_________________________________________________________________________________________ This study aimed to evaluate the hygienic quality of raw buffalo's and cow's milk sold in Assiut city, Egypt; based on the presence of Bifidobacterium spp. as indicator of fecal contamination. Bifidobacteria species forms one of the most important groups of flora in the intestine of both human and animals. Speciesisolated in humans are different from those isolated in animals. It should therefore be possible to determine contamination origin (human or animal). Seventy samples of raw buffalo's and cow's milk (35 samples from each) were collected randomly from; some dairy farms, individual cases of dairy buffaloes and cows and dairy shops in Assiut city, all samples were examined for the presence of Bifidobacteria spp. Each sample was firstly inoculated in MRS & BHIMup, then two different culture media (CMup & Bifidobacterium media (BFM)) were used for isolation and identification of Bifidobacterium. Bifidobacterium spp. was identified in 65.71 % (23samples) and 51.42% (18 samples) of raw buffalo's and cow's milk, respectively. Isolates were identified and differentiated and the findings revealed that raw cow's milk harboured B. dentium in 61.11% , B. suis in 27.77% and B. bifidum in only 2 samples (11, 11 %) of examined samples. B. dentium, B. suis and B. bifidumwere found contaminating 47.82, 39.13 and 13.04 % of examined raw buffalo's milk samples. Presence of B. bifidum revealed contamination of raw cow's and buffalo's milk with human stool (adult and infants); however isolates of B. suis indicated the contamination with feces of piglets. Also the detection of B. dentium in examined samples showed that there is contamination with human discharges coming from mouth suffering dental caries; human abscesses, vaginal discharges and feces. These organisms considered potentially pathogenic and have hazards effect on human health. Received at: 25/6/2012


Abstract : Ocean acoustics are crucial to modern naval operations. Acoustics constantly change due to the variability in space and in time of the ocean thermal structure. Thus, a thermal analysis system that transforms irregularly sampled data from disparate sources into an analysis of the ocean thermal structure is of increasing importance. In a data-sparse environment such as the ocean, the key to obtaining realistic but cost-effective analyses is the use of all available data sources, as well as the most powerful data assimilation techniques. Feature modeling is a powerful means of supplementing the limited in situ and remotely sensed data with our understanding of the oceanography of mesoscale ocean features. Initially, the data are used to map the location of mesoscale fronts and eddies. Schematic descriptions of the thermal structure of these features, called feature models, are subsequently used to represent them in the first-guess thermal field. In data-sparse areas, features that would otherwise be poorly resolved in the analysis are instead represented by these schematic models. Models are developed for the Gulf Stream front and eddies, as well as an algorithm for the incorporation of the models into the first-guess field. The models were evaluated within the Optimum Thermal Interpolation System (OTIS) framework. Subsurface thermal fields constructed via these feature models agree well with observed fields and are substantially more realistic than analyses produced using the current regional operational system, the Expanded Ocean Thermal Structure (EOTS) analysis. Because of the power of feature modeling, feature modeling has considerable relevance to other Navy-funded work in ocean modeling and remote sensing.


The theoretical prediction of the Hall constant in metals appropriate to high magnetic fields depends, in part, on a repeated computation of a specific topological invariant: Each of several parallel two-dimensional planes in crystal-momentum space must be analyzed to find, on a single sheet of the Fermi surface, the number of nonintersecting closed contours that surround an arbitrary point. This number is related to the effective sign of the charge of the "relevant" electronic carriers in the plane — carriers whose contribution to the Hall constant is based on their orbital area. Applications of the technique discussed in this paper have been made to the Pippard model for copper, and various carrier contours are illustrated that were found in the course of three calculations of the Hall constant in cases where the magnetic field direction lay along a principal crystallographic axis.


The optical amplification effect achieved by adopting high quality factor (high-Q) optical resonant cavities has shown the ability to enable ultra-high sensitivity measurement for refractive index modulation. In this work, we investigate the usage of optical amplification effect for improving the detection sensitivity for optical modulation-based radiation detection method for positron emission tomography (PET), with the ultimate goal to achieve individual annihilation photon detection with significantly improved coincidence time resolution (CTR). We studied the detection sensitivity of etalon cavities made of 50%, 90% and 95% reflection cavity mirrors, and compared the sensitivity to our previous spatial interference setup. We also studied the influence of optical concentration on the detection sensitivity by using a focused probe laser beam aligned to intercept the interaction region of ionizing radiation photons with the detector crystal. A detection sensitivity boost of approximately two orders of magnitude has been observed using etalon cavity made of 95% reflection mirrors with 1mm diameter focused probe laser beam, compared to our previous spatial interference setup. The detection speed is not affected by using high-Q cavities. This proves the potential of using the optical amplification effect to dramatically improve the detection sensitivity for optical modulation-based radiation detection method for PET, with the ultimate goal to achieve individual 511keV photon detection with ultrafast CTR.


In this article the author has made further scientific researches on methodology of the Marxist theories and inquiries into Marx' s application of the comparative anatomy which is a good practice of combining teaching with scientific research from which both teachers and students will benefit.


Amongst the main challenges of catalyst materials for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) are activity and durability. Here we report on the synthesis of monodisperse nanoparticles and stabilization with traces of the surfactant, here Na‐AOT (bis‐(2‐ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate sodium salt), used in the synthesis procedure. The surfactants prevent agglomeration and reduce Ostwald ripening. We compare the performance of Pt catalyst nanoparticles synthesized in dense microemulsions, Na‐AOT/heptane/water and Triton X‐100/toluene/water, with a commercial state‐of‐the‐art catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR). The produced catalyst nanoparticles were extracted onto a carbon support, Vulcan XC‐72R, washed and activated by heat‐treatment, which led to heavy agglomeration, or by electrochemical treatment, which led to an enhanced activity for ORR. Additionally, in comparison to the other two catalysts an increased durability of the platinum nanoparticles synthesized in the microemulsion of Na‐AOT/heptane/water was observed.


We present an investigation of the adhesive behavior of latex particles over spatial distances comparable to the size of the particle, based on an analysis of the formation and rupture of contact between an AFM tip and a single latex particle. We show that this adhesion test conducted at nanometric scales resembles a macroscopic tack test and allows to put into evidence first, that dissipative effects give predominant contribution to the energy of rupture of contact between the tip and the particle and second, that this energy is highly sensitive to the environment of the tested particle (isolated particle or particle pertaining to a cluster).


Based on the image of the steel bar,a method to calculate the extending rate was proposed.Under the case of first-order radial distortion,the equality of cross ratio in the perspective projection was used to calculate the first-order radial distortion ratio in order to calibrate the camera,then the extending rate of the steel bar can be calculated.Experimental results show that this method has simple calculation and high precision compared with the method of direct proportion.


Given the modern trend toward the Internet, firms can now use web sites to achieve marketing and advertising effectiveness for their businesses. This usage creates a new model of marketing strategy. Experts in the field have indicated that links between marketing and competitive strategies are critical to organisational performance and business success. However, empirical studies conducted in various countries have shown that the web designs are misaligned with organizational strategic objectives. In this study, the authors view web sites as marketing applications, and investigate how corporate sites effectively support three types of business strategy: the prospector, analyser, and defender strategies. The authors conducted a series of in-depth interviews with web site designers and established design techniques through grounded theory approach to indicate how particular web sites support a specific type of business strategy. They also established the relationship between web design strategies and business strategies, which should help practitioners improve the strategic positioning of their web sites.


The views of zoologists on the mutal relations between the principal groups of fishes and especially on the place of the cartilaginous Ganoids in the system have been changed more than once and may not be considered as settled at present. The present classification of fishes is mostly founded on paleontological data, i.e., on the structure of the skeleton. Admitting fully the importance of the paleontological investigations for the classification of fishes, we must nevertheless admit also that this classification is rather 0nesided.I For the convenience of the reader I will briefly summarize the historical changes of opinion concerning the classification and phylogenetic relations of the principal groups of fishes. Siace the year 1846, i.e., from the time of the appearance of J. Miiller's classical paper on the Ganoids, up to the present, only two groups of fishes-the Elasmobranchs and Teleostshave maintained a relatively constant position in the system, the former as the lowest and the latter as the highest representatives of the group of fishes. It is well known that Miiller established the subclass Ganoidei with the .Orders: Chondrostei (Acipenserinae, Spatulariae) ; Holostei (Lepidosteini-Lepidosteus, dmia) : Polypterini (Polypterus).


This paper examines the way in which members of a long-term care facility construct a concept of "resistance" to change to account for the inability of workgroups to integrate new people and new ideas into their practice. After introducing the research questions and qualitative methods (including a blend of ethnography and case study methods), the paper explains how workgroup members have created a knowing and learning dynamic that allows them to cope with the uncertainty of their environment and to complete the numerous tasks that comprise their heavy workload. The paper then shows that the primary focus of this workgroup is seen as the maintenance of the status quo, which leads some observers to label them as "resistant to change." This resistance, however, is a construct that permits change agents to hold others accountable for their inability to introduce needed reforms and improvements. The paper concludes that local resistance to change can sometimes be motivated by a workgroup's desire to preserve the value that they currently experience in their work. For example, caregivers might resist the addition of new tasks to their workload in order to preserve the time needed to provide psycho-social support to patients.


