The key aspects and features of the new modified Business Opportunities in Canterbury Directory developed by the Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC) are discussed. The way in which the CDC serves its role as a business matchmaker is highlighted.


Two Concepts of the modes of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership and the Party Power-in-office are the modes both interaction and distinction.The mode of the Party's leadership stresses the leading role for the society and the people in particular.The mode of the Party's power-in-office means chiefly the relation between the Party and Government or the working scheme mechanism between the Party and Administration.To improve and perfect the mode of the leadership of the Party is to set up good interaction relation of co-operation between the Party and the people and to become food interactive and working scheme mechanism between the Party and the Government.


This paper deals with the parallel object recognition of the information reconnaissance and data fusion systems,analyses its feasibility,provides a strategy of partitioning based on tracks,designs and implements the parallel object recognition center based on the message passing interface with a dynamic load balancing technology.While a predigested form of the dempster-shafer theory of evidence under some special situations is presented and how to use it is told.Finally,it gives the results of the performance test to the parallel object recognition center.It can be seen that the speed of recognition is improved while ensuring the reliability of the recognition,which solves the key performance problem of the fusion system.


Proteorhodopsin (PR) is a photoinduced proton pump found abundantly in ocean and fresh water habitat, and has an important role in photoenergy conversion to bioenergy in the living cells. Numerous sequences that encode PR protein variants were discovered by environmental genome sequencing and they indicated the high sequence similarity. A new-type of PR (YS-PR) which had been discovered from the surface of Yellow Sea was found to have only 5 amino acid differences from the previously known green-light absorbing PR (GPR) protein, but showed different photochemical properties. This YS-PR showed a 10 nm red-shifted absorption maximum, when compared with GPR. It also showed slower photocycling rate than GPR. However, the photoconversion rate of YS-PR was fast enough to pump protons. Four different amino acids out of 5 were similar to Blue-light absorbing PR (BPR), suggesting that those residues might be responsible for the observed spectral and photoconverting properties. Since four kinds of haloarcheal rhodopsin had been identified from Halobacterium salinarum, various microbial rhodopsins were discovered from marine and fresh water habitats. These microbial rhodopsins displayed several different photochemical properties serving as ion pump, light dependent ion channel or photosensory receptor for photosignal transduction 1-9 . Proteorhodopsin (PR), a photoactive proton pump, was identified in SAR86 group of γ-proteobacteria from environmental genome sequencing for the first time


ABSTRACT A new series of triazole incorporated pyrimidine derivatives were synthesized by treating Substituted aldehyde with ethylacetoacetate and urea / thiourea to yield pyrimidine derivatives which on reaction with thiosemicarbazide followed by cyclization to give title compound that is triazole incorporated pyrimidine derivatives. Synthesis was carried out by convectional as well as microwave method. All the intermediates and synthesized compounds were characterized by running TLC, determining M.P. and IR, 1 H NMR spectral analysis. All the synthesized compounds were subjected to preliminary in-vitro evaluation for antibacterial activity against various Gram-positive bacterial strains Bacillus Subtillis, Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Gram-nagative bacterial strains E.coli, Pseudomonas aeruginasa and moreover the compounds were also evaluated for their antifungal activity in fungal strains like Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigates.


Problem/Significance: Nurses may not be required to engage in professional development; however professional development has been identified as a factor to improve leadership competence, confidence, decision making, and clinical practice. Specifically, nurses who participate in professional development education improve their leadership characteristics. This study will evaluate the leadership behaviors of frontline nurses participating in professional development compared to those who were not. Methods: A convenience sample of 248 staff nurses employed in the North East region of the United States responded to the descriptive observational study design. The subjective responses to the Leadership Practice Inventory® (LPI) and demographic variables were analyzed. Results: Clinical ladder nurses scored higher on all subscales of the LPI than did nurses not on the clinical ladder. Unit-based clinical champions scored highest on the LPI regardless of the clinical ladder level or participation. Conclusions: Professional development in the form of education, certification, preceptor programs, leadership development clinical ladder programs, and unit-based champions should be considered in order to improve patient outcomes.


The distinction between science and "old wives'" tales is ingrained in the way we often understand knowledge.1 The academy often approaches these tales with suspicion and at other times its members might engage them to humor whoever is prescribing the remedy. What is it that "old wives" and their remedies actually offer us? This metaphor is about the fact that my two-year-old son feels better when his mother gives him a Band-Aid and kisses his cut (for some reason daddy doesn't do the trick), and how my father once had a faith healer take away his pain, and why witchdoctors and shamans were, and are, often regarded as incredibly powerful people within their communities. I am writing about why it is that so many people swear that "old wives" do have something important to offer us.


Landscape photography is the art of landscape as the object of expression. This kind of art decorates the landscape with new dimensions. Landscape photographers use the eyes behind the lens to observe and capture, to experience, discover, and reproduce the beautiful scenery with their hearts. This is a process full of artistic creativity. China's photography technology and art are both learning from Western pioneers. Therefore, the commonality of Chinese and Western landscape photography art is self-evident, but the differences also exist objectively. This difference stems from the differences between Chinese and Western traditional cultures, ideas, philosophy, and aesthetic ideas, which are reflected in many aspects such as creative skills, purposes, and emphases. Chinese and Western photographers adhering to their respective traditional culture, philosophy and aesthetic concept, fixed the landscape being photographed as a carrier to embody themselves and integrate their emotions, making the landscape photography artistic creation richer and more vitality.


Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. By Richard Steven Street. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxv, 904. Illustrations. Paper, $29.95.)Farmworkers in California play a prominent role in some of the more noteworthy literature of the twentieth century. The Grapes of WratKs Tom Joad and his family, for instance, remind us of the painful, seemingly endless suffering of migrant workers. But Joad's story also demonstrates that he was part of a broader community of migrant workers who lived in the Hoovervilles, shantytowns, and drainage ditches that characterized rural California at the time. In Beasts of the Field, the first of his three-volume history of farmworkers, Richard Steven Street describes the story of agricultural migrant workers in California from roughly the 176Os through 1913 to uncover how California farmworkers became a class before the Joads took to the road.Street divides his narrative into six roughly chronological categories. He begins by explaining the colonial and preindustrial infancy of the Spanish missions throughout the region that became California to demonstrate how Spanish officials relied on Indians' labor to make the land productive. By the early nineteenth century, officials had virtually enslaved these laborers by shackling and imprisoning them to keep them in line. To gain greater control of native field hands in the 184Os, farm owners and legislators resorted to passing oppressive laws that turned free, native workers into indentured servants. Growers exploited these workers horribly, fed them little, and provided insufficient housing. Not surprisingly, native workers died at astonishingly high rates, forcing growers to search for new laborers. Bindlemen, who carried their belongings in a bundle strapped to their backs, filled that void. For roughly twenty years, bindlemen choked on dust and dodged hazardous machines nearly continuously from late spring through late fall to bring in crops such as wheat, a job that grew more dangerous as growers began mechanizing production. Bindlemen eventually sought higher wages and safer working conditions, and Chinese immigrants began taking their place.Chinese workers soon dominated the labor pool, particularly after completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 when now-unemployed Chinese workers flooded the agricultural labor market. But the influx of these workers sparked intense racism among white Californians. While lower-sort whites attacked Chinese workers for taking low pay, state and national officials codified anti-Chinese animosity by passing a series of laws designed to restrict workers' movements and to reduce immigration. Despite these racist attacks, Chinese laborers continued to carve out a place for themselves in the fields of California. They did so in part because bosses and growers defended Chinese workers for working hard and accepting low wages, lower in fact than most whites. That said, growers tried to replace Chinese workers with school-aged children. The plan backfired, and Chinese immigrants dominated agricultural labor until the early twentieth century, when their population declined as a result of immigration restrictions and low replacement by natural increase.As the number of Chinese declined, Japanese immigrants filled the open jobs. In many respects, Japanese workers faced the same hardships faced by their Chinese and Indian predecessors-poor pay, unscrupulous employers, bad food, inadequate housing, long hours, dangerous work, and racism. …


The invention discloses a self-drying insulating paint which comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0%-50% of modified organic silicon resin, 0%-50% of modified acrylic resin, 0%-10% of modified rosin resin, 0%-10% of hydrogenated C9 petroleum resin, 0%-5% of dispersing agent, 0%-3% of defoaming agents, 0%-5% of flatting agents, 0%-5% of corrosion inhibitors, 0%-5% of mica powder, 0%-30% of dimethyl benzene and 0%-30% of gasoline. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the self-drying insulating paint. The self-drying insulating paint disclosed by the invention has the characteristic of being self-dried without being baked after being coated, soaked or sprayed on an object for about 10 minutes, thereby being convenient and fast to operate, greatly reducing the production cost and improving the production efficiency. According to the self-drying insulating paint, a formed paint film is difficult to crack by having certain toughness and high in adhesive power, and a product has the advantages of excellent property and good insulating effect.


Design and operation of drainage and related water management systems should consider both agricultural production and environmental impacts. This is currently required in many locations and will be increasingly necessary in the future. These multiple objectives make the design more difficult and require a better understanding of the mechanisms controlling the operation of the system as well as their interactions with fertility and cultural practices. Simulation models have been and are being developed to quantify these processes and interactions in terms of soil properties, crop parameters, site conditions and climatological variables. Several approaches being used to develop and apply simulation models are discussed in this paper.


