The invention discloses an interface color adjusting method and device. The method includes detecting a color adjusting command transmitted by a user and aiming at the specific interface; determining the color value to be adjusted and corresponding to the color adjusting command when detecting the color adjusting command transmitted by the user and aiming at the specific interface; adjusting the color value of a preset interface element on the specific interface to the color value to be adjusted according to the determined the color value to be adjusted. The method has the advantage that the interface element color can be adjusted according to the requirements of the user. Further, the interface element color can be adjusted according to the color contained in a stored picture or the temporarily shot picture, the color or the picture for adjustment does not need to be stored additionally, and the terminal storage space is saved. In addition, only the preset interface element is replaced, so that the terminal intelligent performance, the color adjusting flexibility and the interface color diversity are improved.


It has become the major strategic policies of the state and government to construct the learning-oriented society,and to establish and to improve a lifelong learning education system.Lifelong learning has become an individual ability for every citizen in a sustainable development society to adapt their environment.The information literacy is closely related to obtaining the lifelong learning skills.University is the primary and important institution for the information literacy education.It is the responsibility of the modern university education and university library to understand the information literacy education,to discuss the processes of information literacy instruction and to improve the students' information literacy skills.


This draft describes a method of inserting Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs) into Network Service Header (NSH) encapsulated packets or
frames on service chains. This method may be used to monitor latency
and QoS configuration to identify problems with virtual links
(vlinks), Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or Physical Network
Functions (PNFs) on the Rendered Service Path (RSP).


SUMMARY This paper discusses the falsifiable implications of the heterogeneous mixing model of infectious disease. It is shown that the model implies a proportional hazard restriction across the set of susceptible survival functions of the subpopulations. Using this implication, the testable restrictions and identification of the model are discussed when subpopulations are observable as well as unobservable.


In this paper, we study 3-Thue–Morse groups, but these are the groups satisfying the semigroup identity [Formula: see text]. We prove that if [Formula: see text] is a 3-Thue–Morse group then [Formula: see text] is soluble for every [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, if [Formula: see text] is an Engel group without involution then we show that [Formula: see text] is locally nilpotent.


High-frequency(HF) skywave over-the-horizon radar(OTHR) looks down its targets from the ionosphere,it has a large operating range and a large cover areas,but it also receives strong backscatterer echoes from the terrain and sea,and interference,such as radio frequency interference,industrial interference,impulsive noise,lightning impulsive,meteor trail echoes and so on.Interference can be divided into long time interference and transient interference.Transient interference lasts a short time,but its intensity is great.This paper first discusses the character of transient interference,then discusses its excision method,finally the method has been successfully applied to the real data from China experimental OTHR.The transient interference excision method is:first eigen-decomposition is used to separate the sea clutter subspace and filter it or ground clutter is filtered in frequency domain directly,then the transient interference can be detected,after that the original echoes with existing transient interference are excised,finally the excised clutter and target echoes are predicted by Burg linear prediction algorithm.


In this paper,predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAnglis functional response and pulsed input substrate is investigated.We invesigate the subsystem with substrate and prey and study the stablity of the periodic solutions,which are the boundary periodic solutions.The stablity analysis of the boundary periodic solution yield an invasion threshold.


... ix CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Nature of Problem. Characteristics of Cache County. Purpose of Study Methodology. . 1 4 6 8 CHAPTER 2 GEOLOGIC SETTING 12 General Features 12 Lake Bonneville. 13 Groundwater. . . 16 Post Lake Bonneville 20 CHAPTER 3 GENERAL ASPECTS OF GEOLOGIC HAZARDS. 21 Seismic Hazards. 21 General. . 21 Earthquake scales. 21 Strong ground shaking. 22 Characteristics of bedrock motion. 22 Characteristics of ground surface motion 29 Damage potential from ground shaking 30 Surface fault rupture. 36 Liquefaction . 39 Cause of liquefaction. 39 Factors affecting liquefaction potential 40 Methods to evaluate liquefaction potential 46 Miscellaneous ground failure 49 Seiches. . . . . . . 50 TABLE OF CONTENTS continued General Geologic Hazards General . . Slope failures Slope failure problems Categories of slope failure. Identification of landslides by aerial photography. Flooding . Erosion .. Expansive soils. Subsidence . Seismicity of Utah CHAPTER 4 EVALUATION OF STRUCTURES ~lethod of Evaluation and Limitations Culinary Water Storage Tanks General. Hyrum culinary water storage tank. Millville culinary water storage tank. Providence culinary water storage tank Wellsville culinary water storage tank Culinary Water Supply Wells .. Culinary Water Supply Springs. General. . . . . . . . . Providence culinary water supply spring. Cove culinary water supply spring. Dams and Reservoirs. Porcupine Dam. Hyrum Dam. First Dam, Logan River Newton Dam Wellsville Dam Schools ..... iv


To looking for the alternative lipid source for replacement of fish oil in the lobster formulated diet, the present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding varying substitution level of fish oil (FO) by traditional coconut oil (TCO) in the formulated diet on the growth, specific growth rate (SGR), feed conversion ratio (FCR), protein retention (PER), lipid retention (LR), survival rate and carcass composition of juvenile spiny lobster. Four experimental diets were formulated based on different composition of FOand TCO, containing 0% FO : 12% TCO (Diet A), 6% FO : 6% TCO (Diet B), 8% FO : 4% TCO (Diet C) and 10% FO : 2% TCO (Diet D). A total of 36 juveniles lobster (initial weight : 2.1 ± 0.5 g) was distributed in twelve net cages ( three juvenile lobsters per net cage, size net cage : 70 × 70× 100 cm). The lobster were fed in two times a day (08.00 am and 05.00 pm) for 90 days of feeding trial. Results demonstrated that different substitution FO by using TCO in the diet were not significantly different in the absolutely growth, SGR, FCR, PER, LR and survival rate of juvenile lobster. The values of absolutely growth, SGR and FCR were ranged between 2.63 – 4.02 g, 1.67 – 2.29%, and 2.52 – 2.91,respectively. While, PER, LR and SR values were ranged between 3.56 – 4.38 %, 2.07 – 2.8 %, and 93.3% 100%%, respectively. Based on data obtained in this feeding trial concluded that traditional coconut oil could be recommended as an alternative lipid source in the diet to enhance the growth and survival rate of juvenile spiny lobster.


Abstract This paper proposes a distributed multi-agent system (MAS) framework for market-based control in Microgrids. The proposed system consists of two main entities, Energy Selling Agents (ESAs) and Energy Buying Agents (EBAs). In order to alleviate the internal complexity of the agent, three kinds of delegate mobile agents are designed. They are issued by the corresponding agents according to their different functions assumed in the BDI (belief, desire, intention) architecture, such as one kind of delegate mobile agent fulfills the function for building and maintaining the environment information. Through the coordination and interaction of the agents and the delegate mobile agents, the energy exchange between the power resource units and the local loads is realized dynamically.


In integrated water resources management, the need to estimate low flow at any point in the river can be important. Usually, streams low flow, occur in the dry seasons and plant growth period. Since the time of occurrence low flow with duration 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 30 and 60 days varies from upstream to down stream also decreasing rate in low flow also changes across the flow path. Therefore, undrestanding trend of low flow provides valueable imformation on water resources management, cultivation pattern and determine the sutable site for water control. In this research, two hydrological stations of Karkheh river basin were selected where located one of it in the upstream and other in the downstream. Then, low flow with duration of 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 30 and 60 days and trend of them were calculated for two stations. In the following, the rate of low flow to annual discharge was calculated as a index for each year with different duration low flow and Trend of these index calculated. The result showed this index in Sang Surakh station has decreasing and significant trend but in Jelogir station trend was negetive but not significant. By decreasing in duration from 3 to 60 days,decreasing trend a little was reduced. This is an issue, that the low flow are decreasing in upstrems and considered to be vulnerable.

Keywords: low flow, trend, low flow index, Karkheh watershed.


Wavelet transform is a time-scale signal analysis method, which holds the characteristics of the same window size, arbitrary shape change and multi-resolution analysis. Most applications of wavelet transform need to be based on signal decomposition and reconstruction, that is, through the combination of low-pass and high-pass filters to achieve frequency division, the signal is decomposed into signal detail components and large-scale approximate components. In the measurement process of the original energy spectrum data, the denoting process plays a role in reducing the incidence of statistical fluctuations to a certain extent, which is of profound significance to improve the data accuracy. In this paper, wavelet transform is used as the theoretical basis to denoise the actual energy spectrum, at the same time based on the MATLAB platform, simulation of signal with noise, using the different parameters on the signal processing. Firstly, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the hard and soft thresholds to the signal processing under the same conditions was compared, and then the change of the SNR was observed when the number of decomposition layers was changed under the wavelet basis of db3 (soft threshold). The experimental results show that: 1) under the same conditions, the soft threshold method has higher SNR than hard threshold; 2) The number of decomposition layers and the elimination moment affect the signal-to-noise ratio and smoothness of the processed signal respectively, and when the number of decomposition layers is 7-8 layers, the signal-to-noise ratio is about 29, the signal processing effect is the best. This study has shown that Wavelet method is an effective way to process energy spectrum.