Evaluation of the clinical and histological signs of cutaneous graft-versus-host disease present in 7 patients treated with cyclosporin A was based on a follow-up of 100 days after bone marrow transpl


Host formation in Santanghu basin is made up of Permian foreland basin superimposed with Mesozoic depression basin. It is considered that Santanghu basin was in a south-north compressional stress environment from Hercynian to Yanshanian stages, and the regional stress field was nearly south-north by analysis of the palaeostructural trackway patterns of Permian and Mesozoic. In Hercynian stage, the compressional stress field changed into rotational shear stress field in Malang sag, and thus led to the creation of brush structural system, due to the nuclear column effect of Chahaquan swell. In Yanshanian stage, the nearly parallelogram boundary of Tiaohu sag made the nearly south-north regional stress field turn into a normal shear one, hence an en echelon structural system formed at the north slope of the sag. The southern margin of the basin has always been in a frontal belt of north-east positive pressure since Hercynian stage, so many huge decollement faults and s series of gliding nappe systems with single-row or superimposed styles developed. In the southern margin of Malang sag, several superimposed gliding nappe systems exist in the Permian strata beneath Baiyishan Carboniferous nappe, forming striangle structural belt. With abundant faults and fractures, the triangle belt could be a favorable area for fractured reservoirs.


DOI: 10.4328/ACAM.6049 Received: 11.10.2018 Accepted: 21.11.2018 Published Online: 29.11.2018 Printed: 01.09.2019 Ann Clin Anal Med 2019;10(5): 586-92 Corresponding Author: Ekramy Elmorsy, P.O. Box-1321, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. T.: 00966-542459391 E-Mail: email@example.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7444-2499 Abstract Aim: This study was conducted to assess awareness and culture of health care workers about patient safety in healthcare facilities in Arar city. Material and Method: It is a structured questionnaire-based cross-section study. Four hundred and fifty questionnaire copies were randomly distributed to evaluate participants' knowledge and awareness about patient safety. Results: Three hundred and eleven participants were enrolled in the study (69.1% response rate). Females represented 62.7% of the responders. Physicians were 46% of the participants. Data showed overall summative scores of awareness of 77.27 %. There was a significant difference among participants according to their past experience of errors, years of work experience and medical specialties in their awareness scores (p= 0.0042, 0.0014 and 0.0076 respectively). Regarding culture data, the total composite positive perception of patient safety culture was about 59.04 ± 3.3%. The dimensions of "teamwork within the unit" showed the highest positive composites (83.1%). Discussion: More focused programs should be implemented with better training for all staff member, especially for nurses to improve their awareness and culture regarding patient safety.


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In overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes, does an intensive lifestyle intervention reduce weight and cardiovascular disease risk factors?

### Design:

randomised controlled trial (Action for Health in Diabetes [Look AHEAD] trial).

### Allocation:

{concealed}.*

### Blinding:

{data collectors and outcome assessors}.*

### Follow-up period:

1 year.

### Setting:

16 centres in the US.

### Participants:

5145 participants 45–75 years of age (mean age 59 y, 60% women) with type 2 diabetes and body mass index >25 kg/m2 or >27 kg/m2 if taking insulin.

### Intervention:

intensive lifestyle intervention (n = 2570) or diabetes support and education (n = 2575). The lifestyle intervention combined calorie restriction (⩽30% fat; …


The BaBar experiment will begin taking data in 1999. We will record and fully reconstruct up to 10{sup 9} event decays of the upsilon(4s) resonance per year. We present our current status and plans for acquiring, processing and analyzing this data.


During the last decade, substantial research activities have been undertaken regarding refrigeration cycles and systems with particular emphasis on the replacement of refrigerants like R134a by refrigerants like hydrocarbons which have negligible GWP (Global Warming Potential).Besides using eco-friendly refrigerants, thrust has been given upon devising methods to increase the efficiency of the refrigeration cycle/system, which will also contribute to reducing emission of GHG(Green House Gases). This paper provides a review of the efforts to replace the HFCs (hydroflurocarbons) which are harmful to the environment.


In a recent paper,' [p. 190] the author constructed a ring over which a finitely based module has invariant basis number if and only if it has a basis of length 2; i, t = 1, * * * , n + 1) over the rationals. Let A and B be matrices whose elements are respectively {a0 } and {b8t}, and consider the relations of


Abstract Application of cold gas spraying to the deposition of braze filler coatings has been investigated. Different light weight alloy substrates, i.e. aluminium AA1050, AA3005, AA5754, AA7022, magnesium AZ91 and titanium Ti–6Al–4V, were used. Filler coating materials depend on the substrate melting temperature. Therefore, for aluminium alloys Al–12Si zinc based fillers are used for AZ91 pure zinc and for Ti–6Al–4V different Cu–Ni blends are used. Cold gas spraying process parameters are varied with regard to process gas (nitrogen) temperature and pressure, powder feedrate and spray distance. Correlation of the process characteristics to economical aspects is given. The viability of the filler coatings produced is illustrated by different optimised brazing/soldering processes. In the case of aluminium braze joints a full metallographical investigation was carried out by optical and scanning electron microscopy as well as EDX analyses. The results obtained are compared with those of conventional filler material additions.


Studies were conducted to compare five different modules consisting fungicides, bio-agents, organic amendments with respect to management of gummosis and root rot in Nagpur mandarin caused by Phytophthora spp. An experiment was conducted selecting root rot and gummosis affected orchard during 2008-09 and 2009-2010. There was consistent reduction in population density from 24.33 cfu/cc soil in May 2008 to 6.20 cfu/cc soil in May 2010 of Phytophthora spp. in Module IV. Significant decrease in intensity of root rot and gummosis in Nagpur mandarin was recorded where intergrated management module (Module IV) was applied.  Root rot intensity was reduced in this module from 36.18 % initially to 16.70 % at the end of the experiment. Similarly, significant reduction in gummosis up to 54.76 per cent was recorded in the same module.


In the version of "Summertime Acute Heat Illness in U.S. Emergency Departments from 2006 through 2010: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample" by Hess et al. [Environ Health Perspect 122:1209–1215 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1306796 ] originally published online, low numbers of emergency department deaths (11–29) in Tables 2 and 3 were mistakenly suppressed due to misinterpreta tion of the data-use agreement with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The tables have been updated in the final version of the article and are consistent with reporting requirements in the AHRQ data-use agreement (numbers of deaths ≤ 10 are suppressed).


The calculus of moving surfaces (CMS) provides analytic tools for finding solutions to a wide range of problems with moving surfaces including fluid film dynamics, boundary variation problems, and shape optimization problems. The CMS is an extension of tensor calculus on stationary surfaces to moving surfaces. As with any analytic framework, the complexity of calculations grows rapidly with the order of approximation. This quickly causes problems to become complex enough that hand calculations become error prone or intractable. A symbolic computation system will alleviate these problems, allowing researchers to examine problems that have not been previously solvable. No symbolic calculus system is currently available that supports the CMS. We have developed a prototype symbolic computation system that can solve boundary variation problems with the help of the CMS. Our system has been used to solve a series of model problems of interest to applied mathematicians. The motivation is a boundary problem proposed by Grinfeld and Strang [2] in 2004. What is the series in 1/N for the simple Laplace eigenvalues λN on a regular polygon with N sides? In [2], the idea of expressing λN,n as a series in 1/N was put forth and in [3] the first several terms were computed using the calculus of moving surfaces. The prototype implementation was successfully used to find an error in the fourth term in the series expansion in [3] which was previously computed by hand. The CMS approach to this problem is essentially the same as for Poisson's equation on polygons, which is used as the model problem in [1]. This problem involves Poisson's equation ∇i∇u = 1 and is therefore simpler than the eigenvalue equation ∇i∇u = −λu that is at the heart of the model problem. The fundamental simplification is unrelated to the CMS: it comes from the fact that all solution variations un (where n is the order of the variation) satisfy Laplace's equation in the interior. This makes it easy to solve for un and use the result in the next order of variation. The expression for E1 and the equation for u1 are obtained analytically. Higher order variations follow by direct application of the rules of CMS. The second order variation u2 is governed by the boundary value system


Time-resolved nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation is applied to determine the spin structure of magnetic nanostructures on surfaces. From the temporal beat pattern the magnitude and the direction of magnetic hyperfine fields in the sample can be determined. We describe an algorithm to extract the magnetic structure function from a series of such measurements at different sample orientations. This reconstruction technique is applied to study the remanent spin structure of relaxed Fe islands on the surface of a W(110) single crystal. Unexpectedly, we find two orthogonal magnetic sublattices oriented along the in-plane [001] and [110] directions in a proportion of 4:1. This spin structure appears to be independent of capping layers that consist of Ag or C. A completely different spin structure is found for a different shape distribution of the islands. These results are discussed in terms of magnetic anisotropies that are present in this system. Moreover, the results demonstrate that the outstanding brilliance of present-day synchrotron-radiation source allows one to determine the magnetic spin structure of magnetic clusters and nanoparticles on surfaces with sensitivities reaching into the monolayer regime.


