mechanical device for limiting the tilt of working platforms (10) comprising a lever (28), a roller (22, 23), entraining members (285, 286), a plate (291) and at least one eccentric disc (343, 344) and is configured such that the action of at least one cable (17, 18) through the roller (22, 23) causes the lever passes from its normal position to a working position and thus causes tightening of the cable (17, 18), characterized by the following: on the lever, on either side of its center line (28) and in its plane of rotation, have fixed entraining (285 , 286), one of which contacts the plate (291) and moves to reach the position and the displacement frees the movement of at least one eccentric (343, 344) from its normal position to its position work in which it presses the cable (17, 18) against the rollers (22, 23).


A microcomputer based system is presented that on line detects the EEG and EMG elements relevant for sleep studies and off line performs state scoring and statistical analysis. The system is oriented to long term sleep recording in the context of circadian studies.


The cometary materials are thought to be the reservoir of primitive materials in the solar system. The recent detection of glycine and CH$_3$NH$_2$ by the ROSINA mass spectrometer in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko suggests that amino acids and their precursors have been formed in such an early evolutionary phase of the Solar System. We use our chemical modeling for low-mass star-forming regions to investigate if we can explain observed "Glycine/CH$_3$NH$_2$" ratio. As a result, the predicted molecular ratio of "CH$_3$NH$_2$/Glycine" during star-formation is less than 10$^{-2}$, while the ROSINA measurement has shown this value to be unity. With the hypothesis that glycine is condensed in the cometary surface during the numerous passages of perihelion after the formation of the Solar System, we develop the numerical model to discuss this condensation process. Our modeling results suggest that glycine is highly likely condensed in the cometary surface due to its high binding energy, and "Glycine/CH$_3$NH$_2$" ratio will be highly enhanced if the outbursts eject the materials condensed on cometary surface.


An interstitial hernia has a hernial sac which is located between the layers of the anterior abdominal wall. An inguinal form was first described as early as 1661 by the Danish physician Thomas Bartholin and while quite rare, representing an estimated 0.07% of all hernias, it is associated with a high risk of incarceration and strangulation. A 72-year-old man underwent an elective open right hemicolectomy for a caecal tumour found on colonoscopy and confirmed to be an adenocarcinoma on biopsy. Staging computed tomography (CT) of the chest, abdomen and pelvis was suggestive of abdominal wall involvement, with no evidence of distant metastases (Fig. 1). His past medical history included open appendicectomy, transient ischaemic attacks and hepatitis C infection. Preoperative blood tests were unremarkable and his antiplatelet therapy, which consisted of clopidogrel, was held for 7 days prior to the resection. At laparotomy, the caecal tumour was confirmed to involve the anterolateral abdominal wall as well as the overlying omentum. The liver appeared normal. En bloc mobilization and resection of the right colon and tumour was undertaken including the inner two muscle layers of the abdominal wall and part of the omentum. The defect in the abdominal wall was too big to close primarily; however, the exposed muscle layers were densely adherent with no visible gaps between them and the external oblique muscle was intact. The right hemicolectomy was completed with a side-to-side stapled anastomosis followed by a saline washout and standard midline fascial closure of the abdomen. The patient's early recovery was complicated by what was initially suspected to be post-operative ileus. He experienced increasing abdominal distension and ongoing nausea, with several large vomits on the third post-operative day. On examination, his abdomen was distended, tense and generally tender to palpation. A nasogastric tube was inserted and a CT scan of his abdomen and pelvis was arranged. The CT images revealed herniation of a small bowel loop into the space between external and internal oblique muscle layers at the site of the surgically created abdominal wall defect (Fig. 2). The proximal small bowel was distended and filled with fluid, in keeping with an obstruction. He underwent relaparotomy, at which the CT findings were confirmed and an incarcerated loop of ileum was reduced. The hernial defect was a gap between the external and internal oblique muscle layers over a 12-cm length. All of the free edges of exposed muscle were overrun, tension-free, with a polyglactin suture and then sutured down to the intact external oblique muscle layer. No bowel resection was required. The patient was discharged from the surgical ward on post-operative day 27 for a further 1 week of inpatient rehabilitation, prior to going home. Follow-up CT did show a recurrence of his interstitial hernia which remains asymptomatic. This case illustrates an uncommon example of an iatrogenic interstitial hernia. Acquired interstitial hernias may be caused by abdominal wall trauma or surgical incisions. Congenital interstitial hernias have also been described, including occurrence associated with abnormal descent of a testicle in children, or an unusual presentation of an adult inguinal hernia. Previous case reports of post-operative acquired interstitial hernias have included Lichtenstein mesh repair of inguinal hernia, open appendicectomy, caesarean section via a Pfannenstiel incision, laparoscopic port site incision, open cholecystectomy, open nephrectomy and a colostomy closure site. Clinical diagnosis of an interstitial hernia may be quite challenging and usually requires CT imaging for confirmation, and it should be considered in patients complaining of ongoing pain at previous abdominal incision sites, or suspected post-operative bowel obstruction. Although there was no obvious defect between the muscle layers at the original surgery in this case, repair of potential defects should be considered where partial abdominal wall resection has been required in cancer surgery. The choice of repair represents a dilemma in cases involving bowel resection because synthetic mesh is contraindicated in a contaminated surgical field; the possible alternatives include the use of biological mesh or suture repair. Biological mesh is expensive and has a fairly high recurrence and complication rate whereas using an absorbable, braided material to overrun muscle layers may not prevent late recurrence either as seen in this case. Fig. 1. Contrast computed tomography axial section of the abdomen showing caecal tumour invading the anterior abdominal wall (a).


Early childhood special educators are increasingly challenged to demonstrate program impact. When appropriate control groups are not available, several investigators have proposed evaluating child developmental progress with various formulas which attempt to compensate for differential preintervention rates of development. This study applied a set of these formulas to Bayley data for three groups of handicapped infants. The results of the analyses indicate that these formulas fall into two classifications—those that measure rate of development and those that measure change in rate of development. Finally, issues and cautions in the use and interpretation of these formulas for evaluating program impact are discussed.


The cognitive perceptions that enable gifted children to process academic information in superior ways also qualitatively impact the psychosocial dimensions of their lives. Overexcitabilities represent common super-sensitive areas in gifted children. However, giftedness does not end with adulthood and neither do the complex processes of intensities. Five successful intense gifted adults shared their journey of development. Themes of hyperawareness, isolation, and finding peers were identified as commonalities among the participants. This study represents the first step in a research agenda that aims to develop programs to help intense gifted children learn to understand and accept their intensities.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give a working librarian's view of the role of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and make some suggestions about how effective it is from the perspective of practice with a view to justifying its role in terms of recent policies introduced by national government in the UK.Design/methodology/approach – The author sketches some of the broader government initiatives that affect this area and combines this sketch with commentary from the arena of information practice, in order to sum up the case for and against the value of JISC.Findings – In balance, this paper finds the evidence for the beneficial impact of JISC's work to be quite compelling, but also argues that there is a lack of awareness of how strong this case is at practitioner level. At a time when all public services are under strong financially led scrutiny, this lack of appreciation at practitioner level is of some concern.Research limitations/implications – This is a brief and selective acco...


The anthopometrical parameters of 306 men (I and II mature age) with the most frequently met chronic somatic pathology are submitted in the article. It has been established type of constitution with increase in the length of the body and decrease in weight is typical for men with pathology of the respiratory organs. Mesomorphic somatotype with increase in the basic anthopometrical parameters with the tendency to adiposity of I degree is characteristic of diseases of cardiovascular system. Prevalence of the leptomorphic type of constitution in control group people is characteristic of diseases of digestive system. The revealed valid differences can be used in clinic as genetic markers for diagnostics, primary prevention and early treatment of the most frequently observed chronic somatic pathology of respiratory, cardiovascular and digestive systems. The purpose of the research is to establish isolated constitutional features of mature age males with the most frequently met chronic pathology. As a result, the valid differences of certain features of the somatic constitution were revealed. The obtained data together with other constitutional features that are expected to be studied will allow to define them as markers of predisposition to certain diseases.


The (implicit) midpoint scheme, like higher-order Gauss-collocation schemes, is algebraically stable and symplectic, and it preserves quadratic integral invariants. It may appear particularly suitable for the numerical solution of highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems, such as those arising in molecular dynamics or structural mechanics, because there is no stability restriction when it is applied to a simple harmonic oscillator. Although it is well known that the midpoint scheme may also exhibit instabilities in various stiff situations, one might still hope for good results when resonance-type instabilities are avoided.
In this paper we investigate the suitability of the midpoint scheme for highly oscillatory, frictionless mechanical systems, where the step size k is much larger than the system's small parameter $\varepsilon$, in the case that the solution remains bounded as $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$. We show that in general one must require that $k^2/\varepsilon$ be small enough or else even the errors in slowly varying quantities like the energy may grow undesirably (especially when fast and slow modes are tightly coupled) or, worse, the computation may yield misleading information. In some cases this may already happen when $k = O(\varepsilon )$. The same holds for higher-order collocation at Gaussian points. The encountered restrictions on k are typically still better than the corresponding ones for explicit schemes.


