The territorial extent of the second apartment phenomenon is part of a suburbanization – and with it an – urban development process, during which "the city goes to the countryside". This process – the transformation of the second home into a permanent home – can occur during the life cycle of the family. The consequence of the second home phenomenon is the ever-increasing weekend escape of the population from the city, as well as - after the owners have reached the retirement age and with the completion of the transformation phase - migration to the settlements around the city. A significant part of the investments and excess capital is no longer realized in the place of residence, but in the host settlement that accommodates the second apartments.


Introduction. Fahr´s syndrome is a rare, slowly progressive,
 neurodegenerative disorder, characterised by extensive, bilateral, and
 symmetrical basal ganglia calcification. It is associated with
 neuropsychiatric manifestations and gradually progressive cognitive
 impairment. Fahr's syndrome is the secondary form of brain calcification that
 is caused by various metabolic, infectious, or degenerative diseases. Case
 report. We presented a middle-aged male with Fahr's syndrome due to primary
 idiopathic hypoparathyroidism. Clinical diagnosis was based on signs and
 symptoms of hypocalcemia, progressive neuropsychiatric illnesses, laboratory
 evidence of hypoparathyroidism, and radiological signs of calcifications in
 the basal ganglia. The patient improved after only a few days of intravenous
 rehydration and calcium substitution, followed by oral supplemental
 calcitriol. Conclusion. Timely recognition of idiopathic and iatrogenic
 hypoparathyroidism allows appropriate treatment that can prevent the
 development and clinical manifestations of Fahr´s syndrome and potentially
 slow its progression.


In this study, the mechanisms responsible for enhancing the adhesion strength of thermally sprayed metallic coatings subjected to vacuum heat treatment were investigated using atmospheric plasma sprayed (APS) CoNiCrAlY coatings as an example. The formation of metallurgical bonding between the coating and the substrate, which determined the increase in the adhesion strength of the coatings, was studied by analyzing the effect of morphological changes of the oxide film in the coating. The results showed that during the vacuum heat treatment process, the oxide film formed during the coating deposition gradually broke down and subsequently shrank into round oxides. After vacuum heat treatment, the adhesion strength of the coating improved significantly, and there was a positive nonlinear relationship between the treatment time and the adhesion strength. The increase in the adhesion strength was caused by the formation of metallurgical bonding between the coating and the substrate. However, the prerequisite for the formation of metallurgical bonding was that the oxide film had to break during the vacuum heat treatment process. A thermodynamic 2D model based on the thermal grooving theory was proposed to explore the essential conditions for the breaking and shrinking of the oxide film.


This paper discusses the requirements for helicopter crew training and how the U.S. Army systematically approaches developing crew skills. It explains how basics are taught which lead to individual crew member proficiencies, as well as methodologies to develop crew coordination and tactical decision making. Also addressed is the hierarchy of training devices employed by the Army to develop crew skills. This includes discussions on how simulation technologies have been applied to meet the training requirements of each hierarchical level. As an example, we discuss the training devices used in the AH-64 Apache transition and how these task, procedural, and full fidelity devices are used in a building block approach to transition crew members from basic flight to flying and fighting in a hostile environment and, subsequently, to develop them into an integrated crew that can execute exacting crew and team decisions in a tactical battle scenario. This paper also delves into current trends to further enhance crew combat readiness through team and combined arms training. Also discussed are the emerging requirements for mobile training devices.


The research presents the rotating phenomenon, composed by escape, exchange and others exits, in 193 settlements of Rio Grande do Sul, with emphasis in parcels escape. It is understood like the land reform escape and was correlated with 16 factors: a) install creditsupport modality, b) install credit – construction materials modality, c) PRONAF A, d) percentage of parcels without water, e) without light parcels, f) percentage of parcels without house, g) internal road quality, h) external road quality, i) soil quality, j) technical assistance kind l) settlement executor, m) implant year, n) public type o) implant region, p) escaped religion, q) escaped civil state. These factors and the escape were got in secondary dates of INCRA and GRAC, the state land institution. The two last factors were tested only in ethnographic cases. It was necessary to respond the central hypothesis, where the escape is facilitated in low social cohesion situations, because almost all factors refers to the question material dimension, in particular, infra-structure and credit problems. To social cohesion process understanding, we made use the criticism sociology theoretic support, with other authors punctuals contributions, like Bourdieu, Elias, Wolf and Martins, among others; beyond the anthropology, mainly throw the reciprocity notion, in this case with the Sabourin and Caille essential support. The results reveal a 22% settlement escape average estimative, however, with great regional differences, where, in state half northern, we found nearly 10%, and in half southern, almost 30%. We did not get correlation of no material dimension factors with escape, but we verified the reciprocity relations centrality, in special, the kinship, in extend family and "compadrio" form, and the neighbor relationship, "gauchos" and farmers, in the social cohesion construction and in the escape stopping. It occur concomitant the contention conflict, where God Assembly, a Pentecostal Church, assumes a preponderant position in the studied cases. The evangelicals, just like the married, tend to low escape and rotation, because they lead to higher social laces strengthening, in comparison with catholic and singles. Finally, we discussed the mediator paper, mainly the technical assistance, land institutions technical and MST leaders, in a corporation projects struggle ambient, we denominated: peasant–traditional project, collectivist-socialist project and enterprise project, beyond the no corporeal strategies, that can lead to rental and escape.


Abstract In two experiments with Romney ewes and one with Corriedale ewes the efficiency with which individual sheep converted feed to wool was estimated by feeding the ewes in pens and relating wool grown to feed intake. In the Romney experiments the ewes employed were selected on the basis of either high or low fleece weight whilst under grazing conditions. Considerable differences in efficiency between sheep were observed. The efficiency of individual ewes was then correlated with their grazing fleece weights. Estimates of this correlation coefficient varied from 0.7 to 0.9. The significance of this high correlation is discussed.


Most people would agree that Wisconsin's schoolteachers perform some of the most important work done in the state. Most also would probably agree that Wisconsin's public


It is difficult to define exactly what constitutes a geriatric patient. The use of a particular age does not take into account the different life expectancies of the various breeds and subsequent changes in physiological reserve as the patient ages. Some have suggested a definition based on a specific fraction (75%-80%) of the breed's life expectancy. 1 This definition assumes that the linear degradation of the physiological reserve is the same for all individuals. 2-4 Changes in physiological reserve—not patient age— affect anesthesia.


A diode lamp control device (101). It is characterized in that it comprises: - a lighting module (10) comprising: - at least one diode lamp (101), the LED lamp belonging to a predetermined range, - at least one transmission device (102) with a single signature (S) representative of the range - a control module (11) associated comprising - receiving means (110; 110-113) for receiving a unique signature (S) issued by the lighting module (10), - the current adjusting means (111) for adjusting and providing, depending on the transmitted signature (S), a current (I) to said lighting module (10) for operating the LED lamp (101) .Application: vehicle Fires


Introduction The news media is one of the most accessible sources of information regarding COVID-19 transmission in the workplace in the absence of other occupational data. Only a few public health agencies in Canada and the United States have publically reported detailed occupation information for non-health care worker COVID-19 cases. Objective We conducted a media surveillance analysis to identify new or emerging occupational groups at risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus ('COVID-19 exposure'). Methods We searched the Factiva database for media articles reporting COVID-19 workplace outbreaks (February 1-December 22, 2020). Job titles were coded to the 2016 National Occupational Classification (V1.3) and industries to the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (V3.0). Occupations with COVID-19 workplace transmission identified in media articles were compared and contrasted with the same occupation in the Vancouver School of Economics (VSE) COVID Risk Tool by risk rating (seven categories between very high to very low). Results We identified 1,111 unique COVID-19 workplace outbreaks in the media. After nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates, industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers had the most workplace outbreaks reported in the media (n=79) but were rated as medium risk occupations for COVID-19 transmission in the VSE COVID Risk Tool. Outbreaks were also reported in the media among material handlers (n=61) and general farm workers (n=28) but were rated medium-low risk and low risk, respectively. Outbreaks reported in the media among food and beverage services (n=72) and cashiers (n=60) were identified as high risk occupations in the VSE COVID Risk Tool. Conclusion Media surveillance can identify COVID-19 workplace outbreaks and indicate transmission risk. Our results point to key determinants of health that compound the risk of COVID-19 exposure in the workplace, and highlight the importance of collecting occupation data during a pandemic.


The teaching and learning of fractions have been persistent challenges, and data on national assessments continue to show students' difficulties with fractions. The Common Core State Standards have provided a new lens for the study of fractions, and with it a need to update teacher candidates' mathematical knowledge for teaching. Fractions are a challenge for mathematics teacher educators working with teacher candidates. Exploring instructional approaches to building teacher candidate understanding is important. Technology could play an important role in building robust teacher candidates' conceptual understanding of fractions. Whitacre & Nickerson's (2016) framework provides background knowledge for exploring whether technology can promote flexible strategies for comparing fractions. In this study, we examine the impact on teacher candidates' flexibility with solving fraction comparison problems through the use of a sequenced set of interactive dynamic technology-based learning experiences modeling the approach advocated in the Common Core Standards. Keywords: fractions, technology, elementary teacher DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-9-01 Publication date: March 31 st 2020


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Abstract: Nowadays use of MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Networks) is increasing rapidly because there may be several situations where user of a network cannot rely on an infrastructure. But behind these uses, difficulties occur due to heterogeneous nature of MANETs with their variety of application demands leads towards the uncertain time-varying traffic load, and mixture of various problems like network queues size, flow control regulation, Window size variations, RTT (Round Trip Time) variations and associated network utility maximization problem. All these lead towards the Congesti on over network, In this paper, we focus on the congestion avo idance mechanism over MANET by considering Round Trip Time (RTT), TCP Reno, Slow start and WCCP (wireless congestion control protocol) such that a number of parameters may vary according to instantaneous values of these parameters over network such that congestion may be avoided. Key words: MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Networks), congestion, congestion avoidance, throughput, round trip time (RTT), congestion window.