We examined a Ti-diffused optical waveguide formed on a thin X-cut LiNbO 3 substrate for a lower-drive-voltage modulator. Under the single-mode condition, optical mode-size decreases with LiNbO 3 substrate thickness below 10μm. A thin-sheet LiNbO 3 modulator could achieve a low-drive-voltage of 1.3 V with a bandwidth of 15 GHz by adopting a narrow electrode-gap.


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Example embodiments provide a method and apparatus of the present invention determines intermediate node, the method comprising: collecting raw data flow for acquiring the target service; based on the raw data stream, is determined in response to the requesting node and the node of the node, and determines that the nodes connections between; respectively determined in response to the requesting node and the node is a merge node of the first and second complex composite node, and based on the connection relationship between the nodes is determined, it is determined that the first node and the second complex composite node the communication path between; selected based on the optimization target, determining the communication path from the strip is preferably at least the communication path, at least for the intermediate nodes on the communication path preferably article. Embodiments of the present invention, by collecting and analyzing the original data stream, and determines a preferred communication path between the requesting node and the responding node, the intermediate node using the instructions on the communication route request is preferably selected node, requesting node can be avoided for the selected intermediate node blindness.


Significance Ubiquitination and phosphorylation are the two most important protein posttranslational modifications and cell signals. Ubiquitin can be specifically phosphorylated at S65, and the finding here suggests a general functional role for Ub phosphorylation. We show that subtle fluctuation near physiological pH can affect the protonation status of the S65 phosphoryl group and modulate the structure of the ubiquitin monomer and polyubiquitin. It is known that cellular pH varies among organelles and changes under physiological and pathological conditions. Because ubiquitin is involved in myriad aspects of cell biology, a pH-sensitive conformational switch acquired upon S65 phosphorylation would allow phosphorylated ubiquitin to interact with different target proteins upon environmental cues. It would also enable cross-talk between ubiquitination and phosphorylation signals. Ubiquitin (Ub) is an important signaling protein. Recent studies have shown that Ub can be enzymatically phosphorylated at S65, and that the resulting pUb exhibits two conformational states—a relaxed state and a retracted state. However, crystallization efforts have yielded only the structure for the relaxed state, which was found similar to that of unmodified Ub. Here we present the solution structures of pUb in both states obtained through refinement against state-specific NMR restraints. We show that the retracted state differs from the relaxed state by the retraction of the last β-strand and by the extension of the second α-helix. Further, we show that at 7.2, the pKa value for the phosphoryl group in the relaxed state is higher by 1.4 units than that in the retracted state. Consequently, pUb exists in equilibrium between protonated and deprotonated forms and between retracted and relaxed states, with protonated/relaxed species enriched at slightly acidic pH and deprotonated/retracted species enriched at slightly basic pH. The heterogeneity of pUb explains the inability of phosphomimetic mutants to fully mimic pUb. The pH-sensitive conformational switch is likely preserved for polyubiquitin, as single-molecule FRET data indicate that pH change leads to quaternary rearrangement of a phosphorylated K63-linked diubiquitin. Because cellular pH varies among compartments and changes upon pathophysiological insults, our finding suggests that pH and Ub phosphorylation confer additional target specificities and enable an additional layer of modulation for Ub signals.


In More Electric Aircraft, different power system activities are attributed to electrical means such as the start-up of the main engine. In this context, the study of the sensorless control of the Brushless Synchronous Starter Generator (BSSG) that is used to electrically start the main engine is revealed to be a very interesting issue. For long time, the elimination of the mechanical sensor was highly recommended for reliability, cost, weight, integration issues.Hence, this work aims to transpose the results obtained in the research area to an avionic testbench. It presents an adaptive sensorless technique to use when electrically starting the main engine of the aircraft. This is achieved by elaborating three different methods selected depending on the speed of the machine and based on the :- injection of a high frequency signal- use of the back-emf of the Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG)- use of the extended Kalman Filter EKFIn this work, it is shown that the …first method gives good position estimation results from standstill up to 8% of the rated speed. Then, the back-emfs of the PMG are used to detect the position of the BSSG when the speed exceeds the 8% of the rated speed. Good results are observed with this method at medium and high speed.For redundancy reasons, the EKF was also used in this work. Thus, the estimated position can be delivered via two different estimation algorithms in medium and high speed region.The implementation of the algorithm was achieved on an FPGA board since the latter can ensure a very tiny execution time. The fastness of the treatment ensures quasi-instantaneous position estimation and does not practically introduce any phase lag in the position estimation.


In this paper, we introduce an Intelligent horseback riding simulator includes a user identification, a posture recognition and a posture coaching. The user is identified by recognizing user facial information that is extracted from an input image. The posture has recognized by extracting user's body region and designated feature points of user's body parts from the input images. The user identification includes face detection and face recognition. The posture recognition includes a body region extraction and a posture feature extraction, which includes a position, an angle about a movement of each of the designated body parts of the user. Proposed horseback riding simulator has posture coaching function that provides to the user with a warning message if the error data of posture is detected by comparing a predetermined standard posture data and provides user customized posture coaching according to exercise capacity of a user. Proposed intelligent horseback riding simulator enables a user to mutually respond to the sports simulator mechanism. Key-Words: Intelligent sports simulator, Face detection, Face recognition, Posture recognition, Human-sports simulator Interaction, User customized coaching


In this paper, we implemented a new approach of measuring contagion effect on financial crisis based on the Detrended Multiple Cross-Correlation Coefficient, [Formula: see text], with a statistical test to assess its significance. Our study is restricted to the particular case in which three stock indexes are analyzed at the same time, with the results being divided into simulated and empirical cases. The simulated case was important to present the probability distribution function of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively, as well as confidence intervals for [Formula: see text]. The empirical case presents [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for fourteen stock market indexes in the subprime crisis. With these applications, our study defines contagion effect on the financial system where crisis effect was perceived. In general, our results show the statistical significance of [Formula: see text], while measure of contagion effect depends on the size of the series and the time scale evaluated.


Data poisoning attack has been one of the most prominent threats for data-driven machine learning model. Specifically, in the field of recommendation system, an attacker could manipulate recommendation results by injecting some crafted fake data into recommendation model. In this paper, a data poisoning attack method based on dynamic adaptation of data and model is proposed for the recommendation system, referred to as dynamic attack, which solves the problem that the fake data fails to keep aggressive due to difference between models. Experimental results on the two real datasets, MovieLens-100K and MovieLens-1M, show that dynamic attack outperforms existing heuristic-based attacks and the average attack success rate is increased by more than 10 times.


Objective:To study the re-infective rate and re-infective way of the patients who have received Hp radical therapy,we observed the H.pylori re-infection status after H.pylori eradication.Methods:300 patients who have been diagnosed with H.pylor positive in our digestive endoscopy center during 2003.01~2003.12 and reached the H.pylori radical cure standard after the H.pylori radical therapy were observed in this research.An 5-year follow-up study has been carried on and the 13C-urea breath test has been used in aim of observing the H.pylori re-infection status.Results:The H.pylori re-infection rate was 1.01% in the fi rst year and the cumulative or annual rate of re-infection was 3.41%(2.41%) in the second year 6.23%(2.86%) in the third year 7.27%(0.79%) in the fourth year 8.24%(0.81%) in the fi fth year.Conclusions:The re-infective possibility existed in the patients who have received H.pylori radical therapy moreover for those who experienced H.pylori re-infection,the rate of re-infection increased as time gone by in the fi rst three years but then the re-infection rate remained stable.


We characterize the design of an optimal trade agreement when governments are privately informed about the value of tariff revenue. We show that the problem of designing an optimal trade agreement in this setting can be represented as an optimal delegation problem when a money burning instrument is available. In a specification with quadratic payoffs and a uniform distribution, we find that the tariff cap and the probability of binding overhang are higher when the upper bound of the support distribution is higher and when the support distribution has greater width.


In the thesis Motivational Reading Projects and Programs for Boys we studied boys reading motivation as a factor of reading comprehension, which is a part of reading literacy. Reading motivation is the first condition for efficient reading comprehension with boys, therefore less motivation correlates to their lower reading achievements. We studied the achievements of reading literacy with boys, the factors of reading motivation connected with gender and the causes for differences in reading between boys and girls. We defined the concept and the ways to increase reading motivation with boys and were thereby interested in the role of the educational system (the teachers and the school library). To increase reading motivation, which will ensure better achievements in education, with boys in practice, we studied programs and projects, suited for the increase of reading motivation of literary texts with boys, from five countries (Slovenia, Canada – Ontario, Australia, Germany and Finland). They are based on similar strategies to encourage boys with reading: the use of active methods, ICT, integration of male reading role models and reading materials, popular with boys. The main obstacles of programs and projects are the excessive orientation on female and male stereotypes and noncompliance with the heterogeneity of the male and female population. Despite the assurance of the institutions preforming the programs (schools, public libraries, research centres) that the projects and programs are successful, there are no surveys proving that statement. New research of the efficiency of the established projects, which will provide the answers on how to help boys and girls in the way one gender will not be in disadvantage of the other, is necessary. Essential are also alterations in education and training of teachers, who are mostly not aware of the reading problems with boys and therefore do not take appropriate measures.


