Objective:To investigate the effect of a double coated drug-eluting stent of As2O3 and CD133 antibody. Methods:A total of 60 China miniature pigs were feeded with non-fat diet for 4weeks,then randomly divided into 3 groups:ballon injury group,sham group and stent implantation group.After relative treatment,pigs were raised for another 4 weeks.All animals were sacrificed after optical coherence tomography(OCT)examination and cardiac tissue was subjected to immunohistology analysis. Results:It was showed by OCT that coronary plaque enlarged,and endothelium and fibrous cap thickened in balloon injury group,but vascular lesions in stent implantation group were significantly reduced.The coronary intima/media thickness ratio and area ratio in stent implantation group was lower than those in ballon injury group,but higher than those in sham group(P0.05).The protein expression of Bax and Bcl-22 in ballon injury group was significantly higher than those in sham group and stent implantation group(P0.01).But there were no significant differences between sham group and stent implantation group. Conclusion:As2O3/CD133 antibody double coated drug-eluting stent significantly inhibits intimal proliferation and reduces myocardial apoptosis.


Ammonium telluro-vanadomolybdate, 6(NH4)2·TeO3·3V2O5·4MoO3·15H2O, has been synthesized, its properties studied, and its composition determined by analytical methods. Copper, silver, calcium, strontium, barium and lead salts have then been prepared from the ammonium salt. D. T. A. of ammonium and strontium salts have been carried out to investigate the thermal changes. The infrared spectra of the ammonium salt and its dehydrated product have been recorded, and the characteristic frequencies assigned.


The photoluminescence of boron nitride (BN) nanosheets exfoliated by ball milling method has been investigated. At room temperature, the nanosheets have strong deep ultraviolet (DUV) light emission at 224 nm and weak defect-related UV (∼300 nm) emission. The DUV peak profile slightly changes with the increase of milling time due to the increase of stacking faults caused by the shear force during milling. The decreased ∼300 nm emission after milling treatments has been attributed to the preferential orientation of the BN nanosheets on substrate and the strong polarization anisotropy of BN materials in luminescence.


Neurodevelopment
The adult brain contains dozens of different types of interneurons that control and refine neuronal circuits. Mi et al. used single-cell transcriptomics to investigate when these subtypes emerge during interneuron development in the mouse. Transcriptomes of embryonic interneurons


We describe a case of an 88-year-old female patient with several cardiovascular risk factors presented with diameter increase of the right iliofemoral pseudoaneurysm during the follow-up, after TEA of the CFA. DUS and CTA showed a large pseudoaneurysm (approximately 3 × 5 cm) at right thighs from distal external iliac artery with DFA connection. Because the severe comorbidity and the bilateral occlusion of the superficial femoral artery (SFA), the left percutaneous femoral path was undertaken following the cross-over technique. At the beginning two nithinol self-expanding stents and subsequently other endo-stents within the proximal portion of the deep femoral artery were implanted, with the successful exclusion of the pseudoaneurismatic sac. The endografts remain patent at 12 months with clear regression of the iliofemoral pseudoaneurysm. This case demonstrates that an endovascular approach can be an excellent treatment for aneurysms of the iliofemoral artery, thereby avoiding an open surgical procedure while preserving the patency of the deep femoral artery.


: When we think about how the struggle for women's rights has been developed in the African context, we can find broadly speaking, two main positions: the acceptance of the term "feminism" –adapted to the African reality–, or a total rejection in favour of new theories with different names. In the case of a denial of the term, either total or partial, two important approaches should be addressed. The firs one in order to know the proposed alternatives to name their theories and the second one in order to reflect upon the motivations that led to this rejection.


article presents a review of the vegetation types occurring in Ceara state, Northeastern Brazil. We explain how climate and geomorphology have produced the different landscapes in Ceara and aim to characterize the main features, distribution and anthropogenic threats for each vegetation type. To achieve this we performed fieldwork and evaluated available maps and the literature in order to summarize the main attributes of each vegetation type. We also compiled floristic surveys for Ceara state and used multivariate analysis to compare the similarity of species composition among the different phytoecological units and to interpret the biogeographical patters observed.


A 10-year long dataset of half-hourly ozone (O3) fluxes was used to study the variability in deposition velocity (υd) over a mixed temperate suburban forest. Average (median) υd amounted to 0.70 (0.46) cm s-1, with day- and night-time average (median) of 0.98 (0.73) cm s-1 and 0.46 (0.30) cm s-1, respectively. It was found that the precipitation form had a marked impact on υd and the deposition efficiency (υd/υdmax), with highest values measured when the canopy was dew-wetted or covered with snow. The analysis further evidenced that traffic volume led to increased deposition due to the presence of chemical reactions between O3 and nitric oxide (NO) above the canopy surface. During the working week, daytime values of υd, υd/υdmax and the O3 fluxes (F) were found to be significantly higher than the weekend values, especially during the winter half-year. In a next step, half hourly deposition data were aggregated into day- and night-time monthly values, for a correlative study with measured environmental variables. Monthly average night-time/daytime υd and υd/υdmax were positively correlated with the relative humidity at the canopy surface (RH(z0')) and negatively correlated with the water levels below the ground surface. During the daytime, monthly υd and υd/υdmax were additionally increased during the working-week when traffic volume was high. There existed, however, substantially different weather conditions, in which unaccounted covariates with a totally different meteorological signature controlled the υd and F. It was speculated that, among other, biogenic volatile compounds (BVOCs) could have contributed to O3 quenching in some (spring) months with severe drought stress.


Objective To examine the impact of fundoplication on reflux related hospital admissions for children with neurological impairment. Design Retrospective, observational cohort study. Setting 42 children's hospitals in the United States. Participants 3721 children with neurological impairment born between 2000 and 2005 who had at least one hospital admission at a study hospital before their fundoplication. Intervention Fundoplication. Main outcome measures Incident rate ratio for reflux related hospital admissions, defined as the post-fundoplication admission rate divided by the pre-fundoplication admission rate. Results Of the 955 285 children born during the study period, 144 749 (15%) had neurological impairment. Of these, 27 720 (19%) were diagnosed as having gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, of whom 6716 (24%) had a fundoplication. Of these, 3721 (55%) had at least one previous hospital admission and were included in the study cohort. After fundoplication, hospital admissions decreased for any reflux related cause (incident rate ratio 0.69, 95% confidence interval 0.67 to 0.72; P<0.01), aspiration pneumonia (0.71, 0.62 to 0.81; P<0.01), gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (0.60, 0.57 to 0.63; P<0.01), and mechanical ventilation (0.40, 0.37 to 0.43; P<0.01), after adjustment for other patient and hospital related factors that may influence reflux related hospital admissions. Hospital admissions increased for asthma (incident rate ratio 1.52, 1.38 to 1.67; P<0.01) and remained constant for pneumonia (1.07, 0.98 to 1.17; P=0.16). Conclusions Children with neurological impairment who have fundoplication had reduced short term reflux related hospital admissions for aspiration pneumonia, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, and mechanical ventilation. However, admissions for pneumonia remained constant and those for asthma increased after fundoplication. Comparative effectiveness data for other treatments (such as gastrojejunal feeding tubes) are unknown.


Based on the China-American Trade War, this paper discusses the relationship between international trade and the IPR protection, analyzing the construction and deficiency of IPR system, demonstrating the necessity and urgency of international trade talents cultivation and IPR education with the latest information. Finally, Some suggestions to develop China's international trade talents of IPR.


ABSTRACT A rapid method for quantitative determination of fat and moisture in a variety of mayonnaise products (regular, reduced- and low-fat) was developed using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Both the fat and moisture contents could be effectively solvated out of the soluble solids using 1-propanol without sonication. A load cell assembly with a 100 mm Teflon spacer gave sufficient separation under 2 cm−1 resolution using 100 scans. Two distinct peaks were obtained on the ratioed sample spectra of regular mayonnaise: 1748 cm−1 and 1650 cm−1 for C˭O stretching of oil and H-O-H bending of water, respectively. Data was then normalized using the Window-based software that acquired spectra information seamlessly from the instrument. The experimental measurements of the fat and moisture contents were in excellent agreement with those using the modified Mojonnier and the dehydration method, respectively. The method was accurate over all varieties of mayonnaise studied (p < 0.05).


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately reduce a transmission power while suppressing, to a minimum, deterioration of line quality. SOLUTION: In a mobile communication terminal 1, normally, transmission power is controlled in response to a request from a base station device 2 and if average transmission power Wa that is an average value of transmission power during a monitoring term Ta is smaller than a threshold TH, transmission power is continuously controlled in response to the request from the base station device 2. If the average transmission power Wa is equal to or higher than the threshold TH, during a transmission power suppression term Tb following the monitoring term Ta, transmission power is controlled so that the average value of transmission power during a control term Tc summing up the monitoring term Ta and the transmission power suppression term Tb becomes equal to or lower than the threshold TH, thereby reducing the average value of the transmission power in the whole control term Tc. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT


The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact before and after the spin-off of the Sharia Business Unit into a Sharia Commercial Bank on profitability. The data used in this study are ROA, ROE, and EPS which are divided into two periods, namely before the spin-off (2003-2009) and after the spin-off (2011-2017). Paired sample t-test and descriptive analysis of profitability performance are used to analyze data. The results of the study stated that there was a significant difference in ROE before and after the spin-off. However, there were no significant differences in ROA and EPS in the same two periods


Forms of temple in Qinghai with multi-nationalities and multi-religious were analyzed,then the role of temples in protecting forest was studied,finally,how to utilize temples to protect forest better was put forward.


The interventional loopless antenna detector potentially offers near-quadratic gains in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with B0 [1]. Higher SNR offers the potential for MRI microscopy of internal anatomy at <100μm resolution, larger effective fields-of-view (FOV) and/or high-speed MRI endoscopy [2]. Here we report the development and performance of the first intravascular loopless antenna for use on a 7T MRI scanner [3]. The absolute SNR was determined theoretically using numerical computations, confirmed by measurements at 7T, and compared to 3T. Safety testing suggests that the device can be operated safely at 7T. Finally, high-resolution (58μm) in vitro MRI of intact human arterial specimen is presented.


