Introduction Ablation Index (AI) is a novel catheter-based parameter developed to improve and increase efficacy and safety of Pulmonary Vein Isolations (PVI) in the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF). This method involves the incorporation of contact force, time and power in deliverance of ablation lines. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of AI on the AF free burden over one-year post redo ablation for persistent AF. The study evaluates a secondary endpoint in medical management escalations post procedure. Methods A retrospective single centre study of 39 patients (Mater Private Hospital, Dublin) who had redo ablations for persistent AF between the period of Jan 2016 till December 2019. We evaluated and analysed the efficacy of AI on redo PVIs in comparison to conventional established ablation techniques. Both groups were matched for age, gender, and duration of PeAF. Group 1 (17 patients) was the AI group with ablation index intervention and group 2 was the contact force (CF) -guided group with 22 patients. Each cardiologist carried out a minimum of 100 ablations per year to confirm the uniformity of performance. Patient follow-up data was analysed at staged intervals for one-year post procedure. Inclusion criteria are: Patients must have had one prior PVI procedure for PeAF, complete follow up data available and all procedures completed using the Carto 3D Mapping System. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistic Version 26). A Kaplan Meier graph was generated to evaluate the AF free interval. All continuous variables were expressed as the mean ± SD and Students T Test to was applied to give the significant differences for continuous variables. Results Patient characteristics are demonstrated in Table 1. There were no significant differences in age, sex, weight, height, CHADVASC or anti-arrythmia agents, which indicated similar patient profile in each cohort. Pulmonary vein reconnections at redo PVI procedure were comparable at 100% in the AI group and 86% in the CF group (p = 0.1). Freedom from AF burden was (mean 8.72 ± 4.33 months) in CF group Versus (mean 9.35 ± 4.1 months) in AI guided ablation (p=0.71) (figure 1). The AI group demonstrated greater numbers of patients in whom antiarrhythmic therapy could be deescalated over one year (AI, n=11/17, 65% Vs. CF, n=2/22, 9% with p=0.01) while fewer patients underwent escalation of their antiarrhythmic therapy (AI n=2/17, 12% vs CF n=6/22, 27% p= 0.03) (table 1). Conclusion This is the first study to analyse the outcomes of ablation index on repeat PVI procedures. Despite no significant difference in AF recurrence outcomes demonstrated in this study, there was a significant difference in the medical de-escalation in favour of the use of the AI over the short term follow up period. This may reflect effective ablation lesions. A longer-term analysis would be recommended to determine the efficacy of AI use in PeAF redo procedures.


Populations of compositionally distinct particles are fundamental components of undifferentiated chondritic meteorites. Many theories explain the formation of chondrites, one class of which includes mechanisms for sorting the component particles in the solar nebula prior to their accretion. Mechanisms include sorting by mass, turbulent concentration, X-winds, and photophoresis, which will produce characteristic distributions of observable properties such as particle size. Distinguishing processes that occur in specific astrophysical environments requires characterization of particle types, which include refractory Ca-Al-rich Inclusions (CAIs) and less-refractory chondrules. Previous investigations of modal abundances of CAIs and chondrules exist, but differences within and between these two groups, both of which are made up of diverse subgroups with different thermal histories and chemical compositions, remain mostly unstudied. The presence of rims, a significant event occurring after the formation of at least some chondrules, have also yet to be considered with respect to sorting. Here we present the sizes of CAIs and chondrules in Allende with attention to the smallest sizes, subgroups, and particle rims.


The primary purpose of this study was to suggest new ways of measuring people's housing satisfaction using sentiment analysis. To identify gaps in the...


It is the major purpose of this study to determine the difference on the attitude between high and low performing Junior Marine Engineering students towards the School facilities and services. Descriptive type of research was utilized in the study. Result showed that the Marine Engineering students are at their best in morning subjects but they don't care what their schedule is for as long as they finished all subjects on schedule. The low performing students prefer only the teachers do the talking and they like to simply listen to the teachers compared to the high performing students. It is recommended that putting some variety in the usual lecture-demonstration method of teaching into student-centered approach of learning would give better atmosphere of gaining knowledge and comprehension applicable for diverse learning styles of the students.


In this study, ILLUDAS and SWMM were applied for Dongsucheon basin, Incheon and Test basin, Cheongju. The main parameters (II, IA, IS, SI, SR, SS) which are included in those of each model depending on runoff results were determined, and sensitivity ratios were estimated in order to evaluate and compare the characteristics of each modEL. Total runoff ratio for almost parameters turned out to have a linear relation to the rainfall durations and the scale of basin area but have nothing to do with rainfall distributions. Sensitivity ratios turned out to have a linear relation for the infiltration and soil parameters of ILLUDAS as well as all parameters of SWMM. ronoff sensitivity ratios for almost parameters were smaller than 1.0 because the impacts of total runoff were bigger than those of peak runoff. And runoff sensitivity ratio was equal to 1.0 for the roughness coefficient of SWMM. Total runoff ratio, peak runoff ratio and runoff sensitivity ratio for the selected parameters of those models were presented asthe tables and figures according to the scale of basin area, rainfall durations such as 60, 120, and 180 minutes and Huff's 4th quartiles rainfall distributions. Keywords : ILLUDAS, SWMM, parameter, sensitivity analysis, sensitivity ratio.


Conversion from raw camera coordinates to a standard color space is developed here as a direct product of two independent maps, one for chromaticity coordinates of hue and saturation, the other for brightness. The principal focus is on the former. While the main approach is a target-based mapping, comparison with a more conventional approach shows that the structure of chromaticity for point reflection spectra at the capture gamut boundary influences the map far into the interior. Failure to account properly for this systematic effect is the largest source of error in standard color mappings. Restriction to chromatic mappings defines a class of corresponding chromatic metamers. Failure of a camera to satisfy the Luther condition produces two distinct classes of chromatic metamer errors: essential and adventitious. c 2014 Society for


A lighting device for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising a source (3) light for emitting light and a reflector (2) for focusing the light emitted by the source (3) light, an aperture ( 24) for receiving a portion (29) of the source (3) light and a neck (23) surrounding the reflector opening (24) being formed on the rear face of the reflector (2), on which collar the source (3) light is fixed at least indirectly in a defined position relative to a reflector reflective surface (2), characterized in that it is mounted on the neck (23) of the reflector means (20) for receiving at least one portion (29) of the source (3) light in a direction substantially parallel to an axis (10) of the optical reflector (2) and for producing a forced guiding of the source (3) light, so that at a source of rotational movement (3) light about the axis (10) opt ic of the reflector (2) is superimposed a movement (a) of translation transverse to the axis (10) optics.


Yellow Warblers (Dendroica petechia) are abundant songbirds in willow habitats, with nest failures primarily attributable to predation. We hypothesized that snakes (especially the wandering garter snake, Thamnophis elegans vagrans) were important nest predators of Yellow Warbler nests and that areas that attracted snakes would suffer higher predation rates. We estimated nest success at two willow sites at Grand Teton National Park and related daily nest survival probability (s) to a suite of explanatory variables. These variables included measures of waterways (assumed to attract snakes), measures of nest characteristics, and proximity to nearby roads. We used information-theoretic techniques to compare global and reduced models based on Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) weights. AIC weights favored the reduced model using a single variable: the length of waterways (waterway density) within a 20-miter radius of each nest. This variable was significant in the Pacific Creek study site; the logistic-exposure model parameter estimate was -0.048 with a 95%confidence interval = [-0.086, -0.012]. We modeled daily nest survival as a function of waterway length. While parameter precision and other nest failure causes must naturally be taken into account, we concluded that waterway density, an indirect measure of snake


Container to open and close for various goods, preferably food, consisting of A) a lid of a sealable multilayer film with a '') a sealing layer facing the packaged material and g ') a support layer, and B) a packing tray produced from a sealable multilayer film with a) a sealing layer facing the packaging material and g) a backing layer, the cap a being) attached to the packing tray B) by a sealing seam at the edge of the packing tray B), characterized in that only the multilayer film from which is manufactured the packing tray B) by thermoforming has a layer structure adjacent to the sealing layer a) and oriented inside the container out, comprising b) a layer of tackifier, c) a barrier layer against the migration composed of at least 75% by weight of ethylene / vinyl alcohol and having a thickness of layer <2 mic ras f) a layer of a pressure sensitive adhesive.


In this paper followed the variation of the electrical parameters that characterize the functioning of an electro thermal installation with electromagnetic induction. The measurements were made using a three phase power quality analyzer, CA 8334B. There were presented two different situations: the HF transformer with 5:1 and 3:1 transformation ratio. In order to recover the recordings, the transients, the alarms and the screen copies, there was used the QualiStar View software.


The article provides examples of the usage of derivatives for solving economic tasks. This method offers to do some economic calculations more effectively, and it also shows the necessity of joint use of Math and Economics to improve the production process.


Variability and diversity of Mentha rotundifolia L. (Huds.), an economically important aromatic culinary herb was analyzed based on observations on nine salient growth characters recorded from 37 accessions of the species collected from various locations of its traditional growing areas in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Among the nine characters studied, only two characters such as shoot weight and internodal length showed statistically significant variation between the accessions. Other attributes like plant height, number of primary branches, number of nodes, number of leaves, leaf length, leaf breadth and leaf area did not vary significantly between the accessions. Such non significant variability with respect to majority of the morphological characters indicates the narrow genetic base of the species in its traditional area of cultivation and the possible threat of the crop becoming incapable of overcoming biotic and abiotic stresses and change in climatic conditions.