Inadequacies of the classical science of tissue morphology based on conventional microscopy were evident long before the advent of modern, integrated morphology. These inadequacies resulted mainly from the static nature of classical morphology: a cell or tissue studied by the conventional light microscope is not very informative about its past, its future functional or developmental capacities, and even its present functional state. Before the development of integrated approaches to morphology, the most of what could be said about these aspects of cellular biology was based on speculation (and sometimes imagination), so that the morphological science was gradually transformed into an art. During the past two decades, the advent of new techniques, such as the use of tracer isotopes, high-resolution autoradiography, improvements in tissue culture methods, correlation of in vitro and in vivo models, extensive use of biophysical and biochemical methods, and higher-resolution microscopy have transformed classical morphology into an integrated


A comparative study of Refractohilum specimens with pluriseptate conidia from Canada and western Europe shows that they belong to three species: R. achromaticum, known until now only from Canada, Refractohilum intermedium Roux et Etayo sp.nov., known from subhumid parts of southern Europe (Mediterranean areas of France and Spain), and Refractohilum pluriseptatum Etayo et Roux sp.nov., known from western Europe and the most humid parts of southern Europe. These three species, which grow on the thallus of corticolous and often sterile crustose lichens with Trentepohlia, differ from each other by dimensions and septation of conidia and conidiophores, distribution, and ecology. Key words: lichenicolous fungi, Refractohilum, taxonomy.


Abstract Background Periodontal regeneration can change tooth prognosis and represents an alternative to extraction in teeth compromised by severe intra‐bony defects. The aim of this study was to compare periodontal regeneration (PR) with tooth extraction and replacement (TER) in a population with attachment loss to or beyond the apex of the root in terms of professional, patient‐reported and economic outcomes. Methods This was a 10‐year randomized controlled clinical trial. 50 stage III or stage IV periodontitis subjects with a severely compromised tooth with attachment loss to or beyond the apex were randomized to PR or TER with either an implant‐ or a tooth‐supported fixed partial denture. Subjects were kept on a strict periodontal supportive care regimen every 3 months and examined yearly. Survival and recurrence analysis were performed. Results 88% and 100% survival rates were observed in the PR and TER groups. Complication‐free survival was not significantly different: 6.7–9.1 years for PR and 7.3–9.1 years for TER (p = .788). In PR, the observed 10‐year attachment gain was 7.3 ± 2.3 mm and the residual probing depths were 3.4 ± 0.8 mm. Recurrence analysis showed that the 95% confidence interval of the costs was significantly lower for PR compared with TER throughout the whole 10‐year period. Patient‐reported outcomes and oral health‐related quality‐of‐life measurements improved in both groups. Conclusions Periodontal regeneration can change the prognosis of hopeless teeth and is a less costly alternative to tooth extraction and replacement. The complexity of the treatment limits widespread application to the most complex cases but provides powerful proof of principle for the benefits of PR in deep intra‐bony defect.


In this study the pre-nucleation phenomenon is modelled as a canonical ensemble of N-body systems and the necessary thermodynamic states are determined using the conventional Monte Carlo simulation method. A distinct approach has been adopted towards building the essential, a priori, knowledge of the initial configurations of the N-body systems by developing the temperature-consistent clusters from the derivatives of the interaction potential. The results, including the Helmholtz free energy and the thermodynamic states at incipient nucleation, are presented for comparison with experimental and theoretical investigations on Argon clusters.


Cloud management organisation is an imperative part of cloud computing platform and serving as the resource manager for cloud platforms. The multifaceted nature of cloud-management base makes its high availability (HA), a standout amongst the most necessities. Different innovations have been produced to build a consistent quality and availability of cloud administration infrastructure. In any case, little work concentrated on quantitative examination of its accessibility. While this ability accomplishes a developed availability with small fault rates, corporate requests conveyed over the autonomous zones may encounter unique Quality of Service (QoS) because of various physical frameworks. The key target of this paper is to show how the Markov-based model can fulfil the client request. For this reason, a few scenarios of the failure rate of virtual machine's practices, for example, single system failure, multiple system failures, power outage are considered by applying the Markov model. The improved repair strategies of accessibility in various circumstances are also investigated. The Queuing models like Markovian and non-Markovian models are examined using phase type expansion and renewal theory keeping in mind the end goal to sufficiently speak to and to assess. The considered element unwavering quality perspectives if there should be an occurrence of the most part dispersed lifetimes and times to repair.


This paper proposes an algorithm of extracting edge from embryo image.Based on wavelet multi-resolution analysis,the algorithm extracts the embryo edge with multi-resolution elements in view of the edge's geometric shape.Experimental results show that the method can extract edge information effectively.


We clarified the mechanism of thermal deterioration that occurs in the CoFeB/PdPtMn spin-valve films at temperatures above 310 °C. Two kinds of CoFeB spin-valve film, Ta/NiFe/CoFeB/Cu/CoFeB/PdPtMn/Ta (B:0–3 at. %) and Ta/NiFe/CoFeB/Cu/CoFeB/FeMn/Ta (B:2 at. %), were prepared and annealed in a magnetic field. For the PdPtMn spin-valve samples, the magnetoresistance (MR) output decreased after annealing at a temperature above 330 °C and there was an increase in the interlayer coupling field of free and pin layers (Hin). There was no large change in the sheet resistance for annealing below 330 °C. For CoFe/PdPtMn(no B) spin valves, the MR output decreased during annealing at more than 310 °C and there was an increase of Hin. An addition of only 1 at. % of boron into the free and pinned layers is sufficient to obtain thermal stability. For the CoFeB/FeMn spin-valve samples, the MR output decreased for annealing above 280 °, the sheet resistance increased, and the Hin value did not change for annealing below 3...


PCI has developed and demonstrated its Rich Catalytic Lean-burn (RCL®) technology for industrial and utility gas turbines to meet DOE's goals of low single digit emissions. The technology offers stable combustion with extended turndown allowing ultra-low emissions without the cost of exhaust after-treatment and further increasing overall efficiency (avoidance of after-treatment losses). The objective of the work was to develop and demonstrate emission benefits of the catalytic technology to meet strict emissions regulations. Two different applications of the RCL® concept were demonstrated: RCL® catalytic pilot and Full RCL®. The RCL® catalytic pilot was designed to replace the existing pilot (a typical source of high NOx production) in the existing Dry Low NOx (DLN) injector, providing benefit of catalytic combustion while minimizing engine modification. This report discusses the development and single injector and engine testing of a set of T70 injectors equipped with RCL® pilots for natural gas applications. The overall (catalytic pilot plus main injector) program NOx target of less than 5 ppm (corrected to 15% oxygen) was achieved in the T70 engine for the complete set of conditions with engine CO emissions less than 10 ppm. Combustor acoustics were low (at or below 0.1 psi RMS) during testing. Themore » RCL® catalytic pilot supported engine startup and shutdown process without major modification of existing engine controls. During high pressure testing, the catalytic pilot showed no incidence of flashback or autoignition while operating over a wide range of flame temperatures. In applications where lower NOx production is required (i.e. less than 3 ppm), in parallel, a Full RCL® combustor was developed that replaces the existing DLN injector providing potential for maximum emissions reduction. This concept was tested at industrial gas turbine conditions in a Solar Turbines, Incorporated high-pressure (17 atm.) combustion rig and in a modified Solar Turbines, Incorporated Saturn engine rig. High pressure single-injector rig and modified engine rig tests demonstrated NOx less than 2 ppm and CO less than 10 ppm over a wide flame temperature operating regime with low combustion noise ( 5000 hours) at simulated engine conditions (P=15 atm, Tin=400C/750F.). Cyclic tests simulating engine trips was also demonstrated for catalyst reliability. In addition to catalyst tests, substrate oxidation testing was also performed for downselected substrate candidates for over 25,000 hours. At the end of the program, an RCL® catalytic pilot system has been developed and demonstrated to produce NOx emissions of less than 3 ppm (corrected to 15% O2) for 100% and 50% load operation in a production engine operating on natural gas. In addition, a Full RCL® combustor has been designed and demonstrated less than 2 ppm NOx (with potential to achieve 1 ppm) in single injector and modified engine testing. The catalyst/substrate combination has been shown to be stable up to 5500 hrs in simulated engine conditions.« less


The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) appears in computer science in many forms. In the most general version a CSP instance consists of variables and constraints, and the goal is to evaluate the variables so that that all the constraints are satisfied. In a version of CSP particularly amenable to theoretical approach each constraint takes a form of a pair: a tuple of variables and a list of allowed evaluations. This restriction immediately makes the problem complete for NP. However, by further restricting the constraints allowed to appear in instances, we arrive at a very general framework capturing many natural problems in computer science. The list of allowed evaluations in a constraint can be viewed as a relation of appropriate arity. In the parametrized (a.k.a non-uniform) version of CSP the set of relations allowed to appear in a constraint is restricted and called the language of the CSP. The famous dichotomy conjecture of Feder and Vardi [3] postulates that every finite language defines a CSP which is NPC or solvable in a polynomial time. The classical theorem of Schaefer [6], classifying the CSPs on two-element sets, is one of the most prominent results supporting the conjecture. For a few years now the strongest partial results supporting the dichotomy conjecture use the algebraic approach pioneered in [5, 4]. It relies on a Galois correspondence [1] pairing a CSP language with an algebra. The algebra captures the computational complexity of the associated CSP up to a LOGSPACE reduction, but the connection goes deeper. The structure of the algebra is intrinsically connected with the types of obstacles the algorithm needs to overcome in order to verify an existence of a solution. Many structural properties of algebras are captured by identities i.e. universally quantified equalities of operations. For example the identity f(x, y) ≈ f(y, x) states that an operation f is binary and commutative. Among the first, and most important, results of the algebraic approach is the fact that an algebra satisfies identities which cannot be satisfied by projections (such algebras are called Taylor algebras) or the associated CSP is NPC. This year two independent papers introduced two algorithms solving CSPs for all the Taylor algebras and thus confirming the dichotomy conjecture. In each case the algorithm requires strong structural properties of the algebra to function correctly. In the paper of Andrei Bulatov [2] the structure is described by a colored graph defined on the elements of an algebra; in the other publication Dmitriy Zhuk [8] relies on the more "global" properties of being an absorbing subuniverse or a center. The goal of the workshop was to study properties of Taylor algebras using the tools developed for these proofs.