New technology to streamline the toll collection process is described. Known as automatic vehicle identification or electronic toll collection, and using radio freqfuency identification (RF/ID), it automatically collects tolls from participating drivers. Small electronic 'tags' mounted on customer's vehicles are read by equipment in specially equipped toll lanes, taking less than one second, and performed on vehicles traveling nonstop. The step by step electronic toll transaction is described. Reasons for electronic toll collection are discussed, and include expeditious traffic flow, and expansion of toll collection system capacity. The two largest systems currently in operation are on the Dallas North Tollway in Dallas, Texas and in New Orleans, Louisiana. Key issues of RF/ID technology are discused, such as technology standardization, driver privacy, vehicle classification, and enforcement. Other benefits from electronic toll collection are noted.


Controlling external cavity surface emitting gain element number and type of multilayer quantum well laser in which the output light may be provided one or more coherent wavelengths of light. The multilayer mirror member and the number of layers may be provided a dual-wavelength type reflector.


1. Four men of European descent were exposed naked to an air temperature of 10° C for 2 hr in Australia, and again after 24 weeks' residence at Mawson, Antarctica.


Results: Seventy-eight subjects in the BOS group responded (29.8% response rate) and 24 subjects in the control group responded (13.7% response rate). Compared to the control group, the surgery group was significantly older, had longer follow-up times, and had more Caucasians. There was no significant difference between the surgery and orthodontic-only groups in their responses to the Berlin Questionnaire or the FOSQ-10. According to the Berlin Questionnaire, 9.0% of the surgery group were at high risk for OSA, while 16.7% of the orthodontic-only group were at high risk. The median total FOSQ-10 score for the surgery group and the orthodontic-only group was 18.3 and 18.1, respectively. The surgery group had a significantly lower ESS score of 6.3 compared to the orthodontic-only group score of 6.9. These findings compared favorably with scores for healthy individuals.


Summary A case of a mutilating injury of the forearm treated with a multiple entry A. O. external fixator was provided with a flap cover from the abdomen. The manoeuvre used to achieve the flap cover, along with a brief discussion is being presented.


This article presents and analyzes the indicators of the length, breaking load, fineness, elongation at break in a group of fibers of natural origin, such as cotton, silk, wool, as well as a comparative characteristic of crimp indices per 1 cm, components of the total deformation of fibers obtained from different parts of silkworm branches


Design and development of an intelligent robot system or ibot which utilizes artificial
intelligence and wireless technology to offer home automation, intelligent
surveillance and video conferencing. The innovation in the use of wireless, video
technology and artificiality in machine reasoning will enable the proposed robot to
offer a competitive edge in global intelligent robotic market. Although there are a
number of personal robot assistants available in the market and under research today,
none of them have the ability to communicate with the users in natural language.
AIBO, the first entertainment robot by Sony which creates thrill all over the world,
can only interact with external stimulus like owner's praise or admonishment. It
cannot communicate with its owner in natural language, which is probably impeded
by its appearance as a "pet dog. Other robot assistant technology, such as Asimo the
Honda Humanoid Robot, the mobile robot systems developed in the Autonomous
Systems Lab and Alfred, the robot which won the first place in the "Hors d'Oeuvres,
Anyone?" competition do not have natural speech processing capability at all.


The basic principle of neutron detection was proposed in the twentieth century, especially G.F.Knoll compiled Radiation Detection And Measurement in 1979, including detailed in principles and methods of radiation detection and measurement on a variety of hot and fast neutrons. In recent decades there is not have a big breakthrough on the principle of neutron detection development, but there is a great improvement in the performance and scope of neutron detectors. Depending on the working principle of neutron detector, it is roughly divided into the following three: Gas detectors, Semiconductor detectors and Scintillator detector.


This article analyzes whether the pork barrel political approach really exists in the context of legislative output by the Brazilian Congress. According to the author's argument, in the case of medium-large districts, multi-member districts (MMDs) increase the costs of investment in pork barrel bills of law. In addition, members of the Brazilian Congress face high legislative output costs that increase the incentives to avoid pork barrel strategies. The author investigates hypotheses on bills that were either approved or rejected by Congress, as well as those vetoed by the Executive, from 1991 to 2002. The results provide significant evidence for the author's theoretical argument. The study concludes that: (1) pork barrel bills are quantitatively insignificant in Brazil; (2) members of the Brazilian Congress invest much of their time and effort in pursuit of broader interests; and (3) seniority and internal law-making procedures can explain approved versus rejected distributive bills.


We show that when there are no external electric and magnetic fields, an electric current is generated via hydrodynamic motion of a plasma, and, hence, there occurs spontaneously a macroscopic magnetic field. The reason for the current generation is the difference in the electron and ion viscosities. We consider the spontaneous occurrence of a magnetic field for slow hydrodynamic motions of the plasma, and also when a beam of fast multiply charged ions are slowed down in the plasma, when the effect is greatly enhanced.


Let $G$ be a group, $p$ be a prime and $P\in \text{Syl}_{p}(G)$ . We say that a $p$ -Brauer character $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}$ is monolithic if $G/\ker \unicode[STIX]{x1D711}$ is a monolith. We prove that $P$ is normal in $G$ if and only if $p\nmid \unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(1)$ for each monolithic Brauer character $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}\in \text{IBr}(G)$ . When $G$ is $p$ -solvable, we also prove that $P$ is normal in $G$ and $G/P$ is nilpotent if and only if $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(1)^{2}$ divides $|G:\ker \unicode[STIX]{x1D711}|$ for all monolithic irreducible $p$ -Brauer characters $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}$ of $G$ .


The effects of temperature and neutron irradiation on the silicon nanoparticles have been studied at different frequencies. It has been defined that additional electro-active radiation defects occur in the silicon nanomaterial after neutron irradiation. Therefore, the change of neutron flux at the interval of 6.7 × 1017–2.7 × 1018n ⋅cm−2s−1 increases the conductivity of nanosilicon. Activation energies of the silicon nanoparticles were calculated for 10 different constant frequencies according to Arrhenius approach before and after neutron irradiation. The mechanism of electrical conductivity which explains results has been established.


The present research investigates the influence of subtle death-related thoughts (i.e., mortality salience) on people's images of effective leaders (i.e., their implicit leadership theories [ILTs]). We test the prediction that mortality salience will change the content of these implicit theories to be more gender stereotypical such that individuals will conceive of effective leaders in a significantly more masculine, or agentic, manner. To test this prediction, we assessed the communal and agentic components of participants' ILTs after they were presented with a mortality salience or control manipulation. Results show that priming individuals to think about their mortality with two open-ended questions resulted in a significant shift in their ILTs such that an effective leader is described in significantly more agentic terms compared to the control condition. This masculine shift in people's ILTs was demonstrated in both women and men, and mortality salience did not influence perceptions of effective leaders' communal traits. This work contributes to research on gender bias in leadership, ILTs, and terror management theory and has implications for female leaders.


The first phase of works, the construction of the foundations, is progressing well. The machinery that was present on site last month, including the piling rig, has completed its operations and been removed from the site. The foundations for the central core area, which will support the central part of the building containing the lifts and stairs, is progressing well and the formation of the ground floor concrete slab has also now commenced and will define the footprint of the building when complete.


The sections in this article are

15.1
Introduction

15.2
Characterization of Pyrolants
15.2.1
Thermochemical Properties of Constituents
220.127.116.11
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)

22.214.171.124
Poly(Carbon Monofluoride) (PMF)

220.127.116.11
Vinylidene Fluoride Based Copolymers

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Hexachloroethane (HC) and Hexachlorobenzene (HCB)

15.2.2
Thermochemistry of Pyrolants

15.3
Ignition and Propagation
15.3.1
Ignition

15.3.2
Propagation

15.4
Combustion Phenomenology and Spectroscopy

15.5
Technical Applications
15.5.1
SHS

15.5.2
IRCM – Flares

15.5.3
Metal–Halocarbon Obscurants

15.6
Safety

15.7
Outlook

15.8
Acknowledgment

Keywords:

combustion;
high explosives;
metal–halocarbon pyrolants;
nanostructures;
decoy flares;
obscurant


We explore the non-archimedean analysis over various types of topological rings, in particular the relationship of topology and norms over such rings, which are motivated by the recent development in p-adic geometry and p-adic Hodge theory. We also make a conjecture about a GAGA theorem over products of Fargues-Fontaine curves.


Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) continues to chal− lenge the boundaries of current applications in clinical practice, but as we anticipate new thera− peutic roles in linear−array EUS, challenges re− main in established diagnostic roles, especially in relation to pancreatic disease. With parallel advances in endoscopic and cross−sectional ima− ging, re−evaluation of the role of EUS in cancer staging is also necessary. Furthermore, quality and safety issues are increasingly being highligh− ted. A focused review of the important themes emerging from this year's DDW meeting is pres− ented here.


