Acid silage of shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei waste in Nile tilapia diets. Isoproteic (30% DP) and isoenergetic (3,200 kcal kg �1 ) diets were formulated using acid silage of shrimp waste as alternative protein source at five levels (0, 4, 8, 12 and 16%). Two hundred fish (7.2 ± 0.5 g) were randomly distributed in 20 tanks of 100 L at a density of 10 fish tank �1 in a closed recirculation water system. The experiment was accomplished in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 4 replicates. Growth performance and proximal composition parameters of the muscular tissue were evaluated to tilapia fed three times a day to satiation during sixty days. Quadratic effect (p < 0.05) to weight gain, protein efficiency ratio, specific growth rate, protein retention, and linear effect (p < 0.05) to feed consumption, feed conversion rate and gross lipid in muscular tissue were observed. The acid silage of shrimp L. vannamei waste provide better growth performance, without losses in proximate composition of the muscular tissue, with 2.75% of inclusion in fingerling Nile tilapia diets.


Principle of usual thermal infrared detectors was discussed by analyzing thermal infrared detection technology,and the main technology of thermal infrared camouflage stealth technology.The feasibility of achieving objects' thermal infrared camouflage stealth was analysed,by designing with parameters of surface emissivity and thermal inertia.


An approach of covalently immobilizing heparin to modify wholly Polyethersulfone(PES) was studied.The heparin heparinizd-PES wholly was determined quantitatively and qualitatively.Mechanic properties and coagulant time of heparinizd-PES were discussed in comparison with skin-deep heparinizd-PES.The result showed the heparin was linked to PES materials,the mechanic properties of the heparinized-PES wholly materials were kept primely and its coagulant time was much longer,accordingly,the heparinized-PES wholly materials adapted to iatric instrument greatly,especially subminiature iatric instrument.


Measuring the transient voltage including lightning or switching impulse overvoltage is helpful for accident analysis of power system and insulation design. In this paper, a transient voltage measuring system based on the integrated electro-optic electric field sensor was proposed. The principle of the system was introduced and the measuring system was developed. The performances of transient voltage measuring system was tested by simulation experiments and compared with that of standard divider. The field data of the transient overvoltage on a 220kV bus during the process of putting a capacitor voltage transformer into operation were given. The measuring results were coincide with the related physical process. Keywords-measuring system; transient voltage; integragted eletrooptic sensor; lightning impulse; switching impulse


: Lightweight, fast, and accurate deep-learning algorithms are essential for practical deployment in real-world use-cases. Semantic segmentation and object detection are the principal tasks of visual perception. A multitask network significantly reduces the number of parameters compared to two independent networks running simultaneously for each task. Generally, multi-task networks have shared encoders and multiple independent task-specific decoders. Instead, we modeled our network to exploit the features from both encoder and decoder. We propose the multi-task network that performs both segmentation and detection with only 37.9 million parameters and inference time of 74 milliseconds on a consumer-grade GPU. This network performs two tasks with much fewer parameters and in much less inference time compared to each single task network.


Objective:To explore the characteristics of the ultraweak luminescence of human hepatocarcinoma cells(HepG2). Methods: The intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of HepG2 cells and human hepatocytes(QZG)was examined by an IFFM-D chemiluminescence instrument.The intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of HepG2 cells and human hepatocytes(QZG)were affected by different concentration of Luminol and H_(2)O_(2). Results: In 10~(-4)mol/l Luminol and 0.3% H_(2)O_(2),the intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of HepG2 cells was significantly higher than that of QZG cells(P0.05).With cell number increasing,the intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of HepG2 cells increased obviously(P0.05).The concentration of Luminol increased to 10~(-3)mol/l,the intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of human HepG2 cells increased obviously(P0.05).While the concentration of H_(2)O_(2) increased to 3%,the increasing of the intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of cells were not obvious((P)0.05). Conclusion:The intensity of the ultraweak luminescence of HepG2 cells is higher than that of QZG cells.The intensity of the ultraweak luminescence is affected by cell number and the concentration of Luminol and H_(2)O_(2).The ultraweak luminescence reflect functional status of tumor cells.It can become an sensitive index of physiology and metabolism of tumor cells.


We review all hospital recorders of the patients that was submitted to cardiac surgery with sternotomy at the Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal in period of six years. Fifteen patients (1.09%) developed mediastinitis in this period in a total of 1388 cardiac surgeries between January 1995 and March 2001. Sex, age, type of surgery, respirator time, ICU permanence, use of antibiotics and type of bacteria isolated were some variables analyzed.


An investigation was made to determine the chemical composition of thirty-one urinary calculi from range steers and twenty urinary calculi from buffalo. The stone samples were analyzed for percentages of moisture, volatile materials ash, total nitrogen, 'Silica, calcium, magnesium , potassium, SOdium, aluminum, iron, carbon dioxide, phosphates, Oxalate5 amino acid nitrogen, ammonium nitrogen, hexosamine, uric acid, and protein. ' ' , Quantitative analyses of the stones from range steers revealed the universal occurrence of protein and silica* Frequently associated, more or less, were calcium and oxalate. The variation of silica was between 11.5% to 76.1%, the average being 51.9%» ! In contrasts the stones of buffalo from West Pakistan were mainly calcium and carbonate, frequently associated with magnesium and phosphate*.' , THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION .OF URimHY CALCULI FROM MOZItANA RANGE STEERS AND PAKISTAN BUFFALO AND CATTLE . by Hung Ohen OAng ■ ■ ■ A THESIS .Submitted, to the Graduate Faeulty " ■ ■ ■ . ' 1 . . . m : . ■ ■ partial fulfillment of the requirements ■ ■ for the•degree of Master of Seience in Chemistry at Montana StAie College


A spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) using a GaAs tip has been studied to observe the magnetization with nanoscale resolution for a sample magnetized in the plane of the film. A STM image of Si(111) 7×7 surface reconstruction using the GaAs tip was observed clearly under ultra-high-vacuum conditions. We found that the cleaved GaAs tip has a capability of high atomic resolution. Next, circularly polarized light irradiated the GaAs tip, and the I–V characteristics were measured for magnetic Ni80Fe20 and nonmagnetic Au samples. Changes in the tunneling current, which is estimated to be approximately 7%, were observed only for the NiFe sample under the circularly polarized light irradiation. It suggests that the change in the tunneling current is due to the spin-polarized tunneling from the GaAs tip to the NiFe.


Human-computer interface design guidelines [4] are useful for developing good interface designs for various kinds of software. A set of approximately 300 humancomputer interface design guidelines was developed to assist the design of interface software for network operation systems [5]. The guidelines were based on an analysis of operators' demands [1]. To cope with the demands of guideline users, a design guideline database, called "GuideBook," was also developed using a hypermedia approach. This report considers the role of the guidelines or GuideBook and suggests an idea that allows the GuideBook to be used more effectively [3]. First the GuideBook and its use are introduced. Experimental results showing how software designers use the GuideBook in a design review are presented. We discuss a database usage that makes the design review process more effective. The technique is based on an analysis of the designers' strategies.


IN Part 1' the anatomical and histological characters of 4 commercial samples of Brazilian jalap were described. It was observed that although all had the same general anatomical structure there were some marked differences histologically. Although these were insufficient to decide whether or not the roots were obtained from the same or different botanical sources, they were sufficient, particularly in the case of Sample A, to prevent Brazilian jalap from being defined histologically with any exactitude. Further investigations of the histological and pharmacognostical characters of these 4 samples have now been carried out with the object of (1) differentiating still further, if possible, between them and (2) establishing some common features by which Brazilian jalap could be definitely identified in the powdered condition and also distinguished from powdered Vera Cruz jalap, Zpoma purgu Hayne, and powdered Orizaba jalap, Zpuma orizabensis (Pelletan) Ledanois, particularly when in admixture with these drugs. For this reason some of the characters of Brazilian jalap are compared with those of Vera Cruz jalap and Orizaba jalap. The histological characters of Vera Cruz jalap and of Orizaba jalap are well defined and are referred to in various text books of pharmacognosy. In those cases where no suitable information was available, examination was made of representative samples of these drugs taken from the Pharmacognosy Museum, College of Technology, Bristol.


The aim of this conference was to constitute a platform of international information exchange on advanced robotics. The topics of the conference cover, as well as basic research, applications in control, modelling, vision, mobile robots, sensing, programming and teleoperation. In addition the conference provides an opportunity for the exchange of information on the progress of various national and international research and development projects.


We examine the evolution of control configurations during organizational founding in a ten-year case study. By bringing together work on "elements of control"" and "ideal types of control, " we offer new insights about the combinations and uses of various control mechanisms. By integrating these two mutually exclusive research streams, this study takes a significant step toward operationalizing control theory and provides the basis for research to advance in a cumulative fashion.


Visible single-target tracking is an important research direction in computer vision. Recently, twin networks have shown strong performance in target tracking. Although there have been many single-target tracking reviews, there are few summaries of single-target twin networks. In order to better clarify the development status of twin networks, 17 popular trackers are divided into five categories, and the performance of these trackers in five data sets, such as LASOT, OTB and VOT, is discussed and analyzed—finally, the development of single target tracking in twin network prospects.


We are testing the acoustic response of Ho:Tm:YAG and Tm:YAG laser pulses absorption in water and in tissue using a broadband ultrasound PVDF transducer. A clear acoustic signature of the cavity formation as well as its collapse is obtained. The cavity collapse echo carries higher amplitudes and can be eliminated or reduced in tissue by direct fiber-tissue contact. The laser pulse temporal profile--smooth or spiky--has a rather small acoustic impact. Smoother pulses generate somewhat lower acoustic amplitudes during the cavity formation phase.


