(Na0.66K0.34)NbO3 ceramics were prepared by conventional oxide solid-solution technique and the effect of CuO on the piezoelectric,dielectric and ferroelectric properties were investigated.The experimental results showed that the doping of CuO facilitated the grain growth and lowered the sintering temperature.By proper doping of 0.5 mol% CuO,the sample density and mechanical quality factor Qm was improved to 4.26g/cm3 and 400,respectively,the dielectric loss was depressed sharply from about 4.3% to 0.8%.The experimental results also showed that the doping of CuO has a "hard" effect on the properties of(Na0.66K0.34)NbO3 ceramics.The Curie temperature(TC),orthorhombic-tetragonal phase transition temperature(TT-O),piezoelectric coefficient d33 and electromechanical coupling coefficient kp decreased,whereas the coercive field Ec increased with increasing CuO content.The good property of d33=107pC/N for the sample without CuO suggests that the composition of(Na0.66K0.34)NbO3 is another promising lead-free candidate for investigation besides(Na0.5K0.5)NbO3 system.


PT.Garuda INDONESIA, a large company that manages the Garuda Executive Lounge is very concerned about the quality of their services. In the writer's observation, Ex- ecituve Lounge Garuda customers were satis ed with the services provided. Optimal quality of service that will pro- vide satisfaction for its customers. Such good service from the rst, then the company will be easy to gain the trust and loyalty of its customers to use their services again. Mea- surement of satisfaction is very important and bene cial to the middle position of the company in order to evaluate the competition is happening and to take appropriate de- cisions. The study looked at satisfaction of the customer who happens to Garuda Executive Lounge. The goal is to determine the level of customer satisfaction on Garuda Ex- ecutive Lounge. From the results of hypothesis testing and analysis of research data that has been done by the au- thor Chi Square method, the obtained results of X2 25 647 count greater than 23 541 X2 table, so Ho rejected and Ha accepted meaning customers were satis ed with the facili- ties and services Garuda Executive Lounge.


This paper is described the evaluation of the ultimate pressure capacity of a prestressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV) considering short-term(5 years) aging of structural materials in service on Yonggwang Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 (YGN #3) in Korea which was started operation in 1994. The numerical analyses are carried out by using the ABAQUS finite element program on a design criteria condition and aging condition considering material properties changed of timedependant materials respectively. From the results, it is verified that the structural capacity of the prestressed concrete containment structure of YGN #3 on the present short-term aging condition retains still integrity. In addition, the sensitivity for the reduction of the ultimate pressure capacity of containment according to the degradation levels of the main structural materials is assessed. The results of the sensitivity analysis show that, when the degradations of each materials are considered as individual or combinational forms, the sensitivity for the structural capacity reduction by degradations appears largely in the order of tendon, reinforcing-bar and concrete degradation for the former, and tendon and reinforcing-bar, tendon and concrete, and reinforcing-bar and concrete combinational degradation for the latter respectively.


By using a halogenating treatment on Carbonized Charcoal, deionized molecular halogen treatment, carried out successively a pore adjustment treatment resulting filtrate carbon as Lyon adsorbent jilsobun, is a nitrogen generation amount per unit amount of adsorbent increases, increases also the nitrogen yield, and reduce the manufacturing cost of the nitrogen can do. Performing a sequential treatment in the halogenated carbonized carbon, dehalogenation treatment, energy imparting treatment resulting activated carbon can be improved by using as the adsorbent the adsorption amount of carbon dioxide and methane.


Objective To develop a cooperative office management platform for hospitals which can promote the standardization and systematization of hospital management as well as scientific decision. Methods Based on the application function, application support and technology basis, the overall design framework, the various functions and the implementation method of the cooperation office management platform were put forward. Results By using the management platform, process standardization, resources integration, management particularity and scientific decision-making as well as data centralization were achieved, which effectively raised the comprehensive management capacity of hospitals. Conclusion The management platform can maximize hospital management capacity and management efficiency.


ABSTRACT This is a qualitative sociocultural study examining how five advanced-level learners of Japanese from the United States use gendered first person pronouns to negotiate their identities. Japanese does not have a ubiquitous pronoun such as English I. Instead, the language contains forms that are marked for formality and gender, including watashi (formal/feminine), ore (informal/masculine) and boku (neutral/boyish). We collected recordings of the learners speaking with four different native-speaker interlocutors (female friend, male friend, female stranger, male stranger) and conducted retrospective interviews. The analysis shows that these learners were actively involved in choosing pronouns that indexed their identities as men, although these masculine identities were not always ratified by their Japanese interlocutors. One reason for this was that the male identities expressed by the learners were at times closer to American than to Japanese masculinities. Learners also used pronouns as a resource to index their identities as proficient speakers of Japanese.


Consumer adoption of Smart Phones is growing internationally at a phenomenal rate. Smart Phones integrate functionality that previously required numerous technological artifacts. Smart Phones present significant M-Commerce opportunities for all organisations, but such potential has yet to be realised. If such potential is to be realised, the ability of consumers to utilise a Smart Phone to engage with transactional push and pull Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS), and to make M-Payments for products/services using these devices in an easy, safe, and reliable manner, must be addressed. In response, this paper contributes a conceptual model, tested using an online survey, to explain Irish consumers' willingness to use Smart Phones to make MPayments for products and services. The empirical findings of the developed PLS model illustrate that the ramifications of this study for the deployment of the two Smart Mobile Media Services (SMMS) models; the push and pull models, are significantly different.


This study was carried out to investigate the effect of bonding temperature and holding time on microstructure and mechanical properties in brazing joints of Ni-base superalloy using MBF-30 (Ni-4.5Si-3.2B [wt.%]). The heating rate was 20℃/min to the bonding temperatures 1050℃, 1070℃, 1090℃ under high vacuum condition. The holding times were 100s, 400s, 900s and 1600s. Ni₃B phases and proeutectic Ni were observed in the interlayer of Ni-201. Then, Ni3B and Ni3Si were found in the middle region of brazing joint. Cr-boride phase appeared in the interlayer of Inconel-625. Tensile strength and elongation were decreased at 1050℃-1600s, 1070℃-900s and 1090℃-400s. After observation the fracture specimens, There was Ni₃B which is very brittle phase in the grain boundary of Ni201.


Public companies in the US stock market must annually report their activities and financial performances to the SEC by filing the so-called 10-K form. Recent studies have demonstrated that changes in the textual content of the corporate annual filing (10-K) can convey strong signals of companies' future returns. In this study, we combine natural language processing techniques and network science to introduce a novel 10-K-based network, named Lazy Network, that leverages year-on-year changes in companies' 10-Ks detected using a neural network embedding model. The Lazy Network aims to capture textual changes derived from financial or economic changes on the equity market. Leveraging the Lazy Network, we present a novel investment strategy that attempts to select the least disrupted and stable companies by capturing the peripheries of the Lazy Network. We show that this strategy earns statistically significant risk-adjusted excess returns. Specifically, the proposed portfolios yield up to 95 basis points in monthly five-factor alphas (over 12% annually), outperforming similar strategies in the literature.


The efficiency of the impeller machinery can be improved by the inlet guide vanes, but the relationship between the external characteristics of the centrifugal pump and the internal flow state needs further study. In this paper, the flow characteristics of the centrifugal pump with different offset angles of inlet guide vanes (IGVs) are simulated based on the SST k-ω turbulence model. The influence of the offset angle of the IGV on the internal flow and energy dissipation of the centrifugal pump is analyzed by using the entropy generation theory and Q-criterion. The research results show that the increase of the offset angle is beneficial to reducing the intensity of vortex in the volute and impeller, while the energy loss is reduced by 21.12 and 17.82% at 0.6Q d and 0.8Q d , respectively. However, the excessive offset angle of the IGV tends to cause greater energy loss in the inlet pipe, thus reducing the head and efficiency of the centrifugal pump. In terms of external characteristics, the pump with 25° IGVs has the best head and efficiency improvement. Under three small operating points, the pump with 25° IGVs increased the head by 2.11, 0.95, and 0.73% and the efficiency by 2.51, 1.67, and 1.25%, respectively, compared with the pump with 0° IGVs. The research in this paper contributes to the performance improvement of centrifugal pumps operating at low flow conditions.


In order to strengthen the environmental automatic monitoring system,an on-line open Data Acquisition and Transmission Device with wired and wireless transmission was developed to support multi-input interfaces.Standardized industrial computer was used as key controlled part.It had analog,LonWorks,video and RS-485 interfaces,communicated with monitoring center by network or GPRS in the long-distance and operated by the Windows operating system and the database technology.The alterability and flexibility of the device will be helpful to provide effective and objective on site information for environmental monitoring and environmental management.


A study is presented on a series of Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductors prepared with the Oxalate Precipitation/Evaporation method. The effect of the preparation conditions on the properties of these superconductors has been studied with X-rays, scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and magnetic measurements. The experiments show that good quality superconductors can be fabricated with this preparation procedure and also indicate that the properties of these materials are very sensitive to the preparation conditions.