Objective To investigate the relationship of excision repair cross-complementing 1(ERCC1),xeroderma pigmentosum group D(XPD),and breast cancer susceptibility gene 1(BRCA1) polymorphisms with the efficacy of platinum-based chemotherapy for treatment of the patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.Methods A total of 124 patients with advanced NSCLC were routinely treated with platinum-based chemotherapy,and their clinical responses were evaluated.ERCC1 Asn118Asn(rs11615),XPD Lys751Gln(rs13181) and BRCA1 Ser1613Gly(rs1799966) of the patients were genotyped using the TaqMan method.The association of ERCC1 Asn118Asn,XPD Lys751Gln and BRCA1 Ser1613Gly polymorphisms with the patient responses was analyzed using unconditional logistic regression model.Results It was found that the BRCA1 Ser1613Gly polymorphism was significantly correlated with clinical benefit(P=0.014).Patients carrying Gly allele had better clinical benefit than patients with wildtype allele(P=0.006).No significant association was found between ERCC1 and XPD polymorphisms with clinical benefit.Furthermore,we found that the three SNPs in NER(nucleotide excision repair) could work together.More variant alleles(ERCC1 T,XPD Gln and BRCA1 Gly) was associated with better clinical benefit(P=0.036).Conclusion The BRCA1 Ser1613Gly polymorphism of NER is associated with the clinical benefit of NSCLC patients receiving platinum-based chemotherapy.Analysis of SNPs of more genes may help to guide drug choosing for chemotherapy.


Corporations can be understood as solutions to team production problems, rather than as property. Incorporation involves creation of a new legal entity in which control rights are separated from residual claim rights. The corporation itself, not the shareholders nor any other corporate participants, becomes the owner of assets used in production, and of output. Decision-making authority is vested in an organizational hierarchy, headed by a board of directors that is legally independent of shareholders. Understanding corporations in this way helps explain a number of features of corporate law, and provides new insights into the theory of the firm.


Objective To compare the clinical effects of total-etch bonding and self-etch bonding on resin filling of anterior teeth.Methods 330 vital pulp anterior teeth,which had defects at the incisal ends and to be restored with nanometer resin,were divided into 2 groups randomly.Two kinds of bondings,which were total-etch bonding and self-etch bonding,combined with nanometer resin were used to restore the teeth.The patients were re-examined three months,one year and three years after the treatment.The fillings,teeth and pulps of patients were examined and the results were analyzed and compared with SPSS.Results No significant difference in the filling effects was found between the two groups(P0.05).Total-etch bonding had more stimulation to the pulps than self-etch bonding(P0.05).Conclusions The curative effects were good no matter total-etch bonding or self-etch bonding was used in resin filling of anterior teeth.Self-etch bonding is more easily operated in clinics.


Summary The utilization of the great bulk of the vast volume of creamery buttermilk annually produced in the form of condensed butter milk and dried buttermilk gives promise to be of distinct economic value both to the feeder of farm animals and as a means to minimize waste of a valuable marketable by-product to the creamery. While considerable quantities of these concentrated by-products are now being manufactured and marketed to the advantage of feeder and manufacturer, this industry is as yet in its infancy. This, together with the fact that supplies such as coal and package, also labor and transportation, are as yet abnormally high, has been a handicap that has worked against the full realization of the possibilities of maximum efficiency and of minimum cost of manufacture. Knowledge of the comparative feeding value of these two products is as yet limited but much and extensive experimental work is in progress, the result of which promises to reveal facts of great economic value to feeder and manufacturer. Information now available indicates that the food value, digestibility and vitamine properties originally contained in the fluid buttermilk are not materially affected by the processes of condensation and drying now used in the manufacture of these products.


The structural adjustment is the topic of geological economy.Geological prospecting units should be adjusted at organizational structure,industrial structure and right structure so as integrate to resources and develop competitive power.


Even though our appreciation of the importance and ubiquity of wall slip has grown substantially over the last decade or two, it is still common to find papers on disperse systems wherein scant details of the measurement methods are given and where no mention of the possibility of slip is made. It seems then that there is a need still to raise awareness and to promote the idea that the rheometry of disperse systems is not so straightfoward as it might seem. It takes experience, judgment, and skill to make meaningful measurements on disperse systems and it is suspected that the nature of the experimental challenge is under-estimated grossly by too many workers even now. Slip is not merely a rheometric complication; of course, it an intrinsic feature of the response of disperse systems and one deserving of more attention in its own right.


Normal human sera induce the formation of fat-containing cells (FCC) in human bone marrow cultures. A nearly complete monolayer of FCC is formed after 7-14 days of cultivation with 20% human sera in the medium. FCC-inducing activity (FCCIA) is nondialyzable through 14,900-dalton cutoff membrane and is stable at 56 degrees C for 30 min. Abundant FCCIA was found in 83% of normal human sera but in only 20% of sera from untreated patients with different hemopoietic disorders and in 32% of treated leukemic patients. It is suggested that FCCIA may be involved in regulation of the bone marrow microenvironment an that it varies in normal individuals and in patients with different diseases.


We study the structure of low‐lying states of 13C with a microscopic cluster model. The second 0+ state of 12C, which is known as the Hoyle state and is important for astrophysical reactions, has been clarified to have dilute α‐cluster structure. On the basis of the α‐cluster model, we discuss the effect of one valence neutron in 13C on the α‐cluster configuration of the Hoyle state. For these purpose, we investigate the iso‐scalar E0 transition probability from the ground 1/2− state to this excited states.


Introduction. { The concept of \warp elds", or faster than light (FTL) propagation/travel,isusually relegated into therealm ofscience ction literature.Taking warp elds m ore seriously,when trying to develop physicalrealizations within the context ofEinstein gravity,one has to face the di culty that ful lling the Einstein equations dem ands \exotic m atter";m atterviolating the null,weak,strong,and dom inantconditionson the positivity ofenergy [1,2,3,4,5]. If,on the otherhand,one allowsfornegative energy densities(which occurforexam plein thequantum vacuum oftheCasim ire ect)theenergy densities(and to a lesserdegree the totalenergies[6])actually required to constructm acroscopicwarp drives are astronom ical[7]. O ne way ofside-stepping these problem s,and developing a concrete physicalm odelofwhata warp eld m ightlook like,is to considere ective space-tim e theoriesoriginating in condensed m atter[8,9]:A owing hydrodynam icalbackground governed by the nonrelativistic Eulerand continuity equationsrepresentsa curved space-tim e forthe quasiparticle excitationsm oving in the uid. The role ofthe speed oflightisplayed by the speed ofsound,and superlum inaltravelturns into super-phononic propagation due to the e ective space-tim e curvature. The necessity ofviolating the energy conditionsisno longer given,becausethee ectivepseudo-Riem annian spacecreated by thelaboratory ow in absolute Newtonian space is determ ined by the equationsofnonrelativistic hydrodynam ics,and notby the Einstein eld equations.


Disclosed is a magnetic recording method and apparatus. The magnetic recording method comprises the following steps: receiving ticket information (S100); acquiring supplemental information (S102), the supplemental information being information indicating the validity of the ticket; and, using a first recording method to record the ticket information, and using a second recording method to record the supplemental information (S104). The present invention makes it difficult to copy magnetic information recorded on a magnetic ticket.


The theoretical model of laminar flow in tubes in rolling motion is established. The velocity and temperature correlations are derived, and the frictional resistance coefficient and Nusselt number are also obtained. The oscillation of parameters is induced by the tangential force due to rolling motion. The effect of centrifugal and Coriolis forces on the flow is negligible. The tangential force does not effect on the average parameters. The oscillating amplitude of Nusselt number increase with the Prandtl number increasing. Both the oscillating amplitudes of frictional resistance coefficient and Nusselt number increase with the rolling frequency increasing. Crown Copyright 2011 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. www .c www .c ie.ir ww. chem ie.ir www .che m www . www . ie.ir www .che mie. ir www .che mie ie.ir ie.ir ie.ir


This paper proposes a novel selective ensemble algorithm of support vector machines based on constraint projection and genetic optimization. Firstly, projective matrices are determined upon randomly selected must-link and cannot-link constraint sets, with which original training samples are transformed into different representation spaces to train a group of base classifiers. Then, genetic algorithm is utilized to learn the optimal weighting factors to combine them effectively. Experimental results on UCI datasets show that the proposed algorithm improves generalization performance of support vector machines significantly, which outperforms classical ensemble algorithms, such as Bagging, Boosting, feature Bagging and LoBag.


Purpose – The primary purpose of this paper is to explore stakeholder perceptions of an international sport for development program so as to identify some of the management challenges within a strategic management framework. The secondary purpose is to provide recommendations for the focal organization's leadership based on those stakeholder perceptions. Hence, participants in this study directly experienced the facilitation and implementation of the international sport for development program. Participant viewpoints are expressed in efforts to identify improvement opportunities in the delivery and operations of this sport for development program. Design/methodology/approach – In this qualitative research, a case study design was chosen to produce a detailed account of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada's (CGC) International Sport and Development (IDS) program. Interviews were conducted with 24 alumni of the IDS program, five CGC IDS administrators, and ten host IDS organization administrators f...