The focus of this project is the modification of a commercially available in-pavement warning signal that was evolved from one originally designed to indicate the presence of pedestrians in a crosswalk. We have proposed use of a similar device to provide warning to vehicles approaching a railroad grade crossing, and we have tested a variety of illumination patterns in order to provide an optimal implementation of such a warning device. Our laboratory tests demonstrate an improvement in visual response, as evidenced by a lowered reaction time, to a pattern that incorporates alternating groups of spatially-separated flashed LEDs in order to stimulate perception of movement. We have also completed preparations, including installation, for a future field test to study vehicle behavior in the presence of embedded warning lights incorporating this modified firing pattern.


There are series of improved processes of A2/O in domestic and overseas countries recently, which aim at making up the disadvantages of the process of A2/O. The treatment effect has highly improved compared with the traditional process. The development actuality and progress of series of A2/O processes is introduced briefly, which are divided into two - sludge systems and one - sludge systems. And the development direction in the future has been put forward.


The utility model discloses a TV with a timed TV switching control circuit, which comprises a CPU, a DC power supply and a clock chip, wherein the power supply end of the clock chip is connected with the DC power supply on one hand, and is connected with a backup battery through a current supply selection circuit on the other hand, the bus line end of the clock chip is connected with the serial bus line end of the CPU, the crystal oscillation end is connected with an external crystal oscillation, the signal interrupt output end is connected with an interrupt response foot of the CPU, the clock chip is arranged by the CPU of the TV through an IIC bus line so as to cause the clock chip to response at particular time and output interrupt signal, and the CPU controls the TV to finish the start-up or the closedown operation. The circuit structure of the utility model has the advantages of simplicity and efficiency, the interrupt control mode is used to reduce the running program at standby time, and thus, the standby power consumption can be reduced to minimum and the clock control circuit is free from the poweroff effect of the external main power supply so as to effectively ensure the accuracy for turning the TV on and off.


The utility model relates to a display device control arrangement based on infrared, which comprises infrared emission device, infrared receiving device, processing circuit of infrared receiving signal and CPU, CPU orders are respectively displayed by OSD to indicate the responding function on the display in respect to the infrared receiving device. The non-contact method has no requirement of machinery devices comparing with the push-button control to decrease the error dispose of structure and electrostatic test of button and result in simplification of production process and shortage of production period because the utility model generates control signal of light shielding of finger.


Abstract We quantify the surface elevation changes along Yala Glacier in Langtang Valley, Nepal Himalaya, since 1981 using geodetic methods to understand the recent evolution and current state of small debris-free glaciers across the region. We analyse differential global positioning system measurements and aerial stereo imagery that were acquired along Yala Glacier in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2015 to generate digital elevation models for each calculation period. Continuous surface lowering has mainly been observed across the down-glacier area during the calculation periods, although a large degree of variability exists, with this lowering trend propagating up-glacier in recent years. The area-weighted glacier mass balances range from −0.98 ± 0.27 to −0.26 ± 0.30 m w.e. a−1 for the five calculation periods (1981–2007, 2007–2009, 2009–2012, 2012–2015 and 2007–2015). These calculated mass-balance data reveal that Yala Glacier has undergone accelerated mass loss since the late 2000s, which is consistent with the results of previous in situ measurement and remote-sensing studies.


In this study, the deformation behavior of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and its nanocomposites under uniaxial static and dynamic compression loadings were experimentally investigated. The nanofillers used were carbon nanofibers (CNF) with surface treatments and pristine graphite nanoplatelets (GNP) respectively. The dynamic tests were performed at the strain rates of 1 × 103, 4 × 103, and 7 × 103/s using the split Hopkinson pressure bar and the static tests were done at the strain rate of 1 × 10−2/s. In addition, microstructual examinations were performed to gain insights into the observed macroscopic behavior. It was observed that all the materials showed appreciable strain-rate sensitivity. CNF-based nanocomposites exhibited higher strength compared to that of the HDPE matrix material. However, the strength enhancement by GNP was very limited. The lower strength in HDPE/GNP relative to that of HDPE/CNF is likely due to the defect formation around the poor interface between polyethylene matrix and GNP reinforcement. Furthermore, the GNP with lamellate structure is also likely to create two-dimensional interfacial cracks between the two phases, and hence weaken the strength and stability of the composites. It was also observed that for HDPE/CNF composites, different surface treatments did not seem to show significant effects on material strength. POLYM. COMPOS., 2013 © 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers


Objective:To evaluate the pain elleviation efficacy of skin tractin with anti rotation shoe for hip fracture. Methods:38 patients with femornl neck fracture or intertrochanteric fracture were divided randomizdly into two groups, one group was preformed with skin traction with anti rotation shoe, the other was performed with sketefal traction. The effect on pain alleviation was evaluated with a Visnal Analogne Scale(VAS) at the first diagnostic time in emergency room 24 hours Later and 48 hours later after the traction. Results:Skin traction with anti rotation could significantly alleviate hip fracture pain ( P 0.05). There was no difference between skin and sketefal traction ( P 0.05).Conclnsion:Skin traction with anti rotation shoe was a valuable way to alleviate hip fracture pain.


The article analyzes the principle of SDH Terminal Equipment interconnecting with each other,introduces the method of configuring some SDH bytes of lucent ADM155c to resolve the problem of in-terconnecting with other vendors' SDH Terminal Equipment.


There are two problems in synthetic evaluation.Firstly,for the largescale evaluated objectives,the time and space complexity of the operation process expands explosively through classifying,optimizing and searching,massive memory to be stored.They need not only to be stored in database or data ware,but also the results are to be put on the desktop as production,and this leads unreasonable and unscientific results with the existing evaluating methods.Secondly,the data of same class are approximate,and the evaluating objects are accurately for undistinguished difference.From the evaluating results,synthetic evaluation is classified as classified evaluation,ordering evaluation,ordering and classified evaluation.For solving the above problems,the technique of data mining with appropriate arithmetic and information fusion with DS theory is integrated into the new synthetic evaluating method.The method implements classified evaluation with data mining,and the following process performs ordering evaluation based DS evidential reasoning.The data of operation in the example demonstrate that the objects are separated to leveling sorts with data mining when facing the evaluating database objects.The accurate evaluating results are obtained through information fusion.The evaluating objects are more distinctly,and the uncertainty declines greatly.The degree of belief increases,and the results of assessment are improved.


The scattering lengths and effective ranges that describe low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering are calculated in the limit of SU(3)-flavor symmetry at the physical strange-quark mass with Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. The calculations are performed with an isotropic clover discretization of the quark action in three volumes with spatial extents of L ~ 3.4 fm, 4.5 fm and 6.7 fm, and with a lattice spacing of b ~ 0.145 fm. With determinations of the energies of the two-nucleon systems —both of which contain bound states at these light-quark masses— at rest and moving in the lattice volume, Luscher's method is used to determine the low-energy phase shift in each channel, from which the scattering length and effective range are obtained. The scattering parameters in the {sup 1}S{sub 0} channel are found to be m{sub π}a{sup ({sup 1}S{sub 0})} = 9.51+/-0.74+/-1.00 and m{sub π}r{sup ({sup 1}S{sub 0})} = 4.76+/-0.37+/-0.40, and in the {sup 3}S{sub 1} channel are m{sub π}a{sup ({sup 3}S{sub 1})} = 7.45+/-0.57+/-0.71 and m{sub π}r{sup ({sup 3}S{sub 1})} = 3.71+/-0.28+/-0.28. These values are consistent with the two-nucleon system exhibiting Wigner's supermultiplet symmetry, which becomes exact in the limit of large-N{sub c}.


Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. Introduction: Big Questions for Small TechnologiesGraeme Hodge, Diana Bowman and Karinne LudlowPART II: SETTING THE SCENE2. Nanotechnology, Society and Collective Imaginary: Setting the Research AgendaEmilio Mordini3. An Approach to NanoethicsJohn Weckert4. Invisible but Tangible? Societal Aspects and their Consideration in the Advancement of a New TechnologyVolker Turk and Christa Liedtke5. Negotiating the NanodividesRob SparrowPART III: DEMOCRACY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE LAW6. Evaluating What Will Work in Nanotechnology Regulation: In Pursuit of the Public InterestGraeme Hodge7. The Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) of NanomaterialsBrian Priestly and Andrew Harford8. The Risks of Regulation and the Regulation of Risks: The Governance of NanotechnologyDavid Levi-Faur and Hanna Comaneshter9. More than Science: Ethical and Socio-legal Concerns in Nanotechnology Regulation in AustraliaKarinne LudlowPART IV: REGULATING NANOTECHNOLOGY: NATIONAL AND SUPRANATIONAL PERSPECTIVES10. Nanotechnology Regulation: The United States ApproachGary Marchant, Douglas Sylvester and Kenneth Abbott11. Nanotechnology Regulation: Developments in the United KingdomQuasim Chaudhry, Carolyn George and Richard Watkins12. Nanotechnology Products in Australia: Chemicals, Cosmetics and Regulatory CharacterDiana Bowman and Graeme Hodge13. A European PerspectiveMireille OudPART V: REGULATING NANOTECHNOLOGY: THE INTERNATIONAL TERRAIN14. The Role of the World Trade Organization in Nanotechnology RegulationGeert van Calster15. A Sustainable Development for Nanotechnologies: An OECD PerspectiveRob Visser16. Metrology and Standards for NanotechnologyJohn Miles17. How Will the Regulation of Nanotechnology Develop? Clues from Other SectorsDiana Bowman and George GilliganPART VI: CONCLUSIONS18. Conclusions: Big Regulatory Questions - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something BlueKarinne Ludlow, Diana Bowman and Graeme Hodge


A report of the World Health Organization and a study by American investigators Drill and Calhoun indicate a lack of relationship between oral contraceptive usage and thromboembolic disease. An English study by Doll Inman and Vessey contradicts this finding. The American study involved data from existing literature from different investigators and sources which posed diagnosis and sampling problems. The English study was a carefully conducted case/control study which represented a large segment of the population. The English study shows a high association between oral contraceptives and superficial thrombophlebitis deep-vein thrombosis pulmonary embolism and cerebral thrombosis. Doll Inman and Vessey found the risk to users of pills of disease and death from deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism to be more than 8 to 1; the risk for cerebral thrombosis morbidity was 10 to 1. No increased risk of coronary thrombosis was found among pill users. These findings do not indicate a cause and effect relationship. They only indicate the need for further research both clinical and experimental. Long-term studies are especially needed.


