In the competitive swimming we observe two kinds of starts: grab start (GS) and track start (TS). The starts vary as the preference and the training that the swimmer carries through or determination techniques. Issurin and Verbitsky (2002) affirming that the techniques of start in swimming can present when comparative particular advantages between itself. Maglischo (1999) and Coulsiman (1984) confirm that the execution of a good start is basic to a good result. The start techniques in championships can be used in the training with the objective the perfection (VILLAS-BOAS E FERNANDES, 2003). The main of this study was to verify two types of starts used for the swimmers in the 50 meters freestyle in both genders, and to correlate with the performance during the Brazilian Swimming Championship 2005. The sample was of 36 women and 33 men. The tape film analyses was made in a second time and was compared with the final time of each swimmer, verified through the Correlation of Sperman. No had been found significant statistical differences in the starts in both genders in the Brazilian Championship, through the final time analysis; also correlation was not found between the employed start kind and the final time. Therefore, we concludes that it does not have significant correlation and significant difference between start chosen and the final time reached in the 50 meters freestyle in both genders.


World health organization reports that 1 in 4 children under five years suffer from minor brain dysfunction, including impaired motor development. Based on data from the Pariaman City Health Office in 2018, toddlers who experienced the highest fine motor disturbances were at the Kurai Taji Health Center (106.6%). The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between stimulation and fine motor development in children aged 1-5 years in the Posyandu of Marabau village, the working area of the Kurai Taji Public Health Center in 2018. This research was conducted from 21 to 24 September 2018 at the Kurai Taji Public Health Center. This type of research is Analytic. The population in this study was mothers who have children aged 1-5 years in the working area of the Kurai Taji Puskesmas with a sample of 31 people. Data were analyzed by Univariate and Bivariate, sampling techniques using the Total Sampling method. The results of the study were obtained from 31 people more than half 18 (58.1%) of respondents who gave less stimulation, more than half of 19 (61.3%) respondents were not normal. There is a Significant Relationship between Stimulation and Fine Motoric Development in Children Aged 1-5 Years in Posyandu Marabau Village Work Area Health Center Kurai Taji in 2018 because p-value 0.003. It is recommended for health workers can implement monitoring of fine motor development of children in providing midwifery care.


The question of causality pervades the foundations of science. In particular, the question of psychic causality underlies the foundations of the various approaches of present psychology, although it is not explicit or even recognized. Resort to the theme can help to clarify epistemological issues that delineate scientific psychology. In this sense, the objective of the work is to present the conception of psychic causality present in the work of Edith Stein (1891-1942), Psychic Causality (2010). The method of historical investigation was used. The author criticized the emergent experimental psychology, which underwent psychologistic and naturalistic reductionism by separating itself from philosophy. Edith Stein defended the possibility of a scientific psychology sustained by the (phenomenological) definition of the human person. Her understanding of psychic causality fits the distinction between the immanent lived experiences and the intentional lived experiences of the flow of consciousness. Stein differentiates the scope of deterministic causal events from those scopes of motivational relations that are not subjected to deterministic connections. It is concluded that only a rigorous philosophical elaboration of the different types of legality to which the psychic phenomenon is submitted can provide to Psychology a valid foundation and autonomy in the dialogue with the other natural or cultural sciences.


Basis for determining the salary of the extent of job duties, responsibility, dignity of oce, and appointment requirements. Payroll submission procedure is a process conducted by the State Personnel Board to complete the documents or forms required for submission to the State Treasury Service Oce which will institute (KPPN) will is- sue aWarrant Disbursement of Funds (SP2D) to be submit- ted to Bank and Treasury expenditures. The purpose of this procedure gives the le to the SPP and SPM KPPN, then KPPN published SP2D then submitted to the Bank and the Treasury spending, which in turn transfer the money into the Bank treasury account to the account of expenses or a third party. Methods of practical work carried out by means of observation, questions answered by the parties involved, and documentation. This paper aims to deter- mine the procedures and work ow in the process of ling payroll-imaging. Penamaan File: 41208523


The idea of opposition-based learning was introduced 10 years ago. Since then a noteworthy group of researchers has used some notions of oppositeness to improve existing optimization and learning algorithms. Among others, evolutionary algorithms, reinforcement agents, and neural networks have been reportedly extended into their "opposition-based" version to become faster and/or more accurate. However, most works still use a simple notion of opposites, namely linear (or type-I) opposition, that for each x ∈ [a; b] assigns its opposite as x̆I = a + b - x. This, of course, is a very naive estimate of the actual or true (non-linear) opposite x̆II, which has been called type-II opposite in literature. In absence of any knowledge about a function y = f(x) that we need to approximate, there seems to be no alternative to the naivety of type-I opposition if one intents to utilize oppositional concepts. But the question is if we can receive some level of accuracy increase and time savings by using the naive opposite estimate x̆I according to all reports in literature, what would we be able to gain, in terms of even higher accuracies and more reduction in computational complexity, if we would generate and employ true opposites? This work introduces an approach to approximate type-II opposites using evolving fuzzy rules when we first perform "opposition mining". We show with multiple examples that learning true opposites is possible when we mine the opposites from the training data to subsequently approximate x̆II = f(x; y).


The derivation of the electron-optical refractive index from Hamilton's Principle is discussed. It is shown that the criticisms made by Ehrenberg and Siday of our method are invalid, and that our derivation made in 1933 is correct. To prove that our method is generally applicable, the isotropic refractive index of an axially symmetrical field is obtained.


The small or mini channel is widely adopted in compact heat exchanger in particular. In present study, the values of velocity and gas void fraction in two-phase gas-liquid flow in mini-channels were experimentally determined. The depth and width of the rectangular cross-section of the channel were 3 mm x 3 mm and 3 mm x 6 mm. The investigated flow and channel size to be applied in measurements of velocity and gas void fraction, a method based on the digital image analysis was applied. The value of gas phase velocity was defined by the values of distribution parameter C0. The relation describing the value of gas void fraction depended on the Bankoff coefficient and gas input volume fraction.


A recent development in finite temperature field theory, the so-called Braaten-Pisarski method, and its application to properties of a quark-gluon plasma, possibly formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions, are reviewed. In particular parton damping rates, the energy loss of energetic partons, thermalization times, viscosity, and production and damping rates of hard photons are discussed.


The invention relates to a preparation method of Oxiracetam, which takes 4-chlorine acetoacetic ester (1) as raw material, and prepared by the following synthetic route. The preparation method is simple and convenient, and has short route, low raw material, higher product yield, low cost and good purity.


As gradually more countries begin implementing social transfers to protect the most vulnerable parts of their population, the issue of how these policies will impact the local and the larger economy is an increasingly important one. Today's blog argues that the indirect effects of social transfers, particularly on prices and productivity, should be accounted for when designing and scaling up social transfer programmes.


Extraverts probably have an easier time writing opening lines. They are well practiced at connecting, stimulating, even provoking. When your English teachers told you that your first sentence should " reach out and grab the reader, " they might as well have said, " Write like an extravert. " An introvert, on the other hand, would more likely begin with an invitation. In his or her unique way, an introvert might offer: " I've found something worth considering. " Although this doesn't have the punch required to excel in most versions of English 101, to some, the invitation has more power than the grab. Susan Cain's book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking invites readers to consider the countercultural notion that introversion can be a gift. The introvert's tendency to find energy in solitude and preferring intimacy to popularity may not


Despite the heightened awareness of the importance of pain management, many patients fail to get the optimal relief. You can help reverse that pattern.


SiC-based ceramics are considered as candidate materials for the advanced nuclear energy systems such as the generation IV reactors and the fusion reactors due to their excellent high-temperature strength and irradiation resistance. The advanced nuclear energy systems and their main components adopting ceramic composites were briefly reviewed. A novel fabrication method of SiC f /SiC composites by introducing SiC whiskers was also described. In addition, the charged-particle irradiation (Si 2+ and H + ion) into CVD SiC was carried out to simulate the severe environments of the advanced nuclear reactors. SiC whiskers grown in the fiber preform increased the matrix infiltration rate by more than 60% compared to the conventional CVI process. The highly crystalline and pure SiC showed little degradation in hardness and elastic modulus up to a damage level of 10 dpa at 1000℃.


The article analices the interactions between social actors envolved in sustainable tourism in southern Quintana Roo, due to the Fac. That the tourism industry is a fundamental element of the process of regional development that immersed in a global economic dynamic. We present a comparative analysis of the tourism projects "Costa Maya" and "Corredor Ecoarqueologico" focusing in the integration of local inhabitats to these new initiatives via sustainable development. The situation of the communities in the Costa Maya, Mahahual and Xcalak, contrast with the community of Tres GArantias located within the Corredot Ecoarqueologico. Costa Maya is part of the government plan for regional development and is supported by a large capital investment, while the project at Tres Garantias is an example of community based tourism that springs from the strong local organization with prevous experience in social forestry. The resuls of this study show that ecotourism in southern Quintana Roo has not been able to achieve the goals of real sustainability such as environmental conservation, a rise in the standards of living of local population, and the empowerment of local culture.


The bachelor thesis is analysing financial resources for a hostel in the village of Vesela. The aim is to propose an optimum alternative for financing this investment project. Firstly I am constituting a project of the hostel and further more I am trying to describe its target groups. There are processed three variants of financing which could provide financing for the village. It is about two operational programmes for the new programme period 2007-2013 and financing by bank's credit of banking institution. The conclusion of this thesis is a proposal for the financing of the base of the mentioned possibilities.


