The first published micrograph of a biological specimen photographed in a high voltage electron microscope (HVEM) appeared in a paper by Van Dorsten et al. in 1947, and it is consequently surprising that the HVEM does not play a greater role in biology 27 yr later. There are various reasons for this. The first prototypes were developed with the aim of enabling the investigator to examine thicker specimens than could be viewed at 100 kV. At the same time, however, the thin-sectioning technique was becoming established and consequently none of these early prototypes led to a commercial instrument (Glauert, 1972). Subsequently, the development of the HVEM was determined more by the needs of metallurgists and materials scientists rather than the needs of biologists, although the 1.5-MV microscope in Toulouse was constructed in the hope that it would make possible the examination of living cells (Dupouy et al., 1960). Results in this field have proved disappointing; even the best micrographs obtained so far reveal very little more internal detail of cells than can be seen with an ultraviolet microscope, and damage to living organisms during irradiation in the electron microscope is so fatal that any process that is observed is more correctly described as 'dying' than 'living'. In spite of the apparently insuperable problems in obtaining electron micrographs of living cells, the HVEM still has great potentiality in biology, arising from its capability to produce high resolution images of thick specimens. This capability enables the examination of much thicker sections than can be viewed in conventional instrumerits operating up to 100 kV and, in combination with stereo viewing, has restored the third dimension in studies of a great range of biological material. Examining very thin sections over more than 25 yr has led microscopists to think of biological structures in terms of thin slices: the term 'mitochondrion' summons up the vision of the cross-sectional view rather than of a threedimensional cylinder composed of interconnected membrane systems. This restoration of the third dimension in the appreciation of biological organization has been the major contribution of the HVEM so far. The other promising line of investigation is the examination of hydrated (not living) specimens in the HVEM. Water is an essential constituent of all biological structures, and consequently it is of paramount importance to be able to examine specimens in the wet state, particularly when considering the molecular level of organization. Rapid progress has been made during the past few years in the development of suitable preparative and imaging techniques, and in the design of 'environmental cells', and there is no doubt that further advances in this field will soon be reported. At present the few biologists who are using the HVEM are not all bringing the most fruitful problems to the microscope. For example, there is no point in obtaining a stereo view of a thick section unless an understanding of the threedimensional structure of the embedded material will make a real contribution to the solution of a particular problem. The primary aim of this review is to indicate the capabilities of the HVEM and to


One of the most important current issues in psychological service is to shape the philosophical base of the psychological service in ChinaThis paper tries to set up the philosophical base of the psychological service by discussing the relationship among human beings,psychological service and philosophy


Today information technology (IT) in the preparation of future managers in high school are used only partially, that is one of the main reasons for its lack of effectiveness. To solve this problem, there is need for new methods of bringing IT into the training of future specialists.


Condenser biofouling is a major source of problems causing poor power plant availability and efficiency. Targeted chlorination is a new concept in condenser chlorination that has the potential to improve performance, reduce chlorine requirements, and enable utilities to meet increasingly stringent effluent limitations. The results of this commercialization study indicate that as many as 1000 generating plants could beneficially apply targeted chlorination. This report contains the results of a commercial application survey of chlorination methods, a summary of regulations related to chlorine in plant effluents, and a commercialization strategy to transfer this technology and to support widespread application by utilities.


The experimental data of the high-energy x-ray structure factors for single-crystal silicon are reanalyzed, taking the contributions of the multipole, retardation, and relativistic effects into account, to obtain the real part of the anomalous scattering factor f' of the element. Theoretical calculations that integrate the dispersion integral up to 1 MeV are also performed. Good agreement between theory and experiment is observed.


A subgroup of r containing a principal congruence subgroup r(n) is said to be a congruence subgroup, and is of level n if n is the least such integer. In a recent article [2] the writer determined all normal subgroups of r of genus 1 (see [1 ] for the definition of the genus of a subgroup of r). An interesting question that arises is to decide which of these are also congruence subgroups. In this note we show that there are just 4 such groups. This furnishes a new family of normal subgroups of finite index in the modular group which are not congruence groups (see [3 ] for other examples). The proof makes use of some recent work of K. Wohlfahrt [4] on the definition of level for an arbitrary subgroup of finite index in r. We let x stand for the substitution


Abstract According to the classification by Kac, there are eight Cartan series and five exceptional Lie superalgebras in infinite-dimensional simple linearly compact Lie superalgebras of vector fields. In this paper, the Hom-Lie superalgebra structures on the five exceptional Lie superalgebras of vector fields are studied. By making use of the ℤ-grading structures and the transitivity, we prove that there is only the trivial Hom-Lie superalgebra structures on exceptional simple Lie superalgebras. This is achieved by studying the Hom-Lie superalgebra structures only on their 0-th and (−1)-th ℤ-components.


In this paper, the flow of a micropolar fluid over a stretching or shrinking sheet is investigated under magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) conditions. Such a flow is described by highly nonlinear PDEs. Using the similarity transformation technique, the PDEs governing the flow are reduced to a system of nonlinear ODEs, which further allows a closed-form analytical solution. The effect of the microrotation on the skin friction coefficient, the dimensionless forms of the velocity, and the temperature flow fields in the neighborhood of the stretching or shrinking sheet are discussed for various combinations of the dimensionless parameters. The numerical results reveal that the micropolar flow may accelerate or deaccelerate depending upon the numerical values of the mass transpiration and the permeability of the porous sheet. An increase in the tangential and the angular flow velocities is found to occur with an increase in the microrotation. Further, it is observed that the increase in the microrotation increases the skin friction coefficient.


Usually, the deaf community faces enormous difficulties in communicating with the hearing community. Unfortunately, there are few systems available to the public to assist in the communication between the deaf community and the hearing community. Some countries, including Portugal, are trying to develop systems to mitigate this problem. Thus, in this paper, it is proposed a system that captures signs, using motion capture systems and produces the needed animations, represented by a 3D Avatar, so that a deaf user may understand them. This first implementation consists of a component, receiving text in Glosses format, from the Portuguese Sign Language, getting the corresponding animations from a database, and animating a 3D Avatar with these animations. The work being carried out is part of a larger system, that includes a user interface and another component that translates Portuguese Spoken Language to Portuguese Sign Language, through a Neural Network. The system aims to assist deaf people in communicating in all scenarios of everyday life. The first results show great potential for the deaf community to be able to use the proposed system.


ABSTRACT:The most important value contained in the territory is the cultural landscape in which heritage appears as the structuring value in its invention. In fact, the authors have been studying problems concerning the valorization and sustainable development of heritage landscapes, through cultural parks and related monitoring indicators, and often facing problems how to deal with land degrading problems. Those are clearly related not only with the future of heritage landscapes, but also concern the improvement of rural population quality of life, land's memories preservation and sustainable development new practices. This challenge is particularly important what Mediterranean landscapes concern because they are disturbance-dependent features modified by anthropogenic factors since millennia and its ecodiversity is particularly threatened. Therefore, finding out and developing new means of land management is a central issue mainly in the context of the actual rural world paradigm, where farmers need to move towards multifunctional activities and society is demanding both a broad spectrum of products and a high environmental and landscape quality level. That is why land management policies and planning have to deal with the maintenance of landscape original functions monitoring indicator the authors are analyzing as being aware of the numerous factors of landscape degradation.Keywords: cultural park, heritage landscape, monitoring indicatorsIntroductionMost of landscapes are a result of men activities; that is why most of them are cultural landscapes. Nowadays this is an issue that concerns everybody and experts and governments try to organize policies to manage those realities. In time, some of them tend to became heritage landscape and have a place in the UNESCO papers and guidelines rules; Cultural Landscapes can be considered as 'illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal' (WHC, 2005, paragraph 47). There is no State that did not intend to present a project to classify these heritage landscapes. Of course, as Fowler states, this concept is dynamic since cultural landscape is the product of a long-term, scientifically demonstrable nature/human interactive process (Fowler, 2006). On the other hand, it is easy to recognize that from here 'linkages of present with past are felt to need not just isolated heritage icons but the cultural landscape's embedding framework' (Lowenthal, 1993, 5). The character of many of these landscapes is a 'palimpsest of elements from the past and present' (Aplin, 2007, 430).What to do with the rest - and we mean the most part of natural and cultural realities that once in the past used to be the support of Man and are now our ground of life? They have not enough dignity to be classified and they have not any natural and cultural structure to be pointed out, but they were and they are still 'hidden landscapes' that deserve to be preserved. By doing that, we are giving a chance to the rural world and the rural way of life as an alternative to the urban area. Finally, we are keeping our human memories and qualities.Policies and experts have presented several possibilities to keep these rural and common landscapes within ordinary, natural and cultural heritage values. We should recognize the fragile success of most of them. Natural parks and landscapes protected areas, natural monuments, land management radical policies used to be important but not anymore. The real desertification of rural world, the building necessities, overwhelming attractiveness of urban life justify the search of new land management policies and land intervention tools to overcome the situation; this huge desertification dynamics is threatening with bringing irreversible damages in landscape' natural and cultural quality. …


Photovoltaic cell output characteristics are affected greatly by temperature,light intensity and load factors.in order to improve the utilization efficiency of photovoltaic cells,it requires fast and accurate tracking and controlling the maximum power point.on the basis of analysis the output characteristics of photovoltaic cell,the simulation model of photovoltaic cell was established.Aiming at the shortage of hill-climbing,Adaptive duty cycle perturbation method of maximum power point tracking control was adopted.the design process and working principle of both algorithms were given.The simulation results show that compared with hill-climbing,the Adaptive duty cycle perturbation method can track maximum power point fast,reduce the system oscillation at the maximum power point,and improve the speed and accuracy of the PV systems.