The idea underlying the understanding of sustainability is that mankind should live in such a way that will not exceed the carrying capacity of the environment in order to support it. That is, the sustainable management of natural resources is the way to attain sustainable development. On the other hand, ecological sustainability can be achieved only through conservation-based scientific approaches. If the problems to be caused by the uncontrolled use of resources are predicted in advance and if planning is made to this end, the sustainable use of protected areas will be possible. The concept of "carrying capacity" and the planning studies carried out within the framework of this concept are also essential to hand protected areas down to the future.Within the framework of this study, it was intended to determine the carrying capacity of Bayramic Ayazmapinari Natural Park, which was taken under conservation with the "Natural Park" status in 2011 and which plays an important role in the economic development of the locality. "The Method of Estimating the Carrying Capacity in Protected Areas", recommended by the IUCN, was employed in the research, which was carried out to ensure the sustainable use of the study area with important natural and cultural landscape assets. As a result of the method, it was established that Bayramic Ayazmapinari Natural Park had some intensity of use above its carrying capacity. It was concluded that the intensive tourism activities creating a rather negative situation in terms of the sustainability of resources should be re-planned on the basis of conservation & use. Proposals of conservation policies were made in order to hand the existing natural and cultural landscape assets down to future generations. Furthermore, the incomplete or wrong uses in the area were highlighted and various suggestions were made to this end in the research.


Improper tire pressure & temperature is a safety issue that is often overlooked or ignored. A drop in tire pressure by just a few pounds per square inch (psi) can result in the reduction of fuel mileage, tire life, safety, and vehicle performance. This paper presents a kind of Tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) with fuel leak detection, introduces the main chips and the principle of system. Key issue of system are discussed: Installation of master and slave section, Wireless signal transmission, Low power strategies. To address these problems, an automated system that will alleviate the need for actively maintaining tire pressure was designed. Keywords—tire pressure, TPMS temperature, wireless communication,


Azo coupling reactions between β-naphthol substrates and vesicular arenediazonium ion surfactants take place at both external and internal vesicular surfaces with distributions that are sensitive to the presence of anionic substituents on the substrates.


The accurate calculation of molecular energy spectra, a very complicated work, is of importance in many applied fields. Relying on the VQE-UCC algorithm, it is very possible to calculate the molecular energy spectrum on a noisy intermediate scale quantum computer. However, due to the limitation of the number of qubits and coherent time in quantum computers, the complexity of VQE-UCC algorithm still needs to be reduced in the simulation of macromolecules. We develop a new VQE-UCC method to calculate the ground state of the molecule according to the symmetry of the system, the complexity of which is reduced. Using this method we get the ground and excite state of four kinds of molecules. The method and the results are of great significance for the promotion of quantum chemical simulations.


Nowadays, a number of short messages or short text contents created on the Internet are rapidly increasing. Tasks to manipulate, analyze, and extract knowledge from them lead mining techniques such as text clustering to become more important. However, applying traditional text clustering algorithms which consider only common words or phrases to group short texts is inefficient due to the problem of sparsity. In this paper, we propose a new clustering technique, called word semantic graph clustering, based on the use of text concepts. We apply the word embedding model from Word2Vec to capture the semantic meaning of words and later construct semantic subgraphs in which those words represented as vertices are connected by some high semantic similarities. Finally, short text documents will be assigned to the same cluster if they contain at least one word belonging to the same semantic subgraph. Experimental results conducted on two real datasets show that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art text clustering algorithms. In addition, it can also produce more appropriate label for each cluster than the comparative algorithms do.


In this paper, we prove that the bulk of DLA starting from a long line segment on the $x$-axis has a scaling limit to the stationary DLA process (SDLA). The main phenomenological difficulty is the multi-scale, non-monotone interaction of the DLA arms. We overcome this via a coupling scheme between the two processes and an intermediate DLA process with absorbing mesoscopic boundary segments.


The purpose of this paper is to test the sensitivity of theatre attendance in Germany to a number of unique output characteristics of the performing arts, as well as the usual economic variables of price and income. This is made possible by the availability of an exceptionally rich data set relating to the very large theatre sector in Germany. The econometric results indicate that the output characteristics used do impact significantly on theatre attendance in Germany and possibly more so than any of the usual standard economic variables. This suggests that theatre, and the performing arts in general, are indeed "different" and that analysis of demand functions for them should take more account of output-characteristic factors.


THE APPEARANCE of ecchymosis at the umbilicus as a sign of intraperitoneal hemorrhage is sufficiently rare to merit reporting, only 60 cases having been described in the literature to date. Eastman1 recorded that he had seen only three cases, and in none of them was the discoloration sufficiently intense to be photographed. The literature dealing with this sign has been admirably reviewed by Merrill,2 who describes in detail the histopathology of this condition and discusses the theories of its formation. He points out that, although Cullen first described the sign in 1918 and labelled it "a new sign in ruptured extrauterine pregnancy", discoloration of the umbilicus due to the presence of peritoneal extravasations had been previously reported by Ransohoff in 1906. This author described jaundice of the umbilicus in a patient with a ruptured common bile duct, and in 1909, Hofstatter observed a blue discoloration of an umbilical hernia (Hofstatter's sign) in a patient with a ruptured tubal gestation. However, the discoloration in Hofstatter's case was not due to ecchymosis but rather to transmission of the colour of the blood through the thinned-out semi-transparent hernia. Excluding seven cases of Hofstatter's sign and two cases of Grey-Turner's sign (discoloration in the flanks and periumbilical area due to subcutaneous extravasation of fluid secondary to the digestive action of trypsin and lipase), Merrill found records of 57 cases of Cullen's sign in the literature and reported three additional cases, bringing the total to 60. Of these, 33 were due to ruptured tubal gestation, and the remainder were encountered in such varied conditions as acute pancreatitis, ruptured uterus, hematoma of the rectus sheath, ovarian cyst, pyosalpinx, rupture of the kidney due to malignancy, rupture of the liver due to malignancy, ovarian infarcts, abscess in the broad ligament due to infection occurring after abortion, hemorrhage from the liver and stomach due to gunshot wound, and peritonitis due to a ruptured appendix. In two of these cases (abscess in the broad ligament and ruptured appendix) no intraperitoneal bleeding was found. The discoloration has not been limited to the umbilicus, but in some cases has been observed in the midline below the umbilicus and in surgical scars elsewhere in the lower abdomen.


Kratzer, Angelika. 2009. Making a pronoun: Fake indexicals as windows into the properties of pronouns. Linguistic Inquiry 40, 187–237. Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1993. Indexicality and deixis. Linguistics and Philosophy 16, 1–43. Schlenker, Philippe. 2011. Donkey anaphora: The view from sign language (ASL and LSF). Linguistics and Philosophy 34, 341–395. Schwarz, Florian. 2009. Two types of definites in natural language. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Schwarz, Florian. 2013. Two kinds of definites cross-linguistically. Language and Linguistics Compass 7, 534–559. von Fintel, Kai. 2004. Would you believe it? The King of France is back! (Presuppositions and truth-value intuitions). In Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond, 315–341. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wiltschko, Martina. 2013. Descriptive relative clauses in Austro-Bavarian German. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 58, 157–189.


Fuzzy clustering algorithms have been successfully applied to POLSAR classification, but not to POLInSAR. In this paper, a Fuzzy C Means (FCM) clustering algorithm integrating the complementary physical information and statistical property contained in both polarimetric and interferometric data, is used for POLInSAR classification. At first, the area dominated by volume scattering is extracted from polarimetric information using unsupervised H-A-Alpha k-means Wishart classifier with the physical scattering mechanisms of different terrain types; and the volume scattering area (forest area) is further segmented in the feature space of the relative optimal interferomet-ric coherence spectrum A1 and A2. Then a robust unsupervised fuzzy C means (FCM) classifier initialized with the results of the segmentation is applied to the polarimetric interferometric coherency data sets corresponding to the volume scattering area. This will not only take into account the scattering mechanisms of the data, so that the results of the classification have definite physical meaning, but also avoid the problem that the initial value of FCM algorithm is difficult to identify. The proposed method is evaluated and compared with k-means Wishart classifier using repeat pass E-SAR L band polarimetric interfer-ometric SAR data and the corresponding auxiliary image. Preliminary results show that the proposed method has better performance.