Molecules of zinc tetraphenylporphyrin were adsorbed on the surface of quantized MoS2 particles in water with a small amount of ethanol (95/5). Triplet decay kinetics of zinc tetraphenylporphyrin w...


s, Int. B., 1982, 42(8), 3346 and abstracted at Chem. Abstracts 96:143750n (1982). Co-polymers of epsilon capro lactone with 1,4-butane diol as disclosed at Kauch. Rezine, 1982, (2), 8-9, abstracted at Chem. Abstracts, volume 96:182506 g (1982). Polyesters as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4.326,010, the specification for which is incorporated by


In 2D topological insulators (TIs) based on semiconductor quantum wells such as HgTe/CdTe or InAs/GaSb/AlSb, spin polarized edge states have been predicted with a massless Dirac like dispersion. In a hard wall treatment based on the 4 x 4 BHZ Hamiltonian and open boundary conditions (OBCs), the wave function is weakly confined near the edge, with which it makes no contact. In contrast, standard boundary conditions for the wave function and its derivative (SBCs) lead to strong confinement with a peak amplitude at the edge. Unfortunately, weak confinement exhibits unphysical behavior related to a spurious gap solution that is included in the OBC wave function. This is confirmed by the gap solutions of the parent multiband Hamiltonian from which the smaller Hamiltonian is derived, which exhibit physical behavior and do not satisfy OBCs. Unlike OBCs or other approaches based on phenomenological boundary conditions, SBCs treat the wall explicitly. Using a basis of empty crystal free electron states for the vacuum with the same symmetry as the TI states, it is shown that a large wall band gap overlapping that of the TI can only be achieved by including a thin passivation layer. For passivation materials such as silicon dioxide where the mid gap energy is nearly degenerate with that of the TI, the Dirac point is very close to mid gap and virtually independent of the TI band asymmetry. The treatment also demonstrates that a significant shift of the dispersion may be introduced by interface band mixing. The shift is largest at the Dirac point and decreases monotonically with edge state wave vector, vanishing when the edge states merge with the bulk band edges.


With the development of accounting computerization,it is inevitable to welcome audit computerization.The audit computerization frees auditors from the tedious and heavy computation and checking.The practice of computer audit can make auditing more efficient.But there is risk in using computer audit.Only when we reduce the risk can we make full use of computer audit.


Has the revival of the Andean Pact affected the industrial growth of Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador? Has this regional agreement had greater effects tha unilateral liberalization? The author explores two potential channels for industrial growth: scale effects and variety of imported intermediate inputs. She analyzes data from 2 countries (classified at the three-digit level of ISIC) across three countries. The results show that: 10 The variety of intermediate inputs originating from nonregional partners has a significant positive impact on growth in a handful of industries. 2) The effect of regional variety is at best mixed. This lends preliminary support to the argument that unilateral liberalization will have a positive impact on output growth through the channel of imported intermediate inputs. There is significant homogeneity in industry-level returns to scale. Moreover, in the three Andean countries studied, cross-country scale effects were small and negative. Therefore, the three countries should not expect large or across-the-board gains through scale effects from their regional arrangement.


The structural wave power flows in an elastic finite cylindrical shell with discrete axial stiffeners are studied when a simple harmonic force is applied on it. The equations of motion of the shell are derived by using Flugge equation and Hamilton variational principle, and the responses of the shell are obtained. By use of the basic definition of the power flow, the characteristics of axial propagation of the power flow supplied by input structure and carried by different shell internal forces of a forced shell are investigated. The effects of parameters, such as relative location of driving force and stringer, driving force type and structural damping on the vibrational power flows in the shell, are discussed. These provide some theoretical bases for vibration control and noise reduction of this kind of structure.


The point of this article is to distinguish and characterize the waves of migration and departures by Lithuanian and Litvak artists that periodically took place in Lithuania since the middle of the nineteenth century, and to discuss artists' experiences after they had left Lithuania. Artist migrations, moving to art centers is a part of European artists' life. The artist profession throughout the ages has been considered to be inseparable from moving and networking. Studying abroad, travels, search for commissions, founding of artist colonies, working in residencies was, and still is, an element of a fully-fledged creative lifestyle. However, in this article, a different type of artist migration is being analyzed. A specific phenomenon of long term or complete retreat of artists from their homelands, determined not only by artistic goals but also by complex social, political or economic circumstances, is being analyzed. Artists started emigrating from Lithuania (and its surrounding territories) to the West in the middle of the nineteenth century and continues to this day. In this article, Lithuanian artists' migration waves, from the end of the nineteenth century to the current day, are chronologically distinguished and systematically presented, intrinsic causes of emigration (and phenomena related to it – migration and re-emigration) are described and the problems of integration in new locations for artists, the effects of these problems on the artists' identities are discussed. It is deduced that the causes of Lithuanian and Litvak emigration were often similar but the degree of adjusting differed. Many emigrated Lithuanians changed professions, unable or unwilling to adapt to intense international art lifestyle. Lithuanian emigrant artists even under politically hostile circumstances looked for a connection with their home country. Artists in exile managed to form connections and influence their countrymen who created in Soviet Lithuania. This difficult topic requires more detailed research in the future. When researching twenty first century artist cases, one has to talk not about emigrants but about migrants, artists of a fragmented identity, operating exclusively in the international art field. The problem of an artist's identity is a lot more relevant than the artist's nationality.


Background: Access and exposure to green space is associated with a wide range of potential health benefits. Few studies have examined the direct impact of exposure to greenspaces on mortality. We ...


Some of basic properties of UB algebras in universal logic are studied,and following rsults are obtained:(1)The UB algebras be a bounded lattice,thereinto x∨y=(y→x)→x,x∧y=[(y→x)→y']';(2)(,→) be a adjoint pairs,where""mean:xy=(x→y')';(3)a(b∨c)=(ab)∨(ac);(4)(a→b)∨(b→a)=1;(5)a∧b=a(a→b);(6)a→(b∨c)=(a→b)∨(a→c);(7)x∧y→z=(x→z)∨(y→z);(8)(x→y)→z=(x→z)∧(y→z);etc.


Ayurveda is the one of the most noted system of medicine in the world. The term Ayurveda in Sanskrit consist of two words: Ayur meaning life and Veda meaning science, thus Ayurveda is the science of life. Avipathi Choornam is an ayurvedic medicine and contains rhizomes of Zingiber officinale; fruits of Piper Nigrum, Piper longum, Embelia ribes, Emblica officinalis, seeds of Elettaria cardamomum and leaves of Cinnamomum zeyalanicum and it are useful for the treatment of peptic ulcer. Peptic ulcer is a break in the lining of the stomach or duodenum. The gastroprotective activity of Avipathi Choornam was performed by the screening of antiulcer activity by ethanol induced gastric ulcer and screening of gastroprotective effect by Pylorus ligation method. The toxicity study shows the safety nature of Avipathi Choornam and the results obtained shows that it is a good and safe therapeutic agent for ulcer treatment.


A novel method to detect human facial regions from an image with a complex background has been proposed. To detect human facial regions precisely, without imposing any constraints on the face size, position or features (such as glasses, beard and so on), the method employs a genetic algorithm (GA). First, the proposed method detects the edges in an input image. Second, it searches elliptical regions using a GA, based on the idea that a human face can be approximated by an ellipsoid. Finally, it judges whether each region is a human face or not. We confirmed by computer simulations that the proposed method could detect human facial regions in various images.


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Agriculture is at a crossroads in terms of how it will be financed. Debt capital as a source of capital to establish farmers will become less important as lenders become more conservative and base their ioan decisions more on real repayment capacity. Very serious questions have to be asked about the relevance of many provincial and federal lending programs for the coming years. A rethinking of the role of government in farm credit is now under way and will continue in the future.

New programs must be developed for the farmers of the future which will allow them to become and remain established in a low or deflationary environment.


The hygienic, social, and clinical factors were studied in the foci of tuberculosis infection. The social status of an infection focus, the clinical form of tuberculosis, the duration of the disease of a source, massive bacterial excretion, small living space per capita, the level of insolation and microclimate were found to affect the incidence of tuberculosis in contact patients.


This public policy article establishes an innovative science based on which the rising risk of obesity as a major cancer in today's lifestyle can be minimized by optimizing circadian frequency and timing of food meals. Increasing the number of meals and decreasing meal size must be designed for day time. No major food meals must be left for evening and night time and instead fruits and vegetables should be taken overnight.


Experimental studies have been performed to apply electrokinetic instability as a means of fluid mixing. A time-periodic electric field is introduced to excite the instability in a cross channel. It is generated by the sum of a static field and an alternating field. The characteristics of instability have been considered with the frequency of applied electric field as a key parameter. Through the frequency sweeping from 0.1 Hz to 50 Hz, it has been found that the instability is most enhanced when the period of the applied electric field is close to half of the period of instability in the form of a sinusoidal wave generated under a the static electric field. This fact may be explained based on the concept of hydrodynamic resonance. The degree of mixing is evaluated quantitatively by analyzing the distribution of fluorescent dye and it is confirmed that there exists an optimal frequency for enhancement of fluid mixing. The existence of the optimal frequency is expected to provide a valuable guideline for the design of an efficient micro-mixer.


In this work, we address the problem of image retrieval in the wavelet transform domain. More precisely, the wavelet coefficients are considered as realizations of a Generalized Gaussian Distribution (GGD) whose parameters are the signatures of the image. The retrieval procedure is based on a tree-structured search in the feature space that fully exploits the multiscale property of the image representation. Our main contribution consists in improving the design of such tree by employing an unsupervised classification algorithm instead of the conventional supervised K-means algorithm. Experimental results indicate significant gains in terms of precision and recall w.r.t. the K-means based design of the tree.


