In order to meet the requirements of the high accuracy and timeliness of lane line detection for the autonomous vehicle camera, a fast detection algorithm based on the combined gradient and color filtering of lane line pixel for the interest model was proposed. Firstly, based on the high contrast between the lane line and the surface of the structured road, the algorithm uses Sobel edge detection operator to detect the edge information of the lane. Then, according to the white and yellow color features of the lane line, the pixel of the lane line is extracted by filtering these two colors in the color space. Finally, a relatively stable lane line extraction method is obtained based on combining the edge gradient and color filter in the region of interest model.Experiments show that the algorithm has high accuracy, fast speed and good robustness, and can meet the requirements of lane line detection under complex road conditions.


'For too long the accent was placed on creativity' says Benjamin in his essay on Karl Krauss, written at the beginning of the thirties. In this 'plaidoyer' we argue for a destructive critical practice precipitated by the current crisis faced by critique. Following a bare-bones account in which this crisis is traced back to the 1930s, we turn to Benjamin's destructive character (most obviously present in his 1931 article of the same name, but to be encountered throughout his writing) to plead for a deeply negative form of critique. After the uncoupling of critique from the revolutionary organizations of the 1930s, the negativity of critical writing was subsequently lost and predominantly affirmative, post-critical positions carried the day after the defeats of 1968. This has resulted in a divorce between critical writing and possible material change, which has greatly narrowed the critical horizon, by and large anchored within the university. Rather than seeking to find new institutional supports for critique or any kind of critical apparatus, Benjamin's destructive character points towards the clearing away of the status quo.


The freight transport sector needs to improve its competitiveness, whilst at the same time coping with increasing volumes and responding to the demands for sustainability. It will be necessary for the sector to better utilise available transport resources and infrastructure under the concept of "Co-modality", a term coined to signify optimal use of all modes of transport singly and in combination. A key determinant of efficiency in freight logistics is the capability to draw maximum benefit from information and communication technologies. In this context, e-Freight refers to the vision of a paper-free, electronic flow of information associating the physical flow of goods with a paperless trail built using information and communication technologies (Commission of the European Communities, 2007). Aspects of e-Freight include:


sized by Friedlander condensation of 5-aminopyrazole-4-carbaldehydes 3 with α-methylene ketones such as acetone (4a) or acetophenones 4b-f with potassium hydroxide as basic catalyst. Condensation of 5-aminopyrazole-4-carbaldehydes 3 and unsymmetric dialkylketones 6 yielded mixtures of isomeric pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine derivatives 7 and 8. Condensation of 5-aminopyrazole-4-carbaldehydes 3 with CHacidic acylacetonitriles 9 and acylacetates 11 with piperidine as basic catalyst yielded pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine-5-carbonitriles 10 and pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine-5-carboxylates 12; with diethyl malonate 13 as CHacidic component, pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridin-6-ones 14 were obtained.


Cheng brothers'cognition, comprehension and evaluation of Buddhism involve such fields as existence, ontology, ethics and view of life and death. In view of Confucianism, Cheng brothers' treatment of Buddhism is of some sense, yet when turning to a Buddhist viewpoint, it proves to be a big misreading. Cheng brothers'treatment of Buddhism is illuminating in the following messages:the orientation in the discussion of the Buddhism-Confucianism relationship, biased attitudes in culture-selection, a self-aware misreading of Buddhism, and a presupposition of the Buddhism-Confucianism relationship in the Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming Dynasties.


Questions: What is the potential of sheep to serve as seed dispersers via ingestion and defecation in calcareous grasslands? Is the presence of viable seeds from dung correlated with specific seed traits? Location: Calcareous grasslands, South Limburg, the Netherlands/Belgium. Methods: Dung samples (n=24) from sheep were collected between September 2006 and November 2007 from five sites with Mesobromion plant communities, and communities of Nardo-Galion saxatilis. Germinability and identity of seeds in the dung samples were ascertained from germination of seedlings under glasshouse conditions. Seed traits of species with viable seeds in dung were compared with those present in the local species pool. Results: Seventy-two plant species from 23 plant families had viable seeds in sheep dung. The plant families encountered most frequently were Gramineae and Compositae. The most abundant and frequently recorded plant species in dung samples was Urtica dioica, accounting for >80% of the total number of seeds. Mean seed density in sheep dung was 0.8 seeds g-1 dry matter. Seeds with low seed mass and a high seed longevity index were over-represented in dung. Viable seeds >2.5 mg were infrequent in the dung samples. Conclusions: We conclude that sheep are potentially important dispersers of plant species in Dutch calcareous grasslands. Although smaller seeds were relatively abundant in sheep dung, it cannot be excluded that this was mainly caused by differences in seed abundance.


Non‐technical summary  Action potentials generated at the level of the cell body can propagate back to neuronal dendrites, where they activate different types of voltage‐sensitive calcium channels and produce massive calcium influx. Although these calcium signals may control dendritic integration, their mechanisms, dynamic properties and role in different cell types remain largely unknown. We found that in dendrites of hippocampal interneurons, an inhibitory cell type involved in control of network excitability, specific types of calcium channels are present but are recruited in an activity‐dependent manner. Furthermore, their activation produces calcium rises spatially restricted to proximal dendritic sites, where they control the efficacy of transmission at inhibitory synapses. The pathway by which this happens appears to constitute a negative feedback loop – increased firing activity of interneurons potentiates the inhibitory drive that they receive, thus decreasing the activity of interneurons further. This may have a profound effect on the recruitment of interneurons and network activity.


Much attention has been paid to the electronic structure of high-temperature superconductors. The reflection spectra of inorganic materials (even of binary compounds) are known to depend markedly on the condition of their surface. The reflection spectra are especially ambiguous for sputtered layers of ternary (all the more for quaternary) compounds and polished ceramics. This work focuses on the reflection spectra of single-crystal layers of YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7-x} as influenced by annealing, storage time, and position on the surface. The electronic structure of inorganic materials is usually studied by reflection spectra R(E), which allow calculation of the imaginary {epsilon}{sub 2} and real {epsilon}{sub 1} parts of the dielectric constant and other optical functions, as well as by ellipsometry, which allows direct determination of {epsilon}{sub 2}(E) and {epsilon}{sub 1}(E). The application of these methods to high-{Tc} superconductors of the YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7-x} type showed that, in the range 1-5 eV, these spectra exhibited a poorly defined structure. As a rule, within the range 2-5 eV, the reflection is low (R < 0.2), which makes it difficult to discern the features of the spectra. For example, in the range 2-3 eV, the reflectance for the E {parallel} a and E {parallel}more » b polarizations is the same, the spectrum is almost featureless, and R < 0.1. For this reason, the reflection spectra of single crystals and not only those of films and ceramics may turn out to be of definite interest.« less


With the Phase-Root-Seeking algorithm a new and very fast algorithm for time delay estimation was recently introduced, permitting the estimation of strain images in real-time. In this paper the accuracy of the real-time strain imaging concept is investigated by the most rigorous approach, i.e. a comparison to the theoretical accuracy limit: the Cramer-Rao-Lower-Bound. Simulations show, that this limit can be approximately reached by carefully selecting window length and window shift for time delay estimations and using a generalized least square estimator for the estimation of strain from time delays.


Objective To evaluate the effect of quantified diet guidance on postoperative bowel movement of hemorrhoid patients. Methods A total of 62 heamorrhoid cases were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, with 31 cases in each group. The patients in the control group were given routine diet guidance after the operation, while the patients in the observation group were subjected to quantified diet guidance, including when to eat, what to eat and the amount of specific food. Contents of quantified diet guidance were written down in sheets and issued to the patients. Results There were significant differences in the time of first defecation, the characteristics of stool , the incidence of constipation and the pain during the first defection after the operation between both groups (P0.05,P0.01). Conclusion The quantified diet guidance is effective for hemorrhoid patients in controlling postoperative defecation, decreasing the incidence of constipation and alleviating the pain during defecation.


The epileptic seizures occur in an El mouse and a Mongolian gerbil with naturally sensory stimulation. In El mice, a paraboloid movement or a seesaw movement induces seizures very well, and a strange environment or a paraboloid movement does so in Mongolian gerbils. Although the seizure of a Mongolian gerbil is not easily defined as being sensory precipitated, it has many aspects in common with that of an El mouse. In this paper, some characteristic features of seizure foci and generalization of paroxysmal discharges are described. In the ictal EEG of both El mice and Mongolian gerbils, spikes were recognized at first in the unilateral parietal area and spread to the entire cortex within a few seconds. In abortive seizures spikes remained in the restricted regions of the parietal areas. During the interictal periods, most frequently in deep sleep or exceptionally in REM sleep, the spikes showed predominant occurrence in the unilateral parietal area. Thus, in both animals, there were epileptic foci of localized regions of the brain, which were presumed to have a close relationship with the parietal area. It is significant that those foci were spontaneously firing excessively during the interictal period. After a repetition of the stimulus in these animals, occurrences of spikes became more remarkable and showed generalization and seizures occurred finally. Particularly in El


In recent years, many social scientists, in dealing with data of various kinds, have attempted to decompose the difference between two rates into effects of changes in the underlying factors. AU these studies can be divided into two categories, viz., the rate as a function of two or more factors (their product being a special case), and the rate as computed from cross‐classified data involving one or more factors. In the absence of general methods of decomposition to be used under these two circumstances, the researchers have devised their own ad hoc methods which in general produce meaningful results, but are sometimes less than satisfactory in terms of mathematical rigor and elegance. The objective of the present paper is to put together the general formulas that a researcher is expected to need for the two categories of decomposition problems for any number of factors. Applications of the use of the formulas under these two situations are illustrated by four examples. The paper also suggests a solution...