Recently 37 junior homonyms of trilobite ge-nera have been found (zdikmen,2006,2009),of which 13 trilobite genera have been recorded in China,e. g.,Acanthocephalus Qiu in Qiu et al.,1983,Aethia Qian and Zhou,1984,Ariaspis Wolfart,1974,Cavia Sun,1994,Coronaspis Wu,1990,Drepanura Bergeron,1899,Haasia Yuan,1988,Hospes Stubblefield in Stubblefield and Bulman,1927,Lobopyge Pribyl and Erben,1952,Madygenia Petrunina in Repina et al.,1975,Mareda Kobayashi,1942,Pionaspis Zhang in Qiu et al.,1983,Pseudophalacroma Pokrovskaya,1958. The senior homonym of Acanthocephalus Qiu in Qiu et al.,1983 is Acanthocephalus Koelreuter,1771,with A. anguillae (Mller) as the type species,therefore,the replacement name for the Acanthocephalus Qiu in Qiu et al.,1983 is Proacanthocephalus zdikmen,2008. The genus Aethia Qian and Zhou,1984 is preoccupied by Aethia Merrem,1788,with A. cristatella (Pallas,1769) as the type species. The replacement name for Aethia Qian and Zhou,1984 is Paleoaethia zdikmen,2008. The senior homonym of Ariaspis Wolfart,1974 is Ariaspis Denison,1963,with Ariaspis ornata Denison,1963 as the type species. The replacement name for the Aria-spis Wolfart,1974 is Karslanus zdikmen,2009. It occurs in central Afganistan and in Hubei and southeastern Sichuan,South China. The senior homonym of Cavia Sun,1994 is Cavia Pallas,1766,with C. porcellus (Linnaeus,1758) as the type species,however invalid name Cavia Sun,1994 and their replacement name Sunocavia zdikmen,2009 are considered as synonymous with Haniwa Kobayashi,1933. Coronaspis Wu,1990 is preoccupied by Coronaspis MacGillivray,1921,with Chionaspis coronifera Green,1905 as the type species. Coronaspis Wu,1990 was suppressed as a junior synonym of Coronocephalus Grabau,1924 (Lin,2008),however it differs from the Coronocephalus Grabau,1924 mainly in having a much higher elevated posteriorly located palpebral lobe,the presence of narrower pygidiual border and wider pleural field of pygidium,therefore the repalcement name Wuoaspis zdikmen,2009 for Coronaspis Wu,1990 is valid. Haasia Yuan,1988 is preoccupied by Haasia Bollman,1893 with Craspedosoma troglodytes Latzel,1884 as the type species. Therefore replacement name Yuanjia zdikmen,2009 for Haasia Yuan,1988 is valid. The senior homonym of Hospes Stubblefield in Stubblefield and Bulman,1927 is Hospes Jordan,1894,with Hospes nitidicollis Jordan,1894 as the type species. The replacement name for the Hospes Stubblefield in Stubblefield and Bulman,1927 is Indiligens zdikmen,2009. It occurs widely in England,southern Anhui,northwestern Hubei,and southeastern Guizhou of Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician (Peng,2008b; Zhou and Zhou,2008). Lobopyge Pribyl and Erben,1952 is pre-occupied by Lobopyge Attems,1951 with L. palilata Attems,1951 as the type species. Therefore Lobopyge Pribyl and Erben,1952 is a invalid genus. However,Belenopyge Pek and Vanek,1991 was regarded as synonymous with Lobopyge Pribyl and Erben,1952(Ebach and Ahyyong,2001),thus the replacement name for Lobopyge Pribyl and Erben,1952 is Belenopyge Pek and Vanek,1991. Madygenia Petrunina in Repina et al.,1975 is preoccupied by Madygenia Sharov,1968 with M. orientalis Sharov,1968 as the type species. Therefore Madygenia Petrunina in Repina et al.,1975 is a invalid genus. However,Pseudobirma-nites Lee,1978 was considered synonymous with Madygenia Petrunina in Repina et al.,1975 (Adrain in Jell and Adrain,2003),thus the replacement name for Madygenia Petrunina in Repina et al.,1975 is Pseudobirmanites Lee,1978. The senior homonym of Mareda Kobayashi,1942 is Mareda Walker,1855 with M. ferruginea Wal-ker,1855 as the type species. Therefore Mareda Kobayashi,1942 is an invalid genus. The replacement name for Mareda Kobayashi,1942 is Suluderella zdikmen,2006. Pseudophalacroma Pokrovskaya,1958 is preoccupied by Pseudophalacroma Jrgensen,1923 with Phalacroma nasutum Stein,1883 as the type species. Although Pseu-dophalacroma Pokrovskaya,1958 was grouped within the genus Lejopyge Hawle and Corda,1847 (Shergold et al.,1990; Shergold and Laurie,1997),it was considered as a valid genus (Peng and Robison,2000; Peng,2008a). The replacement name for Pseudophalacroma Pokrovskaya,1958 is Yakutiana zdikmen,2009. Young (Yang) proposed the generic name Honania as a genus of Reptilia,with the type species H. complicidentata Young,1979 from Late Permian,Jiyuan,Henan Province. Unfortunately the generic name was already preoccupied by Lee in Lu et al.,1963,who had proposed the name Honania as a trilobite genus with Honania lata Lee as the type species. Thus the genus Honania Young,1979 is a junior homonym of generic name Honania Lee in Lu et al.,1963. Therefore we propose herein a new replacement name Zhongjiania nom. nov. for Honania Young,1979. The name is dedicated to Young Zhongjian,who was a famous palaeontologist of the preexisting generic name Honania.


Octakis(3-chloropropyl)octasilsesquioxane, obtained recently by a new method, has enabled a highly efficient synthesis of a whole family of cube-like T 8 silsesquioxanes by nucleophilic substitution of chlorine atom with appropriate nucleophilic agents. Five functionalized silsesquioxanes, i.e., octakis[3-(methacryloyloxy)propyl]-, octakis(3-acetoxypropyl)-, octakis[3-(phenylamino)propyl]-, and octakis[3-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)propyl]octasilsesquioxane as well as octakis{3-[(2-hydroxyethyl)dimethylammonio]propyl}octasilsesquioxane chloride were synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic methods and elemental analysis.


Ever since the beginning of agriculture, managing the diversity and crop species and varieties has been a central element in the sustainability of farming systems. To ensure that food production achieves its sustainability goals, recovering local, traditional or landrace varieties and increased autonomy by farmers are considered good practices in meeting the demand for propagation materials and selecting varieties to maintain genetic diversity (Brasil 2008). Preserving and maintaining the genetic diversity of species are also considered environmental services, being strategic for a farmer in search of sustainability (Gliessman 2000, Penteado 2010). ABSTRACT RESUMO


In the process of location and rectification of signal source with exceeding radiation in electronic module or device, there constantly are signals mixing together in frequency domain, which could not be separated with the method of single-channel blind source separation (SC-BSS) effectively. For this issues that SC-BSS have no use in solving mixed signals, this paper proposes to separate mixed signals by means of random phase jitter, existing in most of signals sources or crystals and different from each source.


The sizes of magneto‐optical signals have been investigated theoretically for the case of transmission at normal incidence through a thin magnetic film and periodic hard‐axis magnetization reversal in the plane of the film. The magneto‐optical effect in this arrangement, termed Voigt effect, is of second order; it depends on the square of the basic magneto‐optical constant Q and on the square of the magnetization. Consequently, in the permittivity tensor describing the macroscopic optical and magneto‐optical properties of the material, it is necessary to take into account not only the off‐diagonal elements but also the terms in Q2 in the diagonal elements which are justifiably ignored in evaluations of first‐order effects. The presence of the film boundaries is also considered. The theory is used to reconcile published measurements of the Voigt effect in films of cobalt and iron in the near infrared with magneto‐optical parameters obtained by Krinchik [J. Appl. Phys. 35, 2 (1964)] from measurements of fir...


It is very significant to study on the control strategies to improve the performance of multi-echelon inventory systems. As the ability of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) that can count and locate products precisely, it provides a technical way to realize RFID-Enable electronic Card system, based on the system, the CONWIP strategy is extended to the multi-echelon inventory of supply chain. In this paper, a four-echelon inventory of supply chain is exemplified and the strategy is optimized by the simulation-based harmony search optimization method. The parameters of the strategy after optimization are made as the input to the simulation model. To verify the performance of the CONWIP strategy, it is compared with RFID-Enable (s, S) and Push strategies by simulation, the simulation results demonstrate that the strategy can reduce the total cost and enhance the service level effectively.


This article, based on event history and a narrative analysis of reports produced by human rights groups, reveals that the genocide of Rohingyas of the Rakhine state of Myanmar is the result of the Myanmar military government's deliberate policies and unpremeditated consequences that have led to the higher level of conflict among groups in Myanmar. It examines the processes by which the Myanmar government has constructed the collective identity of Rohingya as illegal immigrants. It focuses on the role of the sustained historical and conflictual relationships among the Myanmar government, Rohingyas, and the Rakhine Buddhists that contributed to the Rohingya genocide.


The increasing use of composite materials in various industries has evidenced the need for development of more effective nondestructive evaluation methodologies to reduce rejected parts and optimized the production cost. In this study, a transient thermal finite element model has been created and a sinusoidal thermal source at different excitation frequency was used to excite the test sample following the lock-in infrared thermography experimental procedure. The influence of applied heat flux and excitation frequency on various shape, size and depth of delamination is analyzed to investigate the thermal response. The thermal data processing with Fourier transform was performed to reap the phase angle information and the relationship with delamination shape, size and depth was developed. The model enables a better understanding of lock-in infrared thermography and provides a means of inspection of glass fiber-reinforced composites. http://dx.doi.org/10.21611/qirt.2017.036


Traditional approximate linear programming may exclude the optimal solution out of the boundary condition, which is caused by the subjective choices of initial feasible point, step restriction and reduction coefficient. In this paper, a method called steepest descent-approximate linear programming is presented which redefines the judgment conditions and the way of boundary adjustment based on the purposeful search and rapid convergence from steepest descent method, where the boundary directions are adjusted together by the nonlinear constraint satisfaction degree and the current objective function. Besides absorbing the original advantages of easy implementation and convenient solution from traditional approximate linear programming, the new method can not only eliminate the negative impact which is caused by subjective choices of step restriction and reduction coefficient, but also solve a nonlinear programming problem which only contains linear constraints. The method has been applied in a real thermal power plant, for which a mathematical model for the solution of the cyclic cleaning scheduling problem of boiler system with decaying performance is built and optimized. Moreover, the usefulness of the method shows it achieves remarkable energy saving compared with the original approaches.


