This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of different levels of nitrogen and plant density on sweet corn growth and yield and weeds biomass and population. Treatments were arranged in a split-split plot based on randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replicates. The treatments were the amount of urea fertilizer at five levels (75, 150, 225 and 300 kg/ha) and plant density at three levels (40000, 50000 and 62500 plants/ha). The results of this study showed that the application of fertilizer treatments significantly increased the number of grains per ear, grain weight per plant and grain yield. The weight of ear with 225 and 300 kg/ha of nitrogen fertilizer in within-row plant space of 15 and 20 cm, was less than 25 cm spacing. Also, Grain weight per plant at levels of 225 and 300 kg/ha nitrogen fertilizer and 15 cm spacing, was less amount than 25 cm spacing. The greatest weight of ear (45 percent higher than control) was recorded when corn plants were planted in 25 cm spacing with 300 kg/ha nitrogen fertilizer. Maximum grain yield (398 gr/m 2 belonged to 150 kg/ha) that was 123 percent higher than control. Grain yield in 15 and 20 cm spacing was 19.1 and 26.3 percent more than 25 cm spacing. In this study, the increasing density had a significantly reduced the number of pigweed per square meter. 15 cm spacing had less number of pigweed compared to 25 cm spacing. Also, the treatment of 150, 225 and 300 kg/ha nitrogen fertilizer were 20, 18.8 and 27.4 percent higher than control, respectively. The weight of pigweed was obtained 105 g/m 2 in 15 cm spacing that was 18.6 percent lower than 25 cm spacing. Also, the weight of pigweed at 15 cm spacing was 19.1 percent lower than 20 and 25 cm spacing, respectively.


Objective  In Southeast Asia, malaria vectors bite outside the houses before bedtime, and forest dwellers rarely use insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs). Thus, we tested the protection of long‐lasting insecticidal hammocks (LLIH) using Olyset™ technology against exophagic vectors in two forest villages of Cambodia.


In our study, we aimed to investigate the effects of lower or upper extremity resistance exercises on lung function and quality of life in people with chronic respiratory problems. Twenty chronic lung patients and 15 healthy subjects aged 35-80 were volunteered. In total 4 groups were formed by dividing t hese two groups randomly into 2 subgroups within themselves to perform lower and upper extremity resistance exercises. The home exercise program was 2-3 times a day, 3 days a week, and how to perform exercises were demonstrated to the participants. The training duration was planned for 2 to 4 months. Before and after the training program respiratory functions (FEV 1, FVC, FEV1/ FVC, PEF, MEF75, MEF50, MEF25 ) of the participants were evaluated by spirometric measurements and the quality of life was determined by St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ). The statistical significance level was accepted as p 0,05). After the exercise program, the quality of life questionnaire scores of the patient group decreased significantly (p <0,001). As a result, it was seen that mild/moderate lower or upper extremity resistance exercises in patients with chronic lung problems could improve the quality of life if performed regularly in the home environment. Additionally, it was thought that in order to transform this quality improvement into the spirometric measurements, better planning of the intensity and closer monitoring of continuity of exercise could be useful.


Wireless sensor network applications require tiny sized sensors with short transmission communication or signaling range which reduce the chances of detection. These size constraints cause limitations on CPU speed, amount of memory, RF bandwidth and battery lifetime. And therefore, efficient communication techniques are essential for increasing the lifetime and quality of data collection and decreasing the communication latency of such wireless devices. In this paper, the performance of a Quality of serviced based routing scheme (QUES) is compared with other existing algorithms and it is proved that QUES algorithm performs better than other existing routing algorithms namely SPIN, PEGASIS and WEED by transmitting different types of movie for experiment. The test results show that QUES algorithm performs better related to the parameters bandwidth, delay, error rate, and percentage of data loss, Connection establishment time and the number of hops used in the communication path.


Kampar Regency consists of countries that are allied and under one umbrella under the banner of custom and culture that is not weathered by heat or weathered by rain. Everyone expects the birth of a prosperous, independent and accomplished society under the control of progress (Ninik Mamak/Datuk/Penghulu) who actually hold religion and culture, more specifically holding the tamaddun culture (Indigenous Basandi Syara-Syara Basandi Kitabullah) Implementation of dispute resolution of domestic violence Currently also known as the traditional concept of Tigo Furnace Sajorangan, Tigo Bapilin Tali is a model for implementing government collaboration with Ninik Mamak in Kampar Regency, namely the local government, ninik mamak and alim ulama, so as long as customs are maintained and maintained, the recognition of customary dispute resolution in Kampar Regency, Riau Province based on existing laws and regulations in Indonesia.


Are the digital platforms that we know here to stay? Both empirical insights and theoretical works suggest digital platform stability. Digital platforms such as Airbnb, Netflix and Taobao have experienced tremendous success, and the theoretical works on modularity and multisided markets depict competitive platform landscapes as controlled by a hegemonic platform leader. However, platform history chronicles multiple cases of leadership shifts in platform ecosystems. In this paper, we coin these situations "platform overthrows" and uncover the relevant strategies for both a challenger to conduct a platform overthrow and for a platform leader to resist it. To do so we conducted an inductive protocol to re-interpret 27 already-published cases of platform overthrow attempts. Our results suggest that, during a platform overthrow attempt, both players articulate functional expansion and technical genericity. Accordingly, we formulate propositions that account for the strategies at play during a platform overthrow attempt. We discuss these results regarding the digital platform literature on competition and conclude that the study of platform overthrow can yield useful insights on the future of digital platforms.


Potassium (K) is a macronutrient in plants and also a major constituent of several soil minerals. It plays an important role in plant tolerance to various stress conditions such as cold, hot temperature, drought, pest and disease problems. Besides, it acts as catalyst for many of the enzymatic processes in plants that are necessary for plant growth. It has been reported that most of the K forms are insoluble in nature and has to be converted into soluble forms during plant growth by microbial consortia (Han and Lee, 2006). K is instrumental in plant metabolism by supplying energy required for metabolic processes (Laxmilal, 2002). Potassium deficiency occurs frequently in plants under stress periods in which yellowing of leaves, stunted growth, heavy flowering, scorching of leaf margins and die-back of the leaf tip could be noticed. Application of K enhances the pest and disease resistance in plants by strengthening of wood, leaf veins and guard cells in stomata and increasing the cuticle thickness in leaves (Chandra and Greep, 2006).


Material recycle/reuse is one of the key strategies in reducing the consumption of fresh resources in the process industries. Over the past decade, several techniques have been developed to reduce the consumption of specific material utilities such as water and hydrogen. To date, none of the published techniques provides a noniterative, systematic, and graphical technique for identifying a target for minimum usage of the fresh resources ahead of detailed design of the recycle/reuse network. In this paper, we present a rigorous graphical targeting approach to minimize the use of fresh resources by using segregation, mixing, and direct recycle/reuse strategies. First, the problem is formulated mathematically to provide a systematic basis for its solution. Then, dynamic programming techniques are employed to derive the mathematical conditions and characteristics of an optimal solution strategy. These conditions and characteristics are transformed into a graphical form that can be readily used to identify rig...


Discovering neutrino decay would be strong evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. Presently, there are only lax lower limits on the lifetime $\tau$ of neutrinos, of $\tau/m \sim 10^{-3}$ s eV$^{-1}$ or worse, where $m$ is the unknown neutrino mass. High-energy cosmic neutrinos, with TeV-PeV energies, offer superior sensitivity to decay due to their cosmological-scale baselines. To tap into it, we employ a promising method, recently proposed, that uses the Glashow resonance $\bar{\nu}_e + e \to W$, triggered by $\bar{\nu}_e$ of 6.3 PeV, to test decay with only a handful of detected events. If most of the $\nu_1$ and $\nu_2$ decay into $\nu_3$ en route to Earth, no Glashow resonance would occur in neutrino telescopes, because the remaining $\nu_3$ have only a tiny electron-flavor content. We turn this around and use the recent first detection of a Glashow resonance candidate in IceCube to place new lower limits on the lifetimes of $\nu_1$ and $\nu_2$. For $\nu_2$, our limit is the current best. For $\nu_1$, our limit is close to the current best and, with the imminent detection of a second Glashow resonance, will vastly surpass it.


Cardiac protection is a broad term that refers to all strategies aimed at the attenuation of the damage caused by myocardial ischaemia (MI) and reperfusion. The term is used both in the experimental and clinical field, embracing a very wide (too wide in fact!) range of conditions from reduction of coronary atherosclerosis progression to an immediate reduction of the myocardial infarct size due to acute ischaemia and/or reperfusion. There is no doubt that cardiac protection is a story of broad success but there are also some failures. Indeed, the progression of coronary atherosclerosis can be reduced with angiotensin II inhibitors and statins with a consequential improvement of outcome. Equally, after the demonstration that coronary thrombosis is the cause and not the result of MI, timely restoration of blood flow (reperfusion) has become the standard treatment for these patients, with a corresponding limitation of infarct size, long-term improvement of MI and, more importantly, a reduction in mortality. Despite this success, however, the process of late restoration of blood flow to the ischaemic myocardium can paradoxically induce injury, a phenomenon known as reperfusion injury (RI). Therefore, the major challenge of cardiac protection today is to reduce RI. The problem is that RI is a complex phenomenon, involving many unclearly defined players, all contributing to the final damage that is inflicted on the heart. RI was originally described as a cell swelling, hyper-contracture or disruption of the intra-cellular structure and, in time, has progressed to at least four other types of cardiac dysfunction such as: myocardial stunning, the no-reflow phenomenon, reperfusion arrhythmias and finally lethal reperfusion injury described as an independent mediator of cardiomyocyte death (either necrosis, apoptosis, autophagy or necroptosis), different from ischaemic injury. Several approaches to reduce RI were tried with antioxidants, aderosine, beta and CA2+ blockers, statins, glucose with or without insulin and K, Trimetazidine, cyclosporine and other inhibitors of the Ca2+ pore – all without success. Recently, non-pharmacological interventions have also been proposed to reduce RI, mainly pre and post conditioning. The ideas come from the experimental laboratory, showing that brief cycles of ischaemia and reperfusion performed before a prolonged coronary occlusion or after reperfusion reduced infarct size in dogs. However, when applied to the clinic (mainly post-conditioning as pre-conditioning is difficult) protocols produced good results in small, proof of concept trials but not in a large randomised clinical trial.