By identifying the working mode of the communication radiation source, its behavioral intent can be comprehended. Tactical data link is a kind of classic communication radiation source with a variety of working modes. Aiming at the typical data link TADIL A, a method for extracting one-dimensional time-frequency features of signals using short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is proposed. Then, one-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) DenseNet-1D is used for training and testing to complete the task of identifying different working modes. The experimental results illustrate that the working mode recognition based on the physical layer signal is feasible.


ABSTRACT The genus Agama in Israel is represented by five taxa which are distributed in different habitats and different zoogeographical regions of the country. An attempt was made to analyze these taxa according to various morphometric characteristics and to correlate these variables with habitat quality as well as with thermal characteristics. The results indicate that the five Agama taxa in Israel segregate on the basis of morphometric and thermal features. Among the morphometric characteristics, the ratios between the length of fore—and hindlimbs and body length were dominant discriminating features, especially between A. sinaita from a hot rocky habitat and all other four species. Body temperature was the main thermal feature accounting for taxon segregation. These results revealed a high compatibility between morphometric attributes and habitat features.


Computer literacy is increasingly important in higher education, and many educational technology experts propose a more prominent integration of technology into pedagogy. Empirical evidence is needed to support these theories. This study examined community college students planning to transfer to 4-year universities and estimated the relationship between students' use of technology and their self-reported educational and technology gains. In doing so, this study provides valuable information for 4-year university and community college administrators, instructors, and students. Results indicate a significant relationship between students' use of technology for academic purposes and self-reported educational gains as well as technological gains. These results add support to claims of the need for a more symbiotic relationship between technology and pedagogy. Implications are discussed for how to better prepare community college students for successful transfer to 4-year institutions. Suggestions on how close the gap between high and low technology users are also discussed.


When the absorbed fraction for internally emitted gamma rays is calculated in the approximation, neglecting both beam attenuation and scatter buildup, the absorbed fraction is proportional to the cube root of the mass. It is generally assumed that this approximation holds only for bodies whose linear dimensions are much less than the mean free path of the primary photons. In this paper, it is shown that the validity of this approximation holds to larger sizes. In particular, absorbed fractions as large as 0.2 will be calculated with an error of less than 10% for energies sufficiently far from the minimum of M,en/,. (E 0.1 MeV for a body in space, or E 0.2 MeV for a body embedded in scattering media).


An investigation was carried out in some areas of Golestan Province including: Loveh forest, Soosara, Daland forest park, Tooskestan; Gilan Province including Siahkal and Asalem forests; Arasbaran and landscape of urban trees during 1999–2007. In this investigation, based on some morphological, physiological and molecular characteristics and also comparison with standard isolates two species Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi were identified as casual agents of Dutch elm disease where majority of isolates belonged to O. novo-ulmi. This is the first report of O. novo-ulmi on Ulmus glabra and U. carpinifolia, from Tooskestan forest and urban elm trees and here it is compared with O. ulmi. The O. novo-ulmi isolates of Iran belonged to the EAN (Euro-Asian) populations based on sequence comparison.


This study examines, using a cross-sectional approach, the digital competence of academic teachers at a time when teaching shifted to digital distance learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers from different academic fields at a large multidisciplinary Finnish university (N = 265) responded to a questionnaire about the purposes for which they use digital tools in teaching, how they evaluated their competence at distance teaching during the lockdown of March-May 2020 and their beliefs about distance teaching. The respondents used digital tools in teaching mostly for delivering information. According to their evaluations, their competence in distance teaching increased during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but their beliefs about distance teaching did not relate to the feelings of competence. Respondents with no experience in distance teaching before the lockdown evaluated their competence as having increased more than did respondents with previous experience. The implications of the findings for understanding competence development are then discussed.


The reaction mechanism of acrylic rosin based epoxy resin (ARER),curing with methyl hexhydrophthanic anhydride (MeHHPA) was studied.Curing behavior of ARER/MeHHPA system was investigated by means of DSC.Apparent activation energy ( E a) and reaction order( n )of curing reaction were calculated and showed that E a was 98 11 kJ/mol and n was 0 89.The curing reaction could complete better when the weight ratio of ARER/MeHHPA was 10/5 2.Gel time of curing system and thermostability of cured product were discussed.The mechanic property of ARER resin cured with MeHHPA was compared with that of 618 # epoxy resin at the same condition and found that both of them were about the same.


Chronic illness accounts for nearly 80% of all disability in the United States today. Effective therapies for these illnesses are primarily "carative" rather than curative. This fact suggests that nurses must help their clients learn how and why to comply with prescribed treatment. Patient compliance education is particularly needed for patients who suffer low back pain, a syndrome costing 1,400 days of work per 1,000 workers each year in the United States (Nachemson, 1966). Two frequently prescribed non-invasive treatments for back strain and pain are back exercises and alterations in activities of daily living (ADL). Yet there are few documented, controlled studies on compliance to and pain relief from these therapies.


We present numerical calculations of molecular-frame photoelectron angular distributions in strong-field ionization of oriented polar HF and LiF molecules by linearly polarized laser pulses with durations of about 20 fs (seven cycles at 800 nm). The calculations are performed within the single-active-electron and frozen-nuclei approximations. Our analysis shows that for the HF and LiF molecules, anisotropies in the molecular potential and the probed orbital lead to enhanced ionization during laser half cycles with the field pointing antiparallel to the permanent dipole of the dipole term in a multipolar expansion of the anisotropic molecular potential. This is manifested as a strong asymmetry in the computed photoelectron angular distributions: The photoelectrons are preferentially detected opposite to the permanent dipole of the molecular potential. This phenomenon is very sensitive to the probed system (the probed orbital and the molecular potential) and the orientation angle between the molecular axis and the laser polarization.


Received/Geliş tarihi: April 14, 2022 Accepted/Kabul tarihi: December 1, 2022 Address for Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Süheyl Asma, M.D., Başkent University, Sickle Cell Unit, Adana, Türkiye E-mail : email@example.com ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-7976 Figure 1. Appearance of leg ulcers from the left ankle. (A) Posterior view of the skin showing a wide tissue defect extending to the Achilles tendon. (B) Perimalleolar wide ulcer from right ankle.


It is based on research by low learning outcomes students on the subjects of social class.The purpose of this research is to describe the increase in learning outcomes.This research is research the act of class.The subject of study grade 5 a total of 24 students .Research instruments sheets observation is the activity of teachers, students, and tests learning outcomes.The analysis of data, known that the implementation of model learning menggunaan picture and picture reached good qualities ( the 70 ). Besides the researchers found that: 1) knowledge of students who achieve ketuntasan i as many as 15 people in the cycle of 24 students with students from 62 percent to 21 percentage of students with the percentage of 88 percent in the cycle of II.2) the students who achieve ketuntasan i as many as 11 people in the cycle with the percentage of 46 percent to 17 students with the percentage of 70 percent in the cycle of II.3) of the analysis of students who achieve ketuntasan i as many as 13 people in the cycle with the percentage 54 percent to 18 students with the percentage of 75 percent in the cycle of II.4 ) caring attitude of students reaching ketuntasan i as many as 11 people in the cycle with the percentage of 46 percent to 20 students with the percentage of 83 percent in the cycle of ii. Based on the results of research, the researchers concluded that students with learning the result can be improved picture and picture menggunaan model .From this conclusion, was recommended to teachers to use the model picture and picture to improve student learning at learning the result of social class. Keyword   : Learning outcomes, kind of classroom picture and pictures, and learning social class.


How to set the high speed turnout rails height in its changed-section part has not been solved from the point of wheel-rail dynamics.By use of the vehicle-turnout dynamic interaction model in which a reasonable sub-model simulates the wheel-turnout vibration and geometrical contact relationship,the influence of the nose rails height in the key section of its changed-section part on the wheel-rail contact characteristics and the dynamics of the high-speed turnout system are presented.It is shown that,if the nose rail height in its key section is reasonably set,the vehicle-turnout system dynamics can be remarkably lowered.On the basis of the simulation results,the reasonable nose rails height of the China-made 200 km/h No.12 single-way-moved nose rail turnout is suggested.Compared with the conventional structural design,the proposed method is helpful to lower the vehicle-turnout system dynamics.


On December 3, 2003, Abbott Laboratories, the pharmaceutical company that makes lopinavir (Kaletra), announced that it was going to raise the price of its other anti-HIV drug, ritonavir (Norvir), from $2.14 to $10.72 per capsule in the U.S.--an increase of 400%. (These prices reflect the Average Wholesale Price, or AWP, a national average of list prices charged by wholesalers to pharmacies.)


We show that, if L is an extremal Type II lattice of rank 40 or 80, then L is generated by its vectors of norm min(L) + 2. This sharpens earlier results of Ozeki, and the second author and Abel, which showed that such lattices L are generated by their vectors of norms min(L) and min(L) + 2.


We first introduce multiscale power (MSP) method to assess the power distribution of physiological signals on multiple time scales. Simulation on synthetic data and experiments on heart rate variability (HRV) are tested to support the approach. Results show that both physical and psychological changes influence power distribution significantly. A quantitative parameter, termed power difference (PD), is introduced to evaluate the degree of power distribution alteration. We find that dynamical correlation of HRV will be destroyed completely when PD>0.7.