The Sivers effect describes the correlation of the unpolarized parton's transverse momentum with the transverse spin of the nucleon. It manifests as a sine modulation of the cross section for single hadron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) on a transversely polarized nucleon with the azimuthal angle between the produced hadron's transverse momentum and the nucleon spin ($\varphi_h$ and $\varphi_S$, respectively). It has been recently suggested that the Sivers effect can also be measured in two hadron SIDIS process as sine modulations involving the azimuthal angles $\varphi_T$ and $\varphi_R$ of both the total and the relative transverse momenta of the hadron pair. Here we present the detailed derivation of the two hadron SIDIS cross section using simple parton-model inspired functional forms for both the parton distribution and the fragmentation functions. We show explicitly that the terms corresponding to the $\sin(\varphi_R-\varphi_S)$ and $\sin(\varphi_T-\varphi_S)$ modulations are non-zero. Further, we derive the cross section expressions for single hadron production in the two hadron sample. Finally, we employ a modified version of the $\tt{LEPTO}$ Monte Carlo event generator that includes the Sivers effect to estimate the size of single spin asymmetries corresponding to these modulations independent of the formalism developed.


Sustainable of fishery need certainly fish resources of management is to exploited fish resources with considered fish resources of sustainabile. Challenges to kept fish resources of sustainable is quite complex problem that enough complete in fishery development. The aim of this research is evulated the recording system and fishery reported in business level of people's fisheries. The study was conducted for 6 months from November 2018 -January 2019. Data required in the study consists of primary data and secondary data. Sampling is done purposively of 90 fisherman (30%) from total population of tuna fishermen line which is still active doing fishing activity. Research methods used statistic descriptive of analysis.


The purpose of this study was to figure out the affecting variables on elderly caregiving stress in women. Participants of this study were 492 of...


The effects and the structure characteristic of suspension system are analyzed.Different types of suspension system are ana-lyzed,and the superiority of gas as elastic media is pointed out.The mounting form and work theory of various types of hydro-pneumatic are set forth systemically.The difference between internal technique accumulation and external advanced level is analyzed.The idea of improvement in this field is given.


It was found that acrylonitrile was polymerized at 30°C by ultraviolet irradiation in the presence of triphenyl phosphite and its derivatives, namely m-CH3, p-C2H5, and p-CH3 substituted triphenyl phosphites under conditions where acrylonitrile alone did not polymerize and phosphites did not undergo photolysis. The rate of polymerization in the presence of triphenyl phosphite and tri-p-tolyl phosphite was found to be proportional to the monomer concentration, the phosphite concentration, and the light intensity. From these results, it was thought that a donor–acceptor complex formed between phosphite and acrylonitrile which absorbed light and initiated the radical polymerization. In the photopolymerization of acrylonitrile with substituted triphenyl phosphites, the rate of polymerization increased with an increase in electron-donating ability of substituent. From the plot obtained by use of Hammett's equation (log Rp/Rp0 = ρσ), the ρ value was found to be −1.0.


M~ lives in a fasc~nating,. k~leidoscopic world, and the microcosm that IS man IS Itself a wonderful complex of the changing and the abiding. There is constant change at every level of his physical and psychological makeup. Yet behind this ever-changing phenomenon there is a permanent substratum, a human person who undergoes these changes. Careful studies have shown that there is a constant turnover of much of the body's chemical components. On the neurophysiological level the pulsating brain has been called " an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of sub-patterns." 1 On the chemical level the unending array of mobile patterns is well known to biochemists. On the level of man's conscious life the constant flux is even more evident: sensory images, ideas, desires and emotions tumble over one another in rapid succession. The facts of change are so constant and obvious as to lead many to doubt the reality of anything permanent. Some scientists wonder whether there really is such a thing as a person, for they point out that even the so-called person seems to undergo marked changes, sometimes to the point of developing a psychosis. Schizophrenia, for example, suggests a split of personality. The schizophrenic reveals himself as one having a dual personality, at one time revealing the behavioral pattern of one personality, and at other times manifesting an entirely different personality. But, we may ask, is this a true split of the person?


This paper systematically reviews the extant research on financial market microstructure theory based on continuous double auction mechanism according to the research method,and surveys relevant main results and further research issues from the point of views of theoretical study(including financial economics method,stochastic analysis and simulation method,and financial physics method),empirical study and experimental study(experimental economics and Agentbased computational finance method) respectively.We point out the theoretical and realistic significance to the development of Chinese security market of financial market microstructure study based on continuous double auction trading mechanism.


The Kuramoto model is a dynamical system that models the interaction of coupled oscillators. There has been much work to effectively bound the number of equilibria to the Kuramoto model for a given network. By formulating the Kuramoto equations as a system of algebraic equations, we first relate the complex root count of the Kuramoto equations to the combinatorics of the underlying network by showing that the complex root count is generically equal to the normalized volume of the corresponding adjacency polytope of the network. We then give explicit algebraic conditions under which this bound is strict and show that there are conditions where the Kuramoto equations have infinitely many equilibria.


One of the problems in the field of electricity distribution is the selection of cable, which is primarily determined by the load power. However, the cross section is often calculated without taking into account the harmonic composition of the current that it consumes, so the calculated current is underestimated compared to the real one. Since the harmonic components that are multiples of three are summed in the neutral conductor, a current also flows through it, and its value can reach the phase current and even exceed it in critical cases. In this case, not only the neutral wire is heated, but also the phase conductors, if they are part of the one cable. In the paper, the results of simulation the heating of a five-core cable with different current harmonic composition are presented.


Purpose:  The present study aimed to determine which parameter is the most reliable predictor of bacteraemia in children aged 3–36 months and to develop a simple tool to assess risk of bacteraemia.


Abstract— The interaction of iron (II) with bacterial polysaccharides, possessing phosphodiester bonds as part of their polymer chain, has been studied by equilibrium binding dialysis using atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Ferrous ions were found to bind with a stoichiometry of one per two phosphates and with a binding constant of about 2.5 times 103 M−1. Similar results, but with larger (ca 1 times 104 M−1) binding constants were observed with DNA. This interaction helps explain the depolymerization of polyphosphates which has been observed in the presence of iron salts, and highlights the need to avoid iron contamination of vaccines (and other substances) which contain phosphodiester bonds. The interaction may also be a means of iron sequestration in bacteria which possess these cell‐surface polyphosphates.


Five percent to 28% of patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) retain the ability to walk. This mildly affected group has been excluded from most large, randomized therapeutic trials, making GBS treatment decisions somewhat arbitrary. These researchers performed a 2-year investigation of patients diagnosed with GBS at most hospitals in the Netherlands, gathering information on preceding infection, antiganglioside antibodies, and time-course of illness. Patients completed …


For many countries, overcoming problems related to human resources is critical for progress towards Universal Health Coverage. Planning the workforce means to make decisions on required number, qualification and distribution of health workers. In Tajikistan, despite significant reforms, the health workforce is unequally distributed with physicians being mainly specialized and concentrated in urban areas.

 Using the Tajik case, we present a first comprehensive assessment of the Primary Health Care (PHC) staffing situation in a Central Asian setting applying and critically discussing the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method developed by the World Health Organization. Staffing requirements were derived using annual service statistics, obtained from a re-count of monthly routine data from registration books at facility level in the year 2016. Available health cadres in PHC at district and facility level were compared to the according staffing needs. Sensitivity analysis was performed to test the robustness of the predictions, and to identify the main contributors to uncertainty in the predicted staff requirements.

 For doctors performing general tasks in the PHC, there is currently an excess of full time equivalents. Moreover, health centres are overstaffed in terms of nurse positions. If the various speciality doctors currently working at rural health centres are not included, there is a shortage of family doctors in place. Sensitivity analysis revealed that staffing requirements in the PHC sector in Tajikistan are most importantly influenced by antenatal care visits.

 The present study concludes that there is an oversupply of doctors and nurses at PHC and a shortage of family doctors working at the level of health centres. Consequently, a more rational health workforce planning based on well-grounded methodology such as WISN has potential to contribute to more efficient and effective health service delivery in Tajikistan.

 Countries shifting towards a family medicine model face challenges like an oversupply of specialists performing general medical tasks and a lack of general/family doctors in the transition phase. To identify staffing requirements a transparent and reproducible approach, such as the WISN methodology, is required to steer future staffing needs and possible re-training of current staff.


This paper shows design aids for rectangular cross-section beams with straight haunches subjected to a uniformly distributed load to obtain the fixed-end moments factors, carry-over factors and stiffness factors, which is novelty of this research. The design aids are developed using the equations previously described by the writers in a companion paper. The simplifications made are as follows: the height of straight haunches on the left side and the right side are equal, because this is the most used by architectural forms (aesthetic) and the beam height in the central part is the 10% of beam length that is proposed by the code of the ACI to control deflections. The results of the considered problem are compared with the equations previously described by the writers in a companion paper, and these are the same with an approximation of three digits. Therefore, design aids provide a great tool for structural engineers by saving time.


In this paper we introduce a new labeling called Geometric mean labeling. A graph G (V, E) with p vertices and q edges is said to be a Geometric mean graph if it is possible to label the vertices XEV with distinct labels f(x) from 1,2 ….q+1 in such a way that when each edge e = uv is labeled with (or) then the edge labels are distinct.


Tourism environment is the carrier and foundation of the tourism development, and the quality of tourism environment affects the attractive and competitive power of the tourist products, thus further influences the three benefits and substantial development of tourism industry.Based on the current evaluation of tourism environmental quality of the Gushan Mountain , this paper points out that the comprehensive quality of tourism environment is general the tourist landscape in Gushan Mountain is great, but the tourists spend limited time in visiting this scenic spot;the overall environment do not leave a good impression on the tourists and the product orientation is not accurate,lacking in the theme products and excellent products;the natural ecological environment is great;the basic facilities are common, especially which are for the public, traveling service and so on,as well as the public service, lacking of general packing and marketing. It also puts forward the optimized countermeasures correspondingly to problems of current evaluation.