Since the completion of PLS in 1994, PLS Linac magnet power supply (MPS) has been operated for 12 years with 12-bit resolution and 0.1% stability. Improvement in the resolution and the reliability of the Linac MPS is highly required now for the stable beam injection and 4 th generation light source research. To improve performance of MPS, we developed a new compact MPS with 16-bit resolution and 20ppm stability using four-quadrant switching schemes with 50kHz MOSFET device. Bipolar MPS for a corrector magnet consists of one main power board, control power board, regulator board and CPU board. Size of each board is only 135mm width and 250mm depth. A unipolar MPS for quadrupoles and solenoid magnets is composed of 4parallel operation of two main power boards, doubling the current output. Output of the MPS is 10V, ±10A for the bipolar and 50V, 50A for the unipolar magnet. Beam transport line (BTL) of PAL Linac has 22 solenoid magnets, 48 quadrupole magnets, and 28 corrector magnets. MPS have been operated twelve years since the completion of PLS in 1994. Power conversion scheme of these magnet power supplies is linear regulator of SCR phase rectifier. The resolution of output current is less than 12 bit. Stability is over ±1000 ppm(± 0.1 %). This type MPS has simple structure but heavy and large volume because of an input transformer, an inductor and a capacitor. A remote controller using RS422 serial communication is separated with MPS. One controller is connected with four MPS. Therefore, MPS system of PAL Linac has lower quality, and it was difficult for maintenance. The new type MPS for the Linac has been developed. Topology of the MPS using full-bridge fourquadrant DC/DC converter is adopted. This scheme is able to operate bipolar or unipolar mode by PWM switching method. Identical main power conversion PCB is commonly used at bipolar and unipolar MPS. This paper presents the development and characteristics of the new MPS for PAL linac.


To achieve good performance on Protein sub-nuclear location, one needs to extract a powerful representation containing rich information for identification. Various favorable techniques have been proposed, but it is believed that the single representations, containing one-sided information of protein sequence, are insufficient for discrimination. To this end, we in this paper propose the fused representations by integrating two single representations, the amino acid composition (AAC) and the position specific scoring matrix (PSSM). Due to two forms of PSSM, PsePSSM and GreyPSSM, two integrated representations, called briefly AACPsePSSM and AACGreyPSSM, are given. To evaluate the proposed representations, a benchmark data set is employed and the classical K nearest neighbor (KNN) is adopted classifier. And the experimental results show our proposed fusion representations outperform AAC and PSSM.


Mycotoxins are toxigenic metabolites of fungi which occur worldwide and are a potential risk for humans and animals when feeds and cereals are contaminated. Their importance and occurrence were recognized in the last three decades. Oral uptake of mycotoxin-contaminated foods and feeds cause mycotoxicoses in susceptible animals. These intoxications should be differentiated from mycoses, which are caused by active invasion of the growing fungi in living tissues resulting in mechanical destruction. In cattle the course of mycotoxicoses may be acute or chronic, depending on the amount qf these toxic substances in the feed. Some predispose for infectious diseases by decrease in the natural resistance and immune mechanisms. Some mycotoxin contaminated feedstuffs are a potential risk to the consumer because of residues in meat and milk products. Specific mycotoxins also affect certain organs or tissues as liver, kidney, brain, mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal and genital tracts. In this paper an overview of the most important mycotoxins affecting cattle is given and cases which recently occurred in Austrian dairy herds and steer fattening units are described. Feeding studies with zearalenone and vomitoxin contaminated feed and their effect on dairy cows are reported. Based on the climatic conditions the most important mycotoxins in Austrian feed-stuffs are fusarium toxins (deoxynivalenol = vomitoxin and other trichothecenes), affecting the mucous membranes of the digestive tract, and zearalenone that causes infertility. Aflatoxins (liver damage) occur in imported feed (peanut meal) and ochratoxin A (kidney problems) are of less importance in terms of economic losses in cattle. Primary mycotoxicoses in cattle which affect the liver are caused by aflatoxins, tubratoxin and sporidesmin. Aflatoxins, which are very potent carcinogens, are synthesized by Aspergillus flavus and parasiticus spp. under subtropical conditions. At least 18 different chemical compounds of this highly toxic fungal metabolite are known and 4 of them (Bl, B2, Gl, G2) are detected in different feedstufs. Aflatoxin Bl is the most toxic and is metabolized in the liver to aflatoxin Ml and excreted in the milk. Clinically chronic aflatoxicosis can only be suspected, while an incorrect feeding ration, endoparasites and other diseases increase this intoxication. In dairy cows, 100 to 300 ppb and in fattening steers, 200 to 300 ppb total aflatoxin cause clinical symptoms. Adult dairy cows are not as sensitive as young or pregnant. animals. Clinical symptoms of chronic aflatoxicosis include a decreased milk yield and weight gain. A rough coat, decreased appetite and occasional diarrhea are observed. In acute intoxication, clinical symptoms are depression, loss of appetite and fever. Histopathologic findings are cholangiectasis, loss ofliver cell glycogen, fatty degeneration, fibroblastic proliferation and perivascular edema. Ochratoxins (A D) are nephrotoxic mycotoxins, formed by Aspergillus and Penicillium spp. and were found in Austrian feedstuffs in chronically effective concentrations. Experimental examinations of 30 day old calves, which received 0.1 to 0.5 mg/kg LM OAper diem over a period of 4 weeks showed polyuria, depression, decreased weight gain, low specific gravity of urine and dehydration. On necropsy, grey-coloured kidneys and slight enteritis were seen. Histopathological findings were slight tubular degeneration with abundant eosinophilic, hyalinic material as a sign of deposition of protein in the tubuli and Bowman capsule. Necrosis of the epithelium of proximal tubules and intestitial fibrosis later occurred. OA was also found combined with citrinin, a metabolic product synthesized by the same fungi as OA in concentrations of 1 to 2 ppm. Trichothecenes cause irritation of the mucous membranes of the digestive tract. They comprise approximately 50 different toxins with various toxicities. In farm animals deoxynivalenol (vomitoxin), nivalenol, T-2 toxin, diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS) and the macrocyclic trichothecenes, such as roridin A and verrucarin A cause intoxications. These secondary metabolites are developed by Fusariumital species, such as F. roseum (Gibberella zeae), F. granimearum and F. culmorum. In Austria, DON and the estrogenic-active zearalenone, cause important economic losses. Humid


A self‐balancing 9‐level inverter is proposed in this paper. To generate a 9‐level voltage with a gain of two requires a single DC source, eight power switches, three capacitors, and two diodes. Without additional circuitry, the voltages of the capacitors in the proposed topology can achieve inherent balance. The peak‐inverse‐voltage (PIV) of six power switches equals or less than the source voltage, and the other two are twice. As power switches are complementary, the proposed topology requires fewer gate drivers. Furthermore, the self‐balancing capability of capacitors' voltage helps in simple control complexity. The description of topology, mode of operation, modulation strategy, and design of the capacitor of proposed topology are presented. The advantages of the proposed inverter are examined by comparing it with switched capacitor multilevel inverters (MLIs). Finally, a 9‐level prototype is built to verify the theoretical analysis and the practical efficacy of the proposed inverter.


ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of education on public job choice using quarter of birth as an instrumental variable. We find that an additional year of education increases the probability of public sector employment by 1.87 percentage points. However, this positive effect is driven by females, whites, and those with high school degrees or less. For those with college or higher degrees, we observe a decrease in public employment with more education. Our results imply that highly-educated individuals go into high-risk, high-return occupations.


This article presents E- and W-band low-noise amplifiers (LNA) in GlobalFoundries 22-nm CMOS fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI). Both amplifiers employ a three-stage cascode design with gain-boosting transformer loads. Design procedures are presented for E- and W-band LNAs for narrowband and wideband applications. The E-band LNA focuses on a high-gain, low-power implementation, and results in a gain and noise figure (NF) of 20 and 4.6 dB at 77 GHz with a 3-dB bandwidth of 12 GHz, and an input P1dB of −27.4 dBm, for a power consumption of 9 mW. The W-band LNA focuses on wideband applications and results in a peak gain of 18.2 dB with a 3-dB bandwidth of 31 GHz, for a power consumption of 16 mW. The LNAs have a high figure-of-merit (FoM) and show very low-power operation in the 70–100 GHz range. Application areas are in phased arrays for 5G with hundreds or thousands of elements, automotive radars at 77 GHz, and sensors at 94 GHz.