Pamela Dickey Young (Queen's Theological College) aims in this concise, clearly written book &dquo;to outline a feminist Christian theology for a religiously plural age&dquo; and to demonstrate the implications for interreligious dialogue and feminist liberative goals of the &dquo;recognition that christology makes claims about truth, goodness and beauty&dquo; (p. 130). Among the presuppositions Dickey Young brings to this project are a dissatisfaction with the prevailing options for describing Christianity's relation to other religions and a concern for a means of affirming Christian identity while avoiding complicity with imperialism, patriarchy and anti Judaism (p. 2-6). She employs five elements to develop her argument: resources from feminist theology; an emphasis on the particularity of religious symbols and, in the Christian context, christology;


A vowel recognition technique that deals with input vowels as one sequence and recognizes them using binary relationships between data is investigated. Speaker-independent recognition experiments on monosyllabic vowels and vowels in words showed that recognition rates are 99.1% and 93.2%, respectively. These results are about 2% better than those obtained using a statistical matching method, for instance, a Bayes classifier, which discriminates each vowel individually. Furthermore, it is shown that the presented method works well even under the vowel-sequences which contain segmentation errors.<<ETX>>


Objective To investigate the clinical pathway applied to health education intervention for pregnant women undergoing elective cesarean section.Methods 253 cases of pregnant women with cesarean section were selected and randomly divided into observation group and control group from June 2011 to May 2013.The clinical pathway used in health education in the observation group was compared with conventional health education intervention used in control group.Results In the observation group related knowledge rate was 95.04%,exclusive breastfeeding rate was 45.45% and satisfaction rate was 97.52%,the difference was statistically significantly higher than that in the control group; SAS score in observation group was 31.10 points lower and significantly lower in the control group.Conclusion The clinical pathway applied to elective cesarean maternal health education intervention can significantly improve the efficiency of health education,and can effectively improve the quality of care.


What patterns of multimodal rhetoric characterizes the most successful texts meant for learning – inside or outside school? This article argues that the balance between cohesion and tension in the interplay between modes is an issue at the core of this challenging question. Texts meant for learning need both cohesion and tension in order to be both understandable and engaging. While cohesion has long been a central issue of interest among researchers of multimodal texts, the same can hardly be said about multimodal tension. The article offers a discussion of the concepts of multimodal cohesion and tension, relating them to three dimensions of user–text interaction: the dimensions of perception, interpretation and performativity. This elaboration concludes with the outline of a framework model for analytical purposes. The model is, thereafter, used in an illustrative analysis of an award-winning multimodal feature story collected from the online site of the New York Times.


100% cotton fabric has been treated with suitable combinations of chitosan and polycarboxylic acids (PCAs) to impart multiple functional properties. It is found that irrespective of the type of PCA added, samples treated with all combinations of chitosan and PCAs exhibit very good protection against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus bacterial strains. Zone of bacterial inhibition ranges from 21mm to 25mm and 24mm to 27mm for these strains respectively. Addition of PCAs to chitosan helps to improve other functional properties, like crease recovery behavior, soil release property and flame retardency in addition to the antimicrobial property. Samples treated with the mixture of chitosan and PCAs show good thermal resistance with Class I flammability. Maleic acid with chitosan shows higher values of flame propagation time as compared to that of other PCAs combination with chitosan. Soil release property is also improved from grade 3 for parent sample to grade 5 for all combinations of PCAs + chitosan treated samples. The crease recovery angle of samples treated with chitosan and PCAs combination has increased upto 261 0 compared to 215 0 for parent sample. Loss of tensile strength and tearing strength is found to be lower in chitosan and PCAs combination samples than in resin treated samples. From the results, it is evident that all the combinations of PCAs and chitosan can impart multiple functional properties on cotton materials.


The ever increasing use and reliance upon computers in both the public and private sector has led to enormous numbers of computers being disposed of at the end of their useful life within an organisation. As the cost of computers has dropped, their use in the home has also continued to increase. In most organisations, computers have a relatively short life and are replaced on a regular basis with the result that, if not properly cleansed of data, they are released into the public domain containing data that can be relatively up to date. This problem is exacerbated by the increasing popularity and use of smart phones, which also contain significant storage capacity. From the results of the research it remains clear that the majority of organisations and private individuals that are using these computers still remain ignorant or misinformed of the potential volume and type of information that is stored on the hard disks contained within these systems. The evidence of the research is that neither organisations nor individuals have considered, or are aware of, the potential impact of the information that is contained in the disks from these systems becoming available to an unintended third party. This is the fifth study in an ongoing research programme being conducted into the levels and types of information that remain on computer hard disks that have been offered for sale on the second hand market. This ongoing research series has been undertaken to gain an understanding of the level and types of information that remains on these disks, to determine the damage that could potentially be caused if the information was misused, and to determine whether there are any developing trends. The disks used have been purchased in a number of countries.The rationale for this was to determine whether there are any national or regional differences in the way that computer disks are disposed of and to compare the results for any regional or temporal trends. The disks were obtained from a wide range of sources in each of the regions in order to minimise the effect of any action by an individual source.


Supermassive black holes are commonly found at the centers of their host galaxies, but their formation still remains an open question. In light of the tight correlation between the black hole (BH) mass and the velocity dispersions of the bulge component of the host galaxy, a BH–host galaxy coevolution scenario has been established. Such a description, however, still contains many theoretical uncertainties, including puzzles about the formation of BH seeds at high redshifts and the growth channel fueling these seeds. In this work, we systematically analyze the signatures of different growth channels on massive BH (MBH) spins. We show that different growth channels can be partially distinguished with the magnitudes of MBH spins inferred from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. In addition, we propose measuring the correlation between the directions of MBH spins and their host galaxy spins, which is possible for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals happening in low-redshift galaxies ( ). With the inclusion of spin direction correlation different formation channels shall be significantly better constrained.


Studying on common analytical methods of nitrogen content in hydrocracking feed and hydrocrackate, the test date indicated that either Chemiluminescent method or Microcoulometric method can determin the nitrogen content in hydrocracking feed and hydrocrackate; In comparison with the Microcoulometric method, Chemilaminescent method had the advantages of simple operation, rapid determination,high sentivity,good selectivity , wild range of determination,etc;The Chemiluminescent method was more suitable for determing the light oil of low nitrogen and heavy oil of high nitrogen content than the Microcoulometric method .


of the mass combined with cryotherapy. We report a case of conservative treatment in a patient who presented recurred conjunctival melanoma, along with the review of literatures(J Korean Ophthalmol Soc 41:1012~1016, 2000).


Objective To make better understanding of pediatric malignant hematological/oncological diseases complicated with invasive pulmonary fungal infections(IPFI),especially with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis(IPA) and to improve the survival of patients by early diagnosis and early treatment.Methods Retrospective analysis of clinical diagnosis,treatment and outcome in 4 hematological cases with IPA from Jan 1,2007 to Jun 30,2008 was performed.Results Four cases were all matched with the diagnostic standard of IPFI.Case 1 was clinical diagnosis and the other 3 were considered diagnosis.All of them had the host factors like neutropenia,GVHD or long-term use of glucocorticoid,typical pulmonary CT image and case 1 also got the evidence of aspergillus fuigatus in the culture of sputum.They were treated with voriconazole,micafungin and so on.But all of them finally died.Conclusion The pathogenic diagnosis was quite difficult for pediatric patients with IPA.And the clinical manifestation progressed rapidly with poor outcome.Early diagnosis and treatment was the key point for improving the survival rate for these patients.


A structural study on a complex of midaflur [4amino-2,2,5,5-tetrakis(trifluoromethyl)-3-imidazoline] (CTH3F12N3) and dimethyl sulfoxide (C2H605) has been carried out by X-ray diffraction. The crystals (M r = 435.15) belong to the monoclinic space group P21/c with a = 11.977 (3), b = 16.527 (3), c = 17.211 (3) A, fl = 108.44 (1) °, Pc = 1.776 Mg m -3 and Z = 8;/~(Mo Ka) = 0.3447 mm -t. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by least-squares techniques to a final residual of 0.075 for 2936 independent reflections. The S atom in the dimethyl sulfoxide molecule is disordered. The plane of the imidazole ring is an approximate mirror. The hydrogen-bonding scheme involves both N H . . . O and N H . . . N hydrogen bonds.


Google Earth,an integrated business software package of satellite images,its most prominent characteristic is that it can provide a great number of high-resolution satellite images and 3D elevation information,so it possesses high practical value for geological exploration.Through the example of oil and gas exploration practice in Tarim Basin,introduces how to carry out the comprehensive geological interpretation of Keping Area with the help of Google Earth,and analyzes the impact of neotectonic movement for oil and gas accumulation.Then takes the Shihuiyao Formation as the example,sequence stratigraphic characteristics are detailed studied,based on which,it is concluded that muddy limestone segments of Yingshan Formation outcrop profiles are the oil and gas reservoir and effective cap rock,and this formation may become the favorable targets for the oil and gas exploration.