We review the tight-binding model of ABA-stacked trilayer graphene. The presence of mirror reflection symmetry of the crystal structure leads to a decomposition of the band structure into separate monolayerlike and bilayerlike parts. Owing to a lack of spatial inversion symmetry, next-nearest layer coupling induces gaps in the monolayerlike and the bilayerlike parts of the spectrum, and also shifts the monolayerlike and bilayerlike bands with respect to each other. We calculate the Landau level spectrum of ABA-stacked trilayer graphene taking into account terms within the single-particle picture that break level degeneracy including next-nearest layer coupling and spin-orbit coupling.


Multipath interference is considered as one of the dominant error sources for high-precision positioning systems. Multipath estimation plays a significant role in eliminating multipath error to improve the positioning precision. In this paper, a category of information theoretic learning (ITL)-based multipath estimation algorithms are studied in non-Gaussian noise. Apart from the previously proposed ITL-based multipath estimation algorithms, the minimum error entropy criterion-based algorithm and the centered error entropy criterion-based algorithm, a new multipath estimation algorithm using survival information potential (SIP) is also proposed. For the SIP-based multipath estimation algorithm, the SIP criterion is adopted as an index to measure the performance of estimation results. The goal of applying SIP in multipath estimation is to solve the problem that the previously proposed algorithms based on ITL are time consuming due to the calculation of multi-dimensional Gaussian kernel function. The comparisons of the three ITL-based algorithms are comprehensively analyzed in theory at first. Then, a case study of multipath environment in non-Gaussian noise is given to further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in terms of estimation accuracy, randomness, and the calculation complexity for multipath estimation.


This study evaluated the effects of gas flaring on the physicochemical and hydrocarbons characteristics of water sources in Warri Metropolis, Delta State, Nigeria. Rainwater samples were collected from selected areas at Delta Steel Company (DSC) Roundabout (Warri), Afiesere Town(Ughelli) and College of Science premises in Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, (FUPRE). All water sample results were compared with WHO standards for drinking water. The results revealed that water samples from the areas had considerable high levels of turbidity, total chlorine, nitrate, sulphates, lead, zinc, and copper with an acidic pH range of 4.50 to 6.30. All sampling sites also showed a high level of TPH contamination. TPH values ranged from 171.156mg/l to 241.947mg/l. The carbon chain length of aliphatics (n-alkanes) in the sampling areas were recorded from C8 to C40 dominated by heavy hydrocarbons (C36-C40), and the total n-alkanes ranged from 170.814mg/l to 241.891mg/l. The range of total PAHs compounds across the sampling areas was 0.343mg/l to 4.430mg/l. Therefore, gas flaring is a potential pollutant source in water, which could have an adverse health impact on the entire residents of (population) Warri and Ughelli metropolis and in other areas where this operation has been carried out.


In Malaysia, construction industry plays an important role in benefitting towards the development of country's economy as well as providing the necessary infrastructure and enhanced facilities for social comfort. Despite these contributions, this thriving industry is responsible for generating an excessive amount of construction waste and numerous cases on delaying which then tarnish the reputation of the company. Therefore, this study evaluates the factors affecting the implementation of quality management system practices in construction project through the application of structured questionnaire and case study of high rise construction project to come out with a structured framework that can enhance the quality management system in construction project. The statistical techniques used to evaluate the data obtained are relative importance index (RII) and Average Index (AVI), while cronbach's alpha is used to measure the significant between three different groups of respondents, the reliability and validity of the study.


that establish the optimal route for tubal testing in our IVF era. comparing the ovarian reserves in advanced aged women with PCOS and regular menstrual cycles. of study to evaluate the ovarian reserve in women with advanced age by using basal serum follicle sti-mulating hormone (FSH), antimullerian hormone (AMH), estradiol (E 2 ), inhibin B and antral follicle count. Materials and methods: This study was conducted between May 2006 and June 2007 at the Erciyes University Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Unit. Early follicular phase (day 3–5 of the menstrual cyle) FSH, AMH, E 2 , inhibin B concentration and number of antral follicles in women with PCOS ( n ¼ 41) and normoovulatory controls ( n ¼ 28) between 35 and 42 years of age were compared. Correlation between antral follicle count and other tests for ovarian reserve was evaluated. Results: Meanage,BMIandseruminhibinBconcentrationsofbothgroupswere comparable. Basal serum FSH and E 2 concentrations in women with PCOS were significantly lower than in controls (5.87 + 1.49 versus 10.19 + 1.75 mIU/mL; P , 0.005 and 58.58 + 21.81 versus 84.79 + 60.58 pg/mL; P , 0.005, respect-ively). Serum AMH concentration in the PCOS group was significantly higher than controls (5.36 + 3.53 versus 0.93 + 0.97 ng/mL; P , 0.001). Mean ovarian volume and antral follicle count were significantly higher in the PCOS group compared with controls (12.16 + 4.72 versus 4.66 + 2.37 cm 3 ; P , 0.005 and 33.04 + 8.64 versus 8.64 + 3.91; P ¼ 0.005). There was a significant positive correlation between early follicular phase antral follicle count and serum AMH ( r ¼ 0.74; P ¼ 0.001) and a negative serum FSH concentration ( r ¼ 2 0.37; P ¼ 0.001) in total 69 women. Although serum E 2 con- centration correlated negatively with early follicular phase antral follicle count, this did not reach statistical significance ( r ¼ 2 0.09; P ¼ 0.42) in 69 women. Conclusions: Ovarian reserve in advanced aged women with PCOS is better preserved than in normoovulatory women of similar age. Among the tests for ovarian reserve early follicular phase serum AMH concentrations seems to correlate best with antral follicle count. The number of triple CGG repeats on the FMRI gene: A new test reflective of diminished ovarian reserve and female infertility infertility. This test, therefore, for the first time offers the potential of prospec-tive screening and timely interventions (and/or steps towards fertility preser- vation). These observations also suggest a role of the FMR1 gene in the (premature) ovarian aging process. cri-teria) the notype of PCOS patients. was isolated from peripheral blood samples and genotyped by PCR associated with PCOS susceptibility, suggesting no major role for these variants in the pathogenesis of this syndrome. Identification of the poly(T) variants at intron PCR amplification, primers the PCR amplification on on an ABI PRISM 310 Genetic Analyzer and scanned using appro- priate software (GeneScan, Applied Biosystems). The fragment lengths were 201 bp (5T), 203 bp (7T) and 205 bp (9T). Results: We analyzed the DNA of 86 azoospermic, 75 normozoospermic and 100 fertile males. The 5T homozygous incidence was similar (1.2%, 1.3% and 1%) in the three groups examined. In the azoospermic group the 5T allele inci- dence (11%) was similar to the fertile population group (9%). The variant allele frequency in normozoospermic males was 4.7%. Conclusions: Genes involved in disease inheritance have mutations than are not always fully penetrant. Our study shows a similar 5T allele frequency in the azoospermic and fertile population. The 5T variant does not appear to play an important role in non-CBAVD azoospermia. Genetic testing for CF and the 5T variant has a crucial role in the diagnosis of infertility in azoospermic males.


The ignorance of the natural resources economic has contributed to its deterioration and degradation, which affects the social and economic situation of our country, the reason is that there is a distinct market for transactions. The valuation of natural resources is sustainable trough an objective development, proposed that the environment is not a free, although there are no conventional markets, and suggests measuring use and shortage. It must be included the total economic value of the natural resource values which are: direct, indirect, present, future, option, of use, not used, and existence. It is foresee gradually the set up a real market of environmental assets, it is necessary have parameter of valuation, that would serve to generate alternative developments in rural communities, keeping clean environmental practices. The objective is to identify formally tradable and potential resources that allows information which are going to be apply for a methodic valorization, that would allow us to build a future scenario of environmental assets in the market.


Objective
To investigate the application of MR BOLD imaging in uterine cervical cancer and the value of hypoxia related MR parameters R2*andΔR2*in monitoring treatment response and predicting prognosis.

Methods
Twenty eight female patients with locally advanced uterine cervical cancer were studied prospectively.MR BOLD imaging was performed in 3.0 T MR scanner with the air and Carbogen gas mixture (95% O2+ 5% CO2) inhalation alternately,14 patients were accomplished with the same protocol before and after the treatment.The hypoxia related parameters:tumor baseline R2* (air) and dynamicΔR2* (R2*changed values before and after carbogen gas inhalation) were obtained.Independent t test was used to compare the baseline R2*values between cervical cancer tissue and uterine myometrium.Paired t test and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used to compare the hypoxia related parameters changes after carbogen gas mixture inhalation as well as after treatment.Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the difference between the good and poor response subgroups.

Results
The scan was convenient and the imaging was good with significant contrast between tumor and the uterine myometrium[cervical cancer (15.92 ±2.71) /s,uterine myometrium (22.76±3.79) /s,t=6.474,P 0.05) andΔR2* (good response median:2.06/s,poor response median: 2.31/s,Z=-1.670,P>0.05) of the pretreatment scan.

Conclusions
The evaluation of tumor hypoxia status is essential for radiation therapy.The hypoxia related parameters R2*andΔR2*derived of MR BOLD imaging can indirectly reflect the tumor oxygenation status,particularly the changes caused by the treatment.

Key words:
Uterine cervical neoplasms; Magnetic resonance imaging


We conducted this systematic literature review to summarize single-case intervention studies in which academic instruction incorporated assistive and instructional technology for students with complex support needs. Thirty studies, published between 2012 and 2019, were included in the review and evaluated for methodological rigor. Of the 97 student participants across all studies, most received language arts instruction in self-contained elementary classrooms. The majority of interventions used instructional technology on mobile devices in conjunction with systematic instruction focusing on teaching word recognition or letter identification skills. We discuss the key findings with recommendations for future research, and implications for practice.