The presence of opening in the shear zone of beams can significantly affect the load-carrying capacity and the shear resistance of the beams. Previous research hasshown that strengthening provides promising results in increasing the performance of the beams with opening. Therefore, this studypresentsthe experimental work of five (5) reinforced concrete beam with opening at shear zone,added with steel fibre and metakaolin to increase the shear capacity of the beam. All beams were cast and tested under four-point bending test. One beam served as the control specimen, two beams hadone and twoopening respectively while the other two beams also had one and two opening butwith added steel fibre and metakaolin. The type of steel fibre used was a hooked-end steel fiberwith the dimensions of 0.9mm in diameter, 60mm in length.0.5% of steel fiber wasadded by volume of beam, and 5% of metakaolin by volume of beamwere used. From the experimental results, it was found that the two beams with added steel fibre and metakaolin shows an increase in shear capacity compared with the beams with opening without the steel fibre and metakaolin. The highest shear force recorded was 79.11 kN (beams with added steel fibre and metakaolin) which showedan increase ofabout 54.3 % compared with the same beam with opening without added steel fibre and metakaolin.


In this paper a new contrast invariant descriptor for human detection in long-wave infrared images is proposed. It exploits local information histogram of orientations of phase coherence. Contrast in infrared images depends on the temperature of the object and the background, which makes gradient based descriptors less robust, especially in daylight conditions. The objective is to obtain a scale, brightness and contrast invariant descriptor that can successfully detect pedestrians in images taken with a cheap, temperature-sensitive, uncooled microbolometer. The descriptor, packed into grids is feed to a Support Vector Machine classifier. The algorithm has been tested in night and day sequences and its performance is compared with a day only descriptor: the histogram of oriented features (HOG).


A Clifford algebra of two to the fifth power dimension is applicable to computer graphics. In particular, one needs to compute inverse elements of the Clifford algebra. The inverse formulas for elements of Clifford algebras of dimensions less than or equal to two the fifth power are known by direct calculation. The formulas have some structure. However, we did not know the reason for the formulas have the structure.
In this paper, we give the reason by some anti-isomorphisms on subspaces of Clifford algebras. In addition, we describe constants in the formulas for Clifford algebras of dimensions at most two to the fourth power.


A significantly lower frequency of the ε2 allele and a significantly higher frequency of the ε3 allele were found in the normolipidemic Japanese population than those in the normolipidemic Caucasian populations. We have compared plasma lipid variables among the apolipoprotein (apo) E phenotype groups and estimated the average effects of the three common alleles (ε2, ε3 and ε4) on plasma lipid levels in normolipidemic subjects. Plasma triglyceride (TG), very low density lipoprotein (VLDL)‐TG, VLDL‐cholesterol (C) and apo E levels were high in the apo E3/2 group, intermediate in the apo E3/3 group and low in the apo E4/3 group, whereas plasma total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein (LDL)‐C and high density lipoprotein (HDL)‐C levels were low in the apo E3/2 group, intermediate in the apo E3/3 group and high in the apo E4/3 group. Furthermore, the ε2 allele had an effect to increase the TG, VLDL‐TG, VLDL‐C and apo E levels and decrease the TC, LDL‐C and HDL‐C levels, whereas the ε4 allele had an effect opposite to the el allele. These results indicate that the ε2 and ε4 alleles have the reciprocal effects on plasma lipid, lipoprotein and apo E levels.


Several techniques have been developed for position location in a two dimension (2-D) system but few techniques have been done in a three dimension (3-D) context. Some of the techniques and algorithms proposed for 3-D are often subject to accuracy problems. We propose in this paper a novel technique of 3-D indoor position location. This method relies on techniques for ultra wide band (UWB) transmissions. The location algorithm is in terms of time difference of Arrival (TDOA). Numerical simulations show that the proposed approach improves precision of 3-D position location. Keywords— TDOA; 3-D Position Location; UWB.


Introduction: Soil microplastic (MP) pollution has emerged as a main factor of global change, but its effects on soil nutrient availability and uptake by crops (macro and micronutrients) are largely unknown. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are regulators of nutrient availability and uptake and can interact with soil MP. Materials and Methods: Building on previous studies, here we explored in a 50 ‐ days pot experiment the influence and interaction of MP fibres (0.4%) and commercial AMF in soil and onion chemistry, that is, in elemental composition of onion shoots and soils (C, N, Ca, Mg, K, P, S, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn) and micronutrient soil availability (Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn). Results: MP had detrimental effects on K, Mg and S, but increased the soil availability of Zn and shoot uptake. AMF inoculation buffered the effects of MP by balancing/ enhancing nutrient availability and plant uptake. Particularly, the commercial AMF inoculum remarkably enhanced Mn uptake by onion. Conclusion: Our results support the use of AMF to sustainably manage agricultural ecosystems contaminated with MP, buffering and counteracting the effects of MP by balancing nutrient availability and plant uptake.


Copy number variants (CNVs) are associated with psychiatric conditions in clinical populations. The relationship between rare CNV burden and neuropsychiatric traits in young, general populations is underexplored. A total of 6,807 children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) were studied. CNVs were inferred from single nucleotide polymorphism‐array data using PennCNV. After excluding children with known candidate CNVs for schizophrenia (SCZ), rare (<1%) CNV burden (total number of genes affected by CNVs, total length of CNVs, and largest CNV carried) was analyzed in relation to: psychotic experiences (PEs) and anxiety/depression in adolescence; autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), ASD and ADHD traits, and cognitive measures during childhood. Outcomes were also assessed in relation to known SCZ CNVs. The number of genes affected by rare CNVs was associated with a continuous measure of ASD: the standardized mean difference [SMD] per gene affected was increased by 0.018 [95%CI 0.011,0.025], p = 3e‐07 for duplications and by 0.021 [95%CI 0.010, 0.032], p = 1e‐04 for deletions. In line with our published results on educational attainment in ALSPAC, intelligence quotient (IQ) was associated with CNV burden: the SMD per gene affected was −0.017 [95%CI −0.025, −0.008] p = 1e‐04 for duplications and −0.023 [95%CI −0.037, −0.009], p = .002 for deletions. Associations were also observed for measures of coherence, attention, memory, and social cognition. SCZ‐associated deletions were associated with IQ (SMD: −0.617 [95%CI −0.936, −0.298], p = 2e‐04), but not with PEs or other traits. We found that rare CNV burden and known SCZ candidate CNVs are associated with neuropsychiatric phenotypes in a nonclinically ascertained sample of young people.


This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of group grief counseling and grief therapy using a religious approach on improving the Quality of Life (QOL) in bereaved mothers. In this study a quasi-experimental design with pretest- posttest and experimental and control groups were used. The data gathering instrument was Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). The population of this study included bereaved mothers who had at least 3 months and maximum one year of bereaved history with one standard deviation QOL score below the population mean. By volunteer sampling 18 bereaved mothers were selected and assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. Then, the experimental group received 10 weekly sessions (90 minutes) of intervention. The results of variance analysis showed that the differences between experimental and control groups in QOL score were significant; Thus, intervention improved QOL in bereaved mothers. Results showed that group grief counseling and grief therapy using a religious approach is an effective therapy for improving QOL in bereaved mothers.


Measurement, monitoring, and other secondary equipment that devolve to switch field are directly exposed to a complex electromagnetic environment and are thus severely disrupted. This study aimed to reduce a fast transient overvoltage and secondary cable terminal interference voltage. Simulation and analysis involved the substation EMTP calculation model of the conducted interference of the primary and secondary systems for the fast transient overvoltage caused by the switching operation and secondary cable in the conducted interference protection measures. Furthermore, various protective measures for the isolating-switch switching no-load transformer were analyzed. Results showed that parallel resistance added to the isolating switch at the primary side, whereas filter capacitance added to the secondary side, both measures significantly reduced overvoltage and interference voltage, and can be easily applied in practical engineering.


The high electron affinity (4.4eV) of CdTe presents a major technological challenge for forming a good back contact to CdTe, limiting the power conversion efficiency of CdTe solar cells. Commonly used metals do not possess an adequately deep work function to create an ohmic contact with CdTe. Instead, approaches such as doping the back surface of CdTe or incorporating a buffer layer between CdTe and the back-metal contact are used to lower the back-barrier height. Here, we investigate the impact of sputtered ZnTe back buffer layer on the performance of CdS:O/CdTe solar cells. We demonstrated CdTe solar cells with an efficiency of around 15% with a 35 nm ZnTe buffer layer.


Plasma cutting is an ever-evolving method of industrial cutting of materials. Like all modern methods, it must meet the requirements for the quality of the cut, but also the hygiene and safety regulations set by European legislation. New ways are being sought to reduce process noise while improving the quality of the cutting surface. The article aims to compare two cutting modes (Contour Cut and Silent Cut) in terms of both the quality of the cut (roughness of the cutting surface, size of the heat affected area, perpendicularity and bevel angle of the cutting surface) and in terms of noise of the cutting process. The results in the article clearly show that the use of the Silent Cut mode has a demonstrably positive effect on the level of noise produced but also on the quality of the cut.