Background: Management of Helicobacter pylori, a causative agent of gastrointestinal diseases is an important health problem in most countries. The main reasons include poorly defined epidemiological status and unrecognized mode of bacterial transmission. Our objective was to investigate the prevalence of H. pylori infection in a representative population of Iran and to evaluate possible risk factors for the H. pylori infection.


The Parameter identification model is proposed for determining the linear adsorptionisotherms and the solid diffusion coefficients by using adsorption chromatography. Axialdispersion coefficients is firstly determined by pulse-respond experiment technique with aninert substance as tracer then the elution curves of chromatography separating the isomermannitol and sorbitol are determined by the chromatographic measuring technique, andfinally the adsorption isotherms and the solid diffusion coefficients of mannitol andsorbitol on Ca2+ resins are estimated by using this model. The results show that the axialdispersion coefficients increase with fluid velocity increasing, the adsorption equilibriumconstants decrease with temperature rising;and the solid diffusion coefficients increasewith temperature rising. The theoretical elution curves are good agreement with theexperimental elution curves of the liquid adsorption chromatography separating themannitol and the sorbitol. The model provides a simple and reliable procedure to estimatethe kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the adsorption.


This paper introduces the concept of direct power purchase by large users,then makes research on calculation of wheel cost of direct power purchase based on apportioning of grid power losses and finally conducts calculation and analysis of wheel cost by taking the Yunnan power grid(partial) as an example.


Multiple steps drive the stretch-induced nuclear translocation of the mechanotransducer zyxin. Multistep Process of Zyxin Activation In vascular cells, stretch triggers the translocation of the cytoskeletal protein zyxin from focal adhesions to the nucleus, where it drives the expression of target genes. Suresh Babu et al. characterized a multistep signaling pathway in human endothelial cells and mouse femoral arteries that led to the stretch-induced phosphorylation of zyxin and its nuclear translocation. The initial response to stretch depended on the ion channel activity of transient receptor potential channel 3 and culminated in activation of cGMP-dependent protein kinase. Similar responses were also observed in lung epithelial cells and bladder smooth muscle cells, suggesting that this mechanism of zyxin activation is shared among different mechanosensitive cells. Vascular cells respond to supraphysiological amounts of stretch with a characteristic phenotypic change that results in dysfunctional remodeling of the affected arteries. Although the pathophysiological consequences of stretch-induced signaling are well characterized, the mechanism of mechanotransduction is unclear. We focused on the mechanotransducer zyxin, which translocates to the nucleus to drive gene expression in response to stretch. In cultured human endothelial cells and perfused femoral arteries isolated from wild-type and several knockout mouse strains, we characterized a multistep signaling pathway whereby stretch led to a transient receptor potential channel 3–mediated release of the endothelial vasoconstrictor peptide endothelin-1 (ET-1). ET-1, through autocrine activation of its B-type receptor, elicited the release of pro–atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), which caused the autocrine activation of the ANP receptor guanylyl cyclase A (GC-A). Activation of GC-A, in turn, led to protein kinase G–mediated phosphorylation of zyxin at serine 142, thereby triggering the translocation of zyxin to the nucleus, where it was required for stretch-induced gene expression. Thus, we have identified a stretch-induced signaling pathway in vascular cells that leads to the activation of zyxin, a cytoskeletal protein specifically involved in transducing mechanical stimuli.


Increased attractiveness for hunting sports related to media continues and intense coverage requires a scientific argument in terms of quality for the exclusivity of this source of protein. The specific features of game meat are a direct consequence of its morphological and physic-chemical peculiarities, which is in close correlation with the wild part of cohabitation. This work aims, is to analyze the data by the intrinsic value of wild boar meat, harvested by shooting in the NE parts of Romania. Meat samples, collected from different muscle regions were subjected to determine the chemical composition (protein, fat, water, and collagen). Postharvest pH evolution of meat was determined at 2 C in refrigerated conditions of biological material. The physical and chemical studied parameters showed a higher nutritive-biological value (22,2% proteins in. longissimus dorsi muscle) compared to the one obtained from domestic animals, related with a minimum content in total fat, fact that places this raw material as a value alternative protein in human nutrition.


The article by Candio et al 1 is of great interest because it makes a strong case for cost-effectiveness of mechanical thrombectomy (MT), a significant advancement in stroke care that is yet to be widely implemented. A large gap exists between patients who could benefit from MT and those who receive it. Recent studies found that only about 3% of patients with acute ischemic stroke in Europe and in the United States received MT, compared with the 17% of patients who might have been eligible.2–4 Demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of MT and better yet, its potential for cost savings, should motivate European countries to invest resources to promote greater adoption of MT in treatment of the 1.2 million cases of incident stroke annually in Europe.5


The notion that self-identity and morality are deeply implicated has long-standing roots in both ethical theory and psychology. In ethical theory it is evident in Harry Frankfurt's [1971] account of what it means to be a person: A person (as opposed to a wanton ) is someone who cares about morality. A person cares about the desirability of one's desires (second-order desires) and then wishes to will them all the way to action (second-order volitions). Similarly, Charles Taylor [1989] argued that identity is defined by reference to things that have significance for us. It is the result of strong evaluation about what is worthy or unworthy, and these discriminations are made against a horizon of significance that frames and constitutes who we are as persons. He writes, "My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good or valuable, or what ought to be done or what I endorse or oppose" [Taylor, 1989, p. 27]. The affinity of selfhood and morality is a theme in several psychological traditions as well. Erikson [1968, p. 39] argued, for example, that an ethical capacity is the "true criterion of identity," but he also noted that "identity and fidelity are necessary for ethical strength" [Erikson, 1964, p. 126]. This suggests that moral identity is the clear goal of both moral and identity development and that in the moral person the two developmental tracks are ideally conjoined. Similarly, Damon and Hart [1982] showed that, within each domain of the "Me Self" (physical, active, social, psychological), the highest level of self-understanding implicates a moral point of view. This suggests that the moral self is the clear outcome of self-development [Lapsley, 2005]. Indeed, recent research has shown that morality is considered indispensable to selfhood; it is the moral self that is essential to our identity, more than personality traits,


Modern commodity packaging design was analyzed based on consumption psychology principle.The embodiment of psychology,physiology,stratum value,and personal value in the interesting packaging design was elaborated.The interesting packaging design methods and expression was summarized.It was put forward that it is necessary to instruct interesting packaging design with consumption psychology and interesting packaging design is important for modern packaging design.


The Party's  mass line is the Party's  lifeline and the fundamental approach to its work; and the nature of socialist democracy is that the people are the masters. Upholding the Party's  mass line and developing socialist democracy have a high degree of consistency in logic as well as in the methods and approaches of implementation. The Party's  mass line fully embodies the fundamental requirement of socialist democracy and provides the epistemological and methodological basis for socialist democracy; the intensive activities throughout the Party to study and practice its mass line are a lively practice of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics.


This paper presents bandwidth-efficient speech transmission systems using rate-compatible channel coders and variable bitrate embedded source coders. Rate-compatible punctured convolutional codes (RCPC) are often used to provide unequal error protection (UEP) via progressive bit puncturing. RCPC codes are well suited for constellations for which Euclidean and Hamming distances are equivalent (BPSK and 4-PSK). This paper introduces rate-compatible punctured trellis codes (RCPT) where rate compatibility and UEP are provided via progressive puncturing of symbols in a trellis. RCPT codes constitute a special class of codes designed to maximize residual Euclidean distances (RED) after symbol puncturing. They can be designed for any constellation, allowing for higher throughput than when restricted to using 4-PSK. We apply RCPC and RCPT to two embedded source coders: a perceptual subband coder and the ITU embedded ADPCM G.727 standard. Different operating modes with distinct source/channel bit allocation and UEP are defined. Each mode is optimal for a certain range of AWGN channel SNRs. Performance results using an 8-PSK constellation clearly illustrate the wide range of channel conditions at which the adaptive scheme using RCPT can operate. For an 8-PSK constellation, RCPT codes are compared to RCPC with bit interleaved coded modulation codes (RCPC-BICM). We also compare performance to RCPC codes used with a 4-PSK constellation.


As a variation of high power pulsed magnetron sputtering technique, modulated pulsed power (MPP) magnetron sputtering has shown the capability of maintaining a good deposition rate while achieving a high degree of ionization of the sputtered material with low ion energies. It is critical to usefully utilize the negative substrate bias voltage (Vb) to attract these ions towards the substrate to enhance the ion bombardment on growing films by controlling the kinetic energy and the behaviours of ions and electrons arriving on growing films. In this study, CrN thin films have been deposited by MPP in a closed field unbalanced magnetron sputtering system at different Vb varied from 0 to −150 V. The peak and mean substrate ion current densities were measured during the depositions as a function of Vb. The films were annealed at 450 °C in Ar for 1 hr in an effort to release the defects and residual stress in the as-deposited films. The structure and properties of as-deposited and annealed films were characterized by electron probe micro-analysis, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, nanoindentation, and ball-on-disc wear test. An increase in the Cr/N ratio of the film was observed as the Vb was increased negatively to above −70 V, which resulted in the formation of the hexagonal Cr2N film at Vb = −150 V. A preferred (3 1 1) texture was observed in the CrN films deposited as Vb increased from −50 V to −100 V. The residual stress of the films increased as the Vb was increased from 0 to −100 V and then decreased with further increasing the Vb. The increase in the Vb led to grain refinement and an increase in the hardness of the films, but the wear resistance of the films decreased rapidly as the Vb was increased to −150 V.


In this paper,the hydroxyl radical eliminating activities of flavonoid extracted from Qinghai's foliages of Elaeagnus angustifolia L by water was studied.The results indicate that the eliminating ratio of hydroxyl radical reached 22.3% when flavonoid concentration is 400 μg/mL.The flavonoid concentration in the range of 50~400 μg/mL is in proportion to eliminating ratio.