M aternal weight and ethnic status influence the concentration of serum markers used in antenatal screening for Down's syndrome. These are usually allowed for in screening by adjusting the concentration of the screening marker. For example, the values in light women are, on average, higher, and those in heavy women, on average, lower than values in women of average weight. Adjustment aims to modify the concentration so the average in lighter women and heavier women is similar to that in women of average weight. Women from an ethnic group that typically has lower screening marker concentrations would have these concentrations adjusted upwards. The adjustment can be more complicated because some ethnic groups (for example, South Asians) tend to be lighter, so there is an interaction between a woman's weight and her ethnic status. Previous publications provide adjustment factors for various ethnic groups in either the first or the second trimesters of pregnancy (for example, Watt et al.); however, corresponding adjustment factors for second trimester markers are not available for oriental women (women of Chinese, Korean, Japanese or South East Asian origin). Using data collected from the screening programme of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, we here provide these, and update results for black and South Asian women previously reported from the programme, using data from a larger number of pregnancies. In this way we provide a comprehensive summary of ethnic status adjustments for all currently used serum screening markers. Data were collected relating to women screened using either first trimester serum markers (free b human chorionic gonadotrophin [hCG] and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A [PAPP-A]), second trimester serum markers (alphafetoprotein [AFP], unconjugated estriol [uE3], hCG [total or free b] and inhibin-A), or Integrated first and second trimester serum markers, between August 1994 and December 2011. Serum marker values were expressed as multiples of the median (MoM; marker concentration divided by expected concentration for the same gestational age), derived from regressions of median marker concentration against median gestational age in one-week categories of gestational age. Log linear regression was used for first trimester free b-hCG and PAPP-A and second trimester AFP, and negative exponential regression for second trimester total and free b-hCG. Log quadratic regression was used for uE3 and log cubic for inhibin-A. MoM values were calculated with and without correction for maternal weight (MoM divided by expected MoM for the same maternal weight, derived from a log-linear regression). Data for white women were used as the reference set for the median values at each gestational age and for the expected median MoM values for each maternal weight. The table shows that, without weight adjustment, black women had first trimester free b-hCG levels 6% higher (95% confidence interval 4% to 7% higher) and PAPP-A levels 55% higher (54% to 57%) than white women (results for second trimester markers are similar to those previously reported); South Asian women had first 52


In contrast to earlier studies, recent research on socioeconomic and ecological factors affecting farm decision making suggests that, at the microlevel, farm size is inversely related to specialization and directly related to diversification decisions but empirical tests have been limited. Using a social behavioral, farming systems perspective, we examine factors affecting diversification and specialization decisions, including land tenure, off-farm work, and education (which are crucial to successful management) and environmental variation (which affects the decision to select appropriate enterprises). Data from a random sample of Kentucky farmers were used to test the model.

Diversification, whether defined according to crops or commodities, is significantly related to farm size, human capital, and regional variation in land and soil types. The study clarifies the relationship between diversification and farm size issues and broadens understanding of farm diversification decisions. The findings indicate that increased farm size and better farm management reduce the rate of increase in farm specialization.


An approach to 2,2,2-trifluoroethylidene derivatives from ketones was explored by employing the Corey-Winter's reductive elimination of 4-trifluoromethyl-1,3-dioxolane-2-thiones to 2,2,2-trifluoroethylidene derivatives as a key step. The 1,3-dioxolane-2-thione derivatives were readily prepared from ketones in five steps by sequential formation of O-silylated cyanohydrins, reduction, addition of trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane, desilylation, and formation of the 1,3-dioxolane-2-thione system.


III-(As, Sb) alloys are building blocks for various advanced optoelectronic devices, but the growth of their ternary or quaternary materials are commonly limited by spontaneous formation of clusters and phase separations during alloying. Recently, digital alloy growth by molecular beam epitaxy has been widely adopted in preference to conventional random alloy growth because of the extra degree of control offered by the ordered alloying. In this article, we provide a comparative study of the optical characteristics of AlAsSb alloys grown lattice-matched to GaSb using both techniques. The sample grown by digital alloy technique showed stronger photoluminescence intensity, narrower peak linewidth, and larger carrier activation energy than the random alloy technique, indicating an improved optical quality with lower density of non-radiative recombination centers. In addition, a relatively long carrier lifetime was observed from the digital alloy sample, consistent with the results obtained from the photoluminescence study.


Based on BML model,an improved model with mixed cars and its' turning is introduced.The density-average velocity figure by using computer simulation and the effect of the length of cars' is obtained.After investigating the influence of the turning probability,the longer car mainly determine the evolution of the mixed traffic flow is found.


To study the effect of different incendiary agent loading on photocatalytic activity of TiO2,TiO2 powders were prepared with sol-gel auto-igniting synthesis(SAS) method,while tetra-n-butyl titanate and TiCl4 were used as precursor separately.The structure of TiO2 was characterized with XRD and SEM,and photocatalytic activity examined with degradation of methylene blue(MB).Results indicated that TiO2 powders shows as excellent loose and multi-hole material prepared with SAS.With tetra-n-butyl titanate and TiCl4 as precursor,the optimal ratio of n(Ti):n(citric acid):n(NH4NO3)are 1:1:2 and 1:3:5,the according particle sizes are 0.1μm and 20nm,degradation rate constants of MB increase 60% and 100% compared with normal TiO2 powder prepared without SAS method.


The culture of engineering and the culture of formal learning environments often make it difficult for individuals to develop an engineering identity. Conversely, recent research points to the home environment as an alternative setting to support discipline-specific identity development of children, while less is known regarding the identity development of children as engineers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the development of children's engineering identity through the co-creation of engineering concepts and engagement with engineering design thinking and processes with family members in home environments during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted interviews with nine families—nine parents and 13 children in Grades 3–6. Analysis of the interviews highlighted how situational interest, recognition, self-efficacy, and doing engineering shaped and informed children's developing identity. For example, child participants expressed heightened situational interest in the engineering design process and various genres of engineering, with some self-identifying as a particular type of engineer based on their interests. Some expressed greater interest in utilizing engineering practices and processes in the future, either as a career or as a hobby. As another finding, child participants discursively enacted and behaved as engineers through their experiences with collaboration, failure, and perseverance. Concurrently, parent participants articulated their child(ren)'s developing engineering identity, particularly in how their children conducted new processes and modeled the thinking and perseverance of engineers. Parents also noted the development of an inquisitive mindset regarding materials and objects in their home and community environments. We argue that the significance of this study lies in the potential to develop children's engineering identity in home environments beyond the pandemic, as well as inform children's identity trajectory as engineers as they continue to accumulate traces of an engineering identity over time and space. © 2022, Purdue University Press. All rights reserved.


The sulfonated aromatic polymers are competitive proton conducting materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells because of their relatively low costs and adequate performances compared with the perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomers. These polymeric materials can be economically synthesized by the sulfonation of existing aromatic polymers; however, the inadequate sulfonation degree has prevented the further optimization of their overall performances. In order to improve the overall performances of sulfonated aromatic polymeric proton conducting materials, the sulfonation mechanisms of typical aromatic polymers, including bisphenol A type polysulfone (BPA‐PSF), 4,4'‐biphenol type polysulfone (44BP‐PSF), poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK), and poly(ether sulfone) (PES), are studied in terms of transition states and activation energies using density functional theory calculations with satisfactory results. It is concluded that the sulfonations are favored at the ortho‐position of direct arylene‐arylene linkage and ether bond linkage, but retarded by the bulky sulfonyl linkage, dimethyl methylene linkage, and carbonyl linkage. It is also concluded that the solvation effect from polar solvent reduces the activation barrier more efficiently than that from nonpolar solvent.


PURPOSE
To assess the usefulness of ultrasonography (US) in the selection and monitoring of patients with sialolithiasis to be treated with extracorporeal electromagnetic shock wave lithotripsy.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
US was performed in 80 symptomatic outpatients who were to undergo shock wave lithotripsy because they were not candidates for endoral extraction of calculi. The location and diameter of stones and the condition of the affected gland and duct were determined.

RESULTS
Swollen and sclerotic glands and dilated ducts were the most frequently observed characteristics. After lithotripsy, stone clearance or a residual fragment of less than 2 mm in diameter was seen at US in 37 of 56 patients with submandibular gland calculi and in all 24 patients with parotid gland calculi. Favorable outcome after lithotripsy was associated with smaller (less than 7 mm) stone diameter (P < .001) and, in the case of submandibular gland stones, with intraductal location (P < .05). A return to a normal parenchymal echotexture was seen in all patients in whom the stone was completely eliminated; a limited reduction in swelling was observed in patients with residual fragments.

CONCLUSION
US is useful in the selection of candidates for extracorporeal electromagnetic shock wave lithotripsy and in monitoring the progress of treatment.


The status quo of teachers' evaluation literacy in China is analyzed and it is pointed out that Chinese teachers' evaluation literacy is at a low level and teachers are seriously lacking in the awareness,knowledge and skills of evaluation.Some specific developing suggestions of promoting teachers' evaluation literacy are put forward: policy support,consciousness raising,understanding evaluation training and self and companion evaluation.


Objective:To evaluate the efficiency of Epstein-Bar viral serology in detecting nasopharyngeal carcinoma(NPC)and comparing the NPC risks between serology-positive and serology-negative subjects.MethidsLUnnybiebztnatuc tutratuib for VCA-IgA was performed in 42048 subjects between the ages of 30 and 59.The titre of VCA-IgA,≥1/5,EA-IgA,≥1/5 was recognized as being positive.All those were followed up to the end of 1999.Results:45 NPCs were detected in the first year(45/42048,107.02/10^5).The average annual incidence of NPC in 3050 VCA-IgA-positive subjects(144.86/10^5)was higher than that(11.98/10^5)in 38953 VCA-IgA-negative subjects during the next 12 years.72 out the 154 NPC patients detected were of stage-I.Conclusion :This reveals that EBV serology could actually detect early-stage NPCs as previously reported.Meaningfully,the NPC risk increased 12 times the VCA-IgA-negative subjects in the VCA-IgA-positive subjects after the first-turn serological screening.The 5-year and 10-year survival rates of stage-I NPC patients(81.25%,67.39% respectively)were both significantly higher than those of the stage-II A, stage-II B and stage-Ⅲ patients (60.32%,26.67% respectively)after radiotherapy.


Singular perturbation theory is used to construct a class of stationary solutions to the resistive plasma equilibrium equations in a plane slab geometry. These are nonlinearly saturated magnetic island structures which bifurcate from the basic Ohmic state when Δ′(k) is positive and small in some sense. The relationship between the nondimensional wavenumber k and the size of the islands is obtained by a self‐consistent, matched asymptotic expansion. The assumed resisitivity profile is found to determine the relationship uniquely. It is found that either two bifurcating branches exist or none at all depending upon the profile chosen. The structure of the plasma current due to the islands is evaluated in terms of two functions which are independent of the resistivity profile. It is found that for sufficiently large Δ′(k) and suitable resistivity, a self‐consistent, steady magnetic island state cannot be found. A possible connection between this phenomenon and disruptive instabilities observed in experimental...