Based on the analysis of the structure,the noise theory,the acoustic characteristics,the spreading rule of the ventilation room,and by use of the system-controlling theory,the noise model is established.An optimized method on the noise-controlling in the ventilation room is proposed.The controlling effectiveness is proved.


Patient safety is an increasingly well-recognized public health problem. The Institute of Medicine's report entitled To Err Is Human1 initially drew widespread attention to this issue by estimating that approximately 44 000–98 000 deaths each year result from medical mistakes in hospitals. These estimates came from 2 main studies: the Harvard Medical Practice Study and the Colorado-Utah Study.2–4 Even though controversy surrounds the extrapolation of these numbers to national estimates, most agree that patient safety can be significantly improved.2,3 The Harvard Medical Practice Study found that medication errors are the most frequent type of medical errors, comprising over 19% followed by wound infections (14%) and technical complications (13%).2,3 This finding prompted further study of medication errors in adult inpatients, documenting a medication error rate of 5/100 medication orders, with 7 in 100 errors having a potential for injury (potential adverse drug event [ADE]) and 1 in 100 errors resulting in an ADE.5 A later Adverse Drug Event Prevention Study documented 6.5 ADEs per 100 adult admissions.6 Other studies demonstrated that ADEs are costly and can have severe sequelae,7,8 as well as high frequencies of medication errors in adult outpatients.9,10 In comparison, relatively few studies of medication errors have focused on children. In this article, we discuss why children are particularly prone to errors and review pediatric studies of medication errors. We then explore potential prevention strategies using a systems-based approach as advocated by the Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm.11 This report identified 6 specific aims for quality improvement in health care, with safety leading the list, and emphasized that ensuring safety requires a systems-based approach to the development and


Objective: To determine the morphological and molecular characterization of Acanthamoeba isolates from contact lens paraphernalia in Malaysia and to investigate their pathogenic potential based on the physiological tolerance. Methods: One hundred and eighty contact lens wearers donated their contact lens, lens storage cases and lens solutions between 2018 and 2019. The samples were inoculated onto 1.5% non-nutrient agar plates for 14 d. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed and the amplified PCR products were sequenced and compared with the published sequences in GenBank. The pathogenic potential of positive isolates was further tested using temperature-tolerance and osmo-tolerance assays. Acanthamoeba species were categorized into three distinct morphological groups established by Pussard and Pons. Results: Acanthamoeba was successfully isolated from 14 (7.8%) culture-positive samples in which 11 belong to morphological group II and 3 belong to morphological group III, respectively. The sequencing of 18S ribosomal RNA gene led to the identification of the T4 genotype in all the isolated strains. In vitro assays revealed that 9 (64.3%) Acanthamoeba isolates were able to grow at 42 °C and 1 M mannitol and were thus considered to be highly pathogenic. Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report identifying the Acanthamoeba genotype and their pathogenic potential among contact lens wearers in Malaysia. The potentially pathogenic T4 genotype isolated in this study is the most predominant genotype responsible for human ocular infection worldwide. Hence, increasing attention should be aimed at the prevention of contamination by Acanthamoeba and the disinfection of contact lens paraphernalia.


This study explores the role of collectivism as a moderator of the relationship between organizational commitment (OC) and employee performance in a Chinese setting. The relationships between OC and both in-role and extra role performance were found to be weaker for collectivists. These weaker relationships were thought to be because of feelings of obligation to the organization that may have been aroused in collectivists who considered the organization as an in-group. Limitations of the study, directions for future research, and implications of the findings are discussed.


Volume 6 2011 Case studies are steeped in the ethnographic tradition, in which the researcher observes an event, or is an active participant in the event. Case study research does not restrict the researcher to the role of an observer and interviewer. Hence, case studies can be autobiographical in nature and filled with rich description and dialogue. Learning with Stories: A Personal Case Study Approach in Communication


Simple Summary The growing interest in immunotherapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma demands a deep knowledge of the complex interactions between malignant and immune cells within the bone marrow. Indeed, understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying this network should represent the basis for the design of novel patient-oriented biological therapeutic approaches. Here, we describe the role of the main immune components of the myeloma niche along disease evolution and their implication in impairing/improving the response to anti-cancer treatments. Additionally, we provided an overview of the potential weakness of this pro-tumor interplay, evidencing novel therapeutic opportunities, which deserve future clinical investigations. Abstract Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematologic malignancy, characterized by a multi-step evolutionary path, which starts with an early asymptomatic stage, defined as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) evolving to overt disease in 1% of cases per year, often through an intermediate phase known as "smoldering" MM (sMM). Interestingly, while many genomic alterations (translocation, deletions, mutations) are usually found at early stages, they are not sufficient (alone) to determine disease evolution. The latter, indeed, relies on significant "epigenetic" alterations of different normal cell populations within the bone marrow (BM) niche, including the "evasion" from immune-system control. Additionally, MM cells could "educate" the BM immune microenvironment (BM-IM) towards a pro-inflammatory and immunosuppressive phenotype, which ultimately leads to disease evolution, drug resistance, and patients' worse outcome. Indeed, it is not a case that the most important drugs for the treatment of MM include immunomodulatory agents (thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide) and monoclonal antibodies (daratumumab, isatuximab, and elotuzumab). On these bases, in this review, we describe the most recent advances in the comprehension of the role of the different cells composing the BM-IM, and we discuss the potential molecular targets, which could represent new opportunities to improve current treatment strategies for MM patients.


Corona viruses are a large family of viruses that are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Corona virus causes disease in the variety of human and animals as well as domestic animals. Most well studied corona virus are murine virus, (MuCoV), betacoronavirus, Mouse hepatitis virus, that long provides the model systems for the study of the CNS such as encephalitis and multiple sclerosis and acute hepatitis. Person gets infected through respiratory droplets of other infected person, droplets generated from infected person like coughing, sneezing, or talks. Touching the face with contaminated hands are high risk for transmission of infection. Respiratory droplets do not remain in the air for long. It can be found in the metals, glass, plastic surfaces, now recent research found that it can live in shoes. Complicating factor is about 25% of people are asymptomatic during transmission of disease. The immune system can be activated by a lot of different things that the body doesn't recognize as its own. These are called antigens. Examples of antigens include the proteins on the surfaces of bacteria, fungi and viruses. When these antigens attach to special receptors on the immune cells (immune system cells), a whole series of processes are triggered in the body. Once the body has come into contact with a disease-causing germ for the first time, it usually stores information about the germ and how to fight it. In 1800, Dr. Hahnemann found Belladonna as prophylaxis for Scarlet fever in epidemic. He also treated 200 cases of typhus cases with losing only 2 people, where the allopathic treatment during that time had mortality rate of 30%. Conclusion: Though from Hahnemann time during pandemics homeopathy have given the best results, while the mortality was very less when compared to modern medicine. This pandemic now, in 2020, we are fighting for our rights and we will get best results, and homoeopathy medicine should reach each and every person in this world as the second largest practised medicine in whole world.


Process for the environmentally compatible treatment of sewage sludge, wherein the sewage sludge in a digester (11) predominantly of oxygen is stabilized using anaerobic microorganisms with at least, wherein the digestion tower (11) via a heat pipe (13) heat is fed to support the anaerobic stabilization, characterized in that in an additional separate fermenter (21) is generated using anaerobic microorganisms from renewable raw biogas and converted to electricity in a thermal power process, and in heat and power process waste heat to the digester (11) via the heat pipe (13) to support the anaerobic stabilization is supplied.


The aim of this brief survey is to give a short introduction to main problems of topological graph theory. Embedding problems are considered from a graph theoretical and from a knot theoretical point of view. For a general introduction into the eld see, for example, 11], 27], 25]. A more extensive survey of topological graph theory, including hundreds of citations, can be found at Dan Archdeacon's homepage 4], as well as a collection of open problems in topological graph theory 5]. The main purpose of topological graph theory is to consider geometric realiza-tions of a graph and its embeddings in 3-space or its embeddings or immersions in the plane or surfaces of higher genus. When studying the arising objects, it is possible to characterize intrinsic topological properties of the graph such as those described in the following. A topological graph is a 1-dimensional cell complex where the 0-cells correspond to the vertices and the 1-cells correspond to the edges of an underlying abstract graph.


Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the overall performance and possible changes in digestive organ weights in male broiler chicks fed a tannin-containing sorghum (HTS) diet. The effects of switching diets from corn-based to sorghum-based and vice versa were also investigated. Diets were formulated to be both isoenergetic and isonitrogenous and fed to 21 days in a completely randomized design. HTS birds consumed more feed and gained more weight during 0-9 days than their corn-fed counterparts, although overall performance in terms of weight gain and feed efficiency was similar. Metabolizable energy and efficiency of nitrogen utilization of the HTS diet was poorer than that of the corn control. Feeding HTS followed by a corn-based diet did not result in better performance by 21 days of age. Apart from liver weights on day 9, organ weights were similar for all treatments and did not show any evidence of adaptation to the diet.


Gd-Fe films were deposited by magnetron sputtering on glass substrates. The results shoved that the stress is compressive in most cases, and a larger compressive stress exists at the film-substrate interface. The stress is independent on the film thickness when the film thickness is greater than 0.20 μm. The stress becomes tensile only when the annealing temperature attains 400oC. Therefore, the interfacial stress and the growth stress coexist in the Gd-Fe films, and the former will not be dominant when the film thickness is greater than 0. 2μm. The interfacial stress may originate from the inhomogeneous distribution of film composition at the interface, and the origin of growth stress can be explained by the atomic peening effect. The relation between the stress and the annealing temperature can be comprehended with the amorphous structure model.


