provided with a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other is provided, the first surface is provided with a plurality of first electrically-connected pads, a chip is arranged on the first surface, a second substrate which is provided with a third surface, a fourth surface and a through hole is arranged on the first surface of the first substrate through a plurality of conductive assemblies, the third surface and the fourth surface are opposite to each other, the through hole passes through the third surface and the fourth surface, the third surface is provided with a plurality of second electrically-connected pads, the second electrically-connected pads are electrically connected with the first electrically-connected pads through the conductive assemblies, the chip is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, finally, a packaging adhesive is injected between the first substrate and the second substrate through the through hole in order to coat the chip and the conductive assemblies. According to the invention, the reliability of the semiconductor package can be effectively improved.


The Smart City concept is gaining popularity due to involving various technologies in public places in order to satisfy the citizens' needs. However, the success of the smart city paradigm is linked to the treatment and management of the amount of real time data, which can be at the moment most effectively approached with the help of cloud platforms. In this paper, we aim at discussing the most promising mobile cloud and data transmission technologies that are expected to make the city more "smart" and more affordable for the end-users. Hence, we also discuss Li-Fi as a future transmission of data through illumination that can enhance further the communication in a smart city as well as guarantee a wireless connectivity that meets the requirements of the citizens. Finally, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of these new technologies for the scientific community and suggest the future research directions that should go hand in hand with their deployment.


Atomic Zone was developed at the Entertainment Technology Center to immerse a student in the after-effects of a nuclear bomb blast through a virtual 3D walkthrough. The tone strives to be apolitical, presenting Hiroshima soon after its 1945 bombing. The Unity game engine was used to present narrative aspects through visuals, sound, and animations, allowing students to witness the damage that a nuclear explosion can inflict. The experience features historical anecdotes and medical treatments for survivors of the blast, with a self-paced navigation prompted by elements placed in the rendered 3D environment. A stylized look was chosen for rendering scenes and characters, rather than photo-realism, with historic photos interspersed in the interactive documentary to reinforce accuracy and the mapping to real world episodes occurring within Hiroshima on that day. This paper notes the development and first testers' reactions to the work, with implications for other game designers dealing with significant morally charged world events. Keywords—interactive web documentary; immersive 3D historical experience; game development process; Unity game engine


The purpose of a Text to Speech (TTS/T2S) synthesis is to provide artificial voice for a people and machine. Here a user can give input text using keypad and can get a similar synthesize voice using a speaker. This speech synthesis process involves first natural language processing and then digital signal processing to convert input text into processed text into speech. Many current text to speech synthesis is based on the concatenation of acoustic segments of prerecorded audio segments, and this speech synthesizer is capable of producing natural and intelligible speech, whose quality is very similar to the voice quality of the speaker who recorded the audio segments from which the concatenation process take places.
Here, we proposed a real time functioned text to speech synthesis using STM32F4 discovery kit and MATLAB, which is capable to converts input text into speech and reads out to the user which can then be saved as a wave (.wav) file and/or text (.txt) file. Here a speech impairment person can type the text from keypad and using MATLAB R2015a, we can get voice output of input words, and output voice is heard through speaker, this will be of great help to visual impairment people to read and listen the large volume of text easier. The proposed methodology will be also great use of providing assistance to non-native people who lack the power of speech and many more applications in the field of multimedia and tele communication.
In this thesis on real time implementation of text to speech, we presented design mythology and an algorithm to implement real time functioned text to speech synthesis for synthesizing unlimited vocabulary speech in for English language and all other languages scripted in Roman using STM32F4 Discovery kit (STM32F407VGT6 MCU) & MATLAB R2015a. The recording of voice is done in C language using STM32F4 Discovery kit and a database of acoustic library is constructed, whereas implementation of text to speech synthesis is done using MATLAB R2015a.


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Mira Krendel, Frank Zenke, and Gary Bokoch (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA) have identified a bridge between microtubule assembly and actin polymerization that links these processes during


This article analyses the adva ntage s and disadvantages of opening up the ecotourismin the west and puls forwa rd several suggestions on its development.make the ecotouris m program,quicken the formation of i ts characteristics,define the capacity of its scenic spots as well as its ma rket,protect its resources,give a g reat deal of publicity t o major scenic spots,pro mote the local resiclents' participation,strengthen t rainin g in order to raise the gualities of the employees and carry on computer management to make sure t hat the ecotourism development is based on science.


Objective To analyze the changes of hepatitis B virus marker (HBVM) in children in Taishan city since the introduction of hepatitis B vaccine into the expanded program of immunization in 1992. Method Stratifications including two villages and 138 children were drawn out by the method of multistage stratified sampling. HBsAg?anti-HBc and anti-HBs in the blood samples were detected by SPEIA method. Result In 2002, the immunization rate in children of 1~14 years old was 81.88%. 68.88% of children received the three-dose Hb vaccination. Their age distribution was 1~9 (81.52%) and 10~14 (69.56%) years old. The positive rates of HBsAg, anti-HBc and infection rate of HBV in children were decreased from 21.09%, 53.91% and 57.81% in 1992 to 4.35%, 22.46% and 34.78% in 2002, respectively. For the children of age 1~9, the positive rates of HBsAg, anti-HBc and HBV were decreased from 18.95%, 42.48%,45.10% in 1992 to 2.17%, 15.22%, 29.35% in 2002, respectively. After HBV vaccination, the positive rates of anti-HBs in children of age 1~3 and 4~14 was 28.57%~55.56% and 69.81%,respectively. Conclusion Since the launching of hepatitis B immunization program in 1992, HBV infection rate has been decreasing evidently, and the positive rate of anti-HBs has been increasing obviously. And the society is benefit from this immunization program.