John Minsheu's 1599 A Dictionary of Spanish and English, a revised and augmented second edition of Richard Percivall's 1591 Biblioteca Hispánica, contains the first solely English/Spanish wordlist. An investigation of this work not only reveals some overlooked sources and techniques of compilation but also offers insights into the lexicographical methods used in the much larger and more important Ductor in Linguas that Minsheu published in 1617.


Urban land use dynamics has been an important issue for LUCC. But as many factors are involved, and for the lack of corresponding time-serial data, dynamic study of urban land use is a hard nut to crack. This article aims at obtaining a function that can describe the dynamic process of the change of urban land magnitude. We start at the rank-size rule by urban population and the rank-size rule by urban built-up area, and derive a mathematical relationship that the land use size of a city and its population observe the law of allo-metric growth, which is derived from biological studies. In other words, when we consider a city as an organism, at least it has two organs, the size of the built-up area and the population of such an area, where the growth rate of the former is in proportion to the growth rate of the latter.Because of the lack of time-serial data of urban built-up area-population, we substitute urban non-agricultural residents for built-up area population and do regression analysis for the allometric growth relationship. Forty cities in China are presented for the case study, and the results verify the theoretical relationship.Then we deduce a function consisted of the size of built-up area, the total population and the GDP (gross domestic product) per capita of the city. It is as follows:lgs = c(lgp + lglgy) + kwhere s represents urban built-up area, p is the total population of a city, y is the GDP per capita of the city, and c and k are parameters. We have presented many large cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin etc. as experiential studies, and gained such a function by regression analysis of a time-serial data of those cities. Results show that the function is correctly derived.Our results can be used to predict the size change of built-up area of a city in China that is being in the rapid urbanization.


The article presents a review of some methods (their strengths and weaknesses) in the context of approaches to the financial appraisal of brand value. The authors carry out an analysis of the brand valuation techniques used in the practice of Interbrand, Brand Finance, V-RATIO. On the basis of summarization of the approaches, the paper highlights the factors to be taken into account during financial assessment of the brand value according to one or more of the methods considered.


The active early warning system of ship–bridge collision avoidance is a hot topic in academic research; however, in practical applications, false alarms and missing alarms often occur. To deal with this problem, we propose an algorithm on ship–bridge collision risk that considers the ship's dimension. First, we establish a cartesian coordinate system, and then we propose an algorithm on the ship–bridge collision risk that considers the ship's dimensions and the relationship between the geometric position of the ship, pier, and channel. The algorithm comprehensively considers the pier layout, navigation span, channel, and bridge in the bridge area. Secondly, according to the algorithm, we propose an active warning strategy to warn facilities about the risk of a collision between a ship and bridge. Finally, taking the Shanghai–Nantong Yangtze River Bridge as an example, we applied the algorithm to the active early warning system of a ship–bridge collision risk. The results showed that the calculation results of this algorithm were basically consistent with the actual ship collision risk; thus, the algorithm can accurately predict the ship collision risk. The algorithm can considerably increase the ship–bridge collision risk prediction accuracy, and it is conducive to the warning system application.


United States Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, Florida. Chief Scientists: Dave Zawada, Kim Yates. Equipment servicing, equipment deployment data of planned field activity 14CRS01 (S-L1-14-FL) in Florida Keys from 03/09/2014 to 03/22/2014, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/s/sl114fl/html/s-l1-14-fl.meta.html.


Objective To study prospectively the changes of heart rate variability following intravenous propofol, and fentanyl combined propofol anesthesia during painless artificial abortion. Methods Forty five patients aged 18~38 years ,ASA gradeⅠ, scheduled for painless artificial abortion. Patients were randomly allocated into three groups( n =15): groupⅠreceived continuous intravenous propofol, group Ⅱ received intravenous administration of fentanyl 1 μg/kg 2 min before given propofol, group Ⅲ received intravenous administration of fentanyl 2 μg/kg 2 min before given propofol. Propofol infusion rate was 2 mg·kg -1 ·min -1 in all three groups,As BIS was close to 55±5, and the remaining 10 s before operation. In each groups HRV(LF, HF, LF/HF, LF+HF), BIS, MAP and HR parameters were recorded before induction and operation; during the operation and 1 min, 5 min, 10 min, 20 min after the operation. The total dose of propofol ,OAA/S scale 20 min after operation and restless moving were recorded during the operation.Results There were no differences in age, weight, total dose of propofol, OAA/S scale 20 min after operation among the groups. In the three groups MAP were lower after induction and 1 min after operation( P 0.05 ),but there were no differences among them. Compared with that in groupⅠ and Ⅱ,HR in group Ⅲ decreased significantly after the induction, during the operation and 1~5 min after operation( P 0.05 ). BIS decreased significantly after the induction and 1~5 min after operation( P 0.05 ) and remained unchanged during the operation in the three groups. There were no differences among these groups.HRV with every spectrum was lower after induction in all three groups ( P 0.05 ), especially HRV, LF( P 0.01 ). Comparing with those in groupⅠandⅡ, HRV, LF and LF+HF in group Ⅲ were lower during the operation and 1~5 min after operation( P 0.05 and P 0.01). The records before induction showed HF in all three groups increased significantly 5,10,20 min after operation( P 0.05). There were no differences among groups in the total dose of propofol, OAA/S scale 20 min after the operation. Compared with that in group Ⅰ and Ⅱ,restless moving in group Ⅲ decreased significantly during the operation ( P =0.00426).Conclusion Fentanyl 2 μg/kg inhibit significantly the excitation of sympatheti adrenal and sympathetic adrenomedullary system and reduce the restless moving during painless artificial abortion induced by intravenous poprofol, but does not delay the significant resurrection.


A new method based on modified self-organizing maps is presented for the reconstruction of deep ocean current velocities from surface information provided by satellites. This method takes advantage of local correlations in the data-space to improve the accuracy of the reconstructed deep velocities. No assumptions regarding the structure of the water column, nor the underlying dynamics of the flow field, are made. Using satellite observations of surface velocity, sea-surface height and sea-surface temperature, as well as observations of the deep current velocity from autonomous Argo floats to train the map, we are able to reconstruct realistic high-resolution velocity fields at a depth of 1000 m. Validation reveals promising results, with a speed root mean squared error of ~2.8 cm. $\text{s}^{-1}$ , more than a factor of two smaller than competing methods, and direction errors consistently smaller than 30°. Finally, we discuss the merits and shortcomings of this methodology.


Rates of uptake and release of phosphorus compounds by four species of freshwater algae grown in axenic culture at phosphorus concentrations similar to lake water showed that an exchange of phosphate between the cells and the medium was the principal phosphorus flux. Algal-P showed turnover times as short as 69 min but no regular growth phase–turnover time relationship was found. During growth of the cultures, phosphate in the medium became depleted and turnover times as short as 2.7 min were measured. Significant amounts of dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) were excreted. Some appeared to be of colloidal size.


Allport's (1954) intergroup contact hypothesis states that interactions with members of an out-group, particularly of a different racial and/or ethnic group, are effective in changing attitudes about diversity (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew, 1998). In this study, the intergroup contact hypothesis was applied to the design of a sport management course. The classroom component focused the role of sport in education, health, and leadership development, and the application was structured sport and physical activity programming with school-age children at several urban sites. Data were gathered from 91 college students over 3 years about course-related experiences and how the students' backgrounds influenced their social identities and understanding of out-group members. Results showed that intergroup contact effectively assisted in developing understanding and cooperation and reducing negative attitudes between groups. The participants received diversity education, via intergroup contact, both inside and outside t...


The emergence of chaos in an atom-field system is studied employing both semiclassical and numerical quantum techniques, taking advantage of the algebraic character of the Hamiltonian. A semiclassical Hamiltonian is obtained by considering the expectation value of the quantum Hamiltonian in Glauber (for the field) and Bloch (for the atoms) coherent states. Regular and chaotic regions are identified by looking at the Poincaré sections for different energies and parameter values. An analytical expression for the semiclassical energy density of states is obtained by integrating the available phase space, which provides an exact unfolding to extract the fluctuations in the level statistics. Quantum chaos is recognized in these fluctuations, as a function of the coupling strength, for different regions in the energy spectrum, evaluating the Anderson–Darling (A–D) parameter, which distinguishes the Wigner- or Poisson-like distributions. Peres lattices play a role similar to the Poincaré section for quantum states. They are calculated employing efficient numerical solutions and are a powerful visual tool to identify individual states belonging to a regular or chaotic region, classified by utilizing the Poincaré sections and the A–D parameter. Finally, the quantum Husimi function for selected excited states is shown to have a noticeable similitude with the Poincaré sections at the same energy.


Despite the fact that many publications have dealt with asphaltene onset pressure (AOP) lines during the last 2 or 3 decades, no explicit method for tracing these and other related boundaries from equation of state (EoS) models has been proposed in the literature. In this work, a new integral algorithmic strategy for the construction of complete phase envelope diagrams based on an EoS is presented. The method of Michelsen for tracing two-phase boundaries is used, while for three-phase saturation lines, an equivalent method was designed, including a second set of K factors and a phase fraction as extra independent variables. The double-saturation point is defined, and its importance is highlighted, from both phase behavior and algorithmic perspectives. Specific issues as recognition of unstable segments, such as false bubble curves, are also discussed. Three different fluids from the literature are taken as case studies to illustrate the application of the proposed strategy and discuss different types of b...