During the Christian Empire (4th-5th centuries), the influence of the anti-Judaism of the Church on the imperial power gave a wide legislation against the Jews that reduced them to a legal and social inferiority position. As far as it is concerned, the patristic literature and the councils forbade the Christians any contact with the Jewish communities. All of this intended for causing their social exclusion.


Data assimilations are performed every 3 hours on the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model's mixing ratio based on difference between satellite-derived rainfall rates and the model's precipitation. The effects of prolonged assimilations are examined for two case studies: 1) Habagat (August, 2012) and 2) Typhoon Sendong (December, 2011). For this study, TRMM was used for comparisons and the results show that improvements are noted during the first time step after assimilation and that assimilations during the first 6 hours show the most improvement towards the end of the forecast.


Swarms of satellites, intended as a large number of spacecraft performing a common mission, appear to be particularly apt for an application of the so-called behavioral control strategies in the astrodynamics. The basic concept of the behavioral strategies lies in the imitation of natural swarms of social animals, like flocks of birds, which are characterized by a global group organization acquired in absence of a centralized control. In particular, an on-orbit self assembly manoeuvre is analyzed. Since every satellite takes its own decisions being able to consider only a small number of neighbor satellites and limited intercommunication, full autonomy is achieved. However optimality in terms of control cost and required time for complete self assembly is an issue which is not even taken in consideration. In this work, the behavioral results are compared with a typical centralized control, with an active leader which is able to detect the position and the dynamics of each swarm member and to compute the optimal guidance towards the fittest slot around the leader. In such a way, the optimality of the swarm manoeuvre is reached, at the cost of a great complication in the system architecture of the leader. Special attention will be dedicated to the filtering strategies, in particular to particle filters, apt to solve navigation problems including a large number of close members, when measurements ambiguity can occur. An extensive simulation campaign, for various orbit configurations and swarm dimensions, is performed in order to clearly assess and quantify the advantages and drawbacks of the behavioral and centralized strategies.


Abstract : This EA documents the potential environmental impacts of conducting two Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) flight tests to support development and demonstration of hypersonic technologies. Both HTV-2 missions would be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, using existing rocket booster systems. Following booster separation, the HTV-2 would glide at hypersonic velocities in the upper atmosphere, prior to an ocean impact near US Army Kwajalein Atoll/Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.


mined as 3 500 * 1 300 years before present by means of Carbon-1 4 dating by A J.T. Jull of the University of Arizona. Tucson, U.S.A. This technique is based on the fact that whlb the meteorite is still In space, it is continuously bombarded by cosmic rays, Leading to a Pattlcular internal proportion of Carbon12 and -1 4 atoms. As soon as It passes through the Earth's atmosphere, it fs shielded from cosmic rays and the proWion begins to change as the radioadve Carbon-1 4 atoms decay. A measurement of this proportion will themfore indicate the time since the fall. Some of the minor planets, along with the comets, are thought to consist of material that dates back to the very beBinning of the solar system. The minor Planet from which the Vaca Muerta meteorite derives is about 4500 million years old and therefore nmly as old as the solar system itself. The early Ilfe of this minor planet was obviously very violent. At some time a partially molten, volcanically actl*ve body moving at high speed through the solar System collidd catastrOphically with a Wllic-core minor planet. When the finely intertwined materiak cooled and solidified, they formed a cosmic breccia (mixture of minerals) whlch was half stony and half metallic. Later, alter an unknown period of time, this minor planet split into a, swam of smaller fragments, some of which now fall to the Earth at rare moments. One of them was the Vaca Muerta meteorite. 1


A permutation test assigns a p‐value by conditioning on the data and treating the different possible treatment assignments as random. The fact that the conditional type I error rate given the data is controlled at level α ensures validity of the test even if certain adaptations are made. We show the connection between permutation and t‐tests, and use this connection to explain why certain adaptations are valid in a t‐test setting as well. We illustrate this with an example of blinded sample size recalculation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Presents an approach of detecting ceramic tile's color difference in CIE YU'V' model is presented. It turns image data from RGB model to CIE YU'V' model, then calculates color difference between the standard ceramic tiles and the detected ones using U', V' variable. The ceramic tile's color grade is known from analyzing the average color difference in the whole and the color difference in small areas. The approach is effective in uniform color and defect detection.


This paper proposes an optimal design method for passive power filters (PPFs) and hybrid active power filters (HAPFs) set at high voltage levels to satisfy the requirements of harmonic filtering and reactive power compensation. Multiobjective optimization models for PPF and HAPF were constructed. Detuning effects and faults were also considered by constructing constraints during the optimal process, which improved the reliability and practicability of the designed filters. An effective strategy was adopted to solve the multiobjective optimization problems for the designs of PPF and HAPF. Furthermore, the particle swarm optimization algorithm was developed for searching an optimal solution of planning of filters. An application of the method to an industrial case involving harmonic and reactive power problems indicated the superiority and practicality of the proposed design methods.


Tumor diseases occur frequently in chickens causing a great economic loss. Infected chickens' pathological lesions are not pathognomonic. This study developed an accurate diagnosis for tumor diseases in chickens. Specific primers to reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV), avian leucosis virus subgroup A (ALV-A), avian leucosis virus subgroup J (ALV-J), and Marek's disease virus (MDV) were combined into one tube with a single step multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (mRT-PCR) performed to amplify the genes from each virus. A total of 117 sample pools containing blood and tissues were collected from chickens. Three of these pools (2.6%) showed REV positive, 22 (18.8%) ALV-J positive, 1 (0.8%) ALV-A positive, and 3 (2.6%) MDV positive. A total of 268 blood samples were used to compare the viral RNA detection from plasma using RT-PCR and provirus DNA from buffy coat using PCR. The result showed no difference from both tests. In conclusion, the present mRT-PCR could be used for tumor virus detections in chickens.


This paper studies a new knee rehabilitation device with two degrees of freedom based on human medical science. The device uses the revolute pairs as hip and knee joints. The independent motor driving is used in each joint. The simple structure and independent drive mode help the new knee rehabilitation device to gain larger range and better flexibility.


The purpose of this study to clarify the effect of night temperature on growth of bearing shoots and berries, and the number of days from budbreak to bloom of 'Muscat of Alexandria' (Vitis vinifera L.) grown in green houses and to find out the most suitable night temperature in order to save fuel oil.1. Growth of bearing shoot was more closely related to mean temperature than to the temperature during a specific period of time. Growth of bearing shoot was closely correlated with heat summation above 2.9°C (the sum of the temperature subtracted 2.9°C from mean daily temperature).2. The number of days from budbreak to full bloom was closely related to mean daily temperature. When heat summation above 2.7°C reached 661°C, flowers of cluster came into full bloom.3. During growth period I, berry growth was promoted by higher night and mean daily temperatures. High temperature, however, did not affect the rate of berry growth during growth period II.4. High temperatures did not always shorten the number of days from full bloom to veraison.5. The percentage berry set showed a tendency to increase when the temperature from 0a.m. to 6a.m., or the mean temperature during blooming was low. There seemed to be no relationship between seed number per berry and temperature.6. Althogh blooming under Low-Low treatment (low temperature treatments from 6p.m. to 12p.m. and from 0a.m. to 6a.m.) occured a few days later than that under Medium-Medium treatment, the amount of fuel oil consumed in Low-Low treatment was much less, and the retardation in blooming and berry growth was countered by proper vine management after blooming.


The present study reveals the interaction of language subsystems of Russian and English languages  in intercultural communication of the scientific community, environmentalists and farmers in agricultural and environmental topics. Analysis in lexical semantics and functioning of terms to improve the professional communication has been performed. The peculiarities of word-formation process in the studied languages have been revealed, required stylistic coloring has been showed. Creation of new words in a language because of the innovative concepts generation inspires translators to find equivalents and variants which are evaluated.


For Ship repair cases,the project of renewing tail shaft for sea-going steel ships is not usual.With the cracked tail shaft of MV.Jon Jin #2 for example,this article introduces the renewing procedure scheme for tail shaft of sea-going steel ships.


BACKGROUND
There is broad human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemical widely used for the production of plastic products. BPA is reported to affect preimplantation embryos or fetuses and alter their postnatal development at doses typically found in the environment. We measured contamination of BPA in various kinds of human biological fluids by a novel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

METHODS
Blood samples were obtained from healthy premenopausal women, women with early and full-term pregnancy, and umbilical cord at full-term delivery. Ovarian follicular fluids obtained during IVF procedures and amniotic fluids obtained at mid-term and full-term pregnancy were also subject to BPA measurements.

RESULTS
BPA was present in serum and follicular fluid at approximately 1-2 ng/ml, as well as in fetal serum and full-term amniotic fluid, confirming passage through the placenta. Surprisingly, an approximately 5-fold higher concentration, 8.3 +/- 8.7 ng/ml, was revealed in amniotic fluid at 15-18 weeks gestation, compared with other fluids.

CONCLUSION
These results suggest accumulation of BPA in early fetuses and significant exposure during the prenatal period, which must be considered in evaluating the potential for human exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.