The constraint satisfaction approach (CSP) offers a representation framework and algorithmic tools for solving simple decision problems, without uncertainty. This paper presents two extensions of the CSP framework aimed at solving decision problems under uncertainty. These extensions rely on a partition of the variables: the decision variables which are under the control of the agent and the contingent variables, which are incontrollable; the values of the letter depend on the occurence of some uncertain events which are supposed to be characterized either qualitatively or probabilistically. Depending on the case, this will lead to two different extensions respectively called mixed CSP and probabilistic CSP. In the probabilistic case, we give two algorithms that compute respectively decisions that solve the problem with maximum probability and conditional decisions that aim at providing on adequat solution for each situation.


We establish Lamperti representations for Markov semi-stable processes on the real line and on the complex plane under the hypothesis that they do not visit 0. These Lamperti representations yield some properties of these semi-stable processes.


The work in this thesis explores the possibilities of aperiodic sampling and control. Using the advances of the last decades in the field of networked systems, the main objective is to obtain methods to use the sampling period of the different measurements of the system to improve the performance or to reduce the transmission of information. With this idea, different eventtriggered control and multi-rate control schemes are proposed. In addition, this thesis aims to provide a practical usage of the strategies and, hence, different simulation and experimental results are developed. In the event-triggered control scenario, different periodic event-triggered strategies are proposed to deal asynchronous sampling, time-varying delays, disturbance rejection, etc. in linear systems. Besides, the practical application of the strategies commonly implies to deal with nonlinear systems. For this reason, some parts are dedicated to the extensions of the proposed strategies to some classes of nonlinear systems. Concretely, polynomial systems and inverted pendulum-type systems are studied. In the multi-rate scenario, the objective is tomaximize the performance of the plant considering that the information received from the sensor is collected at a lower frequency than the actuator's rate and, hence, several inputs can be applied to the plant in each output sampling period. With this idea, some optimization methods are proposed and different strategies for their practical application are discussed. The methods are applied to an air levitation system with the main goal of obtaining an experimental validation. With theMatlab library for process control simulations, we close the loop providing tools to carry out the simulations necessary to validate the aforementioned theoretical frameworks. Finally, the objective of the last paper is to study alternative aperiodic control strategies in the framework of underactuated systems.


The cycloterpolymerizations of diallyldimethylammonium chloride, 3-(N,N-diallylammonio)propanesulfonate, and sulfur dioxide afforded a series of pH-responsive cycloterpolymers in excellent yields. The solution properties of these ionic polymers were controlled by the composition of the monomeric units; exhibiting dominance either in polyzwitterionic or cationic character. The unquenched valency of nitrogen in the monomeric units of the sulfobetaine zwitterions has permitted these cationic/zwitterionic polymers to be converted into a series of polyampholytes with a charge asymmetry arising out of excess of either the cationic or anionic centers. The water-solubility of these polymers, upon low- and high-salt (NaCl) additions has been investigated to provide critical solution concentrations to promote water-insolubility and -solubility. A series of associating polymers of the above two monomers and SO2 with a hydrophobic incorporation of 3–7 mol % of diallyloctadecylammonium chloride has also been synthesized. The solubility and viscosity of the hydrophobically modified polymers in the polyampholytic form were increased considerably in the presence of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2011


The pathways from climate change and related disasters to health outcomes can be conceptualized as direct (primary) or indirect (secondary or tertiary). How these pathways impact the health of a given population are the result of complex interactions between climate-induced forcing functions, non-climatic environmental risk factors, community socio-economic structures and processes, and the health attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups. These interactions vary by place and over time to create a complex mosaic of health risks. To address the complexity of the consequences of climate change across space and time, planning and policy approaches have typically used post-hoc analyses and have extrapolated relationships temporally without the ability in most instances to account for new contextual conditions at a place.The focus of this handbook chapter is to describe and illustrate how agent-based modeling of synthetic populations could be used to create reasonable scenarios of current and future health risks associated with climate change and related disasters. As an example of the utility of the platform, the chapter provides an estimate of extreme heat exposures of individuals in one region of the United States. Additionally, it gives examples of further applications of synthetic population modeling for assessing health risks following an acute natural disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake.


The unsymmetric element developed in the commented paper is actually symmetric and equivalent to the hybrid stress elements based on the Hellinger–Reissner variational principle. Shang and Ouyang1 claimed that they developed a 4-noded unsymmetric plane element with drilling DOFs, named as US-Q4θ. The element exhibits very good numerical performance, especially insensitivity to severely distorted mesh. However, the element US-Q4θ is not unsymmetric. As defined in Equations (22)–(26) in the paper,1


Objective: The purpose of this study was to partially replicate a Dutch study which investigated the quality of received eating disorder treatment as perceived by consumers. Method: An online questionnaire was completed by 135 members of various eating disorder foundations within Australia, ranging in age from 18 to 53 years. Results: Results highlighted the importance that patients place upon being taken seriously whilst in treatment, and being treated by a professional who is perceived to be trustworthy, interested and honest. A comparison between current and former consumers also revealed that former consumers of services place a higher level of importance on gaining an understanding about eating disorders, and learning to understand that they have a problem. Conclusion: These findings could be used to improve upon the current treatment practices of clinicians working with individuals with eating disorders in Australia and Internationally. The presenter will discuss this findings and their relevance internationally.


Hastings, William Stanley, Jr., M.S., Virginia Common wealth University, May 1973. The Effect of Aflatoxin B on Growth Rate and Iron il1etabo1ism in Juvenile MonGolian G�rbils (Meriones unguiculatus). r.1ajor Professor. Gerald C. Llewellyn. The metabolic secretions from Aspergillus f1avus, af1a toxins, are often found as contaminants of agricultural pro ducts used for human and animal consumption. Aflatoxin Bl is the most toxic and carcinogenic of the af1atoxins. A reduction in weight gain has been observed when juvenile animals are fed aflatoxin B, over an extended period of time. This reduction in weight gain may possibly result from an anemic condition induced by an alteration of iron absorption and/or distribution. The effect of chronic sublethal levels of this hepatocarcinogen on weight gain and the uptake and distribution of 59pe++ were studied in this investigation. An experimental group consisting of 12 male gerbils was fed an agar-based diet containing 10 ppm aflatoxin Bl and a control group consisting of 6 male gerbils was fed an identi cal diet which did not contain aflatoxin B1 for a 75-day period. The total mean aflatoxin B1 consumption of the experimental group amounted to 0.170 mg aflatoxin B1/kg of body weight. At the termination of the investigation the mean percent iron absorption of the control and experimental groups was determined. Values of 6 . 25 and 6. 8 9 , respectively, were calculated. The difference between these means was not determined to be significant. At the termination of the investigation the mean weight gain of the control group animals was 36. 9 g as compared to 29. 8 g for the aflatoxin group. The difference indicated x that a significant reduction in weight gain was observed in the experimental group. It was apparent that neither the physical activity nor diet consumption measured in the inves tigation affected the weight gain . Pathological analysis indicated that one-third of the experimental animals had l iver injury and two of these had toxic hepatitis. The difference in the iron absorption between the afla toxin group and the control group was not found to be signi ficant but certain trends were observed. Animal number 1). the animal with the highest percent absorption, also had toxic hepatitis . However. contradictory evidence was also present with animal number 16 having toxic hepatitis and a very low perc ent iron absorption .


: This research paper has identified the Unfair Human Resource Management (HRM) Practices in Telecom Sector in Saudi Arabia. The main objective of the study stood at empirically examining the HRM practices prevailing in the public and private sector telecom companies in Saudi. A survey was conducted with the help of a questionnaire comprising 57 items related to the HRM practices, divided into ten categories of variables related to Job Analysis, Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Performance Appraisal, Compensation and Benefits, Working Condition, Security and Health, Communication, Co- worker Relation and Intention to Stay in the Company. The hypotheses of the study are based on these dimensions and the status of the stated variables is analyzed at all the levels of employees in the telecom sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A comparative study is developed by interpreting the responses of the employees from these selected organizations. The sample taken is believed to be representative of all different jobs and jobholders' segments by age, sex, experience, Qualification, department, income group, etc. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed among the employees of three major telecom companies namely, STC, Mobily and Zain, out of which 210 were selected for final analysis and interpretation and to draw conclusions for the study. SPSS has been used to analyze the data and results have been presented in different tables according to findings. The study suggested of implementing the fair HRM practices to create enthusiasm and motivation among the employees.