To the Editor: Osteoma is a common benign neoplasm characterized by the proliferation of compact or cancellous bone, and one of the most common tumors of the nose and paranasal sinuses. Anatomically, it can be peripheral, central, or extraskeletal, and the growth behavior is dependent on the activity of the periosteum or endosteum. In a recent series of 116 patients with craniofacial osteomas, only 10 cases involved the middle third of the face. To date, only 2 reports of solitary osteoma arising in the zygomatic arch have been described in the international literature. Here, the authors describe a patient with zygomatic arch osteoma and emphasize the surgical approach. The case was a 32-year-old black woman with a 6-year history of a slow-growing painful swelling in the right side of the face. The patient reported associated headache and chronic facial pain related to the right masticatory muscles. The onset was spontaneous and there was no history of trauma. Clinical examination revealed a firm bony hard swelling above the right zygomatic arch, approximately 3 cm in diameter (Fig. 1A). CT scan showed a well-defined, very dense tissue image mainly composed of a homogeneous mass on the right zygomatic arch (Fig. 1B). The approach to the zygomatic arch was performed by means of an extended preauricular incision. After incision of the superficial temporal fascia over the zygomatic arch, a complete view of the lesion was obtained (Fig. 1C). With the use of periosteal elevators, the lesion was easily excised. After osteotomy and tumor removal, rigid internal fixation with 2.0 titanium plate was used to restore the normal bone architecture (Fig. 1D). A masseter


A new coarse-mesh technique, the constrained finite element method, is formulated from the variational form of the even-parity transport equation: Linear finite elements in space are combined with a P/sub 1/ constraint on the angular trial functions at selected nodes to obtain a coarse-mesh three-point difference scheme for the scalar flux. Beginning with the same variational form of the transport equation, response matrix equations are derived that differ from the constrained finite element method only in the angular approximation made at the coarse-mesh nodes. The two techniques are compared to each other, to S/sub 8/ reference solutions, and to diffusion calculations for a number of one-group slab geometry problems involving both homogeneous media and lattice cells; they are found to be of comparable accuracy and efficiency. The generalization of the constrained finite element method is discussed.


The reliability of long lengths of fibers in optical cables is determined by the presence of weak spots which are infrequently produced by normal fiber production methods. It is important to investigate the influence on strength of fiber from different kinds of weak spots. The present study is confined to weak spots resulting from melted-in zirconia particles. Tensile testing of optical fiber, in which strength degrading particles of a roughly dual-size distribution have been introduced on purpose, was done At a wide range of stress rates. The Weibull plots of tensile strength of the fiber were compared with a theoretical distribution, based on a simple relation between particle size and fiber strength. In this way, failure modes could be identified and related to the size of particles. From the comparison it was concluded that the size of zirconia particles has no significant influence on the fatigue of fiber, within the applied stress rates. A significant retardment of the fatigue of weak spots was also observed at low stress rates.


Adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations is acknowledged to be an effective response to agro-ecological challenges, such as climate change, pests, drought, natural catastrophes, and food insecurity. However, its level of dissemination is still low across the world, particularly in the Global South. There is a need for a better understanding of the adoption determinants of these innovations in order to enhance them. This paper presents a systematic literature review focused on the use of sociopsychological determinants to understand the adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations, combining conventional bibliometric analysis with the method of vote-count. This method enabled an evaluation of the ability of the determinants considered by the models, as well as respective sociopsychological constructs, to explain the innovation adoption. Our results show a significant growth in the research employing theory and models built on sociopsychological factors to understand the decision-making processes undertaken by farmers in the context of the adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations. The development of statistical models and techniques, such as the structural equation model (SEM), has facilitated the inclusion of a growing set of sociopsychological variables. However, our review highlights that the selection of the sociopsychological constructs used by research to explain farmers' adoption of sustainability innovations relies mainly on constructs defined for other decisional contexts, such as the adoption of innovations by firms in other sectors. Hence, the low ability evidenced by the models to explain farmers' adoption behavior is due to a poor selection of constructs. The review highlights that this poor selection is a result of repetition of constructs, such as attitude, subjective norms, and little inclusion of other relevant constructs such as knowledge. The paper suggests the need for a better selection of the innovation determinants and measurement of respective constructs adjusted to the case of agriculture and the specificities of the diverse geographical farming contexts.


Risk communication is an important component of food safety analysis framework and the key factor of cultivating public risk perception, linking up with risk evaluation and forming food policies. There has been a lot of literatures to study the choosing basis, influencing factors, and forming processes of risk communication strategies. However, little of them focused on the automatically generating of the strategies. Aims at solving this problem, this paper proposes a mechanism of generating risk communication strategies which is based on the goals of risk communication. Firstly, proposing the innovate structure of risk communication strategies represented of framework and establishing the system of risk communication strategies. Then, based on the system, proposing the model of mechanism of generating risk communication strategies based on goals and stating the model in detail in the example of considering the lowest public opinion as the goal of risk communication. Finally, pointing the possible problems of the mechanism model and further research directions. This paper proposes an intellectualized procedure or method of generating risk communication strategies and provides aids to making the risk communication effective.


The reform of the Social Security system is perhaps the most important item of the agenda of Constitutional reforms in Brazil. Without it, the increase in the (Number of retired people/Number of contributors) ratio will create dramatic fiscal problems in the long term. This article analyzes the evolution of the Social Security expenditures in Brazil during the last 15 years. The focus of the paper is on the composition of expenditures and the trajectory of its real value, with special emphasis on the impact of inflation. After the Real Plan, the possibility that the prices might accomodate the structural pressures for increasing expenditures has practically disappeared. As a consequence, the necessity to reform the retirement system has become more evident. The paper defines a taxonomy of the different proposals of reform, comments on the most relevant issues being discussed within the debate about the Social Security and includes a proposal of reform. This proposal makes only a few changes in legislation and preserves the legal existence of the job time retirement. Nevertheless, it would have a considerable economic impact compared with the preservation of the status quo and would be a more ambitious and more feasible alternative than the one currently being discussed by Congress.


In this comment, we report a difficulty with the-application of the possibilistic approach to fuzzy clustering (PCM) proposed by Keller and Krishnapuram (1993). In applying this algorithm we found that it has the undesirable tendency to produce coincidental clusters. Results illustrating this tendency are reported and a possible explanation for the PCM behavior is suggested.


We present a phase recovery algorithm based on the Weak Object Transfer Function. The algorithm is iteratively extended to also apply to non-weak objects. We demonstrate the algorithm on an EUV multilayer defect imaged through-focus on SHARP with both a standard zone plate and a phase contrast zone plate.


This proceedings is a compilation of 24 papers that were presented at the regional meetings of the forest and conservation nursery associations in the United States in 2005. The Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association meeting was held at the Yarrow Resort Hotel and Conference Center in Park City, UT, on July 18 to 20. The meeting was hosted by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Land, Lone Peak Nursery. Morning technical sessions were followed by field trips to restoration projects on the middle reach of the Provo River, McAffee Hill, and Dry Canyon, as well as tours of the Swaner Nature Preserve outside Park City, UT. Subject matter for the technical sessions included restoration outplanting, native species propagation, bareroot and container nursery culturing, greenhouse management, and gene conservation. The Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association meeting was held on August 1 to 4 at the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield, MO. The meeting was hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation, George O. White State Forest Nursery. Technical sessions were followed by tours of the Hammons Products Company walnut processing facility and Hammons Sho-nuf Walnut Plantation in Stockton, MO, and the George O. White State Forest Nursery in Licking, MO. Subject matter for the technical sessions included bareroot and container nursery culturing, hardwood management, and insect and disease monitoring.


In some of its many forms, happiness is no emotion. But there is also an emotion of happiness which, like other emotions, has correctness conditions. The correctness conditions of happiness differ in several respects, formal and non-formal, from those of emotions such as admiration, fear and indignation. The account given here of the correctness conditions of happiness suggests an account of happiness as a species of satisfaction and an account of the relation between happiness and affective rationality or reason.


The mechanism of stabilization of neutron-excess nuclei in stars is considered. This mechanism must produce the neutronisation process in hot stars in the same way as it occurs in the dwarfs.


In last decade, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) have emerged as real alternatives to engine-driven vehicles, in order to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. However, their market share is still limited, as their impact on global fossil fuel demand and CO2 production. In parallel, the possibility of upgrading conventional vehicles to HEV is gaining interest. A research work on the development of a kit for converting a conventional vehicle into a Through-The-Road (TTR) Hybrid Solar Vehicle (HSV), performed at the University of Salerno, is presented in this thesis. The prototype implementation through the installation of flexible solar cells, an additional Lithium-Ion battery and two electrically driven wheel-motors on a FIAT Grande Punto is described in detail. In the proposed vehicle, the control of in wheel motors is performed via a designed Vehicle Management Unit (VMU). In order to develop an effective and safe control strategy for in wheel-motors to be implemented on the VMU, a precise real-time knowledge of the Driver Intention is required. In particular, a set of mathematical models using data measured only by the OBD gate are developed (active gear detection, wheel torque estimation) and integrated into a fuzzy logic model. A study on the interaction between the driver and the modified vehicle system is carried out and used to evaluate the effects on drivability of the actuation chain delays due to the use of low frequency data and non-linear combination effect of different actuator interaction. The implemented control strategies are presented in terms of fuel and costs savings and, in particular, the management of regenerative braking is investigated to maximize its benefits and make the whole system work in safe conditions. Moreover, a methodology for predictive maintenance of vehicles based on telemetry technologies is defined in order to predict failure events and suggest the actions needed to avoid them for the user safety improvement., Finally, a study on turbo-compressor models is presented. Engine downsizing and super/turbocharging is currently, together with hybrid systems, the most followed trend in order to reduce CO2 emissions and increase the powertrain efficiency. A key challenge for achieving the desired fuel economy benefits lies in optimizing the design and control of the engine boosting system, which requires the ability to rapidly sort different design options and technologies in simulation, evaluating their impact on engine performance and fuel consumption.