After the phacoemulsification technique was implemented in ophthalmic practice surgeries to replace the clouded lens have become routine for ophthalmologists. Today, over half a million phacoemulsification surgeries are annually conducted in Russia. Cataract combined with endocrine ophthalmopathy poses a significant challenge for an operating surgeon because of the unusual anatomical presentation of the orbit and the eyeball, as well as the elevated intraocular pressure caused by edema of the orbital tissues (i.e., retrobulbar tissue and extraocular muscles) rather than by primary glaucoma.
We analyze the features of surgical treatment of the cataract involving intraocular lens implantation in a patient with Graves' disease and endocrine ophthalmopathy complicated by secondary ocular hypertension, optical neuropathy, and lagophthalmos.
After restoring the euthyroid state and reducing the severity of endocrine ophthalmopathy, phacoemulsification was performed in both eyes, with an interval of 2 months. Neither intra- nor postoperative complications of the patients' organ of vision were observed. The maximum corrected visual acuity achieved on both eyes was 0.4–0.5 in the Snellen eye chart.


Globalization of the construction industry has brought unique challenges such as coordination among project participants from different countries. This research attempts to understand cultural differences in international joint-venture (IJV) teams composed of Japanese and American participants, and to develop a prototype computational model— "Cross-Cultural"-Virtual Design Team (CC-VDT)—to seek better organization designs for cross-cultural engineering teams. Based on our case studies, we characterize cultural differences along the dimension of cultural values and cultural practices. Cultural values refer to an individual's preferences in decision making and communication. Cultural practices include the cultural norms for adopting specific coordination mechanisms to control organizations and tasks. CC-VDT incorporates value-practice dimensions based on our observations and a literature survey. The simulated results of the effects of cultural impacts are qualitatively consistent with cultural contingency theory and our observations, validating the reasoning of CC-VDT. These results extend the possibility of using simulation modeling to capture distinguishing cross-cultural phenomena that emerge in global construction projects.


Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0) ABSTRACT This assessment was specifically carried out to identify the avian species present in the study area, describe its distribution, determine its frequency, ascertain their conservation status, and enumerate the anthropogenic factors that influence their presence in the sampling sites.


Radiographs of the lumbar spine in sitting and standing positions demonstrate sliding movements of the vertebral bodies to an unexpected extent, as a sign of the instability of the lumbar spine. These observations suggest some ideas for the construction of chairs.


Means for generating a data signal with a readjusted, optimum sampling time from an oversampled data signal in a radio receiver, comprising - a hardware device (HW) for calculating a Abtastzeitfehlers of the oversampled data signal (x - calculated a DSP for monitoring in the hardware unit (HW) Abtastzeitfehlers and for generating an engaging instruction, if, based on the calculated Abtastzeitfehlers that the optimum sampling time drifts over a Abtastzeitdauergrenze of the oversampled data signal, - a correction unit (KE) which is adapted to correct the in the hardware unit (HW) calculated sampling time in response to an engaging instruction from the DSP, and - an interpolator (TVI), the computed from the oversampled data signal in response to the in the hardware unit (HW) and at the instigation of the DSP optionally corrected sampling time calculates the data signal with a readjusted, optimum sampling time.


This paper proposes a modified theory of expectation formation. The hypothesis of generational expectations (GE), unlike the widely accepted hypothesis of rational expectations, assumes that agents from their inflationary expectations using the most economical information set – their personal experience with inflation. The GE hypothesis incorporates the realistic assumptions of heterogenous information sets and bounded rationality. Several alternative expectational hypotheses are compared in terms of properties of inflation forecasts and estimates of a version of natural-rate aggregate supply functions and age-group-specific Phillips curves. It is shown that GE performs just as well or even better than other methods.


The present disclosure relates to rules and apparatus for playing a combat-style board game (10) including playing pieces (20) and more specifically where the playing pieces (20) have indicia (40) relating to game play. In addition, the present disclosure relates to rules and apparatus for playing a game (10) including playing pieces (20) that link together to form a larger playing piece (20).


A novel method for direct impedance measurement using a common vector network analyzer (VNA) is introduced and experimentally verified. In commonly used methods, the input impedance or admittance of a device-under-test (DUT) is derived from the measured value of its reflection coefficient causing serious inaccuracy problems for very high and very low impedances. The proposed method makes it possible to measure a quantity that is, in the ideal case, directly proportional to the value of input impedance or admittance of the DUT, enabling accurate and stable measurement of impedances that are extremely different from the common 50-Ω reference impedance. The method can significantly reduce errors caused by the VNA.


The factor keeping the intensive plant growing development in is a low natural productivity of agricultural pastures. Nowadays an active research of new systems of soil cultivation is carried out the using of which will allow increase the efficiency of agriculture and make it a resource-keeping one. The adaptive intensification of agriculture which orients onto the necessity to use natural resources more entirely via biologizing intensification processes in agroand ecosystems is perspective. The usage of feed crops as green manure by the influence on the soil fertility is close to the manure application, but by the expenditures is as 1.5-2.0 times costless. Out of perennial legume grasses meadow clover sawn practically in all the farms is the perspective one as a green manure in north regions of European Russia. It is the culture more acceptable to the growing under soil-climatic region conditions. Performed studies allow make a conclusion that two-aimed usage of clover for feeds and green manure makes it possible to obtain not only high yields of green mass but to provide rich and positive humus balance in the soil.


OBJECTIVES
To determine the extent to which clinical and radiographic features of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw (BONJ) are correlated.

DESIGN
Retrospective case review.

METHODS
The records of 39 patients diagnosed with BONJ and examined by panoramic radiography were retrospectively evaluated. The arches were divided into sextants (n = 234) and evaluated for the following signs: sclerosis, surface irregularity, sockets, fragmentation and lysis.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
The McNemar, Kruskall-Wallis and equivalency tests were performed to analyze the association between clinical and radiographic signs and BONJ severity.

RESULTS
Sixty-two out of 234 sextants were abnormal by clinical criteria and 61 out of 234 sextants demonstrated at least one radiographic abnormality. There was agreement between clinical and radiographic detection in 41 sextants. The data showed equivalency between BONJ diagnosis and both sclerosis and surface irregularity. The correlation between number of clinical sites and any radiographic finding was significant in the maxilla (P < 0.001) but not in the mandible (P = 0.178). The total number of radiographic signs per patient increased with BONJ stage.

CONCLUSION
Focal panoramic radiographic findings of sclerosis and surface irregularity correlate with clinical sites of BONJ. This may be a useful and reliable tool to detect early changes of BONJ or to confirm a clinical diagnosis.


We extend a theorem of Ladkani concerning derived equivalences between upper-triangular matrix rings from ordinary rings to ring spectra. Our result also extends an analogous theorem of Maycock for differential graded algebras.


Our study is intended to evaluate the Organizational Commitment of the Istanbul AFAD Search and Rescue Unit (AKB) employees operating at national and international level during disasters and to serve as a model for the other organizations that conduct national and international operations in the area of search and rescue.

 This research was carried out with a total of 75 employees from Istanbul AFAD AKB from 02.11.18 to 01.01.2019. Introductory Information Form and Organizational Commitment Scale were used for data collection. Findings of the study were evaluated via IBM SPSS Statistics 22.

 Among 71 persons who participated in the study, it was determined that 91.5% were male, 50.7% were at the age of 40 or older, 81.7% were married, 67.6% had bachelor's degree, 63.4% were search and rescue technicians, and 50.7% were employed by their current organization for 10 years or less. Regarding the employees, it was found that 25.4% had very good organizational commitment while 54.9% faced issues in relation to the organizational commitment. OCS point average of the employees was 3.07±0.20 and the obtained Cronbach Alfa internal consistency coefficient of the scale was 0.678. OCS points of those employed for 12 years or longer in total were determined to be high at statistically significant level. Also, OCS points of those who did not face any issue in relation to the Organizational Commitment were found to be high at a statistically significant level against those who faced issues.

 It is important to ensure work satisfaction, provide harmonization, and avert chaos and stress for boosting the organizational commitment. Therefore, the managers should conduct activities intended to boost the employee commitment levels within the organization.

 Disaster is a significant public health issue and disaster employees are special. The issues faced by the employees that perform search and rescue operations must be considered important and resolved.


Wilms tumor is a common embryonic tumor in childhood. Two Wilms tumor-suppressor genes, WT1 and WT2, are located on chromosome 11p, WT2 at 11p15.5 close to the IGF-II gene, which is highly expressed in some Wilms tumors. We established Wilms tumor cell lines to investigate the regulation of tumor cell growth by IGF-II. We demonstrated that Wilms tumor cells produce more IGF-II than normal kidney cells. Both types I and II IGF receptors reside on these cells. In serum-free culture medium, tumor cell growth is reversibly inhibited by suramin via interfering with IGF-II binding. Wilms tumor cell growth is also arrested by IGF binding protein-3, capturing the continuously produced IGF-II, and by αIR-3, a type I IGF receptor-blocking antibody. Thus, we demonstrated the whole loop of elevated synthesis, secretion, receptor binding, and autocrine growth stimulation of IGF-II through type I IGF receptor in Wilms tumor cell cultures. We concluded that IGF-II plays a crucial role in the regulation of growth of this embryonic tumor. Overproduction of IGF-II by the tumor cell is the limiting step for Wilms tumor growth, supporting its important role as an embryonic growth factor.


Taoists hold that people can be divided into three kinds: the ingenuous,lost and highly cultivated.They are quite different in cognition,will,motivation and behavior."Tao" is the primary driving force for their development of personality.In addition,cognition and the environment can also exert influence on it.There exist some contradictions in the Taoist theories concerning the development of personality.In spite of that,these theories have bright future and it is feasible to apply it to the psychological remedy.