Settlement monitoring is essential in various deformation monitoring projects.But it is also one of the most time-cost and hardworking observation projects in all of the common monitoring projects.This paper introduced a method which can greatly improve the efficiency of settlement observation.It has considerable economical value.


Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm to provide various services to users. Cloud storage plays an vital role in cloud computing. In that users are allowed to store the data in the cloud servers and users can access the data from the cloud servers. Integrity of the user's data should be maintained in the cloud. To achieve this, integrity checking schemes are used. Auditing is one of the integrity checking schemes, in that user data are monitored to check the data integrity. In this paper, an efficient auditing scheme is introduced to support dynamic operations of the user data and batch auditing for multi-cloud and multi-user.


Objective: To describe the circumstances of death and toxicological findings in all heroin‐related deaths in New South Wales in 1992.


We use high resolution N-body/SPH simulations to study the hydrodynamical interaction between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the hot halo of the Milky Way. We investigate whether ram-pressure acting on the satellite's ISM can explain the peculiarities observed in the HI distribution and the location of the recent star formation activity. Due to the present nearly edge-on orientation of the disk with respect to the orbital motion, compression at the leading edge can explain the high density region observed in HI at the south-east border. In the case of a face-on disk (according to Mastropietro et al. 2008 the LMC was moving almost face-on before the last perigalactic passage), ram-pressure directed perpendicularly to the disk produces a clumpy structure characterized by voids and high density filaments that resemble those observed by the Parkes HI survey. As a consequence of the very recent edge-on motion, the Hα emission is mainly concentrated on the eastern side where 30 Doradus and most of the supergiant shells are located, although some Hα complexes form a patchy distribution on the entire disk. In this scenario only the youngest stellar complexes show a progression in age along the leading border of the disk.


In January 1985 The Journal of Chinese Medicine published an edited transcript of a discussion called 'Acupuncture in the West' between Peter Deadman, Ted Kaptchuk, Giovanni Maciocia and Felicity Moir. It was a particularly popular article and to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the JCM we decided to convene another discussion, in London in March 2009. Present this time were Peter Deadman (PD), Hugh MacPherson (HM), Daniel Maxwell (DM), Felicity Moir (FM) and Volker Scheid (VS). All are past or present practitioners of acupuncture and/or herbal medicine.


Given a Fell bundle $\mathcal{B}=\{B_t\}_{t\in G}$ over a LCH group and a closed subgroup $H\subset G,$ we show that all the *-representations of $\mathcal{B}_H:=\{B_t\}_{t\in H}$ can be induced to *-representations of $\mathcal{B}$ by means of Fell's induction process; which we describe as induction via a *-homomorphism $q^{\mathcal{B}}_H\colon C^*(\mathcal{B})\to \mathbb{B}(X_{C^*(\mathcal{B}_H)}).$ The quotients $C^*_H(\mathcal{B}):=q^{\mathcal{B}}_H(C^*(\mathcal{B}))$ are intermediate to $C^*(\mathcal{B})= C^*_G(\mathcal{B})$ and $C^*_{r}(\mathcal{B})=C^*_{\{e\}}(\mathcal{B})$ because every inclusion of subgroups $H\subset K\subset G$ gives a unique quotient map $q^{\mathcal{B}}_{HK}\colon C^*_K(\mathcal{B})\to C^*_H(\mathcal{B})$ such that $q^{\mathcal{B}}_{HK}\circ q^{\mathcal{B}}_K=q^{\mathcal{B}}_H.$ All along the article we try to find conditions on $\mathcal{B},$ $G,\ H$ and $K$ (e.g. saturation, nuclearity or weak containment) that imply $q^{\mathcal{B}}_{HK}$ is faithful. One of our main tools is a blend of Fell's absorption principle (for saturated bundles) and a result of Exel and Ng for reduced cross sectional C*-algebras. We also show that given an imprimitivity system $\langle T,P\rangle$ for $\mathcal{B}$ over $G/H,$ if $H$ is open or has open normalizer in $G,$ then $T$ is weakly contained in a *-representation induced from $\mathcal{B}_H$ (even if $\mathcal{B}$ is not saturated). Given normal and closed subgroups of $G,$ $H\subset K,$ we construct a Fell bundle $\mathcal{C}$ over $G/K$ such that $C^*_r(\mathcal{C})=C^*_H(\mathcal{B}).$ We show that $q^{\mathcal{B}}_H$ is faithful if and only if both $q^{\mathcal{C}}_{\{e\}}$ and $q^{\mathcal{B}_K}_H$ are.


This paper presents a necessary and sufficient condition for the solvability of the distrubance decoupling problem for controlled finite state systems. The main result asserts the necessity of applying a dynamic extension of the state set.


The route of administration of morphine, other than parenteral administration, may be promising in incrensing the compliance in patients that continuously need morphine for its amilgesic effect. Morphine systemic penetration was investigated after ocular instillation. Its phnrmacokinctic pxnmeters and its bioavailability after ocular instillation compared to its intravenous administration were determined in healthy New Zealand Albino rabbits. A cross over design was performed with an eight-days wash-out period between the ocular and intravenous administrations. After ocular instillation, morphine was rapidly absorbed and attained serum levels compatible with effective concentration for it*; nnalgesic effect. Ocular bioavailability of morphine was high, 66%. Oculx administration of morphine could provide prolonged high serum levels and prolonged systemic pharmacologic effect. Ocular administration of morphine should be considered for its systemic pharmacologic effect.


. The study on the composition of the tabanid fauna has been conducted on the territory of Sarnena Gora Mountains. The summarized references data and the results of the present study show that the Sarnena Gora Mountains tabanid fauna was represented by 53 species-group taxa (51 species and 2 subspecies). They belonged to 10 genera: Silvius (1 species), Chrysops (4 species), Atylotus (3 species), Therioplectes (2 species and 1 subspecies), Hybomitra (5 species), Tabanus (22 species and 1 subspecies), Heptatoma (1 species), Haematopota (10 species), Dasyrhamphis (2 species) and Philipomyia (1 species). Forty three tabanid localities have been registered in the study area of which 8 are new. Seven new localities of Tabanus sudeticus Zeller, 1842 have been reported on the territory of Sarnena Gora Mountains.


To identify the roles of pyridoxine‐5′‐phosphate (PNP) oxidase in epileptogenesis and the recovery mechanisms in spontaneous seizure, a chronological and comparative analysis of PNP oxidase expression was conducted. PNP oxidase immunoreactivity in a preseizure group of seizure‐sensitive (SS) gerbils was detected more strongly than that in a seizure‐resistant (SR) group. The density of PNP oxidase immunoreactivity in a 30 min postictal group was significantly lower than that in a preseizure group. In a 12 hr postictal group, PNP oxidase immunodensity had recovered to a preseizure level. The overexpression of PNP oxidase in the hippocampus of preseizure SS gerbils suggests that PNP or pyridoxal 5′‐phosphate plays an important role in the modulation of glutamic acid decarboxylase activity and γ‐aminobutyric acid reuptake as mediated by membrane transporter via neurons. In addition, this change in the PNP oxidase immunoreactivity following seizure may be a compensatory response designed to reduce epileptic activity in this animal. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


This book uncovers the origins of twentieth-century popular culture's most enduring themes - drugs, sex, and pop music. The drug-induced death of the West End musical actress, Billie Carleton and the highly publicised inquest which resulted, became the focus for a heady cocktail of public anxieties about drug abuse, the supposedly malign influence of oriental men and the "frailty" of the women who associated with them. Cocaine and opium had been criminalised only two years before, and the popular press made much of the link between the Chinese opium dens of Limehouse and the drug habits of the decadent demi-monde of London's West End. Meanwhile, women had made enormous social advances during the war years, winning the vote for the first time in 1918 but provoking fear and resentment about their changing role in a still deeply conservative society. "Dope Girls" attempts to evoke the mood of the time -the hectic social life, the jazz and musicals, the sex and drug scandals, and their voyeuristic coverage in the popular media.


This paper describes an improved apparatus to measure dielectric constants and dissipation factors using a resonance technique. The measurements can be made rapidly and accurately without appreciable systematic error in the wide frequency range from 1 kHz to 100 MHz. This apparatus uses the half power‐gap variation method or the half power‐varying gap‐immersion method for solid‐plate specimens and the solid‐plate displacement method for liquid specimens. The electrode system is 30 mm in diameter and has a shield ring to avoid the edge capacitance effect, guards against surface current leakage, and variable air capacitors to set the electrode gap at any arbitrary value. To detect a very small power loss, the resonance voltages in circuits with Q≂100 are stabilized to −86 dB at a constant ambient temperature. We use phase detectors so that the electrode gap and the voltage at resonance can easily be read from the digital panel meter and the digital voltmeter. No corrections are necessary even at a high freq...


SUMMARY The Australian Engineering Mathematics Conference is now a biennial event. In 1994, this took place in Melbourne, sponsored principally by Swinburne University of Technology. It attracted considerable international interest with many delegates coming from Europe. The paper summarises the proceedings.


This study investigated the role of disablement as a predictor of academic attainment among students awarded first degrees by UK institutions of higher education in 2004–05. Disability explained only 0.1% of the variation in attainment, as measured by whether the graduates had obtained good degrees (i.e. with first‐class or upper second‐class honours). Graduates with dyslexia and graduates with multiple disabilities were less likely to obtain good degrees than graduates with no known disability, but this was mainly due to the confounded effects of demographic and institutional variables. Graduates with an unseen disability were the only group to show significantly poorer attainment when the latter variables had been controlled. In overall terms, disablement per se does not play a significant role in predicting attainment.