Virtual reality (VR), defined as three-dimensional immersive and realistic environment, is pushing its way into becoming the mainstream in many aspects of daily life. It promises to provide more engaging and immersive experiences in several areas, including training, safety and education. In the education sector particularly, it can increase student engagement, provide active and constructive learning, and provide a platform for visualizing complex concepts concretely. Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), one of six American university campuses in Qatar, was one of the first in adopting the virtual reality technology in the education and research in the region. It acquired its first immersive VR system in 2008 and the second more sophisticated system in 2016. It organizes an annual project competition to promote the use of virtual reality and 3D visualization in the academic community. This paper describes the salient VR projects completed in last few years at TAMUQ.


A new approach toward the asymmetric synthesis of optically active trifluoromethylated amines was enabled by an unprecedented, highly enantioselective catalytic isomerization of trifluoromethyl imines with a new chiral organic catalyst. Not only aryl but also alkyl trifluoromethylated amines could be obtained in high enantioselectivities.


Abstract : Work was performed to build core elements of a quantum computer using neutral atoms in an optical lattice, with the ultimate end to execute a version of the Kitaev toric code Hamiltonian model . Toward that end we have demonstrated the execution of single qubit gates on any arbitrary sequence of individual lattice sites in a 5x5x5 array. This entailed improving laser cooling in a 3D large spacing lattice, developing flexible state manipulation techniques, and demonstrating long atomic coherence times (exceeding 5 seconds). We designed, built and installed two MEMS mirror-controlled addressing beams that allow us to rapidly shift target atoms into resonance with microwave fields for the execution of gates. We demonstrated that we can perform single qubit gates in approximately 500 microseconds on target atoms without affecting quantum information in non-target atoms. On the theoretical side, we developed a paradigm for implementing digital quantum simulations in finite systems, including a dissipative mechanism that allows thermalization to arbitrary temperatures, and applied this to realization of the toric code Hamiltonian within our trapped neutral atoms architecture.


Motivational work is a complex subject as well as being an extensive part of the modern addiction treatment. A national survey from 2001 report that motivational work is a necessity in a successful addiction treatment. On the other hand the same survey also identifies a lack of evidence-based methods. The purpose of this essay was to examine the motivational work within the social services and healthcare addiction treatment from a professionals perspective. Furthermore we have done this by isolating the four different areas; method, resources, attitude and responsibility. The empirical material from our eight semistructured interviews has been analyzed on the basis of theories concerning practice and method within motivational work. As a frame of reference we have Per Revstedt and his thoughts concerning motivational work, Hakan Jenner and his interpretation of both the attribution theory and the pygmalion effect, William Miller and his motivational interview as well as James Prochaska and Carlo DiClementes stages of change. Some of our conclusions drawn includes the fact that a successful motivational work is built upon a numerous important factors such as access to vital resources and a functional cooperation between the social services and the healthcare addiction treatment, a good knowledge concerning addiction and motivation, theories and methods, as well as an ability of turning them into practice.


Benchmark variational calculations are performed for the six lowest states of the (1)P(o) 1s(2)2snp state series of the (9)Be atom. The wave functions of the states are expanded in terms of all-particle, explicitly correlated Gaussian basis functions and the effect of the finite nuclear mass is directly included in the calculations. The exponential parameters of the Gaussians are variationally optimized using the analytical energy gradient determined with respect to those parameters. Besides providing reference non-relativistic energies for the considered states, the calculations also allow to assess the accuracy of the experimental energies of the (1)P(o) 1s(2)2s6p and 1s(2)2s7p states and suggest their refinement.


reporting. Unless otherwise noted, those who wish to reproduce text and image files from this publication for such uses may do so without the Feinstein International Center's express permission. However, all commercial use of this material and/or reproduction that alters its meaning or intent, without the express permission of the Feinstein International Center, is prohibited. Acknowledgements This report was made possible with funding from the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The authors would like to thank Axel Weiser, Girma Tadesse, Mohammed Musse, and Nasteha Ahmed of Save the Children USA and Hassan Ibrahim and Mohammed Ali of Save the Children UK for providing considerable support and hard work throughout the implementation of the study, as well as for providing valuable feedback for this report. Thanks also go to Adrian Cullis of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for important input on initial concepts and intervention design.


Purpose – The aim of this paper is to shed light on how subsidiary willingness to transfer knowledge is influenced by formal control mechanisms from headquarters, and how this affects knowledge transfer performance.Design/methodology/approach – The study highlights and tests the influence of two formal control mechanisms: formal demand to transfer knowledge from headquarters, and performance evaluation system related to knowledge transfer. This is tested by subjecting a dataset of 149 knowledge transfer processes to a two‐stage least square regression analysis.Findings – The robust results indicate that formal evaluation systems related to subsidiary knowledge transfer increases subsidiary willingness to transfer, and subsequently knowledge transfer performance, whereas formal demand by headquarters to share knowledge show a negative but not significant impact.Practical implications – The results highlight the strategic importance of eliminating motivational barriers in order to enhance knowledge transfer...


The evolution of an initial current sheet is studied by using the set of one-dimensional (1D) magnetohydrodynamic equations. In a simulation of the 1D Riemann problem along the z direction, the initial magnetic field is chosen as B(z)=−Bx0tanh(z∕δ)x+Byy+Bzz, where Bx0 denotes the antiparallel component and By is called the guide field of current sheet. For the By=0 case, a pair of slow shocks is formed and propagates away from the current sheet. For By≠0 (even for a very small By), it is found that a pair of slow shocks and an additional pair of time-dependent intermediate shocks (TDISs) are formed. TDISs are not present in the By=0 case, indicating that the case with By=0 is a singular case. In this paper, an attempt is made to reconcile the By=0 case with small nonzero By cases by examining the early time evolution of TDISs and slow shocks. The early current evolutions for the By=0 case and for small By cases are found to be very similar. For By≠0 cases, the plasma density and pressure are found to i...


Abstract A connected, simple graph G of order v is said to be α,β destructible with respect to E′ and V′ if α,β are factors of v and an a-set of edges, E′, exists whose removal from G isolates exactly the vertices in a β-set, V′. In this paper we consider graphs G which are α,β destructible with respect to E′ and V′ such that G-E′-V′ is a cycle of order v-β and call such a graph α,β cycle-contractible with respect to E′ and V′. We characterize graphs of nullity one containing a cycle of order v-β where B|v, consider cycle-stable graphs and characterize destructible graphs (i) reconstructible from a single cycle-remnant, and (ii) whose remnants consist only of cycles or θ.


Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is the dominant rhetoric in health research. So effective is this dominant rhetoric that if you work outside EBM or question its practices your position is unlikely to be taken seriously. This is doubly so if you question EBM from within a complimentary or alternative medicine framework. You are likely to be seen as a complainer; as not as rigorous as you should be; as operating from the epistemic Paleolithic. This issue of Social Epistemology explores what EBM is, what it should be, and why it has become the dominant rhetoric and everything else has become a counter-rhetorical force.


In this work we used a novel CdTe photon counting x-ray detector capable of very high count rates to perform x-ray micro-computed tomography (microCT). The detector had 2 rows of 384 square pixels each 1 mm in size. Charge signals from individual photons were integrated with a shaping time of ~60 ns and processed by an ASIC located in close proximity to the pixels. The ASIC had 5 energy thresholds with associated independent counters for each pixel. Due to the thresholding, it is possible to eliminate dark-current contributions to image noise. By subtracting counter outputs from adjacent thresholds, it is possible to obtain the number of x-ray photon counts in 5 adjacent energy windows. The detector is capable of readout times faster than 5 ms. A prototype bench-top specimen μCT scanner was assembled having distances from the tube to the object and detector of 11 cm and 82 cm, respectively. We used a conventional x-ray source to produce 80 kVp x-ray beams with tube currents up to 400 μA resulting in count rates on the order of 600 kcps per pixel at the detector. Both phantoms and a dead mouse were imaged using acquisition times of 1.8 s per view at 1° steps around the object. The count rate loss (CRL) characteristics of the detector were measured by varying the tube current and corrected for using a paralyzable model. Images were reconstructed using analytical fan-beam reconstruction. The reconstructed images showed good contrast and noise characteristics and those obtained from different energy windows demonstrated energy-dependent contrast, thus potentially allowing for material decomposition.


Bile acids play a crucial role in the promotion of bile flow and in the intestinal absorption of fatty acids via micellization. In addition, bile acids are the end product of cholesterol and constitute 50% of the excretable cholesterol pool in man. Hepatocytes in the liver efficiently extract bile acids from the ponal venous system through the sinusoidal membrane and rapidly excrete them via the canalicular membrane into bile. This vectorial transport involves mem brane carriers at each pole. However, the mechanism of the intracellular translocation is less apparent (10, 43, 45, 64, 66). In parallel with the characterization of membrane transport of bile acids, recent research has identified and characterized the cytosolic bile acid binding proteins present in rat and human liver and has begun to determine their physiological role. This chapter focuses on the intracellular bile acid binding proteins and reviews their biochemical characteristics and physiological role. We particularly focus on studies from our own laboratory during the past five years, and therefore do not intend to present a complete or encompassing historical review.


With rapid development of speech input and pen input technology,multimodal interaction interface has become an important developing field of Human Computer Interaction.However,there is no commercialized multimodal interaction system in engineering field now.This article focused on the feature of natural interaction with multimodal interaction modeling system based on the speech and pen input technology.So it presented that the natural interaction system must have an intelligence architecture and adequate domain knowledge.Firstly,the Multi agent system model is established with MaSE methodology and agent tool,and then the significance is analyzed with the domain knowledge to improve the smart capability of system.Finally,the solutions are proposed according to the variety data storage and sharing in heterogeneous environment.