The aim of the study consists in evaluating the seismic reliability of a 3D non-linear base-isolated structure with FP isolators considering the non-linear behavior of the overall system (superstructure, substructure and isolation level) for different values of the isolation degree and assuming both isolator properties (i.e., coefficient of friction) and earthquake main characteristics as random variables. Assuming appropriate probability density functions for each random variable and adopting the LHS method for random sampling, the input data set has been defined. Several 3D non-linear dynamic analyses have been performed considering both the vertical and horizontal components of each seismic excitation in order to evaluate the system performance and the exceeding probabilities (structural performances) at each level. Estimating the reliability of the superstructure, substructure and isolation level led also to define reliability-based abacus and equations useful to design the FP system depending on the isolation degree by considering the non-linear interaction between the superstructure, substructure and FP bearings.


In this research, we evaluated earnings persistence based on the accounting standards. Therefore, two time intervals were considered, a 5-year period (1996-2000) before the execution of accounting standards and a 5-year period (2001-2005) after the execution of accounting standards. To extract the necessary data, audited financial statements and existing software packages such as DENA SAHM and comprehensive stock exchange software packages were used. Research results show that accounting standards can affect earnings persistence.


"Paleontologic record of Pleistocene in entre ríos Province (argentine)". The geological formations assigned to earlymiddle Pleistocene are Hernandarias, La Juanita and Punta Gorda Formations. Pleistocene fossil record of Entre Ríos province manly comes from four units: Salto Ander Egg, El Palmar, Arroyo Feliciano and Tezanos Pinto Formations. All of them Late Pleistocene ages. The aim of this contribution is to provide a review of the paleofaunistic and paleobotanic records within a geological-stratigraphic and geochronological updated framework. Palabras clave:


OBJECTIVES: To understand outcomes of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) or transurethral laser incision of the prostate (TULIP) for the treatment of bladder outlet obstruction in men with high levels of functional dependence, which are poorly understood. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: U.S. nursing homes (NHs). PARTICIPANTS: Male NH residents aged 65 and older who underwent TURP or TULIP in the United States between 2005 and 2008 (N = 2,869). MEASUREMENTS: Changes in activities of daily living (ADLs), Foley catheter status, and survival up to 12 months after surgery were examined. Multivariate regression was used to determine risk of having a Foley catheter 1 year after surgery. RESULTS: Sixty-one percent of the cohort had a Foley catheter before the procedure. Of men with a Foley catheter at baseline, 64% had a Foley catheter, 4% had no Foley catheter, and 32% had died by 1-year after the procedure. Having a Foley catheter at baseline (risk ratio (RR) = 1.39, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.29–1.50) and poor baseline functional status (RR = 1.34, 95% CI = 1.18–1.52 for individuals in the worst quartile of function) were associated with greater risk of having a Foley catheter at 1-year. CONCLUSION: Poor baseline functional status and having a Foley catheter preoperatively were associated with greater risk of TURP or TULIP failure, as measured by the presence of a Foley catheter at 1 year. Preoperative measurement of ADLs may aid in surgical decision-making in this population. J Am Geriatr Soc 2016.


Abstract : Potential role of sub-breakdown electric fields to augment/modify combustion kinetics and flame fluidics. Lead to overall increase in stability, combustion efficiencies Many experimental results reported over past sixty years.


Digitalization of the Russian forest sector is successfully developing. The first Unified State Automated Information System for timber accounting and transactions (LesEGAIS) has been operating since December 30, 2015 and continues to improve. In 2023, it will be qualitatively transformed into the Federal State Information System of the Forestry Sector FGIS LK. However, these systems continue to be built on centralized databases and rapidly outdated information concepts of the last century. They do not consider the fundamentally new opportunities that the new breakthrough information technology of the distributed ledger (the blockchain) provides to the forest.


Coronary heart disease is the greatest single cause of death in the Western world, although there is considerable variation between different populations. Large-scale, long-term studies have identified a number of complex and inter related risk factors, encouraging the development of preventive health strategies for heart disease. This article looks at the scale of the problem, and the risk factors involved, and reviews four well-known heart health programmes.


By the construction site survey,data acquisition and field evidence,analysis was made on the cause of piping accident of foundation pit enclosure engineering in soft soil in Shaoxing,which provides the experience and reference to avoid similar accident in deep foundation pit enclosure engineering in soft soil such as silt and sand layer.


5.8 GHz Doppler radar which is wireless sensor to collect the respiration and heart rate using feed-forward type branch-line coupler is developed. Even though the wireless sensing systems using a circulator or branch-line coupler have been developed, these systems have low sensitivity because of low isolation and bulky system due to Tx/Rx two independent signal paths. In this paper, proposed Doppler radar has improved the isolation by using feedforward type branch-line coupler, which has -55 dB isolation between transmitter and receiver. As a result of achieving high isolation, irreversible vital signal due to the low isolation of conventional branch-line coupler can be detected. So, sensitivity of the system is increased drastically


In this paper, using the Finslerian settings, we study the existence of parallel one forms (or, equivalently parallel vector fields) on a Riemannian manifold. We show that a parallel one form on a Riemannian manifold M is a holonomy invariant function on the tangent bundle T M with respect to the geodesic spray. We prove that if the metrizability freedom of the geodesic spray of (M, F) is 1, then the (M, F) does not admit a parallel one form. We investigate a sufficient condition on a Riemannian manifold to admit a parallel one form. As a by-product, we relate the existence of a proper affine Killing vector field by the metrizability freedom. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of a parallel one form on a Finsler manifold. By counter-examples, we show that if the metrizability freedom is greater than 1, then the manifold (Riemannian or Finslerian) does not necessarily admit a parallel one form. Various special cases and examples are studied and discussed.


Objective Detecting vitreous oxygen pressure(PO2),endothelins(ETs),insulin-like growth factor-1(IGF-1)and retinal blood flow in rabbit's eye before and after hyperbaric oxygen treatment(HBOT),in order to study the mechanism of HBOT in retinal disease.Methods Experimental retinal vein occlusion(RVO) eyes were done by Argon laser.vitreous PO2 value was determined by blood gas analysis;retinal blood flow was measured with radiolabelled microspheres method;vitreous ETs were detected by Radioimmunoassay;vitreous IGF-1 value was acquired with acid-ethanol extraction and immunoradiometric assay.Results Vitreous PO2 value increased from 12.60±1 92kPa before HBOT to 23.34±2.00kPa after HBOT(P0 01);Retinal blood flow decreased from 3.38±1.51mL ·min-1 ·g-1to 0.25±0.08mL·min-1·g-1(P0 01);Vitreous ETs increased from 0 to 82.99±25.23ng ·L-1 after 3~5HBOT(P0 01);Vitreous IGF-1 increased from 7.42±1.18ng·L-1 to 19.81±1.41ng ·L-1 (P0 01) Conclusion HBO can increase vitreous PO2 and storage of oxygen;HBO decrease retinal blood flow obviously,so we must improve blood flow in HBOT; Vitreous ETs and IGF-1 values are obviously increased after 3~5 HBOT,these factors are activated by HBO and participated in ocularbiologic and pathologic process in HBOT according to their quantities,this is one of factors effecting on HBOT; HBO has direct and indirect treatments.Indirect treatment has two side,it's side effect is one of factors causing complications in HBOT,We must pay attention to it.


technique  or  a  critical  angle  determination.  The latter technique allows the absolute value of the refractive  index  to  be  determined,  whereas  the former  method is more  useful  for  surveying  the relative variation across a sample. Critical angles may be determined by immersing the sample in a liquid of high refractive index and rotating it until a narrow  beam of light incident  at a  particular location is no longer transmitted-the beam must then  be  incident  at he  critical  angle  for  the liquid-sample  combination.  Most  interferometric studies have used a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with the sample placed in one arm and the viewing telescope focused on its face. using extra lenses if necessary. A fringe pattern is seen corresponding in principle to the location of contours of constant refractive  index  across  the  sample,  spaced  at wavelength  optical  path  intervals.  Other  types, such  as  the  Jamin  interferometer.  may  also  be adapted for this purpose. Many groups have used a fine laser beam as illumination, the fringes being detected by a  suitable  photodiode  and  counted electronically  as  the  sample is driven  across  the beam. At a simpler level it is possible to detect the actual deflection of a fine beam, or simply to use the sample as a lens to judge its performance.


iNTRODUCTiON: Complications of abdominoplasty surgery include seroma formation leading to fat necrosis, wound infection and bleeding. Fibrin sealants have been shown to increase wound healing and reduce ecchymosis and edema after rhytidectomy. Hemostasis is achieved with fibrin glue by achieving the final step in blood coagulation whereby fibrinogen is transformed into fibrin. Tisseel and Vitagel are two commercially available hemostatic agents. Tisseel uses pooled human fibrinogen and thrombin, as well as bovine aprotinin to form a hemostatic layer. Vitagel uses autologous fibrinogen and platelets in combination with bovine thrombin and collagen to form a hemostatic layer that includes a fibrincollagen scaffold.


In order to simulate the U-Mo/Al interaction layer (IL) growth behavior in full-size dispersion fuel plates, the existing IL growth correlation was modified with a temperaturedependent multiplication factor which transforms around a threshold fission rate. Test data from FUTURE, E-FUTURE, SELENIUM, and SELENIUM-1a were utilized to determine and validate the updated IL growth correlation. Irradiation behavior of the plates was simulated with the DART-2D computational code. The general agreement between calculated and measured fuel meat swelling and constituent volume fractions as a function of fission density demonstrates the plausibility of the updated IL growth correlation. The simulation results also confirm that IL growth rate differs in different fission rate/temperature regimes.