OLED displays have different power consumption depending on R, G, and B pixel values. Therefore, if an image is segmented according to saliency and then divided according to color using a super pixel algorithm, low power can be achieved while maintaining human visual satisfaction However, if the image is segmented using saliency and then the segmented image is segmented using the super pixel algorithm, simple linear iterative clustering(SLIC), the pixels that do not have a color value because the segmented image has a different saliency level are also segmented by the super pixel algorithm. So the ability to divide color is poor at segmented image. This paper excludes pixels that do not have color values from the segmentation process when dividing an image including pixels that do not have color values by saliency criteria into super pixels. In addition, by allocating the first search position not evenly in the entire image, but focusing on the pixels with color values, the performance of the super pixel that divides the image according to color in the image divided based on saliency was improved. In terms of low power, the proposed method has similar power savings of about 38% to that of the FDM-oriented SLIC method, but the SSIM, which is structurally similar to the original image, has shown higher.


In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report. As part of this report, it released 94 Calls to Action to "redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation."A year later, in its response to Call to Action 48, which focused on the adoption and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops set forth eight commitments.Recommended by its Commission for Justice and Peace, these commitments reflect "the hope and desire to continue to walk together with Indigenous Peoples in building a more just society where their gifts and those of all people are nurtured and honoured."These commitments focus on education, health care, the criminal justice system, and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.


The modelling of the semantics of adjectives is notoriously challenging. We consider this problem in the context of the so called ontology-lexicon interface, which attempts to capture the semantics of words by reference to an ontology in description logics or some other, typically first-order, logical formalism. The use of first order logic (hence also description logics), while effective for nouns and verbs, breaks down in the case of adjectives. We argue that this is primarily due to a lack of logical expressivity in the underlying ontology languages. In particular, beyond the straightforward intersective adjectives, there exist gradable adjectives, requiring fuzzy or non-monotonic semantics, as well as operator adjectives, requiring second-order logic for modelling. We consider how we can extend the ontology-lexicon interface as realized by extant models such as lemon in the face of the issues mentioned above, in particular those arising in the context of modelling the ontological semantics of adjectives. We show how more complex logical formalisms that are required to capture the ontological semantics of adjectives can be backward engineered into OWL-based modelling by means of pseudo-classes. We discuss the implications of this modelling in the context of application to ontology-based question answering.


his water for more than two hours at a time, and a weakness of the sphincter of the bladder, which was unable to resist the strain of a cough or extra exertion. This condition was still improving. Suprapubic and Perineal Prostatectomy.-Mr. E. DEANESLY also showed several specimens illustrating his paper on the relative advantages of suprapubic and perineal prostatectomy, published at p. I187: (I) Normal bladder and urethra laid open. (2) Greatly enlarged prostate and bladder, with dilated ureters and kidneys, from an elderly man who had died with obscure symptoms shortly after acmission to the medical wards of the Wolverhampton General Hospital. (3) Bladder and urethra and prostate of a patient who died ten weeks after removal of a greatly-enlarged prostate by Freyer's method. A considerable cavity still remained in the situation formerly occupied by the prostate. Death had occurred from chronic cystitis and exhaustion. (4) A similar specimen from a man aged 58, who died forty-eight hours after Freyer's operation from slow haemorrhage and pelvic cellulitis. In this case the prostate (also shown)was enucleated easily in two smooth masses each the size and shape of a hen's egg, the greater part of the prostatic urethra being attached to one of the lobes. A uric calculus measuring IT in. by -W in., which had been diagnosed by the history and symptoms, but could not be felt by the sound owing to the great projection of the prostate, was also removed at the operation. (5) Enlarged prostate in two lateral masses, removed by perineal prostatectomy from the patient previously shown. A phosphatic calculus, measuring iI in. by i in., removed at the same time, was also shown. (6) Fragments of large uric calculus removed by lithotrity from a man aged 55, together with portions of an enlarged prostate subsequently removed by suprapubic cystotomy, rendered necessary some months later by recurrence of stone. The last operation was performed in I90I, and the patient had remained well since. Cases.-Mr. DEANESLY also showed the following cases: (I) A boy, aged I4, with a scapular dislocation of the left shoulder, apparently incurred during birth. The movements of the shoulder were limited, but there was no muscular paralysis, and the utility of the limb was not so much impaired as might have been expected. (2) A woman, aged 6o, who was admitted to hospital on December 24th, 1903, with a femoral hernia strangulated for four days. A loop of gangrenous bowel was removed, about 6 in. in length, including the healthy portions at each end, and immediate circular enterorrhaphy performed. Although Poupart's ligament was divided, and there was some suppuration of the wound, the operation for radical cure which was performed at the same time as the enterorrhaphy was quite successful and no truss was now worn. XRays and High-frequency Currents.-Dr. CODD read a paper on some results of treatment by x rays and high-frequency currents, with illustrative eases.


Nuclear power plant safety under seismic conditions is an important consideration. The piping systems may have some defects caused by fatigue, stress corrosion cracking, etc., in aged plants. These cracks may not only affect the seismic response, but may also grow and break through causing loss of coolant. Therefore, an evaluation method needs to be developed to predict crack growth behavior under seismic excitation. This paper describes efforts conducted to analyze and better understand a series of degraded pipe tests under seismic loading that was conducted by Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES). A special "cracked-pipe element" (CPE) concept, where the element represented the global moment-rotation response due to the crack, was developed. This approach was developed to simplify the dynamic finite element analysis. In this paper, model validation was conducted by comparisons with a series of pipe tests with circumferential through-wall and surface cracks under different excitation conditions. These analyses showed that reasonably accurate predictions could be made using the ABAQUS connector element to model the complete transition of a circumferential surface crack to a through-wall crack under cyclic dynamic loading. The JNES combined-component test was analyzed in detail. The combined-component test had three crack locations and multiple applied simulated-seismic block loadings. Comparisons were also made between the ABAQUS FE analyses results to the measured displacements in the experiment. Good agreement was obtained and it was confirmed that the simplified modeling is applicable to a seismic analysis for a cracked pipe on the basis of fracture mechanics. Pipe system leakage did occur in the JNES tests. The analytical predictions using the CPE approach did not predict leakage, suggesting that cyclic ductile tearing with large-scale plasticity was not the crack growth mode for the acceleration excitations considered here. Hence, the leakage was caused by low-cycle fatigue with small-scale yielding. The procedure used to make predictions of low-cycle fatigue crack growth with small-scale yielding was based on the Dowling ΔJ procedure, which is an extension of linear-elastic fatigue crack growth methodology into the nonlinear plasticity regime. The predicted moments from the CPE approach were used using a cycle-by-cycle crack growth procedure. The predictions compare quite well with the experimental measurements.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


Developmental plasticity describes the capacity of individuals with the same genotype to induce permanent change in a phenotype depending on a specific external input. One well-studied example of a ...


ABSTRACT Introduction Core strength training has attracted much attention in modern competitive sports. Objective Study the effect of core strength training on pelvic girdle strength in table tennis players. Methods 50 students aged 12-14 from the table tennis club of an elementary school affiliated with a normal university were divided into a control group and an experimental group. They performed a one-week training of core strength exercises. Through a series of technical index tests, the data before and after using these strength training methods were obtained for comparative analysis. Results After the core strength training, there was no significant difference between the other four indices in the experimental group and the control group, except for the fact that there was a significant difference in the performance of running around the platform (P < 0.05). Conclusion After the experiment, the four indexes reflecting the strength of the core muscle group in the experimental group were significantly optimized, while the four indexes in the control group were not significant, showing that core strength training has a more significant effect on improving the strength of the core muscle group. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.