To endow nanofibers with the desirable antibacterial and mechanical properties, a facile strategy using Pickering emulsion (PE) electrospinning is proposed to prepare functional nanofibers with core/shell structure for the first time. The water-in-oil (W/O) Pickering emulsion stabilized by oleic acid (OA)-coated magnetite iron oxide nanoparticles (OA-MIONs) is comprised of aqueous vancomycin hydrochloride (Van) solution and poly(lactic acid) (PLA) solution. The core/shell structure of the electrospun Van/OA-MIONs-PLA nanofibers is confirmed by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy observation. Sustained release of Van from the PE electrospun nanofiber membrane is achieved within the time of 600 h. Compared with the neat PLA electrospun nanofiber membrane, 57% increase of tensile strength and 36% elevation of elongation at break are achieved on PE electrospun nanofiber membrane. In addition, the PE electrospun nanofiber membrane demonstrates excellent antibacterial property stemming from the combinational antibacterial activities of OA-MIONs and Van. The Van-loaded PE electrospinning nanofibers with sustained antibacterial performance possess potential applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery.


Facing the task of expanding capacity and lowering ullage,small and medium scale coal-fired power plants in China can be repowered by low-grade solar heat with less change,lower investment and technical difficulty,leading to a promising application in the market.A typical approach to repower a 135 MW coal-fired power plant was proposed in this paper and the off-design performance of the repowered system with varying direct normal solar radiation was investigated.The reason for the changing regulation was given and a preliminary economic evaluation was estimated. The results would be useful for upgrading traditional plants in China.


This research was conducted to respond to the direction of Thailand tourism driving the future which requires an effective tourism development plan, making a contribution to income gain and bolstering the economic strength of Thailand. Tourism must also meet tourists' needs without causing any negative impact on society, and the environment. In addition, tourism trends in the global market with increasing market share, creating a tourism balance with inclusive income distribution to local communities and also increasing potential and competitive advantage for Thai tourism personnel and operators is required. The research objective was to examine tourism potential and development of the Eastern Economic Corridor and also to design a strategy for tourism promotion and development in this focus area. The research methodology was conducted through data collection from a documentary literature study and in-depth interviews aimed at exploring the tourism potential and development including conversations with the focus group. This was to create participation for analysis of the environment and determine the strategy on tourism promotion and development in the case study. The research findings revealed that the strategy on tourism promotion and development comprised 4 SO strategies, 1 WO strategy, 1 ST strategy and 1 WT strategy, respectively.


Abstract The first Shaker herbal businesses began in 1821 in Harvard, Massachusetts, and New Lebanon, New York, out of both necessity and opportunity. The Shakers became highly respected in the medicinal community, and they earned a level of trust that remained unrivaled throughout their existence. In this paper I will compare medicinal preparations from manuscript recipe books compiled at the New Lebanon and Groveland settlements. Date January 2013 Volume 7 Number 1 First Page 34 Last Page 52 Journal Title American Communal Societies Quarterly  Download


Alysicarpus monili fer (Desmodieae, Fabaceae) is an important medicinal herb used in the indigenous system of medicine. The plant is used as anti-inflammatory, in stomach ache, as an antidote to snakebi te, and for the treatment of fever, jaundice, leucoderma, diarrhoea, skin diseases and kidney stones. As the plant is in demand in the preparation of herbal drugs, there is need for propagation and cultivation of the species to meet the market demand. In the present communication, available data on various aspects of the A. moni li fer has been discussed.


Sarewitz asserts that science is moving fast right now The novel coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions for rapid knowledge generation: about the virus itself, its behavior in individual humans and societies, the social interventions necessary to slow its transmission and hopefully stop it, and technological innovations necessary for testing, diagnosing, preventing infection, and hopefully inoculating against it Continual feedbacks between research and application allow rapid testing and validation of what is being learned


Insulin secretion is a fundamental process of pancreatic β‐cells required for the maintenance of glucose homeostasis. Fuel‐stimulated insulin secretion occurs in proportion to the rate of metabolism of fuel substrates, yet the signals generated by metabolism of these secretagogues are incompletely understood. The increased burden placed on the β‐cell in conditions of obesity and insulin resistance often leads to dysregulation of stimulous‐secretion coupling. Therefore, better understanding of the metabolic events required for insulin release is likely to be helpful in development of more effective treatments for diabetes. Previous work in our lab revealed a critical role for the pyruvate‐isocitrate cycling pathway in glucose‐stimulated insulin secretion. It has been our hypothesis that this series of reactions plays a unique role in the β‐cell, and may be responsible for the generation of second‐messenger signals critical for insulin secretion in response to increased fuel metabolism. One of the intermediates in the pyruvate/isocitrate cycle is cytosolic 2‐oxoglutarate (2OG). In an effort to better understand the components of the pyruvate‐isocitrate cycle and the signals that it generates, we initially focused our studies on the transporter protein responsible for the return of 2OG to the mitochondria, the 2‐oxoglutarate carrier (OGC). v OGC was overexpressed and suppressed in both rat insulinoma 832/13 β‐cells and islets, and effects on metabolism and insulin secretion were measured. While overexpression of the OGC failed to alter insulin secretion, its siRNA‐mediated suppression resulted in decreased insulin secretion in response to glucose, glutamine + BCH, and dimethyl‐2‐oxoglutarate. Suppression of OGC did not affect core pathways of fuel metabolism such as glucose usage, glucose oxidation or ATP production during glucose‐stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) or glutamine oxidation or ATP production during amino acid‐stimulated insulin secretion (AASIS). Similar to previous findings, glucose‐induced NADPH production was determined to be decreased in response to OGC suppression, whereas NADPH production during AASIS in untreated cells was already much lower than for GSIS, and suppression of OGC failed to decrease NADPH further. As an additional approach to studying the role of 2OG metabolism in insulin secretion, we also investigated the mitochondrial enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase (Glud1). Overexpression of wild‐type Glud1 failed to alter insulin secretion in 832/13 cells or in islets; however, suppression of Glud1 decreased both GSIS and AASIS, but did not affect dimethyl‐2OG‐stimulated insulin secretion. The reduction in AASIS was most likely the result of reduced glutamine oxidation. In contrast, during GSIS, NADPH production was decreased by Glud1 suppression, …


This paper aims to develop a new class of distributions, namely, type II exponentiated half-logistic Topp-Leone power series (TIIEHL-TL-GPS) class of distributions. Some important properties including moments, quantiles, moment generating function, entropy and maximum likelihood estimates are derived. A simulation is conducted study to evaluate the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimates. We also present three real data examples to illustrate the usefulness of the new class of distributions. Results shows that the proposed model performs better than nested and several non-nested models on selected data sets


The design and synthesis of anion receptors possessing high affinity and selectivity still remains a challenging task due to rather complex nature of anionic species compared with those of cations. Among the vari-ous neutral anion receptors reported in recent years, calix[4] pyrroles and their congeners have emerged as particularly attrac-tive, in part because they are readily accessible and can be ob-tained in single step from commercially available starting ma-terials. Various modified calix[4]pyrroles have been designed and synthesized for improved recognition properties.


Literature pertaining to the definition and delineation of managerial control is reviewed. In addition, literature positing a potential link between technology and the process of control is assessed. It is evident that there is wide variability in how managerial control has been defined and delineated; however, it appears that there is common agreement on several key underlying components. There is also evidence that control may be an important link between technology and behavior/performance. A conceptual frame-work for this linkage is presented and discussed.


People frequently continue to use inaccurate information in their reasoning even after a credible retraction has been presented. This phenomenon is often referred to as the continued influence effect of misinformation. The repetition of the original misconception within a retraction could contribute to this phenomenon, as it could inadvertently make the "myth" more familiar—and familiar information is more likely to be accepted as true. From a dual-process perspective, familiarity-based acceptance of myths is most likely to occur in the absence of strategic memory processes. We thus examined factors known to affect whether strategic memory processes can be utilized. Participants rated their belief in various statements of unclear veracity, and facts were subsequently affirmed and myths were retracted. Participants then re-rated their belief either immediately or after a delay. We compared groups of young and older participants, and we manipulated the amount of detail presented in the affirmative/corrective explanations, as well as the retention interval between encoding and a retrieval attempt. We found that (1) a greater level of explanatory detail promoted more sustained belief change, and (2) fact affirmations promoted more sustained belief change in comparison to myth retractions over the course of one week (but not over three weeks), particularly for older adults. This supports the notion that familiarity is indeed a driver of continued influence effects.


This article analyzes and summarizes some of the results of a research conducted with a survey of teachers applying innovation in their pedagogical daily lives and students who have conducted their public practice in an online environment. The researched innovative solutions and activities, methods and techniques, the shared by leading teachers-innovators good practices ("master classes") with the future pedagogues are the basis of the indicated ideas and proposals for improving the pedagogical preparation of the pedagogue students from the Faculty of Pedagogy at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" by implementing the studied experience in the curriculum of academic disciplines aimed at providing not only theoretical but also practical knowledge and skills.


The electromagnetic principles of geophysical nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments are elaborated, and the field computation procedure is presented. Results are presented on the Zeeman field, the transmitted magnetic field, the spatial distribution of the signal, and the received signal.<<ETX>>


Introduction: type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) is a chronic condition that often goes hand in hand with poor treatment compliance. Objective: this study assessed the prevalence of drug treatment compliance and associated factors in people with DM2 assisted by the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Methods: this is a cross-sectional observational study conducted in the urban FHS of a medium-sized municipality in Minas Gerais, with a random sample of 190 participants. Two validated instruments were used: the Treatment Adherence Measure (TAM), which assesses the daily use of prescribed medications, and the Batalla test, which assesses adherence through knowledge of DM2. The socioeconomic and clinical profile was collected by a questionnaire prepared by the authors. Main results: adherence assessed by TAM (84.2%) contrasted with that estimated by the Batalla test (44.2%). Higher TAM values were significantly associated with polypharmacy (OR=2.7; 95% CI=1.2-6.1). Better adherence by Batalla test was associated with age below 60 years (OR=3.7; 95% CI=1.9-7.1), presence of partner (OR=2.2; 95% CI=1.1-4.1), association of oral antidiabetic to insulin (OR=2.2; 95% CI=1.2-4.0) and compliance with the goal of physical activity (OR=2.6; 95% CI=1.2-5.6). Conclusion: the rates of adherence to the daily use of medicines and knowledge about DM2 verified by the study agree with the literature. Worse results in the elderly and those without a partner show a vulnerable group that should receive special attention from health teams. ABSTRACT


This invention relates to a multislice imaging system comprising a source (10) of ionizing radiation (11) and an array of semiconductor detectors (12) adapted to receive said radiation (11) after a set crossing (14), wherein the semiconductor detectors are two-dimensional detectors associated with each other to produce several detection rings rotatable about said assembly (14) to permit the simultaneous acquisition of several imaging sections.