This study analyzes the elastic vibration of a simultaneously spinning and precessing cantilevered rotor for its stability margin and whirl frequency. The governing equations suggest that the stability is largely governed by two counteracting effects – the centrifugal stiffening and the precession softening. The concentrated mass and inertia of the disc as well as the distributed mass of the shaft contribute to both of these effects. A finite element formulation shows that along with the standard matrices for conventional rotor dynamic analysis, two completely new ones are obtained to account for the effect of precession. Two- and four-degrees-of-freedom models indicate that the rotor is always stable irrespective of its precession speed. But, interestingly, results from the converged finite element model show that the rotor will be unstable beyond a moderately high value of precession speed. The reason for this can be attributed to the shape of deformation of the rotor during its motion. This shape is only approximate in two- and four-degrees-of-freedom models. The Campbell diagrams computed using the four-degrees-of-freedom model and the finite element model are compared and presented.


Measurements of atmospheric structure and dynamics near the mesopause were performed using a sodium lidar, an MF radar, and a night-glow CCD camera during the CORN campaign performed in central Illinois during September 1992. The major features of the observed structure on September 27/28 include a low-frequency, large-scale wave accounting for persistent overturning of the temperature and sodium density fields, superposed higher-frequency motions, small-scale transient ripples in the nightglow images suggestive of instability structures, and large-scale wind shear near the height of apparent instability. We describe four simulations of wave breaking with a three-dimensional model designed to assist in the interpretation of these observations. Two simulations address the instability of a low-frequency wave in a background shear flow with and without higher-frequency modulation. These show higher-frequency motions to be important in assigning the spatial and temporal scales of instability structures. Two other simulations examine the instabilities accompanying a convectively unstable inertia-gravity wave with and without higher-frequency modulation without mean shear. These show the instability structure to remain aligned in the direction of wave propagation, with only weak influences by the high-frequency motion. Our results suggest that instability due to a superposition of waves accounts best for the nightglow features observed during the CORN campaign and that streamwise convective instabilities observed due to wave breaking at higher intrinsic frequencies continue to dominate instability structure for internal waves for which inertial effects are important.


We have investigated the radial Rydberg wave-packet dynamics in the two-valence-electron atom calcium by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. The classical periodic motion of the Kepler electron as well as the quantum mechanical revival structure were observed when employing the phase sensitive detection technique. Preliminary results are reported on Rydberg wave-packet autoionization under the influence of an isolated excitation of the remaining outer core electron.


Gao Qi, a renowned poet of late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, composed quite a number of poems about "immortals", which, until now, have failed to be recognized by generations of readers. This article is a preliminary study of the artistic values and aspirations of these poems.


This piece of work gives away the list of Bilbao's Councillors between 1547 and1798 (which have been so far unpublished). So, it tries to prepare the base for forthcomingcontributions about the History of Bilbao.


The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery using electrodes and this drilled, particularly battery life, capacity and battery safety can be improved perforated electrode and rechargeable lithium 2 to use this for the following battery. Electrodes of the positive electrode in the present invention that constitutes the interior of the rechargeable lithium secondary battery, by perforations in the cathode-anode or cathode-anode-separator membrane, the degree of impregnation by increasing the impregnation rate of the electrolyte battery life in the uniform volume rate (rate) characteristics enhance the performance and the like, it is possible to improve the safety of the battery by preventing lithium precipitation by such electrode reaction is uniformly performed.


SUTTON, T. B., and A. L. JONES. 1979. Analysis of factors affecting dispersal of Podosphaera leucotricha conidia. Phytopathology 69:380-383. Dispersal of conidia of Podosphaera leucotricha was monitored in the velocity, temperature, and solar radiation and negatively with relative summers of 1973 and 1974 with a Burkard recording volumetric spore trap humidity and leaf wetness. Three general patterns of spore dispersal were or a Kramer-Collins spore sampler. Dispersal was diurnal with peak observed: spore dispersal highly correlated with environmental variables, concentration in early afternoon and a distinct subsidiary peak after dark. spore dispersal with little or no correlation with the environmental The concentration of conidia in the air was associated positively with wind variables, and dispersal during rainfall. Additional key words: apple powdery mildew, epidemiology. Powdery mildew, caused by Podosphaera leucotricha (Ell. and in the drip line of the tree. Ev.) Salm., is a serious disease of apples in the Northeast and North In 1973 at the Grand Rapids site, conidia dispersal was Central United States. In the spring, airborne conidia produced by monitored from 26 July to 30 August with a Burkard 7-day overwintered mycelium in infected buds initiate infections, recording volumetric spore trap (Burkard Scientific Sales Limited, Secondary infections occur through the summer until vegetative Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England) that was about 2 m growth stops. above ground level in the crown of an unsprayed tree. Temperature Factors that affect dispersal of conidia have been studied in and relative humidity were measured with a 7-day recording England (1-6), Czechoslovakia (11), Poland (7), and New Zealand hygrothermograph 1.5 m above ground level in a standard (9). Spore release generally is diurnal, with a secondary peak after instrument shelter. Leaf wetness was measured with a deWit leaf dark (1,7, I 1,12). Relative humidity, wind, and rainfall have the wetness recorder placed 2 m above ground level in the drip line of greatest influence on spore dispersal. High relative humidity favors an apple tree. The instruments were about 400 m from the trap. sporulation but not spore release. Release of conidia increases Wind velocity data were from the Grand Rapids Airport, about 16 linearly with wind speeds of 1.7-5.0 mph, and rainfall is generally km away. unfavorable for dispersal (1,4,7,11 ). The relationship to In 1974 conidia were trapped at Grand Rapidsfrom 15 Mayto28 temperature has not been well characterized but temperatures June with a Kramer-Collins spore sampler and from 29 June to 30 greater than 20 C are thought to favor release of conidia (11). August with a Burkard trap. The traps were in the same area of the This study was done to confirm in Michigan previous findings on orchard in 1973 and 1974. In 1974 the Kramer-Collins sampler was the relationship between certain environmental conditions and the fitted with a rotary-vane intake adapter (G. R. Manufacturing Co., dispersal of P. leucotricha conidia and to characterize the Manhattan, KS) to direct the intake toward the wind. Temperature relationships through multiple regression and correlation analyses. and relative humidity at 1.5 m above ground level, rainfall at ground level, and wind run in the midcanopy region of the apple trees were measured by an automatic weather station about 400 m from the trapping site. A mechanical pyranograph measured solar Airborne conidia of P. leucotricha were trapped from 10 May to radiation. 24 August 1973 in a commercial orchard of 25 yr old Jonathan Spore counts from the Kramer-Collins samplers were made by apple trees in southwest Michigan and from 22 June to 5 October in counting all conidia in each hourly band. Hourly counts of conidia a block of 21 yr old Jonathan trees at the Graham Experiment caught by the Burkard trap were made by treating the M ilinex tape Station in Grand Rapids, MI. At the southwest site, a Kramerfrom the trap with Meltzers reagent (13) and traversing the tape at Collins spore sampler (G. R. Manufacturing Co., Manhattan, KS) 2-mm intervals. Counts from the Burkard traps were corrected to was placed just outside the drip line of a heavily infected tree. The compensate for the area sampled, and counts from the Kramertrap was 2 m above ground levelthe trap intake was fitted with a Collins traps were corrected for the length of the sampling period. rextension tube directed toward a group of infected shoots Counts were recorded as the number of conidia per cubic meter of copper extension the trec ted to amp of af r por air sampled per hour. about 0.5 m away. The trap was adjusted to sample 22.5 L of air per The relationship of specific environmental factors to spore minute for five of every 15 min. Temperature, relative humidity, concentrations was determined by visual inspection of plots of the and wind speed levels were obtained from a weather station 14 km data and by correlation and multiple regression analyses. away at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant Environmental Impact Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to relate Network. Leaf wetness was determined with a deWit 7-day hourly spore concentrations to the environmental variables recording leaf wetness meter placed 1.5 m above ground level monitored for June 1973 at southwest Michigan, July 1973 at Grand Rapids, and June and July 1974 at Grand Rapids. 00031-949X/79/000071 $03.00/0 Correlations were also analyzed on individual days with complete @1979 The American Phytopathological Society data during June and July 1974 at Grand Rapids, and stepwise


Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is a new class of structural material with outstanding properties of high strength, excellent ductility, and durability, which has an extremely broad application field. To examine the rehabilitation potential of UHPC on the existing masonry structures, the mechanical behavior of square masonry columns strengthened with UHPC under eccentric loading was investigated in this paper. A total of six masonry columns with or without the confinement of UHPC jackets were axially and eccentrically loaded. The strengthening effectiveness of UHPC on masonry columns was explored in terms of failure mode, deformation capacity, and carrying capacity. The results showed that UHPC jacketing is a highly effective technique for strengthening masonry columns, significantly increasing both the load-carrying capacity and transverse deformability of eccentrically compressed masonry columns (up to 103.64% and 71.43%, respectively). Furthermore, the UHPC strengthening technique modified brittle damage in unconfined masonry columns. A theoretical calculation was carried out for determining the bearing capacity of masonry columns strengthened with UHPC under eccentric loading. The accuracy of the theoretical calculation method was verified by comparing the theoretical values with the experimental values. Thus, this study provides a theoretical basis for the practical application of masonry structures strengthened with UHPC.