White colored, tetrapod-shaped and conductive fine particles are synthesized by doping alumimium into zinc oxide using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Particle morphology changes due to precursors, oxidants and vapor concentration are observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction method (XRD). The electric resistivity of the particles is measured by the four-point probe method to examine the electric property of generated particles. Morphology and electric resistivity can be controlled by changing the aluminium vapor concentration and the tetrapod-shaped zinc oxide particles with a low resistivity of about 5Ωm obtained when aluminium acetate is used.


In the design and construction analysis of combination arch beam bridge,it's crucial to ascertain the tensioning force in suspenders in finished state.Space bar finite element model is used in order to analyze and calculate the tensioning force in suspender in finished stated of a new style extroversion spatial arch bridge.The tensioning force of combination arch Bridge is determined with three different methods.Reference for constructions of similarly arch bridge is provided.


Objective To explore the operation alternatives intreating concealed penis in children and to evaluate their respective therapeutic effects. Method 47 cases of concealed penis were treated in the past 10 years .Their clinical data as well as the operation alternatives and their therapeutic effects were retrospectively analyzed. Result 9 cases of slight concealed penis only received follow-up surveys .Of the moderate and severe 38 cases,fixation of the body of penis was used in 5 cases,modified Johnston's operation in 12 cases and Devine's operation in 21 cases respectively.The 6 month to 2 years of follow-up surveys showed that modified Johnston's operation turned out to be more effective than fixation of the body of penis in treating moderate cases (t=14.982,P0.01), and that there existed no significant differences in therapeutic effects of the modified Johnston' operation and Devine's operation.Conclusion To effectively identify the characteristics of different types of concealed penis is the key to the treatment. Operation alternatives should be properly selected according to patients' conditions and the clinical typing. Operation can be taken when children are 5 to 7 years old.


The noncarbonated beverage products have a pH of between 2.5 and 4.5 and contain from about 900 ppm to about 3000 ppm of a polyphosphate; from about 400 ppm to about 1000 ppm of a preservative selected from of sorbic acid, benzoic acid, alkali metal salts thereof and mixtures thereof; from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight of fruit juice; and from about 80% to about 99% by weight of added water, wherein the added water contains from 0 ppm to about 60 ppm of hardness, and preferably contains from 0 ppm to about 300 ppm of alkalinity. These noncarbonated beverage products can be stored at ambient temperatures for at least about 10 days, typically for at least about 20 days, without substantial microbial proliferation therein after exposure to beverage spoilage organisms.


Review Question/Objective
The review objective is to identify and synthesise the best available evidence on effects of medication reconciliation strategies on medication errors among community dwelling older adults. The review question is: What is the effectiveness of medication reconciliation strategies on medication errors among community dwelling older adults?

Types of Participants
This review will consider studies that include older adults (65 years of age and older), regardless of gender, race, or ethnicity, living in the community.

Types of Interventions
This review will consider studies that evaluate medication reconciliation strategies compared to usual care.

Type of Outcome
This review will consider studies that include outcome measures of medication errors including but not limited to errors related to prescribing, labelling, dispensing, medication administration, and medication reconsolidation.


Cochinchinones M–U (1–9), together with 12 known compounds (10–21), were isolated from the stems of Cratoxylum cochinchinense (Lour.) Blume. Their structures were determined on the basis of extensive spectroscopic data analyses. In addition, their retinoid X receptor-α transcriptional activities were evaluated using an in vitro assay.


The target tracking is one of the main issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the WSNs, the energy consumption is the most important factor for the network lifetime. In this paper, we utilize the advantage of the grid-based sensor networks to prolong the lifetime of the network. Therefore, we propose Grid-based Mobile Target Tracking Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks (GMTT). By the simulation results, we validated the proposed mechanism could efficiently reduce the energy consumption for target tracking.


The invention discloses an optical network unit uplink time slot collision detecting method and a system thereof. An ONU uplink time slot collision is detected, if the ONU uplink time slot collision meets a first trigger condition, S104 is returned; if the ONU uplink time slot collision meets a second trigger condition, S110 is returned. S104, ONUi is closed, if a fault disappears, S106 is returned; if the fault does not disappear, i=i-1 and S104 is returned. S106, the ONUi is reopened, if the fault reappears, S108 is returned; otherwise, S116 is returned. S108, the uplink time slot collisionappeared in the ONUi is reported to network management and the ONUi is closed and S116 is returned. S110, ONUi-1 is closed, if the fault disappears, S112 is returned to; if the fault does not disappear, i=i-1 and S110 is returned. S112, ONUi-1 is reopened, if the fault reappears, S114 is returned; otherwise, S116 is returned. S114, the uplink time slot collision appeared in ONUi-1 is reported to network management and the ONUi-1 is closed.


Introduction: Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) often presents at an inoperable or an advanced stage in which complete resection is not possible. In such scenario, chemotherapy often is the only option to improve patient's survival. Severe hyperbilirubinemia, often associated with higher risk of developing chemotherapy-related adverse event, might complicates one's decision in choosing chemotherapy regimen. Case Report: We present a case of 63-year-old post-operative CCA patient with residual mass and severe hyperbilirubinemia. The patient completed six cycles of gemcitabine (1000 mg/m 2 , day 1 and 8) and cisplatin (70 mg/m 2 , day 1) every 3 weeks with tolerable side effect. No sign of residual tumor was observed on CT-Scan performed one-month post chemotherapy. Conclusion: Combination of cisplatin and gemcitabine may offer safe treatment option for post-operative residual CCA patient presenting with hyperbilirubinemia.


Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative1 pleomorphic bacteria that chronically colonizes the gastric epithelium and infects half of the population.2 Its prevalence is higher in developing countries where the infection is associated with the social, cultural and economic level of the population.3 H. pylori is considered a prominent member of the human microbial flora and has accompanied Homo sapiens throughout history. This microorganism is acquired during AbstrAct


OBJECTIVE
to understand how nurses deal with the elderly's autonomy at the end of life.

METHOD
qualitative, exploratory study, guided by the Grounded Theory. Ten nurses, eight doctors and 15 nursing technicians were interviewed between November 2016 and May 2017 at a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.

RESULTS
nurses deal with the elderly's autonomy in compliance with the code of ethics and exercise leadership in actions and interactions to defend this right, evaluating, guiding and listening to the preferences of the elderly; interacting with the family; and sharing information with the health team.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
the elderly's autonomy must be ensured in care planning, based on patient-centered communication and developed in the interaction among agents involved in care. The discussion on "Living Wills" Health Care Directives and principles of palliative care must be encouraged.


Diabetes Mellitus is a top 10 deadly health condition worldwide, one of its consequences is the diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) that in severe cases can lead to amputations and death. Preventive measures are required, a rise in skin temperature is one of the early signs of a DFU formation. Infrared thermal images were taken from 56 DFU patients at early stage, being processed and classified using an intelligent data method (kNearest Neighbour), an accuracy of 92.5% was achieved. A larger sample is required to improve the results, so it can be used at daily practice for DFU prevention.


Following the deregulation of electric power utilities around the globe, it has been widely acknowledged that quantifying the power transfer capability is of increasing importance in the operation and planning of interconnected power systems. This paper reports on the application of probabilistic distribution based interval arithmetic method to estimate the Available Transfer Capability (ATC) in a power network in terms of confidence intervals. Interval arithmetic method enables incorporation of the uncertainty in the input parameters and provides strict bounds for the solution. In the present work, the variation of the real power load is represented as a Gaussian distribution function. The proposed method is tested and validated on IEEE 14 bus test system.


Constant learning and self-education is very important both for personal development, and for the improvement of the community. The example of two librarians from Mačva's county, shows how the improvement programme is being organized in one local community.


Summary A new theory, Structural Analysis, is presented which postulates that personality is mediated through two hypothetical structures, the Facade Self and the Introspective Self. Implications for understanding personality dynamics and psychopthology were discussed. Applications of the theory to the interpretation and integration of projective test data were considered.


The article presents the results of a study on the cerebral hemodynamics of residents of the Volgograd region (165 respondents: 18–35 years old; 50–55 years; 56–60 years and over 61 years), making it possible to identify the parameters that are the most informative for assessing of blood supply disorders of the brain.

Objective: to study the age features of cerebral blood circulation connected with breath phases.

Evaluation of the functional state of the cerebral hemodynamics was carried out on the basis of comprehensive studies of blood supply to the brain (rest and against the background of respiratory test) using the method of reoencephalography.

The reoencephalographic examination was performed in 4 leads (FM, OM left hemisphere; FM, OM right hemisphere). Indicators were registered: integral index of pulse filling, amplitude-frequency index, rheographic index, time of propagation of the rheographic wave, average vessel filling rate, venous outflow, dicrotic index, diastolic index.

Decrease in total pulse blood filling of the brain at respondents of 50–55 years is revealed. In the dynamics of respiratory test myogenic reactions of vasoconstriction of resistive arteries of the brain in people of older age (50–55 years and older) are slightly expressed. The limit of vasoconstrictor reactions caused by the aging of the body is the cause of deterioration of the conditions of regional blood outflow.

The inconsistency of the ratio of regional blood flow to its outflow is a marker of the reduction of adaptive reactions of the circulatory system of people over 50 years of age with an increase in venous pressure in the upper vena cava system.