The paper reports on the branding and development factors. Countries are in need to brand their activities to attract the coordination and business from other countries. The main focus of this paper is related to competitive branding at individual & country level in order to develop required human capital in next five to seven years. The paper investigates the parameters of branding and competency through the proposed model named competitive branding and development (CBD) model. The model reports on the important factors for branding and competency. The paper is spread on two levels of branding based on the micro level (individual) and macro level (country). The paper aims to investigate the competitive branding of individuals and countries. This paper will report on UAE perspective. The branding is discussed through the proposed model named Competitive Branding & Development (CBD) in this paper. The study reports as a practical Case study limited to UAE only. The choice of case study approach in this research was convenient and suitable in such types of studies. The practical implication of this study is to identify the parameters to brand & develop individual and countries at various domains. The parameters are organized into a model form named as Competitive Branding & Development (CBD) Model. The countries can utilize such model to evaluate their competency levels in comparison to other countries. This paper is academic, research and practical type and may benefit students, teachers, researchers, managers, policy makers from International Business, Individual development, Country development and Comparative management domains.


This paper distinguishes two strategies in work relating abilities and culture. In one, tests from one culture measure how people elsewhere can perform: "how well can they do our tricks?" Most 'culture-fair' tests are of this type, which as it essentially revolves about the test-originating culture, we can call 'centri-cultural.' In spite of repeated explanations, as by Berry (1966) who wrote 'the search for a (universally valid) "culture free" test is futile,' invalid claims continue to be made. Kunce, et al. (1967) aver that a Maze test was a '. . . non-cultural measure of intelligence' and Tulkin (1968) has described Raven's Matrices as 'more culture-fair' than other tests. Witkin (1967) claims Oltman's (1968) portable, body-straight Rod-and-frame Test is 'uniquely suited to the special demands of cross-cultural research.' The portable RFT results correlate well with the visual EFT, thus both are appropriate for measuring conventional Euro-American skills; but Wober (1967) showed that one needs the complete RFT with body-tilt to reveal abilities in an African culture that would not be detectable with the portable RFT. Cappon, et a1. ( 1968) still searching for a test 'free of culture' devised a Sensory Quotient test including materials involving different sense modalities. This may reveal abilities specific to disparate cultures and exemplifies our second strategy: "how (well) can we measure how they do their tricks?" The SQ test and the RFT with body-tilt may therefore better be called 'cross-cultural' tests. The Matrices, Maze, Portable RFT and most tests so far devised in the West (probably the very notion of test itself) are 'centricultural.' The distinction applies to investigations other than tests as this hypothetical analogy may show: if a European researcher studies U.S. soccer and bases his analysis of U.S. compared with European sport on this fieldwork, he has followed a centri-cultural strategy. All claimed 'cross-cultural' research to date should be re-examined to see whether it is so and equally revealing and valid for each culture examined, or if it is more truly centri-cultural.


The effects of thermal exposure on the dimensional stability of aluminium metal matrix composites are of interest to both the aerospace and automotive industries. Metal composites provide benefits in improved strength and stiffness over those properties in unreinforced monolithic alloys. However, their elevated temperature performance requires further study, especially in comparison with the conventional monolithic aluminium alloys.


The last hundred years of scholarship have given a worldwide, cross-cultural context to the study of the folk narrative and a pervasive recognition that "When something has the ability to attract and repel one so forcefully, one may assume that it deals with fundamentals" (Lüthi 22). Therefore, folktale and fairy-tale scholars are perfectly poised to enter and help shape the emerging field of literary Darwinism, which connects evolutionary theory and literature. In Gottschall's interesting response to my article, he acknowledges the basic soundness of my research. This agreement presents us with the opportunity to broaden the topic of this reply and to explore an evolutionary approach to the study of the folk narrative. It is important to first note that Gottschall raises questions on three points:


During rewriting of a DVD-RAM data, when recorded on a DVD-RAM data is read, the disk driver 121 generates information indicating the position of a defect on the recording surface of the DVD-RAM130. When data is recorded onto the DVD-RAM, the disc drive determines whether the recorded data is transmitted to the main controller 111 and results in a defect position. Based on the result of the determination, the main controller 111 controls the disc drive so that the same data including the defect location records content data is recorded into the spare area on the DVD-RAM. For example, when completed, the recording is performed in the spare area when the data is continuously recorded in the data area on the DVD-RAM.


The article argues that the idea of self-projecting and self-creation of civil identity of a person is considered to be a methodological basis of the concept of corporate civic education. Civil identity is described as a unity of cognitive, emotional, value-related and activity-related components. Besides, an idea of systemacity and continuity of civic education of a person is in the center of the offered concept.


This study aims to disclose the relationship between the feeling of psychological security among talented adolescents at Gifted and Talented Schools in Ajloun Governorate/Jordan and Academic Achievement level, and its relationship to some demographic factors: (gender, class). In order to achieve the objectives of the study, it was used Maslow scale of feeling of security, and it was developed by Al-diwani and Al-dirani (1983) to match the Jordanian Arab environment, and to identify and ensure validity and reliability, the sample consisted of 100 talented students were selected randomly from class of supreme basic and secondary schools. It was analyzed the data through the arithmetic averages standard deviations and value of (t), the multi variance analysis correlation coefficient between psychological security & academic achievement, and the study came up with some results including: that the level of psychological security between the talented students ranged between medium, high. And there is statistically significant effect when (α≤0.05) between psychological security and its dimensions at class factor for the seventh class (12 years) and there is statistically significant effect when α≤0.05 between  psychological security and its dimensions at the gender factor in favor of females. And there is a positive correlation relationship between psychological security and its dimensions and academic achievement among the talented. And the results were discussed in the light of the theoretical framework & previous studies, it was suggested some recommendations on the basis of the results of the study.


Wind energy is a fast-growing industry in Canada and worldwide. As wind turbine size and capacity increase, control systems become exceedingly important in order to maximize the efficiency of the power output and to reduce loads to extend their longevity. Effective wind speed (EWS) is not easy to measure because wind speed varies in time and space across the rotor area of the turbine, nor is it a real physical signal. This research aims to provide better knowledge of the input wind speed and to design a turbine controller based on this normally unknown input. First, nonlinear robust methods of state estimation were considered in order to deal with the nonlinearities present in the wind turbine model and the large exogenous disturbance of wind speed. Specifically the unscented H-infinity filter was used for robustness and accuracy. This unscented H-infinity scheme was then adopted in combination with a data fusion technique to estimate effective wind speed. This technique utilized high frequency data from the anemometer and treated the turbine as a sensor of low frequency data. These signals were fused to create an EWS estimate. The methods are thus shown to be effective in wind speed estimation for two sizes of turbines.


agroforestri is a new technical term while its practice have been
executed byfarmers for a long time. Farmer's responses to the stress of
land condition and life needs have urged the creation of local innovation
on agroforestri system. Local innovation will change the land use
system which has variety of local agroforestri system. The aim of this
study were to dig out the information of variation and characteristic of
localagroforestri models,find out the supporting factors that emerged
the variation models basedon land slope,and discover the information of
agroforestri models development.
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The use of test batteries has been suggested as a means to enhance throughput, to broaden the spectrum of anxiety parameters detectable and to minimise the numbers of experimental animals required in behavioural studies. This study was undertaken to determine the sensitivity of test batteries each of open field, zero mazes and staircase tests to anxiety behaviours in randomised mouse groups. Mice (n = 8) were exposed to these apparatuses serially in that order, thirty minutes following intraperitoneal administration of distilled water, 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg diazepam. Each mouse was allowed to spend 5 minutes to freely explore each test apparatus. The results showed Original Research Article Umarudeen et al.; JAMPS, 22(4): 25-31, 2020; Article no.JAMPS.53440 26 diazepam-treated mice exhibited significantly (p<0.05) reduced anxiety behaviours compared to the placebo group on most rodent anxiety parameters evaluated. The findings of this study suggest these behavioural test apparatuses, when used in serial combination, are sensitive and reliable to measure murine anxiety-related behaviours and the anxiolytic effects of standard/putative agents.


Abstract The government size in developed economies expanded remarkably after the Second World War. This growth shaped the role of the government as a key player in the economic activity and the aggregate dynamics of a country. However, the way in which the government is represented in DSGE models is often reductive, containing homogeneous public spending and a few distortionary taxes without clear counterparts in fiscal data. This paper shows how dynamic general equilibrium models can incorporate a detailed government sector as defined in the System of National Accounts (SNA). This government features six types of public expenditures (i.e. the government's intermediate consumption, public wage bill, debt service, public investment, and transfers to households both in-kind and other-than-in-kind), and five distortionary taxes (i.e. consumption tax, capital and labor income taxes, corporate tax and social contributions).


Abstract With the second oil crisis as a turning point, energy issues have come to occupy a most vital position in business. For the steel industry in particular, which is a heavy oil consumer, energy conservation is as vital as it is anywhere. Steelmakers are therefore committed to a variety of energy-conserving measures, including (1) the installation of waste heat recovery facilities, (2) the organization of elaborate economizing campaigns, (3) the orientation toward continuous operations (continuous casting, etc.) by integrating indispensable processes and excluding dispensable ones, and (4) the increased use of hot rolling and direct rolling, etc. On the other hand, the steel industry has energy-generating facilities and by-product energy-generating processes that form a complicated energy supply-demand structure. Energy balance is intimately related to the operating rate and the operating method of each steel works, and this so much so that the minimization of specific energy costs does not necessar...


E-commerce is an ever growing industry as the internet infrastructure continues to evolve. The benefits from a recommendation system to any online retail store are several. It can help customers to ...