The invention discloses a simulator free from the interference of resetting in a monitor mode. The simulator comprises a simulation chip, a monitoring module, a user program memory, a monitor program memory, an external resetting signal source and an integrated development environment module on a user computer, wherein the simulation chip comprises a processor core, a resetting control module and an internal resetting signal source; when the resetting control module outputs an effective resetting signal to the processor core, the processor core is in a reset state; when the resetting control module outputs an ineffective resetting signal, the processor core works normally; and in the monitor state, the monitoring module outputs an effective control signal to the resetting control module, and the resetting control module outputs an ineffective resetting signal to the processor core no matter whether the resetting control module receives the effective or ineffective external resetting signal or the effective or ineffective internal resetting signal. According to the simulator, not only can the working states of a processor chip of a product during various kinds of resetting be truly simulated in an operation mode, but also the abnormal influence of various kinds of resetting on the work of the simulator can be shielded in the monitor mode.


A preparation method of sludge ceramsite capable of slowly releasing trace metal elements including copper and nickel is implemented as follows: sludge, coal ash and clay of a sewage plant are dried respectively and sieved with a 200-mesh sieve, 3-5 g of sludge, 6-8 g of coal ash and 8-10 g of clay are weighed and stirred uniformly, an appropriate amount of water is slowly added to the mixture and sufficiently stirred, the mixture is put in a press machine and subjected to extrusion forming, raw ceramsite with the diameter of 4-6 mm is obtained, dried at the temperature of 100 DEG C, preheated for 20 min and calcined at the temperature of 1,050 DEG C for 16 min, and the sludge ceramsite is prepared; the ceramsite is put into a mixed solution containing CuCl2 and NiCl2 to be soaked, then taken out and dried for standby application; a cladding material is prepared by mixing epoxy resin, acidamide resin, an ethanol solution and starch, soaked and well dried ceramsite is added and stirred, accordingly, the surface of the ceramsite is uniformly coated with the mixture and put in a drying oven to be dried, and the sludge ceramsite capable of slowly releasing the trace metal elements including copper and nickel is prepared. The ceramsite is applicable to anaerobic biological treatment of organic wastewater lack of trace metals Cu2+ and Ni2+, and the COD (chemical oxygen demand) removal rate of the wastewater can be increased by more than 12%.


The effects of wheel speeds and high-pressure hydrogen treatment on phase evolution, microstructure, and magnetocaloric properties in La0.5Pr0.5Fe11.4Si1.6 melt-spun ribbons are studied in this work. The results reveal that the increase of wheel speed is beneficial to the formation of cubic NaZn13-type phase and the grain refinement. The optimized wheel speed for microstructural and magnetocaloric properties is 30 m/s. The largest entropy change of 18.1 J/kg⋅K at 190 K under a magnetic field change of 0 T–5 T is obtained in La0.5Pr0.5Fe11.4Si1.6 ribbons melt-spun at 30 m/s. After a high-pressure hydrogen treatment of 50 MPa, the Curie temperature of the ribbons prepared at 30 m/s is adjusted to about 314 K and the large –ΔS M of 17.9 J/kg⋅K under a magnetic field change of 0 T–5 T is achieved at room temperature with almost none hysteresis loss. The small thermal and magnetic hysteresis and the large –ΔS M make the La0.5Pr0.5Fe11.4Si1.6 hydride ribbons appropriate for magnetic refrigerant applications around room temperature.


This work presents a radiometric model of a spatial heterodyne spectrometer (SHS) and a corresponding interferogram-processing algorithm for the calculation of calibrated spectral radiance measurements. The SHS relies on Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) principles, and shares design similarities with the Michelson Interferometer. The advantages of the SHS design, including the lack of moving parts, high throughput, and instantaneous spectral measurements, make it suitable as a eld-deployable instrument. Operating in the long-wave infrared (LWIR), the imaging SHS design example included provides the capability of performing chemical detection based on re ectance and emissivity properties of surfaces of organic compounds. This LWIR SHS model outputs realistic, interferometric data and serves as a tool to nd optimal SHS design parameters for desired performance requirements and system application. It also assists in the data analysis and system characterization. The interferogram-processing algorithm performs at- elding and phase corrections as well as apodization before recovering the measured spectral radiance from the recorded interferogram via the Inverse Fourier Transform (IFT). The model and processing algorithm demonstrate results comparable to those in the literature with a noise-equivalent change in temperature of 0.35K. Additional experiments show the algorithm's real-time processing capability, indicating the LWIR SHS system presented is feasible.


The paper intends to offer a presentation of Wittgenstein's Lectures on aesthetics (1938). In those lectures what I call 'aesthetic value judgement' plays a central role (§ 2). I try to show that such a judgement assesses the correcteness of the applications of a system of rules, not an abstract quality like beauty. 'Beautiful' must be replaced by 'correct'. I then focus on the nature of the aesthetic rules: their connection with history (§ 3), the way they are established and how they change (§ 4). Eventually (§§ 5-6), I argue that aesthetic judgements cannot be restricted to arts. In such judgements is always involved what Wittgenstein calls 'feeling', which is an aesthetic element of experience present in all language-games.