The paper further realises Foucault's genealogy of ethics to grasp genealogy as the totality of three axes – power, truth, and ethics – driven by the ethical axis. The paper demonstrates that Foucault's discussion of antiquity is genealogical. The main focus is Foucault's late work and, in particular, his final lectures on The Courage of Truth. The paper highlights the genealogical function of the distinction between 'Laches' and 'Alcibiades'. 'Laches' provides a heuristic source for self-care in the present in the form of practices of living tied to the 'Laches' parrhesia. But, it is also a critique of the present applied to democratic theories that have used the neo-platonic line of the 'Alcibiades' parrhesia – of which Foucault disapproves – as their source in creating traceable technologies of the self tied to structures of domination. Such technologies freeze games of power and governmentalise the problematisation of how to govern the self. Hence, the genealogical discussion of antiquity in connection with an understanding of genealogy as problematisation should be perceived as a heuristic source of self-creation with critical implications for evaluating power regimes in the present. The paper introduces the link between the ancient past and the present with respect to Foucault vis-à-vis certain democratic theories. The central aim is to consider on what grounds placing the problematisation of the self at the centre of a new politics can be also linked to governmentality. In this context, the paper also clarifies the wider implication of its core premise for Foucauldian studies and the emerging discussion of parrhesia.


The potential of diffusion-ordered 2D NMR spectroscopy (DOSY) for the analysis of solutions of polymer mixtures and polymers with complex molecular mass distributions is investigated. Diffusion coefficient labeling in NMR is generally achieved by stepwise ramping up of the amplitudes of pairs of pulsed field gradients (PFGs). After Fourier transformation in the acquisition dimension and an inverse Laplace transform (ILT) with respect to the square of the gradient strength, 2D spectra are obtained that show the chemical shift along one dimension and the translational diffusion coefficient along the other. Since polymers may have broad, nonsymmetric or complex (bi- and multimodal) molecular weight distributions (MWDs), the diffusion coefficient distribution should follow the main features of the MWD. However, the calculation of the diffusion coefficient distribution involves a numerically unstable data inversion (ILT), which limits the resolution in the diffusion dimension. The applications of DOSY NMR tech...


Formalizing security requirements has received a significant attention since the 70s. However a general method for specifying security requirements is still missing. Especially, little work has been presented on specifying and verifying that a given application is a secure resource consumer The purpose of this work is to set up a methodology for (1) specifying security requirements of service providers and (2) proving that some application securely uses some resources. The developed theory will be evaluated and applied in two different areas: secure mobile code development and secure COTS-based software development.


The three first mentioned are of small extent, and as I know little of their fossil flora they are omitted from this series of papers on the Carboniferous Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields. I, however, devote a separate communication to the fossil plants met with while sinking the shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, as a considerable part of the rocks passed through during this operation is clearly Upper Coal Measures, not Permian, as has been generally stated. The palaeontological evidence, therefore, becomes of special importance in determining the age of the red shales occurring in the upper part of this sinking, which have been usually mapped as Permian. Strata of the same age also occur in the Potteries Coal Field, but the fossil plants are not so fully known from them as from the strata passed through in the sinking at Hamstead. The determination, therefore, of the true position of the red shales at Hamstead assists one in dealing with the stratiography of other districts of Staffordshire. At the meeting of the British Association, held at Birmingham in 1886, Messrs FREDERICK G. MEACHEM, M.E., and H. INSLEY, read a paper, entitled " Notes on the Rocks between the Thick Coal and the Trias north of Birmingham and the Old South Staffordshire Coal Field;" this paper, of which an abstract is given in the Report of the British Association for 1886,* contains the only published opinion, as far as I am aware, that these red shales belong to the Upper Coal Measures.


In the dedicatory letter to the first printed edition of his Adulescentia, Baptista Mantuanus ("Mantuan" in England since the Renaissance) asks all readers holding manuscript copies of the earlier, unprinted version of his collection to destroy them—a request in effect so discouraging that, despite publication in the twentieth century of several important works by Mantuan, no manuscript copies of early versions of his eclogues have ever come to light. We are therefore indebted to Paul Oskar Kristeller for recording six manuscripts—five in Italian libraries and one at the Bodleian Library, Oxford—containing copies of what I have discovered to be early versions of Mantuan's ninth and tenth eclogues. Examination of these manuscript copies reveals new information as to the date and circumstances of composition and initial publication of the two eclogues.


Purpose – Electrostatic microelectromechanical systems are characterized by the pull‐in instability, associated to a pull‐in voltage. A good design requires an accurate model of this pull‐in phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to present two approaches to building finite element method (FEM) based models.Design/methodology/approach – Closed form expressions for the computation of the pull‐in voltage, can provide fast results within reliable accuracy, except when treating cases of extreme fringing fields. FEM‐based models come handy when high accuracy is needed. In the first model presented in this paper, the FEM is used to solve the electrostatic problem, while the mechanical problem is solved using a simplified Euler‐Bernoulli beam equation. The second model is a pure FEM model coupling the electrostatic and mechanical problems iteratively through the electrical force. Results for both scalar and vector potential formulations for the FEM models are presented.Findings – In this paper a comparative st...


It is well known that ideal free-space optical communication at the quantum limit can have unbounded photon information efficiency (PIE), measured in bits per photon. High PIE comes at a price of low dimensional information efficiency (DIE), measured in bits per spatio-temporal-polarization mode. If only temporal modes are used, then DIE translates directly to bandwidth efficiency. In this paper, the DIE vs. PIE tradeoffs for known modulations and receiver structures are compared to the ultimate quantum limit, and analytic approximations are found in the limit of high PIE. This analysis shows that known structures fall short of the maximum attainable DIE by a factor that increases linearly with PIE for high PIE.


A public session "Education for disaster-prevention and community-restoration" has been held in the JpGU meetings in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The meeting of this year is due to hold "Comprehensive disaster prevention education" as one of the regular sessions. Although the type of this session differs from the previous ones, the goal of our session is the same. The necessity to reconstruct disaster prevention education has been argued by many people after Great East Japan Earthquake (March 11, 2011). For example, one of the advisory committees of the Ministry of Education submitted a report that the contents of disaster prevention education have to be rearranged systematically. However, the educational curriculums shown in the report as examples seem to lead people to have passive behavior to disaster. The comprehensive disaster prevention education includes more subjects than those referred to in the report. In this paper, the author shows a new concept of the disaster prevention education, and suggests the necessity to cultivate more people facing disaster positively.


When dealing with traffic noise propagation over large distances, models assuming flat and homogeneous grounds and homogeneous atmosphere are not sufficient to have an accurate prediction. A first improvement was obtained by many authors who worked on new theoretical approaches individually dealing with the influence of mixed grounds, stratified atmosphere, noise barriers, etc. on sound propagation. Thus, many models were built. In order to predict sound pressure levels for complex conditions representative of realistic traffic noise situations, a model based on the resolution of the wave equation through a parabolic approximation has been developed. The problem is numerically solved for various conditions including mixed grounds, upward and downward refracting turbulent atmospheres, and the presence of noise barriers producing a variation of the sound celerity profile along the propagation path between the source and the receiver, over several hundred metres. The numerical approach is based on the split‐step Pade technique mainly developed and recently improved by the acoustic group of the Ecole Centrale in Lyon, France [Chevret et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100, 3587–3599 (1996)]. Interesting comparative results with other theoretical approaches and experimental data have been obtained and will be widely developed in the paper.


Recently the automobile engine has been developed in achieving the high performance, fuel economy, and emission reduction. In a conventional spark ignition engine the fuel and air are mixed together in the intake system, inducted through the intake valve into the cylinder, and then compressed. Under normal operating conditions, the combustion is initiated towards the end of the compression stroke at the spark plug by an electric discharge. Following inflammation, a flame develops and propagates through this premixed fuel-air mixture. Therefore the state of mixture is very important in the combustion and emission characteristics. In this study the combustion and emission characteristics were tested and analyzed with changing the mixture composition and engine operating parameters in order to improve the combustion and performance in engine.


States and districts are required by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (Public Law 105-17) to have students with disabilities participate in state and district assessments and to report on their performance. High-stakes testing is a significant part of standardsbased reform and educational accountability. However, there are both intended and unintended consequences of high-stakes testing on students with disabilities. There is the potential for these assessments to result in many benefits for students with disabilities, but educators need to know about the ways to ensure that this happens. Participation on Individualized Education Plan teams, good decisions about accommodations and alternate assessments, and careful thought about diploma options and related issues can help students realize the benefits of high-stakes testing.