Very rapid development of the era resulted in education not only limited to class meetings. But also penetrated the digital world. The main community of the young generation is very fond of learning through social media. Starting from google, youtube, movies and also various other digital references. However, not all digital facilities, one of which is film that provides educational content that is able to have an impact on changing the character of the younger generation to the better. Mostly only love films and even penetrated in films that should not have been watched by children (sexuality). On this basis, this research was conducted to examine one of the films in the public spotlight namely the film "Snowden". The method used in the research is descriptive qualitative with the approach of study aimed at interpreting and interpreting culture so that readers can understand in the form of meaningful texts. The object of research is the film "Snowden". The theory used in this research is the theory of semiotics which is to examine the symbols, signs and visual meanings in film. Charles Sanders Peirce. Meanwhile the data analysis method uses the Miles and Huberman methods. This research will produce a study of moral values in the film "Snowden". Keywords: Value, Satyam, Film, Snowden


A miniature tensile specimen of V-4Cr-4Ti which had be irradiated in the 17J test at 425°C to 3.7 dpa was mechanically polished, deformed to 3.9% strain at room temperature, and examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy in order to look for evidence of channel deformation. It was found that uniform deformation can occur without channel deformation, but evidence for channeling was found with channels appearing most prominently after the onset of necking. The channeling occurs on wavy planes with large variations in localized deformation from channel to channel.


As the troops loyal to Colonel Qaddafi advance on the rebellious Benghazi and the Saudi tanks roll into Bahrain, the idea of a 'wave of revolutions' is again prevalent in the media, while researchers are struggling to give it a scientific description. Every attempt to scrutinize and rationalize this phenomenon, which was first registered in Europe back in 1848, produces only a mechanic scheme with little explanatory and no forecasting power, and the book under review is hardly an impressive example of such attempts. It deals with the 'wave' that swept across the post-Soviet space in the first half of the 2000s and provides merely a collection of descriptive cases, where two spectacular successes (Georgia and Ukraine) and one odd breakdown (Kyrgyzstan) are put together with ten failures or non-starters. There is no theorizing or rigorous comparison, but one of the conclusions is that a 'relatively liberal political environment is necessary' (p. 240) for a revolutionary mobilization. Tunisia fits this pattern, while Libya and Egypt don't. Strong evidence also connects revolutions with elections, the authors claim. But the Arab 'wave', as well as the violent turmoil in Kyrgyzstan in spring 2010, negates this causation. What is even more interesting is that the determined protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo had no leaders and no formal organization, while the authors assume that well-developed structures of opposition are a key precondition for success. The swing of the revolutionary activity from snowy Minsk in December 2010 to rainy Tunis in January 2011 was completely unexpected, and the challenges for analysis have exploded in complexity, while the instruments – as the book shows – are badly inadequate. Pavel Baev Chenoweth, Erica & Adria Lawrence, eds (2010) Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 285 pp. ISBN 9780262514286.


This study investigates the influence of substorm-related energetic particle precipitations and polar cap patches (PCP) on GPS signal scintillations in the high-latitude ionosphere. These ionosphere disturbances are a most powerful at the high-latitude region. A number of events in 2010-2017 are analyzed when the EISCAT radar data on Svalbard was available. We use data collected by the GPS scintillation receiver (University of Oslo) at Ny-Ålesund. Substorms are identified through IMAGE magnetometer data as well as optical observations in Ny-Ålesund. Occurrence of polar cap patches is determined by using electron density data from the EISCAT 42m radar (as a density increase above 200 km) and by considering optical observations at Ny-Ålesund station at 630.0 nm emission line. For some events, we show the onset of PCPs on the dayside and their propagation into the nightside, where the GPS receiver is located, by considering data from the Resolute Bay (Canada) incoherent scatter radar (RISR) and the SuperDARN radars. Our analyze shows that GPS amplitude scintillation index (S4) practically have no changes during considered events. We demonstrate that substorm-associated precipitations can lead to a strong GPS phase (σφ) scintillations up to ~2 radians which is much stronger than those usually produced by PCPs. On the Figure 1(left panel) it is shown the substorm growth at 16 UT which lead to the strong phase scintillations (1.5 radian). On the other hand, PCPs can lead to a much faster ROT (rate of total electron content) variations. On Figure 1 (right panel) the PCPs during the substorm development are shown. Substorm at 19 UT leads to a strong phase scintillations (0.9 radian) while PCPs lead to stronger ROT variations at 20-21 UT. Our observations suggest that the substorms and PCPs, being different types of the high-latitude disturbances, lead to the development of different types and scales of ionospheric irregularities.


We discuss the recent detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab Pulsar above 100 GeV with the VERITAS array of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Gamma-ray emission at theses energies is not expected in present pulsar models. We find that the photon spectrum of pulsed emission between 100 MeV and 400 GeV can be described by a broken power law, and that it is statistically preferred over a power law with an exponential cut-off. In the VERITAS energy range the spectrum can be described with a simple power law with a spectral index of -3.8 and a flux normalization at 150 GeV that is equivalent to 1% of the Crab Nebula gamma-ray flux. The detection of pulsed emission above 100 GeV and the absence of an exponential cutoff rules out curvature radiation as the primary gamma-ray-producing mechanism. The pulse profile exhibits the characteristic two pulses of the Crab Pulsar at phases 0.0 and 0.4, albeit 2-3 times narrower than below 10 GeV. The narrowing can be interpreted as a tapered particle acceleration region in the magnetosphere. Our findings require that the emission region of the observed gamma rays be beyond 10 stellar radii from the neutron star.


An imaging spectrometer design has been demonstrated which utilizes a plano blazed diffraction grating in divergent light. It offers important advantages over traditional collimated light spectrometers using either a grating or a prism. This design in a simple, compact configuration has linearity in wavelength and field and uniform spacing of wavelengths with no geometric distortion (smile). In addition to these features, polarization sensitivity and radiometric efficiency of the design will be discussed and compared with the requirements for the High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (HIRIS) for the Earth Observing System.


It was 1816, and the recent eruption of Mt Tambora in the Dutch East Indies had produced the climatic disturbance known as the Year Without a Summer. According to her own narrative, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was visiting Geneva with her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Byron's youthful personal physician John Polidori. Owing to the beastly weather, the friends were obliged to spend many days indoors. While the hoi polloi of that era may have been satisfied to busy themselves with rounds of whist, cribbage, or the 19th-century equivalent of beer pong, this coterie of literary geniuses challenged each other to a much more intellectual competition. Inspired by a collection of German ghost stories at their disposal, they decided to see who could write the best addition to that genre of literature. Mary, who had never before written anything for publication, thrashed about for days in a fruitless search for a suitable topic. Inspiration finally came in the form of a dialogue between Byron and Shelley on the principle of life, including allusions to the popular rumor that Charles Darwin had succeeded at animating a piece of vermicelli preserved in a glass case. ''Perhaps,'' she thought, ''the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth. Frightful it must be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.'' So was born the tale of Victor Frankenstein, the youthful Swiss student whose passion for modern science mingled with ancient works of alchemy and the occult drive him to discover the secret spark that can imbue inanimate matter with life. Working in crazed solitude, the young Frankenstein painstakingly assembles a giant humanoid creature from biologic materials salvaged from the graveyard, dissecting room, and slaughterhouse. Finally, on a dark and stormy November night, he culminates his creation by endowing it with the spark of life. Although the author provides few details of the thing's appearance, Frankenstein is immediately repulsed by this unnamed creature, whether because of its hideous countenance or his realization that he has violated the laws of Man and Nature by bringing it to life. Mary Shelley's novel was an immediate commercial success and is often cited as the first modern work of science fiction. Although it spawned a plethora of cinematic progeny that emphasize its more lurid features, Frankenstein is also a profoundly philosophical, contemplative work. Its subtitle, The Modern Prometheus, reflects its heart of classical tragedy, recalling the mythic tale of the Titan who was condemned to endless torture for striving too far by creating Man and endowing him with fire. Victor Frankenstein's nameless creation is a highly intelligent and sensitive being, ultimately driven to violence by heartless rejection by his own creator and isolation from the rest of mankind. Plaintively he laments to Frankenstein, ''You, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. How dare you sport thus with life?'' Although we may not be quite ready to fabricate an entirely new individual from the salvaged remnants of others, orthopaedic surgeons have not been shy about gleaning choice bits of tissue from those who no longer require their service in order to shore up deficiencies in our still-vital patients. Utilization of allografts varies tremendously among practitioners and localities. In some places, allograft use is frequent and widespread, in others generally restricted to salvage situations when autograft options are depleted, in still others completely prohibited by custom or law. In the knee alone, surgeons have utilized allografts to replace damaged tendons, menisci, articular cartilage, and subchondral bone; but the most popular use of allografts has been to reconstruct severely injured ligaments, especially the anterior and posterior cruciates. Allograft ligament reconstruction continues to be a controversial topic. Concerns have included potential variability in tissue quality related to donor age or processing techniques, the risk of disease transmission, sluggish graft incorporation, and the possibility of immunological reactivity, not to mention cost. Since contemporary screening methods seem to have reduced greatly the risk of disease transmission, the current overriding concern is that one or more of these factors may ultimately translate into an increased failure rate compared with native autograft reconstruction. The literature of allograft anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is extensive, spanning the methodological gamut from case series to randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Unlike many issues in orthopaedic sports medicine, an abundance of comparative studies have been conducted to determine whether allograft and autograft ACL reconstruction techniques have a similar rate of success. Nevertheless,


The small-signal transient and sinusoidal steady-state responses of a material with generation and recombination (G/R) of charge are considered. Immobile positive charge and mobile negative charge arise from the dissociation of intrinsic or donor centres and recombine bimolecularly. The mobile charge may react at electrodes. An exact solution for the steady-state admittance of the system is presented, along with exact and approximate equivalent circuits. The simple approximate circuits, made up entirely of frequency-independent elements are found to approximate the exact admittance to better than 1% for all frequencies and for realistic G/R conditions in the completely blocking situation. Similar accuracy is obtained for partly blocking conditions provided G/R and electrode reaction time constants are well separated.