In this paper, we develop a multi-connection belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm for polar codes, which employs the idea of the residual neural network to accelerate the convergence. Specifically, multi-connection BP decoding builds on the standard BP decoding by fusing the soft information of the current decoding iteration and the past decoding iterations proportionally according to the damping factor during each iteration. Moreover, we adopt the particle swarm optimization algorithm to obtain the optimal value of the damping factor to balance a trade-off between the error rate performance and decoding complexity. The suggested approach can outperform the standard BP decoding with lower iterations, according to simulation findings, which demonstrate that it can reduce error rates.


The susceptibility of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) to graded doses of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts was studied. Sixteen budgerigars were divided into 4 groups (A–D) of 4 each. Birds in groups A–C were fed 100,000, 1,000, or 100 infective oocysts of the VEG strain of T. gondii, respectively. Budgerigars in group D were not fed oocysts and served as controls. All 4 birds in group A died (or were killed) because of acute severe enteritis 5 or 6 days after feeding oocysts (DAFO). Three of the 4 birds in group B were killed (or died) because of toxoplasmosis 9 or 14 DAFO. One budgerigar in group C and the 4 budgerigars in group D remained healthy and were killed 35 or 39 DAFO. Toxoplasma gondii was demonstrated in tissues of all budgerigars fed oocysts. The control budgerigars remained clinically normal and showed no evidence of T. gondii exposure. These results indicate that, compared to other passerines, budgerigars are relatively resistant to clinical toxoplasmosis.


The hybrid cryotron technology is explained as an effective technique for batch fabrication of large numbers of interconnected devices. Fabrication of large arrays of active devices is made practical by the fault tolerant properties of the cryotron device and the advantages of combined stencil masking and photoetching techniques. Several assemblies have been given extensive operational and temperature cycling. These assemblies included five substrate cryotron computers and four substrate content addressed memories. Details of circuit and logic design, device characteristics, and fabrication yield are described. Present work on arrays of 10 000 interconnected devices on a single substrate is reported. Fabrication yields of 99.98 percent and time constants of 10 ns are expected in the near future in arrays of this size through improvements in fabrication process control and device utilization.


In this essay I compare Bonhoeffer's and Tillich's perspectives on divine suffering and suggest that Bonhoeffer's (and to a lesser degree Tillich's) notion of both divine and hu- man vicarious suffering is a way of re-framing Anselm's so-called "forensic" theory of atone- ment, in which Christ takes upon himself the undeserved condemnation of fallen humankind and dies vicariously on our behalf in order to satisfy divine justice.


Only 25-30% of patients with Thalassemia major (TM) will have a suitable HLA-matched sibling donor for an allogeneic SCT. In the absence of a HLA-matched sibling, an extended donor search within the family may yield a suitable donor, especially in societies with a high prevalence of consanguinity. We have previously reported inferior outcomes in patients who had a transplant from a non-sibling family donor. One of the criticisms of this was the issue of low resolution typing, which may have adversely impacted outcomes in some patients. We interrogated this data further to assess whether the poorer outcomes held up to scrutiny with the availability of high resolution HLA typing. Towards this we undertook a retrospective case-control study, adjusting controls for age and Lucarelli risk group (common confounders for clinical outcomes post-transplant in TM) with a 4:1 ratio of controls to cases.
 All consecutive patients with TM who had a stem cell transplant between the time periods 2007-2017, were included in this retrospective analysis. A total of 371 transplants were done with 281 matched sibling donor, 58 related donors (32 fully matched and 26 with 1-2 antigen mismatch), and 32 MUD donors (24 fully matched (10/10) and 8 with 1-antigen mismatch (9/10)).
 Subsequent to 2012, high resolution typing was done for all non-sibling related family donors. Of the 58 related donors, high resolution typing was available in 45, with twenty four 10/10 donors, nineteen 9/10 donors and two 8/10 donors. Further analysis was done in this sub-group (excluding the 8/10 donors), with rejection and death being considered as events. A control group from the fully matched sibling donor cohort was generated randomly after adjusting for age and Lucarelli Class.
 All patients received a myeloablative conditioning regimen (Busulphan/Treosulfan based). In-vivo T-cell depletion was done in 11 (45.8%) of matched related transplants and 54 (56.2%) of matched sibling donor transplants (P=0.359). A PBSC graft was used in 16 (66.7%) of matched related donor transplants compared with 36 (27.5%) of matched sibling donor transplants (P=0.012). There was no difference in the median CD34 cell dose achieved in both groups (Table 1). Table 1 shows baseline characteristics, transplant details and outcomes in the 10/10 matched related donors and fully matched sibling donor groups. Table 2 shows univariate and multivariate analysis for risk factors adversely affecting Thalassemia-free survival (TFS) using Cox regression analysis. The 2-year TFS in the 10/10 matched related donor group, 9/10 matched related donor group and fully matched sibling donor group was 56.8%±10.5%, 56.1%±11.9% and 81.8%±4% respectively (P=0.011) (Figure 1A). The 2-year overall survival (OS) in the 10/10 matched related donor group and 9/10 matched related donor group and the fully matched sibling donor group was 75.4%±9.9%, 64.5%±12.1% and 85.0%±3.7% respectively (P=0.168) (Figure 1B).
 This data on allogeneic transplants confirms our previous observations that there is a higher risk of graft rejection when the donor is a non-sibling related donor, even if fully matched on high-resolution typing (OR 4.8 ; 95% CI=1.3-18.2 : P=0.02). Transplant physicians must be aware this increased risk and counsel families appropriately. Further modifications in conditioning regimens and GVHD prophylaxis could potentially help in improving these outcomes.
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MapReduce programming model is being increasingly adopted for data intensive high performance computing. Recently, it has been observed that in data-intensive environment, programs are often run multiple times with either identical or slightly-changed input, which creates a significant opportunity for computation reuse. Recognizing the opportunity, researchers have proposed techniques to reuse computation in disk-based MapReduce systems such as Hadoop, but not for in-memory MapReduce (IMMR) systems such as Phoenix. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for computation reuse in IMMR systems, which we refer to as MapReuse. MapReuse detects input similarity by comparing their signatures. It skips re-computing output from a repeated portion of the input, computes output from a new portion of input, and removes output that corresponds to a deleted portion of the input. MapReuse is built on top of an existing IMMR system, leaving it largely unmodified. MapReuse significantly speeds up IMMR, even when the new input differs by 25% compared to the original input.


From late August through October 2014, 160 cases of autochthonous dengue fever were reported in Japan, where local transmission was last documented 70


Recent worldwide convergence of telecommunication and information technologies and dynamic development of mass media lead to noticeable changes in functioning of contemporary countries and societies. Currently, modern information and telecommunication technologies (ICT) begin to play greater role and ! lter down to almost every ! eld of contemporary human life becoming a very popular subject of researches. Information revolution, that is a rapid technological development, within the scope of computers, communication processes and so" ware (involving substantial decrease in the costs of processing and sharing information), is the driving force behind globalisation. As a result, many social spheres of men remain greatly in# uenced by modern technologies. Easy access to information (being a consequence of development of the Internet, television and mobile communications) a$ ects millions of people in the world, and also changes rules of social life in a broader perspective. Increasingly greater social


Yu98-8A2 was bred by continuous backcross of genic sterile line Yu98-8A1 and genetically modified insect-resistant cotton cultivar Zhongmiansuo 41.Phenotype and microscopic observation of corolla and anther showed that Yu98-8A2 maintained the male sterility of Yu98-8A1.Bollworm and glyphosate resistance tests implied that,in addition to the resistance to herbicide,Yu98-8A2 also possessed the resistance to bollworm.PCR identification indicated that herbicide-resistant gene EPSPS-G6 and insect-resistant gene Bt were aggregated into Yu98-8A2.


In the past few years, astronomers have uncovered several very low-temperature, metal-poor stars with halo or thick disk kinematics and peculiar spectral and photometric properties, so-called ultracool subdwarfs. These include the first examples of L subdwarfs - metal-poor analogs of the L dwarf spectral class - and slightly metal-deficient T dwarfs. Ultracool subdwarfs provide useful empirical tests of low temperature atmosphere and evolutionary models, and are probes of the halo mass function down to and below the (metal-dependent) hydrogen burning limit. Here I summarize the optical and near-infrared spectroscopic properties of these objects, review recent research results, and point out scientific issues of interest in this developing subject.


ObjectiveTo examine the influence of change in antiretroviral therapy (ART) on patterns of CD8 T cell clonal dominance in HIV-infected children. DesignSeventeen HIV-infected children with plasma virus loads between 3.1 and 5.7 log10 were investigated before and after changes in ART. MethodsCDR3 spectratyping was performed in 22 T cell receptor (TCR) Vβ subfamilies by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in purified peripheral blood CD8 T cells in conjunction with CD4 cell counts, plasma HIV-RNA copies and lymphoproliferative assays (LPA). ResultsCD8 T cell clonal dominance in two or more Vβ families was present in eight out of 17 children. After a change in therapy, 13 patients (76%) acquired new clones whereas three patients (17.6%) showed a loss in CD8 cell clones. An increase in the numbers of dominant clones correlated with an increase in percentage CD4 cell counts (P < 0.001) and with improved LPA responses to tetanus (P < 0.05) and alloantigens (P < 0.01). CD4 cell increase was associated with an initial mean gain of 3.1 ± 2.1 CD8 cell clones, independent of a virological response. A loss of CD8 cell clones or failure to achieve CD4 T cell increase was associated with failure to achieve virological suppression. ConclusionChildren with chronic HIV infection manifest CD8 T cell clonal dominance, which appears to be dependent upon the adequacy of the CD4 cells. With optimization of therapy, a gain in clonal dominance is the predominant response, except in situations of failure to contain viral replication.