Spectral libraries can be defined as a collection of very high spectral resolution data of vegetation and other land surfaces (both natural and man-made) and often represent pure materials or individual species. Therefore, spectral libraries have often been considered as endmembers for remote sensing studies in spectral unmixing, species discrimination, classification and modeling. A less understood aspect on the use of spectral libraries, specifically for vegetation studies, is the implication of scaling from the leaf to the canopy or stand level as required for image analysis. The main objective of this study was to examine the scalability of vegetation spectral libraries for regional land cover classification. We ask the question, 'to what degree can spectral libraries be used to inform airborne hyperspectral land cover classification?'
In this study we use a spectral library collected for seven native tree plantation species in Northern Costa and airborne hyperspectral imagery collected with the HyMap II sensor (16 m spatial resolution).
Initially we assessed the spectral separability of the seven plantation species (~1,100 spectra) at the leaf level through eight different data transforms. The first was calculation of the reflectance ratio in the spectral library spanning 400 bands in the VNIR as recorded by the ASD handheld spectroradiometer. The second consisted of resampled reflectance using the spectral response function of HyMAP (33 bands in the VNIR). Datasets 3 - 5 were deconstructed ASD reflectance using three commonly used continuous wavelet transforms (CWT) (i.e. db3, morlet, Mexican hat). Datasets 6-8 consisted of the resampled ASD data (to HyMAP bands) deconstructed by the same three CWTs. We assessed the separability of these eight leaf level datasets using a supervised forward feature selection based on the nearest neighbour criterion. The separabiltiy metric ranges from 0 -1, with 1 being perfect separability of the classes. From the 400-band reflectance ratio the separability of the seven species was fairly low (0.5). The resampled 33-band reflectance ratio also showed a poor separability (0.45). However, once deconstructed with the CWTs the separability increased to 0.70-0.89. Selecting features at larger scales through the CWT were key to the improved separability.
Next we assessed the separability of the same seven species as extracted from regions of interest in the HyMAP imagery. In this analysis we included a background class consisting of all land cover classes found in the flight lines (e.g. forest, agricultural classes, secondary forest, etc.). We computed the same separability metric from the reflectance as well as deconstruction with the CWTs. The separability ranged from 0.88-0.92 across all datasets from the image regions of interest indicating, as expected, that stand structure plays an important role in the spectral response at the landscape level/ stand level as captured from the imagery.
When we compared the optimal bands selected at the leaf level as well as from the image regions of interest we found a maximum of 30% correspondence (range of 0-30% depending on the dataset, for example reflectance or CWT). To determine which canopy elements accounted for the majority of the difference (e.g. leaf angle, exposed soils, LAI, etc.) we reconstructed the HyMap spectra using the PROSAIL model. We included a full range spectrum (350-2,500 nm) of soil collected in the region in our model and varied the both the leaf chemistry and stand structure parameters. Our best-fit model had a 96% correspondence between the output of PROSAIL and the actual HyMAP spectra; structure, predominantly as LAI and leaf angle were two properties with the greatest impact in recreating the spectra of the plantations as recorded by HyMAP.
We conclude that while spectral libraries can be a valuable source of information for remote sensing studies, our findings in scaling up from the leaf to the stand level show the limitations of using them directly without accounting for stand structure.


We perform the resummation of the infrared logarithms in the inflationary universe. Applying the renormalization group, we derive the stochastic equations as the effective theory at the horizon. We focus on the conformal zero mode to respect local Lorentz symmetry. Under Gaussian approximation, we derive the fundamental equation for the Universe (EqU). We also derive the identical equation from the first law of thermodynamics in a dual geometric picture. We believe it is a convincing evidence for de Sitter duality between quantum stochastic physics on the boundary and classical thermodynamics in the bulk. The equation for the Universe (EqU) possesses the solution with the ultraviolet fixed point. It also contains the inflationary universe with the power potentials. We discuss possible scenarios for the very early universe with decreasing epsilon. We argue inflationary universe subsequently dominates to maximize the entropy and epsilon problem is naturally solved.


In this study we tried to investigate the initial incentives for adult trainees to attend the Second Chance School, the differentiations that these incentives are subject to during their course of studies, as well as their correlation with demographic characteristics.


Far from modern ideologies focusing on fixed ascriptive religious identities, the Shaivite ascetic sect of the Nāth Yogīs had a long tradition of close relationships with Islam. This article will focus on two levels where this lack of concern for encompassing religious labels manifests: the doctrinal vernacular texts and the Nāth hagiographic tradition. A surprising text edited under the name of 'Mohammad Bodh' by contemporary Nāth authorities will be presented. It is composed of short elliptical verses, which have to be recited during the month of Ramadan and are thus intended for Muslim Yogīs. However, more familiar to the mainstream Nāth Yogīs are the many narratives that function as carriers of sectarian identity. Several of them present heroes characterised by a somewhat ambiguous relation to Islam; they may be blessing Muslim rulers or be granted a dual identity (like Ratan Bābā and Raja Bākshar), a shifting identity (like Gūgā), or come from a Muslim background (Hanḍī Bhaṛang). In conclusion, we may even think that fluid boundaries with Islam were part of the religious identity of the Nāth Yogīs.


A comparative analysis of the physicochemical properties of different donor–acceptor dyads, based on a perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical acceptor subunit linked through a vinylene π-bridge to ferrocene derivatives (1–3) or a tetrathiafulvalene (4) donor subunit, is presented. Intramolecular electron transfer and charge delocalization of these donor–acceptor dyads are discussed on the basis of data obtained in solution by cyclic voltammetry, UV–Vis near-infrared, and electron spin resonance spectroscopies. Bistability in the crystalline phase is also discussed on the basis of the results provided by X-ray diffraction analysis and temperature-dependent Mossbauer spectra. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


ordinated policy toward Southeast Asia to theninterests in Europe, thinking Southeast Asia had no strategic importance in itself. The results of this priority, however, were to fuel the French drive for greater autonomy within the Western alliance while drawing both the Soviet Union and the United States deeper into Southeast Asian affairs regardless of their judgment as to the region's intrinsic importance. Colbert wisely avoids the kind of empty abstractions that may come to mind when searching for patterns in her impressively thorough yet concise presentation, but at the same time readers with a bent for generalization or theory might wish she had made greater effort to synthesize.


Abstract An experiment using cages was designed to demonstrate herbivore consumption of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile reproductive structures, in a north-western area of the Mediterranean Sea. The percentages of mature inflorescences and those damaged by herbivores in caged vs. uncaged (control) vs. partially caged plants (artefact control) were compared. Inflorescences damaged by herbivores were 84.3 ± 3.1% in the control and 79.5 ± 3.2 % in partial cages. Significantly more mature inflorescences were found in caged (37.5 ± 2.4 %) vs. uncaged (10.1 ± 2.9 %) and partially caged plants (6.7 ± 0.9 %). The real contribute of herbivores to the loss of fertilised inflorescences of P. oceanica was approximately 27 %, as the differences between mortality in caged and in uncaged plants. These results suggest that herbivores could affect sexual reproduction in P. oceanica, but further investigation is needed to investigate biotic interactions in the meadows.


Abstract Ozone generating systems have to meet many requirements, such as reliability, low energy consumption, compatibility with process automation, simplicity of yield regulation and ease of service, while presenting a good power factor and current waveform to supply the network. This paper presents the electrical supplying systems for ozone generators, especially those with magnetic frequency multipliers. The systems presented very well fulfill the ozone generator's requirements.


We studied the pathology of 25 temporal bones of 15 patients with maxillary sinus carcinoma. Nine of them (60%) showed temporal bone invasion from maxillary sinus carcinoma. Of 14 temporal bones on the same side as the maxillary sinus carcinoma, eight (57%) showed carcinomatous invasion. Of 11 temporal bones on the contralateral side, three (27%) showed carcinomatous invasion.Of 10 bilateral temporal bones removed from patients with maxillary sinus carcinoma, bilateral carcinomatous invasion was observed in two (20%). The most common site of carcinomatous invasion was the petrous portion.The main routes of carcinomatous invasion of the temporal bone from maxillary sinus carcinoma were as follows: 1) via invasive destruction of the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus, the base of the skull, and the temporal bone; 2) via destruction of the ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses, the base of the skull, and the temporal bone; 3) the fallopian canal; and 4) the carotid canal. Invasion was frequently by routes 1 and 2 but in only one case each was invasion by routes 3 and 4.


This paper investigates a Near-Optimal Deep Learning (DL)-based detector for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Amplify and Forward (AF) relay system. The main goal of the proposed DL detector is to achieve the best Bit Error Rate (BER) performance by a low-complexity Deep Neural Network (DNN). A pre-processing stage based on the frequency domain is applied before entering the input data into DNN. Since the performance of the model is very sensitive to tuning the parameters, simulation results compare the BER performance for different scenarios to obtain an accurate model. Finally, we show that the desired model is close to the Maximum Likelihood (ML) as an optimal detector.


Graft polymers of acrylonitrile and acrylamide with from 1 to 20 grafts have been prepared by chain transfer to polymer and by photolysis of a copolymer containing a few per cent of α-chloroacrylon...


The devastating complexity of decision making in severe dynamic competitive environment of the universe, has forced the wise managers to have relevant strategic plans for their firms. In this paper, a new approach by utilizing Mahalanobis-Taguchi System (MTS) and clustering algorithm in formulating the strategy has been proposed. In this approach, first by performing environmental analysis all internal and external factors affecting organization will be listed. Then the long range goals will be identified by top managers. By applying MTS the main set of factors affecting goals will come out. By identifying main factors, the goal-factor matrix will be formed. At this stage, by using clustering algorithm the proper clusters containing goals and factors influencing them will be constructed. Finally, from the created clusters the appropriate strategies would be generated. The advantage of applying this method is its accuracy and ease of applications in the environment with plenty of goals and numerous factors with interactions among them.


SUMMARY This paper describes a BIST circuit for testing SoC integrated multi-channel serializer/deserializer (SerDes) macros. A newly developed packet-based PRBS generator enables the BIST to perform atspeed testing of asynchronous data transfers. In addition, a new technique for chained alignment checks between adjacent channels helps achieve a channel-count-independent architecture for verification of multi-channel alignment between SerDes macros. Fabricated in a 0.13-µ mC MOS process and operating at > 500 MHz, the BIST has successfully verified all SerDes functions in at-speed testing of 5-Gbps × 20-ch SerDes macros.