With an estimated 10,000 ancient rock art sites, Nine Mile Canyon has long captivated people the world over. The 45-mile-long canyon, dubbed the World s Longest Art Gallery, hosts what is believed to be the largest concentration of rock art in North America. But rock art is only part of the amazing archaeological fabric that scholars have been struggling to explain for more than a century. Jerry D. Spangler takes the reader on a journey into Nine Mile Canyon through the eyes of the generations of archaeologistswho have gone there only to leave bewildered by what it all means. The early visitors in the 1890s were determined to recover collections for museums but never much cared to understand the people who left the artifacts. Then came a cadre of young scientists the first to be trained specifically in archaeology who found Nine Mile Canyon to be an intriguing laboratory that yielded more questions than answers. Scholars such as Noel Morss, Donald Scott, Julian Steward, John Gillin, and John Otis Brew all left their boot prints there. Today, archaeological research is experiencing another renaissance a new generation of university-trained archaeologists is determined to unravel the mystery of Nine Mile Canyon using scientific tools and techniques that were unavailable to past generations. Through the words and thoughts of the archaeologists, as well as the more than 150 photos, readers will come to see Nine Mile Canyon as an American treasure unlike any other. As the first book that is devoted exclusively to the archaeology of this uniqueplace, "Nine Mile Canyon "will evoke fascination among scholars and the general public alike."


Current welfare reform legislation raises a number of questions about how the field of human services will broaden its analytical and educational functions in a context of uncertainty about what welfare will look like in the years to come. How can information and insights about the distribution of welfare dollars and the process of leaving welfare by a heterogeneous population of clients become the basis of contrastive analysis? We describe information sources which can provide a framework for positioning academic work to use longitudinal quantitative tracking sources to lay out qualitative inquiry suggestions for collecting process data that will emerge over time. We suggest that such data will be valuable to practitioners working with persons composing their own histories in the face of the admonishing welfare construct "get off welfare." Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. This article is available in The Qualitative Report: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol3/iss1/3 Welfare Reform: The Positioning of Academic Work by Carolyn I. Steele and Cynthia Wallat The Qualitative Report, Volume 3, Number 1, March, 1997


A national comparison of dc resistance at 10 MΩ and 1GΩ level was organized by the Electromagnetic Division of National Institute of Metrological Research (INRIM, Italy) and piloted by the same Division. This comparison took place between January and April of 2008 with the participation of 8 secondary Laboratories accredited by the Italian Accreditation of Calibration Laboratories Service (SIT). The travelling package included a wire-wound 10 MΩ standard and a thick film-type 1 GΩ standard in a wooden anti-shock container designed by INRIM. The obtained results indicate that the differences at 10 MΩ and 1 GΩ between each laboratory's value and its reference value are all within the expanded relative uncertainties of these differences.


Abscisic acid accumulation and oxidative stress are two common responses of plants to environmental stresses. However, little is known about their relationships. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effects of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide on the plant hormone abscisic acid synthesis in root tips of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings under drought stress.


The target of the research is descriptive exploratory analysis of the skills that graduates of the SENA considered strengths or weaknesses in their studies. To do the results based on a sample of 161 graduates into twelve areas are described, five of them being statistically significant. The results show that graduates say as strengths of their studies skills related to traditional teaching methods and knowledge, analytical skills and learning and teamwork. By contrast, the skills related to communication skills in foreign languages, and leadership skills are revealed as weaknesses in technological studies.


SUMMARY A new numerical approach to the solution of waves propagating in a fluid-saturated medium, using Biot's theory as a foundation, has important implications for oil reservoir management and earthquake prediction. A numerical scheme is developed using an exponential transformation that explicitly treats the petrophysical and fluid properties of the medium within the framework of a generalized model. The scheme accounts for wave dissipation and velocity modifications. The numerical solution is used to perform numerical experiments to study the dynamic behaviour of waves in a fluid-saturated medium at well-logging frequencies (15 kHz). The results from the numerical experiments indicate that the degree of saturation by a high-viscosity fluid (HVF) such as oil, the temperature and the porosity of a medium strongly influence the spectral power distribution, frequency content and the velocity of waves propagating through the medium. An increase in HVF saturation causes enhanced attenuation of the low-frequency components, and increases the seismic velocity. An increase in porosity, however, enriches the low-frequency components and decreases the seismic velocity. A spectral quantification procedure is suggested and used to obtain information about the petrophysical and fluid properties of the medium from the spectral characteristics of the transmitted waveform. The procedure involves segmentation of the energy or power distribution of the transmitted waveforms into specified energy bands. The energy or power in these bands is then estimated. The extracted quantification variables are found to have strong correlations with the degree of HVF saturation, and the temperature and the porosity of the medium.


Low Abstract Purpose: Sarcopenic patients have reduced musculoskeletal capacity and have poorer post- surgical outcomes. High rates of sarcopenia have been reported among Western liver transplantation candidates. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of sarcopenia in an Israeli liver transplant program and assess its effect on post-transplant outcomes. Methods: An observational retrospective study was performed using an updated database which included demographic and outcome measures of 100 consecutive liver transplant patients from deceased donors at the Hadassah Medical Center 2002-2012. Sarcopenia was assessed for those with available pre transplant abdominal CT studies. Psoas muscle measurements were obtained via CT and Lean Psoas Area (LPA) was calculated. Subjects were classified into sarcopenic according to an accepted convention of psoas LPA. Results: Thirty-four patients had CT studies appropriate for the sarcopenia analysis. Nine were females (26%) and 25 (74%) males. Mean transplant age was 52.6±11.3 and post-transplant follow up 6.3±3.7 years. By the Dolgin criteria only four males (12%) had sarcopenia. The product-limit survival estimate showed a statistically greater estimated survival for non-sarcopenia patients than for sarcopenia patients (log-rank test p=0.045), with a survival estimate at 98 months of 79% for non-sarcopenia patients and 25% for sarcopenia patients. Because Israeli sarcopenic liver transplantation patients have lower survival estimates along with inherent physical limitations compared to non-sarcopenic patients, it make sarcopenia an additional valuable variable for listing liver transplantation candidates, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when donor supply to need mismatches have increased.