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This paper discusses the right digital medical imaging system(PACS) in the terminal display of technical parameters,performance characteristics and other aspects of analyzing and comparing,introduces several medical imaging system monitors the performance evaluation methods,describes the work of the medical use of medical diagnostic imaging display importance.Emphasis is put on the importance of medical monitors in medical imaging digital system construction.


The present work concerns coagulation-flocculation in drinking water treatment units. This study focuses on the link between hydrodynamics and floe size distribution. Experimental analysis of both floe size distributions and local hydrodynamics are performed in a jar-test vessel. In this study, water quality (pH) and coagulant (both type and dose) are fixed. Floe size distributions are analysed by image processing. The temporal evolution of the floe size distributions is determined from a statistical analysis of experimental data. It leads to basic information on floe agglomeration kinetics. The velocity field is analysed using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The statistical analysis of the velocity field leads to the determination of the average velocity field and the average velocity gradients. In addition, instantaneous velocity fields and associated instantaneous velocity gradients are determined. It is shown to be important to locate their maximum values. The analysis highlights the close relationship between the characteristic size of the floes and hydrodynamics, that can be expressed in terms of local dissipation of turbulence or in terms of velocity gradient.


Sympathetic vibration is one of the important problems in machine structure.Designed structure can be modeling analyzed using finite element analysis codes ANSYS,and the results will effectively estimate the vibration characteristic and the optimal design of structure.The model analysis about spindle box is shown as an example,this paper establishes the 3D finite element model of the spindle box on ANSYS.The first ten vibration modes of the spindle box are analyzed in the 0-200 Hz frequency range,the result shows that the major mode's frequency of the spindle box is 62 Hz and provides a powerful support of the technology for the whole design and manufacture of the spindle box.


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An insulin-dependent diabetic patient with nephropathy developed severe acidosis after treatment with acetazolamide for glaucoma. A renal tubular abnormality may have allowed the usually self-limiting acidosis of acetazolamide to progress. It is suggested that the plasma electrolytes of patients at risk should be monitored.


The multiscale analysis connects the various thermofluid phenomena at different time and spatial scales. In this research, these scales are classified into three stages: the electronic structure stage, the molecular collision stage, and the rarefied gas flow stage. In this study, these three stages are connected by physically robust models. At the electronic structure stage, an inter/intra‐molecular potential model is constructed using the potential energy surface (PES) derived from ab initio calculations such as the molecular orbital method and the density functional theory. At the molecular collision stage, the semi‐classical/classical trajectory calculation is employed with the PES constructed at the electronic structure stage. Then, the various collision models such as elastic/inelastic/reactive collision cross section and scattering angle are constructed from statistical analysis of the trajectory calculations. Finally, these models are introduced into particle simulation such as the DSMC and the PIC...


The quality of diet is not the only responsive factor for increase milk production in cows; there are also the environmental and genetic factors that interact to affect positively or negatively influence animal performance. The trial aimed to evaluate the productive performance of cows submitted to diet based on roughages and concentrates with different energy densities, under different environmental conditions, with and without fans plus misting (FM), to predict the main factors that interfere with in the production system. Eight lactating Holstein cows, with average weight of 550 kg, were assigned in 8x8 Latin square, with periods of 20d: 9d of collection of data. Significant difference by treatments was not observed for either dry matter intake (DMI), with values from 19.2 to 22.4kg DM/day or for milk production (MP), with values from 21.8 to 23.2kg/day, corrected for fat. When using FM the point of maximum DMI (pm) was at 74.7 THI. Without using FM, the smallest DMI happened when the least point was THI of 74.7 (P<.05). When DMI was related to MP the effect was linear and increasing, independently from the use of FM. Analyzing the MP as a function of THI, it is verified that with the use of FM there was pm at THI of 76.1, and without the use there was a low point at THI of 76.0. The physiological parameters (PP) were evidenced by linear and increasing results of the skin temperature (32.1 to 35.0oC) with the increase of THI (71.8 to 76.6). The linear and increasing effects for rectal temperature (38.2 to 38.7oC) and respiratory frequency (38.9 to 65.3 mov/min) as a function of the increase of THI were also verified. The use of FM, depending on the installation type, on the period of the year, will affect more the PP of the animal than the MP in our regional conditions.


The paper contains some applications of the notion of (L) sets to several classes of operators on Banach lattices. In particular, we introduce and study the class of order (L)-Dunford-Pettis operators, that is, operators from a Banach space into a Banach lattice whose adjoint maps order bounded subsets to an (L) sets. As a sequence characterization of such operators, we see that an operator T : X → E from a Banach space into a Banach lattice is order (L)-Dunford-Pettis, if and only if |T (xn)| → 0 for σ(E,E ) for every weakly null sequence (xn) ⊂ X. We also investigate relationships between order (L)-DunfordPettis, AM-compact, weak* Dunford-Pettis, and Dunford-Pettis operators. In particular, it is established that each operator T : E → F between Banach lattices is Dunford-Pettis whenever it is both order (L)-Dunford-Pettis and weak* Dunford-Pettis, if and only if E has the Schur property or the norm of F is order continuous.


Objective: To study and evaluate the curative effect and safety of applying Waixiao Ruipi Plaster in the treatment of hyperplasia of mammary glands. Methods: Patients were selected and randomly divided into 2 groups. Patients in treatment group were treated with Waixiao Rupi Plaster externally, and patients in control group were treated with breast mass resolving tablets orally. The degree of breast pain, lump size, hardness and range were observed before and after treatment. Results: On both groups, the data of breast pain, lump size, hardness and range were lower than the data before treatment(P0.01), no significant difference on 2 groups. Total effective rate of control group was 90.0% and treatment group was 96.7%, no significant difference on 2 groups. Conclusion: Waixiao Rupi Plaster has the effects of regulating qi-l owing for removing obstruction in collaterals, promoting blood circulation for removing blood stasis, and detumescence and relieving pain, which applied in the treatment of hyperplasia of mammary glands could relieve pain and reduce lump size, so it was simple and worth to be popularized and applied in clinic.


In the following article I shall try to give an account of the different theories of explicit and implicit learning in second language acquisition (SLA) and relate it to results in the field of cognitive science (CS). We shall see that SLA is less concerned with theoretical niceties and I shall try to show how CS can help underpin a few hypotheses in how SLA works. I shall also draw up a hypothesis to account for critical period observations in SLA based on the ratio and role of explicit and implicit learning.


OF THE DISCLOSURE In a process for the preparation of a boiling-Xylene soluble polymer in a slurry which comprises polymerizing at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon mono mer to an amorphous elastomer in a reaction Zone in a polymerization medium under the influence of a catalyst, an improvement has been found for substantially elimi nating reaction zone fouling and recovering the polymer in discrete particle form which comprises employing as a polymerization medium a fluorinated organic carbon com pound wherein the ratios of fluorine to other substituents on the carbon compound are in the order of F/Cl=1.0 and above, F/Br=3.0 and above, F/H=2.0 and above, F/(Cl--H)=2.0 and above and F/(Br--H)=3.0 and above, said amorphous elastomer being substantially in soluble and not swellable in said polymerization medium. This invention relates to an innovation in slurry or particle form polymerization reactions involving ethyleni cally unsaturated monomers under the influence of a cata lyst and to the resulting polymers therefrom. Polymerization reactions wherein ethylenically unsat urated monomers are polymerized to amorphous or crys talline containing polymers or copolymers have encom passed a wide variety of techniques, processing conditions, catalysts, diluent media, pressures and temperatures. Gen erally, specific polymerization conditions have heretofore been adapted for the various types of ethylenically unsat urated monomers polymerized such as low temperatures and Friedel-Crafts type catalysts for isoolefins, nominal atmospheric pressure and Ziegler-type catalysts for alpha olefins and copolymers, free-radical initiators and emul sion polymerization conditions for SBR's and nitrile rub bers, etc. As each process is adapted and refined for a particular monomer(s) polymerization process, limita tions are incorporated so that maximum polymer produc tion consonant with economy and equality results from many years of research and development effort in each case. Since some limitations are inherent in almost every process, it is the goal of those skilled in such technical fields to resolve such limitations and apply new techniques to old and known processes, so that polymerization re actions can be performed more efficiently and economi cally. Exemplary of but one of the limitations referred to above is conversion factor or total percent solids in solu tion type polymerizations involving certain ethylenically unsaturated monomers. Thus, in polymerization reactions where stereospecific elastomers such as polybutadiene or polyisoprene are prepared, specifically those where a hy drocarbon solvent is employed as the reaction medium, it is not uncommon to limit conversion of the monomers to a low total percent solids or conversion, that is, in the order of from 5 to 10 percent in order to be able to handle viscous solutions that result from such polymerizations and to preventreactor fouling. Generally, amorphous elastomers, stereospecific syn thetic rubbers and certain copolymers containing some crystallinity are all prepared in solution at low conver 10


After Rijndael was selected as AES in October, 2000, DES was announced to completely face out. But triple DES is still used. We may propose a variant of DES with 16 S-boxes and 32 rounds. In this paper, the similar and semi-similar types of an S-box are defined and some mathematical properties are introduced. We will enforce this scheme against differential attack and linear attack.