Mexican photographer Mariana Yampolsky's final photography exhibition casts aside typical visualizations of her adopted country to foreground the marginal voices that react to global forces. Yampolsky's photographic narrative engages directly with ideas promoted in Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart's key work on cultural imperialism: How to Read Donald Duck. This analysis of her photographic text will show how Yampolsky's visual representations of the subaltern provides further and distinct evidence of Dorfman and Mattelart's assertions regarding the introduction of foreign symbols into a Latin American context. Additionally, her work demonstrates how the popular classes appropriate these symbols, adding to them mexicanidad and additional meaning created by the subaltern.


Review(s) of: After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007, by Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman, MUP, $36.99 pb, ISBN 9780522855975, February.


In a previous article in this series, some of the common problems of being an internal consultant were discussed. It now seems only appropriate to lay out some pithy rules for survival as an external consultant. Of course, the rules proffered for consumption stem, in good part, from the author's own experiences and should be recognized as the extremely biased opinions that they are.


Abstract This study describes a method for determining lead and cadmium in freeze dried samples of normal human lung tissue. The samples were digested with redistilled HNO3 in a Teflon 19lined steel bomb. Although background absorption was monitored, no corrections were necessary as any organic residue not initially digested is easily removed during the ash stage of the atomizer cycle. This method of sample preparation and analysis easily can be used to deal with other biological samples and could be readily extended to biopsy size samples.


From initially defining new governance processes as external to 'traditional' forms of EU law, a number of academic scholars have begun to argue that methods like the OMC can be seen as indicative of a broader 'transformation' of European law-making. The transformation thesis relies on seeing the OMC as an evolving legal mechanism, in which features such as peer review, and the participation of 'new' constitutional actors, can take the place of traditional forms of legal accountability and participation. At the same time, the transformation thesis remains empirically under-developed. Taking the new streamlined OMC process in social inclusion and social protection as its starting point, this paper will seek to remedy that gap. The paper evaluates the transformation thesis using interview data gained from the recent Commission evaluation of the OMC SPSI (conducted from 2005-2006). While the OMC SPSI displays evidence for a number of its features – it also displays some of the limits of the 'transformation' idea. While the OMC as it stands indicates elements of a more 'dynamic' form of accountability and subsidiarity in the EU order, its lack of critical review and transparency, and failure to include local or regional actors casts doubt on its suitability as a replacement for traditional legal accountability mechanisms. As much as 'transformation' may offer an attractive future for EU law, its dynamic vision for open coordination remains largely unrealised.


The trial was conducted at Querochaca Experimental Farm, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering of the Technical University of Ambato, located in the canton Cevallos with the aim of evaluating the application of organic fertilizers, such as compost, bocashi, humus, biol and its effect on the commercial production of broccoli (Brassica oleraceae). A randomized complete block design was used in a factorial arrangement with four types of organic fertilizers and three doses, with four repetitions. The results indicated that the Compost application to the soil in the broccoli culture were positive, in the variable height of the plant, especially at 60 days reached 52,25 cm, the pellet diameter of 19.91 cm, weight of the pellet with 0.97 kg and the highest yield with 23.10 kg / treatment. Of the doses and types of organic fertilizers evaluated, the average dose D2 (2 kg/m²) of Compost, obtained a pellet diameter of 19,11 cm, weight of the pellet of 0,93 kg, with a yield of 22,45 kg / treatment. The treatment (Compost, 1 kg / m²) in low dose, registered the highest marginal rate of return of 81%.


Leadership courses are often encouraged, but not mandatory for an undergraduate engineering degree. The research presented here focuses on implementing specific undergraduate leadership courses as part of an American Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program at a Midwestern University. The purpose of this study is to identify what professional skills engineering companies expect students to develop through coursework before they can graduate from a large Midwestern university. The hypothesis of the project was: Engineering employers surveyed will validate the importance of each of the introductory leadership course goals as it relates to what they are seeking in potential hires. The research question of the project was: How important are formal leadership education coursework and opportunities in college to the engineering workforce? The web-based survey was sent to over 200 engineering employers that recruit at the Midwestern University with 53 responses equating 26.5% response. The survey administered to employers in this project was created by faculty from the Electrical Engineering and Leadership Education departments and the author, a graduate student in the Leadership Education program, who incorporated the following tools: o A United Kingdom (UK) survey facilitated in 2005. o Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation Criterion 3 guidelines. o The Introductory Leadership Course objectives in the syllabus provided to students. The survey responses indicated that not only is the development of professional leadership skills by engineering students appreciated, it is required if they are to meet the demands of the engineering workforce. Many employers responding to the survey defined these skill sets as fundamental for future engineers. Background The global market for engineering graduates is becoming increasingly competitive. The study, "Educating Engineers for the 21 st Century: The Industrial View" which surveyed more than 400 engineering companies located in the United Kingdom reveals a pressing need to overhaul undergraduate engineering education. "Engineering courses need to be better aligned with industry needs, which can be achieved in part by industry becoming more involved with engineering education. The Academy calls for closer collaboration between schools, universities and industry to counteract the perceived skills deficiency in graduate engineers." (Spinks, Silburn & Birchall, 2006). One remedy for this challenge is a diversified engineering curriculum


This Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ran between May 2006
and February 2008 and enabled the Sharp collection held at Newcastle University to be
looked after properly for the first time. Equally important, it permitted a process of dissemination,
allowing both the collection and the contribution of Sharp to planning history to
become better known. This short paper relates something of the history of the collection, a
brief description of the collection itself and the 'Town and townscape' project with some
final reflections on planning archives and planning history in the UK.


The target of the contribution is to outline possibilities of applying modelling for the prediction of mechanical steel properties of ribbed medium carbon steel rods. The impact toughness; tensile properties - tensile strength at maximum load, tensile strength at break and yield strength; as well as hardness property of medium carbon steels rolled from inland rolling mills were determined experimentally and quantitatively. The experimental data obtained were used to develop models using stepwise techniques (statistical analysis). The precise tool used for development of these models was multiple regression analysis (Analysis of Variance- ANOVA) and the models were used to obtain the predicted (numerical) values of these properties for each of the materials investigated. The outcome models enable the prediction of mechanical properties of the material on the basis of decisive parameters influencing these properties. Both the experimental and calculated (numerical) values of these properties were subjected to statistical tests namely, paired t-tests, correlation coefficient, standard error, standard deviation and variance; which were found valid within the limit of experimental error.. By applying modelling that are combination of mathematical and physical analytical methods it will be possible to lower the manufacturing cost,  environmental costs and enable the users of the products to also confirm the predicted properties easily before use.


Operative surgery is of great significance to medical education.To start clinical internship and the operation of animals can help medicine students to improve the basic surgical technique and skills.It will be a great help for the students' clinical internship and will help them to build a solid foundation for future career.So the training of operative surgery must be reinforced and the teaching quality must be improved.


The women have played an important role in the history of human development as men have been. It has been observed that in country like India, the women play role in households and domestic areas. Usually, women are working as nurses, teachers or doctors but even if they go for well qualified jobs for engineers or manager or geologist, preferences will be given to men despite of equal qualification.
The study aims at furnishing and throwing light to problems faced by working women in private sector banks in Mohali. The findings can work as recommendations for policy makers in private banks to enhance the satisfaction level of women.


Preeclampsia (PE) is a syndrome of new onset high blood pressure (BP) with renal damage during late pregnancy that is associated with increased circulating anti‐angiogenic proteins, including soluble VEGF receptor (sFlt1). Women exposed to PE have increased risk of future cardiovascular disease, including hypertension, with evidence of a "hyper‐responsive" renin‐angiotensin‐aldosterone system (RAAS) persisting post‐partum. Aldosterone (Aldo) and angiotensin II (AngII) can activate vascular smooth muscle cell mineralocorticoid receptor (SMC‐MR), causing changes in gene transcription that contribute to increased BP. Thus, we hypothesized that exposure to increased sFlt1 during pregnancy may induce a state of persistent sensitivity to hypertensive stress by enhanced SMC‐MR activity post‐partum .


Objective
To explore the application of team-based learning (TBL) and problem-based learning (PBL) method in clinical teaching of laparoscopic surgery in general surgery.

Methods
48 students of surgery in our department were selected as the subjects to conduct the clinical teaching study. These stu-dents were divided randomly into two groups. The experimental group (24 students) adopted the method that combined TBL and PBL method, while the control group (24 students) adopted the traditional teaching method. We compared the efficacy of two groups in term of theoretical knowledge, surgical practice, com-prehensive surgical grade, and questionnaire survey.

Results
The score of theoretical knowledge and sur-gical practice on clipping soybean and making suturation and instrumental tie of two groups were obviously higher than that before teaching. After finishing teaching, the score of experimental group on theoretical knowledge, making suturation and instrumental tie and comprehensive surgical grade were higher than that of control group. The score of clipping soybean was similar between two groups. In addition, in term of questionnaire survey on the consciousness of independent study, the depth and width of study, and satisfac-tions to teach-ing, the TBL and PBL group had a better score than the control group.

Conclusion
The new teaching method which combines TBL with PBL enhances the teaching effect on theoretical knowledge and laparoscopic surgery practice. It is an effective method to train medical students.