A successful application, using standard Pascal in a large medical application program, demonstrates that benefits similar to those of specialized languages are possible in object-oriented programming.


Objective:To explore expressions of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits 2B(NR2B) and 2A(NR2A) and their relationship with apoptosis in the hippocampus of Alzheimer′s disease(AD)-like rats.Methods:The AD-like rat model was established by intracerebroventricularly injecting Aβ1-40 and intraperitoneally injecting AlCl3.Expressions of NR2B and NR2A in the AD-like rat hippocampus were detected by immunohistochemistry,and the apoptosis in the AD-like rat hippocampus was detected by TUNEL staining.Then the relationship was further explored between them.Results:Expression of NR2B was significantly increased in the AD-like rat hippocampus(P﹤0.05),especially in the CA1 subfield.Expression of NR2A had no significant change in the AD-like rat hippocampus(P0.05).Apoptotic cells were significantly increased in the AD-like rat hippocampus(P﹤0.05),especially in the CA1 subfield,followed by the dentate gyrus and the CA3 subfield.Conclusion:NR2B,not NR2A,has pathological high expression in the AD-like rat hippocampus.This pathological high expression may have a specific relationship with AD-like apoptosis and the selective vulnerable phenomenon of the rat hippocampus.


A photometric assay method for heparin cofactor II (HC II) is described. In a first step antithrombin III (AT III) in plasma is blocked by an anti human AT III immunoglobuline from goats. After dilution of this plasma with Tris buffer pH 8.4 containing 3 IU/ml heparin and addition of thrombin the remaining thrombin activity is measured by use of the chromogenic substrate S-2238 Kabi. The following preliminary experiments were carried out: Variation of the amount of anti-AT III added to plasma resulted in complete inactivation of 1.25 units AT III by 1.0 ml of the inhibitor. Incubation of 1 ml anti AT III with 1 ml purified AT III ( 1 U/ml} or with 1 ml normal plasma completely abolished AT III activity within 60 sec. Incubation of the reaction mixture with thrombin resulted in maximum inactivation after 180 sec. This is in contrast to AT III activated by heparin which immediately inactivates thrombin. Anti-Xa activity after depletion of AT III was assayed in a similar way by addition of factor Xa to the reaction mixture and measuring the remaining Xa activity by the substrate S-2222. In these tests no anti Xa-activity was found after AT III depletion. From these experiments there was assumed that the anti thrombin activity measured under the following conditions was due to the action of HC II: Plasma ( 50 μl) was mixed with anti AT III (50 μl) and was incubated for 60 sec. Tris buffer with heparin pH 8.4 (900 μl) was added. From this mixture 200 μl was pipetted into a cuvette at 37°C followed by 200 μl thrombin ( 2 IU/ml). After an incubation time of 180 sec 200 μl S-2238 ( 2 mmol/1) was added and the difference in OD/min was determined at 405 nm. A calibration curve was made by series of dilutions of normal AT III depleted plasma from 20 healthy individuals. The following preliminary results ofrHC II activity as a percentage were obtained:


A series of warm tensile tests for B349/590DP steel are performed at the stain rates of 0.0004/s, 0.001/s, 0.01/s and 0.08/s in this paper. From the test data, it is found that the effect of temperature and strain rate on material's deformation behaviors is opposite to that of other temperature ranges. And with the change of strain rate and temperature, the relations between the material parameters such as the work-hardening exponent n, the stress hardening coefficient K and forming process conditions becomes uncertain. Moreover, authors investigated the reasons for above phenomena. Research results demonstrate that it is very necessary to appropriately optimize the warm forming process scheme and strictly control the warm forming process parameters so that both the formability and safety performance are considered simultaneously.


Russ Greenberg (see photo), an Elective Member of the AOU since 1985 and a Fellow since 1991, died on October 24, 2013, at the age of 60 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Washington, D.C., Russ moved across the country several times during his early years, as his father, Joseph Greenberg, pursued a career in microbiology. In 1958, the family finally settled in Palo Alto, California, where Russ spent most of his adolescent years. Although a laboratory scientist by profession, Russ's father's true love was birding. When Russ became interested in birds at the ripe old age of 8, Joe was only too happy to indulge Russ's enthusiasm by engaging in weekend birding trips to the far reaches of California, as well as longer vacations during which finding new birds was a major goal. The 1960s and early 1970s was a golden age of California birding, and Russ, his father Joe, and his brother Doug were among the many hardcore birders of that era who scoured desert oases and small patches of trees along the California coast looking for vagrant warblers and other rarities. Russ began his transition to professional ornithology in 1971 when he started college, first at University of California Santa Cruz and then at University of California Berkeley, where he graduated in 1976. He proceeded to stay on at Berkeley for his Ph.D., which he received in 1981 under the direction of Frank Pitelka. He then accepted a postdoctoral position with Eugene Morton at the Smithsonian, where he remained for the duration of his career. Russ pioneered research on an astonishing number of important ornithological questions. His Ph.D. work on the evolutionary ecology and behavior of migratory and resident birds in tropical ecosystems laid the groundwork for his lifelong interest in how migratory species adapt to novel ecosystems and coexist with the resident avifauna. His interest in the interplay between morphological adaptations and foraging plasticity led Russ to begin a series of studies on the phenomenon of neophobia in 1983, well over a decade before animal personalities or behavioral syndromes became topics of wide interest in behavioral ecology. Russ's deep interest in basic science never kept him from contributing significantly to the conservation of the species and habitats he loved. Russ was one of the key scientists in the nascent field of conservation biology who became alarmed by tropical deforestation. More profoundly, he recognized that certain crops could be grown in ways that minimized their negative impact on native ecosystems. Expanding on this simple concept, Russ Russ in the field on Santa Cruz Island, California, March 2013. Photo credit: Maybellene Gamboa


The experiment on Field efficacy and economics of different insecticides against tomato fruit borer [Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner)] was conducted during rabi 2021-2022, at Central Research Field, Department of Entomology, SHUATS, Naini, Prayagraj, U.P. The data on percent population reduction of different treatments revealed that the T5 Spinosad 45% SC (81.379) followed by T1 Indoxacarb 14.5% SC (75.140), T7 Emamectin benzoate 5% SG (74.634), T2 Flubendiamide 39.5% SC (68.634), T3 Novaluron 10%EC (65.647), T4 Fipronil 5% SC (54.225), T6 Neem oil 0.03% EC (49.533) found to be least efficient than all other treatments. Among the treatments studied the best and most economical treatment was Spinosad (1:6.72), Indoxacarb 14.5% SC 14.5SC (1:6.42), followed by Emamectin benzoate 5% SG (1:6.3), Novaluron 45% SC (1:5.09), Flubendiamide 20% WG (1:4.45), Fipronil 5% SC (1:7.9), (1:3.92), Neem oil 0.03% EC (1:3.45) as compared to control T0 (1:3.04).


grant support from Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), Rising Tide Foundation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), Riney Family Foundation, Perelman Family Foundation, Amgen, Celgene, Janssen, Takeda, Glenmark, Seattle Genetics, and Karyopharm; received honoraria for scientific talks/participated in advisory boards for Adaptive, Amgen, Binding Site, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Celgene, Cellectis, Glenmark, Janssen, Juno, Pfizer; and served on Independent Data Monitoring Committees for international randomized trials by Takeda, Merck, Janssen, and Theradex. D.K. declares no competing financial interests. n


The goal of the research was to develop a technology of coordination training in sports, which require execution of asymmetric movements. We have created methods of associated development of strength and coordination in an athlete. The methods are based on the use of stato-dynamic exercises and regular balance control with the help of stabilometric platform "Stabilan-01".


Simulated annealing(SA) algorithm is a stochastic optimization technique that has been used to solve continuous,ordered discrete and multimodal optimization problems.In the aspect of solving complex problems and large,non-linear problems,SA has great advantages than the other methods.This paper gives a summary on principle,math's model and procedure of SA.An example is given to prove that SA is effective and advantage on the solution of combination problem.


The first printed Dutch grammar was entitled Twe-spraack vande Nederduitsche letterkunst (1548). In many places, the grammar names its own language simply Duytsch , but the book also uses this term – depending on context or audience, not seldom melting one significance into another – for what now is known as 'Continental (West) Germanic' ("Ick spreeck int ghemeen vande duytse taal, die zelve voor een taal houdende", p. 110), referring to the entire complex of linguistic varieties, which nowadays come under the cognate standard languages Dutch (formerly in English Low/Nether Dutch ) and German ( High Dutch ). Many textbooks, grammars, dictionaries etc. in 16th- to 18th-century Netherlands and Flanders strikingly reserved simple Duytsch for their own language (hence Dutch ), contrasting it with 'marked' Hoogduytsch or even Overland(t)sch (avoiding hyperonymic -duytsch !). In addition to a treatment of the term Duytsch , this article also deals with some other, strongly related cruces in the Twe-spraack .