A together with the pump head can be prevented from being opened by collision, a screw cap is prevented from loosening from the opening of the container. And A pump head, comprising a screw cap, a cylinder, a piston rod, a, a loosening preventing lotion pump pawl and teeth affect each other in the pump head and the screw cap is provided. If the pump head is rotated in the locking direction, claws are beyond the teeth, the pump head may rotate to an open direction, affecting nails and teeth together to prevent rotation of the pump head. Pump head of the anti-loosening lotion pump further comprises a movable nozzle to face. .The


High temperature superconducting (HTS) transformer is favored to reduce the energy loss by replacing normal conductor windings with superconducting windings. In order to reduce perpendicular field component around the HTS windings, the air gaps insider the windings are optimized and discussed to suit practical HTS transformer development.


Most network design problems are computationally intractable. For obtaining approximations, greedy heuristics are commonly employed. The Esau-Williams (1966) algorithm adopts a better greedy heuristic in solving the (constrained) capacitated minimum spanning tree (CMST) problem, using a tradeoff function computing the potential saving in the cost of a link. In this study, the component-oriented tradeoff computation is employed instead of the node-oriented one to implement the heuristic efficiently. The improved Esau-Williams algorithm is modified for variations of the CMST problems with order, degree and depth constraints.


This paper briefly introduces the accelerating mechanism of salt when dyeing the cotton fiber with reactive dyes, and expounds the approaches of realizing low-salt and salt-free dyeing in four aspects: devel-opment of the new reactive dyes; modification of cotton fiber; establishment of reasonable dyeing process; development of the salt-free auxiliaries.


We report the case of a fifty-two years old patient who presented symptoms of spinal cord compression with incomplete paraplegia in relation to a solitary vertebral tumor of T5. The patient required an urgent surgery for decompression and fixation; the resection of the tumor was intralesional and was complemented by radiotherapy later on. Results of the histological examination confirmed the tumoral nature of the lesion and were compatible with the diagnosis of solitary amyloidoma of T5. The patient recovered progressively. The disease recurred few months later with extension to the lower level T6. The patient underwent a second surgery as complete as possible because the global prognosis of this kind of tumor is essentially related to local recurrence. So a double level vertebrectomy by posterior approach only was


Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is written in Latin and deeply depends on Conics by Apollonius of Perga. Both are the hurdles for modern readers to wish to read Principia. Language problems may be solved by good translations. The aim of this study is to prepare a primer on the conic sections dependent only on the knowledge of the first year students in the tertiary education without using calculus or higher analytic geometry. The purpose is fulfilled by use of symmetry, i.e., a circle and a rectangular hyperbola for elementary demonstrations, as well as coordinate straining to generalise the special results. In case of a parabola its symmetry is made most of, too. The result is structured by three definitions, two lemmas and six theorems to tackle at Newton's Lemmas XII, XIII, XIV and the Power of a Point Theorem.


To mitigate the negative impact of varying satellite signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) on the vector lock loop(VLL) in a Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS) receiver,an innovation based adaptive Kalman filter is employed to real-time adjust VLL measurement noise covariance matrix.Intermediate frequency data from a Global Positioning System(GPS) signal generator are post-processed using a software GPS receiver to verify the proposed method.The experimental result shows that VLL with the proposed adaptive Kalman filter outperforms under lower SNR conditions or with even insufficient amount of visible satellites comparing with the conventional scalar lock loop(SLL).Both carrier frequency tracking results and navigation solutions from the proposed method are more accurate than those from either fixed-parameter VLL or conventional SLL.


The sensory evaluations are increasingly taking its position of importance within the centers producers and sellers of food and other products. In these evaluations, a series of treatments is given to each panelist, and a major problem is that the response depends not only on the treatment currently applied, but on the former followed by him. Therefore, a method often used is descriptive analysis, performed by trained people, receiving the name of quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA). In order to solve the problem presented, Williams (1949) presented the Latin square design balanced for neighborhood that, in general, ensuring that the residual effects of the treatments do not influence the comparison of treatment effects. Appropriate methods of construction, randomization and analysis, using the method of QDA such designs are described and adapted to the problem. Are presented, analyzed and discussed, yet, the results of an experiment of sensory analysis of different brandy, planned and conducted by the author. Concluded that, for the planning of tests to quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA), the Latin squares balanced for neighborhoods, and repeated the last column, are an important alternative.


Background:CTONG1506, an observational study assessed the real-world treatment patterns and overall survival (OS) of Chinese advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in current treatment practices.Methods:Patients initiated with 1st line therapy were identified from 12 tertiary hospitals across China. Survival data were collected 1- and 2-years after study initiation. OS was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.Results:Among 540 patients with survival data, median OS was 21.4 months (95% CI: 18.1–25.5), and 2-year OS rate was 46.3% (95% CI: 42.0%-51.0%). Median OS for patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR+) mutation (n = 203), anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK+) rearrangement (n = 24), EGFR-/ALK- were 27.9 months (95% CI: 23.4-NA), 24.5 months (95% CI: 18.1-NA), and 15.7 (95% CI: 13.1–21.1) months, respectively. Median OS was not reached in EGFR exon 19 deletion patients compared to EGFR exon 21 L858R mutation patients (21.4 months, 95% CI: 16.7–35.6, P = 0.038). 93 EGFR + patients received tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) alone, 21 received chemotherapy alone and 66 received TKI and chemotherapy [median OS 25.5 months, 18.1 months, and 35.6 months, respectively]. For EGFR + patients, TKI alone was the preferred therapy in 1st (58.2%) and 2nd (56.8%) line when compared to chemotherapy (35.1% and 31.1% respectively). In 3rd line, chemotherapy was preferred (46.0%) over TKI only (38.0%) in these patients.ConclusionsOS for patients with advanced non-squamous NSCLC patients aligned with previous trials. EGFR + patients who received both TKI and chemotherapy had longer median OS, which is consistent with results from other trials.


New apparatus to measure the head and eye movements in real time has been developed. System is used as an instrument to diagnose vertigo patients. Eye movement is observed by a charge coupled device (CCD) image sensor camera. Motion of head is detected by 3SPACE ISOTRAK, of which working principle is measuring orthogonal magnetic fields. Data of three normal and three abnormal subjects including vertiginous persons have been acquired by the system.


Purpose Previous studies investigating the association between interleukin-17A (IL-17A) G197A polymorphism and gastric cancer risk have provided inconsistent results. We, therefore, conducted this meta-analysis to clarify the association between IL-17A G197A polymorphism and gastric cancer risk. Methods We searched PubMed, Excerpta Medica Database, and CNKI databases to identify relevant studies up to June 10, 2017. A total of 16 case-control studies including 6,624 cases and 7,631 controls were identified. Results Overall, significant associations between IL-17A G197A polymorphism and gastric cancer risk were observed (A vs G: OR =1.24, 95% CI =1.14–1.36; AA vs GG: OR =1.63, 95% CI =1.35–1.96; GA vs GG: OR =1.12, 95% CI =1.01–1.25; AA+GA vs GG: OR =1.23, 95% CI =1.11–1.35; AA vs GA+GG: OR =1.54, 95% CI =1.27–1.87). Similar associations were also observed in Asian population (A vs G: OR =1.25, 95% CI =1.15–1.37; AA vs GG: OR =1.62, 95% CI =1.33–1.97; GA vs GG: OR =1.16, 95% CI =1.07–1.25; AA+GA vs GG: OR =1.24, 95% CI =1.15–1.33; AA vs GA+GG: OR =1.51, 95% CI =1.23–1.85), in Caucasian population (AA vs GA+GG: OR =2.19, 95% CI =1.40–3.44), and in the hospital-based controls' subgroup (A vs G: OR =1.30, 95% CI =1.17–1.45; AA vs GG: OR =1.81, 95% CI =1.46–2.25; AA+GA vs GG: OR =1.27, 95% CI =1.12–1.43; AA vs GA+GG: OR =1.71, 95% CI =1.34–2.18). Conclusions The current meta-analysis suggests that IL-17A G197A polymorphism might enhance gastric cancer risk.