Key words:
Team-based learning; Problem-based learning; Laparoscopic surgery; Teaching method


A surface contact analysis model was developed to investigate the dependence of the sound pressure level and squeal frequency on the thrust pressure in contact region. This dependence was hypothesized to be caused by the dependence of the contact stiffness between the disk and pad on the thrust pressure. To examine the influence of contact stiffness on squeal, the surface contact analysis model uses distributed springs (creating contact stiffness) to connect the disk and pad. The dependence of the contact stiffness on the thrust pressure causes coupling of the disk and pad motions, and instability in this coupling generates squeal. The analysis results are in good agreement with experimental observations that the disk has translational motion while the pad has both translational and rotational motions. The contact stiffness increases along with the thrust pressure, the rotational rigidity of pad increases. As a results, the squeal frequency increases. This report clarifies that the dependence of contact stiffness on thrust pressure cause both squeal generation and dependence of squeal frequency on thrust pressure.


A few facts concerning the phrase "the automorphism groups become larger at special points of the moduli of K3 surfaces" are presented. It is also shown that the automorphism groups are of infinite order over a dense subset in any one-dimensional non-trivial family of projective K3 surfaces.


The granitoids of Dehnow in NE Iran are part of a calc-alkaline plutonic series (diorite-to- nalite-granodiorite) that intruded the remnants of the Paleo-Tethys oceanic crust during the Triassic. New major and trace element data together with isotopic compositions elucidate their I-type nature and a deep magma origin. P-T calculations based on amphibole and plagioclase suggest crystalliza- tion stages in the upper lithosphere at an approximate pressure of 6.4 kbar and temperature of 708 °C. The Dehnow granitoids are characterized by high concentrations of LILE, LREE, HFSE and low concentrations of HREE, similar to some worldwide I-type granites, including examples from Harsit (along the Alpine-Himalayan suture zone), Iberia and the Martins Pereira plutons. The new geochemical data in combination with mineral parageneses and field observations suggest that the origin of the low temperature, Caledonian-type, arc-related granitoids of Dehnow resulted from the subduction of the Paleo-Tethys oceanic slab beneath the Turan block (along the Alpine-Himalayan suture zone) and involved the contribution of lower crust and mantle melts in this collisional setting.


Laboratory tests were conducted on Toyoura sand and the sand mixed with two kinds of fines to investigate the disturbance caused by a freeze and thaw cycle. Specimens whose liquefaction resistance had been increased by pre-straining under drained conditions were frozen unidirectionally. The liquefaction resistances of the specimens after thawing were compared with the resistance before freezing. It was found that : (1) The clean sand sample was not disturbed by a freeze and thaw cycle under drained conditions, if the confining stress during freezing and thawing was higher than 20 kPa; (2) the liquefaction resistances of the samples with fines were affected by the freeze and thaw cycle under drained conditions; and (3) "sample quality index" that indicates the degree of disturbance due to a freeze and thaw cycle was nearly uniquely related with volumetric expansion during freezing.


Fifty years ago, on 23 September 1957, Rudolph Matas, one of the early pioneers of modern vascular surgery, died at the great age of 97 years. His name and reputation may now be little known to younger clinicians but he is remembered by the 'old guard' with great affection.


Abstract Bauhinia monandra Kurz has ornamental characteristics as the shape of its crown and the exuberance of its flowering, being and is widely cultivated in urban afforestation in Brazilian regions. The production of forest seedlings is essential not only to meet the demand of urban afforestation, but also to conserve forests. However, studies on B. monandra regarding the degree of fruit maturity on seed performance are scarce. Thus, the objective of the current work was to verify the germination potential of B. monandra seeds at different stages of maturation at five constant temperatures. The germination percentage, germination speed index (GSI), mean germination time (t), relative germination frequency, and mean germination speed (MGS) were evaluated. Initially, the mature seeds had a water content of 8.5% and the immature seeds of 68.3%. Mature seeds reached high germination percentages, above 96% for temperatures of 25, 30, and 35 ºC. The immature seeds demonstrated low germination percentages, reaching the highest percentage of 33% for the temperature of 25 ºC, followed by the temperatures of 30 ºC and 35 ºC, with respective percentages of 32% and 20%. Mature seeds demonstrated the highest GSI value (11.79) for the estimated temperature of 26.94 ºC and immature seeds the highest value of t (7.85) for the temperature of 26.56 ºC. It is concluded that mature seeds aggregate higher germination at an estimated temperature of 24.72 ºC and that immature seeds present unsatisfactory germination performance.


A world-renowned cardiologist, researcher, author, and educator, Dr Katz made many critical and enduring contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular disease science. Dr Katz received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1952. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1956, he completed an internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and then worked in medical education at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Connecticut until 1969, when he became the first Philip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. While at Mount Sinai he discovered phospholamban, a protein kinase A substrate that mediates cyclic adenosine monophosphate control of the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump. In 1977, he moved to the University of Connecticut's School of Medicine to become its first Chief of Cardiology. One year later in 1978, his research team demonstrated that stimulation by phospholamban phosphorylation is due to increased calcium-sensitivity of the calcium pump of the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. In the 1980s, Dr Katz' team focused on the role of lipids in altering membrane structure and function, and to the molecular structure and states of the calcium release channel of cardiac and smooth muscle. After retiring from the University of Connecticut in 1998, he served as Visiting Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School and as a Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. During his respected career, Dr Katz was honoured with numerous research awards including the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Heart Association's Research Achievement Award, the Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Society for Heart Research, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Heart Failure Society of America, the Medal of Merit of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, and an honorary Doctorate of Medicine from the Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Romania. He published over 400 articles and edited or co-edited .15 books and textbooks. His single-authored text Physiology of the Heart is now in its 5th edition, having been translated into numerous foreign languages, and two editions of another book, Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Molecular Biology, Clinical Management, have been published. He was the first elected editor of The Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, and was a member of many academic societies including the American Physiological Society, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the American Chemical Society, and the American Society for Biological Chemists and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Biophysical Society, Association of American Physicians, the American Association of University Cardiologists, and the Association of Professors of Cardiology. He served in numerous volunteer leadership roles on behalf of the American Heart Association and was a long-time member of the Association's Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Council and Council on Clinical Cardiology. In 1995, the American Heart Association renamed its young investigator award for basic research the Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Prize. Arnold Katz was one of the first Cardiologists to enter China on an official visit in 1973, and served as Adviser to the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. He was Coordinator of Problem Area 3, Myocardial Metabolism, of the NIH-sponsored US-USSR Collaboration in Cardiovascular Research, and served on the Council on Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology. We are grateful for all that Dr. Katz did to advance cardiovascular science and improve outcomes for countless patients around the world. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. A memorial service will be held in the summer of 2016 at a time when friends, family, and colleagues from near and far can join.


Purpose: Experimental studies in alloxan-induced diabetic animals have demonstrated several abnormalities upon induction such as physiological, biochemical and histological alterations. In this present study, the influences of graded doses of soya bean oil supplementation for 4weeks on some biochemical parameters in alloxan-induced diabetes in rats were determined. Methodology: Sixty (60) male albino rats weighing about 240-260g were divided into 6 experimental groups of 10 rats per group viz: I, II, III, IV, V and VI. Group I serve as male control, group II serve as diabetes control which were fed with normal rat chow while rats in the test group were fed with graded doses of soya bean oil supplements and water ad libitum for 4weeks, at the end of the supplementation, plasma lipid profile and glucose level were determined. Results: All the diabetic induced rats had significantly higher (p<0.01) Glucose, Total cholesterol, Triglyceride, LDL-C, VLDL-C, but lower HDL-C levels than all the non-diabetic rats. The data obtained after supplementation revealed that soya bean oil significantly reduced the glucose level and ameliorated the lipid profile with attendant decrease in glucose, total cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL-C, VLDL-C levels, but with a corresponding increases in HDL-C levels respectively when compared to alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Conclusion: The observation of significant changes in plasma lipid profile, glucose level might be as a result of supplementation with soybean oil. It is therefore concluded that Soya bean oil possess significant antidiabetic activity that can improve the physiological and biochemical parameters which are abnormally altered due to diabetes mellitus.


This study examined how Chinese college teachers developed their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) by situating the learning process in three interactive activity systems during teaching English as foreign language (EFL) online in China. Data were collected from teachers' diaries, in-depth interviews, and various records of online teaching. Findings indicated that teachers employed cultural artifacts, social relations, and beliefs and concepts to cope with difficulties that confronted their online teaching. They also performed sideways moves to new activities that provided systemic implications for the previous form of activity. Hence, the teachers constructed their TPACK through bi-directional learning within and between an online teaching activity system and its two interactive systems. This study highlighted the situativeness and distribution of TPACK development, and assumes significance in sustainable teacher development and further integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in English language teaching.


The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure the effects of COVID-19 on gifted students' quality of life and analyse its effects on their quality of life considering some variables such as gender, age, education level, mother's education level, father's education level, monthly income and number of children in the family. To this end, a scale was developed and its reliability and validity were measured through a number of measures. The internal consistency was used to evaluate the reliability of the scale whereas its validity was analyzed by a factor analysis. Regarding EFA, the result of the KMO test was .90 and Bartlett test χ2 statistic was 3055.306 (p < .001). Path coefficients of the items varied between .55 and .89 and Cronbach's Alpha (α=.76) coefficients indicated that the data obtained from the scale (QOL-GSS) was reliable. Results overall indicated that COVID-19 affected gifted students' quality of life slightly in all dimensions and QOL-GSS. Results also indicated that the effect of COVID-19 on gifted students' quality of life showed significant differences by gender, education level, mother's education level, father's education level, monthly income and number of children in the family.