of Short-Range Ordered Ferric Arsenate from Extended X‐ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy" I a recent study, we have concluded that the "chain model" proposed by Paktunc and co-workers for amorphous ferric arsenate (AFA) is incorrect, and that AFA possesses a local scorodite-type structure (framework model). In their Comment, Paktunc and Manceau questioned our EXAFS shell fits, arguing that our structure assessment was not supported by the data. Here, we show that the Comment is based on several misconceptions and that the authors ignored major findings of Mikutta et al. As EXAFS. Fixing the coordination number (CN) of the As−Fe path to either two (chain model) or four (framework model) was justified because σ(As−Fe) and CN(As−Fe) were highly correlated in individual sample fits, and CN(As−Fe) has previously been determined as 2.2 and 3.2, respectively. The criticism that we have failed to recognize reduced CNs in nanometer-sized AFA is unfounded as we pointed out that for a ∼1 nm scorodite cluster the average CNs of the As−Fe and Fe− As paths are ∼2.4, and that a straightforward interpretation of EXAFS-derived CNs is problematic for nanoparticles. We were well-aware that a fixed CN is counterbalanced by the respective Debye−Waller parameter (σ). However, fit comparisons with fixed CNs can be a useful diagnostic tool when comparing two alternative structural models. Because the prominent noncollinear As−Fe−O MS path employed in our fits scales with CN(As−Fe), the better fits of the framework model as compared to the chain model (e.g., reduced χ = 374 vs 246 for AFA(N)) indeed provide suggestive evidence for more than two Fe neighbors of As. Furthermore, we nowhere referred to 1-nm sized AFA particles but instead to a coherently scattering domain (CSD) size. In fact, there is no information available showing that the particle size of AFA is ∼1 nm as claimed by Paktunc and Manceau. We have calculated a theoretical CN(As−Fe) of ∼3 for a ∼1.5-nm scorodite cluster, and it can be expected that for larger scorodite clusters, CN(As−Fe) would fall into the 3−4 range, which is supported by As and Fe EXAFS shell-fit results (Table 1). Fe EXAFS. Paktunc and Manceau again stressed that the CNs used in the framework model for the Fe−As and Fe−O paths are unrealistically high because of an AFA particle size of ∼1 nm. However, the primary particle size of AFA for which these CNs were assumed is almost certainly larger than the 1-nm CSD size and hence our shell-fits yield CNs in line with scorodite. In addition, Paktunc and Manceau argued that fixing the degeneracies of the octahedral MS paths to their nominal values for an undistorted FeO6 octahedron 6 allowed the omission of the Fe shell in the chain model. This claim is incorrect for a number of reasons. First, their octahedral MS paths were calculated for scorodite, in which the FeO6 octahedra are much more distorted as compared to AFA. Hence, the octahedral MS scheme calculated for an undistorted FeO6 octahedron 6 is more appropriate for AFA. Note that our octahedral MS path scheme was based on significance tests, which is common practice in EXAFS modeling. Second, in contrast to the reasoning of Paktunc and Manceau, Figure 1 shows that even if all octahedral MS paths are removed from the framework model, this does not necessitate an Fe−Fe shell to be fitted. This is because long-distance Fe−O shells effectively replace the Fe−Fe shell at ∼3.6 Å in the chain model. Apparently, these backscatterers are ignored by Paktunc and Manceau. They also argued that we were able to omit the Fe−Fe shell from the chain model because we ignored


"Overview of the U.S. Real Estate Market" analyzes the national and major metro markets, both in terms of macroeconomic fundamentals and real estate market drivers such as supply, demand, rent levels, and vacancies. "Forecasting the U.S. Market" projects real estate market fundamentals for major metros around the country. We forecast the NCREIF index based on our proprietary models using data from leading data and information providers. "Recession Simulation and Its Effects on Real Estate" analyzes the effects of two different types of economic downturns on property markets: a short and shallow downturn and a severe prolonged recession. This is scenario planning writ large with detailed simulations down to the property sector and metro level. "Subprime Fallout: The Impact on Commercial Real Estate" addresses the shock to the economy and investigates ramifications to the commercial real estate industry. "Capital Markets: Dramatic Shifts and Opportunities" assesses the current seizure in capital markets and the real and possible effects on commercial real estate. It looks at the challenges of reduced capital and also the potential opportunities created in the process.


The invention discloses a diagnostic method for a capacitive humidity sensor comprising a heater, and a capacitance-sensing element that individually indentifies heater, temperature-sensing element, or capacitance-sensing element degradation. By this method, individual elements of the sensor may be replaced or compensated for to allow for further operation.


ideologues and scholars, including some interesting case studies of how individual writers have had to amend their views with the shifting winds of policy change (e.g. p. 90.) His bibliography includes useful references to a number of Soviet works on India; unfortunately, however, it does not embrace articles by some of the important younger writers whose wide-scope articles also contain important comment on India. Taken as a whole, the monograph is a commendable contribution, regrettably not available in English. It does not purvey blinding insights or artful political science models; rather, it shows the author's considerable competence in dealing with a subject area that is rich in allegations and rumors but notably short on facts. Rothermund is not led astray by propaganda and preconceptions; his moderate judgements are informative and welcome. The monograph is a valuable addition to the very small number of good studies available on India's foreign relations.


Abstract : A numerical finite difference method is developed to simulate the viscous flow over blunt/sharp bodies at incidence. Herein, a two-layer model is suggested. The inner region consists of the three-dimensional boundary layer and boundary region. The governing system applies in boundary regions and for problems with cross flow reversal. The equations are integrated by a predictor-corrector scheme. For the turbulent boundary layer analysis, both a mixing length model and a two-equation kinetic energy-dissipation system is considered for Reynolds stress closure. Numerical solutions are compared with experimental data and indicate that the present formulation can give an accurate prediction of aerodynamic loads, skin friction and heat transfer rates on sphere-cone-cylinder-flare shape bodies at angle of attack. The calculations are suitable for (i) supersonic or hypersonic freestreams, (ii) large Reynolds number and (iii) flows without streamwise flow separation; however, secondary flow reversal is allowed.


Objective To investigate the effect of post-stroke depression on the nerve function rehabilitation. Methods Eighty acute stroke patients were included in the study. After inclusion,we did three times of assessments at the end of 1 month,3 months,6 months respectively using HAMD assessment to determine whether there had depression or not, as well as SSS(modified edingburgh-seoring scale)for neurological function, ADL(activity of daily living). Results The morbidity and severity of PSD were related to the degrees of neurological impairment and daily living ability decline. PSD was not correlated with stroke location, size. Conclusions PSD is a frequent and longterm complication in acute cerebro-vascular disease, which influences speed of rehabilitation of neurological impairment in stroke patients. Anti-Depressive therapy could ameliorate the symptom of depression and improve the ability of daily living and neurologic function notably

Key words:
Cerebral stroke; Post-stroke depression; Neurological impairment; Activity of daily living


e13523 Background: Recent studies have shown that siRNA knockdown of the cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase, PDE5 can suppress growth and induce apoptosis of human breast tumor cells. However, conventional PDE5 inhibitors have only modest in vitro tumor cell growth inhibitory activity at concentrations that cannot be achieved in vivo. We hypothesized that this may be attributed to the reversible nature of their binding to PDE5.

METHODS
A series of alkyl halide derivatives of the PDE5 inhibitor, tadalafil were synthesized and evaluated for in vitro tumor cell growth inhibitory activity, mechanism of action, tumor selectively, and in vivo antitumor activity.

RESULTS
Among 18 derivatives synthesized, 15 inhibited the growth of human breast MDA-MB-231 tumor cells with IC50 values in the 10-9 to 10-6 M range. Compound 6 potently inhibited tumor cell growth with an IC50 of 6 nM and induced apoptosis. Normal human mammary epithelial cells that do not express PDE5 were insensitive to treatment, while breast tumor cell lines that express PDE5 were highly sensitive. Compound 6 selectively suppressed cGMP hydrolysis in lysates from treated cells and increased intracellular cGMP levels. Moreover, intermittent treatment (3hrs) suppressed growth as effectively as continuous treatment (72hrs). These observations along with molecular docking studies are consistent with a mechanism involving irreversible PDE5 inhibition. Screening in the NCI-60 panel revealed striking sensitivity among most human tumor cell lines from breast, renal, CNS, ovarian, and hematological origin with IC50 values in the low nanomolar range. Compound 10 was predicted to have favorable pharmacokinetic properties and evaluated for in vivo antitumor efficacy. With an IC50 of 2 nM to inhibit human Caki-1 renal tumor cell growth, compound 10 significantly suppressed tumor growth in the Caki-1 xenograft mouse model.

CONCLUSIONS
Mono-alkylating derivatives of tadalafil have potential therapeutic utility for a broad range of solid and hematological tumors.


An intrinsic characteristic of forestry work is that it is an outdoor activity, exposing its workers to the prevailing climate conditions. The rate of occupational health hazards and postural discomfort is very high among forestry workers. The factors which reduce the physiological working capacity of worker are climatic factors and technical factors. This paper deals with the measures and techniques which are applicable to reduce the occupational health hazards and postural discomforts in forestry sectors by minimizing the adverse effects of climatic and technical factors. The improvement of safety, health, well-being and efficiency is a basic condition for prosperity, and ergonomics is a very important tool for this. Volume 6 Issue 2 :302-307 Asian Journal of Home Science December, 2011


Abstract : This article discusses the new type of training given tank crews in one of the sections of the Moscow Military District. The new type of training includes systematic, persistent work on tank simulators, diagrams, instructional wall sheets, cut-away stands, part-indicating devices for assemblies and components of the vehicle, and other devices as well. The authors state that the role of the simulator has become more important in relation to the reduction of training time and that simulators have helped the student to develop to the point of being an automaton in the techniques of changing gear and of turning and stopping the tank. (Author)


Due to the high variability in tumor morphology and the low signal-to-noise ratio inherent to mammography, manual classification of mammogram yields a significant number of patients being called back, and subsequent large number of biopsies performed to reduce the risk of missing cancer. The convolutional neural network (CNN) is a popular deep-learning construct used in image classification. This technique has achieved significant advancements in large-set image-classification challenges in recent years. In this study, we had obtained over 3000 high-quality original mammograms with approval from an institutional review board at the University of Kentucky. Different classifiers based on CNNs were built, and each classifier was evaluated based on its performance relative to truth values generated by histology results from biopsy and two-year negative mammogram follow-up confirmed by expert radiologists. Our results showed that CNN model we had built and optimized via data augmentation and transfer learning have a great potential for automatic breast cancer detection using mammograms.