Psoriasis affects approximately 120–180 million people worldwide. Interestingly, its incidence increased significantly from 50.8 in the period 1970–1974 to 100.5 per 100,000 in the period 1995– 1999 (1). In recent years, pathophysiological phenomena in psoriasis and disease-related psychosocial aspects have been approached quite differently. The multiaspect nature of psoriasis as a systemic disease associated with numerous multiorgan abnormalities and complications has been recognized. The available studies indicate that the etiology of psoriasis may be extremely diverse in individual patients. It is known that its prevalence in the population is affected by genetic, environmental, immunological, viral, infectious, biochemical, endocrine, and psychological (trauma, stress) factors as well as alcohol and drug abuse (2,3). Psoriasis is associated with cardiovascular abnormalities; moreover, it increases the risk of the numerous diseases, including atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, hypertension, diabetes type 2, obesity, cancer, depression, osteoporosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and even cerebral stroke (4,5,6). The knowledge concerning new parameters involved in the psoriatic process increases continuously. The recent findings presented by Chen and coworkers (2009) (3) demonstrate elevated levels of osteopontins (OPNs) in peripheral blood of psoriatic patients. According to them, high levels of OPNs in plasma are unfavorable risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in psoriatic patients. It should be stressed that the regulation of cellular cholesterol metabolism is fully shaped already in the fetal life. The maintenance of its steady cellular levels is an important element of cellular and systemic homeostasis (7). Alterations in the organization of lipids may lead to serious consequences affecting such cellular functions as signal transduction and membrane trafficking (8). The main features of the corneous layer observed under scanning electron microscope include widened intracellular spaces, lack of resistant intercellular junctions, and impaired intracellular adhesion, which may result in markedly abnormal cholesterol homeostasis (8,9). This phenomenon may be reflected by other lipid metabolism disturbances in psoriasis. Cholesterol is one of the essential regulators of lipid organization, and mammals have developed sophisticated mechanisms to maintain low cellular cholesterol levels in membranes. As soon as these homeostatic mechanisms are overwhelmed, as in late stages of atherosclerosis, the results can be very dangerous (8). The objective of the present study is to review the available literature data on lipid metabolism abnormalities in psoriasis, relations of such abnormalities with systemic changes, and effects of lipid diet on psoriasis together with drugs' influence on lipid parameters. In 1924 Ishimaru, one of the pioneers of lipid metabolism research in psoriasis, quantitavely analyzed serum cholesterol in psoriatic patients. However, his findings were not conclusive. In subsequent years, numerous researchers addressed this issue. Lortat–Jacob and coworkers (1926) were the first to pay attention to hypercholesterolemia in psoriatic patients and possible alleviation of disease clinical symptoms by decreasing cholesterol levels (10,11). In the same year, Lacroix demonstrated significant amount of cholesterol in scaly plagues. He detected elevated cholesterol levels in serum – in 40% of patients, this index was higher than 200 mg % – and suggested that psoriasis might be the form of cholesterol elimination through the skin (10). In the 30s, Grutz and Burger considered psoriasis as "lipoidosis" and put forward the hypothesis that the intestinal epithelial cells, like psoriatic keratinocytes, contained excessive lipids, which is likely to hinder the absorption of lipids through the intestinal wall. They considered the development


Spectral radiance imagery measured by the Airborne Visibleflnfrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) are reduced to reflectance through compensation for atmospheric scattering water vapor absorption absorption of the well mixed gases solar irradiance and the solar zenith angle. The LOWTRAN 7 (Kneizys et al. 1989) radiative transfer code form the basis for this retrieval. LOWTRAN 7 is constrained with water vapor determinations from the AVIRIS radiance data through an algorithm operating on the 940 urn atmospheric water band for every spatial element. In situ measurements of atmospheric optical depths are used to constrain the LOWTRAN 7 aerosol models. Accuracy of the retrieved reflectance spectra is evaluated with respect to surface spectra measured at the time of the overflight. The mineral bastnaesite is identified in the analysis of the retrieved reflectance imagery. These reflectance data provide a means to map the subtle mineral gradients in the PreCambrian block of the Clark Mountain range in southeastern California for geological analysis. 1. 0


Probe calibration temperature dinamomecanicos analysis equipment, consisting of a container (2) of flexible material which allows deformation capacity between 1 m {mi} and supports several millimeters intervals temperature of -200 ° C to +800 ° C; containing (3) of material with a melting point or solidification or transition into a clearly defined and known thermomechanical property, and also allows the whole cylinder to change their thermomechanical behavior for one or more frequency signals, defined and without significant aberrations for at least 10 trials; an outer coating (4) of homogeneous material and low emissivity which supports both temperatures and stresses to which the specimen is subjected; and an inner coating (5) of material that eliminates or minimizes the possible alloys, amalgams, oxidations or other damages of the container (2) caused by the contents (3).


Wei-Chen Huang 1 Tzung-Hai Yen 2,3 Long Lin Chemin Lin 3,5,6 Yeong-Yuh Juang Bi-Hwa Wang Shwu-Hua Lee 1Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan; 2Department of Nephrology and Clinical Poison Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan; 3School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; 4School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; 5Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan; 6Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan; 7Department of Psychiatry, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan; 8School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan Purpose: Previous suicide behavior predicts future suicide risk. Studies of suicide repetition are important for suicide prevention. This study examined the clinical characteristics and psychiatric comorbidities of pesticide self-harm as associated with suicide attempt repetition status. Patients and Methods: This retrospective, observational study included patients admitted to a medical center in northern Taiwan between 2000 and 2015 following suicide attempts by pesticide. Diagnoses were made by a consultation-liaison psychiatry team based on the DSM IV-TR criteria. Independent samples t-test was used to analyze the quantitative variables and Pearson's Chi-squared test with a Bonferroni adjustment for categorical variables. Univariate binary logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the predictors for repeated suicide attempt and multivariate binary logistic regression analysis to identify significant associated factors. Results: Among 151 patients, organophosphate pesticides were the most used (80.8%). The average age was 52.9±17.2 years. Most patients were married males from rural areas, with depressive disorder most often diagnosed (40.4%). Nearly one-third of them were suicide repeaters (n=43, 28.5%); these patients were less likely to be married (53.5%, p=0.001), had previously used psychiatric services (72.1%, p<0.001) and chose complex suicide (46.5%, p=0.014) more often compared to nonrepeaters. No significant differences were found between repeaters and nonrepeaters regarding psychiatric comorbidities. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that marital status (odds ratio: 2.916, 95% confidence interval: 1.234–6.891, p=0.015) and previous psychiatric services usage (odds ratio: 6.897, 95% confidence interval: 3.012–15.625, p<0.001) were significant risk factors associated with suicide repetition. Conclusion: Pesticide suicide repeaters were characterized by less likely to be married and more likely to use psychiatric services before suicide attempts. These features help ensuring that the needs of people who have made a suicide attempt are addressed, and it reduces the likelihood of repetition.


THORAX Thoracic radiographs are routinely performed for cancer diagnosis and staging. One of the most common uses for thoracic radiographs is to evaluate for metastatic neoplasia, particularly pulmonary metastasis. Radiographs can also identify thoracic masses, as well as sequela to neoplastic processes, such as pleural effusion. Obtaining wellpositioned three-view thoracic radiographs (right lateral, left lateral, and ventrodorsal projections), instead of a single lateral projection or two view thoracic radiographs will help with lesion detection, as some lesions will only be seen in one view, and with identifying the lesion location and extent. Pulmonary nodules, thoracic lymphadenopathy, and sometimes even thoracic mass (pulmonary, mediastinal, heart base, etc.) can be missed on radiographs. Thoracic computed tomography (CT) is superior to radiographs for lesion identification. Thoracic CT can be used to evaluate for metastatic neoplasia (e.g. pulmonary nodules, lymphadenopathy), to find lesions otherwise not appreciable with radiographs, to determine lesion location and extent, and for surgical planning. Ultrasonography can be used for lesion sampling or to evaluate intrathoracic masses and the pleural space as long as the structure of interest is not surrounded by aerated lung; air in the lungs will obscure evaluation of everything deeper than the surface of the lungs. Thoracic MRI is not as routinely performed because any motion, including respiratory and cardiac motion, results in significant artifacts. In this section, we will briefly discuss radiographic primary and metastatic pulmonary neoplasia, histiocytic sarcoma, lymphoma, and carcinomatosis.


A brief introduction to the architectural approach of building recycling of the paris-based atelier reichen & robert and analysis of its biggest project to date: conversion of the great 19th-century iron hall at la villette (erected to house cattle awaiting slaughter) to a multipurpose forum. With 18 photographs and plans.


Idiopathic fibrosis of the quadriceps muscle is due to chronic fibrosis within the muscle starting from early childhood presenting as progressive loss of knee flexion. Very few cases have been reported in literature with MRI findings. 13 Y Male patient with complaint of abnormal gait during walking since2yrs of age was clinically and radiological evaluated. Magnetic resonance imaging of right thigh showed marked rectus femoris muscle atrophy with fat infiltration and fibrous band within.