Computational drug repositioning is a promising approach to reduce the costs of investing on new drug indication discovering for drug development. Many computational drug repositioning strategies have been proposed which use global models for all drugs/diseases in predicting new drug-disease associations. However, using a global model to predict novel drug-disease associations for each drug/disease may be less effective because drugs/diseases have different pharmacological and biological features. Using multiple local models for each drug/disease, therefore, could be a potential approach to overcome this limitation. In this study, we present a novel method named as BLMDR that use local models for both drugs and diseases presented in a bipartite network for inferring drug-disease associations. The prediction of a potential association between a pair of drug and disease is made based on two local prediction models, one for the drug and one for the disease. Experiment results on benchmark datasets show that the BLMDR achieves reasonable prediction performance and outperforms a state-of-the-art global model-based prediction method. Furthermore, top predictions of drug-disease pairs supported with evidence from literature could prove the potential of our method in discovering new drug indications.


Objective:To study stability of stable chlorine dioxide,and predict its half life and term of validity.Methods:According to the principle of chemical kinetics,the method of accelerating the experiment in constant temperature was used,and differentiation equation and the definite integral were adopted to process data.Results:The order of reaction was close to 1,with weibull.The half life T 0 5 was 10 5 year,and T 0 9 was 1 59 year.Conclusions:The pyrolysis reaction of stable chlorine dioxide was approached to first order kinetics.


The capitalistic growth of the City of Cape Town, more specifically its expansion to the north, foreshadows the absorption of Bellville and its surroundings, including the Campus of the University of the Western Cape, consequently putting the University in the centre of the new Cape Town metropole. Despite of apartheid's fierce oppression, cultural and social life flourished in this previously peripheral areas and the University was one of the leaders in the historical changes the nation went through. They actively engaged themselves in working together with, as well as within, the local communities, thus building an accessible and more just higher education centre. The aim of this contribution is to explore theoretical concepts that are of importance if the university wants to uphold his role as an urban anchor, an active linchpin able to guide the ambitious redevelopment the area will undergo. As such not only preserving the important historical meaning of the University but also safeguarding the identities of the historically deprived communities which surround it.


with a picture group pattern of IBBPBBPBBPBB. (MPEG encodings contain three types of frames, I, P, and B, that vary in size and importance.) The pattern 100000000000 requests that only the I-frames be prefetched. The pattern 100100100100 requests both Iframes and P-frames. Patterns can be of arbitrary length. For example, 100100100100100100100000 requests all Iframes and five of every six P-frames. Finally the fifth argument to pf_start is the rate at which the frames will be accessed. This is in frames per second with a negative number indicating that the frames will be read in a backwards direction. If a feasible prefetching plan can be constructed then pf_start sets it into action and returns a descriptor. The application uses the descriptor to refer to the plan in the future to modify or stop it. It is possible to initiate several prefetching sequences for the same file. pf_start fails and returns zero if the prefetcher determines that given available resources there is not a feasible prefetching plan that will satisfy the request. pf_modify() changes an executing prefetching plan. This might be used, for example, when a user pushes the fast-forward button in a VCR application. The frame argument is taken to indicate the application's current position in accessing the data file and the revised prefetching plan will begin from that point. Pattern and rate have the same meaning as for the pf_start call. pf_stop terminates the execution of a prefetching plan.


Purification of wastewater rich in nutrients and organic pollutants is essential for the protection of receiving waters and to enable water reuse. This report investigates the possibilities and constraints of constructed wetlands for treatment of slightly saline wastewater from aquaculture systems. As the body of literature for saline treatment wetlands is relatively small, the reports starts with a summary of processes in freshwater systems. It is then explained that these processes are also present and highly effective in saline treatment wetlands. We conclude with a description of possible vascular plants and macro-algae species for use in saline treatment wetlands. Finally, an assumed case is briefly elaborated.


OBJECTIVE To investigate the resistant mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus and study the reasonable use of antibiotic by analyzing the resistant rate of eighty S.aureus strains,which were separated from orthopedics department,and also detect the mecA gene of S.aureus. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed resistance of eighty strains S.aureus separated from orthopedics department in our hospital during Jan 2007 to Dec 2010.We detected the mecA gene by PCR. RESULTS Using the vitro sensitivity test,we found that there were all sensitive to Vancomycin and Linezolid,but resistant to Penicillin and Erythomycin.There were forty-six strains MRSA,the positive rate was 57.5%.Using the PCR method,we found that all the forty-six strains MRSA contain the mecA gene and five MSSA strains contain mecA gene of the thirty-seven strains MSSA. CONCLUSION The separating rate is high in orthopedics department of our hospital,all of them were more resistant to all kinds antibiotics.We also find that cefoxition disk diffusion method can be used reliably in detecting and confirming MRSA.


The objective of this experiment was to excite localized surface plasmon resonances in a gold metallic nanostructure array and measure the heat generation using colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) as markers. This was done by attempting to excite a plasmon in the metallic nanostructure using a laser (at 980 nm) that is resonant with the array's surface lattice resonance (SLR). This laser does not excite the quantum dots (QDs). There is another laser that weakly excites the QDs so that they emit. The heat of the nanoantenna array was expected to cause a redshift in the QDs due to the temperature dependent band gap shrinkage of their emission energy. This redshift in the peak emission is the marker for generation of heat. The outcomes of this study would have determined the dependence of heat generation in gold nanoantenna arrays on the incident light polarization and demonstrate the extent of heat distribution, but the results are inconclusive as the sample tested did not display the expected redshift.


Nanoparticles (NPs) are 1-100 nm constructs explored for their application in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Exposure of cells to ionizing irradiation leads to DNA damage, with DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) being the most toxic that can lead to apoptosis. The presence of gold in NPs enhances radiation damage and DSBs, the latter measured by the levels of phosphorylated DNA histone protein H2AX (γH2AX). The goal of this study was to decipher biological mechanisms of NP radio-sensitization. We analyzed the effects of two different sizes of gold nanoparticles (AuNP) on DSBs in MCF-7 breast cancer cells by assessing H2AX phosphorylation at three photon energies. Cells were incubated with either 4 nm or 14 nm AuNP and irradiated with 2, 4 or 8 Gy using 2.5 FFF MV (60 MU/min), 6 MV (600 MU/min) or 10 FFF MV (2400 MU/min) X-rays. Percent of cells positive for γH2AX was determined by flow cytometry. Live cells (100000) were gated using forward (FSC; cell size) versus side scatter (SSC; complexity) characteristics (gate P1). Cells positive for γH2AX were further gated to identify subpopulations exhibiting brighter (gate P2) or dimmer (gate P3) fluorescence intensity. Treatment with 4 nm AuNP resulted in significantly more γH2AX positive cells after irradiation at all three energies, compared to their respective controls. When treated at 6 MV energy, increases in the percentage of cells positive for H2AX phosphorylation was detected at all three doses (2, 4 and 8 Gy). Increased phosphorylation was accompanied by an increase of cells in the P2 gate accompanied by an increase in their FCS and SSC characteristics, consistent with activation. In cells treated with 10 MV the effect was most pronounced at 4Gy dose, while 2 and 8 Gy resulted in a slight increase in the percentage of γH2AX positive cells. Nevertheless, these cells still exhibited prominent increases within the P2 gate and FCS vs SSC characteristics, compared to their irradiated controls. In cells treated with 2.5 MV energy similar results were observed using 4 and 8 Gy, while no effect was detected with 2 Gy. Data from the experiments using 14 nm size AuNP were less clear and require further investigation. The difference may be due to the localization of the smaller NPs within the nucleus and therefore cause more DNA damage thereby greater H2AX phosphorylation. We hypothesize that the NP radio-sensitization mechanism involves directing cells towards apoptosis by enhancing DNA damage and interfering with DNA repair. Hence, γH2AX positive cells exhibiting bright fluorescence (P2) and an increase in FCS and SSC identified even in the conditions without significant increase in the percent of total γH2AX positive cells, may reflect cells primed for apoptosis. Future studies are planned to elucidate the exact intracellular mechanisms of NP biological radio-sensitization effect. Citation Format: Branislava Janic, Fangchao Liu, Kevin Bobbitt, Stephen Brown, Guangzhao Mao, Indrin J. Chetty, Benjamin Movsas, Ning Winston Wen. Effect of gold nanoparticle on radiation induced DNA damage in MCF7 breast cancer cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 1376.


The theoretical relationship between several hydraulic performance parameters of variable-rate contour-controlled sprinklers for high uniformity precision irrigation was researched. The operational equation that describes the internal connection of flow rate, rotating speed and throw distance of the variable-rate contour-controlled sprinkler was derived using mathematical theory of limitation and double integral. The derived operational equation indicates that the flow rate of the variable-rate contour-controlled sprinkler is proportional to the product of rotating speed and square throw distance. The square wetted area sprinklers were used to illustrate the application of the operational equation of the variable-rate contour-controlled sprinkler. The theoretical throw distance equation for the square wetted area sprinkler was built. With the operational equation and theoretical throw distance equation, the theoretical flow rate and rotating speed equations of the square wetted area sprinkler were derived. The results of this research provide fundamental principles for the design of variable-rate contour-controlled sprinklers and square wetted area sprinklers.


The effects of four new synthetic bis-beta-chloroethylamine-containing estrogens and known cytostatic agents chlorophenacyl and estradiol mustard were compared on monolayer cultures of transformed L-929 fibroblasts (from murine skin sarcoma). The drugs within the concentration range of 10(-5)-5 10(-7)M inhibited proliferation of cultured cells by 67%. Chlorophenacyl displayed the least antiproliferative activity (15% inhibition at 10(-5) M). Steroid nucleus introduced into the molecule enhanced antiproliferative activity of test drug in comparison with chlorophenacyl, probably due to accumulation of the hormone-cytostatic molecules in cells. Estradiol had no effect on proliferative activity of L-929 cells, and no specific estrogen-binding sites were found in cultured transformed fibroblasts. The antiproliferative effect of hormone-cytostatics on this culture is not mediated via specific interactions with estrogen receptors.