Background Understanding the aetiology of diarrhoea in Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected children and its predictors can help reduce mortality in this vulnerable group. Aims To compare the prevalence of enteric pathogens in HIV-infected children with acute diarrhoea and without diarrhoea To assess the association between carriage of enteric pathogens in HIV-infected children and the aetiology/frequency of diarrheal episodes within the next 3 months. Methods We evaluated HIV-infected children with acute diarrhoea (cases) and without diarrhoea (controls) aged 18 months −12 years attending the anti-retroviral clinic at a tertiary hospital in Delhi. Children who had received any antimicrobial therapy within the previous 2 weeks were excluded. A single stool sample was collected for microscopic examination, bacterial culture and microscopic examination including modified acid-fast staining (oocysts of Cryptosporidium, Isospora and Cyclospora) and Trichrome 1staining (for oocysts of Microsporidia). Serology for Cryptosporidium parvum was determined. All children were followed up for three months for the occurrence of diarrhoea. Results Enteric pathogens were isolated in 48.8% cases (n=41) and 42% controls (n=52). The common pathogens isolated in the diarrheal and non-diarrheal groups were Cryptosporidium (29.3% Vs 17.3%), E. coli (29.3% Vs 17.3%), Giardia (14.6% Vs 5.8%), and Yeast (4.8% Vs 0); (p<0.05). During follow up, 8 cases (19.1%) and 8 controls (15.3%) had a diarrheal recurrence. The pathogen isolated in subsequent episodes matched with the isolate in 3 controls and 3 cases. Severe thinning (BMIZ<-3), severe underweight (WAZ<-3), and severe immunodeficiency (CD4 <15%) were significant predictors for acute diarrhoea. Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis did not offer any significant protection from acute diarrhoea but prevented infection with Microsporidia and Isospora. Conclusions Cryptosporidium parvum is harboured commonly in asymptomatic HIV-infected children and predisposes to future diarrheal occurrence in them. A longer duration of treatment for acute diarrheal episodes may be needed in HIV-infected children. Children with severe thinning, underweight and immunodeficient must be screened for the presence of enteric pathogens and treated pre-emptively.


Self-healing polyethylene co-methacrylic acid (EMAA) is a thermoplastic material that can be shaped into structures that are capable of autonomously healing after being cut, punctured, or shot. In this work, we present results from several samples of self-healing EMAA-0.6 Na, with 60% of the methacrylic acid groups neutralized by sodium, known as DuPont Surlyn 8920. This ionomer, unlike typical crystals with extremely high quality factors and easily identifiable ultrasonic resonances, is a relatively soft polymeric material with significant damping, resulting in sample resonances that can overlap and are often difficult to identify and isolate. In this work, we show the resonant spectrum of several different EMAA-0.6 Na samples as well as the methods used to isolate individual resonances and determine the elastic constants.Self-healing polyethylene co-methacrylic acid (EMAA) is a thermoplastic material that can be shaped into structures that are capable of autonomously healing after being cut, punctured, or shot. In this work, we present results from several samples of self-healing EMAA-0.6 Na, with 60% of the methacrylic acid groups neutralized by sodium, known as DuPont Surlyn 8920. This ionomer, unlike typical crystals with extremely high quality factors and easily identifiable ultrasonic resonances, is a relatively soft polymeric material with significant damping, resulting in sample resonances that can overlap and are often difficult to identify and isolate. In this work, we show the resonant spectrum of several different EMAA-0.6 Na samples as well as the methods used to isolate individual resonances and determine the elastic constants.


Many cosmological and astrophysical observations indicate the existence of Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe with an about five times higher contribution to the energy content of the Universe than baryonic matter. The search for DM in the mono-Higgs (bb) channel in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in the mono-Higgs (bb) channel is presented, where the Higgs boson, decaying into a bottom (b) quark pair, is produced in association with large missing transverse energy, which is due to the pair produced DM particles. Datasets corresponding to integrated luminosities of 36.1/fb and 79.8/fb recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been analysed.


Abstract : The main emphasis of this thesis is the examination of technology transfer from a theoretical perspective and comparison of this perspective with its application in the Republic of Indonesia. The elements of a transfer mechanism concept such as organization, project, documentation, distribution, linker, capacity, credibility, willingness and rewards are being used for the examination. The role of The Body of The Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) as the linker between the source of technology from foreign countries and technology users in Indonesia is observed in particular. It is concluded that the technology transfer process is being successfully conducted from theoretical perspectives, and a recommendation is proposed to the BPPT and its associated linker networks in order to maintain its existing performance.


Volatile sulfur compounds are cause of concern because, when present in high concentrations, they constitute a danger for health because of their strong toxicity. Furthermore, for low concentration ...


Vegetative patterns appear to influence foraging of Heterotermes aureus (Snyder). Termite attack on toilet-paper baits was greatest at sites having the most vegetative cover. However, continued foraging at an already occupied toilet-paper bait was unrelated to vegetative cover. A new statistical model was developed to analyze the effect of distance between food items on termite foraging behavior. In plots 6 by 6 m, the pattern of attack by termites was generally consistent with the null hypothesis that termites forage randomly with respect to distance between potential food sources. Seasonal variations in the numbers of foragers were consistent with previously reported data.


3,844,774 A 10/1974 Culling (71) Applicant: Haynes International, Inc., Kokomo, 4,836,985 A 6/1989 Culling IN (US) 6,280,540 B1 8/2001 Crook 6,623,869 B1 9/2003 Nishiyama et al. (72) Inventors: Vinay P. Deodeshmukh, Kokomo, IN 6,740,291 B2 5/2004 Crook (US); Nacera Sabrina Meck, Spring, 200,857. R. S. Sea 1SnIyama e TX (US); Paul Crook, Kokomo, IN (US) 2010/0034690 A1 2/2010 Nishiyama et al. 2010/0313988 A1* 12/2010 Matsuo ......................... 138.177 (73) Assignee: Haynes International, Inc., Kokomo, 2011/0236252 A1 9/2011 Ueyama et al. IN (US) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 EP 1717330 A1 * 11, 2006 U.S.C. 154(b) by 501 days. EP 2256220 A1 12/2010 WO 2011034100 A1 3, 2011 This patent is Subject to a terminal dis OTHER PUBLICATIONS claimer.


be the sole determinant here as a comparable edited volume of articles by social anthropologists has little to say about the nexus (C. Pinney and N. Thomas (eds), Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment (Oxford 2001)). It therefore seems to this reviewer that the art nexus fulfils a need felt by art historians. It would seem that the concept of the art nexus lends itself well to gallery-based descriptions of art, as opposed to art in living traditions (the normal preserve of social anthropologists). The art nexus, therefore, provides a handy shorthand description of the relationships between art and viewer long established as the meat and drink of art history. Whitney Davis usefully describes Gell's work as two distinct books, the first distinguished by a concern with the art nexus, the second concerned by art styles and personhood. It would appear from this edited volume that for art historians and classicists the first book is of major concern, whereas the second book exercises social anthropologists and prehistorians. Gell's work is marked out as offering a bold restatement of the anthropology of art; a re-statement which eschews linguistic or semiotic metaphors for visual culture in favour of a discussion of affect. To achieve this Gell adopts a narrow version of Peirce's semiotics and examines art objects as indices of agency. While I believe Peircean semiotics has much to offer material culture studies, Gell's use of it is too narrow and has been rightly criticized by a number of authors including R. Layton ('Art and agency: a reassessment', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (NS) 9 (2003) 447-64) and H. Morphy ('Introduction: aesthetics across cultures', in H. Morphy and M. Perkins (eds), The Anthropology of Art: a Reader (Oxford 2006) 23941). A similar critique occurs in Jessica Rawson's paper on the burial of the Chinese Wanli Emperor. She points out, along with Layton, that an account purely based on affect is insufficient, as agency is performed via cultural meaning. It is essential that semiotics be engaged alongside affect if we are to achieve a rounded account of the relationship between art/material culture and person. A review of this length is unable to name each and every paper in the volume; suffice it to say, however, that not a single paper presented here failed to provoke or delight this reviewer. This edited volume offers an excellent introduction to Gell's ideas, albeit from a specific disciplinary perspective. Moreover, the volume considerably advances and refines many of Gell's premises. It deserves to be read by classicists, prehistorians, social anthropologists and art historians alike, and it will surely form an important place in the growing canon of Gell-inspired literature. ANDREW JONES University of Southampton email@example.com BRÉAUD (E.) Ed. Le patrimoine méditerranéen en question. Sites archéologiques, musées de sites, nouveaux musées. Actes du colloque organisé par l'Association Monégasque pour la Connaissance des Arts à Monaco les 10, 11 et 12 mars 2005. Monaco: Association monégasque pour la connaissance des arts, 2006. Pp. 316, illus. €25. No ISBN.


Toclarify themetabolic fate ofradioiodinated heptadecanoic acidinmyocardium, the time courseanddistribution oftheradioactivity over '311-heptadecanoic acid, free radioiodide, and various lipids (with incorporated iodoheptadecanoic acid) weredetermined innormal canine myocardi- um.In10dogs sevenbiopsy specimens weretaken over30minafter injection of1311-heptadecanoic acid. Theradioactivity inthespecimens increased until thefifth minute anddecreased thereafter, with a half-time of36min.Inthefifth minute, 61%oftheradioactiviy was free iodide, andits curveparalleled thecurveofthetotal radioactivity. Asearly asthefirst minute 13'I-heptadecanoic acidactivity was reduced to14%anddecreased further. Activity ofradioiodinated phospholipids, (mono,di,tri)- glycerides, andcholesterol-esters remained constant after aninitial increase. These results indicate that immediately after uptake, '3'I-heptadecanoic acid iseither metabolized, liberating theradioiodide, or stored inlipids. Because theactivity ofradiolabeled lipids remained constant during thestudy period andbecause iodide activity paralleled thetotal activity inbiopsy specimens, itisconcluded that in normal myocardium, washout offree radioiodide determines theelimination rateasobserved during a scintigraphic study. Thustheelimination ratecannotberelated tothe,8-oxidation rateaspreviously supposed. Circulation 72, No.3,565-71,1985.