This paper introduces a new train of thought in the process of teaching and learning steel structure,which is to use the mind-manager tool.By making use of it,teachers can accomplish the teaching preparations of the curriculum very well,and the students can complete a good summary and review of the course.It is apparent that applying the complete logical framework of the Mind-manager and the method of whole-brain thinking to the study and work,can greatly reduce the required time-consuming,further,for efficiency improvements,its efficiency cannot be ignored.


From the charge and discharge currents of any type of dielectric under continuous potential it is possible to predict accurately the loss, power factor and capacity at 60 cycles. This is done by an empirical determination of the equation for the relaxation function of the dielectric at a given temperature, followed by the application of von Schweidler's method. The method developed is available at any frequency, provided that the continuous potential charge and discharge currents may be measured over initial time intervals comparable with the alternating period. It is shown that agreement of the relaxation function with the t-nexpression is not general, but on the contrary, it is confined to dielectrics showing negligible or no irreversible conduction. The inadequacy of the t-n expression is proved on experimental and analytical reasons. Chief among them is the failure of the t-n expression to predict accurately the variation of dielectric loss with frequency. A convenient and sufficient expression for the relaxation function is shown to be a sum of three exponentials. Further, experiment and analysis prove that the method of three exponentials predicts accurately the a-c. behavior of a dielectric at 60 cycles. The usual forms of irreversible conduction encountered are defined and classified. The case where the initial constant current does not obey Ohm's law has been considered analytically in its contribution to the a-c. behavior. The manner in which the complete a-c. behavior of a dielectric is accurately predicted from suitable d-c.


We have analysed how cholesterol and transmembrane proteins in phospholipid bilayers modulate drug partitioning into the bilayers. For this purpose we determined the chromatographic retention of drugs on liposomes or proteoliposomes entrapped in gel beads. The drug retention per phospholipid amount (the capacity factor Ks) reflects the drug partitioning. Cholesterol in the bilayers decreased the Ks value and hence the partitioning into the membrane in proportion to the cholesterol fraction. On average this cholesterol effect decreased with increasing temperature. Model transmembrane proteins, the glucose transporter GLUT1 and bacteriorhodopsin, interacted electrostatically with charged drugs to increase or decrease the drug partitioning into the bilayers. Bacteriorhodopsin proteoliposomes containing cholesterol combined the effects of the protein and the cholesterol and approached the partitioning properties of red blood cell membranes. For positively charged drugs the correlation between calculated intestinal permeability and log Ks was fair for both liposomes and bacteriorhodopsin‐cholesterol proteoliposomes. Detailed modeling of solute partitioning into biological membranes may require an extensive knowledge of their structures.


The purpose of this describle to the result implemented of learning instrument based Problem Based Instruction (PBI) to practice of environmentally character. This type of research was a pre-experimental research. The method used was the one shot study with subjects 19 students class X MA Al-Khidmah Ngronggot Nganjuk. Parameters measured include: feasibility lesson plans, character, skill, mastery learning, and student responses. Instrument used to collect the data that management feasibility study sheets, the character of students, observation skills sheets, achievement test, and questionnaire responses. The technique is a method of collecting data observation, self-assessment, test method, and questionnaires. The result of implemented this learning instrument is lesson plan realized about 100%, environmentally character with average 7,16, assessment of student skill about 3,25, mastery of learning outcome classically about 84,21%, and student respond about 96,19%. Key word: Implementation of instrument learning, learning model (Problem Based Instruction), and environmentally character.


In order to alleviate acute poverty and vulnerability in the absence of sufficient employment opportunities both in the farm and non-farm sectores, the landless agricultural laborers of West Bengal have a tie with the landlord in an interlinked contract, where the land market is linked up with the labor market. This type of interlinked contract is a new version of Employer's risk hypothesis. A landless agricultural laborer will be inclined to bind himself with such an interlinked contract at the beginning of each year provided he has a large family labor force, and a regular savings habit. But he will not be inclined to such a contract if he gets sufficient employment in terms of man days either in the farm or non-farm sector in his locality. If he enters into such a contract, then the total size of land he has to take on lease from the landlord prior to the agricultural season is positively related to the total number of able-bodied family labor force. This paper also explains that the interlinked contract, besides abating poverty of the landless agricultural laborer, also reiterates the importance of land reforms for poverty eradication.


Considerable evidence points to a universe that is accelerating [1]. Although the cosmological constant Λ provides conceptually the simplest explanation of cosmic acceleration, its enigmatically small value has led researchers to explore alternative avenues for generating an accelerating universe [2–4]. In this paper, we shall confine our attention to brane cosmology described by the fairly general action [5, 6]


Narrative accounts of illnesses have been popularly employed to understand the cultural constructions, social issues, beliefs and representations of illnesses. The present paper employs structural analysis to explore the lived experiences of a widow – a woman and a mother living with HIV in a personal experience account. It portrays how a woman is blamed for bringing in HIV, dishonor and shame to the family. It provides the evidence of guilt that a woman forces upon herself after being widowed, infected with HIV and further becoming a carrier of the virus to her own children. There are indications of illusionary beliefs regarding the treatment and cure for HIV which can be dangerous and lead to the spread of HIV. It is significant in understanding the laymen's perception and construction of disease physiology. This narrative allows a glimpse into the concerned world of a mother and motherhood experiences when there are positive and negative children living together.