Combined with the pile foundation work of one bridge in deep water based upon scheme comparison the construction scheme with float platform is determined. In this paper according to this method details are introduced for the platform erection, fabrication and allocation of steel casing and other aspects, which acquired good construction effects.


Objective:To evaluate the result of diagnosis and surgical treatment of pancreatic pseudocyst.Methods:The clinical data of 88cases diagnosed as the pancreatic pseudocyst and treated by surgical method from January 2002 to Apirl 2006 were retrospectively analyzed.Results:Seventy-four cases having B-US,there were 73 positive diagnosis(98.6%);CT performed in 71 cases there were 70 positive diagnosis(98.6%);MRI performed in 11 cased the diagnosis were all positive.The operative methods performed in 88 cases included Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy(39 cases),cystogastrostomy(34 cases),pancreatoduodenectomy(2 cases),externa1 drainage(9 cases),excision of body and tail of pancrea+splenectomy(3 cases),cystogastrostomy+Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy(1 case).The postoperative complications of Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy and cystogastrostomy were lower than externa1 drainage's(χ2=12.065,P0.0125;χ2=8.246,P0.0125),and no significant difference between Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy's and cystogastrostomy's(χ2=0.347,P0.0125).The recurrence rates of cystogastrostomy and externa1 drainage were greater than Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy's(χ2=7.39,P0.0125;χ2=9.06,P0.0125),and no significant difference between externa1 drainage and cystogastrostomy(χ2=0.328,P0.0125).Conclusions:Pancreatic pseudocyst is diagnosed correctly by imaging examinations such as B-US、CT、MRI etc.Pseudocyst's predilection site was situated mainly in pancreatic body and tail.Externa1 drainage was performed exclusively on the patient whose pancreatic pseudocyst was ruptured or infected because of more postoperative coplications and high reccurence rate.Compare Roux-en-Y cystjoejunostomy to cystogastrostomy,the recurrence rate of Roux-en-Y cystojejunostomy was lower than cystogastrostomy's,but no significant difference in the postoperative complications,so Roux-en-Y cystjoejunostomy was the first choice for the treatment of pancreatic pseudocyst.Other operative methods could be developed according to patient and hospital's conditions.


For large satellite ground stations with multiple parabolic antennas or multi-beam digital array antennas, the construction of tracking, telemetry and command (TT&C) equipment is suitable for an architecture based on resource dynamic recombination technology. Facing engineering application, system structure and equipment configuration scheme of resource recombination system are designed, and a method of resource recombination and scheduling is put forward. At the same time, aiming at the development requirements of integration, digitization, generalization and intelligence of satellite TT&C equipment, the technology development direction of resources dynamic recombination and the key technologies needed to be broken through are discussed in this paper.


A non-invasive, in Vivo method for measuring Sub-clinical or clinical inflammation or irritation of mammalian skin from exposure of the Skin to a topical skin care product, exposure to an external aggression or combinations thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes the Steps of collecting eicosanoid from the skin using a non invasive collection device and analyzing levels of eicosanoid collected from the skin. A kit for measuring a marker of skin irritation or inflammation is also disclosed. The kit includes a non-invasive collection device for col lecting Secretions from the skin Surface, and an immunoas Say for measuring level of eicosanoid in the Secretions.


A method of producing a multilayer structure is provided, wherein the method comprises forming a phase change material layer onto a substrate, forming a protective layer, forming a further layer on the protective layer, patterning the further layer in an first patterning step, patterning the protective layer and the phase change material layer by a second patterning step. In particular, the first patterning step may be an etching step using chemical etchants. Moreover, electrodes may be formed on the substrate before the phase change material layer is formed, e.g. the electrodes may be formed on one level, e.g. may form a planar structure and may not form a vertically structure.


In the paper, by virtue of convolution theorem for the Laplace transforms, by three monotonicity rules for the ratios of two definite integrals, of two Laplace transforms, and of two functions, and by other analytic techniques, the author presents decreasing monotonicity of two ratios defined by three or four polygamma functions. These results confirm guesses posed by the author.


Korean trains pass many mountain areas, so the volume of structures like bridge and tunnel has large part of railway lines. Train speed-up naturally needs a straight line in railway, then structures are increasing, and this influences passenger's comfort and the safety of operation, and it needs more track maintenance. The stiffness of bridge and tunnel is higher than the soil in the roadbed in spite of dynamic difference in vibration and displacement. Differences in stiffness have more dynamic effects and increase the deformation and destruction in the track and roadbed. This study will measure periodically to structure's approaches which have very fast track irregularity and analyze dynamic differences and track irregularity near structure's approaches, so realize the cause of track irregularity of structure's approaches and use basic data for reasonably strengthening method of structure's approaches.


Reactive milling and thermal processing methods were used to prepare a large variety of perovskites like ABO3 and La2NiO4. The single-phase nanoparticle of ABO3 was synthesised at different milling times in dependence on the starting oxides. The grain size of ABO3 nanoparticles in the range of 10-30 nm was conditional upon milling time. Single-phase nanoparticles of La2NiO4 were obtained by using 6 h milling combined with annealing at 750°C. A structure conversion from a layer into a single perovskite of La2NiO4 was observed as milling time increased, whereas the crystalline structure of ABO3 remained almost unchanged. Further analysis of HRTEM images confirms a core-shell structure of nanoparticles.


Objective
To investigate the diagnostic value of interventional ultrasound biopsy for phyllode tumor of breast (PTB).

Methods
Forty-eight female patients with PTB diagnosed by surgical pathological examination from April 2016 to June 2018 in Datong Coal Mine General Hospital were selected. Forty-eight patients were 30 to 65 years old, 36 cases were benign PTB, 7 cases were borderline, and 5 cases were malignant. The ultrasound imaging manifestations of patients were analyzed, and the accuracy between the results of ultrasound interventional biopsy and surgical pathological diagnosis were calculated.

Results
The accuracy of ultrasound interventional biopsy in the diagnosis of PTB was 95.83% (46/48), and the proportions of benign, borderline, and malignant diagnostis of PTB were 34/36 (94.44%), 7/7, and 5/5. The ultrasound images of 34 patients with benign PTB and 9 patients with bordering PTB showed lobulated tumors, major diameter <5.0 cm, solid internal echo, clear edges, no or small blood flow signals, and 5 patients with PTB malignant tumors were round or oval, with a length of ≥5.0 cm, the internal echos were cystic, the edges were blurred, and the blood flow signals were abundant.

Conclusions
Ultrasound interventional biopsy has high accuracy in the diagnosis of PTB, and can provide imaging information such as location, long diameter, and morphology of tumor, and can provide basis for subsequent surgical treatment.

Key words:
Phyllode tumor of breast; Ultrasound interventional biopsy; Pathological examination


Five new-type comb-like polycarboxylate superplasticizers with different monomers containing sulfonic groups,odium vinyl-sulfonate,sodium allyl-sulfonate,sodium methyl acryl sulfonate(SMAS),sodium p-styrene-sulfonate,2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid,were synthesized respectively.FT-IR was used to identify the structure of superplasticizers.Orthogonal design results show that SMAS is the best monomer containing sulfonic group,and a new-type superplasticizer of polycarboxylic acid(SPC3) has been synthesized through copolymerization of SMAS,acryl acid and acrylate methoxypolyethylene glycols.Application experiments indicate that when the adding dosage is 0.30% and water-cement ratio is 0.29,water-reducing ratio for SPC3 is 36% which is much higher than 17% for superplasticizers based on sulfonated naphthalene-formaldehyde condensates(SNF).Slump-loss for pumping concrete with SPC3 is 8.9% within 120 min,which is much lower than 65.0% for pumping concrete with SNF under the same condition.90 days compressive strength for high performance concrete reaches 71.6 MPa when adding dosage of SPC3 is 0.30%.


Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia is growing very fast. It supporting by Muslim
middle class population that was beginning to growth since at 80 decade. Ideas of
Islamic philanthropy rose from very long discourse about requirement to revitalization
of managing alms giving funds (zakat, infaq, shadaqah and waqaf) in Indonesia which
approximation have potencies until 217 trillion rupiah.
Tradition using of alms giving funds to making social service was begun early of
20 century. Since of born Muhammadiyah have been using alms giving funds to making
social service infrastructure in education, social and health. Now Muhammadiyah have
thousands facilities of social service white called Amal Usaha Muhamamdiyah (AUM)
which developing with accumulation of alms giving funds. On early decade 90,
tradition of professional managing of alms giving begun in Indonesia. It started which
born of Dompet Dhuafa (DD) as Amil Zakat Institution which made by Public Daily
Republika as element of Association of Indonesia Muslim Intellectual (ICMI). DD have
been boosting of change managing alms giving from traditional model to professional
model which base of professional institutional which accountable, transparency and
innovation program.
This research used comparative method about cases of using philanthropy funds
on Muhammadiyah and DD. Both is same as NGO which made from society initiative
and rely on mobilization potency of alms giving funds to supporting them social
activism. This research focus of two point. First, Motive and typology of relation of
them social service within middle of dynamic existent of social service by state, and
Second, strategy and institution policy which implemented to survive to providing
nonprofit service and to giving access to the poorest society.
This research addressed that both have different motivation. Muhammadiyah
have been appearing motive of authority ranking or making patronage which rely on
supporting by its members. Whereas DD have been appearing motive of community
sharing which stressing social sentiment of Muslim brotherhood which called � ummat�
within growth of Muslim middle class. On under Dutch colonialism Muhammadiyah
had making social service to competing white social service which produce d by state
because both have different purpose within provide social service. On phase of
Indonesia independence, especially under New Order era which dominance of state to
provide basic service in education and health, Muhammadiyah shifting typology of
social service from competing to be complementary with cooperated by state within
implemented of national development strategy. Whereas DD early to be complementary
social service of state under New Order era and shifting to be substitutive on Reform era
along with repairing internal management of institution, increasing public support, and
responding to public aspires to get increasing quality of welfare service .