This article presents discusses the law which established the Brazilian Hospital Services Company (EBSERH) in 2011, describing the context of its creation and investigating the main changes brought by the legislation. The development of the law is reviewed based on the changes that have occurred in Congress since Provisional Measure 520. The context is analyzed in relation to the arguments maintained to justify the creation of the EBSERH in light of the international economic crisis. Domestically, the text places the company in the perspective of the state reform initiated in 1995. This reform, according to the consulted bibliography, was implemented through two generations of actions, with the EBSERH belonging to the second generation of so-called institutional reforms. In the context of health care, the separation of financing and provision of health services within the state and the competition between public and private providers are guiding markers for the analysis. The major changes of the law that creates the EBSERH are discussed, especially regarding financing, relationships with universities, labor relations and social control. Possible effects on medical education are also contemplated.


It will have a great impact on the regional power grid with a large number of electric vehicles charging. In this paper, it analyzes the load distribution of electric vehicles in a certain area of Hunan, from the types of electric vehicles, charging time and charging methods and other factors. The electric vehicle load in this area is also predicted. Firstly, according to the daily load measurement of 60 electric bus charging stations in Changsha east bus station, it fits the curve and obtains its probability function. Secondly, according to the policy and daily life habits, it uses the Monte Carlo random algorithm to estimate the load distribution curve. Finally, it compares the daily load curves of the base load and the total load, which is added the vehicle load, in 2020 and 2030. It analyzes the influence of electric vehicle load under different permeability on the daily load of summer and winter power grid in the area and puts forward the corresponding control measures.


Background and Aims: Finding new therapeutic enzyme inhibitors by investigating especially medicinal plants is an important research area. The fruits and leaves of Sorbus domestica (service tree) are used as food and folk remedies due to astringent, antidiabetic, diuretic, antiinflammatory, antiatherogenic, antidiarrhoeal, vasoprotective, and vasorelaxant activities, and also used commercially as a vitamin and antioxidant. In this study, the therapeutic effect of S. domestica against diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, aging, and hyperuricemia was investigated. Methods: α-Glucosidase, α-amylase, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), elastase and xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitory activities of the fruit extract from S. domestica were measured. Results: The extract showed inhibitory activity against α-glucosidase, α-amylase, BChE, elastase, and XO whereas AChE inhibitory activity of the extract could not be determined. Moreover, the inhibition effects of the extract against α-glucosidase and elastase were more effective than the standard drugs acarbose and ursolic acid, respectively. Conclusion: S. domestica can be evaluated as a potential source for a new therapeutic agent.


By the early 1970s, Broadway music would be branded "middle of the road," but the expressway of popular music left little, if any, room for the show music for an earlier or current generation. Various new teams and new songwriters attempted a cross-generational sound, a way of bringing rock-infused scores to Broadway: Burt Bacharach and Hal David, John Barry, Stephen Schwartz, and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Not all of their experiments were successful—either on the pop charts or on stage. Stephen Sondheim emerged as the preeminent composer/lyricist of his generation and, in the midst of commercial failure within the world of cast albums, Sondheim emerged with a hit song that eventually became a pop standard in an increasingly obstreperous time: "Send in the Clowns," introduced as a crossover single by Frank Sinatra.


Oil at Lick Creek field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, is produced from a calcarenite bar at the top of the Late Jurassic Smackover Formation. Production is limited updip by absence of porosity and downdip by water. On the Smackover shelf slope, calcarenite deposition and resultant porosity were concentrated on turbulent shoals localized by contemporaneous structural movement. Isopach maps of intervals in the upper Smackover at Lick Creek show stratigraphic closure, and some structural irregularity presumably initiated deposition of these intervals. If structural closure were present, it has been removed by subsequent tilting, leaving only a pronounced nose. The reservoir facies at Lick Creek is largely oolites with sparry calcite cement and primary intergranular porosity; it grades into the overlying Buckner mudstone. Below the reservoir there is a thick terrigenous section, mostly calcareous sandstone. Underlying this sandstone is a pellet-mud facies which is commonly partly dolomitized, and associated with it are zones of microcrystalline dolomite and of disturbed mud with birdseyes. Below the pellet mud, a mixed facies, which elsewhere contains a variety of grains and matrix, is postulated. Because of hypersalinity during deposition, Smackover allochems are almost entirely nonskeletal and are similar to those forming in the Bahamas. In the Lick Creek area, upper Smackover sedimentation began with deposition of a pellet mud in quiet, shallow water; a widespread zone of dolomite within this facies suggests a period of subaerial exposure. Structural shifts caused local turbulence, resulting in deposition of a bar of mixed facies. Following a decrease in turbulence, pellet mud again spread over the entire area, and supratidal flats were present on the north. A flood of terrigenous detritus reduced the importance of carbonate deposition for a time, but this influx ceased abruptly. Salinity and turbulence became favorable for intensive oolite accretion, and the reservoir facie was deposited. Continued regression and increasing amounts of fine terrigenous detritus caused a transition to Buckner evaporitic mudflats.


Opportunistic infections (OIs) are the growing concern as the microbe takes advantage when the immune system is weak. Even the microbes that reside in us for many years may cause serious disease when the immune system has weakened. Also, certain microbes get reactivated and cause opportunistic infections. Such common OIs include oral and pharyngeal candidiasis, Tuberculosis, Herpes Zoster, Bacterial pneumonia, Cryptoccal meningitis, Taxoplasmasis. Such secondary infections are common in immunocompromised and long term hospitalized severely ill patients. Currently, the incidence of secondary infections is increased world-wide in COVID-19 infected patients. The interface of biology, chemistry, computer science and mathematics has shown tremendous innovations in infectious diseases. In this book, such interdisciplinary approaches have been focused for the management of OIs. The edited book would be helpful for scientists, scholars, industrialist to obtain updated key information about interdisciplinary approaches to tackle opportunistic infections. © 2022 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.


By reaction of some 4-carbethoxy(or cyano)-3(5)-R-5(3)-aminopyrazoles 1 with 2-nitrobenzoyl chloride or 2-nitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride, a number of novel 3- and 5-amino-1-(2-nitrobenzoyl or 2-nitrobenzene-sulfonyl)pyrazoles 6 and 7 were obtained. Every compound appearing during the endocyclic N-substitution process can be identified and determined by glc. The use of nmr offers a rapid, unambigous method for determining the proposed structures.


With the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, people's physical and mental health have suffered to varying degrees, especially for college students who are about to get out into the real world. Some students experienced various psychological and physical discomfort, including emotional fluctuations such as panic, doubts and anxiety and physical symptoms like fever. In response to this condition, it is necessary to take effective measures to maintain the normal social order, establish and perfect the psychological health education system for college students, release their psychological fluctuation, and promote their healthy development.


The effect of the doping level on the formation and growth of end-of-range (EOR) defects is studied. Transmission electron microscopy observations have been performed on boron doped Si wafers (from 1015 to 1020 atom3) preamorphized with germanium and subjected to rapid thermal annealing. When increasing the doping level up to a few 1018 atom3, a delay in the coarsening process encountered by the loops is observed while above this threshold the EOR defects quickly disappear. These results are interpreted by considering three possibly concomitant phenomena: the formation of boron/Si-interstitial clusters, the gettering of boron at the loop periphery, and a change from the intrinsic to the extrinsic regime for self-diffusion. Moreover, an estimate of the effective trapping efficiency of boron is reached and gives about 1±0.3 Si interstitial per boron atom, a value consistent with the one obtained from studies of B transient enhanced diffusion.


Current Situation Reflective cracking is often regarded as the most common problem affecting resurfaced pavement. This cracking occurs when cracking in the original pavement appears in the new pavement surface. Cracking can lead to further degradation of the pavement surface – exactly what resurfacing is meant to prevent. To mitigate reflective cracking, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) specifies the use of a special layer of pavement – a rubberized asphalt interlayer – between the old pavement and the new one. Recent evidence has raised concerns that this asphalt rubber membrane interlayer (ARMI) is not adequately effective in preventing reflective cracking or rutting.


This paper is concerned with the attitude of the Guro inhabiants concerning medical care system in terms of the credibility of hospitals. The credibility may be consisted of three components : availability, friendliness, and expertness. These were considered as dependent variables. Independent variables were age/education/income/perception of differentiation. The questionnaire was administered to 127 stratified samples in Feb. 1982. The results were as follows : 1) The group whose age was above 50 years gave a favor for the medical care system in terms of credibility. This fact implied that cultural influence on the perception and attitude about medical care system was very crucial, and it was noticed that doctor-patient relationship have been changing. 2) The attitude of the inhabitants on the credibility was appeared generally as unfavorable and indifferent. 3) According to -test, education, income, and perception of differentiation were identified as having statistically significant trelationships with friendliness factor.


In 1994, Long and Moody introduced a method to construct a new representation of the braid group from the representation of the braid group or the semidirect product of the braid group and the free group. In this paper, we show that its matrix presentation is written using the Fox derivation, and also a relation with twisted Alexander invariants.