Life before civilization was " nasty, brutish, and short! " Thomas Hobbes 1650 Hunters and gatherers are the " original affluent society! " Marshall Sahlins 1969


This paper presents experimental results regarding the synthesis and characterization of some new dibenzo(b,e)thiepine derivatives. The synthesis of the new compounds was performed in several stages. Thus, by reaction of phtalide with thiophenol potassium salt, we obtained the 2-phenylthiomethyl-benzoic acid. The acid was cyclized with polyphosphoric acid to the desired 6,11-dihydrodibenzo(b,e)thiepin-11(6H)- one, converted afterwards to the corresponding oxime and subsequently to the O-acyloximino- dibenzo(b,e)thiepins by acylation with various substituted benzoic acid chlorides. The oxidation of O- acyloximino-dibenzo(b,e)thiepins with hydrogen peroxide afforded the corresponding sulfones. The new compounds were characterized by IR, and NMR ( 1 H and 13 C) spectral data and elemental analysis.


Cochlear implants have changed the lives of many children who are severely or profoundly deaf to the extent that they have transformed the landscape of hearing impairment studies. This has significant implications for all aspects of the practice of educational psychologists working with children and young people with hearing impairments. This brief review provides an introduction to cochlear implants in relation to language and communication, academic performance and social and personal adjustment. The views of parents and young people are considered, together with issues for children with complex needs. Implications for educational provision are discussed.


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 The aim of the study was to test whether the methods using the playback technique produce accurate data of population size when compared to the standard mapping and nest-searching methods. The three-visit method with audio-stimulation was found to produce data of the same accuracy (100%, n = 11 territories) as the standard mapping method, but the nest-searching method and single-visit with audio-stimulation yielded slightly lower estimates, 91% and 82% respectively, in comparison to the previously mentioned methods. However, the three-visit method with audio-stimulation was 2.2 times less time consuming than the five visits which used the standard mapping method (9h vs 20h). The three-visit method with audio stimulation could be appropriate for assessing distribution and abundance, and also for monitoring purposes.


Musa volcano is situated at the central part of the Akan-Shiretoko volcanic chain, which belongs to the Kurile arc, eastern Hokkaido. In this region, Pliocene subaqueous volcanism (Yunosawa, 574m highland, and 626m-peak volcanoes) has changed to terrestrial one (Musa volcano) in early Pleistocene. Musa volcano is composed of a cluster of several stratovolcanoes and lava domes, and is topographically divided into two stages, older and younger. K-Ar age of the andesite from the younger stage has been obtained to be 0.48 ± 0.19 Ma. The eruptive rocks of Musa volcano ranges from basaltic andesite to dacite, and are defined as low-K series of Gill (1981). K2O content of the rocks increases from the volcanic front (Musa and Mashu volcanoes) to the back arc side (Shari, Shiretoko-Iwo volcanoes). The zonal distribution of lava chemistry (eg. K2O) in the southern part of the Kurile arc transverses the echelon arrangement of the volcanoes.


Aerobic capacity (VO2peak) testing equipment can be expensive. Garmin fitness watches are significantly cheaper, and Garmin has developed a fitness test that estimates VO2peak. The purpose of this study was to validate the Garmin fitness test, using a Garmin Forerunner 920XT fitness watch, against VO2peak measurement, using a Parvomedics TrueOne 2400 open circuit spirometry device. Sixteen college students (10 male and 6 female) volunteered to complete the Garmin fitness test followed several days later by a Bruce treadmill test while oxygen consumption was measured via open circuit spirometry. The average VO2peak from the Garmin test was 45.4 (± 5.6) ml/kg/min, compared to 45.0 (± 8.9) ml/kg/min from open circuit spirometry. There were no significant differences between the measurements (t = 0.221 with p = 0.828). The two measurements were highly correlated with a correlation coefficient of 0.84 (p = 0.000). The Garmin fitness test seems to be a highly accurate estimation of VO2peak.


The invention discloses a radiation-proof garment and a method of making shell fabric of the radiation-proof garment. The shell fabric of the garment is woven with warps and wefts and is characterized in that the warps are formed by blending Coolmax fibers and bamboo carbon fibers according to a weight ratio 1:1-2:1, and fineness of the warps is 35-45S. The wefts are formed by arranging first yarns and second yarns at intervals according to a proportion 2:1 or 3:1, the first yarns are the same as the warps, and the second yarns are formed by doubling and twisting Coolmax two-fold-yarns with fineness 30-40S and stainless steel filaments. The radiation-proof garment has the advantages that firstly, the radiation-proof garment has fine electromagnetic shielding effect; secondly, processibility and wearability of the shell fabric are enhanced; thirdly, comfort of the shell fabric is improved; and fourthly, the radiation-proof garment has a great health function.


In this paper, a vision-based flight control system that uses a skyline-detection algorithm is developed for application to small unmanned aerial vehicles. The skyline-detection algorithm can detect straight or uneven skylines. The system integrates a remote controller, a remotely controlled airplane, a camera, a wireless transmitter/receiver, a ground control computer, and the proposed skyline-detection algorithm to achieve automatic control of flight stability. Static and dynamic tests are conducted to validate the system. In the static tests, the average accuracy rate for skyline detection is 98.62% based on five test videos. In the dynamic tests, straight and circular flights are used to verify lateral and longitudinal stability for the proposed flight control system. The experimental results demonstrate the performance and robustness of the algorithm and the feasibility and potential of a low-cost vision-only flight control system.


e15028 Background: Zalutumumab is a novel human IgG1 anti-EGFR mAb. We investigated the safety of zalutumumab and irinotecan in heavily pretreated mCRC patients.

METHODS
Metastatic CRC patients with documented progression (PD) during or within 6 months of stopping cetuximab and irinotecan based therapy were eligible. No prior treatment with anti-EGFR antibodies other than cetuximab was allowed. Patients received weekly doses of zalutumumab 8mg/kg and 16 mg/kg respectively in combination with irinotecan (180 mg/m2) every second week until PD or unacceptable toxicity.

RESULTS
The maximum tolerated dose was not reached and no patients experienced any dose limiting toxicity. At data cut-off (18-Dec-08) 4 patients had died (no cases of death were considered related to zalutumumab), 4 were off study due to PD and 1 was still ongoing ( Table 1 ). In total, 6 patients experienced one or more grade 3/4 toxicities (diarrhea 2; neutropenia 2; leucopenia 1; abdominal pain 1; pulmonary embolism 1; alopecia 1).

CONCLUSIONS
Zalutumumab can be safely administrated in doses up to 16mg/kg in combination with irinotecan in mCRC patients failing cetuximab and irinotecan based therapy. Zalutumumab and irinotecan resulted in durable stable disease warranting further investigation of this regimen. [Table: see text] [Table: see text].


OBJECTIVE Develope the formula and quality control method of CBZ suspension and test the stability,which can be easily used by children and other patients who have difficulties in swallow,and can produce effects quickly.METHODS The suspension was prepared using polyethylene glycol400 as moistening agent and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose as stabilizer.Its stability was studied.Concentrations of CBZ were determined by HPLC,the methods was studied.RESULTS The suspension had excellent stability and it's sedimentation volume ratio was 0.98 when accelerate sedimentation and examination of redispersibility is 4-5.The linear ranges of CBZ were 2-22μg·mL-1,its regression equations was Y=31745X+2359.4,r=0.9999,and the average recoveries of CBZ for suspension were 99.46%.CONCLUSION This preparation is stable,easy to disperse and its concentration complies with the standard,it's credible to assay with HPLC.


By making small adjustment to general ad hoc network architecture, we build a network topology with short average path length and high clustering coefficient, which are two important metrics of ad hoc networks. Furthermore, an efficient probabilistic flooding routing algorithm is proposed based on this network model. Simulation results show that this architecture behaves better performance than its ordinary counterpart.


According to the recent analysis results of temporary ac overvoltage in the ac system connected with a frequency converter station, large-magnitude over-voltages were confirmed to occur under some special system conditions.

Most of the station insulators currently used cannot withstand such overvoltages according to an evaluation based on the data obtained earlier.

The necessity of tests to be done to evaluate such performance more accurately was recognized. Both power frequency and switching impulse overvoltage flashover tests were made on contaminated insulators by the method well simulating the natural wetting condition.

Switching impulse flashover voltage with the waveshape having a long wavefront time of 2 ms can be well correlated with the flashover voltage characteristics of temporary ac overvoltage. Higher flashover voltage characteristics were obtained by a clean fog test method compared with those obtained by equivalent fog test method.