A unique ex vivo mock cataract surgery model is used to study the role of vimentin in repair cell function during wound healing within a clinically relevant setting. Vimentin is found to be critical for the function of repair cells in directing the collective migration of the epithelium during wound healing.


735Background: Molecular profiling (MP) for PDAC has gained increased acceptance and we previously demonstrated that targeting actionable mutations can improve patient (pt) outcomes. However, the c...


This chapter includes investigations of processes of the atmospheric boundary layer and the interaction between the atmosphere and the underlying surface land and water surfaces. Most of the investigations were not made in a climatological context, but they are highly relevant for climate modelling and understanding of climatological processes. After an introduction of the terminus Boundary-Layer climate, relevant studies of this topic in the former GDR are presented.


In Robert Mabro's extensive contribution to the analysis of oil and Arab economic development, three themes are consistently present: concern over sustainability; emphasis on the central importance of developing human capital; and rejection of the concept of 'resource curse'.


Few, very few, movie cameramen achieve the celebrity of actors and directors, a fact that is perhaps a little surprising as so many still photographers have achieved world fame - Brassai, Steiglitz, Doisneau, Adams, Cazneaux, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Weston, Curtis, Leibovitz - the list goes on and on. Most people familiar with these talents would be hard-pressed to name three outstanding movie cameramen, although the success of Australian cameramen (John Seale, Don McAlpine, Russell Boyd, Peter James, Dean Semler and others) with international awards over the past ten years has probably created some awareness of the craft.


The PSILink software and commercial online service described in this articel offers a practical and effective alternative for the many public and special libraries who cannot easely get access to the Internet. Performance Systems International, Inc. (PSI), offers an economical subscription service allowing sophisticated Internet access to any PC/modem owner. This service uses the PSILink software interface for electronic mail services, and for delivery of USENET newsgroup and Bitnet List-serv (topical discussionn groups) messages. The software also provides for anonymous FTP (file transfer protocol) downloads of text and ninary or program files maintenened at Internet file archives around the world


Drying is a process-water discharge of materials using thermal energy so that the level of the water content of the material menurun.Proses drying is usually accompanied by the evaporation of water contained in the material. In this lab used a rotary kiln dryer to dry the grain. Rotary dryer consists of a horizontal cylindrical shell mounted on a roller bearing, so the cylinder can rotate and tilt angle position a little shaping. Feed entered at the high end of the cylinder, and will come out as a dry product on the other end. As the heater can be used hot air or exhaust gases of combustion are still having a high temperature. On grain drying using the rotary dryer can be concluded that the greater the temperature used for drying the evaporative H2O will further increase. The greater the temperature used to dry the less time for drying. The higher the temperature the higher the rate of drying is used and the more material used, the lower the rate of drying pengeringannya.Laju will decrease if the water layer that covers the material has a thin, water in uapkan the less, so it needs a bit of heat as well. On grain drying with variable temperature 55oC, 60 oC, 65 oC, 70 oC, 75 oC obtained% H2O evaporated with 6.67% of data, 7.74%, 8.91%, 9.76%, 10.65% and Data obtained for the drying rate 0.098 lb.ft2 / h, 0.187 lb.ft2 / h, 0.197 lb.ft2 / h, 0.212 lb.ft2 / h, 0.237 lb.ft2 / h. Optimum temperature is 65 ° C, not too low and not too high for the heating temperature. At the time variable immersion 24 hours, 27 hours, 30 hours, 33 hours, 36 hours obtained obtained with the data teruapkan% H2O 4.26%, 9.46%, 10.92%, 11.49%, 16.63% and Data obtained for the drying rate of 0.049 lb.ft2 / h, 0.101 lb.ft2 / h, 0.132 lb.ft2 / h, 0.142 lb.ft2 / h, 0.196 lb.ft2 / h. From the experiment it can be concluded that the longer the immersion time, the greater the drying rate.


# Framework launched for GP fundholding {#article-title-2}

A new accountability framework has been launched for general practice fundholding. It identifies four main areas of fundholders' responsibilities—management accountability, accountability to patients and the wider public, financial accountability, and professional accountability.

Under management accountability it is proposed that practices should set out in an annual plan how it proposes to use the fund and management allowances and submit the plan to the health authority for approval. Fundholders should announce major shifts in their purchasing intentions; should submit a brief annual report to the health authority setting out performance against plan; and should hold regular meetings with the health authority.

To make them more accountable to the public fundholders are expected to publish key documents such as annual practice plans and primary health care charters and send them to the community health council as well as making them available for consultation by patients. There should be appropriate …


quarter of a century ago, in 1978, a young artist known as Natalia LLconsidered Poland's pioneer feminist artist-organized in Wroclaw the first significant exhibit of Polish women artists, entitled simply "Women's Art." Two years later another artist, Izabella Gustowska, presented a second group show in her Poznan gallery under the same unpretentious title, and organized three more women's exhibits there between 1987 and 1994: Presence I, II, III. Today one can talk about a solid tradition of group shows by women, with a roster of more than a dozen major exhibits throughout Poland, augmented by numerous presentations abroad, the most recent one, entitled 'Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Womens Art in Poland," at The Sculpture Center, Queens, New York, April 11-June 8, 2003. It was curated by Aneta Szylak, one of the best-known Polish curators of the younger generation.


Recent two years,our country puts forward to enhance macro-regulation of land,and attempts many innovation measurement.This paper begins from the necessity of land macro-regulation,analyzes its present condition and problems existed,and then makes some corresponding measurement.


An optical information processing apparatus comprises an information recording medium, a semiconductor laser diode for issuing a laser beam and an optical system adapted to direct the issued laser beam from the semiconductor laser diode toward the information recording medium and then return the reflected laser beam from the medium to the diode and provided with means capable of rotating the plane of polarization of the reflected laser beam from the medium by 90 DEG relative to the plane of polarization of the issued laser beam.


Abstract Gelechiaomelkoi sp. nov. is described from the Ukok plateau and South Chuisky ridge in the Altai Mountains of Russia. The adult of the new species, including its male genitalia, is illustrated and compared with species most similar in morphology and DNA barcodes—G.sororculella (Hübner, 1817) and G.jakovlevi Krulikovsky, 1905 from the Palaearctic region, as well as G.mandella Busck, 1904 from Canada. This last species is redescribed based on adult specimens, including the genitalia of both sexes, and a lectotype is designated. Gelechiasirotina Omelko, 1986 is recorded from the Altai Republic for the first time. An updated list of six species of Gelechia from the Altai Mountains of Russia is given. Dorsal habitus photographs of all species are provided. The male genitalia of the lectotype of G.jakovlevi is illustrated for the first time.


To improve the accessibility of emergency vehicles after a large earthquake, it is important to quantify the effects of risk mitigation strategies. In this paper, using a simulation model that describes the movement of emergency vehicles amidst property collapse after a large earthquake, we evaluate street network accessibility in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Moreover, by analyzing the relationships between local environments and street network accessibility, we discuss the effects of risk mitigation strategies on improving street network accessibility.


The presence of ruderal and mid-field vegetation promotes conservation of bio- diversity and provides an additional source of food for insect pollinators. The white dead- nettle is a common synanthropic plant visited frequently by various groups of insects, as it is a source of pollen and nectar. In 2012-2013, in the city of Lublin (Poland), signalling and food attractants in L. album flowers were analysed using light and scanning electron microscopy. The pipetting method was used for determination of nectar abundance in the flowers, and the content of sugars in the nectar was assessed with the use of an Abbe re- fractometer. It was found that the white dead-nettle flowers emitted a fragrance and were equipped with nectar guides, and the corolla and stamens had glandular trichomes and pa- pillae secreting essential oils. On the stamens, there are also non-glandular trichomes, which play a role of pollen presenters. The nectary in the L. album flower has a shape of an irregular disc partly surrounding the base of the ovary. The content of sugars in the nectar was 43%. Sugar and honey yields per ha were calculated, and the values obtained were 153 kg and 191 kg, respectively.


Healthcare and social security. The reform of healthcare in the United States: its good and bad aspects, and what we can learn thereof


Resource constrained project scheduling problem is one of the most important issues in project planning and management. The objective function of this problem is to minimize the completion time of a project. When there is budget constraint or high risk for investment, using the criteria such as cash flows is so important. The development of computer systems and processors makes it possible to take more assumptions into modeling to obtain robust optimal solution. Recent research has been conducted on multimode resource constrained project scheduling problem with preemptive activities (P-MRCPSP). Assuming preemption of activities causes the model to approach the real-world problems in project scheduling. This assumption may occur due to factors such as equipment failure and shortage of resources. In most of the previous studies, the change in mode of activities was not possible after the discontinuation. In this paper, it is assumed that each activity can continue in various modes of operation after a stop. The developed model aims to minimize project completion time and maximize cash flow of the project, simultaneously. Two algorithms, i.e. Simulated Annealing (SA) and Multiple Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) have been developed to solve the proposed model. The obtained results of these two algorithms show that SA algorithm has the better performance.