The paper analyses different aspects of influence of Heidegger's philosophic works on the theology and religious philosophy of XX century. Due to involvement of categorical apparatus of fundamental ontology, works of Greek philosopher Christos Yanaras and Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) have made it possible to study the anthropological and social sides of the theological heritage of Eastern Church deeper. Author points out the conceptual resources of this heritage and suggests the idea of possible mutual enrichment of current philosophiec and theological discourse.


Accountability in education is a routine or systematic asking in western education context. The connotation of accountability includes: the relatively simple description of events,the more difficult offering of an explanation for events,justification of events and activities. The western countries have developed several different approaches to accountability. Each of these approaches is built on a unique set of basic beliefs and assumptions about school,and each draws on a unique set of accountability tools. The paper analyzes the connotation,approaches,procedures of accountability in education,hoping to provide some reference for building accountability system of education in china.


Purpose – The aim of this paper is to consider managers' and society's approaches to organisational performance.Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes an approach informed by Lefebvre's theory of space, and presents a Lefebvrian analysis of organisational performance.Findings – The analysis in this paper identifies a number of problematic issues within current considerations of organisational performance. The paper makes transparent the domination of the abstract representations of performance, while facilitating an engagement with the aspects of performance this domination neglects. It suggests that through neglecting the everyday lived aspects of performance, in their obsession with abstract "representations of performance", managers make decisions without a sufficiently clear concept of the effect of those decisions on the organisation.Research limitations/implications – As an introduction in this paper, to Lefebvrian spatial analysis in the field of organisational performance, the depth of t...


As sustainable deployment and end-of-life management become a hot topic to timely address in the PV community, a dynamic comparative evaluation of the benefits of circular pathways such as reuse, and remanufacturing, recycling has not been performed holistically beyond material flows or LCA analysis. Energy flows are critical for evaluating energy generation technologies. Previously they have been used to compare renewables to fossil generation and then between PV technologies. This paper quantifies energy flows to evaluate circular pathways for PV. The energy flows tracking manufacturing, generation, and losses complementary to the mass flows of silicon are quantified leveraging the PV ICE framework.


1. Abstract In this paper the acceptable failure probability and the risk of important bridges, located on seismic zones, are calculated throughout the expected cost of failure consequences. Also, the bridge expected life-cycle cost is formulated in terms of the bridge seismic hazard and the potential consequences of failure. These consequences include aspects arising from the physical loss of the bridge to the human casualties and economical cost of the loss of service, which are estimated in monetary terms. Current codes do not explicitly deal with this issue and in practice subjective estimations from experience are considered for some general cases. Bridge reliability is an essential component of risk and in this paper is estimated in a simplified way and applied to the structural types given in the examples. Monte Carlo simulation techniques are used to explicitly account for the uncertainties. Initial and failure cost curves are determined for all possible seismic intensities and expected life-cycle costs conditional to these intensities are obtained. The unconditional expected life- cycle cost is calculated by convolution of the conditional costs by the occurrence probabilities of these intensities, which are obtained from the seismic hazard curve of the given site. The procedure is illustrated throughout three reinforced concrete bridges located 1 on the soft soil of Mexico City and the other two on other sites with less seismic activity and different traffic volumes. The results may be extended to get risk management policies for bridges and to improve the current Mexican codes and to enhance the practices on bridge design and maintenance on seismic zones.


Millie and Christine McKoy (1851–1912), African American conjoined twins billed as the "Two-Headed Nightingale," were among the most successful "freak show" performers in the last quarter of the 19th-century. This chapter relies on "freak show" ephemera—such as press articles, (pseudo) biographical and autobiographical pamphlets, and posters and photos—to reconstruct Millie-Christine's musical act and to examine the troubling process by which the sisters were made into and promoted as a "freak." With a focus on the sonic elements described by these texts, examined alongside visual and textual narratives, the chapter builds an account of an advertising strategy that traded on the consumers' prejudiced musical expectations with regard to gender and race, while cultivating new sonic fantasies about the conjoined body.


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Renal complications are not infrequent in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases and seem to be more prevalent in patients with Crohn's disease. The spectrum of renal complications in Crohn's disease patients involves nephrolithiasis, amyloidosis, renal hypertension, glomerulonephritis (from minimal change nephropathy to rapidly progressive crescentic), tubulointerstitial abnormalities and iatrogenic complications related to medications such as aminosalicylates and cyclosporine.

Anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNFa) agents, including adalimumab, constitute a new generation of biological agents used in the treatment of a variety of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and Crohn's disease. We report herein a Crohn's disease patient diagnosed with proteinuria that was totally reversed after discontinuation of adalimumab.

A 38-year-old male with terminal ileum Crohn's disease diagnosed 6 months previously was admitted to our hospital due to a relapse. Before admission, the patient was administered methylprednisolone 32 mg/day with sub-optimal response. On admission, the patient underwent routine screening to exclude underlying infection prior to prescription of anti-TNF-α agents. Subsequently, the patient was started on adalimumab induction scheme (160 mg subcutaneously). Two weeks afterwards, the patient complained of lower limb oedema, and laboratory screening revealed proteinuria of 1600 mg/day without any evidence of other extraintestinal comorbidity. Adalimumab was discontinued and patient was followed up. Proteinuria resolved completely 4 weeks after adalimumab discontinuation, but we decided no adalimumab rechallenge and no renal biopsy. The patient was started on therapy with azathioprine 150 mg/day and is currently in excellent clinical status.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a patient with Crohn's disease and adalimumab-associated proteinuria. Treatment with adalimumab may lead to antibody formation, but renal complications are rare and have so far been reported only in 11 patients with rheumatoid arthritis [1–5] but not in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Of interest, in rheumatoid arthritis patients, proteinuria has also been reported during therapy with other than adalimumab biological agents such as infliximab and etanercept [3].

Renal histology, when performed in rheumatoid arthritis patients with adalimumab-related renal dysfunction, showed patterns of systemic lupus erythematosus-like syndrome [1], necrotizing and crescenting glomerulonephritis [3,5], minimal lesion glomerulopathy [2], extracapillary glomerulonephritis with IgA deposits or active follicular necrosis against a background of glomerular sclerosis [4].

It is noteworthy that, as with this Crohn's disease case, favourable outcomes have been reported in all other rheumatoid arthritis cases. After adalimumab discontinuation and glucocorticoid [4] and/or immunosuppressive therapy [3,5], renal function recovered within a few weeks. Of interest, in one case proteinuria relapsed after adalimumab rechallenge [2].

In this case, the relative contributions of adalimumab and of the underlying Crohn's disease to the development of proteinuria cannot be exactly determined. However, it is questionable whether in this particular patient adalimumab induction scheme was the only factor able to induce proteinuria. We believe that the complete reversibility of proteinuria after adalimumab discontinuation points towards adalimumab as a triggering factor to a strongly predisposed for a renal dysfunction individual.

As there have been some concerns regarding safety issues during administration of anti-TNF-α agents, it is of importance to understand the mechanism(s) of their interference in the normal kidney function. By this way, we may able to properly screen and possibly identify high-risk groups before initiation of anti-TNF-α therapies. For the moment, careful patient selection for biological agents as well as regular follow-up can promptly diagnose and completely reverse rare or unexpected episodes.

Conflict of interest statement. None declared.


Radar-based functions for detection and classification of vulnerable road users (VRU) are primarily using Doppler and micro-Doppler information. The quality of this information depends significantly on the relative orientation of the target due to the radial measurement principle. Especially in case of intersecting VRU in the short range, this may cause a drastic signal deterioration that massively complicates reliable detection. This paper presents a signal processing method for normalizing the orientation-dependent dimensions of range and Doppler of a cyclist based on a high-resolution projection technique. The measured range ambiguities of micro-Doppler components are reduced significantly by creating an artificial range axis the spectral angle data points are mapped onto. Subsequent corrections of Doppler amplitudes result in spectra with normalized parameters. In addition, the proposed procedure enables improved detectability of features for potential behavioral indication of cyclists such as pedaling. The results show that standardization of angle dependency can be particularly crucial for the correct classification of crossing cyclists in the closer vehicle environment.


This paper designs a single-chip microcomputer platform that can monitor the temperature and the harmful gas density at the same time with the minor smog sensor and the monolithic integrated circuit technology unifies as the core,and with other electronic technology,Host and slave procure serial communication adopting the RS-485 bus,in which setting the slave to route fixedly and the host to receive fixedly.


this paper presents an enhancement of the medial axis algorithm to be used for finding the optimal shortest path for developed cognitive map. The cognitive map has been developed, based on the architectural blueprint maps. The idea for using the medial-axis is to find main path central pixels; each center pixel represents the center distance between two side boarder pixels. The need for these pixels in the algorithm comes from the need of building a network of nodes for the path, where each node represents a turning in the real world (left, right, critical left, critical right...). The algorithm also ignores from finding the center pixels paths that are too small for intelligent robot navigation. The Idea of this algorithm is to find the possible shortest path between start and end points. The goal of this research is to extract a simple, robust representation of the shape of the cognitive map together with the optimal shortest path between start and end points. The intelligent robot will use this algorithm in order to decrease the time that is needed for sweeping the targeted building.