China has become formal member of WTO and promised to follow WTO rules by implementing reform and open to the world further. Whether China will make breakthrough progress in new international competition depends on whether China can effectively consummate current competition law system and eliminate current market barriers.


We give a polynomial time attack on the McEliece public key cryptosystem based on algebraic geometry codes. Roughly speaking, this attacks runs in O(n4) operations in Fq, where n denotes the code length. Compared to previous attacks, the present one allows to recover a decoding algorithm for the public key even for codes from high genus curves.


The article is devoted to the problem of life arrangements for orphans and children without parental support. Based upon the results of examining the forms of life arrangements for these categories of children in the Chelyabinsk Region the author makes a conclusion about the necessity to investigate the issue further on and to provide governmental support for all the institutional and family forms.


A computational human mitral valve (MV) model under physiological pressure loading is developed using a hybrid finite element immersed boundary method, which incorporates experimentally‐based constitutive laws in a three‐dimensional fluid‐structure interaction framework. A transversely isotropic material constitutive model is used to characterize the mechanical behaviour of the MV tissue based on recent mechanical tests of healthy human mitral leaflets. Our results show good agreement, in terms of the flow rate and the closing and opening configurations, with measurements from in vivo magnetic resonance images. The stresses in the anterior leaflet are found to be higher than those in the posterior leaflet and are concentrated around the annulus trigons and the belly of the leaflet. The results also show that the chordae play an important role in providing a secondary orifice for the flow when the valve opens. Although there are some discrepancies to be overcome in future work, our simulations show that the developed computational model is promising in mimicking the in vivo MV dynamics and providing important information that are not obtainable by in vivo measurements. © 2014 The Authors. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.


An information tracking system of the liquefied petroleum gas industry is important to the government in carbon emissions economics. This research applied an information tracking system to the liquefied petroleum gas industry. It also formulated finding a minimization unexpect LPG quantity (Gap), and auto plot the variation by time of a selected firm using html5 techniques, which unexpect LPG quantity (Gap) was over the predefined threshold. Through a web-structure dynamic tracking system, a manager can easily access the information of unexpect LPG quantity (Gap) firms. Future research suggests expanding this research to physical tank constraints calculation.


To establish the distribution of serological and ultrasound first‐trimester Down syndrome markers in twins and identify correlations of significance for risk calculation.


Spatial economics has been criticized because it has been thought of as positivism due to its unrealistic assumptions and mathematics models.It is,however,yet to identify whether the agglomeration mechanism discovered by spatial economics is just the empirical rule of positivism or the profound law of realism.This article argues that the agglomeration mechanism of spatial economics is a generative mechanism with self-organizing and positive feedback organs,i.e.a real mechanism of realism,independent of unrealistic assumptions.Volumes of positivism research have proven the existence of the generative mechanism of agglomeration.The integration of a loosened-up assumption mechanism and the generative mechanism of agglomeration improves the explanation power of spatial economics.


The Fuji apple garden from the dwarfing middle-rootstocks(the basal rootstock was Malus robusta Rehd.) M26,MM106 and M9,as well as from the dwarfing self-rooted rootstocks MM106 and M7 of M-line apple in Fengxian of Jiangsu province was investigated,and the growth and development,branch components,yield and quality of apple trees were comprehensively evaluated.The results indicated that these Fuji apple trees from the dwarfing rootstocks(except middle rootstock M9) all were excellent,and the combinations of these dwarfing rootstocks and scion were proper.Furthermore,the author pointed out the existent main problems in the close planting of dwarfing-rootstock apple trees in Fengxian,and gave some relative measures and suggestions.


Abstract Coopworth and Merino lambs were slaughtered at 8 months after being grazed together on ryegrass/clover pasture from weaning. The flavour and odour intensities of the cooked lean (longissimus lumborum muscle) and odour intensity of subcutaneous fat were assessed by an analytical panel. Sheepmeat flavour in the lean was stronger (P < 0.01) in Coopworth and foreign flavour was stronger in Merino (P < 0.001). However, the mean pH of the meats also differed significantly (P < 0.001) (Coopworth, 5.77; Merino, 6.16), thereby confounding the effects of pH and breed. Panellists' comments pointed to a breed effect in subcutaneous fat odour, but means for sheepmeat and foreign odours in the fat were statistically identical. Meat toughness, assessed by the same panel, peaked around pH 6.0, irrespective of breed. In a parallel study of the Merino lambs and five Merino cross breeds, an in-house panel assessed acceptability rather than intensity of meat attributes. All crosses and the pure Merino produced meat ...


The hexagonal mesoporous silica MCM-41 nanospheres with Au nanorods (AuNRs) as core have been synthesized via a modified Stöber method by a process of hydration and condensation of tetraethoxysilane in a water–ethanol mixture. The AuNR@MCM-41 nanocomposites combine the photothermal characteristic with the mesopore of MCM-41 in one body. We utilized these core–shell materials for ibuprofen encapsulation and release in the simulated body fluid (pH 7.4) for the first time. The results certificated AuNR@MCM-41 nanocomposites as novel dual-functional materials could realize the light-driven release of drug due to the photothermal effect of the AuNRs. Such novel nanomaterials offer a new way for cancer treatment which combine hyperthermia with the chemotherapeutic drugs by synergistic effect.


The article concerns the relationship between life-satisfaction and the features of interpersonal relationships and social support. The research presented in this paper concerned the satisfaction with the relationships with family members, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the extent of the relationships among these groups, and the perceived social support. The aim of the presented research is to assess the impact of these characteristics on life-satisfaction. In addition, the changes that occurred after the social skills training in the level of life-satisfaction and its determinants were examined. The study group consisted of 60 participants. The results show that the strongest determinants of life-satisfaction are practical support and the satisfaction with the relationships with friends. After the social training the structure of the determinants changed. The factors which were relevant before the training appear to be insignificant now; however, the emotional support, satisfaction with family relationships and the number of friends gain in importance. The social skills training was also effective and increased the level of life-satisfaction.


The study investigated locus of control, self-concept and emotional intelligence as predictors of academic achievement among senior secondary school students in Anambra State. Participants consisted of 240 students (130 boys and 110 girls) from six senior secondary schools in six educational zones of Anambra state. The participants who were SS 2 students with age ranging between 14 and 20years with a calculated mean age of 16.7years and standard deviation of 1.3 were randomly selected. The students responded to valid and reliable instruments, namely: locus of control scale (Rotter, 1966); academic self-concept scale (Reynolds, 1998); emotional intelligence scale (Shuttle, 1998) and academic achievement test. Data analysis involved pearson moment correlation and multiple regression, to examine the predictive effect of locus of control, self concept and emotional intelligence on the students' academic achievement. Results showed that the variables when taken jointly and relatively, predicted academic achievement of students. Implications for the findings were discussed and the need for guidance services in Nigerian secondary schools was also stressed. GSJ: Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2021 ISSN 2320-9186 2468 GSJ© 2021 www.globalscientificjournal.com


The embodiment of the utility model relates to syringe subassembly (100) including integrative anti -pollution device (170), the anti -pollution device and integrative formation of device connector washing unit of this an organic whole, device connector washing unit orientates as and makes the doctor can not forget to apply disinfectant. This wash syringe subassembly is including cylinder (110) and top cap (130) that include passageway (134) that wherein are provided with long and thin plunger rod (120). Plunger rod (120) including retainer (150), this retainer at least partly (155) can be imbedded to top cap (130) thus the passageway in form plunger (155) in top cap (130).


geological, geotechnical investigations and recommendations of the geotechnical model, possible alternatives of the grout gallery and curtain were designed. Structural and geotechnical analyses were performed for each of the solutions. At the end, total costs of dam construction and grout works were calculated. Comparing all important factors, optimal design of the grout curtain was proposed. The selection of the optimal type of embankment dam and grouting curtain was also done with application of multi-criteria optimization, by applying of the method of compromise programming.


One of the positive impact of the revival of the municipality to cultural activities in the Korea is the opening of museums. Especially through the expansion project of cultural infrastructure since 1996 the number of museums is increased rapidly. Thus there were lots of efforts to increasing the viewing effect in the exhibition through quality improvement of museum environment. At the same time the museum is necessary to establish monitoring systems for the exhibits inside the museum for the protection of those. However the grasp of the situation as well as the active research does not work properly even know. This study is to understand the direct surveillance system in conjunction with the installation of closed circuit television (CCTV) by targeting the public museum. Through the study it is planned to present the guidelines for the installation of (CCTV) in museum. This study led to the following conclusions. The quantity of cameras in national and public museums of history is based on a proportional scale to the floor area of exhibition space. In addition to this, the more complex the space is, the more camera installation is required. And the fewer employees to directly monitor is, the more dependant to the camera is required. In the space syntax analysis, even higher average connectivity, the lower the average integration and the lower average intelligibility of the entire space available to visitors are, there needed more number of CCTV. For location of the CCTV, If the camera located on the convex space of lower control value and of higher integration value, it required more cameras on the whole exhibition space.