The article considers the possibility of preparing linguists-translators for intercultural selfeducation. The purpose of the study is to determine the content of the preparation of future linguiststranslators for self-education in the field of intercultural communication. The work analyzes the terminological apparatus, defines the terms "intercultural communication", "intercultural competence" and "independent work". The article also provides an activity classification of intercultural self-education, defined by the formula "intercultural differences + cognitive-productive actions with it". The role of independent work for the learning process is revealed. The result of the study is to determine the range of skills necessary for the formation of readiness for intercultural self-education and their classification. According to the findings, the process of preparing future linguists for intercultural self-education should be aimed at the formation of two groups of skills: metacognitive skills of independent educational activity in the field of intercultural communication and subject-intercultural skills. The first group includes orientation and motivation skills for their cognitive actions, organization and planning skills, skills for implementing SR, selfmonitoring and self-correction skills, and reflective and diagnostic skills. The second group of skills includes the ability to search, extract, accumulate and systematize theoretical and practical information about foreign language culture; skills of comparative intercultural analysis and identification of interculПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ В РОССИИ. 2019. No 7 93 tural differences, their logical and value interpretation, including integration into existing knowledge and assessments; skills of practical communicative and applied extra-speech and theoretical application of the results of the interpretation of intercultural differences in professional and personal communication. The results can be used in the training of linguists-translators, as part of the course "Intercultural communica-


The present paper represents a contribution to the study of the relation between word and tone in the works of Jacob Gallus. The author bases his study on the doctrine of musical figures as it was formulated by the theorists of the 17th century, first of all by J. Burmeister. Since Gallus' music is intimately connected with the text, the application of this doctrine to his works yields interesting results. The figures isolated by the author from the compositions of Gallus can be divided into two groups: harmonic figures, which concern the whole structure of the composition, and melodic figures, which concern the melody itself. The first harmonic figure dealt with is the fuga realis which means the occurence of imitation. This generally used technique has an intimate connection with the text, only if it occurs in the middle of a homophonic piece. Its subsidiary form is, among other things, also hypallage, a counter-fugue serving to represent a contrast of content. In this connection it is interesting to note that Gallus follows the model of Lasso in his motet »Peccantem me quotidie« since Lasso in his composition of the same text also used a counter-fugue. As a further means of interpreting a text, the figure noema is employed, that is, a chordal passage in an otherwise polyphonic composition. This figure in contrast to imitation which illustrates the text in an image arouses a strong emotional state which results in turning the attention of the listener to the corresponding meaning of the text. Far more often than simple noema its repetitive forms analepsis and auxesis occur. The corresponding figure in polychoral compositions is anaploce which occurs in Gallus in such a characteristic form that Gallus' works were already taken by the theorists of the early 17th century as school examples of this polychoral technique. Among the harmonic figures in a narrower sense the dissonant figure syncope occuring in connection with the figures ple-onasmus and symblema, serves for effective underlining of an emotional state. In Gallus, the employment of the double subdominant, which nearly always appears in passages of heavy emotional content, belongs to specific harmonic structures. Such an employment of the double subdominant is denoted by Burmeister as the figure pathopoeia. The figure hypotyposis may comprise interpretation of strong emotional states and may illustrate the text in various ways. So it can occur, for example, as a change of a binary to ternary metre which is induced by a joyful mood in the text. In this respect Gallus' motet »Auditellus« is interesting with its conclusion in a ternary metre. Also here, Gallus follows Lasso's composition for the same text who set to music the same passage of this text in a ternary metre. Further, the figure hypotyposis may have a melodic meaning and denotes the employment of melisma, especially of coloraturas, to the effect of underlining a special moment of the content, above all, joy. In addition, this figure serves to illustrate movement and everything that is living. Gallus made a very moderate use of melisma, but when he did employ it, the reason was nearly always provided in the contents of the text. A special example of the figure hypotyposis appears in the structure of the so-called directed melodies: anabasis – an ascending melody, and katabasis – a descending line. Both the figures are employed by Gallus to illustrate progress of movement and to depict strong emotions. These figures are similar to circulatio, that is, a circular melodic movement, often found in Gallus and other composers of the 16th century. The passage »circumderunt eum« in the Passion 2, V (24, 141) and the parallel passage in Lasso has already been discussed by A. Schmitz. Like hypotyposis, the figure pathopoeia also has a melodic meaning in addition to a harmonic meaning. So Burmeister denoted the special use of semi-tonal progressions as pathopoeia, whether these are a part of tonality or not. Finally the author of the paper draws attention to the fact that Gallus, like other authors of that period, employs the general rest, denoted by Burmeister as aposiopesis, as a means of emphatic stress.


Much of the short-run movement in energy demand in the UK appears to be seasonal, and the contribution of long-run factors to short-run forecasts is slight. Nevertheless, using a variety of techniques, including a recently developed test that is applicable irrespective of the orders of integration of the data, we obtain a long-run income elasticity of demand of about one third, and we are unable to reject a zero price elasticity.


Hypermedia links and controls drive the Web by transforming information into affordances through which users can choose actions. However, publishers of information cannot predict all actions their users might want to perform and therefore, hypermedia can only serve as the engine of application state to the extent the user's intentions align with those envisioned by the publisher. In this paper, we introduce distributed affordance, a concept and architecture that extends application state to the entire Web. It combines information inside the representation with knowledge of action providers to generate affordance from the user's perspective. Unlike similar approaches such as Web Intents, distributed affordance scales both in the number of actions and the number of action providers, because it is resource-oriented instead of action-oriented. A proof-of-concept shows that distributed affordance is a feasible strategy on today's Web.


* We are grateful to Hans-Olof Hagén, Dilek Karamömerlioglu and Lennart Stenberg for detailed and useful comments on an earlier version. Useful comments were also given by participants in seminars at Chalmers University of Technology and Tema-T in Linköping. Ruben Rausing Foundation financed part of the study. Abstract There is an excess demand for engineers and scientists, in particular electronic engineers and computer scientists, in Sweden. This shortage is argued to be one factor behind the structural weakness of Swedish industry in the 'high tech' area. The conventional explanation of the imbalance in the supply and demand for electronic engineers and computer scientists is focused on the incentives for the individual to demand higher education. These are argued to be low due to the relatively equal income distribution in Sweden and to high taxation. We find that the evidence given in support of this specification of the institutional problem is not convincing. Instead, we specify the institutional problem as one of a lack of opportunities to study electronics and computer science. With recent institutional changes in higher education, this problem is currently being tackled. Looking ahead, we see an emerging new institutional problem with a distinct gender bias. In order to significantly increase the number of degrees awarded in electronics and computer science, we will need to raise the interest of women in science and technology studies at the secondary level and in electronics and computer science at the tertiary level. This requires major institutional changes with regard to both the form and content of the educational programmes, changes which are very distinct from those which follow from the conventional specification of the institutional problem.


In order to reduce the adhesion of moist threshed rape mixture and cleaning sieve, a method named "Hotairflow Cleaning" has been proposed. Firstly, the key factors influencing anti-adhesion property were obtained based on the theoretical analysis. They were temperature, wind speed and fan inclination. Then, based on the single-factor experiments, the proper temperature of the fan was 30-50oC, the proper wind speed and inclination of the fan were 2-4 m/s and 15-45°, respectively. Finally, the fan's parameters were optimized by Box-Behnken design. The results showed that the optimum technological parameters were temperature of 50 oC, a wind speed of 4 m/s and that fan inclination was 45°. This research could provide a reference for the improvement of cleaning system for rape combine harvesters.


When an inflorescence of Sauromatum guttatum Schott blooms, the spathe unfolds and exposes the spadix. After spathe-opening, the terminal portion of the spadix (appendix) undergoes a dramatic respiratory climacteric (RC) which is characterized by the production of copious quantities of CO2 and the concomitant warming of the appendix.In experiments conducted on inflorescences raised under continuous irradiation, we have shown that darkness is the environmental factor which triggers the blooming. The moment of the peak in CO2 (or heat) production during the RC was used as an index of blooming.The darkness which triggers the RC is "perceived" by the staminate flowers, borne on the spadix beneath the appendix. Darkness is also involved in (1) regulating the lag time between the inductive dark period and the moment of the peak in the RC, and (2) opening the spathe.


This paper aims to analyze the modernity practices of Korean modern poets during the Japanese Colonial Period. To this end, the concept of modernity is changed from the ideology understanding of 'brain' to the emotions and the experiences of ''mind'' and 'body''.
Thus, this paper specifically analyzes the creative worlds of three modern Korean poets: Im Hwa(임화), Jeong Jiyong(정지용), and Baek Seok(백석). First, in Im Hwa''s "My Brother and the Fire" modernity as a ideology is understood through 'brain', depicting the subaltern life and perspectives of the future. Second, Jeong Jiyong, in "Nostalgia" depicted modernity and expressed experiences and emotions through 'body' and 'mind' by using the language of imagery and refined poetry to visualize modernity. Third, Baek Seok, in his "The Palwon: Collection of Westbound Poems 3" explained personal experiences and emotions through modernity 'body' and 'mind'.
In conclusion, this paper reveals that during the Japanese Colonial Period, Korean poets practiced modernity in Korean modern literature with characteristics such as 'cultural goods', 'pluralism', and 'literature as a racial movement'.


Metacognition plays an important role in students' mathematical problem solving. This study aims to describe the process of metacognition and metacognition components (awareness, evaluation, and regulation) developed by young students in solving mathematical problems. To describe young students' metacognition clearly, this research uses descriptive qualitative method. This research was conducted with grade 5 students, since it aims to describe young students' metacognition. Students were faced with problem solving and were asked to arrange an action card during the problem- solving process. Data analysis was performed based on the 4 results of selected action cards, with one subject each for a different set of action cards. The results show that young students have developed metacognitive behavior in solving mathematical problems, which are dominated by awareness and evaluation, while regulation is still not well developed. They also show different arrangements of metacognition component during the process of problem solving.


Background: Antibiotics are prescribed for treating bacterial infections. However, wrongselection of antibiotics can develop antibiotic resistance and harm instead. Swedish policieson antibiotic us ...