INTRODUCTION :
Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of risk factors that when present in
an individual, increases the risk for stroke, coronary artery disease and type2
diabetes mellitus. Metabolic syndrome constitutes central obesity, elevated
cholesterol and triglycerides, impaired glucose tolerance and high blood pressure.
Presence of metabolic syndrome in an individual leads to increased morbidity and
mortality.
OBJECTIVES :
1.To study the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) as defined by the National
Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III(NCEP ATP III) criteria and the
International Diabetic Federation(IDF) criteria, in patients receiving antipsychotic
medication.
2. To assess the possible factors associated with metabolic syndrome in
patients meeting the criteria for metabolic syndrome.
METHODS :
A cross sectional study was done to measure the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in
patients using antipsychotic medication. Participants, fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion
criteria, were recruited from the outpatient facility in the department of Psychiatry, Christian
Medical College, Vellore, after obtaining written informed consent. Socio demographic data,
anthropometric variables, fasting blood glucose, HDL cholesterol and serum triglyceride
values were measured. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome was calculated using IDF and
NCEP ATP III criteria.
RESULTS :
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome was found to be 23%(IDF) and 26%(NCEP). Prevalence
was 20% in males and 36% in females, with no significant statistical difference
(pvalue=0.167).The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was higher in patients receiving
antipsychotic medication for more than 1 year (p value= 0.311) and in patients having more
than one year duration of illness (p value= 0.481). The individual components of metabolic
syndrome also had a higher prevalence in females, however the differences were not
statistically significant except abnormality in HDL cholesterol(p value 0.01).
CONCLUSION :
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was found to be high and was
comparable to the earlier studies. The need has arisen for the clinicians to be more
cautious while prescribing antipsychotic drugs, anticipate possible development
of metabolic syndrome, and take necessary steps to prevent the emergence of this
dreaded complication.


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In this study, we explore factors that determine citizens' tax compliance attitude in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. The analysis is based on attitude and perception data from the new round of Afrobarometer surveys, which contain more tax-specific information than previous rounds. Using binary logit regression, we find some similarities, but also differences in factors that are correlated with tax compliance attitude in the four countries. In Kenya and South Africa, citizens who perceive that it is difficult to avoid taxes are more likely to have tax compliant attitude than citizens who think avoidance is relatively easier. We also find evidence that individuals who are more satisfied with public service provision are more likely to have a tax compliant attitude in all the four countries. On the other hand, frequent payment to non-state actors, for instance criminal gangs, in exchange for protection, reduces individual's likelihood to have tax compliant attitude. Furthermore, in Tanzania and South Africa individuals who perceive that their ethnic group is treated unfairly by the government are less likely to have a tax compliant attitude. The degree to which respondents perceive that it is difficult to know what taxes to pay is also negatively correlated with tax compliant attitude in these two countries. Our findings are robust for different econometric specifications.


Receptor preferences between visual or tactual stimuli were measured in schizophrenic and normal children. 4 pairs of standardized choice situations between visual or tactual stimuli were used, with the time of engagement with either stimulus constituting the preference measure. Schizophrenic children between the ages of 7 and 9 were compared with same aged normal children. A group of retardates were used for MA control. Schizophrenics were significantly lower in visual preference than the same aged normals, and an age trend for increased visual preference was found in the normal sample. Retardates showed greater visual preference than schizophrenics of comparable MA. Some implications for theory of schizophrenia were discussed.


Urban storm water runoff was monitored during 1980-82 to investigate the source, type, quantity, and fate of contaminants routed to the more than 3,000 recharge basins on Long Island and to determine whether this runoff might be a significant source of contamination to the groundwater reservoir. Forty-six storms were monitored at five recharge basins in representative land use areas. Runoff precipitation ratios indicate that all storm runoff is derived from precipitation on impervious surfaces in the drainage area, except during storms of high intensity or long duration, when additional runoff can be derived from precipitation on permeable surfaces. Lead was present in highway runoff in concentrations up to 3,300 micrograms/L, and chloride was found in parking lot runoff concentrations up to 1,100 mg/L during winter, when salt is used for deicing. In the five composite storm water samples and nine groundwater grab samples that were analyzed for 113 EPA-designated priority pollutants, four constituents were detected in concentrations exceeding New York State guidelines of 50 micrograms/L for an individual organic compound in drinking water: p-chloro-m-cresol; 2,4-dimethylphenol; 4-nitrophenol; and methylene chloride. The presence of these constituents is attributed to contamination from point sources rather than to the quality of runoff from urbanmore » areas. The use of recharge basins to dispose of storm runoff does not appear to have significant adverse effects on groundwater quality in terms of the chemical and microbiological storm water constituents studied. 35 refs., 10 figs., 20 tabs.« less


The major objective of this paper is to present a theoretical model for an algorithm that has not been previously described in the literature, capable of generating a secret key through the transmission of data over a public channel. We explain how the method creates a shared secret key by attaining commutativity through the multiplication of the modular exponentiation of a minimum of two bases and an equal number of private exponents for each party involved in the exchange. In addition, we explore the relationship between CMME and the traditional Diffie-Hellman scheme. We just briefly discuss the algorithm's security, opting to leave the essential investigation to cryptanalysts, while we elucidate on the algorithm's mechanism by illustrating some cases.


In Reply.— Ms Blumenthal describes the spectrum of reactions to abnormal prenatal results extremely well. I would also agree with her observation that there may be a reluctance to share the diagnosis itself for fear of an outsider's judgment. A support group is not available in my area, but I have formed a phone network that has been enormously helpful. While the pain of a prenatal "choice" cannot be erased, the sort of help Ms Blumenthal mentions, and more wide-spread awareness of the issues involved, can ease that pain.


Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 77:1825–1830 doi:10.2136/sssaj2012.0305 The USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Mention of a proprietary product does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by the USDA or the authors and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of the other products that also may be suitable. Received 17 Sept. 2012. *Corresponding author (email@example.com). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Permission for printing and for reprinting the material contained herein has been obtained by the publisher. Soil Surfactant Products for Improving Hydrologic Function in Post-Fire Water-Repellent Soil Forest, Range & Wildland Soils


Purpose: To investigate the effect of ionizing radiation on high mucin-producing colon cancer cells, we evaluated homotypic cell adhesion, cell-matrix adhesion, and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) on HM7 cells. Methods: After an irradiation of 60 Gy for 48 hours on HM7 cells, we evaluated cellular proliferation, colony-forming ability, homo-typic adhesion, cell-matrix binding, and integrin subunit expressions. Also, alterations of MMPs expression were analyzed by using zymography. Results: Cell proliferation of HM7 colon cancer cells was not remarkably affected even after high doses of radiation; however, clonogenic cell growth was significantly affected. Homotypic cell-cell adhesion and cell adhesion to ECM components and basement membrane protein matrigel were significantly increased after irradiation. Radiation induced expressions of cell surface integrin 2, 3, and 1 subunits of HM7 cells. The activities of secreted MMPs (MMP-9 and MMP-2) were remarkably inhibited by radiation. Conclusions: These finding suggest the biologic characteristics of high-mucin-producing colorectal carcinomas. Even though the radiation- associated cellular alterations of HM7 cells with or without matrix proteins were not remarkably different from other cancer cell types studied, the radio-resistant behavior of high mucin producing HM7 cells may explain the aggressive characteristics of mucinous colorectal carcinomas.


Early Childhood Education (PAUD) is very basic education that is highly important in determining the development of children in the future. Given the importance of early childhood education, the government (in this case the Ministry of Education and Culture) seeks to facilitate, supervise, and develop the community to understand why and how to organize early childhood education properly. Based on observations and interviews with inspectors and some early childhood education teachers in the Sub-District of Banjaran, there is an indication for the less than optimal teacher performance. Therefore, the researchers raise the issue of how education inspectors supervise the process of teaching and learning so that teachers can improve their performance. With the supervision and development of early childhood education teachers by inspectors, the research expects an increase in the performance of early childhood teachers to improve the quality of early childhood education in the form of professional services. Departing from the formulated problem, this research employed qualitative analysis with descriptive-analytic method. Data were obtained from observations, interviews, documentary analysis, and field notes prepared by researchers in the research sites, not in the form of numbers. Results of data analysis are in the form of explanations relating to the situations under study and presented in the form of narrative descriptions. With qualitative approach, this research is an effort to describe the influence or relationship of inspector's supervision and teacher's disciplines of knowledge on the quality of teacher's learning management. The unit of analysis in this study included subjects taken from six early childhood education institutions in the Sub-District of Banjaran with 1 or 2 teachers randomly taken from each institution. The implications of this research become the foundation for recommendations expected to be beneficial for the implementation of teacher supervision and development. Data were analysed analytically and descriptively. Keywords—teacher development; inspector; development efforts; teacher performance


Introduction Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been a commonly used method when assessing the cross-sectional area (CSA) of skeletal muscle. However MRI is expensive and its accessibility is often low and therefore cheaper and more accessible alternative method is needed. B-mode ultrasonography (US) can be used to produce high quality cross-sectional pictures and it has been shown to be comparable to MRI when measuring muscle CSA in vivo (Reeves et al. 2004). Moreover, the modern US apparatus can create panoramic ready to analyze 2D images making the measurement and analysis of large muscle CSA easy and quick. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability of US panoramic method when measuring the CSA of vastus lateralis (VL) muscle. Methods 34 untrained young men volunteered as subjects. After 20 min of rest in a supine position the B-mode ultrasound (GE Logic e, USA) with panoramic software (Logic view) was used to create full CSA images of VL. An especially crafted probe support which assured the angle of probe and divided pressure even to the skin was used. The MRI (GE Signa CV/i 1.5T, USA) measurement was performed within 30 min after the US measurement. During both the US and MRI measurements the subject was laying relaxed in an identical position with legs 15 cm apart and firm cushion (10 cm) under the knees. The US and MRI images were taken from the midpoint of lateral knee joint surface and spina iliaca anterior superior (PROX) as well as 2 cm (MID) and 4 cm distally (DIST) along the quadriceps muscle. Image-J (National institute of health, USA, version 1.37) software was used for analyzing both US and MRI images. Three US images from each position were collected and the mean was taken as the CSA result. Results Coefficient of variation between three consecutive measurements of CSA with US was 2.7 61617; 1.4%. The CSA were at PROX 30.2 61617;4.8 cm2 and 27.2 61617;4.4 cm2, at MID 30.7 61617;4.4 cm2 and 27.5 61617;4.3 cm2 and at DIST 29.4 61617;4.2 cm2 and 26.8 61617;4.3 cm2 in MRI and US, respectively. The correlations between the US and MRI measurements were r=0.88 (p<0.01), r=0.91 (p<0.01) and r=0.84 (p<0.01) at PROX, MID and DIST, respectively. Discussion In the present study a new panoramic technology was used in joining the US images received from VL. The results indicate that the present US method is reliable when measuring the CSA of thigh muscle. The differences in CSA between the US and MRI methods can in part be explained with the differently aligned scanning axis since MRI was measured vertically to table surface and US vertically to skin surface. However, the data suggest that the present US method may be a practical alternative tool for assessing muscle CSA. In future the capability of the US panoramic method to detect changes in locomotor muscles due to training, disuse and aging should be studied. References Reeves ND et al. Eur J Appl Physiol 2004; 91: 116–118


The article seeks to determine agricultural land market functioning and development opportunities in a period of market recovery with respect to the impact of economic environment for the analysed market. The research presents views of land market analysts on the land market and its operating principles, identifies factors determining the development of land market, examines the opportunities for land market research, evaluates the development of agricultural land market development in Lithuania, and identifies factors influencing land sales.