We characterize and demonstrate how the principles of direct manipulation can improve interaction with large language models. This includes: continuous representation of generated objects of interest; reuse of prompt syntax in a toolbar of commands; manipulable outputs to compose or control the effect of prompts; and undo mechanisms. This idea is exemplified in DirectGPT, a user interface layer on top of ChatGPT that works by transforming direct manipulation actions to engineered prompts. A study shows participants were 50% faster and relied on 50% fewer and 72% shorter prompts to edit text, code, and vector images compared to baseline ChatGPT. Our work contributes a validated approach to integrate LLMs into traditional software using direct manipulation.


Objectives: This study aims to investigate the impact of clinical dental hygienists on customer orientation and prepare basic data for the rational and efficient human resource management of dental hygienists. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 220 dental hygienists from July 7 to August 8, 2019. Data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 program with a significance level of 0.05. Results: The customer orientation of clinical dental hygienists was 4.09, internal marketing was 3.10, organizational citizenship behavior was 3.97, and self-efficacy was 3.91. The variables that most influenced their turnover intention were those related to organizational citizenship behavior. These factors showed a 28.8% variance among dental hygienists. Conclusions: This study recommends the development and application of a program that enhances dental hygienists' customer orientation, recognizes them as internal clients, and improves dental productivity.


This paper via water balance test counts up the water consumption of 4 areas of Education and Training Center,which are office and teaching area,student dormitory area,guest houses and canteens from July 20,2007 to November 20,2007.In addition,it calculates the daily water consumption of the Education and Training Center,based on statistical result.Finally,it analyzes the reasons of excessive water consumption per capita from eleven perspectives,and puts forward some corresponding measures for water-saving.


It is ironic that, in the year when we celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron, the most exciting developments in the theory of electrons in solids have to do with the "fractionalization" of the electron—the discovery of particles that behave as though the electron had broken apart into three or five or more pieces each containing one‐third or one‐fifth of its charge, or into separate particles, one containing its charge and one its spin. (See figure 1.) No longer is the quantum theory of solids confined to the boring old electron; we now have a remarkable variety of fractional parts of electrons: composite fermions, composite bosons, spinons and holons, in addition to the heavy electrons, quasiparticles and small polarons of older stages of condensed matter theory.It is ironic that, in the year when we celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron, the most exciting developments in the theory of electrons in solids have to do with the "fractionalization" of the electron—the discovery of particles that behave as though the electron had broken apart into three or five or more pieces each containing one‐third or one‐fifth of its charge, or into separate particles, one containing its charge and one its spin. (See figure 1.) No longer is the quantum theory of solids confined to the boring old electron; we now have a remarkable variety of fractional parts of electrons: composite fermions, composite bosons, spinons and holons, in addition to the heavy electrons, quasiparticles and small polarons of older stages of condensed matter theory.


Heated aerosol generating article includes an aerosol forming substrate which is surrounded radially by a sheet of thermally conductive material. Heated aerosol generating article is a heating element, for instance intended for use with the electric-operated aerosol generating device that includes an insert-type heating element. The aerosol forming substrate there may be a load that includes a sheet of corrugated aerosol forming material that is surrounded by a wrapper, the wrapper is a sheet of thermally conductive material. The thermally conductive material and a thermal diffusion by applying a flame or other ignition source to the aerosol generating product, acts as a heat conductive flame barrier for mitigating the risk of the user ignites the aerosol forming substrate.


Purpose: To develop a multi-parametric CT algorithm to stage liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Methods: Abdominal CT and laboratory measures in 469 HCV patients (mean age, 50.1 years; 340M/129F) was compared against the histopathologic METAVIR fibrosis reference standard (F0=49, F1=69, F2=102, F3=76, F4=173). From the initial candidate pool, nine CT and two laboratory measures were included in the final assessment (CT-based features: hepatosplenic volumetrics, texture features, liver surface nodularity (LSN) score, and linear CT measurements; lab-based measures: FIB-4 and APRI). Univariate and multivariate logistic regression was performed, with ROC analysis, proportional odds modeling, and probabilities. Results: ROC-AUC values for the model combining all 11 parameters for discriminating significant fibrosis (≥F2), advanced fibrosis (≥F3), and cirrhosis were 0.928, 0.956, and 0.972, respectively; for all 9 CT-based parameters, these values were 0.905, 0.936, and 0.972, respectively. Using more simplified panels of 2-4 parameters yielded good diagnostic performance; for example, a two-parameter model combining only LSN score with FIB-4 had ROC-AUC values of 0.886, 0.915, and 0.932, for significant fibrosis, advanced fibrosis, and cirrhosis, respectively. LSN score performed best in univariate analysis. approached the diagnostic performance of more exhaustive panels. Results compare favorably with elastography, but this assessment has the advantage of retrospective assessment without planning using pre-existing data.


A new locality for Scheuchzeria palustris L. (Rannoch Rush) in Westerness extends its extant range in Scotland. The characteristics of the site are presented in the context of the known distribution and ecology of S. palustris on and around Rannoch Moor, the only extant populations in the British Isles. An overview of the population dynamics revealed by monitoring since 1988 is given.


IgG to Tamiami virus is covalently bound to metaaminobenzylcellulose by nitrogen coupling. An immune sorbent was prepared and used to treat the virus soluble antigen (SA); a protein responsible for the serological properties of SA was isolated. Electrophoretic analysis in polyacrylamide gel showed this protein to be a nucleocapsid protein of the virion.


The objective of this work is to measure the effects generated by the rainwater harvesting technologies implemented through the Uma Terra e Duas Aguas Program (P1+2) on the agricultural diversification of the small rural properties of the semi-arid region, through a study of the municipality of Jardim (EC). The method used to compare the level of agricultural diversification between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of P1+2 was the Propensity Score Matching (PSM). It was observed that the majority of the producers interviewed presented in their properties characteristics of subsistence agriculture, with the production directed mainly to self-consumption. It was also noticed that, for both groups, the crops with the most widespread production were beans, cassava, corn, andu and vegetables in general. It was concluded that, P1+2 had positive effects on the level of diversification of agricultural crops, livestock and livestock products, developed in the rural properties of the semi-arid region.


L ike many other industries, information and knowledge drive the beneficial delivery of services in health care. Physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals rely upon access to patient specific information and medical knowledge to guide them through their decision-making and care delivery activities. With the rapid expansion of medical technology over the past few decades, knowledge and information are growing at rates that are impossible to manage. Professionals struggle to organize and catalogue information due to the effort involved. Therefore, easily finding and accessing relevant information during a period of patient care is almost impossible. The growth of the Internet and World Wide Web as a source of information only exacerbates this problem. Most medical journals offer their content on-line, while research institutions provide customized medical information for use by physicians and patients. In recent years, on-line peer review journals have appeared offering their content only in a digital format. Although on-line medical search engines such as Medline allow clinicians to efficiently retrieve relevant information specific to search criteria, they do not facilitate the cataloging and indexing of this information. Therefore, if this information is stored locally on a personal computer, it is quite difficult to retrieve that information easily at a later time. Also, the growth in the use of e-mail to consult with patients creates additional digital information that must be managed. With the recent move by some payors to reimburse physicians for such work, the volume of such data will expand, leading to it increasingly becoming important to file this information for future retrieval.


Abstract This paper investigates the effects of airflow patterns and airflow rates on thermal behavior of a ventilated courtyard building in a warm humid climate. With some airflow patterns indoor air temperature can be brought to a level below the ambient, while with others the indoor air temperature may be higher than the ambient. The integration of a courtyard in the building design can optimize indoor airflow and is of significant importance with regard to the indoor thermal environment provided the courtyard maintains correct contacts with the outdoor environment. The current paper explores airflow patterns and airflow rates in a modern tropical courtyard house in respect to corresponding indoor thermal modifications. A thermal investigation was carried out on the site by manually changing the composition of airflow inlets (openings) found in the building envelope. From the results it is observed that the different airflow patterns affected different thermal environments and sometimes a cool condition within the courtyard and in the surrounding indoor spaces. Relatively low indoor air temperature was observed with a particular air movement pattern created through the openings found on a longitudinal horizontal axis through the courtyard. The temperature was below the ambient by 1.3 degree C with an airflow range of 1.5 to 2.0 air changes h-1.


16 peat bogs of Tomsk region (in Siberia) were used to study trace elements concentrations in ombrotrophic peat. The calculations of concentration coefficient in relation to the sedimentary rocks allowed us to determine some elements which tend to accumulate in ombrotrophic peat of Tomsk region. They are Au, Br, Sr, Ba, Fe, and Cr. For selective trace elements we considered spacial variability of their mean contents in the ombrotrophic peat of Tomsk region. Together with the study of vertical distribution of trace elements in the studied peat bogs we outlined factors influencing their accumulation in peat. Lithological and mineral composition of surrounding territories plays role in the accumulation of Cr, Sc, Br, Au, and lanthanides, climatic conditions and necessity for living plants cause Ca variations. Cr, Sc, lanthanides and U are also actively accumulated in the peat near industrial cities in the south of Tomsk region.