of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science CONTINUOUS TIME CORRELATION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR SPIKE TRAINS By Il Park May 2007 Chair: Jóse Carlos Pŕıncipe Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering Correlation is the most basic analysis tool for time series. To apply correlation to train of action potentials generated by neurons, the conventional method is to discretize the time. However, time binning is not optimal: time resolution is sacrificed, and it introduces the notorious problem of bin size sensitivity. Since spike trains can be considered as a realization of a point process, the signal has no amplitude and all information is embedded in the times of occurrence. Instead of time binning, we propose a set of methods based on kernel smoothing to analyze the correlations. Smoothing is done in continuous time so we do not lose the exact time of spikes while enabling interaction between spikes at a distance. We present three techniques derived from correlation: (1) spike train similarity measure, (2) synchrony detection mechanism, and (3) continuous cross correlogram.


* Associate Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law. This article was made possible by a summer research grant from the Florida Coastal School of Law. This article was presented at the Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law in October 2008, and I would like to thank the participants for their comments. I would also like to thank Professor John Langbein, Professor Paul Secunda and my colleague, Professor Alan Ragan, for reviewing and commenting on pre-publication drafts of this Article. I would also like to thank Profesor Edward C. Halbach, Jr., for responding to my questions concerning the 1992 revisions to the Restatement (Third) of Trusts, Prudent Investor Rule. Finally, I would like to thank Ann Licandro and Joey Hernandez of the Florida Coastal School of Law for their able research assistance. The author acknowledges responsibility for any errors. 1. 128 S. Ct. 2995 (2008) (mem.). The Supreme Court simultaneously declined to review another case involving the same issue on the scope of ERISA's remedial relief in Goeres v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., 128 S. Ct. 2994 (2008) (mem.). Mr. Goeres was the beneficiary of a decedent participant's ERISA-covered retirement plan. Goeres v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., No. C 04-01917 CRB, 2004 WL 2203474, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 28, 2004), aff'd, 220 F. App'x 663 (9th Cir. 2007), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 2994 (2008) (mem.). Mr. Goeres alleged that the plan fiduciary repeatedly and incorrectly advised him that he was not the beneficiary. Id. Between the time that Mr. Goeres began seeking control of the plan and the time that the fiduciary acknowledged that he was the beneficiary, the value of the plan had dropped from $1.2 million to $565,000. Id. 2. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 §§ 2-4096, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1369 (2000). 3. Brief for The United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Appellants, Amschwand v. Spherion Corp., 128 S. Ct. 2995 (2008) (No. 07-841), 2008 WL 2185730, at *2 [hereinafter DOL Amschwand Brief]. 4. See generally 29 U.S.C. § 132, ERISA § 502. Rather than parallel citing to both the United States Code and the ERISA code section, this Article will follow the less cumbersome


The interAdapt R package is designed to be used by statisticians and clinical investigators to plan randomized trials. It can be used to determine if certain adaptive designs offer tangible benefits compared to standard designs, in the context of investigators' specific trial goals and constraints. Specifically, interAdapt compares the performance of trial designs with adaptive enrollment criteria versus standard (non-adaptive) group sequential trial designs. Performance is compared in terms of power, expected trial duration, and expected sample size. Users can either work directly in the R console, or with a user-friendly shiny application that requires no programming experience. Several added features are available when using the shiny application. For example, the application allows users to immediately download the results of the performance comparison as a csv-table, or as a printable, html-based report.


Thirteen coyotes (Canis latrans) collected from Nueces County, Texas, harbored the following helminths: Filaroides osleri, Dirofilaria immitis, Physalaptera sp., Alaria americana, Ancylostoma caninum and Taenia sp. Aortic aneurysms were present in nine of ten adult coyotes (90%) while Spirocerca lupi was found on or in the wall of the thoracic esophagus of only three adult coyotes (30%). Oocysts of Isospora rivolta were found in the feces from one of two coyotes examined.


The objectives of the study were to review the agricultural environment education program for nasal change agents, to find out their recognition on agricultural environment and to get sorn implications for better educational program of rural environment. The data were gathered from 177 rural change agents in 11 agricultural technology centers in Kyongi-Do province by mailing survey with questionnaire. The major findings of the study were ; (1) Agricultural environment education for rural extention workers initiated in 1996. From 1999 diversified programs were served for them. (2) Rural change agents perceived that water contamination and degradation of life environment were the most serious problem. (3) Educational program on organic farming should be prepared for farmers and rural changes agents. (4) Concrete educational programs for adequate use of agricultural chemicals should be prepared for farmers. (5) Educational program on agricultural environment policies should be reorganized in terms of the level of target group. (6) RDA should prepare synthetical education program for the conservation of rural eco-system.


An inference, if not in accordance with inference rules, will not be a valid one, but rather a fallacy. From the near period previous to Qing Dynasty to Han Dynasties, ancient Chinese scholars have conducted various studies on inference and fallacies, which covered the basic law of formal logic especially fallacies didn't follow by law of contradiction, and the basic contents of thoughts as well. The ancient Chinese logic mostly analyzed the factual fallacies of true-and-false patterns, which still remains great positive significance to the studies of that time and later time.


This paper outlines a methodological approach for a study of the game playing process in an educational RPG (role playing game). Such a game was developed, based on the theme of the OSI model of computer networking, and used to teach this concept to university level computing students who usually find the topic difficult to understand. The overall aim was to examine how gameplay experiences could inform the process of learning: a grounded theory approach influenced the methodology of data collection and analysis and provided a framework for gameplay description and interpretation.