One‐dimensional direct simulation Monte Carlo calculations have been carried out on H/H2 and H/H2/CO mixtures under operating conditions typical of diffusion‐dominated diamond chemical vapor deposition processes. Mechanisms have been included in the model for the adsorption and recombination of hydrogen atoms on the diamond surface and the dissociation of molecular hydrogen at the interior of the reactor. Hydrogen atom fluxes and recombinative and conductive heat fluxes to the diamond surface are calculated as a function of pressure, gas composition, hydrogen dissociation and surface reaction probabilities, reactor temperature, and distance between the activating source and substrate. The numerical calculations are shown to be in excellent agreement with analytical results in the limiting regimes of free‐streaming particles at low pressures and continuum hydrodynamics at high pressures.


Social media data generated from individuals provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow, especially for emergency response. However, the inherent limitations associated to these data (particularly, the spatial bias) restrict its precise application. Existing research on spatial bias correction of social media data mainly face two issues: 1) the geographic extent in target domains may be underestimated, and 2) source elements may be transported within inappropriate distance. In this paper, we take 2013 Boulder, Colorado flood event as a case study, and present a new method called subspace optimal transport (SOT). Our proposed SOT aims at transporting biased tweets from dry to real flooded areas with a relatively close distance. Specifically, a comparison between our newly developed SOT and the traditional optimal transport (OT) and geographic optimal transport (GOT) is performed. Experimental results demonstrate that our new SOT method is able to correct the spatially biased geo-referenced tweets, with high precision and excellent computing performance.


During its development, the immune system acquires
the ability to recognize and respond to a wide variety of
cells and other entities from the outside environment
(Hood et al. 1984; Roitt et al. 1985). A necessary
feature of this capacity is the ability to discriminate
between what is a normal component of the body (self)
and what is not (foreign or nonself). The existence of
immunological tolerance toward self has been wellestablished
for many years, and mechanisms that could
serve to achieve it have been postulated and increasingly
refined as our knowledge of the development, organization,
and function of the immune system has
progressed (Burnet 1959; Dresser and Mitchison 1968;
Bretscher and Cohn 1970; Weigle 1973; Howard and
Mitchison 1975; Nossal 1983; Schwartz 1989). The importance
of self-tolerance can be seen in the damages
wrought by autoimmune diseases, such as insulindependent
diabetes, in which the immune system becomes
self-reactive against specific cells and seeks to
destroy them. In the case of diabetes, the autoimmune
response succeeds in destroying the pancreatic/3 cells,
resulting in a condition of insulin insufficiency and
consequent deleterious effects throughout the body
(Rossini et ai. 1985). Regarding the principles of self,
the possibility is evident that failures to establish or
maintain a condition of nonresponsiveness toward selfantigens
could be a factor in the induction of autoimmune
responses. Thus, one may in principle be
able to relate the conditions of tolerance and autoimmunity
through the mechanisms of seif/nonself recognition.


1 M.E Pursuing, Computer Engineering, Shah & Anchor college, Chembur, Mumbai, 2 Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, Shah & Anchor college, Chembur, Mumbai, AbstractThis paper proposes a new method to provide consistent read only data to mobile clients. The existing time stamp based method has more waiting time and response time, so new method divides the load of server and provide consistent read only real time data to mobile clients thus reducing waiting time, response time and bandwidth. Keywords— Consistency, Load Sharing, Data Dissemination, Real time data, waiting time, response time, bandwidth.


The propagation of the cracks occurs through the formation and the intensification of a plas‐ tic zone at the crack tip. This mechanism is accompanied by energy dissipation. The energy dissipated per cycle is representative for the state of the material at the crack tip. Many works based on energetic approach have been made by different authors in orders to characterise the behaviour of the material in propagation state. Ikeda and al. [1] have used hysteresis loops near the crack in order to determine the energy for surface creation and compared them to those obtained on smooth specimens. They de‐ ducted the limits of the equivalent stresses corresponding to local loops; thus, the plastic work is given by:


In this paper we investigate the impact of intra- and inter-die variations on the delay sensitivity of certain Residue Number System (RNS) arithmetic circuits in comparison to ordinary binary arithmetic logic. The timing yield of systems that contain multiply-add units (MAC) is of great importance since they dominate important applications such as digital signal processing. Specifically, we employ two different delay models for the estimation of delay distributions of RNS and binary MAC architectures. Our analysis quantitatively proves that RNS MAC architectures that use bases of the form {2n - 1, 2n, 2n + 1} demonstrate better normalized delay variation than binary MAC architectures to characterize both their static timing behaviour and the timing behaviour taking into account the sensitizable paths. Furthermore, it is shown that certain simplified RNS MAC architectures outperform conventional RNS MAC architectures in terms of the μ + α · σ delay variation metric.


breaking down under a spiritual renaissance of the Indonesian people, which led to the establishment in 1908 of the first modern nationalist movement. Above all they provide fascinating reading on account of the noble figure of their author. Mr. Damais has selected the most important letters and given a translation precise and readable. The introduction and notes give the information required for the non-specialist. A few minor inaccuracies are not disturbing. The learned preface deals with some interesting aspects of Islam in Indonesia but hardly contributes to the understanding of Kartini's letters. One does not get the impression that Islam played an important role in her thought.


COVID 19 pandemic has affected the modern world in an unimaginable way. Outbreak of the coronavirus and months long total lockdown in major parts of the world has highlighted the lacunas in disaster management and unpreparedness of the world for such a type of pandemic and "unexpected" future pandemic. All the efforts put in combating this infectious virus and to deal with adverse effects of pandemic has proved that use of technology is the only and would be the only effective solution. Each and every sector including the health sector has no option other than adoption of newer technologies in innovative engineering ways. This paper tries to suggest use of various technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud computing, big data, blockchain, 5G and smart applications, Internet of Things (IoT), drones, robotics. These and few more digital technologies have been playing a crucial role in effective management of pandemic. This focussed review and discussion is expected to create awareness and motivation to the health care sector for using all the major Industry 4.0 technologies leading to Medicine 4.0. This technological revolution in healthcare and allied sectors will help in effective management of pandemic.


There is critical agreement that Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette chronicles Eliza Wharton's attempts towards self-definition in a republican society where "making" and "remaking" oneself are the masculine purview.(1) This essay studies the language of Eliza Wharton and her female circle, and argues that Eliza's struggle to control her life begins with the struggle to control language, the language of society that dictates her identity and conscribes her life. Cathy Davidson has rightly noted that The Coquette "does not openly challenge the basic structure of patriarchal culture but, instead, exposes its fundamental injustices through the details and the disasters of the plot" (Revolution 144). Likewise, Hannah Webster Foster does not position her central character to argue overtly for radical shifts in linguistic philosophy. Yet, through a persistent attention to the "details and the disasters" of the linguistic code of urban, elite society, the novel exposes the problematic nature of social discourse in republican America. In The Coquette, Hannah Webster Foster foregrounds issues of the language and the linguistic ethos of her narrators. The nine authors of the seventy-four letters of her epistolary novel never once offer the reader a description of the physique or physiognomy of the people they write of or details of the varied settings. The correspondents may comment on the personality or attitude of an individual - Mrs. Richman watches her cousin "with a jealous eye"; Sanford appears "mortified and chagrinned"; and Miss Laurence's countenance "indicates not much soul" - but the reader is never coached by the author in a visual image of the characters. As such, this novelistic form asks for the reader's heightened sensitivity to the language of their discourse. Because Foster does not allow us to learn much of Eliza Wharton or Julia Granby through their dress, the decor of their private rooms, or the flowers with which they decorate their home or adorn their person, she lays bare issues of rhetoric, and demands the reader's especial awareness of her correspondents' discourse and the language of those they quote. In the opening pages of the novel, Eliza Wharton struggles with conventions of speech that the genre of the social letter demands. Her early expression is relatively free of expected epithets and conventional maxims, because the ideas that she expresses are not aphoristic. They do not replicate received wisdom, and, indeed, they lie squarely outside the quarters of pat, received notions. Eliza insists, "I despise those contracted ideas which confine virtue to a cell" (13). Instead, naively unaware that language is not hers to manipulate, she attempts re-definition of key words, principal among them, the terms freedom and coquette. In the first letter of the novel, Eliza presumes to explain freedom to Miss Freeman, working toward a redefinition of the italicized word "pleasure" in terms of freedom. To speak of pleasure as living independent of one's family, and of being released from a promise of marriage is to speak a language foreign to the Republican woman, who clearly understood that her felicity and honor were to be found in duty - specifically, domestic duty - not in independence from the domestic sphere. Her primary role was to please, not to be pleased.(2) In the following letter, Eliza Wharton takes exception to the noun that constitutes the title of the novel - coquette. Without arguing that she should be described as such, she nonetheless insists upon subtleties in the use of such language. Her "airs," she insists, "deserve a softer appellation; as they proceed from an innocent heart, and are the effusions of a youthful, and cheerful mind" (7). Early response to Eliza's correspondence indicates that her audience, female members of an elite social circle, is alert to her unorthodox manipulation of language. Lucy Freeman's first letter to Eliza opens with a critique of Eliza's attempts at redefinition: "You are indeed very tenacious of your freedom, as you call it," Lucy writes, "but that is a play about words" (30, 31). …