In the November, 19 5 5, issue of THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS two otherwise penetrating and provocative writers misinterpret and distort the role of the social sciences in political research.' Such misinterpretations can frequently be dismissed as unimportant manifestations of personal insecurity on the part of historically oriented value-theorists who feel threatened by the scientific methods of the so-called political behaviorists. Neither of these writers neatly fits this category, and their own penetrating research in their respective areas of interest requires an analysis of how and why they misinterpret as they do. In Charles Hardin's review of two books on the relationships of farm politics to democracy, and in his own analysis of that subject, there seem to be certain questionable assumptions that detract from his own penetrating insights.2 He assumes the characteristics of the other social sciences to be of such a nature that his possible oversights must either remain areas of ignorance for political scientists or subject only to the sort of personal subjective evaluation that the other author in question, Andrew Hacker, insists upon with his remark that: "I do not believe that an area such as this can be studied in any objective manner."3 It is doubtful that Hardin would agree with Hacker's possibly tongue-in-cheek belief. Focusing on the democratic goal of equality of opportunity, Hardin suggests that organizations and institutions fall short of the desirable goal; that group behavior must be studied in terms of individual psychology and morality as well as in organizational or institutional terms; that to achieve fuller equality of opportunity a


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Accurate segmentation of cells and nuclei is the key technology in computer-assisted diagnosis of cervical cancer. In this paper, a multi-active contour method, which was based on semantic segmentation of the U-Net model, was proposed for overlapping cells segmentation. First, each sample image was labeled as three parts:background, cell and cell nucleus. Then, the U-Net model was trained to segment the cervical images to obtain the cell and cell nucleus; meanwhile, the cell clump information could be obtained. The active contour for each cell was initialized according to the distance from the pixel point to the cell nucleus, and the energy functional was established based on shape prior of cells, the edge prior of images and the mutual prior between different contours. Finally, every single cell was segmented by minimizing the proposed energy functional. Experiment comparisons show that the segmentation method proposed in this paper can segment cervical cells under complex conditions, including independent cells, overlapping cells and their nuclei. The experimental results also prove the effectiveness of proposed method.


Sign language data can be expressed as the positional changes of hands over time. Although increasing the number of hand movement sensors increases the recognition rate, the data scales become larger. In addition, each sign language data has a different duration. When large data are generated continuously, lower memory usage and a standardized form of data are necessary to be applied immediately in the recognition system. In this paper, we propose an incremental model that can discover major patterns and summarize entire multivariable time series data. First, Dynamic Time Warping(DTW) is applied to preprocess the data to align the length of the time series data with the same size. The contribution of the proposed incremental model is hidden variable detection and correlations of the data with temporal features. Our experiment exhibits much lower reconstruction error rates compared to Principal Component Analysis(PCA). Low reconstruction error rate can minimize the loss of information arising from feature extraction or the dimensional reduction of data. Then, it can be applied in the field of computer vision to compress an image, for image restoration and intelligent recognition systems.


Many sustainability education experts call for education that is embedded in local issues. Locally relevant sustainability education is believed to promote improved literacy, critical and social skills (Ernst & Monroe, 2006; Larri, 2004; Volk & Cheak, 2003), mental health and wellbeing (Maller, 2005) and increased social capital (Dale & Carlisle, 2008). In Far North Queensland water quality changes in waterways leading to the Great Barrier Reef is a locally relevant environmental issue. Many Far North Queensland communities depend on the health and sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef for their economic, social and cultural wellbeing. Yet most primary schools in the region overlook sustainability education that connects students with local water quality issues.

Our research investigates the barriers and benefits of Far North Queensland primary schools taking up sustainability education which connects to local water quality issues. This paper discusses the barriers and opportunities for water quality work in Far North Queensland schools. We present a case study of a school that has implemented water based sustainability work and discuss the benefits they have derived from it.


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The commercial cities were studied with specialized markets such as Yiwu, Keqiao and Luqiao characteristics in Zhejiang Province with the method of analogizing the process and the characteristics in urban planning. Then, the characteristics, rules and tendencies are summarized in the development of these cities. The relationship is elucidated between the development of specialized markets and the functional districts of the city. And suggestions are provided for the same type of cities in integrating the market and industry, sharing the resources, civil center planning and adjusting the criterion of planning. Thus, it is expected to provide a kind of experience knowledge of planning for the same type of cities.


The subject of the research is digital technologies that are increasingly being used in the main processes of the organization of the labor market and in the implementation and registration of labor relations. The purpose of the study is to analyze the expansion of the use of information technologies in the field of labor and the promotion of employment. The relevance of the research is due to the need for a legal and regulatory framework of new forms of consolidation of labor relations arising in connection with the use of digital and information technologies, the transfer of the main processes that determine labor market relations into an electronic format and the accelerated development of new forms of employment, including self-employed, remote work, freelance. The scientific novelty consists in the systematization of the main trends of changes in the nature of the interaction between employees and employers under the influence of key information technologies in the current labor market. The research methods include analysis, systematization, synthesis, induction, and deduction. The study concludes that as the processes aimed at building a digital economy grow and expand, the format of relations between employees and employers changes significantly, which requires the consolidation of efforts of all participants in social and labor relations and the timely development of the necessary tools of digital public administration provided with new forms of legal regulation of changing and emerging legal relations.


Telecommunication and Internet service enterprise has drastically evolved in the last 10 years across the globe. With demand for huge amounts of data and increased voice traffic, optical fibre is globally preferred technology to transmit high-speed broadband. Nonetheless, fibre optic infrastructure involves construction challenges and continues to fail for several reasons including ineffective leadership, poor stakeholder management, and unclear scope definition. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating influence of project scope on leadership skills, stakeholder management, and execution of fibre optic infrastructure. The study adopted the pragmatism paradigm approach, with a cross-sectional survey design. Questionnaire, interview guide, and document review guide were data collection instruments. Census was used to select 187 respondents from a target population of 187 functional members of staff in fibre optic infrastructure departments of two mobile telecommunication, four Internet service companies, and two policy-making and regularity authorities in Nairobi County in Kenya. Quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics while qualitative data was analyzed by content analysis. It was demonstrated that project scope has a positive and significant moderating influence on the combined influence of leadership skills and stakeholder management on execution of fibre optic infrastructure. This study contributes to the literature in project management by not only providing empirical evidence on project scope, leadership skills, stakeholder management, and execution of fibre optic infrastructure but also by expanding research on project scope. The results may also help professionals in mobile telecommunication and construction industries by providing strategic guideline in effective, efficient, and sustainable execution of fibre optic infrastructure.


Wearable devices with various sensors are useful instruments to monitor human health. Due to the limited size, these wearable devices, however, always encounter critical energy problem, which further hinders their widely application. Considering that wireless communication dominates the total energy consumption, we make an in-depth study on the problem of communication energy consumption in body sensor networks. We first observe that the communication signals from wearable devices have strong correlation with human movements. Based on this correlation, we propose a Movement-based Adaptive Prediction Mechanism (MAPM). Specifically, we exploit Gaussian process regression to precisely fit and predict the transmission power combined with the characteristics of human movements. This prediction enables transmitters to automatically control their transmission power without feedback. Through simulation, we demonstrate that MAPM can save more than 40\% energy compared to the sate-of-the-art methods.


Submitted for the MAR17 Meeting of The American Physical Society Squeezed Light Generation Using a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier in Three-Wave Mixing1 YANJIE QIU, ANDREW EDDINS, KEVIN O'BRIEN, IRFAN SIDDIQI, Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory — The generation of highly-squeezed states using superconducting amplifiers is a valuable tool for quantum optics and quantum metrology in the microwave domain. However, conventional Josephson parametric amplifiers can be limited with respect to squeezing strength, often due to the relatively strong nonlinearity of cavity-based devices. Recently, Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (JTWPA) have been developed exhibiting large dynamic range with a 1dB compression point around -100dBm at the input of the JTWPA and over 3 GHz bandwidth [1]. The high saturation power of these devices makes them promising candidates for generating highly squeezed states. In this talk, we present a novel scheme for operating a JTWPA in three-wave mixing mode, and discuss our investigations of the JTWPA squeezing performance. [1] C. Macklin, K. O'Brien, D. Hover, M. E. Schwartz, V. Bolkhovsky, X. Zhang, W. D. Oliver, and I. Siddiqi, Science 350, 307 (2015) 1This work was supported with funding from the Army Research Office. Yanjie Qiu Univ of California Berkeley Date submitted: 11 Nov 2016 Electronic form version 1.4


This content analysis of 15 Arabic and 3 Turkish drama serials on transnational Arab television examined the gender portrayals of characters. The analysis of 743 characters found that women were underrepresented, less likely to have recognizable jobs, and more likely than men to be portrayed in sex-typed occupations, activities, and settings. The analysis also revealed that programs with female writers were significantly less gender stereotypical. Moreover, differences were found among the producing Arab countries in terms of the portrayals of women; conservative countries had more sex-typed portrayals than the more liberal Arab countries, whereas Turkish programs had similar portrayals to Arabic programs produced in the liberal Arab states. The general findings are discussed in comparison to U.S. programming, and in relation to selective exposure, identification with characters, and potential effects on Arab viewers' gender role beliefs.


Background. SaulWilson syndrome (SWS, microcephalic osteodysplastic dysplasia) is a rare genetic variant of skeletal dysplasia and is determined based on the modern classification for thin bone dysplasias. To date, 16 patients with SWS from different countries have been identified.
Clinical cases. We presented the first description of the clinical and genetic characteristics of two Russian patients with SWS and compared them with published data. The main clinical manifestations of SWS are characterized by a combination of nanism and pathology of long tubular bones, spine, and eyes. Changes in the phenotype of patients in different age groups were analyzed.
Discussion. In the analysis of the clinical manifestations of the observed patients and patients described in the literature, typical dysmorphic features of the face and radiographic data help in the diagnosis of SWS upon clinical examination. In the majority of the described patients, the nucleotide substitution c.1546GA is the major mutation in the gene responsible for SWS, which leads to the replacement of the amino acid Gly516Arg in the protein molecule.
Conclusion. Based on the identified specific features of the phenotype of patients with SWS and the presence of a major mutation in the COG4 gene, a priority analysis of gene mutations is necessary. Orthopedic manifestations of SWS can lead to life-threatening conditions (cervical spine instability) and motor limitations (progressive osteoarthritis) and thus should be monitored dynamically.