To acquire a material with simultaneous oil–water emulsion demulsification and oil‐absorbing performance, SiO2 nanoparticles were introduced into the acrylate polymerization system to prepare oil absorbent SiO2/P (SMA‐co‐MMA‐co‐BA) (PSA‐SiO2). PSA‐SiO2 was synthesized from monomers and functional materials, including methyl methacrylate (MMA), butyl acrylate (BA), octadecyl methacrylate (SMA) and SiO2 hydrophobically modified by vinyltrimethoxysilane. The molecular structure of PSA‐SiO2 was characterized by FT‐IR, and its morphology was observed using scanning electron microscopy. In addition, the optimal synthesis conditions for the polymerization system, such as the monomer ratio, the amount of crosslinker and stabilizer and then the particle size and dose of SiO2, were discussed in detail. PSA‐SiO2 had a decent oil absorbency for pure halogenated and aromatic hydrocarbons (49.10, 56.41, 47.32, 43.45, 36.22, and 30.14 g/g for CH2Cl2, CHCl3, CCl4, C2Cl4, toluene and styrene, respectively). Furthermore, SiO2, as a functional material, makes composites that possess excellent demulsification properties for oil‐in‐water emulsions. The oil removal efficiency of CHCl3 in Tween 80‐stabilized and CTAB‐stabilized emulsions were 94.88% and 98.11%, respectively. All results indicated that PSA‐SiO2 had valuable potential for oil removal and emulsion treatment.
An organic–inorganic composite was synthesized by suspension polymerization.
The composite was applied for absorbing pure oil or removing oil form water.
By modification, the composite acquired the demulsification ability.
The composite accomplished one‐step demulsification and emulsion treatment.
The oil absorption and emulsion treatment could achieve at room temperature.


Hamilton wedge (HW) end-functionalized poly(styrene) (PS–HW, Mn = 5400 g mol−1, PDI = 1.06), HW mid-chain functionalized poly(styrene) (PS–HW–PS, Mn = 4600 g mol−1, PDI = 1.04), cyanuric acid (CA) end-functionalized poly(styrene) (PS–CA, Mn = 3700 g mol−1, PDI = 1.04) and CA end-functionalized poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA–CA, Mn = 8500 g mol−1, PDI = 1.13) precursors were successfully synthesized via a combination of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and copper catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). The precursor polymers were characterized viasize exclusion chromatography (SEC) and 1H NMR with respect to both molecular weight and structure. Supramolecular homopolymer (PS–HW·PS–CA), block copolymer (PS–HW·PMMA–CA), star polymer (PS–HW–PS·PS–CA) as well as miktoarm star polymer (PS–HW–PS·PMMA–CA) were formed in solution in high yields at ambient temperature (association close to 89% for PS–HW·PS–CA, 90% for PS–HW–PS·PS–CA and 98% for PS–HW–PS·PMMA–CA) via H-bonding between the orthogonal recognition units, HW and CA. The formation of supramolecular polymers was confirmed via1H NMR at ambient temperature in deuterated methylene chloride (CD2Cl2) solution.


A composition for inhibiting the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria in meat is provided to suppress the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc. during the storage and circulation period of raw chickens. A composition for inhibiting the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria in meat comprises 0.5-4 wt% of water soluble high molecular weight chitosan; and a natural mixture additive which comprises 0.5-4 wt% of garlic and 0.5-4 wt% of green tea catechin EGCG.


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This paper suggests a new self-adaptive modification method using firefly algorithm (FA) to investigate the multi-objective probabilistic distribution feeder reconfiguration problem. In this regard, the idea of phase angle vector is employed to replace the traditional Cartesian framework in the FA and thus called θ-FA. Also, a new modification method based on an adaptive mechanism is suggested that will allow each firefly to choose the appropriate modification technique during the optimization suitably. As regards the objective functions, the main focus of this paper is to assess the effect of the reconfiguration on the reliability indices including active power losses, voltage deviation, and system average interruption frequency index. In order to handle the uncertainty effects, a sufficient framework based on 2m + 1 point estimate method is proposed too. The satisfying performance of the proposed method is checked using IEEE 32-bus radial distribution system. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Recent development debate is characterised by an increasing and renewed attention for the social and institutional dimensions of economic development. New institutional economists, like Williamson (1985), North (1986), brought the organisational and normative foundations of the economic process back on the agenda of mainstream economics which until quite recently remained dominated by institution-void neo-classical economics. These theoretical evolutions allowed economists to communicate and find common ground with other social scientists of development. Not surprisingly, this communication is especially fluid with sociological theories based on rational choice models. Similarities are particularly great in the case of social capital theory (Coleman, 1990). With the seminal study of Putnam on the differential development performance of North and South Italy, attributed to differences in the stock of social capital, social capital theory became a popular approach to development studies. Almost at the same time, the new institutional economics paradigm became also more prominent in the general development debate (Nabli and Nugent, 1989). Before, it had only entered some subdisciplines of development theory as in the case of theories on agrarian institutions (e.g. Stiglitz, 1974; Bardhan, 1989).


Dental restorative cements are placed in a harsh oral environment where they are subjected to thermal shock, chemical degradation, and repeating masticatory force. The ideal restorative dental ceme ...


The effectiveness of drug abuse prevention programs in schools especially in Dubai, UAE will be beneficial and meaningful to the students, parents, community as well as to the literature itself. The history of drug abuse showed that it is contrary to the purposes of Islamic Sharia in the preservation of their five essentials (religion, life, honour, mind and money), and this is apparent for the lowest pensive. With respect to study population, there is a lack of national strategy to address the drug problem, whether this strategy. Officials and specialists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) declared that despite the limited number of cases of addiction among school students in the country, there is a need to tighten the supervision of drug traffickers and to tighten the legal penalties imposed on them effectiveness of drug and substance abuse prevention programs among schools in Dubai. Thus, the main objective of this study is analysing the anti-drug awareness strategy from the perspective of Islamic Sharia in Dubai schools, and evaluates this strategy in light of the challenges posed by the problem of drug abuse. The sample size of 201 participants who are exposed to drug awareness programs is the representative of the school population. The outcome of this study shows that need to integrate the concepts and purposes of the rules of Islamic Sharia in the preparation of preventive strategy through several institutions such as educational institutions, youth centers and sports clubs, media firms, religious institutions, institutions of civil society to increase drug-abuse awareness and create an environment suitable for applications which contribute to the formation of positive trends to stay away from drugs and all that hurt the human mind and protect the community in UAE. Article visualizations:


Hypocalcemia is one of the complications of total thyroidectomy or repeatedly thyroid surgeries. The reason mainly is that the parathyroid gland is removed by mistake and hemodynamic disorder of the parathyroid gland during surgery. According to different surgical methods and specific situations during surgeries,surgeons may revealed the parathyroid gland or reserve the parathyroid gland possibly. In order to prevent the occur of hypocalcemia,we recommend the supplement of calcium and vitamin D3 after the surgery. For the patients who get hypocalcemia we can take symptomatic treatment or etiological treatment according to the specific situations,viewing to avoid or reduce the occurrence of hypocalcemia.


We propose to grok Lipschitz stratifications from a non-archimedean point of view and thereby show that they exist for closed definable sets in any power-bounded o-minimal structure on a real closed field. Unlike the previous approaches in the literature, our method bypasses resolution of singularities and Weierstrass preparation altogether; it transfers the situation to a non-archimedean model, where the quantitative estimates appearing in Lipschitz stratifications are sharpened into valuation-theoretic inequalities. Applied to a uniform family of sets, this approach automatically yields a family of stratifications which satisfy the Lipschitz conditions in a uniform way.


Objective To study the molding process of night-ning capsule.Methods Survey physical characteristics of the dry powder and the particle including hygroscopicity,angle of repose and bulk density,respectively.Results The dry powder has major hygroscopicity and minor angle of repose,and particle has minor fluidity.The hydroscopicity and angle of repose can be improved by granulation which can make the capsule loading easier.Conclusion The extracts of night-ning capsule is suitable to make the particle,and the yield of capsule is increased after improving the particle physical characteristics.


Ningcheng county in 2012 spring corn whole growth period for 147 days.Fertility period general climate features are: the temperature normal slightly tall,slightly more than the perennial precipitation,sunshine partial less.JieShang spring rain, saturating rain timely,on maize seeding,the emergence of seedlings is very favorable.The summer rainfall is much,local appear hail,gale disaster,also appears short time the drought.First frost appear earlier,local appear frost disasters.The weather conditions on the influence of spring corn growth is more good than harm,food production is expected to recapture the harvest.


The outsourcing of housekeeping, laundry and food services in Vancouver's health care sector has created a new tier of low-paid, precariously employed workers in the private sector, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of colour. Through an in-depth case study of the Hospital Employees Union (HEU), this article examines how movement-oriented union strategies, such as living wage campaigns (LWCs), enable unions to challenge the nexus between social and economic disadvantage. My findings show that alternative union models promote inclusive forms of class solidarity; however, unions must contend with internal conflicts that divide workers along racial–ethnic boundaries and employment status.


In Double Layered Fuzzy Graph, it is discussed that, the Fuzzy Vertex Colouring, Fuzzy Edge Colouring, Fuzzy Total Colouring and determined bounds for Fuzzy Chromatic Number, Fuzzy Edge Chromatic Number and Fuzzy Total Chromatic number. Also established some of the Domination parameters such as Fuzzy Dominator Chromatic Number, Inverse Domination, Connected Inverse Domination.


Percutaneous therapeutic procedures applied to the pancreas are few and mainly limited to exter-nal or internal transgastric drainage of pancreatic fluid collections. Endoscopists are able to provide transpapillary access to the pancreatic ducts and place plastic stents for diverse indications, including ductal rupture, dominant stenoses in pancreatitis, hypertrophic sphincters, pancreas divisum and stenotic minor papilla.'-7


An assemblage of 12 diatom species and other photosynthetic microorganisms associated with red clay sediments collected from a depth of 6150 m in the North Atlantic was observed to bloom in Antarctic bottom water when exposed to sunlight at sea surface temperature. Although no growth could be detected over the first 3 days of the experiment, nitrate was nearly completely stripped from the water. The maximum growth rate of 4.7 doubling/day was reached between days 4 and 5. Most of the diatom species have been described as littoral or coastal forms, and it is suggested that these organisms are transported to depth by fecal material, turbidity currents, or a combination of the two.