Designing multilayer optical coatings is a difficult optimization problem because of the huge size of the search space. In the present paper, the Luus-Jaakola (LJ) optimization procedure, a new optimization algorithm, is employed to model multilayer optical coatings in the X-ray domain. With this algorithm it is not necessary to specify initially the number of layers present in a design. Only an upper limit needs to be defined. The algorithm has been used to maximize the reflectivity over a range of incident angles at a fixed wavelength, and over a wavelength range at a fixed incident angle. We have also optimized multilayer mirrors of platinum-carbon layer pairs for the hard X-ray region at different grazing angles. The results show that the LJ algorithm can be effectively applied to the design of multilayer optical coatings resulting in fewer layers than obtained using alternative optimization methods.


On the Respiratory Branchial Apparatus of the Human Embryo during the first three months of its growth. By M. Serres. (Compte Rendu des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, 17 Juin 1839.)?M. Serres demonstrates in this paper that the fissures in the lateral parts of the neck of the embryo, which M. Rathke discovered in 1825, and which the analogy of the lower animals led him to consider as the respiratory apparatus of the embryo, do not perform that function ; but he proves satisfactorily, that this function is performed by a villous structure, which he has discovered traversing the thickness of the decidua rejlexa, and hanging loose, floating, as it were in the fluid found between the decidua vera and decidua rejlexa. To these villosities he has applied the term branchial, from the functions which he believes them to perform. He has arrived at this from numerous dis-


In this paper a technique based on microwave heating and IR thermography measurement for dielectric constant estimation is proposed. The effect of the propagating EM wave on the temperature distribution inside the sample under test is studied for short observations time. A model was derived and a suitable data reduction is accomplished. Preliminary results are presented and discussed for the pure water case.


In this paper, the problems which was pointed out to solve are unstable hat loading in hat source, dust- heapping, she-bonding, wear and corrosion at the heated fare in designing mete ha boiler of non-ferrous metallurgical. Them designing principle is intro- duced and its truth is confirmed by application.


1. The bullet has a cylindrical drilled hole (15) located - as viewed in the firing direction - on the top and extending coaxially to the longitudinal axis (12) bullet, and this hole is inserted the bullet head (1), wherein the longitudinal axis (12) bullet simultaneously forms a longitudinal bullet head axle (1), characterized in that the head of the bullet (1) coaxially to the longitudinal axis (12) is a hollow channel (5), which - viewed in firing direction - extending from the front end (22) up to the rear end (23) of the head bullet (1) and a hollow channel (5) is the membrane (6), which divides the hollow channel (5) into two sections (5a, 5b) .2. A bullet according to Claim. 1, characterized in that the front region (2) of the head bullet (1) tapers at an angle β, the diameter at the front end (22) is the smallest, and the rear end (23) of the head bullet (1) is in the a supporting cylinder (4) and has a diameter corresponding to the cylindrical opening (15) in pule.3. Bullet according to claim. 2, characterized in that the conical front region (2) at its end facing the supporting cylinder (4) moves along the chamfer (3) with an angle of expansion α in the supporting cylinder (4), wherein the expansion angle α is measured in the clockwise direction from the longitudinal axis (12) .4. Bullet according to claim. 3, characterized in that the expansion angle α is between 10o to 80o.5. The bullet according to claim 3, characterized in that the chamfer (3) lies exactly on the corresponding surfaces (9, 10) (11) housing a bullet, and in the presence of a bullet with the shell -. Bullets shell surfaces (13) .6. A bullet according to Claim. 1, characterized in that the front end (22) of the head bullet (1) has a flat surface (7) .7. A bullet according to Claim. 1, characterized in that the bullet head (1) is made of plastic, polymer plastics with or without additives nih.8. Of the bullet according to claim. 7


Introduction:
 Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease characterized by increased pulmonary arterial pressure and vascular resistance. This vascular injury promotes immune dysregulation, further worsening the vasculopathy. A genome-wide association study identified a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with PAH risk (rs2856830) at Human Leukocyte Antigen DPA1 (HLA-DPA1) locus, a gene known to be involved in adaptive immunity. However, little is known about the mechanism underlying this clinical association.

 Hypothesis:
 Allele-specific binding of transcription factors to a disease-associated functional SNP (fSNP) controls HLA-DPA1 expression, driving pulmonary vascular cell dysfunction and PAH.

 Methods:
 Oligonucleotides containing alleles of rs2856830 and eight SNPs in linkage disequilibrium (LD) were subjected to electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) to identify fSNPs characterized by allele-imbalanced binding to human pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (PAEC) nuclear proteins. SNP genotyping was done using blood from PAH (n=134) and control patients (n=131) at UPMC. Transcriptomics, angiogenesis, and migration were assessed in siRNA mediated HLA-DPA1 and Alpha Actinin 4 (ACTN4) knockdown (KD) in PAECs.

 Results:
 Through EMSA, rs9277336 (LD r
 2
 =0.87) was identified as a fSNP in HLA-DPA1 locus. SNP pulldown and immunoblotting confirmed allele-specific binding of nuclear ACTN4 protein to rs9277336 risk allele A (3.26 ± 0.49, p=0.001). SNP genotyping revealed a 2.04 ± 0.67 fold enrichment of risk allele A in PAH patients (χ
 2
 test, p=0.025). ACTN4 KD in cultured human PAECs decreased HLA-DPA1 transcript (0.30 ± 0.10, p<0.001)
 .
 Transcriptomics revealed overlap of several cell structure and immune system-related pathways by HLA-DPA1 and ACTN4 KD. HLA-DPA1 and ACTN4 KD affected PAH associated pathophenotypes, including angiogenesis and migration.

 Conclusions:
 Our functional analysis identified ACTN4 as a novel regulator to disease-associated gene HLA-DPA1, affecting the endothelial pathophenotypes in PAH. The allele-specific binding to fSNP rs9277336 provides a mechanistic explanation for the clinical association between HLA-DPA1 locus and PAH outcomes.


The rhizosphere, as defined by Dr. Lorenz Hiltner in 1904, is recognized as the region of soil influenced by plant roots. As the interface of a plant and soil, the rhizosphere is tightly involved in nutrient dynamics. Plant roots have functions not only to uptake water and mineral nutrients but also to release a wide diversity of substances that have strong effects on nutrient availability in soils. Root-secreted compounds have important roles affecting plant–microbial interactions and symbioses, such as nodules and mycorrhiza. Although the term 'rhizosphere' was established as important many years ago, many difficulties particularly related to spatial and temporal constraints have hindered approaches to clarify phenomena found in the rhizosphere. Nevertheless, recent progress of analytical methods including omics analyses such as metagenomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics have supported breakthroughs in rhizosphere research. In fact, publications including 'rhizosphere' as a keyword were 6.2 times more numerous in 2020 than in 2000. Recent developments of methodologies such as multiomics analyses using two or more methods of omics approaches, surface analysis, and single-cell analysis have supported great strides in elucidating rhizosphere phenomena. The first international conference on the topic of rhizospheres was held in 2004 in Munich, Germany. The rhizosphere conference has been held every 3–4 years since that first conference, with increasing attendance. Many researchers in broad fields involved in the study of rhizospheres have made important presentations at the recent conference in 2019 at Saskatoon, Canada. Interconnections among related fields including both soil and plant sides have re-emphasized the fields' importance for further understanding. Recognition of the rhizosphere as an important topic has also been extended by the Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (SSPN) edited a special section 'Frontline in the Rhizosphere Research Involved in Phosphorus: for Efficient Use of Unavailable P in Soils (Rhizo-P)' in 2018. This Special Section, 'Recent developments on dynamics of substances in the rhizosphere', has been proposed to introduce current research progress in the fields. White lupin, which is well known as a cluster root forming plant species showing exudative bursts, is addressed in articles on the mineral mobilization topics. Involvement of phytohormones in the unique morphology of roots has been newly suggested in an article. Novel findings related to plant responses to nutrient deficiency and stress environments are also presented in this issue. Topics involved in the symbioses and competition between plants and microbes, and the related substances are also important. The spatial dynamics of mineral nutrients are also addressed. Research papers presented in the section were collected through announcements by the Guest Editorial Board (Dr. Jun Wasaki [chief], Dr. Takuro Shinano, Dr. Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, Dr. Junpei Takano, and Dr. Kyoko Miwa). Many manuscripts have been contributed from a wide range of rhizosphere researchers including attendees of the rhizosphere conference. They were peer reviewed entirely using the same processes as other papers published in SSPN. It is my sincere hope that the papers include reports from the front line of research challenges for the advancement of work on important topics and that they contribute to further progress in understanding of the dynamics of substances in the rhizosphere in the future. Last but not least, I thank all the reviewers for their valuable comments and the SSPN Editorial Board for giving us the opportunity to publish this Special Section.


Two experiments were designed to evaluate the pearl production traits of the third generation red(RS3),yellow(YS3),white(WS3)and black(BS3)shell colored lines.Different colored lines were used as host and donor oysters respectively.The pearl in Experiment Ⅰ,16 combinations were established by sampling the RS3,YS3,WS3 and BS3 lines as honor and donor oysters.Another combination was established by using the common cultured stock and YS3 as honor and donor oysters,respectively.And a total of seventeen combinations were established.The pearls were harvested after the honor oysters were cultured for twenty-four months.In Experiment Ⅱ,sixteen combinations were established by sampling the RS3,YS3,WS3 and BS3 lines as honor and donor oysters.The pearls were harvested after the honor oysters were cultured for eighteen months.After harvesting pearls,shell height growth and survival of the RS3,YS3,WS3 and BS3 lines were compared in both experiments.Retention rate,commercial pearl rate,better quality pearl rate and pearl thickness of each combination in Experiment Ⅰ and Ⅱ were compared.The results showed that there existed significant differences in mean shell height and survival among the RS3,YS3,WS3 and BS3 lines in Experiment Ⅰ and Ⅱ(P0.05).The BS3 line had the largest mean shell height compared with the RS3,YS3 and WS3 lines in Experiment Ⅰ and Ⅱ.The YS3 line had the largest survival in Experiment Ⅰ and the BS3 line had the largest survival in Experiment Ⅱ.In Experiment Ⅰ,there were significant differences in retention rate,commercial rate,perfect quality pearl rate and pearl performance values among the 17 combinations(P0.05);There were insignificant differences in pearl thickness among the 17 combinations(P0.05);The BW combination had the highest retention rate,commercial pearl rate,pearl thickness and pearl performance value,and the RB had the highest perfect quality pearl rate.In Experiment Ⅱ,there were significant differences in retention rate,commercial rate,pearl thickness,perfect quality pearl rate and pearl performance values among the 16 combinations(P0.05).A combined analysis on host or donor oysters showed that the BS3 line is desirable for host oyster to produce better quality pearl and is promising in the commercial pearl production.