Aim: Evaluation of the postoperative benefit rates and various parameters that may be associated with the postoperative benefit in patients who underwent transurethral resection of the prostate due to benign prostate enlargement and the treatment efficacy of transurethral resection of the prostate and to investigate whether the parameters that can predict this can be achieved. Materials and Methods: 100 patients who underwent transurethral resection of the prostate in our clinic between 2015-2016 July were evaluated retrospectively. Preoperative estimated prostate weight, international prostate symptom score , maximum flow rate, postvoid residual urine volume , and resected prostate tissue weights were recorded. In the postoperative six weeks to six months, the data of the patients were re-recorded and statistical analyzes were performed.
Results: It was determined that the decrease in IPSS was 11.40 (53.4%), the increase in Qmax was 11.10 ml/s (110%) and the decrease in PVR was 59.60 ml (59%). The decrease in IPSS was found to be statistically significantly higher in those with preoperative IPSS ≥ 20, preoperative Qmax ≤ 10 ml/sec, and PVR >100 ml (p100 ml (p=0.012, p 50 g and RDA / TPA ≤ 0.3 (p=0.027 and p=0.008, respectively). Conclusion: We think that obtaining clearer data that may be related to the efficacy of transurethral resection of the prostate can guide clinicians in patient follow-up and treatment selection, and more studies are needed on this subject.


An ultral performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS) method was established for the determination of baquiloprim residues in pig muscle.The samples were extracted by Ethyl acetate,dissolved by 60% acetonitril(0.1% Formic acid)and determinatied on UPLC-MS/MS After evaporation.The method was quantified by Internalstandard method.The calibration curves were linear between the peak areas and the concentrations of 20~800 μg/L with correlation coefficients(r2)more than 0.998.The limit of detection of baquiloprim was 5 μg/kg,and the limit of quantitation was 10 μg/kg.The average recoveries from spiked muscle at concentrations of 10~80 μg/kg ranged 90.8%~108% and the relative standard deviations of intra-and inter-batch were both less than 6.9%.


studies were inconsistent as to whether the body presents Th1 or Th2 dominance after RSV infection. 7 , 8 Our study proved that the levels of CD8 + T cells, B cells, NK cells, and cytokine IFN- γ of Th1 were elevated in the acute stage of neonatal RSV pneumonia, which may play a role in anti-RSV infections. CD8 + T cells, NK cells, and IFN- γ levels could be reduced back to normal during the convalescent stage of neonatal RSV pneumonia, suggesting that when neonates were infected with RSV, the dominant response was from Th1. However, the role of Th2 cells in the disease remained unclear. In addition, antibodies produced by B cells directly neutralized free viruses or exerted antiviral effects through immune conditioning of extracellular viruses or infected cells. 9 The number of B cells in the study increased further, and humoral immunity continued to be maintained. Understanding the immune signature of neonatal RSV infection is key to addressing this issue. 10


BACKGROUND
The UniCel® DxH-800 is an automated cell counter widely used in laboratories. However, the effects of increased nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) on the lymphocyte counts obtained using the UniCel DxH-800 have not been fully elucidated.

OBJECTIVE
The study's objective was to compare lymphocyte counts obtained using the DxH-800 and those obtained using flow cytometry in various ranges of NRBCs.

METHODS
This cross-sectional study analyzed 25 healthy volunteers and 69 β-thalassemia/HbE patients. The numbers of lymphocytes were determined using a UniCel DxH-800 and a standard flow cytometer using counting beads.

RESULTS
In healthy volunteers, regression analysis of the lymphocyte counts using the two approaches showed an r2 0.85 and a p < 0.0001, and a Bland-Altman plot showed mean bias of +264 cells/μL. In β-thalassemia/HbE patients, regression analysis of the lymphocyte counts obtained using an automated cell counter and a flow cytometer showed an r2 of 0.06, a p = 0.028, and a Bland-Altman plot showed the mean bias of +1,509 cells/μL. In addition, a high degree of discrepancy in the lymphocyte counts was observed in β-thalassemia/HbE patients who had NRBCs > 100,001 cells/μL.

CONCLUSIONS
The present study demonstrated that the UniCel DxH-800 performed well in enumerating lymphocytes in specimens that contained various numbers of NRBCs. However, a high number of NRBCs may interfere with lymphocyte counts obtained using the counter.


This paper describes a multi-agent system able to manage the meeting schedule of a set of users. The problem of meeting scheduling has been considered because represents an example of how routine daily activities may be delegated to software agent to relief activity overloading of human agents. In the paper a general agent architecture is described which is used to realize di erent kinds of agent in a speci c system called MASMA (Multi Agent System for Meeting Automation). The way MASMA addresses various aspects of the agenda management problem is described and, in particular, several issues concerning the acceptability of the agent approach by human users are discussed. To increase acceptability, an important aspect is the attention paid Partially supported by Modelage and SARI. Work carried out in the framework of the agreement between the FUB and the Italian PT Admnistration.


Outer leads A lead frame for a plastic encapsulated semiconductor device, comprising a supporting sheet on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, chip pad supporting leads, inner leads electrically connected to the semiconductor chip, in a monoblock structure together with the inner leads are formed, and supporting the chip pad supporting leads and the outer leads of the frame. In the lead frame, only the dam member disposed between the outer leads. Alternatively, dummy outer leads are formed between the lead frame adjacent thereto, so that the lead member is connected to the dummy outer leads by the dam. After assembling a semiconductor device, the frame removal.


Mechanistic studies on silylformylation have led to the discovery of a series of new carbocyclizations involving alkynes and hydrosilanes. Cyclohydrocarbonylation processes have been devised by combining hydroformylation and cyclization. These new reactions serve as powerful methods for the rapid construction of monocyclic, bicyclic, and fused ring systems from readily obtainable starting materials.


Recent changes in the health care systems of the UK and the US have resulted in an interesting irony. While both systems are plagued by similar problems, the directions chosen to create improvement have been quite different. At the same time that the US has leaned toward greater government control in health care, more free market principles are being applied to the system in the UK. US experience of privatized health care shows that although efficiency and the quality of care can be improved, a large degree of government control must be maintained in order to guarantee a high quality level of care throughout the population. Matters of consensus, access and representation are also important in policy and practice developments. The potential dangers of changes in the UK are highlighted.


In view of the current stress situation of the transmission lines corridor tension and in combination with the projects date of the Shanghai Municipal Shinan Electrical Power Supply Company were combined,the simulation model of the EMTP software had been created for the 220/110 kV four multi-circuit transmission lines on same tower between Changxing and Bujing substation.The size of the 110 kV idle transmission line induced voltage was simulated and calculated when the other transmission lines were operating normally.The impacts of the normally operation lines,the substation grounding resistance,the tower footing resistance and the three-phase wire arrangement on this induced voltage were discussed.A series of recommendations and measurements for how to reduce the induced voltage were provided.


Computer conversation provides a writing context in which both process and product are mediated via the computer terminal and the product is semipermanent. This 8-month study of the use of computer conversation by an IBM project manager and his colleagues identifies the cognitive and contextual strategies used to accommodate this particular task environment. When planning, writers chose among the available communication media, changed goals in a shifting rhetorical context, and organized parallel processes. When translating, they remembered the text constructed thus far and the knowledge shared with the reader and chose surface structures ad hoc to fit the technology. When reviewing, they revised with the goal of comprehensibility and evaluated writing-in-production against incoming information. This particular writing process illustrates the cognitive consequences of context for writing.


A stable octave-spanning supercontinuum with excellent beam quality is generated by high-intensity spectral broadening in bulk fused silica plates in a cascaded arrangement.


Establishment of mine parks is of great importance to improvement of ecologic environment in abandoned mines.It is characteristic of model of circulating economy,i.e.changing mining industry into tourism.Mine parks can act as protection of geoheritage and mining heritage.


Sputtering of (La1-xSrx)yCuO4-δ has produced superconducting oxide films which have higher Tc values than any other oxide superconducting films so far prepared : Tc onset at 36 K and the temperature of zero resistivity at 17 K have been achieved. Superconduction was also observed in the films with partial substitution of Sr in (La1-xSrx)yCuO4-δ by Ba or Ca. The Meissner effect was confirmed by the measurement of dc magnetic susceptibility on the film specimen having the zero resistivity temperature of 17 K.


This communication discusses a reduced-complexity approach to the method of moments (MoM) analysis that can be applied to structures like large array antennas, their beam forming networks (BFN), or MMIC circuits, that pose a challenge to an accurate full-wave MoM analysis, both in terms of memory occupation and computation time.


In this context I would like to share my experience and views about a case of life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis that was completely reversed with an alternate method of healing called Intent Healing (TM), within a span of one month. In this commentary I present the details of the case, the course in the hospitals and the subsequent complete recovery of the patient without any medications or external administration of Insulin with Intent Healing (TM) alone.


Spatial income inequality (i.e., non-normal spatial distribution of income) is a phenomenon that determines the structure of both leading industrialized regions and regions in transition. According to Scott and Storper (2003), considering globalization as a simple spreading out of economic activity into a fluid "space of flows" seems to be a fundamental mistake. The analyses in the former chapters have already pointed out the persistence of clustering and geographic concentration of research activity across European regions. Thus, globalization is supposed to be accompanied by persistent agglomerative tendencies. As Scott and Storper (2003, 582) argued,


The spectral density of the phi meson in a hot bath of nucleons and pions is calculated by relating the vector meson self-energy to the forward scattering amplitude, which is constrained by experimental data. Dispersion techniques are used to verify the relationship between real and the imaginary parts of the in-medium self energy. The position of the spectral peak of the phi meson is found to be shifted from its vacuum position by only a small amount, but its width is considerably increased.


The thermosonic gold wire bonding is a common technology in microelectronics industry for reliable bonding. The bondability of metallisation on soft material like polyimide (PI) is a matter of concern, especially when the bond pads are made of thin coating of platinum material. Nano-indentation technique is commonly used to measure surface properties of thin film coatings, such as Young's modulus and hardness within sub-micron scale. Four different samples were produced by sputtering different thickness of Pt on polyimide substrate to study the behaviour of thickness versus applied load of indentor. The nano-indentation data regarding "load versus displacement" and "hardness versus displacement" for all the four samples were collected and deformation behaviour and mechanical properties of thin film platinum material had been investigated. In this paper, the analysis of platinum pads has been carried out and it was observed that the samples with 300 nm platinum layer on polyimide were bonded well as compared to 100 nm thickness of platinum material.