ABSTRACT Many indices have been developed to predict heat stress in dairy cattle, but no indices exist specifically for extensively grazed dairy cattle where wind and solar radiation modify heat stress responses. Using a large database of respiration rates and matching weather data, we developed a Grazing Heat Load Index (HLI) to predict respiration rates in extensively grazed dairy cattle. The Grazing HLI includes ambient temperature, solar radiation, and wind speed for the hour immediately preceding the respiration rate measure and was more accurate at predicting respiration rates than existing temperature humidity or heat load indices. On average, we observed an increase of 4.21 breaths per minute per 1°C increase in ambient temperature, an increase of 5.89 breaths per minute per 1 megajoule/m2 increase in solar radiation and a reduction of 1.70 breaths per minute per 1 m/s increase in wind speed. We observed marked changes in panting score and percentage of drooling animals at Grazing HLI of greater than 70. This maybe a threshold when dairy cattle welfare is seriously compromised due to heat, however, noting that respiration rate starts to increase more steeply before this threshold.


By using XRD、SEM and other experimental methods, some details of polycarboxylate superplasticizer on the hydration products and performance of phosphogypsum-based cement(PBC) can be obtained. It can be found that the polycarboxylate superplasticizer makes the structure of the cement stone more compact, and significantly increases the strength of the cement. Besides, it can also improve the anti-carbonation and degradation properties of that cement.


The small form factor disk which is satisfied the blu-ray specification especially 320 nm track pitch has been implemented. The data area of the fabricated disk is located 7.2 mm from the disk center to 13.5 mm from the same position. The cover layer on the disk is formed by spin coating method and the specially designed metal chucking hub has been adopted for preventing vibration during high speed rotation. The static recording measurement for power transition effect has been carried out. The optimum condition for writing the bit is obtained at the 10 mW input laser and 45 ns pulse width for this disk. The disk has 1 GB capacity with single layer and shows very low deflection and good tilt margin.


[Behav. Brain Res,, 72, 49-55 C1996)] [Lab. ef Molecular Biology] Age-Related Changes in Learning and Memory and Cholinergie Neuronal Function in Senescence Aceelerated Mice (SAM). ATsuMI NITTA., KAzuMAsA NARuHAsHI, MAsAyuKI UMEMURA, TAKAAKI HASEGAwA, SHoEI FuRUKAWA, FuJIo SEKIGucHI, KOTARO ISMBASHI, TosHITAKA NABESHIMA The senescence-aceelerated mouse (SAM) has been established as a murine model of accelerated aging. We investigated learning ability and memory in various tasks in a SAM strain, SAMPIA', and in a eontrol strain of SAMRITA at the ages of 20, 30 and 40 weeks. We also meas-


Gram‐negative and some Gram‐positive bacteria that are resistant to bacteriocins of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were subjected to sublethal stresses and treated with nisin and pediocin AcH. Both bacteriocins reduced the viability of cells surviving sublethal stresses. The results explain the possible mechanisms by which bacteriocins of LAB enter through the walls (or outer membranes) to destabilize the cytoplasmic (or inner) membranes and kill cells of sensitive Gram‐positive and resistant, but injured, Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive bacteria.


Based on 6 prestressed concrete tension bending shear members' test, the cracking behavior of diagonal section were analyzed in this paper. By studying the test results, it is found that the cracking shear of eccentric tensioned members can be predicted by Main Tension Stress at centroid axis of the middle shearspan section. Tests showed also the initial width of shear cracks was considerable. In this paper the affecting factors of initial cracking width were studied and effective prevention measures were proposed. The behavior of stirrup was discussed as well.


Background: Ondo Estimating the health effect of 222Rn progeny deposited on inner surfaces of airways regions is of great interest because 222Rn progeny are considered the major contributors in imparted energy to lung structures. Materials and Methods: In this study, (CT) scan of a healthy, nonsmoking Syrian volunteer male, 3D-Slicer 4.7.0 medical image processing software, Solidworks mechanical design software and MCNPX 2.5.B code were used to create the geometry and to evaluate the absorbed fraction and specific energy due to alpha particles emitted by inhaled radon progeny in nuclei and layers of sensitive cells in the epithelium of human tracheabronchial tree. Absorbed fraction (AF) and specific energy were determined using Micro-dosimetry approach and airway tube wall as proposed by ICRP (1994), and NRC (1991). Results: Absorbed fractions (AFs) and specific energy of alpha particles were calculated for each generation from 1st to 15th. Comparison of average AFs values in sensitive layers was carried out with ICRP66 airway model where some significant differences were found due to dimensions differences between both models. Furthermore, AFs of cell nuclei had the same trend of those for layers, where the highest values were for 7.69 MeV alpha particles in BB region and the opposite in bb region. Conclusion: Interactions of alpha particles with secretory and basal cells show significant differences which can influence dose weightings. Comparisons with ICRP66 data reveal the influence of geometry and target cells distribution on absorbed fraction and specific energy values.


With the advent of easy access to a tremendous amount of text data, various studies utilizing text mining have been conducted in the biomedical field. However, most are only concerned with retrieving information solely from the perspective of either diseases or drugs. Extending from such boundary, we propose an approach of embedding disease and drugs from biomedical literature, determining direct relationships between them, and identifying possibilities of drug repositioning. To embed both disease and drugs, we utilize the word2vec algorithm and generate embedded word vectors for each disease and drug. Then hierarchical clustering with Ward's method is applied for categorization. Moreover, we suggest an evaluation measure that compares clusters from the text data with results from the molecular biology level. The proposed method was applied to 17,606,652 MEDLINE abstracts and extracted 4,163 diseases and 3,930 drugs. By examining heterogeneous clusters in which both disease and drug exist, nine candidate drugs were deduced for each disease in combination with 79 diseases and 84 drugs. The results are expected to serve as a baseline for the preliminary selection of candidate drugs for drug repositioning.


A novel conservative interpolation (remapping) method, in the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian context for numerical solution of Euler equations on unstructured polygonal grids, is presented. Combination of a piecewise quadratic reconstruction and a flux corrected remapping approach provides a simple, symmetry‐preserving and bounds‐preserving method. The positivity of density and specific internal energy is guaranteed. The complete description of the method and both cyclic remapping and full hydrodynamic 2D numerical examples are given. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Background: Amblyopia can drastically affect a child's life. Recently, following a shift in the view of amblyopia from that of a monocular disorder to that of a binocular disorder, dichoptic video games were introduced as a new treatment method.
Aim: To explore the role of video games in the treatment of children with amblyopia.
Methods: PubMed and Google Scholar were screened for the keywords "amblyopia" and "games", from January to March 2022. Only articles written in English that discussed video games for the treatment of amblyopia were included.
Results: The advantages of dichoptic video games include a more rapid improvement in visual acuity in different age groups, simpler compliance monitoring, and possibly a reduced risk of recurrence. However, not all studies proclaimed the effectiveness of video games and some raised concerns about their addictive potential.
Conclusion: Dichoptic video games require further controlled studies to demonstrate their efficacy. However, they show promising results in the treatment of what was, until recently, considered untreatable amblyopia.


In order to explore micromorphologic characters in Pecluma eurybasis var. villosa (Polypodiaceae), the sporangium development and its accompanying structures were observed, using optical microscopy (OM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The formation of a tapetum with a single layer of cells and non-clavate paraphyses with obtuse tips were identified as potentially important characters in the systematics of the genus.


Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a campus-wide intramural wheelchair sports program on attitudes toward people with disabilities. The sample consisted of 126 participants at a large, western university. A quasi-experimental pre-post design was used. Results indicated that there was a significant decrease in discomfort in interaction with people with disabilities after participation in the program. Additional findings indicated that recreation majors who were required to have some disability awareness training in their coursework had statistically lower pre- and post-test scores than other majors and demonstrated the greatest change in attitude toward people with disabilities. Implications and recommendations are discussed.


Andrographolide is the main bioactive component of the medicinal plant, Andrographis paniculata. Callus cultures of Andrographis paniculata are known to produce only paniculides (sesquiterpene lactones) and not andrographolides (diterpene lactone) that are produced by the intact plant. In this study, Callus cultures of Andrographis paniculata were established from leaf explant. Different growth regulators greatly influenced the growth of callus cultures. Callus was established on Murashige and Skoog medium at various concentrations of 2, 4-D & TDZ alone (1.0-2.5 mg l-1) and in combinations (2, 4-D + NAA, 2, 4-D + Kn, BAP+ NAA). Best callus induction was obtained at MS + 2, 4-D + NAA (1.0 +1.0 mg l-1). HPLC of best callus samples were undergone to detect their andrographolide content. The highest amount of andrographolide content (7.64 mg g-1 FW) was observed in callus grown on MS supplemented with 1.0 mg l-1 2, 4-D + 0.5 mg l-1 NAA followed by 1.0 mg l-1 2, 4-D + 1.5 mg l-1 Kn and 2.5 mg l-1 BAP + 0.5 mg l-1 NAA. The present study thus indicates that andrographolide production can be induced in the callus of A. paniculata by treatment with plant growth hormones, although the content predominates in leaves and stem.