The spatial distribution of free electrons in a stationary, cw, laser−produced air plasma has been measured using single−pulse, two−wavelength holographic interferometry. This measuring technique provided a noncontact method of directly measuring electron density uninfluenced by the other plasma constituents. The general theoretical basis for this type of two−wavelength holography and its application to ionized gases are discussed. Also described are the experimental methods used to implement the technique. Interferograms of the plasma were made at two laser input powers: 3500 W and 6200 W. The electron density was measured as a function of radius and axial position in the plasma, which was oriented vertically to insure cylindrical symmetry. The range of measured values was 1016−1017 electrons/cm3 for diameters ranging from 0.2 to 0.8 cm.


Cooperative communications take full advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels and create spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvement in the network performance. This paper presents an energy-efficient cooperative MAC (EECO-MAC) protocol using cooperative communication and power control techniques in mobile ad hoc networks. The best partnership selection algorithm, which takes energy consumption into consideration is proposed to select the optimal cooperative helper for the cooperative transmission. Through exchanging control packets, the optimal transmission power is allocated for senders to transmit data packets to receivers. In order to reduce the influence induced by interference, space-time back off and time-space back off algorithms are proposed. Simulation results show that EECO-MAC consumes less energy and prolongs the network lifetime compared to IEEE 802.11 DCF and Coop MAC.


On the basis of field experience in the creation of alfalfa-grass stands on sod-podzolic soil of the Non-Chernozem zone, a high agroenergetic efficiency of improved technologies has been established, including two zoned varieties of alfalfa changeable (Lugovaya 67 and Pastbishchnaya 88) in combination with agrotechnical methods (change in the composition of leguminous species in the previous period and pre-sowing inoculation of alfalfa seeds with complementary strains of Sinorhizobium meliloti). As a result of the application of the agro-energy method for assessing the production of exchangeable energy and total anthropogenic costs in uniform indicators according to the international SI system (GJ/ha), their payback was established — 8–11 times. This was achieved due to a high share of natural factors (88–91% of total costs), additional nitrogen input into the production process due to increased symbiotic fixation (141–171 kg/ha per year) and long-term use — for 7 years. The productivity of 1 hectare was 62–64 GJ/ha metabolic energy, the collection of protein was 956–1120 kg/ha, the saving of anthropogenic costs due to the exclusion of the use of nitrogen fertilizers was 17–21 GJ/ha.


Gracilaria, which belongs to the order of Gracilariales and the family of Florideophyceae, is one of the most popular cultivated algae for economical applications in Taiwan. The aim of this research is to utilize agar produced from the indigenous grown Gracilaria spp. in Taiwan for agarose purification in which the afforded agarose will meet demands from biomedical research and biotechnological industry. The long-term goal of this research is to significantly enhance the add-in economical values of Gracilaria spp. in Taiwan. This study took advantage of the method of precipitation and ion exchange column chromatography separation of agar to obtain purified agaroses. The preliminary results showed that the methods of isopropyl alcohol (IPA) or polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitations alone could neither reduce the sulfate/pyruvate contents in purified agaroses to the industrial standard nor have purified agaroses able to offer excellent resolution in DNA gel electrophoresis separation. The feasible agarose purification was finally achieved through SuperQ-650M ion exchange column chromatography method with a yield of 47.9 %. The acquired agarose has its sulfate content of 0.11 wt % and pyruvate content of 0.02 wt % with both contents below the current requirements for biochemical- and biotechnological-graded agarose products. The electrophoretic result from a 3% agarose gel prepared from the acquired agarose indicated its background is lower than that of a commercial agarose for biomedical research. The purified agarose was further treated with isopropanol to convert it into low-melting and low-gelling agarose in which its melting temperature of 55o C is 30o C lower than that of a typical agarose. These results demonstrate that SuperQ-650M anion exchange column chromatography can be an effective approach to purify biochemical- and biotechnological-graded agarose in the future.


We present a Wizard-of-Oz environment for data collection on Referring Expression Generation (REG) in a real situated spoken dialogue task. The collected data will be used to build user simulation models for reinforcement learning of referring expression generation strategies.


Shipping plays a crucial role in supporting global trade, including the transport of products from the aquaculture industry. However, ships may also unintentionally transport invasive species and pathogens in their ballast water which pose biosecurity risks for aquaculture. The Ballast Water Management Convention was developed to manage the biosecurity risks posed by ballast water and has entered into force in September 2017. The management measures and technologies arising from the convention provide some solutions and opportunities for the aquaculture industry. Among these is the potential transfer of treatment technologies between shipping and aquaculture in order to deal with bio-invasion and biosecurity. However, there are residual weaknesses in the regulatory regimes for ballast water management which may reveal a continuous risk from shipping to the aquaculture industry. Gaps include knowledge and management of other aquatic bacteria or viruses that could cause outbreaks in the aquaculture industry and threaten food security and human health. Solutions include focused risk assessments for aquaculture and regional collaboration.


The invention discloses a production method for performing calcium treatment on molten steel by using residual calcium in an antaciron. The production method comprises the following steps of performing tapping treatment on the molten steel obtained by smelting through a top-bottom combined blowing converter, wherein the tapping treatment process, performing deoxidation treatment on the molten steel, and then adding slag into the molten steel for preliminary refining; after the tapping treatment is finished, adding a slag deoxidizing agent on the surface of the molten steel and deoxidizing top slag on the surface of the molten steel; refining the molten steel, and performing primary argon blowing stirring at the later stage of refining; adding the antaciron in the molten steel so as to perform alloying and calcium treatment on the molten steel; performing secondary argon blowing stirring on the molten steel; and transporting the molten steel to continuous casting equipment for full-protection casting, thereby solving the technical problems that the calcium treatment of the molten steel is instable in treatment effect or is over high in cost, the absorption rate of an alloy is relatively low, and the purity of the molten steel is reduced in the prior art are solved.


The Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea (hereafter referred to as "the Draft Convention") includes provisions which refer to rules of public international law but which give no indication of either their content or their source. In this paper these provisions are called "rules of reference". This reference does not mean that the application of the projected Convention itself is overridden by the rules of reference indicated. On the contrary, the indicated rules are incorporated into the projected Convention by reference, as is demonstrated in section 3 infra .


Reflections: Five Pieces for Guitar is a English book written by Tony Skinner. This book falls under Music genre.Buy Reflections: Five Pieces for Guitar book


3. Topiramate is a drug of choice in certain profile patients in many indications. Our aim of present article was to motivate physicians regarding counselling of ocular side effects of the drug and to start with lower dose. Dr Khichar has suggested OCT screening for glaucoma, but is it practical to do in all patients before prescribing topiramate? The drug also can cuase other ocular side effects like palinopsia, Allice in wonderland syndrome (AIWS).2 In my opinion detail ocular side effect counselling is enough to pick up them early.


As an unique traditional art in China,rubbings are a bit on edge with some embarrassment.On one hand,it should be highlighted and promoted as an invaluable intangible cultural heritage,which enjoys significance for culture,art and other fields.On the other hand,the traditional making method of rubbings is sort of going against with the protection of those priceless relics.For these reasons,based on art skills and computer technologies,a scheme for transforming the relief image photo into digital rubbings was put forward in this paper,and the feasibility had been primarily verified through tests.


In this article we have identified the determinants of the return on assets ratio for the Romanian manufacturing firms over the period 2006 to 2011 using a fixed effects model. More exactly, the independent variables we included are: liquidity ratio; debt ratio; tangibility ratio; return on equity ratio; labour productivity ratio; return on sales ratio; depreciation and amortization ratio; leverage ratio; turnover's growth rate. Therefore, we have identified the influence of the financial and investment policies on return on assets ratio.


Chemical and spectral evidence for the 8α-acetoxy-dihydroparthenolide structure of a new sesquiterpene lactone, lanuginolide, isolated from the trunk bark of Michelia lanuginosa Wall along with dihydroparthenolide (first natural occurrence) are reported.


Hippocrates Farm, of REZOS BRANDS, is an aspiring entrepreneurship agrifood project, started 3 years ago by a team of people of different professional backgrounds but one common goal: to create an open Agro touristic farm, that could be home to excellent natural products with proven positive effect to the human body and mind but also to offer unique experiences for the farm's employees, volunteers and visitors. In this farm, best and novel foods, grown in a natural way, can be offered to humans. Using stringent procedures and sustainable precision practices for organic farming, an opportunity are given to different groups of people to share the full natural experience, reviving a deserted rural area of unique beauty and increasing the comparative advantage of value chain.


This book is a guide to telecommuting. It presents both opportunities and risks. It is designed to be a ready reference to the manager of telecommuters, a telecommuter, or both. The book is divided into two parts. Part One, by far the longest, focuses on general management issues, management policy, including site location, the rules of telecommuting, technology requirements, and costs and benefits. Part Two concentrates on the specific aspects of setting up and operating a home office. Appendices provide sample forms for various aspects of the mutual employer-employee agreement on the terms of telecommuting.


This bachelor thesis deals with market research. In theoretical part I describe particular steps of market research, techniques of market research, sources of information, rules for compiling questionnaire. The analytical part embraces details of finished market research, proposal of questionnaire and mainly in-depth analysis of received data. In conclusion I pounce on failings acquired in market research and give out proposals on their remotion.


This article examines the strategic, legal, and research implications of trademark decisions in an international context. The focus of the investigation is on the strengths and limitations of each branding strategy (e.g., brandless product, private brand, multiple brands for a single market and multiple markets etc.). The legal dimension of international branding, a topic usually ignored in the marketing literature in spite of its significance, is also covered.