The concept of mapping religion and then acting on the basis of that concept necessarily involves discussion of another concept, that of boundaries. The notion of discerning neat boundaries serves well for assessing the inherited institutions of religion in America; assessments of trends within them reveal impressive continuities in organization and structures of meaning. Many of the most important religious developments in the last third of the century, however, appear to be less bounded—or even unbounded—and on the blurry landscape of boundarylessness there are more evident discontinuities, innovations, and evidence of fluidity. An analysis of several trends on the unbounded landscape suggests that, in the new century, there will be a great deal of interchange and conflict between these two ways of conceiving American religious dynamics.


Abstract Caring has become a buzzword in education. However, the commonly held understanding of caring—characterized by gentle smiles and warm hugs—obscures the complexity and the intellectual challenge of work with young children. Coupling early childhood education with this simplistic conception of caring will be detrimental to the field. As an alternative, the author draws on feminist moral theory, specifically the ethic of care, to develop an understanding of caring that emphasizes its deeply ethical, philosophical and experiential roots. Using narratives of life in a primary grade classroom, this article highlights the ways that the ethic of care can be used to enhance our understanding of what it means to be caring teachers.


Both enantiomeric forms, (S)-4 and (R)-4, of the tetracyclic skeleton associated with the title alkaloids 1 and 2 have been prepared; the key step involved silver isocyanate-promoted ring-opening of gem-dibromocyclopropane 5 and trapping of the resulting allylic isocyanate (±)-6 with (–)-menthol.


Simple Summary Immunotherapy provides the unprecedented opportunity to prolong the survival of cancer patients and even cure patients with previously untreatable malignancies. Preclinical and clinical studies show that standard photon-based radiotherapy and immunotherapy can synergize in order to promote both local and systemic anti-tumor immunity and that there is still ample room for improvement. Charged particle radiation is thought to have greater immunogenic potential compared to photon radiotherapy due to more lethal unrepaired damage, higher ionization density and thus more complex clustered DNA lesions. In this review, several factors determining the success of radiotherapy combined with immunotherapies, such as composition of the tumor, radiotherapy scheme and schedule, radiation dose, the type of radiation, are addressed. Furthermore, the theoretical basis, first pieces of evidences and new insights supporting a favorable immunogenicity profile of charged particle radiation are examined, including a depiction of best of knowledge for the immune-related responses triggered by charged particles and prospective clinical trials. Abstract Radiotherapy (RT) has been shown to interfere with inflammatory signals and to enhance tumor immunogenicity via, e.g., immunogenic cell death, thereby potentially augmenting the therapeutic efficacy of immunotherapy. Conventional RT consists predominantly of high energy photon beams. Hypofractionated RT regimens administered, e.g., by stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), are increasingly investigated in combination with cancer immunotherapy within clinical trials. Despite intensive preclinical studies, the optimal dose per fraction and dose schemes for elaboration of RT induced immunogenic potential remain inconclusive. Compared to the scenario of combined immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) and RT, multimodal therapies utilizing other immunotherapy principles such as adoptive transfer of immune cells, vaccination strategies, targeted immune-cytokines and agonists are underrepresented in both preclinical and clinical settings. Despite the clinical success of ICI and RT combination, e.g., prolonging overall survival in locally advanced lung cancer, curative outcomes are still not achieved for most cancer entities studied. Charged particle RT (PRT) has gained interest as it may enhance tumor immunogenicity compared to conventional RT due to its unique biological and physical properties. However, whether PRT in combination with immune therapy will elicit superior antitumor effects both locally and systemically needs to be further investigated. In this review, the immunological effects of RT in the tumor microenvironment are summarized to understand their implications for immunotherapy combinations. Attention will be given to the various immunotherapeutic interventions that have been co-administered with RT so far. Furthermore, the theoretical basis and first evidences supporting a favorable immunogenicity profile of PRT will be examined.


D isappointment is a universal theme in human experience. Essential to child development, which requires us to give up the infantile omnipotence that we invest in ourselves and our parents (Jacobson 1946), disappointment shadows us throughout adult life as we strive once again to satisfy unquenchable desires (Schafer 1999). In addition to these universal losses, and often linked to them, the work of the analyst brings with it its own set of disappointments, as the analyst struggles to manage his wishes for the patient and the process within the constraints of his method (see Cooper, this issue) and as he is induced by the patient's use of projective identification to bear the patient's disappointment, either as the representative of an early object the patient wishes to disappoint or as the representative of the patient's own disappointment (Joseph 1982). I wish to explore here a particular kind of disappointment that I have observed in in the course of doing analysis. This kind of disappointment is a soft-spoken state; it does not announce its presence sharply in my thoughts but is a kind of sad fog that settles on the process, leading me to lower my expectations for the outcome of the analysis. Of importance, this kind of disappointment has tended to reside in the analysis as a shared state, felt at the same time by both members of the dyad. Often it has been the patient who has given voice to the disappointment, and although I have explored the meaning of the patient's lament, it has been hard for me to interpret either the implied aggression or the implied sense of loss as


This paper examines two questions. Do staff and service users agree when rating the needs of those with severe mental illness? If not, what is the meaning of these differences? To put these questions in context, we shall define needs, examine one particular way in which needs can be measured in a standardised way, using the Camberwell Assessment of Need, and shall discuss three somewhat similar studies which have compared user and staff rated needs.


The author of the article discusses the specifics of the overdue receivables from insurance companies and causes. Shows the dynamics of growth in receivables. The methods of working with such a debt. The prospects of cooperation of collectors and financial institutions. Relevance of the topic due to the fact that in times of economic instability, early detection, demand and collection of receivables are key to ensuring the operations of insurance liquidity. The conclusion about the need to expand the market of collection services.


The research on autonomous recognition mechanism for survivability has vigorously been growing up. A method of autonomous cognitive model and quantitative analysis for survivable system was proposed based on cognitive computing technology. Firstly, a cognitive model for survivable system with cross-layer perception ability was established, a self-feedback evolution mode of cognitive unit based on monitor-decide-execute loop structure was improved, and a self-configuration of cognitive unit is realized. Then, combined with the cognitive state transition graph, the analysis of cognitive performance for survivable systems based on dynamic cognitive behavioral changes was constructed. Finally, the cognitive processes of survivable system were described by using formal modeling. Simulation validated the influence degree of test parameters on system survivability from two perspectives of the probability of intrusion detection systems vulnerability and attacks detected. Results show that enhancing the rate of monitoring actions change and the rate of performing actions change obviously improved the cognitive performance of survivable system.


Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of patency file on apical transportation in curved canals prepared with passive step back (P.S.B) technique. Methods: This is an interceptive experimental, Invitro, study. Human extracted first permanent molars with 19-23mm length and curvature of 15-35 degrees (Schneider method) were considered for use in this study. Simple sampling was done and 35 teeth for each group was selected. In experimental group A canal preparation was done with P.S.B technique and usage of a # 10 file (as Patency file) between successive files. In experimental group B preparation was done in the same way except for usage of patency file. Pre and post operative radiographs were taken with similar condition. Radiographs were scanned and changes in canal curvature was determined using four different methods [Schneider, Weine, Long – Axis techniques (L. A.T), and Digital image overlay technique (overlay. T)] , using Idrisi for windows and AutoCAD softwares. Results: The mean of canal transportation angle in experimental group A with Schneider, Weine , LAT, and Over Lay techniques was: 7.006 ± 3.478, 12. 285 ± 6.032, 4.376 ± 3.516, 3.147 ± 2.744 respectively. Mean of canal transportation angle in experimental group B with the same methods was also determined: 8.009 ± 4.178, 13.55 ± 7.602, 9.464 ± 5.384, and 9.641 ± 5.382 respectively. T- test statistical analysis shows that there are no significant differences between the mean of canal transportation angles in two groups as measured by Schneider and Weine method (P>0.05). Mann- Whitney test shows that there are statistically significant differences between two groups as measured by LAT and Over Lay techniques (P<0.001). Conclusions: Results of this study shows that patency file in conjunction with P.S.B techniques causes significant reduction in apical transportation angle. Shortcomings of Schneider method in determination of canal curvature and specially assessment of apical transportation after instrumentation is mentioned in several studies. Our study shows that both Schneider and Weine techniques are not reliable methods for transportation assessment when compared with Image Over Lay technique. The result of LAT Shows close proximity with Over Lay technique and can be used for evaluation of apical transportation as a simple and reliable technique.
Keywords: Apical transportation, Passive step back, Apical patency, Schneider technique, Weine technique, Long axis technique,
OverLay technique.


In this study we assessed the effects of paragraph length on the reading speed and comprehension of students. Students were randomly assigned to one of three groups: short paragraph length (SPL), medium paragraph length (MPL), or long paragraph length (LPL). Students read a 1423 word text on a computer screen formatted to align with their group designation, followed by assessments of content recall, application, and transfer. Results indicate that paragraph length has a significant effect on content application and transfer, but not on content recall. These results are interpreted within the current literature on text comprehension and computer screen eye fatigue.


Given that the academic work of Friedrich Hayek has received eminent accolades (including the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences) and has been well recognised and widely referenced, this paper reviews the denial of the concept of social justice in many of the academic economic theory papers written by the renowned British-Austrian economist. The paper therefore effectively provides a critical analysis of some of Hayek's socio-political and economic theories relating to this issue. It attempts to do this by adopting the perspective of an objective and analytical economist with reference to and by examining the content of three of Hayek's well known economic texts, namely The Road to Serfdom (1944); Law, Legislation and Liberty (1973-79) and the Fatal Conceit Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988).