Less than 20 years ago the field of mental health did not have the language or a paradigm to describe the long-term consequences of traumatic stress. In retrospect, historical attempts to bring the plight of trauma survivors to the attention of the mental health community probably failed in part because of the lack of specific biological markers that could substantiate claims of long-term psychological scars. In the absence of a discrete biology, the psychological symptoms of trauma survivors could easily be subsumed under the umbrella of neurotic and even psychotic disorders and the etiology of these symptoms be attributed to causes other than trauma exposure. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) became a diagnosis in 1980 as a culmination of over a century of clinical observations. However, although the diagnosis provided a descriptive nomenclature for the long-term effects of trauma, nothing was known about the biological concomitants of this condition at the time it was described. In the last decade, biological findings have provided objective validation that PTSD is more than a politically or socially motivated conceptualization of human suffering. Indeed, biological Observations have delineated PTSD from other psychiatric disorders and have allowed a more sophisticated description of the long-term consequences of traumatic stress. This volume summarizes the major findings and themes that have emerged. Perhaps the greatest challenge is that the biological findings suggest that PTSD is a different disorder from the one original conceptualized. In particular, it appears that the biology of PTSD is not simply the biology of stress. This point really must be emphasized because it has major implications in the choice of biological models that could potentially explain the onset of PTSD as well as its maintenance or reemergence. Indeed, one of the major points highlighted in this volume concerns the biological or pathophysiological differences between PTSD, stress, and other psychiatric disorders. On the other hand, Dr. Pitman's call for caution in the interpretation of biological research militates against exaggerated causal assumptions. The first section of this volume deals with the epidemiological and phenomenological studies that objectified the important clinical observations on the prevalence of


A large orbiting platform such as Space Station will be subjected to numerous impacts by meteoroids and space debris fragments. These hypervelocity impacts will produce clouds of ejected structural material in the vicinity of the Station. The development of a preliminary model for impact-generated ejecta production which combines the fluxes of meteoroids and space debris fragments with a description of the number of ejecta particles produced by hypervelocity impacts is reported. Modeling results give mean ejecta densities from 30 to 100 percent of the present particulate background limitation of 1 particle 5 microns and larger per orbit per 1 x 10(-5) sr field-of-view as seen by a 1-m-diameter aperture telescope in the 1990's time frame. Projected increases in the space debris flux raise this density to 300 percent of this limitation after 2010. The model is also applied to estimate the vulnerability of metallic claddings on composite structural members to penetration by hypervelocity projectiles, thereby exposing the substrate to atomic oxygen. The estimated annual number of penetrations is from 4 to 8 per square meter of cross-sectional area in the mid 1990's, increasing to more than 40 penetrations per square meter after 2010.


Toledo, Ohio, which has an abundant supply of freshwater from Lake Erie, is using computer technology to streamline operations at its Collins Park Water Treatment Plant. A distributed control system, operational since 1993, makes Collins Park one of the most fully automated plants in the Midwest. The system has reduced expenditures on chemicals, energy, and labor; a preliminary study indicated the system will pay for itself in six years. The system calculates the most efficient pumping variables to maintain proper pressures and flow rates and to take advantage of off-peak energy rates. The reservoir is allowed to be drawn down during the day and is refilled at night when power and water demands have subsided. The authors provide recommendations to aid in developing and installing an instrumentation and control system.


Summary form only given. The theoretically estimated activation energy of a charged soliton pinned by the Coulomb force of a dopant in polyacetylene is pointed out to be too large for thermal depinning. This seems to indicate that the soliton cannot be a charge carrier. In the real systems, however, the activation energy may not be so large if we consider the effects of finite concentration of dopants. The dopant concentration dependence of the activation energy of the charged soliton pinned by regularly arranged off-chain dopant ions is investigated by using the SSH model with a long ranged potential term due to dopants. For simplicity we consider a single soliton problem. The soliton width is variationally determined for its location at a pinning center and at a midpoint between neighboring pinning centers by minimizing the total energy under the constriction. The activation energy is defined as the energy difference between two states obtained in that way. It is shown that the activation energy decreases rapidly with the dopant concentration. This result can be qualitatively understood in the following way; 1) the effective potential barrier for the soliton motion is reduced because the amplitude of the spatial variation of the potential decreases with increasing concentration, and 2) the finite width of the soliton acts to average the spatial variation of the potential and therefore enhances the decrease of the effective barrier with dopant concentration. The effects of the intrachain electron-electron interactions will be also considered.


We prove that for suitable random walks on isometry groups of $CAT(-1)$ spaces, typical sample paths eventually land on loxodromic elements which equidistribute with respect to a flow invariant measure on the unit tangent bundle of the quotient space.


Analyzing the (harm of) intrusion to enterprise servers is an onerous and error-prone work. Though dynamic taint tracking enables automatic fine-grained intrusion harm analysis for enterprise servers, the significant runtime overhead introduced is generally intolerable in the production workload environment. Thus, we propose PEDA (Production Environment Damage Analysis) system, which decouples the onerous analysis work from the online execution of the production servers. Once compromised, the "has-been-infected" execution is analyzed during high fidelity replay on a separate instrumentation platform. The replay is implemented based on the heterogeneous virtual machine migration. The servers' online execution runs atop fast hardware-assisted virtual machines (such as Xen for near native speed), while the infected execution is replayed atop binary instrumentation virtual machines (such as Qemu for the implementation of taint analysis). From identified intrusion symptoms, PEDA is capable of locating the fine-grained taint seed by integrating the backward system call dependency tracking and one-step-forward taint information flow auditing. Started with the fine-grained taint seed, PEDA applies dynamic taint analysis during the replayed execution. Evaluation demonstrates the efficiency of PEDA system with runtime overhead as low as 5%. The real-life intrusion studies successfully show the comprehensiveness and the precision of PEDA's intrusion harm analysis.


It might seem that the state of a magnet can be fully specified by labelling its poles as north and south. However, the true orientation of the magnetic moment is determined by the interplay of many different and competing energies. This generally ensures that the magnetization breaks up into a complicated pattern of regions, called domains, and that the magnetic moments in neighbouring domains point in different directions.


Photodegradation of quetiapine under UVC irradiation in methanol solution was investigated and structural elucidation of its photodegradation products was performed with the use of the reversed phase UHPLC system coupled with accurate mass hybrid ESI-Q-TOF mass spectrometer. During one run all essential data for the determination of photodegradation kinetics and for the structural elucidation of the products was collected with the use of auto MS/MS mode. Five degradation products were found and their masses and formulas were obtained with high accuracy (0.26–5.02 ppm). For all the analyzed compounds, MS/MS fragmentation spectra were also obtained allowing structural elucidation of the unknown degradation products and indicating photodegradation pathways of quetiapine. The main photodegradation product was identified as 2-[2-[4-(5-oxidodibenzo[b,f][1,4]thiazepin-11-yl)-1-piperazinyl]ethoxy]-ethanol and the photodegradation reaction yields the first-order kinetics with the rate constant k = 0.1094 h−1.


Men in the Wall was produced with an Arts Council England Capture 3 Award and an FRSF Award. Men in the Wall is a four-screen 3-dimensional stereoscopic screen dance installation, a world of four men whose shared framed lives reveal a public quartet of private difference.Men in the Wall is a complex 25-minute loop across four screens with a linear narrative and choreographic structure, giving a potential virgin viewing experience as one hour and 40 minutes, unusual for the fleeting attention often given to gallery based visual installation work. Breaking into the visual art domain that denotes gallery as 'home', Men in the Wall raised the debate concerning curatorial practice and contemporary art practice and is considered by the Arts Council and Capture to be the first of its kind.


The function of flap is to raise the soft tissue overlying the surgical site to give the best possible view to the operator and sufficient exposure of the area to be operated on with minimal postoperative complications.The objective of this study is to evaluate a new flap design for exposure of periapical lesion, also to compare it with other common flaps used in periapical surgery.The study include 107 young patients apicectomized for one, two, or three anterior teeth from January2007 to June 2008, age ranged between 18-30 years old, using special case sheet.The flap has given good access to one, two or three apices apicectomized with less postoperative complications including pain, swelling, parasthesia of lip and wound healing.The flap described is an alternative approach to reach the periapical area that may be used to overcome the disadvantages of other flap designs used in periapical surgery.


Influence maximization problem asks for a small subset of nodes in a social network that could maximize the spread of influence, which finds important applications in viral marketing. Most existing works focus on maximizing the influence of a single product or products that are in pure competition. However, a company usually produces different products to meet the needs of different people in reality. In this paper, we focus on the propagation of multiple products and propose multiple products independent cascade (MPIC) model, which allows each user to adopt multiple products. Aiming to maximize the overall profit across all products, we study the budgeted profit maximization (BPM) problem. To give a high-quality solution for BPM problem under the MPIC model, we present a modified greedy algorithm and derive the performance guarantee in doing so. Furthermore, we show that the two-phase profit maximization algorithm can not only handle the large-scale networks but also give the same approximation ratio as the modified greedy. In addition, we propose the cost performance update heuristics algorithm that has the results close to the above algorithms, and the running time is less than one ten-thousandth of the greedy. Our experiments on three real datasets verify the correctness and effectiveness of our methods, as well as the advantage of our methods against the traditional methods.


The system is one of the network of the procedure each other work together to reach a certain. The Problems is how can we to design the system accounting sales cash good according to standards accounting on Sehat Bersama pharmacy Palembang. The purpose of this research was to compare the practices and theories that has already got by author during the studied especially the design of the accounting system of cash sales were good. The location of this research carried out in the Sehat Bersama pharmacy Palembang. The result of this report shows that the system accounting sales cash on Sehat Bersama pharmacy Palembang not in accordance with the theory. The function of associated on the system accounting sales cash the function of sales, the function of cash, the function of the barn and function accounting. Document used in the system accounting sales cash not carried out of his, documents used is a copy of the recipe and a memorandum of sales. The note accounting sales designed back in the cash receipt journal. The procedure that form the system accounting of sales is the procedure order sales, the procedure acceptance of cash and the procedure records begin selling cash.