The pumping performance of cryocondensation pumps used for neutral beam injector(NBI) is mainly determined by the temperature of cryopanel,intake flowrate and the gas quantity to be condensed.A single-dome flow-meter was introduced to measure the pumping speed on the test platform we developed.A pressure control unit was designed to readjust the system helium outgassing pressure in accordance to the change of liquid He temperature in relation to its vapor pressure,thus controlling the temperature of cryopanel by changing the liquid He temperature through readjusting the liquid He pressure in Dewar flask.Furthermore,the precision control was availabe to intake flowrate and total quantity of gsa to be condensed by introducing a MV-112 piezocrystal valve,with a ZJ-12,B-A gauge used to measure the air pressure in testing setup.A testing pump was also designed to simulate the cryocondensation pump used for NBI,and an ANSYS thermodynamic analysis was made to it so as to compute its cryocondensation area.The test platform after machining and assembling was used to test it on NBI operating conditions,and the result showed that its pumping speed is 940 L/sec for hydrogen,which means that the system is able to meet testing requirement.A theoretical and experimental reference is thus provided for the design of cryocondensation pumps for NBI.


There is too much at stake for the government to reform the economy or cut back on public spending. But economic stagnation and a corresponding loss of influence could be the spur to political change


The aim of this paper is to present the latest
achievements in LEMCOTEC, an EC-funded
project including 36 partners from all over Europe
and coordinated by Rolls-Royce Deutschand. This
paper will mainly focus on the improvements
brought by the technologies developed by the
project. An assessment is proving the
achievement of the research objectives by
application of three generic engine platforms (e.g.
Regional Turbofan, Mid-size Open Rotor and
Large Turbofan) using a whole engine system
approach.
LEMCOTEC is working to increase engines OPR
to improve the thermal cycle efficiency. However,
with conventional combustor, such high OPR
would lead to a significant increase of NOx
emission. The presentation will focus on the three
combustors developed by the partners: MSFI
(multi-staged fuel injection) from Safran Aircraft
Engines, PERM-EV (partially evaporated rapid
mixing) from GE Avio and LDI (Lean Direct
Injection) from Rolls-Royce Deutschland. The
mid-term assessment, based on detailed design
activities, shows an outstanding improvement in
terms of pollutant emission from combustion.
Indeed, beyond state-of-the-art computations
were realized by both academic and industrial
partners using Large Eddy Simulation and
Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations
based methods to investigate the propagation of
flames inside combustors.
Ultimately, LEMCOTEC technologies allow
reducing NOx emission up to 70.3% with regard to
Year 2000 reference thanks to better combustors
& improved thermal efficiency. Moreover, thermal
efficiency leads to a reduction of CO2 emission up
to 28.5% contributing to the objective of a bluer
sky.
Testing of innovative injectors was realized and
allowed to select the best technologies to be
implemented in the combustors. LEMCOTEC
project will also measure the improvement with
regards to other pollutants such as UHC, CO and
Smoke by measuring such emissions when new
and innovative combustors will be tested through
Full Annular Tests (FANN). After those tests, the
technology will reach a maturity of TRL 5.
The conclusion is that LEMCOTEC technologies
(engine alone) drive consumption towards 2 litres
/ PAX / 100 km.


Migration is rapidly becoming one of the defining issues of the 21st century. Its impact on health care delivery affects professionals and patients alike; worryingly as health inequalities increase. The global reaction is equally disconcerting. We hear demands to 'close borders'; often under the misassumption that migrants drain rather than contribute to resources; totally dismissing any positive impact they offer to the workforce. It is timely to revisit Nigel Crisp's book, now 10 year's old, Turning the World Upside Down [1]. He argues so cogently against the distressing misconception that migration impacts negatively on society. Instead he champions the 'upside down view' stressing that we havemuch to learn from the developing world and the remarkable achievements made in these relatively resource poor societies. There is indeed much for us to learn in the Western World. This brought to mind Anne Fadiman's book 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down'; [2]which had a great impact on me. 'Our (Western) view of reality is only a view. Not reality itself.' [2] The account of the journey of the American paediatricians struggling to care for a Hmong child and her parents and how the two cultures 'collided' was life changing both for me personally and my approach to practice. It is therefore timely to bring to our readers this issue's reflective account from Ramsay et al on integrating Japanese and UK views of social accountability, a dialogue which arose from a joint workshop at the World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA) Asia Pacific conference in Kyoto last year. The article explores understanding 'social accountability' across healthcare with specific reference to Japanese and UK Primary Care. Different linguistic interpretation and contextualisation within the contrasting delivery structures impacted significantly. There was much shared learning. This article is exemplary in revealing how cross-country collaboration can support the integration of a topic such as social accountability into different healthcare and education systems. Similarly Alameddine et al report on a collaboration between relatively junior family physicians in the Middle East and the Irish Non-Government Organisation (NGO) IHEED. As the Middle East faces one of the biggest humanitarian crises of all times and strives to deal with Syrian refugees, these young family doctors offer us insight into how advocacy can enhance postgraduate training.We gain valuable understanding of how working with, and advocating for, these patients can have a major impact on trainees' learning. Experiences from which we can learn and bring to our own training schemes. In contrast, Moore at al in Chile write looking to the West to support training their postgraduate teachers – an understandable request; although judging from their experiences one suspects we can learn from them too. The recent publication of the UK Marmot review on Health Equity in England [3] further strengthens my increasing opinion that medical education must embrace concepts such as social accountability, advocacy, social determinants of health, sustainability and globalisation. We face increasing evidence of the importance of learning in Primary Care at the 'Deep End' [4] and, as this journal continues to advocate, sharing our global experiences.


Objective To investigate the relationship between hepatitis B markers and HBV-DNA content.Methods 230 cases with hepatitis were selected.ELISA method was used to detect serum markers,PCR method for detecting the content of HBV-DNA.Results In 76cases of HBeAg positive specimens,72 cases were HBV-DNA positive,the positive rate was 94.7% ; in 154 patients with HBeAg negative specimens,72 cases were HBV-DNA posifive,the positive rate was 46.7%.The difference between HBeAg positive group and HBeAg negative group was statistically different( P <0.01 ).Conclusion In patients with chronic hepatitis B,serum markers reflected,HBV can understand the in vivo infection,cannot directly reflect the in vivo replication of HBV.Detection of HBV-DNA content can better reflect the virus replication.

Key words:
Hepatitis B; Serum markers; HBV-DNA


The purpose of this work was to evaluate in male Wistar rats the solid and liquid intake the hepatic (HG) and the muscular (MG) glycogen contents and the plasmatic concentration of free fatty acids (FFA), glycaemia (GLY) and corticosterone (COR) comparing a group submitted to isolation (ISO) to a group of rats contained 3 in each cage (AG). The values were evaluated by normality test followed by t - Student test (p social behavior of this specie.


Introduction : Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is common in the West (up to 25%), particularly among female. IBS is less common in the East. There is currently no data available in our local setting. This paper reports the findings of a questionnaire study assessing the prevalence of IBS among nurses and nursing students in the Brunei Darussalam. Materials and Methods : Nurses and students nurses attached to RIPAS Hospitals were invited to participate in this self filled questionnaire study. Diagnosis of IBS was based on the ROME II criteria defined as at least 12 weeks, which need not be consecutive, in the preceding 12 months of abdominal discomfort or pain that has two out of the following three features; relieved by defeacation and/or, onset associated with change in bowel frequency and/or onset associated with change in stool form (appearance). Results : 290 completed questionnaires out of 339 distributed were returned giving a response rate of 84%. The mean age was 26.3 ± 8.7 years with a gender ratio of 235 (81%) female: 55 (19%) male. The prevalence of IBS was 10.7% (n=31). Female had higher prevalence but this was not significant (11.9% vs. 5.5%, p=0.183). There were no differences in the age, body mass index (kg/m 2 ), smoking status and supplement use of subjects with and without IBS. Of the psychosomatic symptoms enquired (backache, feeling of depressed, fatigue, headache, insomnia and shortness of breath), presence of IBS was significantly associated with backache (p=0.007), depression ( p=0.021) and shortness of breath ( p=0.003). Conclusions : The prevalence of IBS is comparable to what have been reported. Despite the higher prevalence among female subjects, there was no significant difference. IBS was significantly associated with psychosomatic symptoms of depression.


Objectives: To compare the role of low dose Theophylline and Tiotropium rotacap in improving the lung functions and day to day life of patients suffering from COPD. Study Design and Setting: A Clinical trial study was conducted at Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, BMSI in association with Department of Chest Medicine, JPMC. Methodology: This study was planned as an open label and parallel clinical trial study. A total of 168 patients of COPD were selected for this study and only 161 patients completed the 3 months duration of the study. The enrolled patients were grouped into 2, namely A and B. Tab. Theophylline 350 mg was given to Group A in two divided doses while Tiotropium rotacap18µg through rotahaler was given to group B once a day. Results: Mean FEV1 ± SD was improved by 0.04 ± 0.02 in Theophylline therapy group while by 0.07 ± 0.01 in the Tiotropium therapy treated group and a significant difference between the changes in the two treatment groups was evident. There was a percentage improvement in PEFR of 8.9 ± 5.8 in the Theophylline therapy treated group and of 13.2 ± 4.7 in Tiotropium therapy treated group. When Tiotropium group was compared with Theophylline group for improvement in percentage change in PEFR from day 0, a significant difference was evident between the two groups. There was a significant improvement from day 0 in CAT score in Tiotropium treated groups versus Theophylline group after 3 months of therapy. Conclusion: Tiotropium rotacap was more effective as compared to low dose Theophylline in improving pulmonary functions and CAT score in patients with COPD


This research looks at fundamental principles laid down in the international standards relating to social security. Next, researcher will examine the related
ILO standards on social security before exploring the same matter in the light of Malaysian law. The aim of this research is to find out the effect of the ILO on the
current Malaysian law despite non-ratification of the same. Besides, the objective of this research is to investigate as to whether the current Malaysian law on social security is at par with the international standards or not. The main concern of this
study is on migrant workers in Malaysia thus researcher will relate the migrant workers' rights to social security in Malaysia under the standards provided by ILO.