This research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of English participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among Iranian intermediate-level EFL learners. The overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exchanges would produce varying immediate and long-term effects on the participants' incorporation of linguistic forms. To this end, 160 participants were randomly assigned to three equivalent experimental groups. One group then received treatment on the three types of phrases through a tutorial system and multimedia grammar exercises where they received elicitation on the errors they made. The second and the third groups likewise received treatment on the same types of phrases through the same tutorial system, but received either recast or meta-linguistic feedback on their errors. The groups then sat for an immediate and a delayed post-test of grammar two weeks after the experiment. The experiment revealed that meta-linguistic feedback yielded the strongest immediate and sustained effects as compared with those of elicitation and recast. Likewise, while recast produced stronger immediate effects on learning as compared to those of elicitation, its sustained effects were much smaller than those of elicitation and meta-linguistic feedback.


The feeding tube of Hybomitra difficilis is made up of a short distal vestibule followed by a food canal that leads to the cibarium; the two regions demarcated by the vestibule/food canal junction. Two pairs of sensilla were consistently observed in the vestibular walls, the first pair of basiconic design in the mid-vestibular region, and the latter pair of setiform design at the base of the vestibule. Numbers of setiform sensilla in the food canal varied from 31 to 69 (mean = 48.15; ± 1 SD = 10.02), and were aggregated in the distal and distal median regions of the food canal. This aggregation was significant (X 2 = 241.49; P < 0.0001), leading to rejection of the null hypothesis that setiform sensilla were evenly distributed throughout the length of the food canal.Two basiconic sensilla were observed in the food canal of every fly examined. While basiconic sensilla varied in position (i.e., distance) from the vestibule/food canal junction, they were significantly aggregated (X 2 = 14.42; P < 0.0024) in the two median sections of the distal canal region, thus leading to the rejection of Ho that basiconic sensilla were evenly distributed in subdivisions (i.e., sections) of the distal canal region.


In modern times, barbershop aka men's shaving places is the main choice of modern men to style their hair. The results showed that the popularity of Barbershop itself is due to the trend of the haircut, the classic hairdo. Classic hairstyle trends are also supported by the media which has a positive impact on popularity, hair fashion as a priority, knowledge about fashion is getting better, pomade trends. In general, customers want to get the best quality of services provided.Changes in customer haircuts or Barbershop customers are usually caused by changing trends or because they want to find new models that are more age-appropriate. The haircut catalog is a book that contains information on various haircut models that are made in the form of pictures and names of haircuts, where the names of haircuts are generally made in English.The problem that can occur in cutting hair is the lack of desires of the customer to the results of the hair stylist cut, it happens because the customer does not understand or do not remember the name of the desired haircut model. Crochemore Perrin's algorithm factored the right pattern so that pattern = right pattern left pattern. The matching phase of this algorithm consists of two parts, first matching the right pattern character from left to right, then matching the left pattern from right to left.Keywords: Barbershop, Android, Catalog, Crochemore Perrin


It requires the presence of enhanced operability in setting variations combined chassis dynamometer and drum dynamometer in accordance with the vehicle type to be tested. Disposed pointing device provided in the console main menu display area constituting status indication function block. With this arrangement, it is possible to identify the current state of the test. Furthermore, the mode in the main menu display region is arranged in function button group set vehicle type selection window calling function block. Drum selecting section selects a type of vehicle window calling function block call type selection window of a vehicle comprises selecting the test vehicle corresponding to the drum, indicating the current setting device configured to set a display portion, and indicating a change during a set set by the setting device constituting a display portion.


At its June meeting, for the first time this year, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to cut the key rate by 0.25 pp. to 7.5% per annum. Such a decision was motivated by the plunge of annual inflation in April-May 2019 to 5.1%, coupled with weakening inflation risks. The inflation forecast for 2019 has been revised, the target being reduced from 4.7–5.2% to 4.2–4.7%. The RF Central Bank expects that the annual inflation rate in 2020 will hover around 4%, and so it plans to roundup its transition to neutral monetary policy by the middle of the next year.


This letter investigates a secure MIMO system, in which a full-duplex receiver (Bob) assigns part of his antennas to emit jamming signals to confound the passive eavesdropper (Eve). Unlike previous antenna assignment schemes based on the idealized assumption that the self-interference (SI) can be canceled perfectly, we consider and quantify the contradicting effects of jamming signals acting as SI signals for Bob and confusing signals for Eve, and then formulate the antenna assignment optimization as an integer programming problem. By balancing the contradicting effects, we derive a closed-form solution and further reveal the general design guidelines, i.e., the feasibility and optimality conditions, for the considered system. Numerical results verify our theoretical analysis and demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme.


Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit internalizing and externalizing problems, which may be explained by emotion regulation (ER) difficulties. Parent co-regulation (i.e., supporting their child's emotional development through scaffolding, and helping their child regulate emotions) may help improve child ER, and internalizing and externalizing problems. This study investigated the relationships amongst parent co-regulation, child ER, and internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of 35 parents and school-aged children with ASD prior to an ER-focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy intervention. Active co-regulation strategies (e.g., prompting, redirection of attention), and scaffolding during an anxious situation were associated with parent-reported levels of internalizing problems. Although child ER did not emerge as a significant mediator or moderator, parent scaffolding and child ER were significant predictors of externalizing problems. Suggestions for future research on parent involvement in the emotional development of children with ASD are discussed, as well as implications for ERfocused interventions.


Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the digestible energy (DE), metabolizable energy (ME), and standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of amino acids (AA) in dried yeast (DY) and soybean meal (SBM) fed to pigs. In Exp. 1, 30 barrows with an initial body weight (BW) of 20.7 ± 1.01 were assigned to 5 diets in a randomized complete block design with period and BW as blocking factors. A basal diet was prepared to contain corn, canola meal, and soybean oil as energy-contributing ingredients. Four additional diets were prepared by adding 5 or 10 g/kg DY or SBM at the expense of energy-contributing ingredients in the basal diet to estimate the DE and ME in test ingredients by regression analysis. On a dry matter basis, estimated DE and ME in DY were 4,022 and 3,352 kcal/kg, respectively, and those in SBM were 3,876 and 3,601kcal/kg, respectively. There was no difference in estimated DE or ME between DY and SBM. In Exp. 2, 21 barrows (initial BW = 20.0 ± 1.31 kg) surgically fitted with T-cannulas at the distal ileum were assigned to 3 diets in a randomized complete block design with BW as a blocking factor. Two diets were prepared to contain DY or SBM as the sole source of nitrogen, and a nitrogen-free diet was prepared to determine the basal ileal endogenous losses of AA. The SID of AA, except for Gly and Pro, in SBM were greater (P < 0.05) than in DY. The SID of indispensable AA in DY ranged from 64.7% for Thr to 86.1% for Arg, whereas those in SBM ranged from 84.8% for Thr to 92.3% for Arg. In conclusion, energy values in DY was comparable with SBM, but the SID of most AA in DY were less than in SBM.


Let there be given a surface S in euclidean space of n>3 dimensions. Suppose that through each point x of S there passes a line g of a congruence G. The developables of G intersect S in a net of curves N. We have called such a net a C net. t Let S be another surface in the same space S, in one-to-one point correspondence with S, corresponding points lying on the lines g of G. The developables of G intersect S in a C net of curves N. The two nets N and N are said to be in relatio4t C. The tangent planes to S and S intersect in a line h. If the points of h are each equidistant from the corresponding points of S and S, we shall say that the nets N and N are in relation E. We propose in this paper to develop a theory of the relations defined above which is independent of the dimension of the space S, for n > 3. Let the coordinates of the point x on S be xi, x2, **, x, the coordinates of the corresponding point x on S be x, x , x, and the direction cosines of the line g joining them be X1, X2, ** Xn where


Interleukin (IL)-1 is a major mediator of inflammation and exerts pleiotropic effects on the neuro-immuno-endocrine system. To elucidate pathophysiological roles of IL-1, we have first produced IL-1α/β doubly deficient (KO) mice together with mice deficient in either the IL-1α, IL-1β, or IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) genes. These mice were born healthy, and their growth was normal except for IL-1ra KO mice, which showed growth retardation after weaning. Fever development upon injection with turpentine was suppressed in IL-1β as well as IL-1α/β KO mice, but not in IL-1α KO mice, whereas IL-1ra KO mice showed an elevated response. At this time, expression of IL-1β mRNA in the diencephalon decreased 1.5-fold in IL-1α KO mice, whereas expression of IL-1α mRNA decreased >30-fold in IL-1β KO mice, suggesting mutual induction between IL-1α and IL-1β. This mutual induction was also suggested in peritoneal macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide in vitro. In IL-1β KO mice treated with turpentine, the induction of cyclooxygenase-2 (EC 188.8.131.52) in the diencephalon was suppressed, whereas it was enhanced in IL-1ra KO mice. We also found that glucocorticoid induction 8 h after turpentine treatment was suppressed in IL-1β but not IL-1α KO mice. These observations suggest that IL-1β but not IL-1α is crucial in febrile and neuro-immuno-endocrine responses, and that this is because IL-1α expression in the brain is dependent on IL-1β. The importance of IL-1ra both in normal physiology and under stress is also suggested.