Clustering analysis is a data analysis aimed at determining a group of data based on common characteristics. Grouping method that's being developed now is fuzzy clustering analysis. Fuzzy clustering algorithm that's commonly used is the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm and developed further by Gustafson Kessel Clustering (GK) which is able to detect groups with different shape than the FCM. This study examines the comparative application of FCM and GK clustering method in a case study, namely grouping in LQ45 based on the shares ratio of  Earning Per Share  (EPS) and  Price Earning Ratio  (PER). Determination of the optimal number of groups is done through calculation Xie and Beni validity index.In this research the algorithm FCM and GK will be made using MATLAB software, such as  GUI-based application program which can help users to perform clustering analysis. In some cases, the research results showed that GK is better than FCM, specifically in  generating the objective function and the standard deviation ratio of the minimum group. Based on the validity index Xie and Beni, it can be concluded that the optimal number of groups are divided into three. Keywords:  Categories of Stocks, Fuzzy C-Means, Gustafson Kessel clustering, Xie and Beni index.


ABSTRACT Irfan jaya kangsaputra, NPM: 13.11.1001.1011.026, "Professional Pharmacists as Business Actors Reviewed From Consumer Protection Law in Samarinda". (Supervised by Dr.H.Abdul Rokhim, S.H, M.Hum and Drawan Hasyim, S.H, M.Sc). This research was made with the aim to determine the role of pharmacists as health workers does not conflict with pharmacists as entrepreneurs, but this role can lead to conflicts of interest. One effort that can be applied to prevent conflicts of interest is the pharmacist as a professional who works according to his professional code of ethics and has clear and strict provisions as a limitation of duties and functions in owning and / or managing a pharmacy. Thus the government regulations governing the separation of pharmacists in carrying out the duties and functions of managing and / or owning a pharmacy need to be firmly rearranged. The results showed that the profession is an important factor in improving the quality and quantity of work. With the knowledge possessed through education, a person will be able to allocate his thoughts well and tend not to be excessive so that they can work well. Pharmacists as business operators are regulated in Government Regulation No. 25 of 1980 concerning Pharmacy, the government considered that as pharmacists professional pharmacists considered feasible and able to conduct a pharmacy business. Keywords  : P harmacist , Consumer


The Technical Committee on Biological and Medical Measurements (TC-25) aims at establishing, developing, promoting and supporting the cooperation among researchers in the different fields of biological and medical measurements. Sensors for the measurement of clinical and/or biological parameters, instrument and procedure characterization, instrument interoperability and interconnection, and data processing are some of the topics of interest to the TC-25. To those aims, the technical committee designs and realizes joint activities, like study groups aimed at standardization, such as the Subcommittee on Blood Pressure Measurement (SCOBPM), conferences or special sessions, such as the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, and several special sessions during the annual IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conferences. The TC-25 is also continuously engaged to maintain liaisons with other committees, groups, societies and organizations working on topics related to the TC's scope.


The electrometric, spectrophotometric and alizarin methods utilized in Santa Catarina State, Brazil, to determine the concentration of fluoride in water were compared. Significant differences among the three methods were detected. Nevertheless, statistic analysis showed that the three methods could be undistinguishedly utilized in the concentration of approximately 0.60 ppm.


OBJECTIVE
To describe an additional case of multilocular cystic nephroma, with special reference to the sonographic features of a renal cystic lesion.

METHODS
The clinical and radiological features of a kidney tumor in a 61-year-old female patient were retrospectively analyzed.

RESULTS
The preoperative diagnosis was that of a complex multicystic renal mass suggestive of a renal carcinoma. Radical nephrectomy was performed; histopathological analysis of the surgical specimen disclosed a multilocular cystic nephroma. An ultrasound scan 18 months earlier had demonstrated a simple renal cyst in the same site.

CONCLUSIONS
Multilocular cystic nephroma is a tumor that is difficult to diagnose preoperatively. Making an accurate differential diagnosis is of interest, since it will permit conservative treatment. The case described herein supports the hypothesis with regard to the pathogenesis of this lesion, since it had previously showed sonographic features of a simple renal cyst.


The scientific development ideas have close relationship with the thoughts of MAO Ze-dong, DENG Xiao-ping and JIANG Ze-min. Mao Zedong's "revolutionary development idea" provides theoretical base for the proposition of the scientific development ideas, Deng Xiaoping's "construction development idea" sets up solid theoretical base for the formation of the scientific development ideas, and Jiang Zemin's "innovative development idea" is the direct thought source of the scientific development ideas. The scientific development idea is our party's new development of the guiding thoughts socialist modem construction.


Variations in HR, forearm EMG, and anxiety level were recorded over a 6-min interval scheduled to end with an electric shock. Sixty subjects were divided equally among four groups. Only two of the groups could watch a clock while waiting for the shock; the other two had no clock available. One group in each of these two conditions gave verbal reports of anxiety at various times while waiting for the shock. The results showed an increase in HR at the end of the anticipation interval in the two Clock groups, and no such rise in the two No Clock groups. Very similar results were found for anxiety level, but not for forearm EMG. These findings suggest that HR increases during anticipation of shock reflect a rising anxiety level, rather than a concomitant increase in muscle activity.


1. Introduction In this paper, I wish to explore some possibilities of systematizing the interclausal semantic relations posited in RRG. While the theory has developed in many significant respects since Foley and Van Valin (1984, hence FVV), this area appears to have undergone very little revision (one notable exception being Van Valin and Wilkins 1993). As such, this paper will be necessarily speculative and programmatic, but is hoped to outline some productive directions of inquiry.


Abstract. BS II lectin, a second hemagglutinin isolated from Bandeiraea Simplicifolia seeds, agglutinated the red cells from 11 patients manifesting the 'acquired B' antigen phenomenon. The results of serological studies indicate that this lectin has specificity for the type III polyagglutinable receptors rather than for the 'B‐like' antigens present on 'acquired B' red cells.


IL-17A plays a crucial role in host defense against a variety of pathogens and also contributes to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. Various studies have suggested that IL-17A can be produced by a multiple cell types, including CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, γδ T cells, NKT cells, dendritic cells, macrophages and granulocytes. However, since most studies rely on ex-vivo restimulation to assay IL-17A production, it is unclear which cell types are the predominant sources of IL-17A during the actual course of an immune response in vivo. To address this issue, we generated IL-17A reporter mice in which IL-17A-expressing cells are marked by the presence of a surface marker. We verified the ability of these reporter mice to mark the activation of IL-17A-producing Th17 cells in vitro. We then used these mice to gain a better understanding of the temporal and cell-type specific patterns of IL-17A expression in the mouse model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). We demonstrated that a small subset of CD4+ T cells and a larger fraction of γδ T cells express IL-17A in the CNS of mice with EAE, and that IL-17A expression levels peak in the CNS before the onset of paralysis. We have thus far been unable to detect IL-17A expression during infection with bacterial or fungal pathogens, which raises questions as to the actual contribution of IL-17A in these models.


Many researches have been generated on the safety culture in high-risk organizations. Despite the number of studies, however, there is a lack of good models that incorporate different theories and methods of safety culture. This research presents an integrated model to explain safety culture and to confirm the model by empirical analysis. This paper consists of two parts: First, after reviewing the existing researches on the safety culture, we propose an integrated model of safety culture that includes, vertically, three competing paradigms to explain safety culture - (a) risk perception paradigm, (b) managerialism and (c) organizational culturalism - and, horizontally, designed causal paths that include deep, mediate and outcome variables. Then we discuss the strength and weakness of each competing paradigm. Second, by using survey data comprising the responses of 862 employees at nuclear power stations in Korea, we test the causal paths and integrated models of three competing paradigms We empirically confirm the validity of the integrated model, which includes, vertically, theoretical paradigms and, horizontally, causal paths. This integrated model could contribute to establishing a more balanced scheme of safety culture at risky organizations.


Channel management is a critical and integral part of the marketing management department of the company. The channel partners help the company to move their goods from the manufacturing site to the doorstep of the consumers. This is a complicated process in all areas and countries – particularly in geographically and culturally diverse countries like India. There are a wide variety of intermediaries already existing in the markets and they serve different roles and purposes. The organization has to understand the objectives of each of these types of intermediaries and then plan and design their distribution systems accordingly. There is a cost attached to each layer of the marketing channel, and the companies have to find out the ways and means of getting the maximum benefits from these intermediaries at the optimum cost. The type of marketing channel adopted by the company is dependent on the product-market structure of the company. The distribution systems of FMCG companies are different from those of consumer durables, which are again different from those of industrial products. From time to time, there are conflicts between intermediaries and even between the company and its intermediaries. The key responsibility of resolving the conflicts is with the company, and in many cases, they have laid down policies and practices of resolving conflicts. These conflicts are happening more often as the power balance in the marketplaces are steadily shifting from the manufacturer to the retailers and, in general, to the channels. However, retailers and wholesalers provide invaluable service to the company as well as the consumers and have thus become an important part of the channels and the distribution system as a whole.


OF the various definitions of the adjective 'tropical' given in dictionaries, 'suggestive of the tropics' is the one most appropriate to define its meaning in the term 'tropical diseases' . For under this heading can then be included not only those diseases, such as African trypanosomiasis and human filariasis which are acquired only in the tropics, but also such diseases as malaria and amoebiasis which are only rarely endemic in Britain and therefore suggestive of a tropical origin. It follows, therefore, that tropical diseases are seen in Scotland almost exclusively in those who have returned from the tropics or in students and other visitors from such countries. Some infections may remain quiescent for years hence not only recent travelling has to be considered.