JWST will be tested incrementally during its construction, starting with individual mirrors and instruments (including cameras and spectrometers) and building up to the full observatory. JWST's mirrors and the telescope structure are first each tested individually, including optical testing of the mirrors and alignment testing of the structure inside a cold thermal-vacuum chamber. The mirrors are then installed on the telescope structure in a clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). In parallel to the telescope assembly and alignment, the instruments are being built and tested, again first individually, and then as part of an integrated instrument assembly. The integrated instrument assembly will be tested in a thermal-vacuum chamber at GSFC using an optical simulator of the telescope. This testing makes sure the instruments are properly aligned relative to each other and also provides an independent check of the individual tests. After both the telescope and the integrated instrument module are successfully assembled, the integrated instrument module will be installed onto the telescope, and the combined system will be sent to Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC) where it will be optically tested in one of the JSC chambers. The process includes testing the 18 primary mirror segments acting as a single primary mirror, and testing the end-to-end system. The final system test will assure that the combined telescope and instruments are focused and aligned properly, and that the alignment, once in space, will be within the range of the actively controlled optics. In general, the individual optical tests of instruments and mirrors are the most accurate. The final system tests provide a cost-effective check that no major problem has occurred during assembly. In addition, independent optical checks of earlier tests will be made as the full system is assembled, providing confidence that there are no major problems.


1. Acknowledgments 2. Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics (by Schneider, Klaus P.) 3. Part I. English 4. The structure of requests in Irish English and English English (by Barron, Anne) 5. Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics (by O'Keeffe, Anne) 6. Small talk in England, Ireland, and the USA (by Schneider, Klaus P.) 7. Gratitude in British and New Zealand radio programmes: Nothing but gushing? (by Jautz, Sabine) 8. Part II. Dutch and German 9. The distribution of T/V pronouns in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch (by Plevoets, Koen) 10. The pragmatics of a pluricentric language: A comparison between Austrian German and German German (by Muhr, Rudolf) 11. Requesting in German as a pluricentric language (by Warga, Muriel) 12. Part III. Spanish and French 13. Different realizations of solidarity politeness: Comparing Venezuelan and Argentinean invitations (by Garcia, Carmen) 14. Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and Coastal Spanish (by Placencia, Maria Elena) 15. Apologizing in French French and Canadian French (by Scholmberger, Ursula) 16. Name index 17. Subject index


ABSTRACT When playing action video games, an optimal experience implies the presence of a head-up display that informs players on their status in regard of their goal like health points or their localization in the environment. However, how can this type of information can be integrated in new gaming contexts like virtual reality? Should this information be integrated into the game universe (diegetic design) or stay out of it (non-diegetic design)? For this purpose, the performance, presence, and enjoyment of 41 players have been measured during a virtual reality first-person shooter game session with a diegetic and a non-diegetic interface. The results showed that diegetic integration has a positive effect on the player's performance but not on the subjective experience (presence and enjoyment). The study also shed light on the moderator role of expertise in action games on this effect because the diegetic interface only benefited novice players.


SUMMARY The mean levels of serum creatinine phosphokinase (CPK) were studiedinthree groups of women: normal controls (57), obligate carriers for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (30), andmothers of isolated cases of this disease (35). The distribution of the levels in these groups was significantly different and was in keepingwiththe hypothesis that one-third ofisolated cases resultfrom new mutations. The control and carrier ranges overlapped considerably, with the level ofCPKof33%ofobligate carriers comingwithin the 971 centile ofthe normal range. Oddsagainst an individual being a carrier were derived for specific mean values ofCPK.Theyshould be con- sidered with genetic information using Bayes's theorem. The mean CPKlevels in obligate carriersshowed significant familial clustering. This may haveimplications in carrier detection. The primary metabolicdefectinDuchennemuscular dystrophy remains unknown, but a raised level ofserum creatinine phosphokinase (CPK) has untilnow been the best available method for


Abstract Atomic force microscopy has been used to characterize the evolution of MoO 3 (010) growth and cleavage surfaces during reactions with air–N 2 –MeOH mixtures between 200 and 300°C. At reaction temperatures ≥250°C, closed step loops, bounded by undercoordinated surface Mo sites, nucleate and grow as the (010) surface volatilizes in a nearly layer-by-layer fashion. The density and crystallography of the new surface sites depend on the composition of the gas mixture in the reactor. In air-rich environments, the step loops have a rectangular shape and are elongated along 〈001〉. At any instant, only the uppermost one or two (010) layers are affected by the process. As the concentration of O 2 in the feed is reduced, the shape evolves to elongated triangles oriented along 〈100〉 and the loops exist on multiple layers simultaneously. During reactions, the observed linear step edge densities can increase from 1×10 3 /cm to greater than 1.5×10 5 /cm. The potential influence of these undercoordinated surface Mo sites on the reactivity of particles with different aspect ratios is discussed.


On May 2, 2019 in Geneva, Facebook was involved in the establishment of Libra Networks, an "association" whose purpose is to offer a global payment system and financial services based on blockchain technology able to secure transactions by tracing exchanges. At the announcement of the launch of libra, Facebook's new currency, planned for 2020 in a dozen countries, the current crypto-currencies have suddenly unscrewed. Can the banking market extend to new customers? Libra, poor man's currency or money laundering vector?


This study examined the relationship between starting position and finishing position performed in 70 official Formula One Grand Prix car races over a four year period. Associations were analyzed for positions 1 to 8, resulting N=560 cases, for which the finishers score points towards the drivers' world championships. Contingency coefficient revealed a significant correlation between starting and finishing position (C=0.63, p<0.001). Furthermore, the relative frequency to win a race was highest (59.9%) when starting from pole position, but progressively decreased up to 0% when starting from position seven or eight. Frequency of reasons why pole position drivers and those starting behind lost races were highest for races finished 2nd or less (n=396 cases) followed by technical problems (n=56) and accidents (n=35). The most frequently reason why drivers starting behind pole position won their races were a poor fueling strategy (n=11) made by the pole drivers or their teams. Results reflect that the outcome of Formula One car races is to some extent based on merit achieved during final and qualifying races.


Howard S. Becker (1928–) is a sociologist known for his work in the sociology of deviance, art, qualitative methods, visual sociology, and the practice of research and writing in the social sciences. He is the author of Art worlds, a seminal book on the sociology of art, Writing for social scientists, and Tricks of the trade. His book, Outsiders: Studies in the sociology of deviance, introduced labeling theory as an approach from his perspective for understanding deviance. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, and in 1965 was appointed Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, where he remained until 1991. After 1991, he taught at a number of universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California in Santa Barbara. An accomplished jazz musician, he lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Keywords:

Art and Music;
Labeling Theory;
Sociology of Deviance


A method of manufacturing a strongly adherent coating on an inorganic or organic base, on a) an inorganic or organic base, low-temperature plasma treatment, subjected to corona discharge treatment or flame treatment, b) on the inorganic or organic substrate, one more photoinitiators or mixtures of photoinitiators with monomers or / and oligomers containing at least one ethylenically unsaturated group, or solutions of the above materials, applying the suspension or emulsion, and optionally, c) using suitable methods, or dry these foregoing materials, and the method of irradiating with / or electromagnetic waves, the formula (I), (II), (III) and / or (IV): IN-L-RG (I) , IN-L-RG 1 -L 1 -H (II), IN-L-RG 1 -L 1 -IN 1 (III), IN-L-RG 1 -L 1 - , Monoacyl phosphine, be a mono-acylphosphine oxide or monoacylphosphine sulfide photoinitiator group; L, L


The synchronization of canonical fast sleep spindle activity (12.5-16 Hz) precisely during the slow oscillation up peak is considered an essential feature of adult non-rapid eye movement sleep. However, there is little knowledge on how this well-known coalescence between slow oscillations and sleep spindles develops. Leveraging individualized detection of single events, we first provide a detailed cross-sectional characterization of age-specific patterns of slow and fast sleep spindles, slow oscillations, and their coupling in children aged 5 to 6, 8 to 11, and 14 to 18 years. Critically, based on this, we then investigated how spindle and slow oscillation maturity substantiate age differences in their precise orchestration. While the predominant type of fast spindles was development-specific in that it was still nested in a frequency range below the canonical fast spindle range for the majority of children, the well-known slow oscillation-spindle coupling pattern was evident for sleep spindles in the canonical (adult-like) fast spindle range in all three age groups – but notably less precise in children. To corroborate these findings, we linked personalized measures of fast spindle maturity, which indicate the similarity between the prevailing development-specific and adult-like fast spindles, and slow oscillation maturity, which reflects the extent to which slow oscillations show frontal dominance, with individual slow oscillation-spindle coupling patterns. Importantly, we found that fast spindle maturity was uniquely associated with enhanced slow oscillation-spindle coupling strength and precision. Taken together, our results suggest that the increasing ability to generate canonical fast sleep spindles actuates precise slow oscillation-spindle coupling patterns across child and adolescent development.


This thesis deals with the techno-economic study of a hybrid system on the island of Gavdos, south of Chania Crete. The object of this thesis was chosen in conjunction with practice on the same theme in the PPCR. The aim of the study is to explore the alternatives of electricity produced in the non-interconnected islands. This need arises from the extremely high costs of producing megawatts on islands like Gavdos. In order to fully analyze the issue, initially studied the particular topological features of Gavdos and possible installation locations of the hybrid system under measurement. An important aspect of this analysis is at least possible interference in the ecosystem of the island and the respect of flora and fauna. Then, having come to the structure of the proposed system are discussed specific trade solutions with extensive market research. The final selection of featured products was based on the lowest cost and highest reliability, because the continuous access to the island for maintenance of the system is not appropriate. To the next step of this study is sizing system, that operation of the system to cover the most of the load in permanent and transient operation. The basic measurements required for this study is time series wind power, solar and load capacity. This part of the thesis was implemented in software Homer. The Homer suggests some systems that meet the technical specifications of the original network while the ranks with economic criteria. For this reason, the thesis follows economic study of the proposed schemes under the terms of the investment market and the payback on invested capital.
Economic therefore study leads to proposing a final hybrid system that meets the needs of the island, the particular features and is economically viable but also transcendent kedroforo. Then the final system considered purely from a technical standpoint in steady state and transient operation. Carry out a study load flow and fault with the Power World software and Matlab while comparing their results. Particular model was built in Matlab, can be a strong basis for further study of the system. It should be noted, finally, that has made great efforts to study and simulation of the system to respond in detail to realistic conditions and characteristics of the island of Gavdos and the existing conventional power plant.