This work aims to study the effect of Nd-YAG laser treatment on surface modification and corrosion behavior of AISI 316L stainless steel which is the most widely used as implant bio material in the artificial saliva solution at 37 ±1°C. The samples were irradiated with Nd:YAG laser with various pulse repetition rates (or frequencies) of 1,3 and 6 Hz and with two wavelengths of 1064 nm and 532 nm at fixed energy of 1000 mj. Microstructure examinations by optical and SEM were performed before and after laser treatment. Corrosion tests were carried out by using potentiostat instrument and the corrosion rate was measured by Tafel extrapolation method, also cyclic polarization was done to study the active- passive behavior of stainless steel 316L in saliva solution. It has been found that the treated samples at different laser conditions have hardness higher than that of untreated sample. The results showed that the hardness increased slightly with decreasing the pulse repetition rate or frequency from 6 to 1 Hz at 1064nm, also a surface modification and grain refinement were noticed. Corrosion results indicated that the treated samples with 1Hz with 532 nm and 1064 nm showed higher corrosion resistance than untreated base alloy and other treated samples.


Magistral in scope and rich in topical detail, Professor Fleming's brave masterpiece will provoke earnest argument and some strident disagreement. It is no less than a &dquo;revisionist&dquo; history of the cold war, intended, in the author's words, &dquo;to present the other side, how it looks to 'the enemy,' in the belief that this is essential to the avoidance of the final grand smash.&dquo; Granted this purpose, few readers will deny that the author has presented a strong brief. Whether such a declared purpose


Continuous improvement of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) involves fine-tuning its workings from time to time. We performed a series of data-driven analyses on student log data from Mindspark to understand usage patterns and identify ways to make the ITS more effective. We found that eighty percent of students did not complete all topics on Mindspark as they spent less than the recommended time on Mindspark and repeated concepts. The repetition of concepts was not because they used Mindspark insincerely. We are making improvements to the system based on the findings.


Given a multiple time series sharing common autoregressive patterns, we estimate an additive model. The autoregressive component and the individual random effects are estimated by integrating maximum likelihood estimation and best linear unbiased predictions in a backfitting algorithm. The simulation study illustrated that the estimation procedure provides an alternative to the Arellano–Bond generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator of the panel model when T > N and the Arellano–Bond generally diverges. The estimator has high predictive ability. In cases where T ≤ N, the backfitting estimator is at least comparable to Arellano–Bond estimator.


Using detailed geographical and household survey data from Nepal, this article investigates the relationship between isolation and subjective welfare. We examine how distance to markets and proximity to large urban centers are associated with responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Results show that isolation is associated with a significant reduction in subjective assessments of income and consumption adequacy, even after controlling for consumption expenditures and other factors. The reduction in subjective welfare associated with isolation is much larger for households that are already relatively close to markets. These findings suggest that welfare assessments based on monetary income and consumption may seriously underestimate the subjective welfare cost of isolation.


Although the heterocyclic aromatic amines in fish processing has been widely reported, yet these compounds in milkfish fried with used cooking oil is still lacking. Therefore, this study is aimed to analyze the content of heterocyclic aromatic amine compounds  along with the heavy metals (Ni, Pb, Hg and Cd) in milkfish fry kantinogen treated with cooking oil. Chemical components were identified according to Gross method using gravity chromatography with gel 60 as the stationary phase and purified by column Sephadex LH20, and checked by UV spectrometry, IR, and HPLC. The compound PhIP (2-Amino-I-Methyl-6-Fenilnidazo [4,5-b] pyridine), obtained by analysis, is thought to be caused by the influence of cooking oil. By atomic absorption spectrophotometer was nickel (Ni) with an average concentration of 1.6075 ± 0.2405 mg/kg. The role of nickel compounds in milkfish fry genotoksit is suspected as a trigger effect on PhIP compound. Keyword : Fried Milk Fish, Reused Oil, Nickel, PhIP.


Chazelle (JACM 47(6), 2000) devised an approximate meldable priority queue data structure, called Soft Heaps, and used it to obtain the fastest known deterministic comparison-based algorithm for computing minimum spanning trees, as well as some new algorithms for selection and approximate sorting problems. If n elements are inserted into a collection of soft heaps, then up to en of the elements still contained in these heaps, for a given error parameter e, may be corrupted, i.e., have their keys artificially increased. In exchange for allowing these corruptions, each soft heap operation is performed in O(log 1/e) amortized time.

Chazelle's soft heaps are derived from the binomial heaps data structure in which each priority queue is composed of a collection of binomial trees. We describe a simpler and more direct implementation of soft heaps in which each priority queue is composed of a collection of standard binary trees. Our implementation has the advantage that no clean-up operations similar to the ones used in Chazelle's implementation are required. We also present a concise and unified potential-based amortized analysis of the new implementation.