Thirdly, an interesting observation is that the survey was directed towards all ophthalmologists. This could be a probable reason for a reduced response rate of approximately 35%, as the majority of general ophthalmologists refer the corneal ulcer to cornea specialists for better management. The response rate would have peaked up if the survey had been directed towards cornea specialists only. Additionally, more private practitioners responded to the survey as probably most government hospital practitioners were busy performing COVID‐19 duties.[3]


Plant recruitment in the very first stages of primary succession is limited by seed availability and harsh abiotic conditions. Facilitation, the positive effect of an earlier successional species on a later successional one, is often significant during primary succession and may result from the trapping of seeds and (or) the improvement of seed germination, seedling emergence, establishment, growth, and survival. We examined the effect of mature Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. (Caryophyllaceae) plants on Leymus mollis Trin. (Poaceae) seedling recruitment on a coastal dune in subarctic Quebec, Canada. Facilitative effects of H. peploides on L. mollis may be critical because the latter species is a key element in the dynamics of the coastal dunes at high latitudes in eastern Canada. Honckenya peploides forms small mounds on the upper beach (the embryo dunes) that are typically distinct from the foredune. Leymus mollis progression towards the upper beach occurs through clonal growth, but seedling recruitment ...


Industrial symbiosis pursues the implementation of synergies among companies in terms of ensuring a beneficial coexistence, not only environmental but also economic and social. This involves cross-industry and cross-sectorial collaboration within a community approach, providing a competitive advantage through exchanges of material, energy and water. Collaboration and synergistic possibilities offered by geographic proximity underlie successfully implemented experiences. This work aims at conceiving the entities involved as suppliers, receivers and processes in analogy with a supply chain. An industrial symbiosis supply chain model has been developed so that firms can understand the industrial symbiosis opportunities that they might have in comparison to a traditional supply chain of resources. The model was implemented computationally with a supply chain-based software tool in order to analyse and experiment with a primary industrial symbiosis network of three large companies from the process industry. The performance of the network model has been outlined with a focus on resilience under several fluctuations that might happen with regard to the resources exchanged. In brief, this methodology provides a complementary approach to the feasibility studies of industrial symbiosis projects at the design stages so as to support the decision-making about implementing new resource efficiency-based configurations that should perform as sustainable supply chains.


W demonstrate a technique for improving the conversion efficiency in conventional silicon (Si) solar cells by using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effects to harvest incident light energy over metal finger electrodes. Although the light absorption region beneath the metal finger electrodes cannot generate photocurrent, in this study, we employ the extraordinary transmission phenomenon, due to SPR effects, to significantly enhance the degree of light harvesting below the metal electrodes and, thereby, improve the efficiency of the entire solar cell. Therefore, the negative effect of covering the absorption area with opaque metal finger electrodes can be minimized or eliminated completely by taking advantage of the SPR effect of the metal electrodes.


In the conditions of a market economy, issues related to the variety of forms of ownership should become the subject of deep economic research. The issue with the use of fixed assets is becoming particularly acute. Improving their operation is one of the main factors of economic progress, in this case it is possible to increase the volume of production without additional capital investments. The relevance of this research topic is that fixed assets have a determining specific weight in immobilized (non-current) assets, therefore, the final consequences of the enterprise's activity largely depend on their number, value, technical level, efficiency of use: production output, its cost price, profit, profitability, financial stability. The development of production is inseparable from the problems of effective use of the main production assets. The importance of fixed assets in production is determined by the role of tools in the development of productive forces and industrial relations. With the development of technical progress, the dependence of social production on the state and level of use of fixed assets increases.


Abstract : This report presents test results which describe materials and systems that can be used to protect buildings from floodwaters. Each year flooding causes more property damage in the United States than any other natural disaster. High flood damage costs to property have produced an awareness that nonstructural methods should be developed to augment flood protection provided by dams, levees, and similar structures. Because of the frequency and extent of flooding, strong initiatives to protect buildings from repetitive flood damage losses will provide a quick return on investment. The structural integrity of a building must be known or the building may be flood proofed to an extent that it will be excessively loaded and damaged or collapsed. It was determined by model and prototype tests that brick-veneer and concrete-block walls can withstand only approximately 3 ft of static waterhead without damage. If a building or home is loaded to excessive depths, it can fail instantaneously and possibly result in injury or death to occupants. Closures, materials, and systems were tested to determine the effectiveness in protecting homes or buildings from floodwaters. The following conclusions were derived from the tests: A watertight closure must have gasket material at its connection to the sidewalls and bottom and must be bolted. The connections for the closure at the sidewalls and floor must be continuous and sealed securely to the walls and the floor. Water will flow freely through a brick wall and along the space at any water barrier between thicknesses of brick. Two layers of brick will allow a brick wall to support greater water depths. A brick or concrete-block wall can be protected against water flowing through it excessively by using a thick coating with body. This type of coating must be applied with great care or the wall will not be leakproof.


Abstract The class of "general" M-estimators for the stochastic linear regression model is considered, and influence and change-of-variance functions are used to approximate the main term of the mean squared error (MSE). The estimator is then found in the class that minimizes the maximum of that approximate MSE over the ϵ-contamination neighborhood. This approach allows for additional flexibility of designing estimators optimal for prediction in specific regions of the factor space, and it provides a practical way of choosing estimators' tuning constants as functions of a fraction of contamination and sample size.


the KdPV- and IL-1ra-mediated inhibition of NF-jB nuclear localization revealed a reversal in IjB-a phosphorylation and degradation, followed by cytosolic accumulation. LPS induced endogenous IL-1b biosynthesis in a time-dependent manner; the administration of exogenous recombinant human interleukin 1 (rhIL-1) resulted in a dose-dependent activation of NF-jB. KdPV and IL-1ra abrogated the eect of rhIL-1. Pretreatment with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) indomethacin, an inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenase, blocked the LPS-induced activation of NF-jB. These results indicate the involvement of prostanoid-dependent (NSAID-sensitive) and IL-1-dependent (IL-1ra-sensitive) mechanisms mediating LPSinduced NF-jB translocation and activation, a pathway that is regulated, in part, by a negative feedback mechanism transduced through IjB-a, the major cytosolic inhibitor of NF-jB.


The production sale procedures of machinery production enterprices have such charcters as many orders,massive prodution capitals and complex interface manegement.An order information management system based on Spring JSF frame is put forward to solve these problems. The workflow short message are also used to improve the usability. The new design method minimizes the complexity of the system. Its successful application achieves the information's centralizing sharing so as to maximize the enterprice's benefits.


Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and an important public health problem globally, but the mechanism of CHD is still complex and unclear. The purpose of the current study was to explore the mechanism underlying CHD using high-throughput technology. The study participants were patients with coronary angiography (CAG)-proven severity of coronary artery stenosis. Patients were divided into control and test group based on specific inclusion criteria, and data were collected regarding the results of routine inspection and the Gensini score (GS). We explored the mechanism underlying CHD with high-throughput integration of circular RNA (circRNA)-microRNA (miRNA) data. Through the expression of circRNA-miRNA, we discovered a total of 110 circRNAs to be differentially expressed in the two groups. Of these, 73 were upregulated and 37 downregulated in the CHD (fold ≥2.0 and P<0.05). Among 18 miRNAs, 13 were upregulated and 5 were downregulated in the CHD group (fold ≥2.0 and P<0.05). Enrichment analysis showed that circRNAs participate in a variety of disease development processes, biological processes, molecular functions, cellular components, and pathways (P<0.05). The mechanism underlying CHD may be closely related to up- or downregulated circRNA and miRNA and co-expression of circRNA-miRNA specifically involved regulate multiple pathways and multiple cellular and molecular biological processes.


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A study of the nanoporosity of soils was conducted to determine the correlation between several soil properties and nanoporosity as measured by mercury-intrusion porosimetry. The volume of pores with diameters < 10 4 nm and the surface area of these nanopores differed greatly among 16 soils. The volume and surface area of nanopores in some soils were mainly in pores of diameters < 100 nm. In others, the volume and surface area were associated chiefly with pores of 10 3 -10 4 nm diameter. The volume was correlated with organic C content for pores of diameters of 10 3 -10 4 nm and 10 2 -10 3 nm (r values of 0.583 and 0.688, respectively) and clay content for pores with diameters < 10 2 nm (r value of 0.512). The surface area of the soils was correlated with volume of pores < 100 nm (r = 0.956). As a result of the abundance of nanopores and the large surface areas associated with them, we suggest that additional research be conducted to assess their importance in soil toxicology.


Genetic algorithm (GA) theory, a global search technique, is introduced into shock isolation system optimum design. The best power that makes isolation system's performance reach limit is got through GA. The extreme response displacement of the system is minimum when system is impacted. The calculation show that GA is very effective in shock isolation system optimum design.


Cattle estrus detection system based on Internet of Things is designed and implemented by using Arduino pro-mini, gyroscope, acceleration sensor, bluetooth master and slave module. The implemented system measures cattle's moving and the measured data are transmitted to the computer connected to RX module by bluetooth TX module. They are plotted in 2-dimensional graph on the computer monitor and the number of transition at each sensor axis are calculated from the graph. The detected and gathered data from the system are analyzed by the proposed algorithm to decide which cows are in the estrus or not. The method to apply bluetooth scatternet is shown and the proposed system can be used to increase the success rate of artificial insemination in normal estrus by detecting the cow's behaviors such as the number of jumping. In this paper, the implemented cattle behavior detecting the system(TX module) are strapped on cattle's leg and it measures the cattle behaviors for determining where that a cattle is estrus or not by the proposed algorithm.


Starting as early as the fourth millennium B.C., Egyptian writings on papyrus spread knowledge all around the Mediterranean Sea. Carbon-based pigment from Egyptian period were used as a base for ink manufacturing dedicated to writing [1]. Although a large number of papyri have been collected during archaeological excavations, the complexity of the amorphous nature of black inks limits our understanding of Old Egyptian writing techniques. Recent studies on papyri fragments from both Herculanum and ancient Egypt showed the presence of metallic element such as copper and lead, their origin remains unanswered [2,3].