The aim of this study was to investigate the insertion and professional perspective of dental graduates into the labor market. An observational, cross-sectional and descriptive study was performed, by means of an electronic questionnaire, to a sample of 298 Dentistry graduates from the State of Tocantins, Brazil. The sample showed 14 classroom groups from the years 2008 to 2015. The response rate was 61.41% (n = 183). After data analysis (chi-square test / Fisher's exact, 5% significance level) it was found that 65.6% of respondents were female, mean age 30 (± 6.6) years. The average time since their graduation was 3.7(± 2.2) years. Among the graduates, 37.8% are now working in Public Health, and 17.5% do so, exclusively. Most of them work in the State of Tocantins (65.0%) and 62.8% have attended or are still attending post-graduation courses in   Orthodontics (17.5%), Endodontics (14.8%), Pediatric Dentistry (7.6%) and Public Health (3.8%). The monthly income of the majority (46.4%) is up to 5 times the minimum wage (R $ 3,640.00) and 49.8% of the respondents reported a sense of achievement with the monthly income. The immediate insertion in the labor market was reported by 72.7% of the graduates, and 6% do not work as dental professionals, 2.7% of these have never done it. Among the most significant subjects while undergraduate students, Oral Surgery (26.8%), Endodontics (21.3%), Restorative Dentistry (14.2%), Pediatric Dentistry (11.5%), Prosthodontics (9.3%) and Public Health (4.9%) were the most meaningful for them.  According to the results found it was concluded that the insertion of Dentistry graduates in the labor market was quick and the majority are happily satisfied with the income.


Natural gas, sand and river transportation drew glass makers to West Virginia in the 19th century until those advantages dwindled. ; Related links : http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focus/2009/winter/economic_history_weblinks.cfm


The paper introduces an efficient algorithm to build up a protein structure from atomic distance data. An updated geometric build-up algorithm (UGB) has been developed recently that controls numerical errors and is efficient in protein structure determination for cases where only sparse exact distance data is available. In this paper, this algorithm is improved and provides a more effective way of determining a protein structure with sparse exact distance data. We will show that the numerical errors produced by the new algorithm are smaller when compared with the errors of the UGB algorithm and that the new algorithm has a significantly smaller runtime than the UGB algorithm.


This paper develops a household production model in which parents produce bicycling safety for their children. Using data from the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, via a random utility model, we estimate conditional indirect utility as a function of bike safety and infer WTP for reduced risk of fatal and non-fatal head injury. We estimate parental values for reducing biking risks faced by their children. We obtain estimates of parental values for children that include a VSL of $9.5 million and a VSI of $7.0 million. * Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Environmental Protection Agency. The authors are grateful to Mark Agee, Amy Ando, Nishkam Agarwal, Charles Griffiths, Julie Hewitt, Carol Mansfield, Salvador Martinez and Shannon Sullivan for their help and comments. Any errors are our own. Robin R. Jenkins: Economist, United States United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, National Center for Environmental Economics phone: 202-566-2292 fax: 202-566-2338 email: firstname.lastname@example.com Nicole Owens: Economist, United States United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, National Center for Environmental Economics phone: 202-566-2297 fax: 202-566-2338 email: firstname.lastname@example.com Lanelle Bembenek Wiggins: Economist, United States United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, National Center for Environmental Economics phone: 202-566-2372 fax: 202-566-2338 firstname.lastname@example.com


December 20–25—A moderate disturbance in H accompanied also by definite disturbances in D and Z began gradually about 13h GMT, December 20, and was marked by a series of sharp peaks and bays lasting until about 20h. The disturbance was followed by subnormal values and mild disturbances in H until December 25.

December 31—A sharp disturbance in H of short duration was recorded on December 31. It began at 13h 25m GMT, with a rapid rise followed by a rapid fall to a narrow bay, then about an hour later at 14h 30m a rise of 170 gammas occurred in ten minutes to reach a high peak followed by a fall of 300 gammas to a sharp bay in twenty minutes. The next three hours was a period of moderate disturbance, followed by several hours of subnormal values in H and with a return to practically normal conditions at 22h. Both D and Z were somewhat disturbed from the beginning of the storm until after 17h.


Optoelectronic switches based on VO2 thin films are analyzed as input-output devices (I/O) of multiple responses to stimuli of electric tension, temperature and energy of the incident electromagnetic radiation. The representations used are based on their transfer function (TF), in the space state (SS) and in the representation of poles, zeros and gain (ZPK). Starting from there, the stability, observability, controllability and frequency response of these systems are investigated, which contributes to a better understanding of the operation of these devices and their potential applications.


The role of immunity and inflammation in epilepsy have long been suggested by the anticonvulsant activity of steroids in some infancy and childhood epilepsies. The role of fever and infection in exacerbating seizures due to possible proinflammatory molecules, the increased frequency of seizures in systemic autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus erythematous, and, recently, the detection of autoantibodies in some unexplained epilepsies reinforced the causal place of immunity and inflammation in epilepsies with unknown etiology. In this article, we summarize epilepsies where clinical and biologic data strongly support the pathogenic role of autoantibodies (e.g., limbic encephalitides, N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate [NMDA] encephalitis) and epilepsies where immune‐mediated inflammation occurs, but the full pathogenic cascade is either not clear (e.g., Rasmussen's encephalitis) or only strongly hypothesized (idiopathic hemiconvulsion–hemiplegia syndrome [IHHS] and fever‐induced refractory epilepsy in school‐aged children [FIRES]). We emphasize the electroclinical features that would help to diagnose these conditions, allowing early immunomodulating therapy. Finally, we raise some questions that remain unclear regarding diagnosis, mechanisms, and future therapies.


ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of ground-level ozone county non-attainment status on the product-mix decisions of plants in the pulp, paper, and paperboard industries. Plants located in non-attainment counties face more stringent standards than plants located in attainment counties. These standards may plausibly induce firms to reduce output of pollution-intensive products (products that lead to ozone-forming emissions of volatile organic compounds) or drop some of these products entirely. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find evidence that plants in non-attainment counties (treatment group) are more likely to drop pollution-intensive products relative to non-pollution-intensive products compared to plants in attainment counties (control group).


To know prevalence of depression among tenth graders one month prior to board exam & to assess their symptomatology of depression a cross-sectional study among the tenth graders in rural area, using the Quick inventory of depressive symptomatology (QIDS) a self assessment report was undertaken. Research question underlying was whether exam causes depression. Study was conducted in three schools under the vigilance of respective class teachers. Total 407 students took the QIDS self report questionnaire along with personal information questionnaire. 92% students were found depressed. Out of 407 students, 166 students (41%) were suffering from moderate depression, 65 students (16%) were suffering from severe and 10 students (2%) were suffering from very severe depression. 32/407 (8%) students did not fulfill the criteria of depression. Gender prevalence ratio i.e. male to female students were almost equal. Prevalence of somatic symptoms was higher though guilt was the most common symptom noticed. Possibility of board examination being attributer may be considered, however further detail study is need of hour to confirm role of board examination.


Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of an acute bout of soccer heading on neurocognitive function and balance performance, as well as, the impact of the Full90 TM protective headgear. Design: This was a repeated measures study where subjects reported on a total of 3 occasions. The first session was baseline, where neurocognitive function and balance performance was assessed. Subjects completed a heading protocol during each of the next 2 sessions, once while wearing headgear, and the other time without the apparatus. Setting: Field setting (indoor Astroturf facility) Participants: A total of 29 college-aged club and competitive division intramural athletes Interventions: A 10 minute protocol consisting of 20 linear headers was completed twice by all


As a component of asset management strategies, maintenance management is essential for improving the reliability of the Electrical Distribution Networks (EDNs). To increase system efficiency, electricity companies invest a significant effort to assign their financial sources to important system components. In this paper, a mixed-integer linear programming approach to maintenance budgeting considering restoration time uncertainty is suggested. The suggested technique finds the optimal budget for doing maintenance tasks in distribution network feeders. The objective is to reduce overall cost, which includes total interruption cost of customer $\left(\boldsymbol{T} \boldsymbol{C}_{\boldsymbol{C I C}}\right)$, total energy not supplied ${cost}\left(T C_{E N S}\right)$, total cost of materials and labor for repair $\left(T C_{R E P}\right)$, and total cost of maintenance $\left(T C_{P M}\right)$. Three cases are also taken into account to observe the effectiveness of the suggested maintenance method: Case I assumes that no maintenance actions are performed in the system, in Case II, maintenance budget for each distribution feeder is taken into consideration equally, in Case III, according to constraints, the suggested formulation allocates the optimal maintenance budget. The Roy Billinton test system's bus number two (RBTS2) is subjected to the proposed reliability improvement approaches, and the results are discussed.


With the aging of population,the proportion of the elderly patients in emergency room was increasing.How to avoid misdiagnosis in the elderly patients characterized by atypical symptoms,complex conditions,insufficient medical history and so on was a challenge to emergency doctors.The misdiagnosis causes were analyzed from subjectivity and objectivity in this article and the right clinical thoughts for diagnosing the elderly patients were discussed.