The median FTSE 100 CEO took home £3.41 million in 2021. This is the highest level of median CEO pay since 2018, and is an increase of 39% on the median FTSE 100 CEO pay in 2020, which stood at £2.46 million. The median FTSE 100 CEO pay of £3.41 million is 109 times the median earnings of a UK full-time worker in 2021 (£31,285) [1]. This represents an increase from 79:1 last year and has widened beyond the gap of 107:1 in 2019. Mean FTSE 100 CEO pay was likewise higher than the previous year, at £4.26 million, up from £3.4 million in 2020. The highest paid FTSE 100 CEO received a total of £16.85 million, at Endeavour. This is 539 times the pay of the median UK full-time worker. 90% of FTSE 100 companies paid their CEO a bonus in 2021, compared to just 64% in 2020 and 89% in 2019. The mean bonus payment increased from £828k in 2020 to £1,431k in 2021. 77% of FTSE 100 companies paid their CEO a payment as part of a Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), the same as in 2020. The mean LTIP payment increased from £1,379k in 2020 to £1,610k in 2021. The median total spend on executive pay (including the CEOs and other executives) for FTSE 100 companies was £6.3 million. There were 9 female FTSE 100 CEOs in 2021, up from 7 in 2020. Excluding Harbour and Entain's female CEOs, who were appointed midway through the financial year, the median pay of the remaining 7 female CEOs, who were in role for the duration of the 2021 financial year, was £3.01 million. This is below the median pay of male FTSE 100 CEOs at £3.49 million. The median FTSE 250 CEO was paid £1.72 million in 2021, a 38% increase on the 2020 figure of £1.25 million. The median FTSE 250 CEO is paid 55 times the median UK worker. This is a significant increase from 40:1 in 2020. Summary of key findings UK CEO Pay report 2021: High Pay Centre and TUC


The method based on spiral array radial line slot antennas (SA-RLSA) is proposed to generate four modes of orbital angular momentum(OAM) in this paper. The phase of the radiation field is adjusted by changing the length of each loop gap, and eight coaxial probes at the parallel plate waveguide (PPW) are excited with a constant amplitude and progressive difference to generate four radial modes. SA-RLSA can realize four modes of OAM ranging from 30 to 32GHz. SA-RLSA can not only maintains low-profile and compact construction but also achieves the simulated maximum gain of 24 dBic. It uses the concentric slot arrangement to generate OAM and has the potential to be used in future 6G OAM multiplexing.


Inferior heat power generation can make great profit for factory. As the development of thermoelectric material (TEM), power generation with thermoelectric generators has become a new application area. This paper focuses on applications of low-temperature cogeneration with TEM from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics. A sandwich-like heat exchanger has completed for TEM in this paper. In addition, the system has successfully provided power for illumination in workshops of Baosteel industrial park. In detail, this paper raises a new internal structure of cylinder fins structure and a new external structure of sandwich-like structure for heat exchanger applied on inferior heat power generation in factory. These structures improve the generating efficiency greatly. It is a big step for researches and applications for TEM.


The expanded utilization of social media has an effect in everyday life exercises. Because of the expanded use of texting applications, individuals' correspondences are changed in a totally extraordinary way. As the worry for individual's security began to expand, the application suppliers began to build their applications with protection highlights. These overhauls empower the individuals to convey in a safe way thus does the lawbreakers. Despite the fact that the exchanging the messages are being encoded, breaking down the system traffic of those correspondences can uncover a few intriguing data. In this paper, the protected system traffic of secure texting application LINE was investigated and the discoveries of data about included text message, voice/video call, client exercises and different examples about the application's use were introduced. These curios can be utilized in criminal examination in the realm of cybercrime and furnish the agent with data about the application client and their exercises.


Thsis paper discusses the "Tai Xuan Fu".Which has been considered as Yangxiong's work over a long time,and is taken as an important reference material for researching the Tai Xuan,in fact the "Tai Xuanfu" is a pseudo work.


Objectives: To determine whether new‐onset clinical depression emerges over time, and whether positive and negative mood levels change among patients with terminal cancer.


The Cd 0.3 Zn 0.7 S-ZnS strained-layer superlattices has for the first time been fabricated on (100)GaAs substrates by a low-pressure MOCVD method. Exciton luminescence properties were investigated by the photoluminescence spectroscopies which show that the quantum confinement effect of excitons occurs in the CdZnS alloy layer. Temperature dependence of the exciton properties reveals a dominant scattering process which originates from exciton-phonon interaction(Γ 10 =68meV). Nevertheless, the large exciton binding energy of about 166meV makes it possible to produce the exciton peak at room temperature. The effect of external electric field on the exciton intensity and its peak position is found and is tentatively interpreted in terms of a quantum confined Stark effect.


There are many types of bioreactors used for producing bacteria populations in commercial, medical and research applications. This report presents a systematic discussion of some of the most import ...


The transonic flow problem is an important one in fluid dynamics or gas dynamics. Local solvability of the mixed problem of Chaplygin's hodograph equation in hyperbolic bounded domains near the degenerate line is considered by using abc method.


Abstract Rationale: Granulocytic sarcoma (GS) is an extramedullary myeloid tumor composed of immature cells of the granulocytic series. It rarely occurs in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). No case of long-term survival in an APL patient with recurrent GS has been reported. Patient concerns: A 54-year-old female patient was diagnosed with APL in 1995 and has been in complete remission (CR) of bone marrow morphology for 24 years; however, recurrent GS occurred successively in ovary, breast, spine, body of sternum, lymph nodes, soft tissues from 2004 to 2019. Diagnoses: The immunohistochemistry confirmed the diagnosis of GS, and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) revealed its origin from APL. Interventions: She received surgery, and had an excellent response to all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), DA (daunorubicin combined with cytarabine) regimens, and arsenic trioxide (ATO). Outcomes: The patient achieved CR in March 2020 after radiotherapy followed by ATO and ATRA. So far, she is still in follow-up. Lessons: It is rare that recurrent GS at multiple sites is involved in APL patient with bone marrow morphology in CR. It is interesting to observe a long-term excellent response to ATRA, chemotherapy and ATO. Although multiple recurrence of GS in patients with APL is rare, the data in this case highlight the need for individualized treatment when such conditions occur.