The paper presents the results of the development of a bioactive bioplastic material (BIO) based on ion-track wound coatings (ITRP) and a nano-scaffold of chitosan obtained by electroforming. The water and gas permeability, the ultimate strength, bacteriostaticity, cytotoxicity and biocompatibility of BIO ITPR were investigated.


BACKGROUND/AIM
To increase the awareness and acceptance of the new nicotine-free smoking intervention method (Acetium® lozenge; Biohit Oyj, Finland), targeted E-Training with accompanying surveys were conducted in 2018, 2020 and 2023.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
The target groups were derived from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant registers of Finnish physicians, pharmacy staff and nurses owned by Success Clinic Oy. The post-training surveys recorded 1) awareness of the responders on Acetium® lozenge, 2) their attitude to nicotine-free smoking intervention methods in general as well as 3) their readiness for recommending this new tool to their patients.

RESULTS
The three surveys accumulated a total of 1.892 responders. There was a constantly increasing awareness on Acetium® lozenge, increased interest in nicotine-free smoking intervention methods in general and a substantially increased readiness to recommend Acetium® acceptance to the smoking patients. The impact of E-Training, as measured by the increased interest in nicotine-free methods (56%) and readiness to endorse Acetium® acceptance (58%), was most marked among nurses who had the least awareness on Acetium® lozenge beforehand, exceeding the respective increase among medical doctors by 20% and 10% and among pharmacy staff by 30% and 20%, respectively.

CONCLUSION
This E-Training had a favorable effect 1) on the responders' interest in nicotine-free smoking intervention method in general, 2) on increasing the awareness of Acetium® lozenge as a novel innovative method to quit smoking, as well as 3) on increasing the responders' readiness to introduce the new device to their smoking patients who are motivated to stop smoking nicotine-free.


"Normally, when you eat a high-fat meal, you end up with high levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, in your blood," said Sheila West, associate professor of biobehavioral health, Penn State, who led the study. "If this happens too frequently, or if triglyceride levels are raised too much, your risk of heart disease is increased. We found that adding spices to a high-fat meal reduced triglyceride response by about 30 percent, compared to a similar meal with no spices added."


We report on two experiments that investigated the role of facial motion in the recognition of degraded famous face images. The results of these experiments suggest that seeing a face move is advantageous for the correct recognition of identity. This effect is not solely due to the extra static-based information contained in a moving sequence but is also due to additional dynamic information available from a moving face. Furthermore, famous faces were recognized more accurately when the original dynamic characteristics of the motion were maintained (Experiment 1), compared to when either the tempo or the direction of motion were altered (Experiment 2). It is suggested that there may be general benefit for viewing naturally moving faces, not specific benefit to any particular face identity. Alternatively, individual faces may have associated characteristic motion signatures.


In this paper, we prove that for every surjective phase-isometry between the unit spheres of real atomic Lp-spaces for p > 0, its positive homogeneous extension is a phase-isometry which is phase equivalent to a linear isometry.


Abstract With respect to a given family of functions F, a function is said to be F-convex, if it is supported, at each point, by some member of F. For particular choices of F one obtains the convex functions and the generalized convex functions in the sense of Beckenbach. F-convex functions are characterized and studied, retaining some essential results of classical convexity.


BACKGROUND: Arrhythmic disorders in the aortic aneurysm (AA) have been rarely reported. AIM: The study aimed to assess the repolarisation indices of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) (mainly Tp-Te interval and Tp-Te/QT ratio) in patients with AA. METHODS: A group of 98 patients with AA and 75 patients as control were recruited. Many of indices of ventricular arrhythmia were assessed. RESULTS: Many of indices like QT, QTc, QTpc, Tp-Te/QT, Tp-Te/QTc, Tp-Tec/QTc, S-Tp, S-Tpc, S-Te, S-Tec and fQRS were found to be significantly different in AA group (for all P < 0.05). However, QTp, mean Tp-Te and Tp-Tec were not found different (for all P < 0.05). Aortic diameter (Ao-D) was found to have a positive correlation with QTc, QTpc, S-Tp, S-Tpc, S-Te, S-Tec, fQRS (for all P < 0,05) and negative correlation withTp-Te/QT (P = 0.047). The best cut-off level for prediction of Tp-Te ≥100 ms was found the Ao-D > 43.5 mm in ROC analysis (AUC: 0.69; P = 0.151) with sensitivity 60% and specificity 79.6%. CONCLUSIONS: Although our study did not find any differences for mean Tp-Te interval between groups, many of other indexes of TDR were found to be significantly different. Ao-D was found to have significant correlations with many indices.


We prove a version of strong asymptotics of Christoffel functions with varying weights for a general class of sets E and measures in the complex plane. This class includes all regular measures in the sense of Stahl-Totik on regular compact sets E in the plane and even allows varying weights. Our main theorems cover some known results for subsets E of the real line R; in particular, we recover information in the case of E=R with Lebesgue measure dx and weight w(x) = exp(-Q(x)) where Q(x) is a nonnegative, even degree polynomial having positive leading coefficient.


Evaluation of the relationship between the philosophical mindset of managers and their managerial components in secondary schools of the BOJNURD city in year 2012-2013, was the main aim of this paper. This study given to the nature of relevant subject and purposes of this study is descriptive - correlation. Statistical Population is all managers of secondary schools of the BOJNURD city, all Statistical Population were used in collecting information (n = 70). Data collection tool was two questionnaires included a questionnaire with 60 questions about the philosophical mindset which has examined comprehensiveness, depth and flexibility and other questionnaire was SOCIOMETRIC questionnaire which Managers tasks in five categories of planning, organizing, coordinating, evaluating and staff morale was measured, this questionnaire was developed as a teacher questionnaire. Questionnaire based on CRONBACH'S alpha was approved. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the philosophical mind Directors of managers with their performance in return for their management tasks. Also, between gender of managers and their education was not observed a significant difference.


Fundamental chemistry in heterogeneous catalysis is increasingly explored using operando techniques in order to address the pressure gap between ultrahigh vacuum studies and practical operating pressures. Because most operando experiments focus on the surface and surface-bound species, there is a knowledge gap of the near-surface gas phase and the fundamental information the properties of this region convey about catalytic mechanisms. We demonstrate in situ visualization and measurement of gas-phase species and temperature distributions in operando catalysis experiments using complementary near-surface optical and mass spectrometry techniques. The partial oxidation of methanol over a silver catalyst demonstrates the value of these diagnostic techniques at 600 Torr (800 mbar) pressure and temperatures from 150 to 410 °C. Planar laser-induced fluorescence provides two-dimensional images of the formaldehyde product distribution that show the development of the boundary layer above the catalyst under different flow conditions. Raman scattering imaging provides measurements of a wide range of major species, such as methanol, oxygen, nitrogen, formaldehyde, and water vapor. Near-surface molecular beam mass spectrometry enables simultaneous detection of all species using a gas sampling probe. Detection of gas-phase free radicals, such as CH3 and CH3O, and of minor products, such as acetaldehyde, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate, provides insights into catalytic mechanisms of the partial oxidation of methanol. The combination of these techniques provides a detailed picture of the coupling between the gas phase and surface in heterogeneous catalysis and enables parametric studies under different operating conditions, which will enhance our ability to constrain microkinetic models of heterogeneous catalysis.


The structuring of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities is used as an indicator of the effects of human activities on river ecosystems. This study focused on the distribution of macroinvertebrate communities along the Kou River in western Burkina Faso. Its objective was to characterize macroinvertebrate communities and water quality in the Kou River protected-site-manipulated site continuum in order to develop biological indicators for monitoring and assessing the overall health of aquatic ecosystems. Macroinvertebrate sampling, carried out using a cloud net and a Suber net, was carried out during the low-water period from January to April 2018. Their identification was carried out using a binocular magnifying glass and reference determination keys, and was limited to the systematic Family level. The study identified 04 Classes, 14 Orders and 54 Families of macroinvertebrates. The analysis of these results showed that 100% of the identified Orders and 98.15% of the identified Families were found in the protected site, compared to 64.29% of the Orders and 59.26% of the Families in the anthropized site. It also showed that the protected site is taxonomically richer than the anthropized site with the presence of 53 Families (98.15% of the Families identified), compared to 32 Families representing 59.26% of the Families identified for the anthropized site. Also, 22 taxa are specific to the protected site and remain absent in the anthropized site. This study also allowed the identification of 04 potential taxa bioindicators that would constitute excellent biological tools for monitoring aquatic systems. The agro-demographic pressure on natural resources has a negative impact on the diversity of species, the dynamics of which must be better monitored. The extension of the tools tested in the present study to river managers will strengthen their technical capacity for monitoring surface water quality.


Abundant folk song art resourses are found in the rural areas of Hu'nan,Hubei,Sichuan,and Guizhou Tujia ethnic minority community.The exploitation of folk music art form makes Tujia ethnic minority folk song art an increasingly important humanistic tourism resourse and at the same time makes it necessary for local schools of tourism to introduce courses to the students of tourism major with an attempt to cultivate professionals with a taste of local culture beauty in order to meet the demand of present tourism marketing.


An 'atrocious' online dress and being forced to cancel her wedding venue after losing her job could have turned into the ultimate wedding horror story for Tantanoola's Samantha Keough.


The proper use of selected behavior have practical significance in construction of harmonious society.Study from the entirety benefit of our society,complementary coverage and reasonable standard,then combined with public supervision and guarantee method meet for emergency,make reseach on the regulation which can make the selectied administrative behavior perfect.