The purposes of this paper are to (a) provide a perspective on the trends in and questions about water resources management as outlined by Robert Ward in the Forward to this edition of Update and similarly by other scholars (e.g. Rogers, 1993), and (b) to comment on how these trends and questions are being dealt with in the academic journal literature, particularly the Journal of the American Water Resources Association for which I currently serve as editor. My intent in juxtaposing these two issues is to make the case that Robert Ward's analysis is on the mark and that the community of water resources researchers has often been trailing the world of management rather than leading. Nevertheless, this is a problem that can be directly addressed as researchers continue their ongoing project of updating skills and knowledge and searching for the most relevant and useful topics for research.


The author evaluates new aspects of criminal procedure cases in economical sphere. According to the criminal procedure novel the fraud and some crimes against person's property are attributed to the category of private public charge.


The openness and transformation mode of the mobile network poses a serious problem of information security in mobile commerce applications, and identity authentication is one of the main methods to solve the problem. Along with the development of mobile commerce, considerable attentions on various identity authentication schemes have been paid. However, there is still lack of a systematic and practical evaluation system to evaluate these schemes. In this paper, an indicators analysis system of mobile commerce by using the fuzzy inference approach is proposed to evaluate different mobile commerce identity authentication schemes. Comprehensive simulation and comparsion show that the proposed indicator analysis systesm is quantified and efficient. * This work is partially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (with contract number 2009YJS034) and the Special Funds of Beijing Jiaotong Universities (with contract number 2009JBZ011)


Scintillation light yield was studied in specimens of various size excited by various sources. The performance of plastic scintillators under gamma and beta excitation was analyzed. (R.V.J.)


Background: Hereditarythrombophilias (HT) are a group of inherited diseases that predispose to venous thromboembolism (VTE). It can increase the risk of VTE by 3 to 20-fold compared to general population. HT are common and present in 7% of the population. Testing for HT is routine but knowing when to order the tests and how to interpret the results can be challenging. In the United Kingdom, it is estimated that 30,000 tests are done each year to screen for HT with an annual cost of 15,000,000 Euros. This led the British Committee For Standards in Haematology (BCSH) to release guidelines in 2010 that recommends against testing patients at the time of acute venous thrombosis as it will not influence the initial treatment. In the United States there are no clear guidelines regarding testing for HT. We performed a retrospective study to look at the utilization of HT tests among hospitalized patients. This study attempts to address the clinical utility of these tests and concurrent costs to the health care system.
 Methods: This is a retrospective study. We reviewed 2402 patient charts with at least one HT test ordered between 2/2016-1/2018 in St Luke's Health Care System records in Kansas City, MO. The following HT tests were included: Activated protein C resistance, antiphospholipid panel, antithrombin III level, factor V Leiden mutation, factor VIII level, homocysteine level, protein C level, protein S level, and prothrombin 20210 mutation. Only patients who had testing done during hospitalization were included. Positive actionable tests were analyzed to determine the clinical benefit of ordering the tests. A positive actionable test was defined as a positive test that changed the anticoagulation intensity, type or duration. Patients with history of previous thromboembolic disease, ongoing medical condition requiring life-long anticoagulation (such as atrial fibrillation), or unprovoked thromboembolic disease were considered non actionable. We also documented the total number of positive tests, ordering providers, and total cost related to ordering these tests (total cost of tests+ cost of hematology consult after an abnormal test).
 Results: A total of 2402 patients were reviewed. 954 patients were included with a mean age of 54 years. 397 (41.6%) were ordered for venous thromboembolism (VTE) (Deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism or both). Among the included patients, 634 had at least one positive test (Table-1). Only 89 positive tests were actionable (14% of the positive tests and 9.3% of the total ordered tests). There was a statistically significant association between increasing age and having both a positive test result (P-value 0.006), and an actionable test (P-value 0.046). The chance of having actionable tests was more if the test was done in an inpatient setting rather that in the emergency room (OR 0.361, CI 95% (0.177-0.737)). The total cost of ordering these tests was estimated to be $551,218.1 and the cost of subsequent hematology consults was $15,367 leading to total cost of $566,585 during our study period.
 Conclusion: Inpatient testing for thrombophilia is associated with increased health care cost and did not change management in many situations. The decision of ordering these tests should be based on a clinical risk assessment.

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Air traffic flow scheduling is an important component in air traffic control system and has significant effects on the safety and efficiency of air transportation. In this paper, we propose a sector-based distributed air traffic flow scheduling strategy to minimize the airport arrival delay. The scheduling problem is formulated based on a simplified air traffic system model consisting of sectors, air-routes, waypoints and airports. A cell transmission flow dynamic model is adopted to describe the system dynamics and some safety-based constraints such as the sequence of en-routed aircraft and the limitations of cruising speeds are considered in the system model. To overcome the computational complexity involved in the centralized structure, we propose a sector-based distributed approach based on Lagrangian relaxation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling strategies.


14, 2012) Diamond is a new semiconductor which has been developed in the last around 15 years. It has unique properties and the potential of unique electronic devices. The typical example is negative electron affinity (NEA) for hydrogen terminated diamond surface. The nature of diamond electron affinity was investigated using by photo-yield spectroscopy (TPYS). Using the NEA property, electron emission p-n (p-i-n) diodes were fabricated, and this diode can be used as a new principle power device ; a vacuum micro switch operated by a p-n diode.


France has a long tradition of concern for maternal and perinatal mental health. However, the national organisation of psychiatric care does not yet provide structured guidelines on the organisation of perinatal psychiatric care. This paper provides an update on existing resources and their linkage to primary care and obstetric and paediatric services, as well as a review of current and future national priorities that are under development.


Micropropagated olive plants were tested in field to assess their phenotypic behavior. No genetic and morphological differences were detected between micropropagated plants and plants propagated by cuttings. The in vitro protocol that we used for the multiplication of the olive explants insures genetic fidelity and productive potential of the plants.


A univalue seggment assimilating nucleus method for day and night star is proposed according to the low SNR. Based on neighborhood clustering and starlight imaging theory, an algorithm to remove noise is given. The experimental results prove that the image processing and detecting speed is less than 40 ms. If the SNR is upto 3. 5, the detecting probability gets to 99%.


There are various accounts of the origin of Christianity in Ethiopia, but most of them have no satisfactory historical basis. One tradition, found in the Royal Chronicles and other native works, claims that the Apostle Thomas was responsible for the introduction of Christianity into Ethiopia. Origen refers to the Apostle Matthew as a missionary to the Ethiopians, an association which Rufinus also gives. Gelasios of Cyzicus links the name of Bartholomew with Ethiopia. There is also the well-known account by Luke of the baptism by Philip of the Ethiopians," around which a legend has developed. Candace, however, was a name used chiefly in Nubia and ancient Ethiopia, and not to be found among the queens of Ethiopia proper. There is actually no trustworthy record of Christianity in this country in the first century. These traditions have probably resulted, for the most part, from a confusion of terms. Early historians were not at all clear about the geographical limitations of Ethiopia and, in using the name, might have meant Nubia, or Egypt, or even India. In fact, Ethiopia was sometimes referred to as "India ulterior." Even as late as the fifteenth century this confusion remained.


National Daniel Alcides Carrion of Callao, Peru, Hospital recently organized under the leadership of Dr. Rommel Lacunza a symposium on multiple pregnancy, a little-revised, but which is has existed throughout the ages, something else in the 3-4 decades (1). Some years ago, Hellin postulated that twin pregnancy occurred in the proportion of 1 in 89 births, and triple, quadruple and higher order pregnancies appeared in the 1 in 892, 1: 893, 1: 89N (2). In England and Wales, the incidence of multiple pregnancies increased from 10 per 1000 in 1980 to 16 per 1000 in 2009, indicating an important cause the success of assisted reproduction techniques and the occurrence of multiple pregnancies up to 24% Where in vitro fertilization (1) was used. In a Peruvian study, the incidence of multiple pregnancy was 1.1% in 314,078 newborns, increasing to 2.7% when associated with preeclampsia (3). In the Latin American Network of Assisted Reproduction, in its report of 2012, the rate of multiple births was 30.2% (27.8% and 2.4% doubles triples and above) in 47,326 procedures (4).


Structural analysis of inhomogeneity-free poly(ethylene glycol)–poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PEG–PDMS) amphiphilic conetwork gels has been performed by the complementary use of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering. Because of the hydrophobicity of PDMS units, the PEG–PDMS gels exhibit a microphase-separated structure in water. Depending on the volume fraction of PDMS, the microphase-separated structure varies from core–shell to lamellar. The obtained X-ray and neutron scattering profiles are reproduced well using a core–shell model together with a Percus–Yevick structure factor when the volume fraction of PDMS is small. The domain size is much larger than the size of individual PEG and PDMS unit, and this is explained using the theory of block copolymers. Reflecting the homogeneous dispersion conditions in the as-prepared state, scattering peaks are observed even at a very low PDMS volume fraction (0.2%). When the volume fraction of PDMS is large, the microphase-separated structure is lamellar and is demon...