The Wastewater Treatment Test Facility (WTTF) contains 0.5 L/min test systems which provide a wide range of physical and chemical separation unit operations. The facility is a modified 48 foot trailer which contains all the unit operations of the ORNL`s Process Waste Treatment Plant and Nonradiological Wastewater Treatment Plant including chemical precipitation, clarification, filtration, ion-exchange, air stripping, activated carbon adsorption, and zeolite system. This facility has been used to assess treatability of potential new wastewaters containing mixed radioactive, hazardous organic, and heavy metal compounds. With the ability to simulate both present and future ORNL wastewater treatment systems, the WTTF has fast become a valuable tool in solving wastewater treatment problems at the Oak Ridge reservation.


The leptonic CP (Dirac) phase δCP is now the most crucial unknown parameter in neutrino oscill ation physics. While there are hints for a preferred quadrant for t his parameter, its determination is dependent on the equally unknown mass ordering of the neutrinos. In this p aper we show through a simple analytical analysis that this CP phase may be determined using low energy atm ospheric neutrino data almost unambigiously, independent of the ordering of masses and almost independent of the angle θ23 octant ambiguities. While sensitivity is maximum when the neutrino and antineutrino samp les can be distinguished, we also demonstrate this sensitivity through a comparison with present Super-Kamio kande data.


A study of traffic accidents involving 100 pedestrians injured in 94 accidents of various degree of seriousness is presented. With the aim of possibly also being able to achieve a study of the kinematics of the injured pedestrian, accidents in which both the pedestrian was injured and the vehicle was damaged, were selected. The study is limited to accidents between a pedestrian and a four-wheeled vehicle. /TRRL/


In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, Lincoln Memorial University's DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, like many other institutions, transitioned to providing virtual lectures rather than face‐to‐face class sessions. Although there are important advantages to this format, students have difficulty staying attentive to hours of video presentations each day. Virtual sessions also present additional challenges for interactive discussion and group activities. In addition, the COVID‐19 pandemic contributed to increased feelings of isolation and anxiety. To foster student engagement and provide a sense of community, we decided to deliver some lectures as a co‐hosted talk show. To accomplish this, the lead presenter prepared materials including learning objectives, major content points and supplemental information, while the co‐host prepared questions and comments based on high yield topics and common misconceptions. During the lecture, the primary presenter delivered most of the content with interjections, questions and comments from the co‐host to emphasize key points and clarify concepts. Following the presentations, students were asked to provide feedback on the effectiveness of this delivery style. Results were mixed; although many students appreciated the dynamic and colloquial nature, others found the format distracting. We concluded that benefits of the format included: easily scalable, can be synchronous or asynchronous, doesn't rely on audience to produce questions, facilitates complementary teaching styles and provides a dynamic, casual atmosphere. Some potential drawbacks of this approach were that some students found it too casual, and that comments from the co‐host were distracting. As a result of student feedback, we have begun to use this format occasionally – for review sessions for example – with greater success.


Background:
 Each year, nearly 700,000 Americans suffer from strokes, resulting in 150,000 deaths and significant disability among survivors. Despite advances in therapeutic options for acute stroke within a critical time window, patient delay in seeking medical attention remains a significant barrier to improving outcomes. In a recent study of the effect of marital status on the timing of presentation for medical care in patients with chest pain, married men presented earlier than married women. In this study, we hypothesize that marital status is a predictor of earlier health-seeking behavior following the onset of stroke symptoms.

 Methods:
 We conducted a retrospective review of 100 patients with acute stroke symptoms in our stroke alert quality initiative database who were brought by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to the Mayo Clinic Hospital, Arizona between December 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Nine patients were excluded due to lack of data. The database contains the following information for each patient: age, gender, marital status, the time of symptom awareness, and the time of EMS dispatch. Using both an independent samples t-Test and ANOVA, we compared the time from symptom awareness to EMS dispatch both between married and single patients, and between men and women, (married and single).

 Results:
 The mean age of the 91 patients studied was 76 years (SD = 12.5 years) and 52% were women. Forty-five patients (49.5%) were married, and 46 (50.5%) were single. The mean time from symptom awareness to EMS activation was 52 minutes (median 21.0, SD 87.3, range 2-519 minutes.) Categorized by marital status, married patients activated EMS earlier that single patients, but this difference was not significant (43 versus 60 minutes, p=0.35.). Analyzing the data separately for gender, we found that married men activated EMS significantly earlier than married women (26 versus 72 minutes, p=0.04.). Single men activated EMS earlier than single women, but this difference was not significant (50 versus 66 minutes, p=0.60.)

 Conclusions:
 Among persons with acute stroke symptoms, earlier medical-seeking behavior was seen in married compared to single persons, and particularly in married men. We plan to analyze a larger sample of patients, and if these preliminary findings are confirmed, we will conduct a prospective study evaluating reasons why married men with stroke symptoms seek medical attention earlier.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the existing approaches of coalition formation to how to adapt dynamically the size of the coalition according to the complexity of the task to be accomplished.Design/methodology/approach – A considerable amount of attention has been paid to the coalition formation problem to deal efficiently with tasks needing more than one agent (i.e. robot). However, little attention has been paid to the problem of monitoring a coalition during the execution by modifying it according to the progress of the accomplishment of the task. In this paper, the authors consider a coalition of resource‐bounded autonomous agents with anytime behavior solving a common complex task. There is no central control component. Agents can observe the effect of the other agents' actions. They can decide whether they should continue to contribute in solving the common task or to stop their contribution and to leave the coalition. This decision is made in a distributed way. The objective is to...


This paper presents an overview of the post-irradiation examination (PIE) services available at AECL's hot-cell facilities (HCF). The HCFs are used primarily to provide PIE support for operating CANDU power reactors in Canada and abroad, and for the examination of experimental fuel bundles and core components irradiated in research reactors at the Chalk River Laboratories (CRL) and off-shore. A variety of examinations and analyses are performed ranging from non-destructive visual and dimensional inspections to detailed optical and scanning electron microscopic examinations. Several hot cells are dedicated to mechanical property testing of structural materials and to determine the fitness-for-service of reactor core components. Facility upgrades and the development of innovative examination techniques continue to improve AECL's PIE capabilities.


The subject of research in the article is the topological structures of closed logistics networks. The purpose of the work is to create a mathematical model and methods for solving problems of optimization of topological structures of centralized logistics networks in the process of reengineering, taking into account many topological and functional constraints. The article solves the following tasks: analysis of the current state of the problem of system optimization of logistics networks and methods of its solution; formalization of the problem of system optimization of logistics networks as territorially distributed objects; development of a mathematical model of the problem of optimization of centralized three-level topological structures of logistics networks at the stage of reengineering; development of a method for solving the problem of optimization of centralized three-level topological structures of logistics networks at the reengineering stage; estimation of time complexity of the method of optimization of centralized three-level topological structures of logistics networks. The following methods are used: methods of systems theory, methods of utility theory, optimization and operations research. The following results were obtained: analysis of the current state of the problem of system optimization of logistics networks and methods of its solution; the problem of system optimization of logistics networks as territorially distributed objects has been formalized; developed a mathematical model of the problem of reengineering three-level topological structures of logistics networks in terms of cost and efficiency for the case of combined production and processing points; methods of directed search of variants of construction of a logistic network which use procedures of coordinate optimization and modeling of evolution on the basis of genetic algorithm are developed; estimates of the accuracy and time complexity of optimization methods of centralized three-level topological structures of logistics networks are obtained. Conclusions: Based on the results of the study of methods for solving the problem, an approximation of their accuracy and time complexity was performed. In practice, this will allow you to choose a more efficient method for solving large-scale practical problems, based on the required accuracy, available computing and time resources. The method based on the coordinate optimization procedure has a significantly higher accuracy, but it is more complex from a computational point of view. The accuracy of the evolutionary method based on a genetic algorithm can be increased by increasing the number of iterations. The practical use of the proposed mathematical model and methods of reengineering the topological structures of centralized closed logistics systems by jointly solving problems for direct and reverse flows will reduce the cost of transport activities of companies.


In order to analyze the dynamic behavior of the first stage compressor/fan of the 'E3' turbofan engine, a classical structural dynamics approach is employed to couple the motions of a flexible bladed disk to a rotating flexible shaft. The analysis accounts for flexible disk displacements which are transverse to the plane of rotation, and radial as well as tangential, and also accounts for rigid disk translations along, and rotations about, axes normal to the undeformed shaft axes. In the case of a wide range of E3 engine shaft flexibilities and speeds, some of the one-diametral node frequencies are shown to be affected by shaft degrees of freedom whose stiffness values are in general range of design practice. Coriolis forces are also found to significantly affect natural frequencies where strong coupling between certain modes is present.


In this study the aim was to conduct a formative evaluation of the implementation of clinical education in the Diploma of Applied Science (Nursing) program at Armidale College of Advanced Education. This program was one of several to commence in New South Wales in 1985 as part of the general transfer of nurse education to the tertiary sector throughout Australia. The intention was to identify those factors, both intended and unintended, which influence the implementation of clinical education in an innovative program, according to the perceptions of students, clinical educators, registered nurses, a participant observer and other stake holders in areas where clinical education is undertaken. As the intention of this evaluative study was to portray all facets of the clinical education component of the program to enable judgements and decisions to be make, and because of the importance of the environment where clinical education takes place an illuminative, naturalistic approach to evaluation was adopted. The findings demonstrated the importance of thorough preparation for clinical education and the establishment of trust and good channels of communication between all participants prior to, during and following clinical education practicums, in order to maximise learning opportunities.