We isolated 13 polymorphic microsatellite markers from the satin bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus from a genomic library enriched in (AAGG)(n) repetitive elements and characterized them in 20 individuals. The number of alleles ranged from two to 18 per locus with the observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.15 to 1.00. These markers will be useful for analysing questions concerning parentage, population genetic structure and models of speciation.


ABSTRACT Working long hours has become a routinised part of life in East Asia. The different patterns of overtime across this region are understudied, however. This study represents a first systematic attempt to analyse overtime and its determinants in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China by testing hypotheses that specify the distinctive influences of employment status and job contracts on work hours. Class exploitation, post-industrialism and flexibility theories are mobilised to identify distinctive but supplementary factors in long working hours. Using data from a recent four-country survey, a Tobit regression analysis of full-time workers' hours reveals that employers and self-employed people work longer hours than hired workers across this region. Despite this convergence, there is a contrast across occupations. In Japan, overtime is positively associated with occupational prestige, while a reverse pattern operates in China, where low-skilled workers work more overtime. Contract workers in the private sector in South Korea and China also have longer overtime when compared to public sector employees. In sum, this study highlights more divergence than convergence of working conditions within East Asia.


A scheme that puts nurses instantly in touch with occupational health teams if they call in sick has reduced the amount of time taken off work. Before NHS Lanarkshire introduced Easy Access to Support for You (EASY) an average of 325 nurses - 8 per cent of its workforce - were calling in sick each day.


This article analyzes present nurse collocation and arrangement in the hospital and finds that there are serious absentin nurse personnel. The ratio of opening bed and nurse is 1:0.39. The ratio of bed and nurse is 1:0.325 according to 960 inpatientsper day. The ratio of doctor and nurse is lower than 1:2 which is a standard enacted by MOH. More working pricks up theabsence of nurses. Moreover, the primary training of nurse is lower. There is few nurses with higher professional position so thatit is impossible for nurses to work according with professional position. Arrangement of nurse working is unreasonable. Suitablenurse personnel are the resolvent. At the same time, enhancing logistic services, nursing workers system, higher effectiveness innurse personnel, unified distribution of nurse personnel, suitable incentive system and so on, would be helpful to resolve thisproblem.


In a paper, features of business, or economic ecosystems, considered in relation to the ecosystems of bio-shere, with the usage of four-typed system language of description is analyzed. Such a tool of system interpretation, according to G.B.Kleiner, includes presentation of systems as objects, environments, processes and projects which in relation to social-economic ecosystems have connotation to organizations, infrastructural formations, business-processes and innovative projects. To characterize features of business-ecosystems, besides the four-typed system language, corresponding institutional notions are offered whose study is taken with the analogical system positions where institutions, according to B.H.Yerznkyan, are presented in a role of objects (players – economic agents), environments (market, firm or hybrid rules of the game), processes (the play of the game), projects (long-time norms of behavior). Features of different business-ecosystems with indication of dominated characteristics are analyzed which are as follows: innovation-oriented industrial clusters as objective (organizational) systems, technological platforms as environmental systems, networks or related by networking structures as processed systems and business-incubators as projective systems. In such context the ecosystem serves as an "umbrella" term to characterize the all of its types.


AbstractThe following sections are included:Career Decision MakingModels for Vocational GuidanceVocational Interests of Young AdultsKnowledge and System Engineering for Vocational GuidanceCalculating the Goodness of FitMatching Careers to Individual InterestsImplementation of the Expert AdvisorSystem Implementation and Product DevelopmentEvaluation of the Expert AdvisorCareer and System Options


A new c(2)3Σ+ state of NaK connected to Na(3S)+K(4P) has been studied through its numerous, weak interactions with the nearby B(1)1Π state. Very small (>10 MHz) energy shifts in perturbed B 1Π, V, J levels were detected by measuring the Λ doubling using e–f Stark mixing spectroscopy. Fifty centers of perturbation were located and attributed to 21 different vibrational levels of the perturbing c(2)3Σ+ state. Comparison of preliminary molecular constants with existing electronic structure calculations shows good consistency with Stevens et al. (1984), but some inconsistency with Jeung et al. (1983), and indicates the index of the lowest observed vibrational levels V0≊20. The identification of this c(2)3Σ+ state has been deduced from (i) the observation of the infrared fluorescence to the lower triplet a(1)3Σ+ state, and (ii) the determination of spin–orbit interaction matrix elements and selection rules as deduced from the measurement of frequency shifts in B 1Π–X 1Σ+ lines connected to perturbed levels of ...


Background: Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-inducible transcription factor mediating toxic effects of dioxins and uremic toxins. However, AhR has recently emerged as a pathophysiological regulator of immune-inflammatory conditions including atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation. Moreover, uremic toxin such as indoxyl sulfate is associated with cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Here, we investigated a potential role of AhR in indoxyl sulfate-induced leukocyte-endothelial interactions. Results: Endothelial cell specific AhR knockout (eAhR KO) mice were generated by crossing AhR floxed mice to Tie2 Cre mice. 200 mg/kg/day of indoxyl sulfate was administrated subcutaneously by osmotic pump for 2 weeks, followed by intraperitoneal injection of 2 μg of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). Intravital microscopic analysis in femoral artery revealed that indoxyl sulfate dramatically enhanced TNF-α-induced leukocyte recruitment to vascular wall, however in eAhR KO mic...