Global climate change's continuing effect on the Arctic has brought about a fundamental shift in the region's identity as it becomes an ever more active area in the world-system. Economic opportunities such as new shipping routes and a bounty of natural resources that were hitherto ice-locked are becoming accessible as the pace of climate change quickens, garnering increasing attention from actors around the world-system. This article explores the new geopolitical and economic realities of the Arctic through the lens of world-system analysis by examining the region's budding role in the world-economy and emerging economic opportunities, its unique core-peripheral nature, and its potential to spark a regional hegemonic rivalry between NATO and a Sino-Russian partnership. This article aims introduce the evolving Arctic to world-systems studies and promote further research on the region using the theoretical framework.


Recent data suggest that sodium (Na+) is stored in the muscle and skin without commensurate water retention in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. In this study, we hypothesized that excessive Na+ accumulation would be associated with abnormalities in peripheral insulin action.


Gallium -Boron (Ga-B) co-doped ZnO nanorods have been grown onto Flourine Tin Oxide substrates by using hydrothermal at a temperature of 90°C for 8 hours. A various concentration percentages of Ga of 1%, 1.5%, 2% and 3% at constant concentration of B of 1% has been carried out in order to evaluate the effect of Ga concentration to physical, optical and morphological properties of ZnO nanorods. Characterizations of the samples have been performed by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), UV-Vis spectroscopy. FESEM photographs of the samples showed hexagonal face-shape of ZnO nanorods with their diameter in the range of 84-430 nm. The cross-section FESEM photograph of the samples showed the hight of the ZnO films decreased as percentage of Ga increased, it was also observed that the orientation of the nanorods tended to better arrangement (vertical). Five XRD peaks of 2q: 31.22°, 34.47°, 36.05°, 47.02° and 55.08°have been observed on the XRD pattern from all samples, with their crystal plane orientation of (100), (002), (101), (102) and (110), respectively. It was concluded that the crystal structure of the samples was not affected by various concentration of Ga. UV-Vis absorption spectra observed the maximum absorption was occurred at the wavelength of 300-380 nm. The 1.5% Ga and 1% B sample produced the strongest absorption at the UV spectrum compared to other samples. Whereas, on the visible spectrum, the 1% Ga-1% B sample was the best sample. Based on the results, it is suggested that the both samples are potential candidates for the active materials of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC).


Aimed at the residual stress which will impact on safety and reliability in the course of reverse distortion correcting of aerospace monolithic components, some vibration stress relief experiments were given for the components under constraint conditions, and the VSR parameters optimal selection was also discussed. The mechanism and effects of VSR were studied for the components under constraint conditions. The experimental results verified that the VSR could reduce residual stress and correct the distortion of deformed components.


Under directional screening of the microorganisms in sixty natural soil samples, the strain SIPI-18-5 was identifi ed which could convert the aconitine to single ester type or less toxic compounds. Preliminary study on the convert-products by the mass spectrometry analysis showed benzoylaconine and deoxybenzoylaconine were part of the products. After optimization of the fermentation and conversion processes, the fermentation medium composition was determined as glucose 10 g/L,(NH4)2SO4 1 g/L, yeast extract 10 g/L, FeSO4 0.01 g/L, CaCO3 5 g/L. The pH value before sterilization was 8.0 and inoculation amount was 5%. The optimized conversion process was transformation temperature of 30 ℃, shaking speed of 180 r/min, bottle volume of 50 ml/250 ml, aconitine addition of 0.1 g/L and adding aconitine as the inducer at 16 h. The production of benzoylaconine was 0.051 g/L under the optimal conditions, with the molar conversion rate of 54.5%.


Objective: To choose different influencing factors to optimize the extraction process of flavonoids from rosa xanthina by adopting organic solvent extraction method. Methods: Rutin was chosen as standard substance in the experiment, after organic solvent extraction method, the contents of flavonoids in rutin were detected by ultraviolet spectrophotometry and assessed, ultraviolet light, water bath temperature, volume ratio, extracting time and extracting times were selected to design the best extraction process. Results: The optimal extraction processing was:to irradiate 20 minute under the ultraviolet light, 70℃ as water bath temperature, volume fraction of ethanol as 80%,feed liquid ratio as 1:20, extracting times as two times. Conclusion: The method is easy to operate, simple, with high yield and good stability of active ingredients, it provides necessary reference for mass industrial production of the flavonoids.


SUMMARY: A sampling trawl with a rigid mouth; that is, the frame trawl, was designed so as to catch the large larval and juvenile fish more efficiently. The net consisted of four 13 m panels (nylon multifilament and twine diameter φ 0.75 mm, mesh size 8 mm). The frame of the net's mouth was composed of four stainless steel pipes (length 4 m, diameter φ 76 mm, thickness 5 mm). Several operations were conducted to investigate the capability of catching juveniles. A lot of Sardinops melanostictus juveniles, which are generally difficult to catch, were caught during every operation. Underwater observations proved that juveniles could not elude the capture. The frame trawl requires no special handling and is possible to operate in a rough sea.


At the European Summit on 25-26 June Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, will be presenting a report on the future of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It has been drawn up by the presidents of the EU Commission, the European Council, the European Central Bank, the European Parliament, and the Eurogroup, and is a sequel to the "Four Presidents' Report" on the same topic that was compiled without the participation of the President of the European Parliament and presented in 2012. In this Flashlight we provide answers to key questions about the forthcoming report.


It has been shown that 14‐3‐3 σ serves as a tumor suppressor gene, and is downregulated in various tumor tissues. However, the role of 14‐3‐3 σ during the initiation and progression of lung squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) is not well understood.


Status and loss reason of vegetable cultivar resources of Jieyang in Guangdong were summerized.The reform of economic system,changing of fine cultivar breeding approach,short cycle of cultivar used and poor preservation of cultivar resources were the main reasons that made the resources loss.Then,some suggestions were put forward.


Recent developments in machine learning applications are deeply concerned with the poor interpretability of most of these techniques. To gain some insights in the process of designing data-based models it is common to graphically represent the algorithm's results, either in their final or intermediate stage. Specially challenging is the task of plotting multiclass classification results as they involve categorical variables (classes) rather than numeric results. Using the well-known MNIST dataset and a simple neural network as an example, this paper reviews the existing techniques to visualize classification results, from those centered on a particular instance or set of instances, to those representing an overall performance metric. As classification results are commonly summarized in the form of a confusion matrix, special attention is paid to its graphical representation. From this analysis, a new visualization tool is derived, which is presented in two forms: confusion star and confusion gear. The confusion star is centered on the classification errors, while the confusion gear focuses on the classification hits. The proposed visualization tools are also evaluated when facing: (i) balanced and imbalanced classifiers issues; (ii) the problem of representing errors with different orders of magnitude. By using shapes instead of colors to represent the value of each matrix cell, the new tools significantly improve the readability of the confusion matrices. Furthermore, we show how the area enclosed by the confusion stars and gears are directly related to standard classification metrics. The new graphic tools can be also usefully employed to visualize the performances of a sequence of classifiers.


A packed-bed bioreactor was designed with immobilized cells on a ceramic inert support (instalox seats). The design equatlons, considering an ideal plug-flow tubular bloreactor, were solved with appropiate algorithms installed in Mathcad 7P, obtaining a volume of 10L for the appropiate desing restrictions. It was determinad that for small bioreactors it is not necessary to consider the pattern of axial disperslon and that the isothermic operation is possible for the hlgh degree of retromixing of coolant in the jacket.


The invention discloses a full-band tuning antenna. The full-band tuning antenna comprises a first radiation body, a second radiation body and a grounding structure, wherein the first radiation body and the second radiation body are separated by an insulation medium, the grounding structure extends from the second radiation body and partially winds round the insulation medium to be connected with the first radiation body, a feed network is arranged close to the second radiation body, and the first radiation body is connected to the feed network through a link tuning system. The invention also discloses a smart watch. The smart watch comprises a main body part and a wearable part and also comprises the above-mentioned full-band tuning antenna, wherein the wearable part extends from the main body part. By the smart watch and the full-band tuning antenna thereof, the requirements of call and web surfing can be met, a metal watch call terminal becomes possible, and moreover, the antenna performance is also greatly improved.


The part played by the Virgin Mary in the affairs of men and the salvation of their souls in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Senora is a notable one. In some of the tales, for example, we read how she rescues seemingly unrepentant sinners from the clutches of demons. In others she appears to confer a reward on her devotees or to retaliate with violence against men who offend her. In one story she reverses the consequences of a blasphemous apostasy. Equally noteworthy is the poet's assessment of the role of the Virgin in the Christian order of salvation. Here and there in the course of the poem he takes occasion to characterize it with expressions like: "Tal es sancta Maria qe es de gracia plena, / por servicio da Gloria, por deservicio pena" (st. 374 ab), "Si nos bien la sirvieremos, qequiere que-1 pidamos, / todo lo ganaremos, bien seguros seamos" (st. 498ab), and "[...] e la Virgo gloriosa, / sin la qual non se faze ninguna buena cosa" (st. 909 ab). It need come as no surprise therefore if many a reader of Berceo's poetry were to conclude that in the Milagros the prerogatives of the Virgin have been greatly overstated, to a point perhaps beyond the scope of Christian orthodoxy. This view would not lack for support in Berceo scholarship. One might mention the severe evaluation of Joel Saugnieux who sees the poet as presenting an apology for the Virgin which is: "[...] incluso en detrimento de la autoridad divina", and as ascribing to her intercession: "la misma importancia que al papel redentor de Cristo." It may be well, however, to avoid attributing to Berceo an unqualified espousal of extremes. In times past it was current to describe the Milagros, for all its charm, as simplistic in conception, an effort representative of the less sophisticated beginnings of clerecia poetry. More recently a number of scholars have begun to point out aspects of the work indicative of poetic expertise and theological


To investigate the difference in the measured diameter of subsolid lung adenocarcinomas of thin‐section computed tomography (TSCT) and pathology according to presence of emphysema.