The information value, efficiency and safety of the reographic study at rest and against the background of respiratory test allows it to be recommended for inclusion in the plan of dispensary observations, especially those over 50 years of age.


The present paper deals with the formation of an entrepreneurial group, whose origins are essentially mercantile and which, having gained access to the political power, comes to constitute an oligarchy. Belonging as it is to the local hegemonic sector, this group stands out because of its modernizaing inclinations, and, when facting national and international circumstances that were adverse to the mercantile economy, it has been able to design and carry out a model of capitalistic development based on the establishment of a viticulturist-viniculturist agro-industrial society. In Argentina the province of Mendoza, together with that of San Juan, constituted one of the two regional economies (the other one being Tucuman, with sugar) that specialized in productions destined for the internal market and functioned as a complement to the region of La Pampa, which was the agro- exporting realm whereby the country became integrated to the international division of labor. In their analysis, the authors provide original appraisals of the way the hegemonic group's economic practices and network of relationships fostered a phase of accumulation - a stage that proved to be decisive for the further arrival of modernization. They also study the changes that ocurred inside the elite: once gropus of businessmen substitute for sectors tied to the tradition of farming, they will obtain political power, renew the prevalent ideas, give the state a modern character, and subordinate themselves to the developing central power.


This paper presents an improved analysis of a structured dimension-reduction map called the subsampled randomized Hadamard transform. This argument demonstrates that the map preserves the Euclidean geometry of an entire subspace of vectors. The new proof is much simpler than previous approaches, and it offers---for the first time---optimal constants in the estimate on the number of dimensions required for the embedding.


The mechanical influences on the flexible commutative structures parameters are researched in this paper. The quality of contact between flexible polyimide printed circuit and zero insert force connector is analyzed. The flexible loops deformations are investigated on the experimental stand for the study of dynamic loads on the tested samples.


A novel system architecture has been developed which makes measurements at N times the analyzer's frequency, yet requires no communication with the analyzer. Millitech's Spartan Test Modules, STMs, splits the input signal from an analyzer, multiplies this by N for the source, and by N-1 for the LO of the receiver mixer. The mixer downconverts to the original signal, while maintaining its phase integrity, and sends this back to the analyzer. The filtering and temperature compensation requirements are high, but have been solved for these bands resulting in a dynamic range of 70 to 80 dB across 54–69 GHz for V-Band and across 69–90 GHz for E-Band, which directly relates to the side lobe resolution in an antenna pattern measurement. The small size of the STMs allows them to be mounted directly onto the back of the antennas. Therefore, readily available, < 10 GHz cables can be used for the long run back to the analyzer. The Spartan enables state-of-the-art antenna measurements either directly, in compact ranges, or in near-field ranges.


OBJECTIVE
To clarify the clinical characteristics of organizing pneumonia (OP) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and association of OP development with RA exacerbation and identify OP recurrence predictors.

METHODS
Data from 33 patients with RA-OP admitted to our hospital were retrospectively analyzed (2006-2016).

RESULTS
RA onset preceded OP onset in 82% patients; OP onset preceded or co-occurred with RA in 9% patients each. Median age at first OP onset was 64.0 years, and the period from RA onset to first OP onset was 5.5 years. At OP onset, 42% patients exhibited unilateral involvement and 76% had normal KL-6; RA disease control remained optimal in 52% patients and was exacerbated in 18% patients. Ten (30%) patients experienced OP recurrence with an interval of 13.0 months between events, and the first OP recurrence rate was 127/1,000 person-years. Compared with nonrecurrent cases (n = 14), recurrent cases (n = 10) showed lower age at first OP onset (59.5 vs. 67.1 years; p = 0.04) and shorter period from RA onset to first OP onset (6.4 vs. 14.2 years; p = 0.047); moreover, these cases included a higher number of OP-preceding patients (30% vs. 0%; p = 0.03) and eversmokers (80% vs. 36%; p = 0.03). OP-preceding patients showed shorter median recurrence-free survival time (15 vs. 136 months; p = 0.01) and higher recurrence risk (hazard ratio, 5.45; p = 0.02).

CONCLUSION
RA-OP showed a high recurrence rate and was not associated with RA exacerbation. Four RA-OP recurrence predictors were identified.


The nanostructural materials Zn/Al layer double hydroxide (Zn-Al /LDH) were prepared via a one-pot co-precipitation method, with different (Zn 2+ /Al 3+ ) molar ratios (2, 3 and 4). The synthesized samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Nitrogen Physisorption (BET) and Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM/EDX). The XRD spectra obtained for the synthesized samples exhibits a series of characteristic reflections of well-crystallized hydrotalcite-like structure and the Brunauer-Emmer-Teller analysis (BET)   confirm that the samples exhibit a strong characteristic of mesoporous materials. The synthesized materials were assayed in the adsorption of organic polluant in aqueous solution. Experimental results indicated that the adsorption of polluant onto Zn(2)Al-LDH followed the Freundlich isotherm model. The Zn 2+/ Al 3+ molar ratio was found to affect the adsorption process. The facile, low-cost preparation and efficient removal of pollutants makes the LDH materials advantageous.


Job and business are the social activities which subsist in every one?s life in one way or the other way. It is not a new phenomenon it is as old as the history of mankind itself. In this study, a questionnaire on comparison of life satisfaction considering job and business is developed on Likert scale which covers approximately all the aspects of job and business. For collecting opinions, Sargodha city was chosen and defined a sample of 384 respondents. Then respondents were selected with simple random sampling by whom questionnaires were filled. Overall results of this study depicts that respondents are in favor of job and feel more satisfaction in their life as compare to in business. All the work was done on Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software.


The synthetic fuels evaluation at Mississippi Power Company's Plant Sweatt is just one of a number of tests, sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to assess the potential of coal derived, liquid synthetic fuels as an alternative or substitute for liquid petroleum fuels. Specifically, the work done at Plant Sweatt examined the applicability of six liquid synthetic fuels to a full scale, wall fired utility boiler. Results on the first three synthetic fuels(SRC-II(Full range mixture), H-Coal(Heavy fraction) and H-Coal(Blended mixture)) indicate that all three have higher boiler efficiencies and produced fewer emissions than the baseline fuels, natural gas and No. 6 fuel oil. Results of testing on the last three synthetic fuels (SRC II(Middle distillate fraction), H-Coal(Light fraction) and Exxon Donor Solvent) await further data reduction. The burners out of service technique in combination with reduced excess combustion oxygen was very successful, providing as much as a 50% reduction in NO/sub x/ levels. Particulate emissions from the synthetic fuels were very low, on the order of 0.01 lb per million Btu. These coal derived liquid fuels appear to be quite adequate for petroleum liquid replacement in existing units and should certainly be considered in the design basis formore » liquid fuel boilers of the future.« less


A stabilization method of a rotary crane via switching control has been proposed in this paper. When boom motion is restricted to the rotation about the vertical axis, dynamics of the crane payload is a kind of non-holonomic system, and it cannot be stabilized by a smooth control law. We consider two linear systems which are linearized about different equilibriums. Each linearized system has an uncontrollable mode, but the union of controllable subspaces of those systems spans all the space. The basic idea of stabilization is that by switching the linearized system, the uncontrollable mode in one system can be settled in the other system using the energy control method. Furthermore, we have introduced an intermediate control step for making a transition of equilibriums to improve the final settling precision. The effectiveness of the method has been shown by simulation.


A worker's human capital determines his absolute and relative productivity across the different occupations. For a country as a whole, the cross-section distribution of workers determines the country's equilibrium assignment of workers to jobs and the resulting aggregate human capital. We consider a tractable general equilibrium Roy model and use it to infer, from observed data across countries and time: (i) the absolute and comparative advantage components of the different workers, (ii) the occupation intensity of a country's human capital, and (iii) the distortions in the allocation of workers to jobs. Contrary to the standard measure that implicitly assumes that human capital entails only absolute advantage, we show that the data implies that: (a) human capital has a strong comparative advantage component; (b) a higher distribution in the human capital distribution of workers lead to skill-upgrading across occupations and to a higher skill intensity of the overall human capital of countries; (c) cross-country differences in aggregate human capital explains a much larger fraction of the cross-country income differences from the standard model. We also find substantial costs from the distortions in the allocation of workers to jobs, especially for the less developed countries. Finally, we use the model to assess whether a country should direct its efforts to enhance the skills at the higher- or lower-end of the skill distribution.


Over the years, many reasons have been adduced for students' lack of communicative competence at tertiary institutions even after they have taken proficiency courses to develop their communicative ability. Lecturers are sometimes, accused of not designing a syllabus which meets students' actual needs and also for not applying appropriate teaching pedagogy, thereby creating, in some cases, a gap between communicative competence and actual performance. This paper explicates some of the manifestations of these, using data from two sets of students' results from 100 level to 200 level. The paper raises the question as to whether the results reflect the expected achievement of the objective of the courses and the implications for communicative competence.


In this paper, methods for sintering ceramics from aluminum oxynitride are considered. In particular, the effect of reaction sintering and hot isostatic pressing methods is investigated. The influence of these methods on the structure and phase analysis of the obtained ceramic samples was determined.