We describe an approach for evaluating the statistical significance of evidence for nonlinearity in a time series. The formal application of our method requires the careful statement of a null hypothesis which characterizes a candidate linear process, the generation of an ensemble of surrogate'' data sets which are similar to the original time series but consistent with the null hypothesis, and the computation of a discriminating statistic for the original and for each of the surrogate data sets. The idea is to test the original time series against the null hypothesis by checking whether the discriminating statistic computed for the original time series differs significantly from the statistics computed for each of the surrogate sets. While some data sets very cleanly exhibit low-dimensional chaos, there are many cases where the evidence is sketchy and difficult to evaluate. We hope to provide a framework within which such claims of nonlinearity can be evaluated. 5 refs., 4 figs.


The writer inquired into the set up form cooling water system for the unit of BODY.KESY Hydropower Station,Nepal,analyzed and calculated the flow of the supply water equipment and the lift of pump in the water system,as well as presented items that should be paid attention to in the design.The calculation method is brief and feasible,could correctly select and determine the diameter f cooling pipe and head lose,therefore,ensured safety operation of the equipment and meeting the requirement of economic operation.This method could be as reference for other similar projects.


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Ardlie et al. (2002) recently found no evidence for population structure in separate case-control studies of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in U.S. whites and only weak evidence of structure in a case-control study of hypertension in African Americans. These results are consistent with the theoretical results of Wacholder et al. (2000), who found that the magnitude of bias due to unrecognized population stratification is likely to be small under most plausible scenarios. To further evaluate the potential bias due to stratification for these and other conditions, we conducted a series of case-control studies for six common phenotypes in a population-based sample of U.S. adults.

The study population included 444 unrelated adults (231 African Americans and 213 non-Hispanic whites) randomly selected from five U.S. communities as part of the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Blood Pressure Program (Williams et al. 2000). The study was approved by the institutional review boards at each institution, and appropriate informed consent was obtained from human subjects. Phenotypes measured included: (1) obesity (BMI⩾30), (2) hypercholesterolemia (total plasma cholesterol⩾240 mg/dl or current use of medications to lower cholesterol), (3) hypertension (systolic blood pressure⩾140 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure⩾90 mmHg, or current use of medications to lower blood pressure), (4) diabetes (fasting serum glucose⩾126 mg/dl, nonfasting glucose⩾200 mg/dl, self-reported physician diagnosis of diabetes, or current use of hypoglycemic medications), (5) renal dysfunction (serum creatinine ⩾ sex-specific 90th percentile [1.4 mg/dl in men and 1.1 mg/dl in women]), and (6) cardiovascular disease (self-reported history of heart attack, stroke, or coronary artery bypass surgery). For each phenotype, those who did not meet the case definition served as control individuals.

We constructed contingency tables and performed χ2 tests of association for these six phenotypes with each of 368 STR markers typed by the NHLBI Mammalian Genotyping Service at Marshfield, WI (screening set 10). Like Ardlie et al. (2002), we then computed a statistic, χs2, to test for overall differences in allele frequencies between each set of case individuals and control individuals (Pritchard and Rosenberg 1999). To simplify the analysis and ensure that expected values in contingency tables were sufficiently large (>5) for the classical χ2 test, we converted each STR marker to a biallelic marker by selecting one index allele for each marker and then collapsing all other alleles for that marker into a single alternative allele. Index alleles for each marker were selected by first choosing alleles with allele frequencies of at least 15% in both African Americans and whites and then selecting the allele that demonstrated the largest absolute difference in allele frequencies between racial groups.

The prevalence of several of the phenotypes differed substantially between racial groups (table 1). In crude analysis pooling both racial groups, the percentage of markers nominally associated (P<.05) with each phenotype was higher than expected, under the null hypothesis, for diabetes (8.4%), hypertension (7.9%), renal dysfunction (7.6%), and hypercholesterolemia (5.4%) but not for cardiovascular disease (4.9%) or obesity (4.9%). The summary test for stratification incorporating all 368 markers (i.e., 368 df) was statistically significant for diabetes, renal dysfunction, and hypertension (table 1), indicating overall differences in allele frequencies between case individuals and control individuals. However, after adjustment for race or stratification by race, there was no evidence of cryptic stratification for any of the six phenotypes, with the possible exception of obesity in whites.

Table 1

Summary Tests for Population Stratification by Phenotype

Our results provide further evidence that hidden or unrecognized population stratification is unlikely to be a serious threat to the validity of case-control designs that appropriately account for ethnicity in either the design or analysis phase of the study (Wacholder et al. 2000; Ardlie et al. 2002). Because of the large number of markers tested, it is likely that our study was even more sensitive to subtle background genetic differences between case individuals and control individuals than that conducted by Ardlie et al. (2002), which included only 9 STR markers and 35 SNP markers. We think that other factors, such as selection bias, chance, publication bias, gene-environment interactions, and differences in linkage disequilibrium patterns across study populations, are more plausible explanations for inconsistency of results between genetic association studies.


U.S. National Science Foundation's Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) project under the NSF [PLR-1425989]; NASA [NNX14AP49G]; U.S. Argo through NOAA/JISAO [NA17RJ1232]; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory of NOAA; Ocean Observations and Monitoring Division, Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; ARCS Foundation Oregon Chapter


The Arjuna Transaction Service (ATS) began life in the mid 1980s as an academic project (called Arjuna) to examine the use of object-oriented techniques in the development of fault-tolerant systems [1]. It provides a set of tools for the construction of fault-tolerant distributed applications using (nested) transactions controlling operations on persistent objects. A version of the system written in C++ to run on networked UNIX systems was operational in the early nineties. The arrival of the Web and industrial acceptance of CORBA and Java technologies for distributed object computing during this period encouraged the productization of Arjuna. Through a series of acquisitions Arjuna became part of HP's middleware product lines and was used in creating customised transactional services for new application areas, such as Web Services [2] and mobile computing. In 2002, we span out of HP to continue to evolve ATS, where it supports traditional ACID transactions and "relaxed" transaction models (e.g., compensation transactions). In this paper we shall give an overview its evolution, concentrating particularly on those changes concerned with improved performance and availability.


An R-matrix formalism is used to study electron collision with the BF3 molecule using Quantemol-N, a computational system for electron molecule collisions which uses the molecular R-matrix method. Several target models are tested for BF3 in its equilibrium geometry, and the results are presented for the best model. Scattering calculations are then performed to yield resonance parameters, elastic, differential, excitation, and momentum transfer cross sections. The results for all the cross sections are compared with the experimental and theoretical data, and a good agreement is obtained. The resonances have been detected at 3.79 and 13.58 eV, with the ionization threshold being 15.7 eV. We have also estimated the absolute dissociative electron attachment (DEA) cross section for the F− ion production from BF3, which is a maiden attempt. The peak of the DEA is at around 13.5 eV, which is well supported by the resonance detected at 13.58 eV. The cross sections reported here find a variety of applications in t...


colorful lives and brusque words of writers Charles Fletcher Lummis and Frank Bird Linderman, who both promoted white settlement of the West, to illustrate that evolution. Lummis in particular is a case study of the incoherence of nineteenth-century racial thought, advocating both white racial conquest of the West and protection of the indigenous people and their way of life. Also fascinating is his examination of how Mormons, because of their unconventional attitudes towards polygamy, came to be racialized as inferior whites. This exclusion from whiteness drips with irony given that the Mormons supported slavery and until the late nineteenth century excluded those of African descent from the priesthood because of the so-called Curse of Ham, which marked them forever to be "servants unto servants." Pierce devotes much of one chapter to the use of violence to draw racial boundaries between whites and American Indians and Mexicans in Texas. Overall, this work is of great use to scholars of Texas history, the West, and the changing meaning of white identity.


The invention relates to a treatment method for removing arsenic and COD in wastewater in gallium arsenide wafer production treatment simultaneously and belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment. The method includes delivering waste water to an adjusting reaction tank, removing dichlord isocyanurice acid in raw water through the oxidation-reduction reaction and lifting wastewater subjected to the treatment to a coagulating precipitation tank through a pump to conduct sequential batch type coagulating sedimentation reaction. The process flow sequentially includes water feeding, chemical feeding, coagulating, precipitating and water discharging. Treated wastewater is lifted to a sequential batch type activated sludge tank from a middle tank through the pump to be subjected to aerobic biological treatment. The process flow sequentially comprises water feeding, aeration, sedimentation and water discharging. The arsenic and COD density in finally discharged water can achieve the standard of one-grade B in >(GB18918-2002). The treatment method can simultaneously remove pollutants including arsenic, dichlord isocyanurice acid, COD and the like in the wastewater in gallium arsenide wafer production treatment, is high in treatment efficiency and high in operation stability.


King of Chess is A'Cheng's masterpiece,while Chess Story is the last work in Stefan Zweig' life,an Austrian novelist.These two works have many similarities:the both themes are about chess,and the both backgrounds are with disasters(the"Cultural Revolution"and"World WarⅡ"),and both reflective.Through the comparison between the two works,it can be seen that writers' cultural choices are different.The choosing dimension is closely related with writers' cultural backgrounds.


Cross-section evaluations in the resonance region are performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with the computer code SAMMY based on formalisms derived from the R-matrix theory. Resonance parameters (RPs) obtained in the evaluation, combined with resonance formalism, replicate a regression of the experimental data. The RPs are also used to generate cross-section data for neutron transport calculations in analyses of nuclear reactor design and nuclear criticality safety. In addition to generating RPs, the evaluation also generates the resonance parameter covariance (RPC) data. Several ORNL resonance evaluations, including RPs and RPCs, were incorporated in the recently released US-evaluated nuclear data library, ENDF/B-VII.1. A brief summary of the RPs and RPCs evaluated at ORNL is given.