Gun Control. For or against, you are going to have a fight on your hands. But where is this fight to take place? Is it going to be on the village greens of Lexington and Concord? On the fields of Gettysburg? The dirt streets of Tombstone, leading on down to the O.K. Corral? Maybe at the base of the walls of the Alamo, down in San Antonio. Possibly on the campus of Kent State, or even at the now reserved setting of a school board meeting in Columbine. There are some mean streets in Ourtown, U.S.A. From New York City, to Washington D.C., and on to Chicago, where historic mob gun battles took place in the Capone Prohibition days, guns continue to blaze away. But what to do about it? Should we outlaw guns altogether? Or, as the saying goes, if we outlaw guns, will only outlaws have guns? Do we listen to Michael Moore, or the N.R.A.? Where can we find some common ground, and, maybe some answers? The United States Supreme Court has already heard oral arguments on the City Of Chicago's ban on handguns, and its decision is imminent. What will be the outcome, and where will the Court go to seek a majority, if not a consensus? The answer may be a not so long look back, to the Court's decision in District Of Columbia v. Heller (1), decided in June of 2008.


Natural laminar-flow (NLF) airfoils are one of the most promising technologies for extending the range and endurance of aircrafts. However, there is a lack of methods for the optimization of airfoils based on the surface contamination that destroys the laminar flow. In order to solve this problem, a robust optimization process is proposed using the Non-dominated Sorting genetic algorithm- II (NSGA-II) evolutionary algorithm, and Monte Carlo simulation combined with an aerodynamic calculation software Xfoil. Firstly, the airfoil is optimized normally and the aerodynamic performance of optimized airfoil under surface contamination is analyzed. Then, the original airfoil is robustly optimized under random surface contamination based on the assumption that its locations follow triangular and uniform probability distributions. Finally, all the optimized results and original airfoil are compared. It is found that robust optimization reduces the sensitivity of the airfoil to random surface contamination, hence, improving the robustness of the airfoil. The proposed methods make it possible to improve the aerodynamic performance of NLF airfoils considering surface contamination.


2 Hunan Province Laboratory of Logistics Information and Simulation Technology, Changsha 410079�◊ email:email@example.com Abstract: The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pick-up with time windows (VRP-SDPTW) is a variant of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) where clients require simultaneous delivery and pick-up service within the time windows. Deliveries are supplied from a single depot at the beginning of the vehicle's service, while pick-up loads are taken to the same depot at the conclusion of the service. One important characteristic of this problem is that a vehicle's load in any given route is a mix of delivery and pick-up loads�» at the same time in any route the vehicle can not violate some constraints, such as: the vehicle capacity�√ time windows and traveling distance constraints. VRP-SDPTW as an extension for vehicle routing problem, which is a complex combinational optimization problem, and is a well-know non-polynomial hard (NP-hard) Problem. In this paper, VRP-SDPTW is presented from the point of strategic view that combines the logistics and reverse logistics (bidirectional logistics). We constructed a universal mix integer programming mathematic model of VRP-SDPTW in detail, which can transform into other typical combination optimal problems by setting different parameters. An improved genetic algorithm (IGA) is proposed based on the novel crossover-operator to solve the problem. In operation process, we firstly adopted the novel decimal coding according to a priori sequence among all customers, which consider effectively the vehicle capacity�√ time windows and traveling distance restrictions at the same time. And then a novel crossover-operator is designed. The improved genetic algorithm (IGA) avoids effectively the common defects of early convergence and the diversity of population in traditional genetic algorithm. The experiment result shows that this algorithm can find the optimal or near-optimum solution to VRP-SDPTW effectively.


In Chinese ancient poetics,humanistic concept is based on Chinese traditional culture and is characterized by national features:a deep concern with human beings and their spiritual life;a high respect for human beings and their existential value at spiritual level.This article illustrates such concepts as "ren(benevolence)","li(courtesy)""qing(affection)" "de(morals)" and their relationships with each other from relevant literary theories,it then explores humanistic concept and spiritual value contained in ancient Chinese poetics.


Objective To explore the clinical relations among the serum level of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1(MCP-1) with the severity of coronary atherosclerosis and its relationships with high risks. Methods Forty two normotensive patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography were randomly selected. These patients were compared against a control population with no known coronary heart disease. The serum level of MCP-1 were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) and LDL, TC, C-reactive protein (CRP) was obtained by clinical routine methods. Relationships between levels of MCP-1 and risk factors for atherosclerosis were evaluated and the differences among the levels of MCP-1 for the groups were also assessed. Results (1)The level of MCP-1 in patients with coronary heart disease was significantly higher than those of health individuals[(408±121)μg/L vs(739±243)μg/L,P0.01]. CRP of patients was also higher in patients with coronary heart disease, but the differences had no statistic significance(P0.05). A significantly correlation between the severity of the coronary artery lesions and the serum level of MCP-1(r=0.58,P0.01) was found. It also showed serum levels of MCP-1 relate significantly to TC(r=0.46,P0.05) and LDL (r=0.67,P0.01). Conclusion The serum level of MCP-1 was elevated in patients with CHD. They relate to the severity of atherosclerosis and may serve as an available index for the severity of CHD.


Sea Cucumber (Stichopus sp) belongs to Holothuroidea family. Sea Cucumber has lot of uses in the medicine sector, such as: for wound healing, anti-biotic, anti-bacteria, anti-tumor, and anti-coagulation. Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by high blood sugar levels with metabolic disorders. This disease can cause wounds called gangrene This research has purpose to prove the influence of giving nano spray of sea cucumber extract within 14 days. In the in vitro examination found 40% concentration of sea cucumber extract which is effective to resist the growth of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and examined to wistar mouse which are already diabetic inducted with Streptozotocin (STZ) and hurt with punch biopsy with the diameter of 0,8 cm on its back and the wound is infected with bacteria which is intradermal injected. Divided into 3 groups : (K-) no medical treatment, nano spray of sea cucumber extract (T), Nano spray penicillin (K+) to wistar mouse towards the speed of diabetic mellitus wound healing which is infected by Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Parameter used to measure the rate of wound healing is wound size and hitopathology examination.After it's regularly given the medicine, the result of nano spray sea cucumber extract 40 % concetration category treatment on wound healing process the diameter of wound on the 3rd day 0.8 cm , on the 7th day 0.4 cm and on the 14th day  wound fully recover according to macros (wound size) and histopathology examination shows faster and better healing compared to treatment category of nano spray penicillin and control marked by score cell and lymphocyte in a small quantity.


A primary purpose of military education benefits is to assist service members' transitions back to civilian life, but the benefits likely have implications for recruiting and retention as well. This research takes a mixed-methods approach to examine the effects of education benefit programs on recruiting and retention–related outcomes, and to assess how the two largest education benefits may work together.


Due to advancements in computation, most deep excavation projects are now designed based on the results of numerical analysis. However, designers are usually careless about structural modelling. This study presents the effect of structural modelling on wall deformations of deep excavation. A 3D finite element method was employed to model the problem, and a residential building project located in Bangkok was selected for the study. Structural models, including diaphragm wall, diagonal braces, and bored piles, were the focus of study, which indicates that the types of elements used to model the structure system significantly affect the finite element analysis result.


This paper analyzes Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) calculation methods in terms of bias and dispersion against benchmarks computed from a fat-tailed parametric distribution. The daily log returns of the Nikkei-225 stock index are modeled by a truncated stable distribution. The VaR and ES values of the fitted distribution are regarded as benchmarks. The fitted distribution is also used as a sampling distribution; sample returns with different sizes are generated for the simulations of the VaR and ES calculations. Two parametric methods: normal distribution and generalized Pareto distribution and two non-parametric methods: historical simulation and kernel smoothing are selected as the targets of this analysis. A comparison of the simulated VaR, ES, and the ES/VaR ratio with the benchmarks at multiple confidence levels reveals that the normal distribution approximation has a significant downward bias, especially in the ES calculation. The estimates by the other three methods are much closer to the benchmarks on average, although some of them become unstable with smaller sample sizes and/or at higher confidence levels. Specifically, ES tends to be more biased and unstable than VaR at higher confidence levels.


Cell detection on immunohistochemistry stained (IHC-stained) images plays an essential role in computer assisted prediction of tumor progression and treatment response. Currently available cell detection datasets provide either point level or bounding box level annotations for deep object detection network training. And these widely used networks usually employ standard pyramid structured multi-scale feature fusion. However, we find that these methods have obvious limitation when facing large amounts of cells in similar scale with severe overlapping. To address this problem, we propose a novel CellDet network with (1) Scale Consistency Feature Fusion Module (SCFFM) and (2) Dual Task Detection Module to simultaneously exploit the complementary information from both point and bounding box annotations. In order to verify the effectiveness our proposed method, We make efforts to relabel the public SHIDC-B-Ki-67 dataset with bounding box annotations. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed CellDet outperforms other state-of-the-art cell detection methods with a remarkable margin. We will release our source code and dataset in https://github.com/JiweiMaster/celldet.