The green light emitting compound,the "D-π-A" chromophore,or 2,2-dicycnomethylene-3-cyano-4-(N,N-diethyamino-styryl)-5,5-dimethyl-2,5-dihydrofuran is designed and synthesized.IR,1H NMR and elemental analysis are used to analyze its structure and test its spectral properties in different environments.The maximum absorption peak(λmax) of the compound in chloroform(1×10-4 mol/L) is at 535 nm.Under the excitation wavelength of 530 nm,it shows strong fluorescence emission in chloroform and the peak stands at 681 nm.The fluorescence intensity is enhanced with the increase in concentration from 1×10-7 mol/L to 1×10-4 mol/L but quenched when intensity reaches 1×10-3 mol/L in chloroform.When the polarity of solvent increases,the maximum fluorescence wavelength is red shifted from 558 nm(in benzene) to 623 nm(in acetone) and the fluorescence intensity is enhanced.


This paper presents the perceptions of silence in two Romani (Gipsy) cultures in Europe – Bulgaria and Finland. On the basis of field studies and two in-depth interviews, conducted in the towns of Mikkeli (Finland) and Ihtiman (Bulgaria), it outlines the attitudes of the European Roma people towards "being marginalised" and "silenced". Silence is perceived by them in terms of "being different" and "being sometimes ashamed". In the Romani culture there is a special relationship between "silence", "pride" and "shame" as a specific worldview and a mechanism of constructing of both the personal and the collective ethnic identities. The paper also studies the phenomenon of self-silencing as a strategy of coping with undesirable situations that seem to disturb the mental wellbeing of two individuals. It underlines the need for raising the awareness of education within the Roma community in Europe and concludes that it is necessary to differentiate between "cultural" and "non-cultural" practices in the educational system.


All-MgB2 tunnel junctions were fabricated on a C-plane sapphire substrate. The current-voltage characteristics showed both quasiparticle and Josephson tunneling currents and a clear gap structure. The current density was 115A∕cm2 for a 20×20μm2 junction with a 0.14-nm-thick AlN layer, and the ratio of the subgap resistance and normal resistance was 3.3. The gap voltages of lower and upper MgB2 electrodes were estimated to be 2.2 and 1.5mV, respectively. The temperature dependence of the Josephson current indicated that a normal layer existed between the AlN and the MgB2 electrodes. The Josephson tunneling currents were clearly modulated by applying an external magnetic field.


Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a tumor‐derived material utilized for liquid‐based biopsy; however, capturing rare CTCs for further molecular analysis remains technically challenging, especially in non‐small‐cell lung cancer. Here, we report the results of a clinical evaluation of On‐chip Sort, a disposable microfluidic chip‐based cell sorter, for capture and molecular analysis of CTCs from patients with lung adenocarcinoma. Peripheral blood was collected from 30 metastatic lung adenocarcinoma patients to enumerate CTCs using both On‐chip Sort and CellSearch in a blind manner. Captured cells by On‐chip Sort were subjected to further molecular analysis. Peripheral blood samples were also used for detection of EGFR mutations in plasma using droplet digital PCR. Significantly more CTCs were detected by On‐chip Sort (22/30; median 5; range, 0–18 cells/5 mL blood) than by CellSearch (9/30; median, 0; range, 0–12 cells/7.5 mL) (P < 0.01). Thirteen of 30 patients who had a negative CTC count by CellSearch had a positive CTC count by On‐chip Sort. EGFR mutations in CTCs captured by On‐chip Sort were observed in 40.0% (8/20) of patients with EGFR‐mutated primary tumor. EGFR mutations were often observed in 53.3% (8/15) of patients detected in plasma DNA. Expressions of EGFR and vimentin protein on CTCs were also successfully assessed using On‐chip Sort. These results suggest that On‐chip Sort is an efficient method to detect and capture rare CTCs from patients with lung adenocarcinoma that are undetectable with CellSearch. Mutation detection using isolated CTCs remains to be further tackled (UMIN000012488).


Around the time of India's Independence, A.K.Dasgupta was undoubtedly the leading scholar in India in economic theory. He had established his reputation in international circles by his pioneering work in 1935-36 on the "Conception of Surplus in Theoretical Economics"; he had also critically examined Marshall's writings specially in international trade. He was also probably among the earliest theoretical


An experimental study was performed to evaluate the utility of electrospun carbon nanofiber supports for sputtered platinum catalyst in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The performance of the sputtered nanofiber supports was similar to that of sputtered commercial gas diffusion layers in single cell fuel cell tests. However, sputtered platinum electrodes performed significantly worse than commercial thin film electrodes due to high activation and concentration voltage losses. Cyclic voltammetry and rotating disc electrode experiments were performed in order to evaluate the influence of platinum loading and particle size on the electrochemical active area and oxygen reduction performance of the sputtered platinum. Active area per weight catalyst decreased with sputtering time, and the oxygen reduction activity slightly increases with increasing sputtering time. Both of these effects are thought to be due to increasing platinum particle size as sputtering time is increased. Thesis Supervisor: Yang Shao-Horn Title: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering


The article analyzes the assessments of the Russian intellectual elite of the XVIII — the middle of XIX centuries of the economic activity of the Kazakh people. The relevance of the work is due to the poor study of the economic and economic activities of the Kazakhs as an integral part of the perception of the steppe population by Russian officials, scientists and travelers of the period under consideration in historiography.
This process was influenced by several factors: political and socio-economic changes in Kazakh society, resulting from Russian politics in the region, the dominance of the philosophy of the Enlightenment in the worldview of imperial intellectuals. During the period under review, the assessments of the economic activity of the steppe population were not static and evolved continuously. If at the beginning of the 18th century the economy of the Kazakh people was seen by observers only as cattle breeding and the exchange of goods, then in the middle of the 19th century it was assessed by eyewitnesses as a combination of cattle breeding, agriculture, fishing, seasonal work and trade. In addition to diversifying the types of economic activity of Kazakhs, Russian observers noted the social stratification of Kazakh society and the emergence of new social categories of the population.


Previous studies have shown that host genetic heterogeneity in the response to infectious challenge can affect the emergence risk and the severity of diseases transmitted through direct contact between individuals. However, there is substantial uncertainty about the degree and direction of influence owing to different definitions of genetic variation, most of which are not in line with the current understanding of the genetic architecture of disease traits. Also, the relevance of previous results for diseases transmitted through environmental sources is unclear. In this article a compartmental genetic–epidemiological model was developed to quantify the impact of host genetic diversity on epidemiological characteristics of diseases transmitted through a contaminated environment. The model was parameterized for footrot in sheep. Genetic variation was defined through continuous distributions with varying shape and degree of dispersion for different disease traits. The model predicts a strong impact of genetic heterogeneity on the disease risk and its progression and severity, as well as on observable host phenotypes, when dispersion in key epidemiological parameters is high. The impact of host variation depends on the disease trait for which variation occurs and on environmental conditions affecting pathogen survival. In particular, compared to homogeneous populations with the same average susceptibility, disease risk and severity are substantially higher in populations containing a large proportion of highly susceptible individuals, and the differences are strongest when environmental contamination is low. The implications of our results for the recording and analysis of disease data and for predicting response to selection are discussed. A detailed understanding of host genetic variation underlying infectious disease has become increasingly relevant in the face of newly emerging infectious diseases and the frequently observed reduced efficacies of conventional control strategies (Segal and Hill 2003). Over recent years, quantitative genetics applied to livestock diseases has provided abundant evidence that individuals vary genetically in their response to infectious challenge (Bishop et al. 2003; Nicholas 2005). Complementary to this, recent advances in genomics (e.g., genome-wide association studies or wholegenome sequencing) provide deeper insights into the genetic architecture underlying an individual's response to infectious challenge (Lohmueller et al. 2003; Hirschhorn and Daly 2005; Daetwyler et al. 2008). Both quantitative genetics and genomic approaches combined thus offer the opportunity of a refined definition of host genetic variation in disease-dependent parameters. A critical question arising from the current genetic advances is what impact the identified genetic heterogeneity in a population has on the risk of disease outbreak and subsequent disease severity. In particular, how are the epidemiological characteristics of a disease affected by the underlying genetic architecture of disease traits and by the population structure? The importance of host heterogeneity on disease risk and prevalence has long been recognized by epidemiologists (e.g., Hethcote 1978; Anderson and May 1984; Dye and Hasibeder 1986; Dushoff and Levin 1995; Levin and Durrett 1996; Dwyer et al. 1997; Keeling 1999). More recently, Copyright © 2011 by the Genetics Society of America doi: 10.1534/genetics.110.125625 Manuscript received December 3, 2010; accepted for publication April 13, 2011 Available freely online through the author-supported open access option. Supporting information is available online at http://www.genetics.org/content/suppl/ 2011/04/28/genetics.110.125625.DC1. Corresponding author: Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9PS, United Kingdom. E-mail: andrea.wilson@


Abstract In south-east Spain, a semi-arid area, Stipa tenacissima ( alpha grass) covers large natural and semi-natural areas with a mosaic of tussocks and bare zones. However, little knowledge exists about the influence of these patterns on runoff and erosion. In order to understand the hydrological and erosional behaviour of the vegetated (herbs and alpha grass) and bare zones, rainfall simulation experiments were carried out at three sites in south-east Spain. The experiments showed that surface runoff and erosion is negligible in the tussock and quite high in the bare areas. High infiltration rates and deep wetting fronts were measured in the vegetated patches, and lower infiltration rates and shallower wetting fronts in the bare patches. These results lead to the conclusion that patchy distribution of Stipa tenacissima allows a system for water redistribution. Therefore, the landscape can be divided into bare runoff (water source area) and tussock runon (water sink area) zones.