Keywords— World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol:11, No:5, 2017 1363 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 11(5) 2017 ISNI:0000000091950263 O pe n Sc ie nc e In de x, H um an iti es a nd S oc ia l S ci en ce s V ol :1 1, N o: 5, 2 01 7 pu bl ic at io ns .w as et .o rg /1 00 08 55 3/ pd f World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol:11, No:5, 2017 1364 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 11(5) 2017 ISNI:0000000091950263 O pe n Sc ie nc e In de x, H um an iti es a nd S oc ia l S ci en ce s V ol :1 1, N o: 5, 2 01 7 pu bl ic at io ns .w as et .o rg /1 00 08 55 3/ pd f World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol:11, No:5, 2017 1365 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 11(5) 2017 ISNI:0000000091950263 O pe n Sc ie nc e In de x, H um an iti es a nd S oc ia l S ci en ce s V ol :1 1, N o: 5, 2 01 7 pu bl ic at io ns .w as et .o rg /1 00 08 55 3/ pd f World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol:11, No:5, 2017 1366 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 11(5) 2017 ISNI:0000000091950263 O pe n Sc ie nc e In de x, H um an iti es a nd S oc ia l S ci en ce s V ol :1 1, N o: 5, 2 01 7 pu bl ic at io ns .w as et .o rg /1 00 08 55 3/ pd f


Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of patents through a system of increasing renewal fees. The second and more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The formalization of tradable patent rights would essentially create a secondary market for patent permits in which patent protection will be bought and sold.


The Makandezulu region of Mozambique's Limpopo National Park is Maluleke territory. That is, the population of Makandezulu, which is dominated by the Maluleke xibongo or clan name has control over environmental resources here and, more importantly, people's relationships with respect to them. With the establishment of Mozambique's Limpopo National Park in 2001, however, the Makandezulu region has also become national and transfrontier conservation territory. Following park implementation and having concluded that resident aspirations for the park were not compatible with conservation goals, conservation managers with support from international donors are developing an extensive resettlement program for people residing along the Shingwedzi Watershed including the Makandezulu region. Focusing on the LNP villages of Makandezulu A and Makandezulu B, this dissertation assesses the history of resident mobility in the LNP, how residents established access to and control of resources both within this region and when they moved, and the relevance of this relationship between access and mobility in the context of conservation related resettlement. My research findings illustrate significant changes in Maluleke territory over the last two centuries resulting from the relationships between access, control, displacement, and mobility. The political ecology of access and mobility in Makandezulu is grounded in three broad arguments. First, for Makandezulu residents, mobility was a means to avoiding the displacement context of external or non-Maluleke groups. Second, both within the Makandezulu region and when residents moved, residents established access to resources through a variety of mechanisms; however, there was an important difference between establishing access and control. Third, the establishment or loss of group level resource control was synonymous with establishment or loss of territory. INDEX WORDS: Political Ecology of Access and Mobility, Displacement, Resource Access and Control, Territory, Conservation-related resettlement, Mozambique, Limpopo National Park, Southern Africa, Maluleke history, Anthropology TAKING THEIR TERRITORY WITH THEM WHEN THEY GO: MOBILITY AND ACCESS IN MOZAMBIQUE'S LIMPOPO NATIONAL PARK


Detection of induced polarisation effects in airborne electromagnetic measurements does not yet have an established methodology. This work contributes a Bayesian approach to the IP-detectability problem using decoupled transdimensional layered-models and applies an approach novel to geophysics whereby transdimensional proposals are used within the embarrassingly parallelisable and robust sequential Monte Carlo class of algorithms for the simultaneous inference of parameters and models. This algorithm allows for adaptivity considerations for multiple models and proposal types. Methodological contributions to solid Earth geophysics include the decoupled layered-model approach and proposal of a statistic that uses posterior model odds for IP detectability. A case study is included investigating the detectability of IP effects in airborne electromagnetic data at a broad scale.


This article is a response to Joiner and Schmidt (this issue) concerning their study "Size, Detail, and Line Heaviness in Children's Drawings as Correlates of Emotional Distress: (More) Negative Evidence" (Joiner, Schmidt, & Barnett, 1996). Several psychometric problems in Joiner and Schmidt's response to our critique of this study are identified. Also, several conceptual similarities and dissimilarities between Waehler's (this issue) position regarding figure drawings and ours are discussed.


In this article, I aim to demonstrate that moral responsibility theory produces, legitimates, and even magnifies the considerable social injustice that accrues to disabled people insofar as it implicitly and explicitly promotes a depoliticized ontology of disability that construes disability as a naturally disadvantageous personal characteristic or deleterious property of individuals rather than identifies it as an effect of power, an apparatus. In particular, I argue that the ways in which philosophers of moral responsibility theory employ the methodological tools of "analytic" philosophy to establish the philosophical domain in which they engage have distinctly detrimental effects on disabled people.


This paper presents a study on the performance of a speaker identification system in challenging environmental conditions, such as in the presence of noise and at a distance. We propose a robust speaker recognition algorithm, which includes a smart pre-processing method based on Voice Activity Detection (VAD), capable to boost the system accuracy. Results show that our solution is able to improve the correct classification rate of traditional speaker recognition systems, even in case of distant audio acquisition and noisy environments.


The purpose of this study was to determine whether children's recall of tones, numbers, and words was supported by a common temporal sequencing mechanism; whether children's patterns of memory for tones, numbers, and nonsense words were the same despite differences in symbol systems; and whether children's recall of tones, numbers, and nonsense words was related to their aural discrimination ability. Participants ( N = 74) were children enrolled in grades 1 through 3, drawn from an urban magnet school. On the basis of U-shaped performance profiles, the authors concluded that a common temporal sequencing mechanism may undergird children's recall of tones and nonsense words; thus, these domains may be linked at some basic level. Based on intraclass correlations that compared children's patterns of memory for tones, numbers, and nonsense words, the authors found that children's memory for information varied by symbol system and according to the characteristics of patterns within each symbol system. Finally, they found that aural discrimination skill contributed to children's recall despite differences in symbol systems.


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Abstract : On the material of 705 and 509 repeated calcium and potassium observations in sick individuals, narrow limitations were established of the physiological norm of these electrolytes, and also their proportions or quotas. These new norms are 10.3-10.6 mg % for calcium and 19.3-19.8 mg% for potassium and 1.83-1.86 for the quota. Seventy-four % and 83% of the calcium and potassium determinations made on the patients prove to be outside the limitations of the newly found norms; consequently, the determination of the level of electrolytes may have a significance in clinical practice.


Readers of John Womack's monumental Zapata and the Mexican Revolution are familiar with the names of the great Morelos sugar plantations whose drive for modernization in the late nineteenth century eventually pushed desperate peasants to revolt. Many of these haciendas bore names of Indian villages long since destroyed by indigenous population decline and the hacendados' thirst for land: Cuahuixtla, Chinameca, Zacatepec, Atlacomulco, Cocoyoc; others had religious appellations testifying to the piety or ecclesiastical status of their founders: Santa Inés, Santa Clara, San Vicente; an occasional hacienda, such as Casasano, even carried the name of its founder. Yet one hacienda that figures prominently in Womack's account bore the curious designation Hospital. Though considerably smaller than many of its neighbors, Hospital emerges from Womack's narrative as perhaps the most villainous of all Morelos latifundia. To the land-starved villagers of Anenecuilco, its owner scornfully suggested that they "farm in a flowerpot," and Hospital became a principal target of zapatista revenge.


Many 8-[(2-benzimidazolyl)sulfinylmethyl]-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolin e derivatives were synthesized and tested for their (H+ + K+)adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase)-inhibitory and antisecretory activities against histamine-induced gastric acid secretion in rats. These sulfinyl compounds were synthesized by the oxidation of the corresponding sulfides, which were obtained from the reaction of 8-chloromethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines and 2-mercaptobenzimidazoles in the presence of potassium carbonate. All compounds tested were potent inhibitors of (H+ + K+)ATPase. Most of the compounds showed antisecretory activity. Among them, 8-[(2-benzimidazolyl)sulfinylmethyl]-1-ethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro quinoline (IXa) was found to have the most potent activity. The structure-activity relationships are discussed.


The JUSSIM model is an interactive computer program for which an accompanying data file describes the flow diagram of a criminal justice system, the branching ratios of the flow between stages, the resources consumed, and the costs and workloads. This model was implemented to help develop a plan for a local criminal justice planning agency. The paper reports on the experiences in collecting the relevant data, the analyses performed with the model, and the usefulness of the model for the decision makers in the planning agency.


Objective To study the relationship of Hp infection and gastric juice Vitamin C concentration,as well as its mechanisms of pathogenesis.Methods Vitamin C concentration in gastric juice were measured by using reduced ferric method.Hp was determined by fast urease test and pathologic Giemsa stain.Hp eradication treatment was performed on part of Hp positive patients and the Vitamin C concentration in gastric juice before and after Hp eradication were compared.Results Gastric juice Vitamin C concentrations in each Hp positive test groups were: CSG 26.1 mg/L,ICM 13.4 mg/L,DYS 12.7 mg/L respectively,significantly lower than 35.2 mg/L in Hp negative NS(P﹤0.05~0.01).After eradication of Hp,the Vitamin C concentrations in gastric juice returned to normal,whereas those with failure of Hp eradication had no significant difference.Conclusion Hp infection may cause a significant lowering of gastric juice Vitamin C concentration,which may be one of the mechanisms of its pathgenesis.Eradication of Hp can return the Vitamin C concentration in gastric juice to normal,which may contribute to guard against the occurrence of gastric cancer.