The flexural characteristics and layup optimization of laminated composite plates are examined in environmental conditions of temperature and moisture. The deflection of laminated composite plates is analyzed in the design space of 12 lamination parameters. The layup optimization for minimizing the deflection of laminated composite plates is carried out using all 12 lamination parameters as design variables. Mathematical programming methods are used for optimization. In hygrothermal conditions, the maximum deflection of laminated composite plates with in-plane hygrothermal stresses can be reduced by optimized nonsymmetric laminate configurations.


As part of its Arctic pollution response program, the United States Coast Guard recently completed a two phase testing program of oil spill recovery devices operating in a broken ice field at below freezing temperatures. The Phase I program consisted of tests of Lockheed and Marco oil spill recovery devices to determine their performance when operating in an oil/ice/water environment. Tests were conducted in both salt and fresh water ice, with No.2 fuel oil and a crude oil similar to Prudhoe Bay crude oil, and in nominal oil thickness of 1/2 inch and 2 inches. These tests demonstrated that with minor hardware modifications and the proper operating procedures both devices can successfully recover oil spilled in a broken ice field of moderate ice piece size. The Phase II test program, was primarily directed towards the evaluation of modifications intended to improve the performance of the devices when operating in broken ice cover, and the determination of the variation in oil recovery performance with variation in forward speed and drum or belt rotational speed. Among additional secondary tests incorporated in the Phase II program were spreading tests to determine the natural equilibrium slick thickness of the oils tested, and brief oil recovery performance tests of the oil recovery devices at low temperatures in open water. Tests of the modified Lockheed and Marco devices demonstrated that the modifications did improve their performance when operating in broken ice cover. The spreading tests demonstrated that light oils will spread to a very thin layer, whether in open water or in broken ice cover. Heavy oils in broken ice cover will, however, achieve a natural equilibrium thickness many times greater than the open water thickness due to the partial containment of the oil by the broken ice pieces.


From several points of view, i t is both desirable and important that the diagnosis of deformed and non-viable foetuses should be made before delivery. If, for instance, an anencephalus is already diagnosed in pregnancy, the mother may by induced abortion be spared a fruitless period of pregnancy, especially since such pregnancies occasionelly exhibit a tendency to exceed the normal time, and anencephaly in addition is often combined with hydramnion. Moreover, an unmistakable diagnosis of anencephalus gives the doctor freer hands, since he has only the mother to consider. Finally, he is enabled thereby to prepare in good time, if not the parturient herself, then a t least her family for the nonviability of the foetus.


: Cassava Crantz) is a crop which has great socioeconomic importance to the Amazon, constituting a basic food of large proportion of the population. More than 90% of the root production is used to obtain the "cassava fiou r" made by family labor in rustic processes. The cassava cropping is concentrated near the cities and rivers where the human density is higher. The average regional productivity of 12.7 Although above the national average (10.7 t/hal, it is below the potential productivity of the crop. Among the agronomic factors which are contributing to this low performance, low fertili-ty of the soils and low genetic potential of rnost cultivars can be mentioned. In the Amazon there are no important restrictions regarding diseases and insects. The more common diseases, cassava bacterial blight and cercospora blight, do not occur at epidemic leveI. Only root rots by constitute problerns f or almost ali regional production. Presently, increasing interest hasbeen observed for utili- zation of cassava(whole ptant) in animal nutrition. Recent experiments have shown pro-mising potential of this crop asfeed for ruminants.


As an important waveguiding medium, optical fiber plays significant roles in optical communications, optoelectronics, and sensors. A new type of microstructure inscribed in the optical fibers, i.e., fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), has received considerable attention in recent years. A FBG is a type of distributed Bragg reflector constructed in a short segment of optical fiber that reflects specific wavelengths of light and transmits all the other components. In this chapter, optical properties of FBGs will be reviewed first with the underlying physical mechanisms. Different techniques to fabricate FBGs will be illustrated with the comparison of their advantages and drawbacks. For their important sensing applications, FBGs as temperature and humidity sensors will be discussed. The FBG sensors exceed other conventional electric sensors in many aspects, for instance, immunity to electromagnetic interference, compact size, light weight, flexibility, stability, high temperature tolerance, and resistive to harsh environment. A novel approach to realize individual temperature or humidity measurement, and their simultaneous measurement will be demonstrated by the use of FBGs coated with different polymers. The polymer-coated FBGs indicate linear shifts in the Bragg resonance wavelengths of the gratings with the temperature changes. A polyimidecoated FBG is sensitive to humidity due to the unique hygroscopic properties of polyimide while an acrylate-coated FBG shows insensitivity to humidity. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical analysis.


through promotion of the self-help groups (SHGs) and the homegrown SHG-Bank Linkage (SBL) model. The Indian model offers greater promise and potential to address poverty as it is focused on building social capital through providing access to financial services through linking with the mainstream. The Kalanjiaml Community Banking Programme promoted by the DHAN Foundation2 is unique in terms of the building up and demonstrating the viability and sustainability of the SBL model. The Kalanjiam Foundation works towards upscaling of the community banking programme based on the principles of self help, mutuality and ownership by poor women. Besides achieving financial sustainability, the model enables building of community organisations at the local level for social development, going beyond the narrow "financial delivery" approach that is followed by many micro-credit programmes as well as various microfinance institutions (MFIs). This paper strongly argues that if micro-credit is not integrated into the larger development perspective there is a danger that it may result in over-indebtedness and financial bondage of the poor.


Introduction: Psoriasis is a complex, chronically recurrent, multifactorial disease that affects the somatic health (musculoskeletal, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, digestive systems) as well as the psyche and social adaptation. The organism's individual characteristics and tolerance to the applied therapy impose the need for complex treatment in order to achieve long-term clinical remission and change in the quality of life. Aim: to monitor the effectiveness of the patient-centered approach in the complex treatment of patients with psoriasis vulgaris. Case report: A 40-year-old woman with a 20-year-old history of psoriasis vulgaris visited the University Center for Eastern Medicine (UCEM-MU-Varna) with complaints of extensive, itchy erythemo-squamous plaques covering the body, face, scalp and limbs. The patient's disease progresses in a chronically recurrent course without long-term remission. We applied combined physical therapy, including laser acupuncture, magnetic therapy and aromatherapy. Results: After a 10-day treatment, we reported a reduction in the number and size of the plaques, subjective complaints and an improved psycho-emotional tone. When monitoring the condition during the 3rd, 6th and 9th month of the treatment, the patient reported no activation of the plaques and no other subjective complaints. The complex treatment, including conventional and unconventional physical factors, ensured a long-term remission of the disease. Conclusion: The patient-centered approach in the treatment of psoriasis vulgaris increases the effectiveness of the applied complex treatment. The selection and combination of conventional and unconventional physical factors selected according to the patient's tolerance help to slow the progression and ensure long-term remission of the disease.


ATCA (Advanced Telecom and Computing Architecture) platform usage in simulated scenarios is limited to grand user (mobile operators, suppliers, development companies). By integrating the powerful ATCA in a device under test environment, we increase its potential and availability to the students for hand-on training and research. Several possible research directions are investigated.


With the growing use of Email,it is urgent to resolve the severe problem of Spam.Inspired by the self-protection mechanism of biological immune system,a multilevel Spam filtering algorithm is proposed.Experiments on the acquired immune layer have been presented and the results show that the algorithm can get high grade in recall,(precision) and accuracy of Spam filtering.It is also noted that better performance can be achieved by properly arranging the relations between the detector layers.


Interactions of lanthanide ions with Ca2+/calmodulin(CaM)signal transduction is a crucial pathway for the biological effect of lanthanides.In the present work,the effect of La3+ on binding of CaM to its binding proteins(CaMBP)was investigated by an immobilized CaM affinity chromatographic method in rat's brain homogenate.CaMBP binding to La3+-activated CaM gel were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and some CaMBP were identified by MALDI-TOF-MS.The concentration dependency on La3+ for CaM-CaMBP binding was determined in a mimetic cellular media and compared with that of Ca2+.The experimental results showed that(1)the CaMBP species activated by La3+ were primarily the same as those of Ca2+.Five selected CaMBP were identified to be 6-phosphofructokinase(PFK),glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase(GAPDH)(enzymes in glycolysis),tubulin,actin(cytoskeleton proteins),and heat shock cognate 71000 protein(HSCP71,stress chaperone),indicating that La3+ may interfere with multiple cellular processes through CaM.(2)The effective concentrations for La3+ to induce binding of CaM to CaMBP depended on CaMBP species.Tubulin,actin and HSCP71 were observed to be sensitive to La3+ revealed by the affinity constants K of La3+ to CaM in the metal-CaM-CaMBP tertiary system,which are similar or higher than those of Ca2+.However,in the systems with PFK or GAPDH,La3+ bound to CaM less tightly.We hypothesized that this may attribute to complexity of mimetic cellular media and/or the effects of CaM-CaMBP interaction on CaM-metal binding,on which further studies should be appropriate.The work may offer new insight to the mechanisms of the biological effects of lanthanides.


A RFID-to-Bluetooth selective adapter is presented in the invention, including a customized RFID transponder with an on/off switch, a RFID sensor coil, and a Bluetooth module with an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM). The RFID-to-Bluetooth selective adapter can be attached to a RFID doorlock to operate in both RFID mode and Bluetooth modes without interference therebetween, so as to use by RFID tags or smartphones, respectively. The RFID reader equipped device can be a RFID smart doorlock.