BACKGROUND: The coral reef on Mandeh Island, West Sumatra, Indonesia, consists of an abundant source of sponge and soft coral. Secondary metabolites of marine-derived fungi isolated from the sponge and soft coral possess numerous biological activities.

AIM: This study collected, identified, and screened marine-derived fungi isolated from marine invertebrates for antibacterial and cytotoxic bioactivities.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The marine invertebrates used are sponges; Xestospongia testudinaria and Placortis communis) and soft corals (Sarcophyton elegan and Subergorgia suberosa). The EtOAc extracts were analyzed for antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities using the diffusion agar method and brine shrimps lethality test.

RESULTS: After cultivating on rice medium, the EtOAc extracts of 22 isolated fungi showed potent antimicrobial activity with an inhibitory zone of 15.9 mm against Staphylococcus aureus (XT2 extract), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa of 26.7 mm (XT6 extract), and Candida albicans of 29 mm (SE5 extract). XT6 extract showed the potential cytotoxic activity with an LC50 value of 100 μg/ml.

CONCLUSION: The ability of the marine-derived fungi to produce bioactive compounds is promising potential as a source of antimicrobial and cytotoxic compounds.


Garbage treating plant of Zhengzhou city is designed to treat 2 300 t garbage per day, with the service target population of 2 050 000. Totally 203 095 300 RMB yuan was invested in this project. The technological measures in engineering design of this garbage treating plant including garbage sanitary burying project, sewage treating project and compost treating project were described in detail.


Background: Maternal deaths in the United States continue to rise at an unacceptable rate, with poor, rural, and minority communities having worse outcomes. Many of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes, with the lack of access to healthcare identified as a main risk factor. Problem: Health disparities that contribute to lack of access to healthcare are exemplified in California's Central Valley largely low-income, low-resource, rural Latinx communities. Context: The community health worker (CHW) shows great promise in improving maternal health outcomes. The literature demonstrates that the CHW role provides an important and successful intervention in improving healthcare access in low-income, rural, and minority populations. Intervention: To create and implement a value-added maternal health education course for the home coordinators (HCs) of the Save the Children® (STC) organization. This course is part of a comprehensive CHW curriculum that will be taught over three semesters by several USF DNP students. Outcome Measures: Guided by current, high quality literature and nationally-accepted CHW competencies, the University of San Francisco (USF) Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student designed and delivered a maternal health course to the STC HCs (CHW students). The course was created on the Instructure Canvas Free learning platform, and delivered in a hybrid format with four synchronous online classes and one in-person class. Each class (module) had a main topic, and preand post-quizzes were utilized to guide teaching effectiveness and to monitor outcome measures.


Objective The objective of this study was to demonstrate experimentally that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of ferucarbotran-accumulated healthy liver tissues causes excess iron deposition in the ablated liver tissues on postablation days and produces sustained T2*-weighted low signals indicative of ablative margins surrounding hepatic tumors. Materials and Methods We conducted 3 experiments using 30 rats. In experiment 1, we administered either ferucarbotran (n = 6) or saline (n = 4), acquired T2*-weighted images (T2*-WIs) of the liver by using a 3-T magnetic resonance scanner, and subsequently performed RFA of healthy liver lobes. We acquired follow-up T2*-WIs up to day 7 and histologically analyzed the liver specimens. In another 4 rats, we performed sham operation, instead of RFA, in ferucarbotran-accumulated liver lobes, followed by the same image acquisition and histological analysis. In experiment 2, we administered 59Fe-labeled ferucarbotran, subsequently performed either RFA (n = 4) or sham operation (n = 4) in the liver, and acquired autoradiograms of the liver specimens on day 7. In experiment 3, we conducted RFA treatment for 8 rats bearing orthotopic hepatic tumors after ferucarbotran administration and monitored tumor growth by using serial T2*-WIs. Results On days 4 and 7 of the experiment 1, T2*-WIs of 6 rats with systemic ferucarbotran administration and subsequent hepatic RFA showed low-signal regions indicative of ablated liver tissues, whereas high-signal areas were seen in 4 saline-administered rats. Neither high nor low signal areas were detected in 4 sham-operated rats. Histologically, larger amounts of iron were observed in the RFA-induced necrotic liver tissues in the ferucarbotran-administered rats than in the saline-administered-rats. The 59Fe autoradiography of the rats in experiment 2 revealed accumulation of ferucarbotran-derived iron in necrotic liver tissues. Among 6 hepatic tumors grown in 6 rats of the experiment 3, a total of 4 tumors were stable in size, but the other 2 increased markedly on day 7. Retrospectively, T2*-WIs showed the former tumor sites surrounded completely by low-signal areas on day 4. Conclusions The RFA of ferucarbotran-accumulated healthy liver tissues in the rats caused excess iron deposition in the ablated liver tissues and produced sustained T2*-weighted hypointense regions. Similar hypointense regions surrounding hepatic tumors were indicative of ablative margins.


developed countries, the impact will be slight. Hardly any market-oriented production in the United States, Japan, Western Europe, or Australia is dependent on the weather. The main exceptions are agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. But in the United States, they account for less than 3 percent of our gross domestic product. The question is not whether we will lose production of food, Schelling said. "The issue is whether food production will become much more expensive, whether the water will be much more expensive to deliver, and whether techniques of cultivation may require new kinds of machinery and maybe more labor—and that's leaving aside the fact that in the United States, we still generate agricultural surpluses. "What we must recognize is that the real victims of climate change are going to be in the developing countries, where a third of the gross national product may be agricultural and maybe half the population practices subsistence agriculture," Schelling said. Probably the best way for them to defend against the adverse effects of climate change is to develop as rapidly as they can, he said. The sooner Malaysia can become like Singapore, the sooner it can worry less about the impact of climate change on health, comfort, and productivity. "This leads me to conclude that the right way to think about climate change is primarily a foreign aid program," Schelling said. "The people who will benefit will be seven-eighths of the global population toward the end of the century. They are the people who need protection against climate change that they are not yet prepared for." ■


I was born in Kalamata in 1941, at the beginning of the Nazi Occupation. My impressions of the Germans are weak, but I have strong memories of the civil war. I was seven at the time and Kalamata was a center of conflict. My father and other businessmen tried to aid some of the less well-off people and people who had been arrested for their politics. For this reason, my father was labeled a Communist. My father had to go into hiding. Even we didn't know where he was. My father had run two separate stores in Kalamata. Later, when things seemed better he went to work in Athens, but after a few days working, the Secret Police would come to tell the employer to fire him. He was only allowed to see certain friends once a year. He had his beliefs and stood by them. I respect him for that. My mother was a teacher, and she was harassed by being sent off to work in an isolated village in the mountains. I didn't go with her to the village, but stayed with my father in Athens. When my father died in 1958, I went to live with my aunt who also resided in Athens.


Human rights have been a central topic in academia, politics, and the media for quite some time. Since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), most countries and institutions have acknowledged the seemingly unquestionable universal nature of human rights. However, the 30 articles of the UN Declaration can be and have been interpreted in a variety of ways. As in many other things, the devil is in the detail. The debate over what exactly constitutes a human right remains open, and this edited collection brings significant insights to the issue. States and various organizations use the idea of human rights as a backdrop for advancing their policies, whether or not these policies have anything directly to do with human rights. In a similar way, oppressed groups frame their grievances within a human rights framework. Having the label of a human rights issue will more likely bring attention, connections, resources, and a potential resolution to the aggrieved group. Being qualified by outside institutions as a human rights issue can often be a matter of life or death for the people involved in various struggles discussed in this book. But what contributes to the success of some and the failure of other groups to have their struggles recognized as human rights matters? Why do international organizations endorse some, but not other problems as human rights issues? This volume, published within the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series is one of the first of much-needed works that address these critical questions. This book goes beyond the well-researched paradigm of war crimes and political repressions. The editor brings together nine essays that deal with new human rights issues including the abuse of children born as a result of wartime rape; the denial of rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people; and the privatization and corporate takeover of the water sources in developing countries. All of these issues are at the forefront of the international struggle for human rights. Yet, unlike war crimes and political repression, they have not received as much attention in the international human rights movement. 496938 ISS28510.1177/0268580913496938International Sociology ReviewsReviews: Social movements 2013


The builders of the Cairo subway have had to overcome difficulties on two fronts: the waterlogged ground below and the bureaucracy all around. A French-Egyptian consortium, Interinfra-Arabco, is building the subway under a turnkey contract. The 3-mile underground line in the center of the city will link the northern and southern halves of the existing 23-mile Regional Line, a standard-gauge surface route that is being modernized.


People with psychotic disorders may experience a number of risk factors which impact on their lifestyles, health, and quality of life, notably low income, poor dietary patterns, smoking, lack of exercise, and medication side effects. They are at high risk of many physical illnesses which could be reduced by implementing health promotion programmes targeting fitness and lifestyle issues. A fitness and lifestyle programme for clients with psychotic disorders was designed and implemented by occupational therapists in a regional mental health service. The programme involved structured physical exercise and educational sessions addressing lifestyle change, health benefits, recommended exercise and activity levels, goal setting and monitoring outcomes.