Wool bales hauled by a traction engine, alongside the Kaputone Wool Works, circa 1908. Photograph taken by Steffano Webb.
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We consider quantum confined systems represented by supersymmetric quantum mechanics where the Hamiltonians are products of two operators. We introduce inverses of these operators as well as pair operators, which are products of the original operators and their inverses. We show that the eigenstates of these pair operators are purely squeezed states, and using them we construct raised and decreased extensions of the squeezed states. We apply this procedure both to the ladder-operator and to the displacement-operator methods, showing the equivalence between those the two approaches. Finally, we show how the raised and decreased squeezed states can be dynamically produced by coupling the Hamiltonian with a two-level atom.We consider quantum confined systems represented by supersymmetric quantum mechanics where the Hamiltonians are products of two operators. We introduce inverses of these operators as well as pair operators, which are products of the original operators and their inverses. We show that the eigenstates of these pair operators are purely squeezed states, and using them we construct raised and decreased extensions of the squeezed states. We apply this procedure both to the ladder-operator and to the displacement-operator methods, showing the equivalence between those the two approaches. Finally, we show how the raised and decreased squeezed states can be dynamically produced by coupling the Hamiltonian with a two-level atom.


This work describes the technical features and the performance of two different types of metal-oxide semiconductor sensors, based on ZnO:Ga thin films and SnO2-G nanofibrous layers, for tropospheric ozone monitoring in ambient air. These nanostructures were tested and compared with commercial metal-oxide semiconductor sensors under controlled laboratory conditions and in a field campaign during summer 2021 in Monfragüe National Park (western Spain). The paper also details the design of the electronic device developed for this purpose. A machine learning algorithm based on Support Vector Regression (SVR) allowed the conversion of the resistive values into ozone concentration, which was evaluated afterward. The results showed that the manufactured sensors performed similarly to the commercial sensors in terms of R2 (0.94 and 0.95) and RMSE (5.21 and 4.83 μg∙m−3). Moreover, a novel uncertainty calculation based on European guides for air quality sensor testing was conducted, in which the manufactured sensors outperformed the commercial ones.


Undeniably, medicine is in transition. Dr. Gladston has produced a remarkably perceptive, objective analysis of the problem "Whither medicine?" In an incisive opening chapter the breadth and complexity of the issues impelling transition are set in historical perspective. He states, "Medicine is less the master in its own house and is to a lesser degree the captain of its own destiny now than... ever... in its long history," and then he admonishes medicine to perceive its future by viewing "its own destinies in the perspective of the larger social dynamics," rather than looking only to matters internal to medicine. The important role of economics, the socioeconomic structure and the prevailing temper of the community are recognized and analyzed—in both a macroeconomic sense and a microeconomic view of the hospital, the medical practitioner, and the drug industry. Galdston draws attention to the important distinction between medical economics, over which the physician


The study is descriptive-systematizing. Selected is sue related to the convergence, security and stability of the modern banking system and fina nci l innovations were made. The phenomenon of convergence and institutional-structural fe tures of the models of the financial system were discussed. It also presents the impact of convergence in the financial system on its stability in the theoretical perspective, with particular emphasis on the factors of financial instability in the shot of H.P. Minski. It seems un likely to analyze changes in financial systems in a holistic way in terms of their similarity. It is more appropriate to analyze modifications, including similarities and differences in financial systems of different countries through the individual elements of these systems. This particul arly applies to financial innovations in the product, process and organizational dimension. It w as noticed that the elements of the financial system seem to evolve in such a direction that fin ncial innovations show significant similarities in countries with diverse financial sy stems.


ABSTRACT The present study was conducted in Udaipur district of Rajasthan. Udaipur district was selected purposively for the present investigation because there is a higher concentration of tribal population. The criterion used for selection of panchayat samities was one rural and one urban area. For rural study, five villages from identified panchayat samiti were selected on the basis of maximum population within a radius of 15 km from panchayat samiti headquarter. For urban study, five wards were selected on the basis of maximum tribal population. Thereafter 30 samples from each village and ward were selected. Thus 300 respondents were selected randomly for comparative study. Findings of the study reveal that more than three fourth respondents had neutral attitude towards population control measures and rural tribal respondents in neutral category was reported to the more than the urban tribal respondents . Attitude of Tribal Women Towards Population Control Measures in Tribal Sub Plan Area


The purpose of this study was to propose measures to enable the analysis of the condition and status of elderly public sector business. Labor 20 million elderly jobs type of business in 2011, a brief look at the research results, and criteria for budget support, look gongikhyeong period of 7 months, troops guard 11 to 130,000 won. Period of 7 months, 20 million education-labor troops guard the 13-15 million yuan. Bokjihyeong period of 7 months, the labor of 20 million troops guard the 13-15 million yuan. Elderly public sector jobs business business type look at the changes in the classification and nomenclature, 2004 Public participation and public lecturer, 2005 gongikhyeong, education (training type), bokjihyeong Education (bokjihyeong bokjihyeong), 2007 gongikhyeong, training type, bokjihyeong, 2008 Social Contribution Type (gongikhyeong), social contributions (Education), social contribution type (bokjihyeong), the public sector in 2009 (gongikhyeong), public sector (education), public sector (bokjihyeong) has been changed. 2005 gongikhyeong examining the changes, the percentage of elderly public sector business based on the type of operating a business (65%), combined training type and bokjihyeong 20, 2006 gongikhyeong (55%), education type and bokjihyeong combined (30%), 2007 gongikhyeong 45% , education 15%, gongikhyeong bokjihyeong 25%, 2008 40%, education 10% bokjihyeong 30%, respectively. 6 months, 2004 gongikhyeong of elderly public sector business participation in the activities of the elderly based on the number of months, examining the changes appeared to six months of training type, education type 5 months, 6 months, gongikhyeong 2005 bokjihyeong appeared 5 months, 2006 from 2010 until gongikhyeong, education, and 7 months, respectively, each with a bokjihyeong was In 2005, the labor cost gongikhyeong, education type, bokjihyeong each 20 thousand won, and the troops expenses of elderly public sector business, labor and incidental expenses, based on examining the changes were respectively 10 won, 15 won, 10 won. Troops guard from 2006 until 2007, the labor gongikhyeong, education type, bokjihyeong each 20 thousand won, 10 won, 15 won, 15 won, respectively, appeared. 2008, the labor cost gongikhyeong, training type, bokjihyeong each 20 thousand won and 11 won, 15 won, 15 won, troops guard appeared. 2009-2010 labor costs gongikhyeong, training type, bokjihyeong each 20 thousand won, and won, gongikhyeong 11-13 troops guard education and bokjihyeong each won 13-15 respectively. First, the continuity of elderly public sector business plan, when presented based on this secure and support the realization. Second, specialization is job creation projects selected screening criteria and how the selected participants.


Our ROSAT survey for distant clusters of galaxies contains the largest solid angle of all ROSAT pointed surveying and thus has sufficient area to test the previously reported cluster evolution. We find significant negative cluster evolution, i.e,, at high redshifts there are fewer luminous clusters than at present. We compare optical cluster properties for the most distant clusters in the ROSAT survey with those measured for nearby clusters. We also present AXAF capabilities and show how AXAF will significantly extend our understanding of cluster properties and their cosmological evolution.


The article carries out a comparative legal analysis of state and dynamics of the criminal violation of the rules that ensure safe operation of the transport. The data are based on the analysis of the number of registered crimes under the Art. 268 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the results of the preliminary investigation of such offences from 2009 to 2014.


CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 27-year-old man with a history of chronic abdominal distention of unclear etiology presented with 1 week of fever, dysuria and increased abdominal girth. Examination revealed a distended, tender abdomen with shifting dullness and absence of the left testicle. A loculated fluid collection noted on abdominal ultrasound was sampled, suggesting bacterial peritonitis. Cultures from urine and ascitic fluid grew Enterococcus faecalis. Computed tomography of the abdomen (Figure 1) revealed a duplicated left kidney and collecting system with an obstructed upper pole moiety that inserted ectopically into the prostatic urethra. After completing a course of antibiotics, the patient underwent left percutaneous nephrostomy tube insertion. His follow-up computed tomography scan 8 weeks later (Figure 2) revealed decompression of the dilated collecting system and ureter. Presenting symptoms of ureteral anomalies are determined by the location of the distal urethral implantation site. Congenital giant megaureter may be associated with other genitourinary abnormalities, including cryptorchidism, duplex renal systems and megacalicosis. Our patient had all 3 of these associated findings. Abdominal masses or distension due to massive or cystic dilatation of the ureter are rare and present a challenge to clinical and radiological diagnosis. In our case, the patient underwent partial nephrectomy and uretherectomy, confirming the diagnosis of a congenital duplicated left kidney and collecting system. He remains well postoperatively.


Purpose: assessment of NT-proBNP diagnostic importance in CHF patients of ischemic genesis. Methods: 69 CHF patients were included in the study. Inclusion criteria were CHF symptoms developed after Q-wave myocardial infarction and shown in ECG findings, and informed consent of the patients. NT-proBNP level was defined by enzyme immunoassay. Statistical processing of the data obtained was performed using software package STATISTICA 7,0. Results were considered statistically significant at pрр120,0 pg/ml (34 patients). Patients in group II were significantly older (р=0,04), had a history of old myocardial infarctions (р=0,01), longer period of CF manifestations (р=0,04), more increased HR (р=0,003), higher CRP level (р=0,005). In group II in comparison with the group I the patients had more unfavorable events (р=0,03), CHF progression (р=0,03), recurrent myocardial infarctions (р=0,02), lethal outcomes (р=0,01).