Thinning CIGSe absorber layer to less than 500 nm is desirable for reducing the cost per unit watt of photovoltaic-generated electricity, and also, the semitransparent solar cell based on such a thin absorber can be used in bifacial and superstrate configurations if the back electrode is transparent. In this study, a WO x layer is inserted between Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGSe) absorber and tin-doped indium oxide back-contact to enhance the hole collection at the back electrode. A WO x interlayer with a thickness of 6 nm is found to be optimum because it causes a ∼38% relative increase in the fill factor of a ∼450 nm thick CIGSe-based device compared to the reference device without a WO x interlayer. While fixing the thickness of CIGSe, increasing the WO x interlayer thickness to ≥6 nm results in decreases of solar cell parameters primarily because of the emergence of a GaO x interfacial layer at the CIGSe/WO x junction.


The main system responsible for the safety of the car is its braking system. The efficiency of the braking system is assessed by several parameters, the main of which is the maximum braking force, which is generated in the braking mechanisms, usually it is disc or drum types of brakes. The analysis of peculiarities of designs of existing types of brakes of cars is carried out, advantages and disadvantages of each of them, characteristics of application and maintenance are substantiated. The main factors that have a significant impact on the efficiency of the car's brake system have been identified. It was carried out the research of the influence of the main operational factors on the efficiency of the car's brake system: the pressure in the car's tires, contamination, and friction pairs of the brake mechanisms. The method of conducting experimental test lane and road researches of influence of the chosen factors on indicators of braking efficiency of the car is developed. Test lane experimental studies were performed using the Bosch BSA 4340 brake test equipment, graphs of changes in the braking efficiency of each of the car's wheels based on the researches were built, depending first on the change in tire pressure, then on the presence of rust, grit, and grime and level of wear of mechanisms. The quantity of the maximum braking force of the car depending on three quantities of pressure in tires of wheels was identified: the pressure recommended by the factory of 0,18 MPa, the lowered and increased pressures 0.15 and 0.25 MPa respectively. The influence of motor oil caught in the brake mechanism or treatment with special pastes on the value of the maximum braking force is also determined. The influence of the state of the brake discs and pads on the braking efficiency of the car was also investigated, the braking indicators were measured before and after the replacement of the brake disc and pads. On the basis of the conducted test line and road researches, conclusions are made and practical recommendations on prevention of reduction of brake efficiency of the car in the conditions of operation are offered.


127 FTIR PATTERN SHIFT IN TOXICANTS INDUCED CYTOSKELETON REARRANGEMENT CAN IDENTIFY IN SITU AND INVASIVE CARCINOMA OF CERVICAL CELLS. P. Sinhaseni , R. Sindhuphak , T. Posayanonda, V. Taechakitiroj , T. Suramana , N. Nuntharatanapong , S. B. Chichareon , K. Peeyananjarassri 3 and N. Dusitsin . The Institute of Health Research, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and Department of Obstetric & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, Thailand.


Wenchuan earthquake induced numerous slope movements, of which distribution and direction were controlled by the earthquake faults and the geology. Landslides, which occurred on foliated rocks, such as phyllite, and some landslides of carbonate rocks were preceded by gravitational slope deformation. But many landslides of carbonate rocks occurred newly without topographic precursors. Landslides of valley fills were also induced by the earthquake without topographic precursors. These findings could be applied to the future landslide susceptibility evaluation.


Abstract More than two hundred years ago, the Italian Carlo Mondini described the first inner ear malformation (IEM). From that moment, a lot of authors from all over the world put their effort on the discovery, description and classification of IEMs. Anatomists, radiologists and surgeons were involved in this amazing field. But the desire for more information on these anomalies should not be considered ephemeral; a deeper understanding of these pathologies has led over the years to the development of new surgical techniques and approaches for auditory rehabilitation of patients affected by congenital hearing loss. The development of new technologies, in particular in radiology and otolaryngology, had a tremendous impact on the evolution of the classification systems proposed over the decades. The evolution of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cochlear implants is still having a great effect in current clinical management of this kind of patients. Even though so much was obtained over the centuries, we cannot really say that the quest is over. The present review aims to sum up the main historical steps that led to the development of the modern classification systems of IEMs.


Latinos make up almost one-third the population of Hartford, CT, and it is estimated that 12% of the city's Latino population has diabetes. But at Hartford Hospital there are only a few diabetes educators who speak Spanish and enrollment in the hospital's Spanish diabetes classes is limited because they are held once a month.


Mechanistic Aspects of the Cationic Polymerization of para-Substituted a^^ha-Methylstyrenes May, 1982 J. Michael Jont^ B.S., South Dakota School of Mines & Technology M.S., University of Massachusetts Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Directed by: Professor Robert W. Lenz Mechanistic studies were carried out on the cationic polymerization reactions of a series of para-substituted alpha-methyl s tyrenes , including p-fluoro-, p-chloro-, p-bromoand p-isopropyl -alphamethyl styrene, using Friedel -Crafts initiators. Solvent polarity was found to have a large effect on polymer yield, molecular weight and tacticity for the more electron withdrawing p-chloro monomer but not for the p-fluoro monomer. These results were interpreted in terms of free ion and ion pair reaction mechanisms and ca rhenium ion stabilization by the p-fluoro group. Polymers with bimodal molecular weight distributions (MWD's) were fractionated by preparative gel permeation chromatography and analyzed for tacticity by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The two modes were postulated to have been formed by free ions and by ion pairs. Polymerization reactions producing polymers with very narrow MWD's were found not to be living polymerization systems on the basis of copolymerization


Abstract Software globalization is the supporting process of adapting computer software to different country and culture. Most efforts for software globalization have been focused on the development of software implementation techniques or tools. However, global software sold worldwide has different requirements implied by different contexts, and the difference of requirements may derive different architectural design. In this paper, we define such architectural design knowledge as knowledge models and propose a method for developing and using the knowledge models for software globalization. Also we use set-top box middleware systems for digital data broadcast to validate the applicability of the proposed models and methods. Key Words : Software globalization, product line architecture, design knowledge model, architectural design method, digital data broadcast. * 정회원, 한성대학교 정보시스템공학과접수일자: 2013년 2월 15일, 수정완료 2013년 3월 15일 게재확정일자: 2013년 4월 12일 Received: 15 Feburary 2013/ Revised: 15 March 2013 /Accepted: 12 April 2013


We report the fabrication of efficient green light-emitting diodes using a side-chain random polymer based on a high electron affinity (EA) naphthalimide moiety (PNI). The chromophore is attached to a polymethacrylate backbone through a spacer, and emits in the green with high efficiency (30% photoluminescence quantum yield). In single-layer light-emitting diodes (LEDs), we find that the electroluminescence quantum efficiency is not limited by Al cathodes as for poly(p-phenylene vinylene), PPV, and we attribute this to the increased EA. We also report maximum internal quantum efficiencies of about 1.7% for Ca and 0.9% for Al in double-layer devices where PPV serves as both hole injector and emitter. Compared to some oxadiazole based electron injection/transport layers, PNI gives higher efficiencies at high currents, and longer lifetimes. Tuning of emission in the red is possible by dye doping (at high concentration) the PNI and causing the emission to happen in this layer. We discuss the properties of the...


This research investigates information retrieval from distributed databases. The most popular example of such systems are the regular web search engines. Thus, this paper discusses in depth the search engines systems and have made an evaluation of different search engines based on popular queries searched. We first explores the structure of the search engines and explain its functions behind the scenes, how they can get the results for a specific query. The key idea behind search engines is the ranking algorithms used to bring the appropriate results. This research has chosen Google, Yahoo, and Bing to do evaluation experiments, since they are top search engines used nowadays.


Abstract:  Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection by definition is persistence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in the serum for ≥6 months. The risk of developing chronic HBV infection ranges from 90% in neonates to <5% in immunocompetent adults. HBV acquired by perinatal infection has a prolonged immune‐tolerant phase, characterized by the presence of hepatitis Be antigen (HBeAg), high HBV‐DNA and normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels. Efficient and multi‐specific helper and cytotoxic T‐cell response is essential for controlling HBV infection. Chronic HBV infection is characterized by a state of HBV‐specific T‐cell hyporesponsiveness. The goal of therapy in chronic HBV infection is to eliminate or significantly suppress HBV replication and prevent the progression of liver disease to cirrhosis with the potential development of liver failure or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In adults, drugs currently licensed for treatment of HBV infection: are interferon‐alpha (IFN‐α), lamivudine (LMV) and adefovir dipivoxil (ADV), the first two are also licensed to use in children. IFN‐α has the advantage of having a more durable response, fixed duration of treatment and lack of resistant mutants. The disadvantages of IFN‐α include need for thrice‐weekly injections, higher cost and more side‐effects compared with the nucleoside analogues. Nucleoside analogues can be given orally and used in decompensated cirrhosis and transplant recipients. ADV and newer drugs like tenefovir can successfully treat mutants produced after prolonged LMV therapy. Current protocols exclude children with immunotolerant HBV. Periodic screening with liver ultrasound scan and alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP) in all children with chronic HBV infection is recommended. The severe shortage of cadaveric donor organs has led to the use of marginal (including anti‐HBc‐positive) cadaveric donor livers in selected transplant candidates with high medical urgency; 5–10% of all liver transplants are because of HBV. Using hepatitis B immunoglobulin and nucleoside analogues has made the outcome following liver transplantation for hepatitis B, comparable with, if not slightly better, than that in patients with other diagnoses. Future treatments should be based on the restoration of HBV‐specific T‐cell responses to levels similar to that seen in subjects controlling HBV.