ALFRED L. ROSENBERGER,* GREGG F. GUNNELL, AND RUSSELL L. CIOCHON Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York Department of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), New York, New York Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York Division of Fossil Primates, Duke Lemur Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa


Mutant alleles of the RBI locus on human chromosome 13q 14 have previously been linked to the development of retinoblastoma, a tumor of embryonal neural retina. In the bilateral form of the disease, inheritance of a germinal mutation at this locus predisposes each retinal cell to a subsequent second somatic event which results in the formation of the retinoblastoma tumor. Spontaneous unilateral tumor occurrence appears to result from two sequential somatic events. Survivors of the bilateral form of this eye tumor are at substantially increased risk for subsequent development of second primary cancers, particularly osteosarcoma, a bone cancer. Conversely, survivors of unilateral retinoblastoma exhibit the same likelihood of development of osteosarcoma as the general population.


Objective To investigate clinical effect of sodium ferulate injection on treatment of focal scerebral infarction methods 36 cases of focal scerebral infarction patients, 150mg/perday intravenous injection, 15 days lasted in a course. Observe the relult of treatment. Results 18 cases show predomonant effant, 12cases is obvions, 6 cases is no effect. Conclusions sodium ferulate injection has better effect on treatment of focal scerebral infarction, and sodium ferulate injection is valuable to spread application in clinic.


Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale either from natural or environment and it also known as the alternative energy. This paper intends to explore the opportunities to produce electricity from waste heat from our surrounding equipment especially household appliances as one of the renewable energy sources by using thermoelectric generator module. By using 'Seebeck effect', electrical energy could be generated with the difference of temperature between surfaces. This study reveals the ability of waste heat to generate electricity by using candle, cooking stove, Bunsen burner, BBQ grill placement and kettle as a source of heat for activate at least a small electronic device. The main findings on this project are that with higher temperature differences, the higher voltage is produced.


Introduction: Early diagnosis of a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) and identification of the pathogen are paramount. Next-gen-eration sequencing (NGS) can identify the nucleic acids in a given germ in a short period. To our knowledge, there are no reports of its use in the management of PJI in South America. Our objective was to demonstrate the diagnostic feasibility of the NGS technique on the samples obtained from a series of patients operated on in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Materials and Methods: A prospective series of 20 patients undergoing septic and aseptic hip revision surgery from December 2019 to March 2020 was analyzed. Intraoperative samples of synovial fluid, deep tissue, and intramedullary canal were obtained and sent to the NexGen Microgen laboratory (Texas, USA) for analysis. results: Seventeen patients were finally eligible to present a sample suitable for analysis. In 100% of the samples, NGS results were obtained within 72 hours of surgery. In one case, the NGS result reported a germ different from the one identified in the postoperative soft tissue cultures, allowing antibiotic therapy to be corrected. In another case, NGS identified Parabacteroides gordonii in aseptic revision surgery. In another patient, the NGS identified Morganella morganii , in which conventional postoperative cultures were negative in single-stage revision surgery. conclusion: In this study, we demonstrated the diagnostic feasibility of NGS, obtaining results within 72 hours immediately after surgery for pathogenic organisms in patients with PJI and negative cultures.


An optimal power flow (OPF) problem can have one or multiple locally optimal solutions. It can also admit no solution. Few studies have addressed the existence of OPF solutions and derived a (tight) lower bound for the number of OPF solutions. The present paper is devoted to the analytical aspects of OPF solutions. Specifically, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an OPF solution is presented and a tight lower bound for the number of OPF solutions is derived; in other words, an existence theorem is developed for the OPF solution and a computable lower bound for the number of solutions is derived by investigating a dynamical system called the quotient gradient system (QGS), which is built from the set of constraints. It is shown that an OPF solution exists if and only if the QGS has a regular stable equilibrium manifold (SEM) and the number of OPF solutions is not less than the number of regular SEMs for the QGS. Two test systems with 9 and 118 buses, respectively, are evaluated, and the numerical results are summarized to validate the presented analytical results and illustrate that multiple OPF solutions can lie in the same SEM.


We report a high-brightness mid-IR diode-pumped laser based on 15 at.% Er:Y2O3 ceramics operated at room temperature. Up to 0.95 W of output power at 2725 nm was obtained with a 17.4% slope efficiency with respect to the absorbed pump power and with an M2  <  1.2. Furthermore, a maximum peak output power of 9 W was generated with pulsed pumping. Perspectives for further efficiency and power scaling are also considered.


Learning a foreign language is a long, error-prone process, and much of a learner's time is effectively spent studying vocabulary. Many errors occur because words are only partly known, and this makes their mental storage and retrieval problematic. This paper describes how an intelligent interface may take advantage of the access structure of the mental lexicon to help predict the types of mistakes that learners make, and thus compensate for them. We give two examples, firstly a dictionary interface which circumvents the tip-of-the-tongue problem through search-by-similarity, and secondly an adaptive test generator which leverages user errors to generate plausible multiple-choice distractors.


BACKGROUND
Canine atopic dermatitis is a frequent diagnosis in veterinary medicine; however, the long-term prognosis for canine atopic dermatitis has not been evaluated in a systematic fashion.

HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES
To compare the relative efficacy of commonly used therapies for canine atopic dermatitis in two groups of dogs over 5 and 10 year time periods.

ANIMALS
Dogs were identified from the medical record database of a privately owned veterinary dermatology practice in the USA.

METHODS
Clients completed a four-part, 28-question, Internet-based survey. Surveys were included in the analysis if one entire section was completed. Each question was completed independently of the answers to other questions.

RESULTS
Several respondents failed to complete all questions. Some respondents answered similar questions with contradictory answers. Each question was analysed individually. A total of 136 owner surveys were completed, 39 from the 10 year and 97 from the 5 year study dogs. Eighty-five of 135 respondents indicated that their pet was receiving some form of medical therapy for atopic dermatitis at the time of the survey. Thirty of 90 respondents (33.3%) indicated that their dog improved during a dietary trial. Five dogs met the study's definition for clinical cure. All five of these dogs had been treated with allergen-specific immunotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE
This study revealed that clients believe antihistamines can be a useful part of multimodal therapy for canine atopic dermatitis. The results also demonstrated that a significant number of canines benefited from dietary modification. In addition, allergen-specific immunotherapy was the only treatment to induce true clinical remission of atopic dermatitis.


Physiculus maximowiczi is common in the coastal waters of Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A total of 1274 individuals were collected from the continental shelf at a depth of 50m to 180m from 1976 to 1980 and were examined for length frequency distribution, sex ratio and GSI. The mean body length of females was significantly larger (P<0.05) than that of males through the year. The mean body length increased in the summer and exceeded 300mm and 270mm in femles and males, respectively. It decreased markedly in November. Females outnumbered males, and the total sex ratio was 19.4%. The ratio increased during the summer and decreased in November. The GSI increased from September to November and remained at a low level from December to August. But there were no mature ovaries during the year. Comparison of the GSI from two samples collected from 130m and 330m in depth during November and December, respectively, showed that the ovaries of fish from 330m were more developed than those of fish from 130m. The present results may suggest that P. maximowiczi spawns during the winter in deeper water than the continental shelf.


Chemical mechanical polishing,which is short for CMP,is the only global planarization technology for ultra- precision surface processing,and there is no surface and sub-surface damage after processed. Because of its advantages in achieving nanoscale surface roughness and micron surface accuracy,CMP is widely used in the surface treatment of optical elements,micro-electromechanical systems,integrated circuit chips,etc. The research has mainly focused on the chemical mechanical polishing process,and the polishing mechanism has not yet formed a unified theory until now. The progress of CMP for hard and brittle materials like Si and SiC is reviewed here; meanwhile,the probable removal mechanism of CMP are presented. At last,the future trends and key problems of CMP are discussed.


Endpoint responses identifying critical thermal maximum (CTMax) and minimum (CTMin) temperatures of the Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax caeruleus Girard 1854 were estimated, after acclimation to a summer (SC) and a winter (WC) thermal cycle, to establish a precise endpoint for this species. The initial response observed during critical thermal limits was the onset of muscle spasms (OS) which was followed by loss of equilibrium (LE). Significant differences were found between SC and WC acclimated sardines when LE was used as the CTM endpoint. No differences were observed when the OS endpoint was used, owing to the high variance of OS values. Sardines had a CTMax of 30.4 and 31.8 °C for fish that underwent the WC and SC, respectively, while the CTMin was 5.2 and 6.5 °C for WC and SC sardines, respectively. Sardines showed a marked tolerance to low temperatures and some capacity to modify their critical limits when acclimated to different cycling thermal regimes. The thermal limits can be useful to compare sub-populations of this species inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean. Moreover, loss of equilibrium (LE) was a more consistent response than onset of spasms (OS); thus, it can be used as a reliable endpoint in further studies.


This article first describes emergency call networks for highway motorists, with focus on an optical fiber system. The article also describes the electronic toll collection system Hamlet 2.


No investigation is published so far, describing the distortion correction for bent rigid endoscopes. This work comprises a definition of endoscope bending states and a proof that inhomogeneous (section varying) radial distortion correction achieves enhanced results in comparison to linear distortion correction. Precaution or advanced distortion correction techniques should be taken while using bent or deflected endoscopes in applications of computer assisted diagnosis and therapy.


The antenna-element efficiency parameter quantifies the effect of mutual coupling in array antennas. In general arrays, this efficiency varies from element to element. The average value of these element efficiencies is a significant summary parameter, and plays a prominent role in circumscribing array performance. A useful formula gives the minimum number of antennas necessary to realize a prescribed peak gain envelope. The important special case of an array of identical elements situated in identical array environments is termed an idempotent array. In particular, an infinite idempotent array models a large planar array. There, the unique element efficiency has been directly related to the rms value of the conventional active reflection coefficient as it varies when the beam is (phased) electronically steered. The element-efficiency formulation also provides a framework for the rigorous derivation of important theoretical results in the theory of phased arrays.


The three major concerns which greatly influence the initial efforts and priorities in the human factors arena are outlined. These concerns are an increased awareness of the: (1) over riding data driven aspects of current command/control systems; (2) complexity of existing man/system interface mechanisms; and (3) great extent of the manual intervention required in present systems.