Offering highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) to pregnant women and their partners has many advantages. It will improve the quality of life of HIV-infected parents (and thus improve their parenting efforts) decrease child mortality and the number of orphans because parents remain alive and healthy. In addition less ART resistance will be induced than with the short-course mono- or bi-therapy regimens currently in use (Jackson et al. 2000; Eshleman et al. 2001). Providing HAART to women post-natally will also decrease stigmatization associated with HIV because women with HIV infection will be able to breastfeed their children just as healthy women do. Offering HAART to women and their partners will motivate people in the community to present for HIV testing and counselling thus leading to increased awareness about HIV. (excerpt)


The agricultural use is an environmentally sustainable destination for sewage sludge because it promotes the recycling of nutrients and is beneficial to the cultivation of plants and to the physicochemical and biological characteristics of the soil. The Parana is one of the Brazilian states where the sewage sludge has agriculture as a priority disposal. The composition of sewage sludge to be disposed for agricultural use is related to the sewer from which it was originated and the process of treatment of the sewage and of the sludge. The way of treatment and of hygienization affects the final characteristics of the sewage sludge. This case study aimed to evaluate the differences in composition of sewage sludge batches generated, in the Parana, in systems containing anaerobic treatment and sanitized by prolonged alkaline stabilization, in relation to the agronomic and inorganic parameters (metals), from 2011 to 2013. Differences in the process of dewatering, hygienization and generation of batches, possibly, explain the differences of the agronomics parameters results verified between the batches produced in Sludge Management Units of the interior of the State, compared to the batches of the Curitiba Metropolitan Region. There was a large variability in the concentration of inorganic parameters of batches, probably associated to differences in sewage basins. Batches showed levels of inorganic parameters on average 89% below the limits of the State of Parana, the Resolution of the State Environment Cabinet (Sema 021/09).


Complement inactivated plasma obtained from patients in late pregnancy, or at delivery, had a suppressive effect on in vitro mixed lymphocyte reactivity (MLR) between unrelated individuals. In contrast, complement inactivated plasma obtained in the early stages of pregnancy did not suppress mixed lymphocyte reactivity.


The study is to explore the meaning of the tourism in cyber space, in particular, with the questions of "Is this cyber tourism a change or threat for the future tourism industry?" The major concerns that inhibit travellers to travel are due to time availability, cost, personal and political reasons. Cyber tourism will allow participants to travel to different places via new technologies for free of the usual restrictions of time, distance, cost and human frailty. Cyber tourism is a new type of tourism experience that entails the use of new technologies to achieve a convenient tourism experience. Is this cyber tourism a chance or threat for the future tourism industry? This study attempted to identify cyber tourism compared with physical tourism and to suggest potential possibility for future tourism industry to practice the cyber tourism appropriately. Tourism marketer should determine the range and scope of cyber tourism and consider not to diminish real tourism market. The success of cyber tourism will depend on how to attract cyber tourist into their destination.


Surgical resection is the principal method of treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) presenting in a resectable part of the liver. The technique of liver resection for cancer first developed in the 1950's. Even though Francis Glisson1 clearly described the internal anatomy of the liver in the 17th century (Fig. 1), technical challenges confront the hepatic surgeon today as they did 50 years ago. The complex arterial and portal blood supply, hepatic venous network and branching bile-ducts demand accuracy and extreme care in surgical dissection. Errors in surgical judgement and technique can lead to sudden intra-operative haemorrhage, or postoperative liver failure, often with fatal consequences in the past. Today, surgical resection of HCC can be performed with marked improvement in safety, thanks to recent advances in radiological imaging, surgical instrumentation and surgical technique. permitting the surgeon to plan the resection with accuracy. Intra-operative ultrasound examination of the liver is routinely used in liver resection. The surgeon directly maps the tumour in relation to adjacent blood vessels, and accurately plots the plane of dissection through the liver. When a large portion of the liver such as 65-70% needs to be resected, as in right hemi-hepatectomy, the concern has always been whether the remaining left lobe of the liver is large enough to allow regeneration and functional recovery. CT volumetric measurement of the liver can now be performed as an aid to assessment. The measured volume of the left lobe, and its proportion relative to the total liver volume (minus the tumour), provide important quantitative information. Fig 2 shows a large HCC of the right lobe which had been judged to be too risky to resect. Despite advanced age and coexisting cardiac disease, the patient's liver function tests results were adequate. CT volumetry showed that the left lobe had 31% of the liver's funct ional mass. Right hemi-hepatectomy was successfully performed with recovery and discharge of the patient 9 days after resection. Surgical Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma


Abstract: Bituminous concrete is a costlier and highest payment flexible payment layer. For satisfy the design requirements of stability and durability the bituminous mixes should be designed effectively. The ingredients of the mixture include dense grading of coarse aggregates, fine aggregates, fillers and bitumen binder. In this Study an attempt was made to find the effect of filler on the behavior of bituminous mixes. Fillers play an important role in the filling of voids and hence change the physical and chemical properties. Thus their effect is of utter importance. Bitumen in combination with filler forms mastic. This mastic can be seen as a constituent of mixture of asphalt that holds the aggregates together. An important role is played by the fillers that pass through 0.075mm sieve. With the increase in the amount of filler, Marshall Stability of the bitumen mix increases directly. Use of 4-8% filler in asphalt concrete is recommended by the Asphalt Institute. In India, waste concrete dust and brick dust are considered to be cheaper and are available in plenty. In this study an attempt was made to find the effect of fillers on the bitumen mixes. In this study, concrete dust and brick dust was used as filler. The properties of bituminous mixes containing these fillers were studied and compared with each other. For the purpose of comparison Marshall Method of mix design was used. In this study various tests were also conducted on aggregates and bitumen and the results were compared with the specifications. The study revealed that use of concrete dust and brick dust as filler improves the physical characteristics of bitumen. Marshall Stability and flow value of bitumen mix also improved.


N-Hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) has received significant attention in recent years as a catalyst of oxidation synthesis reactions. In this study, we use quantum chemical methods to calculate the molecular geometries, vibrational frequencies, and thermochemical properties of NHPI and the species corresponding to OH hydrogen loss in NHPI, the phthalimide N-oxyl radical (PINO). We also study an analogue of NHPI, N-hydroxymaleimide (NHMI), and we demonstrate that NHPI and NHMI have similar thermochemical properties. G3B3 and CBS-APNO calculations with bond-isodesmic work reactions provide O−H BDEs of 83.3 and 83.5 kcal mol-1 (348.5 and 349.4 kJ mol-1) for NHPI and NHMI, respectively, in the gas phase. Liquid-phase bond energy calculations are performed using the solvents benzene, carbon tetrachloride, acetone, ethanol, DMSO, and acetonitrile with the PCM solvent model. From these liquid-phase G3B3 calculations, we calculate a NHPI O−H BDE of between 83.3 and 83.7 kcal mol-1 (348.5 and 350.2 kJ mol-1) in a variety...


before Noah was dreamed of, the sea covered all. Ile de France was a salt lake, hundreds of fathoms deep, in which not even the tip of the Eiffel Tower would have been awash. The Atlantic poured over the wide basin of the Seine and flowed to the foothills of the Vosges and the Jura, not far from the Rhine. And since Stonehenge was new, and Britam was not yet an island, hunters could cross on foot from Dover to Calais, chasing abstract reindeer whose horns were simple curves. Europe then could not have looked anything like the Europe on today's map, but the Gods bear some resemblance.


Attention to vocabulary and finding appropriate strategy to learn new vocabularies has always been challenging for learners or even teachers. Researchers' consideration to vocabulary has been growing since mid. 1980s. In this regard, various researchers and teachers stated one or some instructions are more helpful for learners. This study is an attempt to investigate the effect of Isolated, Integrated, and Synonym Generation vocabulary instruction on writing skill among Intermediate EFL learners. For this purpose, 77 male and female learners were chosen through administering a piloted Preliminary English Test. They were then divided into three experimental groups and each of the groups was taught vocabulary through one of the mentioned instructions. At the end of the study, all participants were given a writing test. One-way ANOVA on the posttest demonstrating that the learners in the Integrated and Synonym Generation groups benefited significantly in terms of improving their writing ability.


He paper analyzes the established system for the provision, manufacture, sales, and quality control of medical purpose items (MPI) and medicines at the nationwide level. A structural and organizational model for state monitoring of the quality of MPI and medicines has been developed and tested. The provision of the population and health care facilities with drugs and MPI, the effectiveness of their application, and the reasons for the idle of medical equipment are assessed. The findings have been used to create a promising structural and organizational model for state regulation in the circulation of MPI and drugs.