This article examines the postulate of the 'purity' of language, which was previously presented for the different language cultures individually, comparatively in diachronic and synchronic perspective, correlating the different traits. ›Linguistic purism‹ is hereby seen as both criticism of language use and criticism of forms and structures of a language. The comparative article illustrates in which constellations of languages linguistic purism was relevant in the past and still is today and how the individual languages were and are affected by language-puristic activities. Finally, the article will compare the actors and specific discursive connections between the different language cultures. A note on reading the article: This article brings together the central aspects from the articles on the different languages in this collection. For deeper understanding of the individual language cultures it is recommended to read the articles on each of these, which also include references to secondary literature. The postulate of the ›purity‹ of language has been documented since ancient times and is associated, for instance, with Aristotle, Cicero, and Atticus (Fögen 2000: 125, 128). Over the course of time, its development in the investigated language cultures is linked with diverging strategies of purifying the language of linguistic elements that interfere with this purity. Language-puristic discourses are typically opposed to linguistic dynamism and change and often argue with the diffuse idea of a ›linguistic threat‹ to speakers' social or national identity. ›Linguistic purism‹ thus represents both a critique of the language use of individual language users as well as a critique of specific linguistic forms or structures. Language-puristic tendencies increase or decrease depending on socio-political, economic, and cultural developments. Language-puristic discourses and activities are especially linked with the following language constellations: 1.) the demarcation of a Große, S.: Linguistic purism and language criticism in European perspective. In: HESO 3/2018, p. 37–40. https://dx.doi.org/10.17885/heiup.heso.2018.0.23880 Keywords


The effects of the real potential on the absorption of lighter heavy ions are discussed. The effects are illustrated with ''effective potentials'' reproducing the elastic scattering phase shifts in ...


A novel spreading sequence allocation procedure for multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems is proposed and investigated. This new technique, which relies on an analytical evaluation of the multiple access interference (MAI) mitigates the interference between different users by optimizing the spreading sequence selection within a given spreading sequence family. For low-loaded transmissions over different realistic frequency correlated channels, it is shown that this new selection procedure outperforms systems where no specific allocation rule is employed. Furthermore, this technique affects the emitted signals and its performance improvement is observed whatever the detection technique used at the receiver side. Thus, this technique improves the capacity of MC-CDMA systems.


This paper analyzes the formation and karst development process of early paleozoic carbonate rocks in the southern margin of North China platform from the aspects of regional stratigraphy distribution, crustal movement and evolution and groundwater recharge and drainage conditions. It is concluded that the karst in the study area is multi-level developed and affected by lithology. Under the control of tectonic movement and groundwater flow, there are three main types of karst development models: bedding karst, water erosive karst, fault zone karst and erosive mining karst.


A family of pmf's which are expressed by the Gaussian hypergeometric series, including the ordinary hypergeometric distribuiton, is treated. Its multivariate version and other related families are mentioned.

Keywords:

classical discrete distributions;
gaussian hypergeometric functions;
probability generating functions


Cucumber experiments of different root zone temperature treatments(natural root temperature as ck,15℃,20℃ and 25℃) were tested in flower/fruit set period in solar greenhouse.The results indicated that plant height,stem thickness,leaf quantity,chlorophyll content,photosynthetic rate,transpiration rate and yield of cucumbers were all increased significantly with enhanced root zone temperature.Root zone temperature's remarkable increasing could reduce quantity of rotting root plant,yellow leaf and growth bud into flower bud occurrence,and it could improve the surviving rates of cucumber plants.


U.S. dairy companies became more important exporters beginning in the mid-2000s when international and domestic developments changed the economic environment facing the U.S. dairy industry. This paper looks at five U.S. dairy firms and how their domestic and international strategies will influence the size of the U.S. dairy industry's dairy exports and foreign direct investment in dairy-food businesses.


To tackle the uplink pilot contamination problem in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, current researches only relied on the angle of arrival at the base station. However, this information is insufficient when the users share the same scattering environment. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy by exploiting the user mobility. Due to limited scatterers around the users, we first investigate the channel sparsity and derive the corresponding angle-Doppler frequency domain channel power spectrum (AD-CPS). We then propose a method to mitigate the pilot contamination through aligning the AD-CPSs. Compared with the existing works, we further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in supporting more orthogonal pilots when the interfering users exhibit different moving patterns. Simulations verify the superior performance and show that the proposed scheme can serve as an additional decontamination mechanism for the UL pilots in massive MIMO systems.


Carbon membrane without-supported was synthesized from phenolic resin using amphiphilic block copolymer F127 as soft template in alkali-acid system. Scanning electron microscopy,transmission electron microscopy,nitrogen adsorption-desorption( 77 K) and CO2/ N2 separation was used to observe the surface morphology and test the performance. Results showed that the surface morphology and pore structure of the samples can be controlled by varying F127 dosages and carbonization temperature. With the increasing of mass ratio of phenol to F127,Surface area,pore volume and average pore diameter increased firstly,and then decreased,Surface area of 467 m2/ g and mesopores rate of 31. 3%can be achieved when the mass ratio is 1. 06. With the carbonization temperature increasing from 600 to 800 ℃,disordered worm-like pore structure was converted into extensive two-dimensional( 2D) hexagonal pore structure. Thickness of the prepared carbon membrane was about 300 μm,which exhibited excellent separation performance for CO2 and N2,and the selectivity for CO2 and N2of 2. 53 could be achieved.


Background: Natural sex selection methods have been applied for several decades, but their use and effectiveness are still a matter of debate. Sex selection could be needed for personal, social, or cultural reason. In most cases the principal medical indication for sex selection is to avoid giving birth to children with a sex-linked genetic disorder. Objective: this study was designed to assess the efficacy of a maternal diet as a method to improve the chances of conceiving a girl or boy. Subject and Methods: total of 200 women were recruited in this study. Patients were grouped in to two groups according to the advised type of diet. Group 1: 100 women supplied by diet rich in Na & K (if a male is desired) and group 2: 100 Women supplied by diet rich in calcium and magnesium (if female is desired). Compliance with diet was assessed through mineral analyses of blood. Results: It was found that in group 1 (patients consumed diet rich in Na and K for male selection) the result was 76 male offspring, 16 female offspring, and 8 abortions with successful rate of male child of 76%, while In group 2 (patients consumed diet rich in Ca and Mg for female selection) the result was 72 female offspring, 16 male offspring, and 12 abortions with successful rate of female child of 72%. Conclusion: maternal diet rich in Na , K and Ca ,Mg are factors capable of increasing the probability of conceiving a baby upon the desire of the couples.


Aberrant expression of epithelial and neuroendocrine markers is rare in diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and can lead to erroneous diagnosis with inappropriate treatment. This case report describes a case of DLBCL with a co‐expression of cytokeratins and CD56 that was misdiagnosed as metastatic neuroendocrine carcinoma.


The Scottish Highlands and Islands (henceforward, 'the Highlands') are of considerable interest for development studies. The region's experience of a brutal internal colonialism (Hechter, 1978) has few parallels anywhere. Moreover, this took place relatively recently, with feudal private property, enclosures and bureaucratic planning all being imposed in quick succession on an indigenous people who traditionally refused the state (clan society). An unrelieved history of depopulation, poverty and exclusion from the general trend of economic development in Britain eventually led to 'the highland problem' (Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB), 1967; Munro and Hart, 2000) being recognized as an affront to the modern state's claim of democratic legitimacy. Accordingly, for over a century but especially since the 1960s, special laws and administrative bodies have been devised to intervene in the region's economic and social development, making of the Highlands an extended experiment in regional planning from which others might learn. Scotland's history as a nation is closely tied to the fate of the Highlands, which contain half the country's land area and only 7% of its population (Devine, 1999). The Highlanders became a pan-European symbol of romantic rejection of commercial industrialism in the eighteenth century, a remote people in a wild landscape, near to nature and speaking an unintelligible language. And, despite the efforts of the British state to eradicate local cultural forms, these paradoxically furnished the content of a militant Scottish identity. Today the UK's creeping constitutional crisis shows signs of speeding up. To Scotland's recently granted claims (along with Wales) for a national parliament of its own may be added the approaching reunification of Ireland, continuing uncertainty over British membership of the European Union and the need for reform of a parliament that retains the features of absolutist monarchy.


There has been an increasing focus on enthesitis in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Enthesitis, defined as inflammation at the insertion of tendons and ligaments into bone, has been proposed as the primary pathological lesion of PsA, and this hypothesis has received support from animal models that have focused on the enthesis in spondyloarthropathy-like disease1,2. Enthesitis is part of the entry "stem" for the ClASsification for Psoriatic ARthritis criteria (CASPAR) criteria, although it must be emphasized that only a few cases of PsA had isolated entheseal involvement in that study3.