*For correspondence. (J.G. Kim) E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; Tel.: +82-53-950-5379; Fax: +82-53-950-5379 / (J.S. Lee) E-mail: email@example.com; Tel.: +82-63-570-5618; Fax: +82-63-570-5609 Comamonas sp. NLF-7-7 was isolated from biofilter of wastewater treatment plant. The whole-genome sequence of Comamonas sp. NLF-7-7 was analyzed using the PacBio RS II and Illumina HiSeqXten platform. The genome comprises a 3,333,437 bp chromosome with a G + C content of 68.04%, 3,197 total genes, 9 rRNA genes, and 49 tRNA genes. This genome contained pollutants degradation and floc forming genes such as sulfur oxidization pathway (SoxY, SoxZ, SoxA, and SoxB) and floc forming pathway (EpsG, EpsE, EpsF, EpsG, EpsL, and glycosyltransferase), respectively. The Comamonas sp. NLF-7-7 can be used to the purification of wastewater.


Research and development in newer and better technological aids and techniques for law enforcement is desirable to cope with the increased mobility of the criminal, but caution and adequate safeguards are needed to ensure that technology is not misused to create an oppressive police state.


Today, individuals, business and public administrations are internet dependent. This strong dependence creates one of the important sources of threats. Among these threats, the famous Dos attack. The costs of downtime, outages and failures caused by these attacks are very important. Protecting and preventing these threats by using the conventional tools present important limits (cannot predict in real-time when, where, and how the new forms of these Dos attacks occur). To deal with these limits, cybersecurity systems based on machine learning models can analyze patterns and learn from them to forecast and prevent Dos attack. One of the key process which ensures the efficiency of these forecasting systems is feature selection. In this context, we paid particular attention to one of the efficient feature selection methods used in forecasting cybersecurity systems: Wrapper based-feature. To find the best subset of dos attack features and to optimize the accuracy of these systems, we present a comparative study between different wrapper methods applying to the dos attack forecasting. This investigation shows that a wrapper approach based on a genetic algorithm improves the forecasting accuracy more than other wrapper processes.


AbstractCeramic membrane filtration is one of the most promising membrane technologies used for advanced water treatment. Many studies of the fouling behavior of natural organic matter (NOM) have been conducted, but membrane fouling due to dissolved organic matter remains a critical problem preventing the efficient operation of ceramic microfiltration (MF) in water treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fouling characteristics of NOM during ceramic MF using pilot-scale ceramic membrane equipment. In experiments to characterize this fouling behavior, humic acid (HA), bovine serum albumin (BSA), and sodium alginate (SA) were used as representatives of humic substances, proteins, and polysaccharides, respectively. In particular, we evaluated the effects of several parameters on the fouling characteristics of NOM, including concentration, foulant mixture, and rate of flux recovery. The flux decline in the presence of SA showed that ceramic membrane fouling occurred immediately. The membrane foul...


In general, the summation of a set of sub-Hamiltonians cannot share a common eigenstate of each one, only if it is an unentangled product state, such as a phantom helix state in quantum spin system. Here we present a method, referred to as the building block method (BBM), for constructing possible spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg lattice systems possessing phantom helix states. We focus on two types of XXZ dimers as basic elements, with a non-Hermitian parity-time (PT ) field and Hermitian Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which share the same degenerate eigenstates. Based on these two building blocks, one can construct a variety of Heisenberg quantum spin systems, which support helix states with zero energy. The underlying mechanism is the existence of a set of degenerate eigenstates. Furthermore, we show that such systems act as quantum spin graphs since they obey the analogs of Kirchhoff's laws for sets of spin helix states when the non-Hermitian PT fields cancel each other out. In addition, the dynamic response of the helix states for three types of perturbations is also investigated analytically and numerically. Our findings provide a way to study quantum spin systems with irregular geometries beyond the Bethe ansatz approach.


This article analyzes the Turkish military's decision to take over the government on 12 September 1980. It argues that just because the military believed itself to be a true guardian state, it easily considered intervention a legitimate solution. The perceived threats to the integrity of the Republican state posed by rampant terrorism were the key elements driving soldiers towards intervention. In retrospect, the military's willingness to learn from experience and the role played by civilians in encouraging the military to take over the reins of government are striking features of the whole episode.


Recently, we proposed an FCC compliant, ultra low power UWB transceiver based on binary pulse position modulation (BPPM) and a symbol-wise energy detector (ED) [1]. By means of a rigorous low duty cycle operation of 1% at a peak data rate of 50 Mbps, it features an average data rate of 500 kbps with a total average power below 1 mW. In this work, this symbol-wise ED is supplemented by a post-detector based on maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) which facilitates communication in inter-symbol interference (ISI) limited environments. A low complexity Viterbi detector, its metrics, as well as the required channel estimation is presented in a form which allows for direct implementation. Based on a complexity analysis, the additional power required by the post-detector is estimated. For practical scenarios, the overall transceiver power is still around 1 mW. Functionality of the modem design is verified by performance results obtained from an over-the-air testbed, which was operated in an ISI limited industrial environment.


This article looks at theories and practices related to faculty development and innovation in teaching and learning methods in Higher Education, in order to respond to the European 2020 Strategy, in which the High level group on the modernisation of higher education has been established, whose aim focuses on improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe's higher education institutions (2013). The paper is framed within the context of the project PRODID (Preparazione alla professionalita docente e innovazione didattica), funded by the University of Padova, Italy with the major goal of creating a permanent and effective academic center for research on learning and teaching and faculty development. The theoretical framework of PRODID is informed by constructivism and social constructivism, and the student centered approach, encouraging student-teacher partnerships as a dimension for faculty development and teaching and learning innovations. The University of Helsinki and Michigan State University are mentioned as relevant examples of organizational settings integrated in higher education institutions that offer a great variety of practices consistent with the chosen theoretical framework. They also offer the Italian program of University of Padova models for critical reflection in how their teaching strategies can be created and developed on the basis of this international experience. The final discussion aims to highlight the strategies adopted during the first year of the project, characterized by the Italian culture and revealing new insights and ideas to create an Italian model of teaching and learning center.


The time-dependent non-crossing approximation is used to study the transient current in a single-electron transistor attached asymmetrically to two leads following a sudden change in the energy of the dot level. We show that for asymmetric coupling, sharp features in the density of states of the leads can induce oscillations in the current through the dot. These oscillations persist to much longer timescales than the timescale for charge fluctuations. The amplitude of the oscillations increases as the temperature or source–drain bias across the dot is reduced and saturates for values below the Kondo temperature. We discuss the microscopic origin of these oscillations and comment on the possibility for their experimental detection.


The corrosion resistance of electrodeposited Cr and Ni-Mo coatings and the influence of heat treatment on the crystallographic structure, morphology and microhardness properties were investigated here. The characterisations were carried out using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) techniques. Corrosion tests were performed at room temperature in 10-1 mol dm-3 NaCl solutions and by potentiodynamic linear polarization technique.TheMo content in the layer and current efficiency increased with the molybdate ion concentration in the plating solution, while the surface morphology evolved from rough and homogeneous to cracked surface with the increase of the amount of Mo in the layer. The electrochemical corrosion tests showed that the Cr coatings have better corrosion resistance than the Ni-Mo coatings in chloride medium and that all the studied coatings corrode in chloride medium. Ni-13Mo coating has the nobler corrosion behavior among the studied Ni-Mo coatings. The microhardness of the Ni-13Mo coatings increased as the annealing temperature increased which is related with the precipitation of Ni, Ni4Mo and NiMo phases during the heat treatment of this coating. Ni-13Mo coating is a potential substitute for chromium coating in industrial applications when operating at temperatures higher than 100 oC and good microhardness properties are required.


Seven new species of Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908 are described, six from Southeastern Brazil, T. biumbonata sp. nov., T. lenkoi sp. nov., T. myrmecophila sp. nov., T. orensis sp. nov., T. sexdens sp. nov., T. tropidocerata sp. nov., and one from Central Brazil, T. crassisetae sp. nov. An emended diagnosis for the genus and a key to the 19 species recorded from Brazil are provided. Trichorhina acuta Araujo & Buckup, 1994 is recorded to state of Mato Grosso do Sul.


The main factors influencing the migrant workers to participate in sports activities include ideological restriction,economic restriction,lack of sense of social belonging,lack of sports facilities,and etc.Corresponding countermeasures to solve these problems can be mainly found in the measures such as the reform of urban and rural dual economic structure,protecting basic rights of migrant workers,building equality mutual atmosphere,intriguing migrant workers sports enthusiasm.


For nearly a decade, the Washington Court of Appeals has decided many appeals by granting motions on the merits (MMT). The MMT is a procedure unique to Washington appellate courts. This procedure allows either counsel or the court to suggest a summary affirmance on the ground that the appeal is clearly without merit.' A single commissioner hears each MMT; if the commissioner grants the MMT, the losing party may request review by a three-judge panel.2 The MMT procedure evolved in Division III of the Court of Appeals during the early 1980s, and it was embodied in the appellate rules in 1984.1 Approximately one-fifth of all appeals are now decided by granting MMTs.4 The MMT procedure provides a potentially important response to the caseload problems faced by appellate courts nationwide. Appellate filings are increasing at a tremendous rate. Appeals doubled in the 1973-83 decade,' growing three