Brain-Inspired Systems (BIS) are an emerging field of brain and intelligence sciences that studies natural intelligence models of AI and cognitive systems in one direction, and the formal models of the brain simulated by computational intelligence in another direction. A typical BIS is the cognitive robots that mimic and implement the brain through all cognitive levels. BIS provides insights for brain-machine interfaces (BMI), which may lead to novel man-machine interactions and hybrid intelligent systems. BIS may also advance classic computers from dada processors to the next generation of knowledge processors mimicking the brain. BIS will underpin a wide range of engineering paradigms such as cognitive systems, cognitive computers, cognitive robots, machine learning systems, semantic comprehension systems, big data systems, unmanned systems, self-driving vehicles and hybrid man-machine systems.


This article presents a new strategy to construct classification trees. According to the proposed scheme, we focused on keeping the record of sequences of each constructed classification tree; both in terms of splitting predictors and their splitting values in an array. So overall we have as many arrays as we have drawn samples. At this stage, a three steps strategy is introduced, which is used to search for the optimum classification tree. The proposed strategy provides comparable or improved results in terms of generalized error rates than tree and rpart (packages available for classification purposes in the R) using four of the well-known evaluation functions, that is, the Gini, the Entropy, the Twoing, and the Exponent-based function to split nodes for many real-life datasets.


The ProCEED pilot study was a case-control study that was undertaken to assess the epidemiology of prostate cancer in Illinois as compared to the United States; differences in levels of IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 in blood samples from prostate cancer cases compared to controls; differences in dietary and exercise intake between case-control groups; and potential interactions between lifestyle variables and IGF-1 level.

The clinical portions of this study were undertaken in the General Urology Clinic at the Jesse Brown Veteran's Adminsitration Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. A total of 84 subjects were enrolled: 59 prostate cancer cases and 25 controls. The cases were significantly older than controls (70.6 versus 63.2, p=.0020). Both groups were predominately African Americans (83% cases versus 84% controls). More cases than controls were not working at the time of the study (84.8% versus 62.5%, p=.0053).
Prostate cancer cases had been seen in the JBVMAC General Urology clinic for the following treatments: hormone therapy (37%), watchful waiting (27%), prostatectomy (37%), radiation (22%), brachytherapy (2%). The total Gleason scores for the prostate cancer cases were as follow: 5 (1.7%), 6 (42.4%), 7 (37.3%), 8 (8.5%), 9 (10.2%).

After controlling for covariates, there was a statistically significant and slightly negative association for IGF-1 and prostate cancer (OR 0.96, C.I. 0.93–0.99). In dietary analyses, adjusted carbohydrate intake, daily calorie intake, and age remained statistically significant predictors of prostate cancer (all p<.05) and total adjusted dietary fiber intake was a significant protective factor (p=.0262), after controlling for covariates. Effect modification between IGF-1 and the total daily intakes of fiber and carbohydrates showed borderline significance, but brought the associations toward the null.

In this predominately African American, inner-city population, there were slightly decreased odds of developing the disease with elevated levels of IGF hormones; and carbohydrates, fiber, total daily calories, and age were significant predictors of prostate cancer. Thus, diets lower on the glycemic index (lower simple carbohydrate and higher fiber intake) may be protective for prostate cancer.


This article concerns itself with representations of adult overseas adoptee returnees in South Korean cinema since liberation until the present/2015. Attempting to historicize these, it questions how the adoptee returnee?as a gendered and ethnoracialized figure?comments on text-embedded ideologies of Koreanness and kinship at different moments in time. It argues that adoptee returnee representation, as deployed in male-authored nation narration, has evolved in consolidation with the socio-economical, ideological and political circumstances of the day. The first part of the article traces the adoptee returnee figure as it first appeared in the films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. With the booming South Korean economy in the 1970s, the adoptee returnee figure largely disappeared from the silver screen and was "replaced" by representations of adoptees within their adoptive countries. Since the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and the official declaration of the New Multicultural South Korea in 2005/2006, the adoptee returnee has reappeared as a salient and refurbished figure in the cinescape, which can be considered as "a return of the returnee" (thus the title). The second part of the article offers a closer reading of returnees and family reunion discourse in postmillennial films.


Existing hash methods only compare the hash codes by the similarity of hash codes, which cannot fully express the relationship of between the hash codes corresponding to images. This work improves the quality of image retrieval by end-to-end representation learning. We propose a compact hash code learning method named DCCH (Deep Continuous Center Hashing), which learns hash representation with a well-specified loss function which adopts label information and spatial information. We train deep network model with proposed loss function to improve image hashing and video hashing. Experiments on image hashing and video hashing demonstrate that proposed DCCH method yields higher mean average precision than state-of-the-art hashing approaches.


Measurements were made of the limiting shear stress for two naphthenic oils of differing molecular weight and three blends of the lower molecular weight oil and polyalkylmethacrylate polymers of differing molecular weight. The two base oils reached the same limiting shear stress for the same temperature and pressure. This was also true for all the polymer solutions although the polymer reduced the limiting shear stress by about 15 percent. It is shown that limiting stress is more a function of material type than viscosity or molecular weight. A new falling body viscometer was constructed to operate to 230 C and 0.6 GPa. Another viscometer was constructed to extend the pressure range to 1.1 GPa. A concentrated contact simulator was developed which allows recording of the traction force while the slide-roll ratio is continuously varied and the rolling speed is maintained essentially constant by a single drive motor. The configuration is that of a crowned roller against a disk. Measurement of lubricant minimum film thickness of elliptical EHD contacts of various aspect ratios were made by optical interferometry. The data collected were used to evaluate the Hamrock and Dowson minimum film thickness model over a range of contract ellipticity ratio where the major axis of the contact ellipse was aligned both parallel and perpendicular to the direction of motion. A statistical analysis of the measured film thickness data showed that on the average the experimental data were 30 percent greater than the film thickness predicted by the model. Preliminary development of the application of a scanning infrared radiation system to a tribo-system was completed.


An unambiguous identification of glueballs in experiments will be of great significance, because their existence is an important test of QCD. The proposal, advanced here, is to experimentally search for glueballs as peaks in the invariant mass of a leading KS-pair fragmenting from an energetic gluon jet out of high-statistics three-jet events in hadronic decays of the weak neutral Z boson. Using a physically motivated model of the gluon-glueball fragmentation function, we find a substantial fragmentation rate into a leading glueball. It is very likely that a search, along the lines suggested here by any of the four groups at the Large Electron Positron collider at CERN, will prove fruitful.


Abstract: This article presents the findings of a study that examined the how the state government of Goias has acted in order to make public management more transparent and responsive. The object of the study is the Portal Transparencia Goias as well as the channels that feed its information. The results shows that transparency is still treated as a minor issue for the government, although there have been some achievements. Keywords: State, Accountability, Transparency, Public Management, Information. Referencias AKUTSU, Luiz & PINHO, Jose Antonio G. de. "Sociedade da informacao, accoun-tability e democracia delegativa: investigacao em portais de governo no Brasil". Revista de Administracao Publica , v. 36, n. 5, set./out. 2002. p. 180-193.BRESSER-PEREIRA, Luis Carlos. "As formas de responsabilizacao na gestao publi-ca". In: BRESSER PEREIRA, Luiz Carlos & GRAU, Nuria Cunill (Coord.). Responsa-bilizacao na administracao publica. Sao Paulo: Clad/Fundap, 2006__________. "A reforma gerencial de 1995". In: Belmiro, V. Jobim Castor; L.C Bresser Pereira e outros (Org.).


The quasi-switched boost inverter (qSBI) has the advantage over the quasi-Z-source inverter (qZSI) in reducing one capacitor and one inductor. The qSBI is applied to the cascaded H-bridge (CHB) topology to create a new cascaded single-phase five-level inverter. Besides, a PID controller for DC-link voltage of each module is proposed and implemented based on DSP TMS320F28335. Unlike the DC-link voltage controller in qZSI, the presented controller is directly controlled via controlling the capacitor voltage. By using this controller, the capacitor voltage is kept constant, even though the input voltage or the load is changed suddenly. As a result, the proposed cascaded system solves the imbalance problem of DC-link voltage in the traditional CHB inverters. Also, a grid-connected control strategy for modules in the cascaded five-level qSBI is presented. The proposed inverter offers much less total harmonic distortion of the output voltage. Simulation and experimental results are shown to verify the validity of the proposed control strategy.


The photosynthetic parameter of annual and biannual leaves of Sarcandra glabra were determined and compared by using Li-6400 portable photosynthesis system.The results showed that light saturation point of the two kinds of Sarcandra glabra were about 800 μmol·m-2·s-1,and their light compensation points were 32.25 μmol·m-2·s-1 and 19.13 μmol·m-2·s-1 respectively.The diurnal changes of photosynthetic rate presented a double-apex curve,the first peak was in the morning and the second was in the afternoon.The photosynthetic rate went down sharply at 11:00,and the phenomenon of "noon-break" appeared.The diurnal change of net photosynthetic rate(Pn)was influenced by CO2 concentration(0.9836**),intercellular CO2 concentration(0.9836**),stomatal conductance(0.8603*),transpiration rate(0.7408**),photosynthetically active radiation(0.7276*).