T HIS Note shows how we have modified and improved standard statistical techniques to formulate a procedure for rapid calculation of a correlation index. As much of our work at NBC is concerned with forecasting business indicators and sales of consumer commodities, we are unusually burdened with the task of correlating sales data with various national income series. Because the work load in mathematical correlation is usually heavy, a rapid procedure for determining correlation coefficients was needed. One of our problems was to forecast cigarette consumption for 1952 through 1955. Mathematical calculation of the coefficient of correlation for each possible variable was extremely time-consuming. Several days were required to test five to ten variables in order to select the significant ones. With the graphic method presented here, the time required to select these variables was reduced to a matter of minutes. After selection of the important variables by the proposed method, we used an arithmetic procedure to define a line of regression. We finally chose disposable personal income and population as the two factors which most influence cigarette consumption. The graphic method of measuring correlation which we found to be so valuable is an outgrowth of standard statistical techniques modified to suit our work.! We have used this procedure for many months and have applied it to almost all types of linear equations with most en-


Ultrathin films of Cobalt, Iron and Manganese have been thennally evaporated
onto an fcc Copper (111) single crystal substrate and investigated using a variety of
surface structural teclmiques.
The small lattice mismatch between these metals and the Cu (111) substrate make
them an ideal candidate for the study of the phenomena of pseudomorphic film growth.
This is important for the understanding of the close relationship between film structure
and magnetic properties. Growing films with the structure of their substrate rather than
their bulk phase may provide an opportunity to grow materials with novel physical and
magnetic properties, and hence new technological applications.
Both Cobalt and Iron have been found to initially maintain a registry with the fee
Cu (111) surface in a manner consistent with pseudomorphic growth. This growth is
complicated by island rather than layer-by-layer growth in the initials stages of the film.
In both cases a change in the structure of the film seems to occur at a point where the
coalescence of islands in the film may be expected to occur. When the film does change
structure they do not form a perfect over-layer with the structure of their bulk counterpart.
The films do contain a number of features representative of the bulk phase but also
contain considerable disorder and possibly remnants of fcc (111) structure. The order
present in these films can be greatly improved by annealing.
Manganese appears to grow with an fee Mn (111) lattice spacing and there is no
sign of a change in structure in films of up to 4.61 ML thick. The gradual deposition and
annealing of a film to 300°C, with a total deposition time the same as that for a 1 ML
thick film, causes a surface reconstruction to occur that is apparent in a R30° (√3×√3)
LEED pattern. This is attributed to the formation of a surface alloy, which is also
supported by the local expansion of the Cu lattice in the (111) direction.


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In this paper, we analyze the data from Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anisio Teixeira/Ministerio da Educacao on teacher training in Brazil. The data selected for analysis were taken from the synopses provided between 2001 and 2015 and comprise the number of available places, admissions and graduates by undergraduate courses. From the data analysis, we can observe that the number of places available at universities has increased during the period, but teacher-training courses still present low demand and many unfilled places. Physics courses have the lowest number of graduates compared to other courses analyzed. This reality may be influenced by many factors such as high evasion rate and low demand for teacher-training courses.


There is a growing interest in a potential use of essential oils (EOs) as a replacement for traditional pesticides and herbicides. The aims of this study were to: (i) Identify the chemical composition of the two EOs derived from Origanum heracleoticum L. and O. majorana L., (ii) evaluate the in vitro antifungal activity of the EOs against some postharvest phytopathogens (Botrytis cinerea, Penicillium expansum, Aspergillus niger and Monilinia fructicola), (iii) evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity against Bacillus megaterium, Clavibacter michiganensis, Xanthomonas campestris, Pseudomonas fluorescens and P. syringae pv. phaseolicola, (iv) evaluate the effect of both studied EOs on the spore germination percentage and their minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) against M. fructicola, and (v) study the possible phytotoxicity of the two EOs and their major constituents, carvacrol for O. heracleoticum and terpinen-4-ol for O. majorana, against tha germination and initial radicle growth of radish, lettuce, garden cress and tomato. The two EOs demonstrated promising in vitro antimicrobial and antifungal activities against all tested microorganisms. EOs showed high inhibition of spore germination percentage at the minimal inhibitory concentration of 500 and 2000 µg/mL, respectively. Moreover, both germination and radical elongation of selected plant species were sensitive to the oils.


An apparatus and a method for manufacturing a gas container are provided to improve the durability of the gas container by preventing corrosion of the inner and outer surfaces of the gas container. An apparatus for manufacturing a gas container includes a winding section(100), an injection section(200), a transfer conveyor(300), a second transfer robot(400), a drilling section(500), a riveting section(600), an assembling section(700), and a drying furnace(800). The winding section includes two winding robots(110), a winding machine(120), a heater(130), and a cooler(140). The winding robots winds sixteen strings of glass fibers in linear, inclined, and circumferential directions to form an upper container and a lower container of the gas container and injects mat powder to the glass fiber. The winding machine rotates the upper container and the lower container formed by the winding robot. The heater heats the formed upper and the lower containers to a predetermined temperature. The cooler hardens the heated upper and lower containers.


Abstract Design and development of new materials and their hybrids are key to addressing current energy issues. Thanks to their tunable textural and physiochemical properties, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) show great potential toward gas sorption, catalysis, sensing, and electrochemical energy applications. Nevertheless, practical applications of MOFs have been hampered because of their limited electrical conductivity, micropore size, and poor stability. However, smart integration of zero-dimensional quantum dots (QDs) into an MOF template, where the host structure offers suitable interactions for enhancing the stability and synergic properties, may be a solution. The objective of this review is to summarize recent advances in the field of QD@MOFs, highlighting fresh approaches to synthesis strategies and progress made in their application to optoelectronic devices, sensing, biomedical, catalysis, and energy storage. The current challenges and future directions of QDs@MOFs hybrids toward advancing energy and environmental applications are also addressed. We anticipate that this review will inspire researchers to develop novel MOF hybrids for energy, optoelectronics, and biomedical applications.


The aim of this paper is to optimize the performances of an Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (IPMSM) for an Electric Vehicle application. The originality of this work concerns the use of a Reluctance Network (RN) method which furnishes the harmonics of output parameters (i.e. torque and back-emf) and automatically generates the derivative of the model. Then, precise and very fast optimizations are performed own to gradient method as Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP). Results are also compared to Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and several optimizations are presented. Finally, the proposed method helps engineers to have a better sense of machines behavior and to quickly optimize the geometry of their machines during preliminary Design Process.


We aimed to estimate population densities of Anastrepha obliqua (McQuart) (Diptera: Tephritidae) from trap data by releasing known numbers of sterile adults into mango orchards, and to determine sterility induction through the use of different sterile‐to‐wild ratios in field cages. Population densities were monitored with Multilure traps baited with hydrolysed protein (Captor 300) or BioLure during dry and rainy seasons. There was a positive relationship between the release density of sterile flies and the number of flies trapped per day (FTD index) for both attractants and in both seasons. Captor was the most effective lure. Traps baited with either attractant captured significantly fewer adult flies in the dry season than in the rainy season. A 10:1 sterile:wild ratio induced around 80% sterility in A. obliqua cohorts. No significant differences were observed when comparing the release of both males and females vs. only males. These findings can support area‐wide integrated pest management programs for application of the sterile insect technique to suppress or eradicate this fruit fly pest.


Data are given from experiments on studying 100 pea varieties of different morphotypes and environmental origins from the world's collection of the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR). Investigations were carried out on experimental fields of the Siberian Research Institute of Plant Production and Breeding (Krasnoobsk, Novosibirsk Region) in 2008-2010 according to the recommended techniques. The urgency of research is due to the need to develop early-ripening pea varieties for Siberia because they are less dependent on weather conditions, less damaged by the major pests and diseases, and allow for early autumn plowing after harvesting. A difficulty in developing early varieties is the requirement from production to the yield to be formed in a short period at the level of mid-ripening varieties. The pea accessions from the VIR collection were studied to find out the sources of earliness for conditions of Western Siberia. The formation of pea yield was mostly influenced by conditions of moisture and heat availability. The characteristic of early pea varieties with the flowering period shortened by 5-8 days is given. The ontogenesis phases were determined: sprouting-flowering beginning, flowering period, growing period. The ultra-early-ripening varieties bred abroad such as Atiroy Comet (Netherlands), Cicero (Germany) grown under conditions of forest-steppe areas near the Ob river proved to be unproductive, and of no practical interest. Early-ripening varieties showed a slight (by 2 days) reduction in the sprouting-flowering stage, and a considerable (by 5 days) reduction in the growing season. The cultivars Dudar, Severnfine, Criolla, Az-318 were distinguished as sources of earliness, and could be used as parent material in the breeding process.


lar substrate is tricky, since the spin-coating solution does not wet the substrate and flies off the rotating surface. Since the OTS pattern after the lift-off technique is the inverse of the originally stamped ODT pattern, the sample in Figure 1d features macroscopically an oxide surface with printed OTS stripes on a micrometer lateral scale. Beyond the specific advantages of our technique, structured SAMs from OTS enjoy several advantages over their ODT analogs. The surface energy difference between OTS and silicon oxide is much larger than between ODT and Au, making patterned OTS substrates more suitable for structured wetting and demixing experiments. Potential applications for chemical and biological sensors also benefit from this increase in polarity. Furthermore, the silane bond is stronger than the chemisorbed thiols allowing experiments at higher temperatures. In conclusion, we have combined the well-established mCP technique of alkane-thiols on Au with a lift-off technique to transfer the stamped pattern onto a silicon-oxide surface. The main benefit of this approach compared to a direct printing technique is the improved control over environmental parameters during the deposition of the alkane-silanes, making the lift-off technique more reliable and reproducible. In addition, the lift-off technique does not depend on specific substrate materials. Therefore, extension to a wide range of surfaces and functionalized alkane chains is possible.