Yet the clinical evaluation of enthesitis remains a vexing problem. When delivering educational symposia, I am often asked by dermatology and rheumatology colleagues how to assess and treat enthesitis. To the dermatologists I say look only at the Achilles insertion because (1) it is readily identifiable, (2) it is the major enthesis of the body, and (3) involvement is quite specific for spondyloarthropathy (SpA). I caution against misinterpreting a fusiform swelling of the Achilles tendon 5–10 cm proximal to the insertion as insertional tendinitis — Achilles paratendinitis is quite common and mostly unrelated to SpA. To the rheumatologist I give the same advice, but also advise using a simple enthesitis index for assessment, such as the Leeds enthesitis index, in which the patient is queried about pain when pressure is applied at each lateral epicondyle, medial femoral condyle, and Achilles tendon insertion. I warn about overinterpreting pure entheseal disease without arthritis for 2 reasons. First, there is a consistently …

Address correspondence to Dr. P.S. Helliwell, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, 2nd Floor, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Harehills Lane, Leeds LS7 4SA, UK. E-mail: P.Helliwell{at}leeds.ac.uk


We measured the bone mineral content of the wrist and spine using single and dual photon absorptiometry (SPA and DPA) in 165 normal boys and girls to quantitate the contribution of normal pubertal development to the attainment of adult bone mass. We constructed bone density ranges for spine and wrist bone density for each pubertal stage in girls (breast) and boys (pubic hair). Wrist bone density measurements (±SD) for girls and boys, pubertal stages 1 and 5, were 0.41±0.06 and 0.62±0.05gm/cm2 (girls) and 0.46±0.08 and 0.70±0.08gm/cm2 (boys), respectively. Spine bone density measurements (±SD) for girls and boys, pubertal stages 1 and 5, were 0.78±0.09 and 1.18±0.13gm/cm2 (girls) and 0.81±0.10 and 1.22±0.23gm/cm2 (boys), respectively. Thus, bone mineral content of the wrist and spine increased during pubertal development (between stage 1 and 5) by approximately 50% for boys and girls. The wrist bone density of boys was significantly greater than that of girls (p<0.03). Bone mineral content of the spine was similar for boys and girls throughout pubertal development. The bone mineral content of the wrist and spine in girls and boys correlated significantly with chronologic age, bone age, body mass index, height age, height, weight, serum IGF-I, and testosterone (boys), (all p<0.0001). We conclude that bone density of the wrist but not the spine is increased in boys versus girls, that bone mineral content increases by approximately 50% between Tanner stage 1 and 5 for both sexes, and that bone mineral content at both sites correlates with advances in pubertal development.


The paper presents the modelling and design particularities of laterally-coupled distributed feedback lasers (LC-DFB), the fabrication process, involving a highly productive and cost-effective UV-nanoimprint lithography technique, and the characteristics obtained up to now for the LC-DFB lasers fabricated for pumping Cesium atomic clocks. 550 µm long LC-DFB lasers, emitting at 894 µm, had 10 mA threshold currents and maintained over 40dB side-mode-suppression-ratio between 10 and 100°C. The measured self-homodyne spectrum indicated a linewidth below 1.3 MHz for AR/HR-coated 1000 µm long LC-DFB lasers and the simulations indicate that the use of phase-shift sections could reduce the linewidth below 250 kHz.


The Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS) was the venue this week for a unique conference. Conjointly organised by Director Ralph Regenvanu and a team of young Australian researchers, Jack Taylor, Nick Thieberger and Stephen Zagala, it was focused on the theme of collaboration in research, wok tugeta. But collaboration was not just the theme but the practice. The conference was well timed between the annual workshops of women and men fieldworkers of the VKS. Many fieldworkers and other ni-Vanuatu presented papers and participated in the conference. And although the conference was advertised to start in Bislama and then move into English and French, in the event most of the presentations and discussions were in Bislama. From the opening stirring speeches by Chief Paul Tahi, President of the Malvatumauri National Council and by Chief Murmur of Mangaliliu, reflecting on his conversion from Presbyterian elder to kastom jif, to the closing funny stories by Bob Tonkinson about his anthropological research in Mele-Maat and Ambrym during the colonial period, the three days offered a feast for all participants.


The article provides the results of the methodological study based on the telephone survey "Monitoring salaries, poverty and social inequality". Twenty-three questions concerning the income and financial well-being are analyzed in the study. The purpose of the study is to assess the quality of the questions about the income and to choose the most relevant ones to use in mass surveys. Based on the cognitive coding of 41 interviews, three common shifts (communicative failures) were singled out. All of them are considered as indicators of quality. The indicators` frequency helps to determine the weak points in the questionnaire. Besides, the author detects five questions about the income which are hard for respondent to perceive; these questions are not recommended to use in mass surveys.


Arrangement between the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Government of the People's Republic of China concerning a loan from the Economic Development Cooperation Fund. Beijing, 27 December 1999


One of the common features of the Byzantine coastal cities and settlements in the Hellespont is that they had a natural port on the coast of the strait. These ports were generally located at the mouth of the valleys formed by the streams that reached the Hellespont. One of the important valleys is the Rhodius Valley on the Anatolian coast of the middle section of the Strait. Rhodius is nourished by the brooks coming from Kirazlıdağ, Aladağ and Kayalıdağ. Its length is approximately 40 km and it is the largest valley in the middle section of the strait. It reaches the plain via the front parts of Atik Hisar. There is a Byzantine castle in the southwest of the place where it reaches the plain. This castle shows the importance of the valley in the Byzantine period. It has the characteristics of a valley with a narrow floor. By the alluvia it had carried, it formed the coastal plain over which today's Çanakkale developed. In the section where Rhodius-Sarıçay poured into the sea was the ancient city of Abydos which we know from the resources of the period – had been a large Byzantine polis. The architectural ruins of the city of Abydos failed to reach the present day. However, during our surveys, we documented numerous stone works of the Byzantine period in the lower section of the valley. These works have the quality of contributing to the understanding of the qualities of the city of Abydos and of the other Byzantine settlements in the lower section of the valley and to the settlement of localization problems. In this study, the stone works with architectural and liturgical uses that we detected in the lower section of the Rhodius Valley will be evaluated together with their finding locations.


We report our on-going finite density and temperature project, where we employ Wilson fermions with the clover terms and Iwasaki improved gauge action. We are studying both pure imaginary and pure real chemical potential regions at the same time. For the real baryon chemical potential, we use the reweighting method. Since our goal is to simulate QCD at extreme conditions towards realistic parameters, i.e., lighter quark and smaller lattice spacing, and higher orders of fermion reweighting factors are non-negligible and converges slowly as the quark mass decreases, we develop a new simple Taylor expansion method, where an expansion parameter is exp(±μ/T )−1, not μ itself. This gives simple formula for any order of fermion reweighting factors. We use also the hybrid-list and dilution techniques in "practical all-to-all propagators".


Abstract— n‐Octanol/water partition and distribution coefficients of fifteen β‐blockers have been measured and the relationships between log P (neutral species), log Pi (fully ionized species) and log D7·4 have been examined. A strict correlation exists among these three parameters, suggesting that the ionization exerts similar effects on the partition behaviour of these drugs.


This paper presents a methodology for the prediction, evaluation and improvement of reliability indices in distribution system. The method is based on power interruption analysis, maintenance activities, maintenance and system improvement budgets and appropriate selection of maintenance activities using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) method. RCM will optimize reliability based activities against budget limit and properly manage maintenance activities using Reliability Improvement Opportunity Graph.


It paper introduces briefly five methods with convention of harmless test.It expounds basic principle of ultrasonic flaw defector ultrasonic wave can spread in elasfic medium,because of it′s reflection refraction and transmission on boundary face,it can test defect with object inside and surface.So it can test safty of parts with this distinguishing it paper introduces in detail applicated situation of ultrasonic flaw defector.


The objectives of the research were to determine the effectiveness of extension activities in the field of resistance to certain pests and diseases of sugar beet crop and therefore determine the level of knowledge of the surveyed farmers about technical recommendations for the resistance of some pests and diseases that afflict sugar beet crop, and to convince them with the agricultural extension for implementation, and execution, and they benefit from the implementation of those recommendations , also the research tries to determine the relationship between the degree of effectiveness of the extension activities in the field of resistance to certain pests and diseases of sugar beet crop as dependent variable and some independent variables studied to respondents, as well as identify the problems faced by the surveyed farmers in the field of resistance to certain pests and diseases of sugar beet crop. The research was conducted in province Nubariya, the total sample the 112 examined cases, which representing 10% of the total cultivation of sugar beet's 1120 in the three largest villages in the west Nubariya, in terms of acreage sugar beet season 2012,the data were collected by personal interviews using a form of Surveys during the month of September 2012.


In this article, it is our purpose that we examine as well as analyze Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) a mathematical model, a white blood cells cancer. This model shows the association between naive T cells, effector T cells and CML cancer cells in the body, using a system of differential equations which give the rate of change of these three-cell population. We implement a Laplace Adomian Decomposition Method to compute an approximate solution of the considered model. We try to obtain analytic solution for CML model in the form of series that rapidly converges. Further, we also provide some result and stability of the propose model.


The origin of nodular structures in limestones, whether by mechanical and/or chemical processes, poses serious interpretational problems for sedimentologists. Outcrops of Upper Givetian-Lower Frasnian slope-facies carbonates of the Debnik area, Cracow Upland, have been studied to determine the genesis of their extensive nodular structures. The following types of features have been recognized: (1) nodular and wavy limestones composed of isolated, ellipsoidal, peloidal nodules within marly matrix; (2) flaser-nodular limestones (with solution seams); and (3) conglomeratic nodular limestones composed of irregular micritic fragments plus rounded intraclasts and plasticlasts. Oxygen isotopic analyses of the nodules fall into three distinct groups. The first ranges from {minus}4.4 to {minus}5.0{per thousand} {delta}{sup 18}O(PDB) and includes Type 1 nodules and lithified nodules of Type 3; the second grouping ranges form {minus}5.0 to {minus}5.3{per thousand} and includes some Type 2 nodules and Type 3 plasticlasts; the third group, ranging from {minus}6.0 to {minus}7.4{per thousand}, contains samples form intervening marls and residual seams plus some Type 2 nodules. From these field and laboratory observations, one can conclude that nodular and wavy limestones originated by early diagenetic concretionary cementation and subsequent pressure solution, conglomeratic-type nodular limestones were produced by bioturbation and erosional reworking of partially cemented deposits; flaser limestonesmore » formed by pressure solution during burial diagenesis. Thus, the nodules in these rocks were formed over a long time period and by several processes, a conclusion which probably applies equally to many other carbonate units.« less