Text is a common form of language which is a source to mine people's bias. And bias always exists on some special concepts. However, psychology studies show that, on several specific concepts, the explicit bias is sometimes different from the implicit bias. Current method does not distinguish explicit and implicit bias although they do have certain imparities. Inspired by the two special tests from implicit and explicit bias, we developed an automatic language-based technique to reproduce the psychological tests. We build connection between sentences which is the combination of certain words and each psychological measurement and then engender explicit bias and implicit bias by understanding the emotional issue of statements.


Hugo Hamilton's novel Disguise depicts a protagonist who adopts the identity of a Jewish survivor based on mediated recollections of the Second World War. Taking the novel's epigraph—a reference from Joseph Beuys's installation Szene aus der Hirschjagd (Scene from the Stag Hunt)—as its point of access, this essay explores the opportunities and the risks involved in the process of expanding upon, and reinterpreting, sources from cultural memory's archive.


The research progress of the adaption of Antarctic microalgae to low temperature was introduced from several aspects,including the changes of the components of cell membrane and inorganic ions in the cytoplasm to sustain cell stability,isolation and purification of antifreeze proteins(AFPs) and ice-active substances(IASs),the mechanisms of cold-adapted enzyme,the efficient scavenge of reactive oxygen species(ROS).


This report describes the design and experimental study of the accelerator for electron beam processing. The accelerator produces an electron beam with the energy up to 200 keV, the peak current up to 1 A, the pulse duration about 10 s and the repetition rate of 18 kHz. The electron pulses are produced by a cold pyrolitic carbon mosaic cathode with a threshold volt-ampere characteristic. The experimental experience obtained with 200 keV accelerator module gave us the base for starting the construction of a full scale, low cost accelerator with the energy of about 1 MeV and output power of about 30, 300 and 1000 kW.


The 17 March 2015 St. Patrick's Day Storm is the largest geomagnetic storm to date of Solar Cycle 24, with a Dst of −223 nT. The magnetopause moved inside geosynchronous orbit under high solar wind dynamic pressure and strong southward interplanetary magnetic field Bz causing loss; however, a subsequent drop in pressure allowed for rapid rebuilding of the radiation belts. The 17 March 2013 storm also shows similar effects on outer zone electrons: first, a rapid dropout due to inward motion of the magnetopause followed by rapid increase in flux above the prestorm level early in the recovery phase and a slow increase over the next 12 days. These phases can be seen in temporal evolution of the electron phase space density measured by the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite (ECT) instruments on Van Allen Probes. Using the Lyon‐Fedder‐Mobarry global MHD model driven by upstream solar wind measurements, we simulated both St. Patrick's Day 2013 and 2015 events, analyzing Lyon‐Fedder‐Mobarry electric and magnetic fields to calculate radial diffusion coefficients. These coefficients have been implemented in a radial diffusion code, using the measured electron phase space density following the local heating as the initial radial profile and outer boundary condition for subsequent temporal evolution over the next 12 days, beginning 18 March. Agreement with electron phase space density at 1000 MeV/G measured by the MagEIS component of the ECT instrument suite on Van Allen Probes was much improved using radial diffusion coefficients from the MHD simulations relative to coefficients parameterized by a global geomagnetic activity index.


High dynamic performance, which is obtained from dc motors, became achievable from induction motors with the recent advances in power semiconductors, digital signal processors and development in control techniques. By using field oriented control, torque and flux of the induction motors can be controlled independently as in dc motors. The control performance of field oriented induction motor drive greatly depends on the correct stator flux estimation. In this thesis voltage model is used for the flux estimation. Stator winding resistance is used in the voltage model. Also leakage inductance, mutual inductance and referred rotor resistance values are used in vector control calculations.


Vendor keynote speaker Caitlin Trasande addressed the practical and applied implications of how government mandates and regulations drive innovations and research information management technologies, while tying in remarks made by Jane Marks, the publisher keynote speaker, and Scott Plutchak, the librarian keynote speaker. She is uniquely positioned to do this as she has been at Digital Science for 5 years, most recently as Head of Research Policy; holds a PhD in Neurobiology; and was very recently appointed Senior Strategy Editor at Nature. Trasande used products developed by Digital Science as examples to demonstrate how all sectors of the scholarly community are finding solutions to help enable compliance with mandates, such as those on data and Open Access. She also provided a futuristic look at how the UK government has begun to ask funded researchers to document the social impact of their research; how Digital Science worked with the UK government, and how likely this is to also happen in the United States.


ABSTRACT Rotate overlap is a system of farming for a year or more consisting of several times planting one or several types of crops in rotation . This study aims to determine the magnitude of Rice and Tomato farm income as a plant overlapping shifts during one year . There are many combinations of plants that are cultivated farmers within one year of production , and kombinassi - combination of these plants generally always be replaced in each year . Production depends on weather conditions and market demand . The benefits of this research as information for researchers , and as fill material for the extension agencies concerned and the parties need .


Objective:To study the effective treatment for patients with benign prostate hyperplasia(BPH) complicated with vesical calculi.Methods:Forty-three cases of BPH with vesical calculi were treated with pneumatic and ultrasonic lithotripsy followed by transurethral resection of the prostate(TURP).Results:All operations were successful,and complete stone clearance was achieved in all cases.No vesical perforation,severe infection and TURP syndrome were complicated.The postoperative hospitalization was 5-7 days.Conclusions:TURP with transurethral cystolithotripsy by pneumatic and ultrasound lithotripsy seems to be an effective and safe method for patients with BPH and bladder calculi.


Collisionally pumped X-ray lasers have been demonstrated to have sufficient energy, and narrow bandwidth to make them one of the brightest laboratory X-ray sources available. Furthermore, with their relatively small source size and narrow divergence they have enough spatial and temporal coherence to be applied in interferometric applications. A program to develop plasma diagnostics based on the X-ray laser probing has been underway at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for several years.


Abstract : IN ORDER TO ASSEMBLE SOME EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES WHICH MIGHT HAVE DEVELOPED AMONG LABORATORY STRAINS OF Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say, and which might lead to biological segregation, a colony from Wilson Dam, Alabama, was compared in detail with another from Bethesda, Maryland. Significant divergence was found in sexual activity, in that the former group mated at lower rates and exhibited a midwinter sexual diapause. The males of both labor-ATORY STRAINS TENDED TO MATE WITH FEMALES OF THEIR OWN ORIGIN. Biting rates on guinea pigs and chickens were also markedly different, the Wilson Dam groups again being less active. In the third year of studies, the two strains converged in these behavior patterns. No significant differences were found in other aspects of life history and morphology. (Author)


In 1957, six European countries joined together to form the EC. But even as membership grew to nine in 1973 and twelve by 1985, the common market remained unfinished because nontariff barriers expanded across Europe once tariffs on intra-EC trade had been eliminated. The spread of these protectionist measures stimulated political pressure to complete the common market, which culminated in the Single European Act in 1986. This chapter shows that industry groups that could not fully exploit economies of scale pushed for the 1992 program to establish the single market. For these industries, European integration offered an escape from small domestic markets: it would allow companies to expand in size and standardize production, stimulating efficiencies that could not be attained while operating on a national basis. The Single European Act in turn affected Europe's trade policy toward the rest of the world. Completing the single market unleashed adjustment processes across borders, particularly in activities with large returns to scale, as national industries and individual firms expanded and contracted in different locations. Competitive burdens on small-scale firms provoked protectionist pressures leading up to 1992. Inward FDI by foreign multinationals also caused European producers to seek TRIMs to prevent outsiders from capturing the benefits of the common market. To date, however, popular concerns about a fortress Europe have proven to be unfounded. In the first decade after the single market was completed, only quotas on Japanese automobiles and a few classes of steel were extended Europe-wide. Though antidumping measures and state aids occasionally substituted for trade protection lost since 1992, protectionist pressures in industries such as textiles, apparel, and footwear did not produce higher trade barriers. Moreover, industries with large returns to scale grew more favorable to open


[Objective] To evaluate the tracheal intubation effect and safety of Shikani Optical Stylet in traumatic cervical vertebra operation.[Method] Forty-eight patients undergoing cervical spine fracture or dislocation were randomly divided into two groups,the group of single using Shikani Optical Stylet(Group S),the group of using ordinary laryngoscope combined with Shikani Optical Stylet(Group C),tracheal intubation with the Shikani Optical Stylet or combined with laryngoscope after induced anesthesia,and patients' HR,SBP and DBP before anesthesia induction(T0),at tracheal intubation beginning(T1),intubating(T2),and 5 minutes after the intubated pipe(T3) and the intubation time,frequency and complications occurrence were observed and recorded.[Results] Twenty cases in Group S and twenty-three cases in Group C ultimately were analyzed statistically,and there was no significant difference in these patients' HR and SBP at each time point,while the change course of DBP occurred with a rise followed by a decrease,and there was a significant difference at T2 between the two groups.The tracheal intubation time of Group C was significantly shorter than that of Group S,the one time success rate of Group C was higher than that of Group S.There was no obvious complication corresponding with tracheal intubation.[Conclusion] Tracheal intubation using Shikani Optical Stylet under tachy-induced anesthesia in traumatic cervical vertebra is safe and rapid and had a higher success rate.To short the intubation time,the method combined with laryngoscope can be used.