2.1.Date of QMRF: 19/01/2011 2.2.QMRF author(s) and contact details: [1]Paola Gramatica University of Insubria, Varese +390332421573 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.qsar.it/ [2]Stefano Cassani University of Insubria, Varese +390332421439 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.qsar.it/ [3]Ester Papa University of Insubria, Varese +390332421573 email@example.com http://www.qsar.it/ 2.3.Date of QMRF update(s): 28/01/2015 2.4.QMRF update(s): 2.5.Model developer(s) and contact details: [1]Paola Gramatica University of Insubria, Varese +390332421573 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.qsar.it/ [2]Elisa Giani University of Insubria, Varese +390332421573 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.qsar.it/ [3]Ester Papa University of Insubria, Varese +390332421573 email@example.com QMRF identifier (JRC Inventory):Q17-26-0057 QMRF Title:QSARINS model 2 for log Koc Printing Date:Dec 11, 2019


Elevated levels of uranium that surpass maximum allowable concentrations have been recognized in some well water samples throughout Nova Scotia. In this study we examine the influence of redox conditions and regional geology on the mobility of uranium in groundwater in the Grand Pre region, located in the eastern end of the Annapolis-Cornwallis Valley in southwestern Nova Scotia. The study site is underlain by carbon-rich shale and arkosic sandstone of the Late Mississippian Horton Bluff Formation and the arenaceous sandstone of the Triassic Wolfville Formation. Water samples from drilled wells were analyzed on site for various water quality parameters (pH, conductivity, temperature, dissolved oxygen) and in the laboratory to determine alkalinity and cation (72) and major anion (9) concentrations.

Several samples exceeded Health Canada (2011) limits for uranium (20 μg/L) with values up to 50.8 μg/L and aesthetic objectives (AO) for iron (up to 605 μg/L), manganese (up to 2.28 mg/L) and other cations. Data show that different redox conditions occur in the study area. The geospatial arrangement of the chemical data suggests that the lithology of the underlying aquifer strongly influences the availability of uranium in groundwater. Reduced groundwater in Horton Bluff sandstone typically contains elevated concentrations of Fe 2+ and Mn 2+ , whereas groundwater containing high concentrations of U is found primary in oxidizing environments in quartz arenite sandstone units in the Wolfville Formation.

Consumption of groundwater in the Grand Pre region may pose a health risk; however, the level of risk remains unknown. This study emphasizes that in the area of Grand Pre, water that is considered aesthetically undesirable (containing high Fe and Mn) may pose less of a health risk (low U) than waters that are aesthetically pleasing.


OST PEOPLE NOWADAYS will agree that the term 'patriotism' means something like 'love of one's native country, and a willingness to manifest that love in one's political attitude'. In contemporary usage, it seems to be used as a mild, euphemistic alternative to 'nationalism', 'national pride' or 'national loyalty'. It is not this modern usage with which I am concerned here. My present aim is to reconsider the earlier, eighteenth-century usage of the term, and to divest it of those later, post-romantic, nationalistic connotations. I submit that the meaning of 'patriotism' was a wholly different one in the eighteenth century; that those eighteenth-century people who called themselves 'patriots' did not refer to that political stance as being inspired by proto-nationalistic motives. That amounts, to a degree, to kicking in an open door as far as the history of Patriotism on the European Continent, and even in England, is concerned, but it is still useful to point out that what is sauce for the European goose is sauce for the Irish gander. In Ireland, the non-national motivation of eighteenth-century Patriotism (which, as a well-defined political ideology, I distinguish from twentieth-century national enthusiasm by spelling it with a capital P is not immediately self-evident. Did not the Patriots protest against foreign, British control over Irish affairs Did they not defend the constitutional autonomy of Ireland against the hegemonist encroachment of Westminster, in a glorious tradition which started with Molyneux's Case of Ireland Stated, was continued by the Drapier's Letters, and culminated in the efforts of Flood, Grattan and the Volunteers Did not the Patriots, or at least the most enlightened among them, move towards a political and economic conciliation with Ireland's oppressed Catholic majority, and was not this an effort to forge national solidarity out of sectarian divisions Was not Grattan the John the Baptist to the messianic mission of Wolfe Tone It is easy to take that view, and it has traditionally been taken. It can draw on the homonymy of the word 'patriotism' and (as I hope to show, anachronistically interpret its eighteenth-century usage in a nationally coloured, twentieth-century light. Furthermore, it so happens that, in speaking of eighteenth-century Irish Patriots, one refers almost exclusively to a part of the population which is traditionally known as the 'Anglo-Irish': a group pf men whose historical presence


The State of Guerrero, Mexico, has priority marine areas for conservation of its biodiversity, but information concerning diversity of mollusks is limited, so it is convenient to carry out species inventories, studies of populations and community ecology. This study was conducted in the intertidal rocky beach Tlacopanocha. The objectives were to determine richness, density and species diversity, analyze the species composition and size structure. The sampling area was 10 m 2


An azo-based small molecule (NACB) is designed with well-definite film crystallinity, and exhibits three different current states under a continuous electric field, which is owing to the cooperated isomerization change and charge trap mechanisms.


In this paper, we develop a family of bivariate beta distributions that encapsulate both positive and negative correlations, and which can be of general interest for Bayesian inference. We then invoke a use of these bivariate distributions in two contexts. The first is diagnostic testing in medicine, threat detection and signal processing. The second is system survivability assessment, relevant to engineering reliability and to survival analysis in biomedicine. In diagnostic testing, one encounters two parameters that characterize the efficacy of the testing mechanism: test sensitivity and test specificity. These tend to be adversarial when their values are interpreted as utilities. In system survivability, the parameters of interest are the component reliabilities, whose values when interpreted as utilities tend to exhibit co‐operative (amiable) behavior. Besides probability modeling and Bayesian inference, this paper has a foundational import. Specifically, it advocates a conceptual change in how one may think about reliability and survival analysis. The philosophical writings of de Finetti, Kolmogorov, Popper and Savage, when brought to bear on these topics constitute the essence of this change. Its consequence is that we have at hand a defensible framework for invoking Bayesian inferential methods in diagnostics, reliability and survival analysis. Another consequence is a deeper appreciation of the judgment of independent lifetimes. Specifically, we make the important point that independent lifetimes entail at a minimum, a two‐stage hierarchical construction.


Cloud computing enables massive parallelization of execution of large scale simulation experiments but it is complex to do it in a cost-efficient way. We present methodology used to achieve this goal that was devised in the ROUTE-TO-PA project, where we develop a simulator for generalization of the dynamics of preferences observed on the social platform to the entire population. Experimenting with such a complex simulation model over a computing cluster in the cloud requires solving not only technical challenges (solution architecture and management of dynamically changing infrastructure) but also requires optimization of computing cost. In this work we present our approach (ROUTE-TO-PA SIM) to configure and manage such environment in the Amazon Web Services cloud setting.


High-performance of an oxygen supply system (OSS) is essential to flight quality. But the OSS is sensible to flight conditions and pilots' breathing state, and robustness is necessary. Herein, this paper introduced the mathematical model of the OSS. Then a novel active disturbance rejection generalized predictive control (ADRC-GPC) was applied to the OSS, by combining the technique of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and generalized predictive control (GPC). Meanwhile, the simulation results investigated that the pressure of oxygen mask can be controlled within the limits of breathing resistance. Finally, the comparison of the simulation between GPC and ADRC-GPC showed that ADRC-GPC was more stable and more effective in lowering breathing resistance than GPC.


We present a new approach to Micropipette Aspiration (MPA), a pioneering method in mechanobiology, that introduces an all-optical readout to retrieve both applied stress and material response. Our technique, i.e. Hydraulic Force Spectroscopy, expands on the current MPA experimental possibilities, allowing for frequency-dependent complex moduli measurements of soft suspended bodies over a large bandwidth, with nanometric resolution. This is achieved by oscillating the pressure on the sample by tens of Pascals with a multifrequency signal, by means of a fast pump. Our goal is to use this technique to define new label-free biomarkers for different applications, e.g. embryo viability control.


This research was to determine the interpersonal communication is done between the cameraman with presenter in the production of the program streaming media NTMC TV. The research question posed is how interpersonal communication between the cameraman with presenter in the production of the program streaming media NTMC TV?. The theory used in this research is the theory that describs humanistic theory from Joseph A. DeVito about five positive attitude in which there are elements of Openness, Empathy, Attitude Support, Positive Attitude, and Equality. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. Subjects were the cameraman and presenter. While the object of this study is the interpersonal communication itself. Data was collected this reseacrh using in dept interview techniques against Executive  Producer, Cameraman, and Presenter. As well as the study of literature consisting of books a source of reading research. The results showed that interpersonal communication betwen the cameraman with presenter in the news program traffic update goes well because it fulfills all aspects that exist, such as when the pre production happened, Openness and Empathy can be seen from them who tell each other about theirs family and each empathy after knowning the condition of theirs family. When production occurs the attitude of Support and Equality  can be seen from their mutual suggestions and they prioritize the teamwork during production. When the production occurs positive attitude and support attitude can be seen from mutual respect and respond positively criticism and iput submitted by each side.


Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMP) regulate cell proliferation an play an important role in the extracellular signaling network. p27Kip1 is a member of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor familiy and causes cell cycle arrest in G1 phase. p27Kip1 is a putative tumor suppressor gene. Ki-67 is associated with cell proliferation and present during all active phases of the cell cycle. Immunhistochemical staining was performed to detect these proteins in carcinoma of the breast, postate, bladder, kidney, lung and colon. Levels of the protein expression were compared to tumor grade and stage. Aberrant promoter-region methylation leads to transcriptional silencing. Bisulfide treatment and methylation-specific PCR was used to examine the methylation status of TIMP-3 and p27Kip1. There was no relationship found between levels of p27Kip1, Ki-67, TIMP and tumor grade or disease stage. Methylation was heterogenous and did not correlate with lower protein levels.


To see why the highest priority process does not immediately seize complete control, three things must be understood. First, there are two process queues RUN_QUE and S.QUE, the queue associated with semaphore S. Each queue is ordered so that processes with higher priorities come first. Second, when a semaphore is signalled, the highest priority process (if any) in the associated queue is moved to RUN_QUE. Third, the first process in RUN_QUE is the process that is executing.