TV broadcasting has been in Nigeria for more than 50 years (1959-2009). Its development has brought about a series of local responses to global socioeconomic and political environments and "soft" stimuli. This conclusion is based on a critical, interpretive reading of the history, form, and content of television in Nigeria from Obafemi Awolowo's Western Nigeria Television in Ibadan through the federal government's reactive establishment of the national network: the Nigeria Television Authority, and later, states and private television stations. The ultimate deregulation of television broadcasting in 1992, perceived as Babangida's "politically-correct" reaction to the pressures from the Bretton Woods institutions, opened up national media markets for global penetration, and fast-tracked media globalization and its effects in Nigeria. While television stations in Nigeria have multiplied in numerical terms, programming/content/form have followed the global market/technological determinism turning Nigerian TV into localized versions of commercialized western master-scripts with very little local ideological direction.


This research is motivated by the development of the music industry, in order to obtain new results, through extensive and revolutionary actions to move from the current quality to a new one. The specific hypothesis of the study of the music industry is based on the consideration of the dilemma: although the leaps and interruptions of evolution favor the growth and considerably expand the musical activity, they do not result in a totally new state of quality accompanied by highlighting musical values. Thus, the interpretable cultural result obtained, of the current music industry, is due to a series of external challenges, both solitary distinguished and numerous associated. The study sums up all the challenges, coming from outside the structure of the music industry, to shape the external influence; whose action is reflected in the generation of new internal trends. In this sense, the external influence is the expression, and the internal tendencies are the reflection of this expression. The research used various methods, principles, techniques and scientific procedures combined, and based on the principle of integrity, the author developed his own culturological procedures. At the same time, in the presentation of the material, preference was given to the descriptive method with the application of the elements of comparison, analysis and deduction, as well and the search engine Scopus. The research finds, through the prism of different civilizational paradigms, that the music industry is in the dilemma of its development. In the circumstances of 2022 and for the next period, the author concludes with two directions of development of the music industry that require special research.


4 Understanding the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protectio Turner Center Exhibit Hall, Arcadia UNDERSTANDING THE MIGRANT AND SEASONAL AGRICULTU PROTECTION ACT On December 4, 2006, the DeSoto County Extension Office will be sponsoring an educationa contractors and agricultural employers with compliance requirements of the migrant and se protection act. The program will begin at 5:30 PM at the Turner Center Exhibit Hall and sn provided. Federal and state representatives will conduct the training and there will be a spe transportation, migrant housing, as well as H2A registration information and wage and hou of H2A contracts. Registration for this program is not required. WHOLE FOODS LAUNCHES "ANIMAL COMPASSIONATE" LABE The New York Times reported this week that Whole Foods Market will roll out a line of me "animal compassionate." The labels indicate the animals were raised in a humane manner u reported that Whole Foods "decision to use the new labels comes as a growing number of re animal-welfare claims on meat and egg packaging, including 'free-farmed,' 'certified human range.'" The Times also reported that while the animal-welfare labels are proliferating, "it r they appeal to anyone other than a niche market of animal lovers, particularly since the mea twice as expensive as products that do not carry the labels." Industry watchers agree that th labels has been driven in large part by animal-rights organizations. Whole Foods founder an vegan who has been increasingly outspoken on animal-rights issues. The U.S. government d animals are treated, or verify animal-welfare labels. However, the federal government does truthful and has established definitions for such designations as free range, natural and orga Alert, Thursday, October 26, 2006, Vol. 7, Issue 43.


In recent years, there has been renewed interest in whole blood (WB) transfusion, particularly in damage control resuscitation, in part due to the ability to provide the adequate ratio of blood components in a single transfusion. However, there is insufficient evidence to suggest that WB units maintain their haemostatic function during storage, which could compromise their quality and efficacy if transfused. Here, we evaluate the in vitro haemostatic function of stored WB units over a 28‐day refrigeration period.


Objective To observe the improvement of Guangdong Liangcha Granules (GLG) on restraint-stress-induced peroxidation in genital organs of mice. Meth ods Mice models of peroxidation injury in genital organs were induced by 18-hou r restraint stress. Testicular and ovarian malondialdehyde (MDA) level was detec ted by thiobarbituric acid method,glutathione (GSH) content by HPLC,xanthine o xidase (XOD) and GSH-PX activities by colorimetric method,nitric oxide (NO) co ntent by Griess chemical method and oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) by enzyme-linked fluorescent immunoassay. Results Compared with model group,GLG can markedly reduce MDA level,XOD acitivity and NO contents,in addition,GLG c an effectively increase the ORAC value,GSH content,GSH-PX activity in testis and ovaries. Conclusion Oral treatment of Guangdong Liangcha Granules was found to reduce the status of peroxidation in testis and ovaries,and the improvement may be related to the increase of its free radical scavenging activity and lipid peroxidation.


Arrayed waveguide gratings with reusable delay lines (RDL-AWGs) are demonstrated as high resolving power integrated photonic spectrometers. One of the devices is 71 times more compact than the traditional AWG, which improves the performance of the spectrometer. A resolving power of 27,780 is experimentally demonstrated.


The first cookbooks left the printing presses in the 15th century, and very soon they became popular amongst the readers of the Old Continent. They helped to spread the knowledge not only about products used in various parts of Europe but also about methods of preparing meals. Their authors gave advice on what kind of virtues a chef should have and with what utensils he should equip his kitchen. This paper considers the Koocboec oft familieren keukenboec in a wider European context. A Dutch cookbook, written under a pseudonym of Antonius Magirus, was published in 1612 in Leuven and until 1668 it was the only cookbook printed in the Low Countries at that time. Although it was published in the South Netherlands, it succeeded also in the North. It is easy to find similarities between the Koocboec and Opera dell'arte del cucinare, the major work of Bartolomeo Scappi, but Magirus adapted his recipes to the local skills and tastes.


This paper describes the Message Handling Systems (MHS) standardsfocusing on background,purpose,functions,architecture,naming,addressing andsecurity.The mnemonic O/R address form is discussed in detail by example of theaddressing scheme of CRN,China Research Network.


In our relationship with the objects within the culture of consumerism, we do not consume the objects, but the relationship itself instead. Brands are representations of this relationship idea, which is, in fact, consumed and renewed in the materiality the objects present. More than a discourse on the object, brands become consumerism objects. In the context of graphic brands design, the diversity of styles and trends in visual identity creation showcases the variety of positioning spots our symbolic differentiation culture produces. Each style creates visual codes whose intention is to represent a discourse – or a message – to be communicated to a specific target audience. Based on an analysis report over more than 24.000 visual identities, Logo Lounge website categorized 14 top trend styles in 2014. Among them is the Mono Crest style. The objective of this paper is to identify, in the visual features of this graphic style, the logic of its visual code, and then discuss its use on the visual identity of a brand.


A method and apparatus is provided for electronic trading of financial instruments. Financial instruments may be elec tronically traded according to any of three modes, including single instrument mode, correlated mode, and aggregated mode. One of more market depth representations showing current market price levels, Bids and Asks of the financial instrument(s) to be traded are displayed on a GUI window. The user mouses parallel to the market depth representation to a price level at which the user wishes to initiate a trade, and the moused-over price level is selected. All trade order parameters are pre-constructed either prior to selecting or upon selecting of a price level. The user then clicks a mouse button or initiates some other action of a user input device to place one or more orders.


Objective
To explore the experience of thyroid cancer patients about the diagnosis and post-surgical radioactive iodine treatment.

Methods
A qualitative, descriptive study was used. Thirty-eight patients with thyroid cancer who were undergoing post-surgical radioactive iodine treatment participated in this study. Dairies about the participants′ experience were collected from them. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used.

Results
Three superordinate themes emerged: the psychological process from distress to acceptance; the experience about post-surgical radioactive iodine treatment; and personal growth related to the cancer.

Conclusions
Understanding the psychological process of patients with thyroid cancer after the diagnosis and their experience about post-surgical radioactive iodine treatment can contribute to the clinical staff to improve the care quality for this group.

Key words:
Thyroid neoplasms; Diagnosis; Patients′ experience; Radioactive iodine treatment; Qualitative study


The AMPLEX chip is an AMPlifying multipLEXing, CMOS technology device. It is an analog signal processor, designed at CERN for use with silicon microstrip detectors. However, its application is not limited to conventional microstrips and it is being used in various detector systems. AMPLEX design goals included modest power consumption and reasonable speed. The main drawback of the chip seems to be a lack of documentation. This report will attempt to fill this void by providing a summary of the properties of the AMPLEX chip, a brief synopsis of how it functions, and most importantly an explanation of how to make it operate in a practical circuit. The information in this paper pertains to the application of the AMPLEX chip to microstrip detectors for the electron beam at Brookhaven National Laboratory`s Accelerator Test Facility. Detector design was carried out in the Instrumentation Division. Details of the driving circuit and some information on the inner workings of the AMPLEX chip came directly from CERN and from the paper by E. Beuville et al. The author is in no way connected with CERN, nor is he attempting to promote the AMPLEX chip; he is merely interested in making the chip work andmore » in making it easier for others who might wish the same. Some knowledge of the interior of the chip will help in understanding the process of amplifying and shaping signals, so that is where this paper begins.« less


For a vacuum pump in design ,the calculation of critical speed is nec essary,otherwise it is possible for the pump to occur vibration so violent that the pump will be damaged.The calculation of cricical speed of a vacuum pump is p resented.


Basic causes of electromagnetic noises generated by AC inverter driving system were researched and the radiating characters of a typical driving system were analyzed to remedy driving system's disturbance to related electronic circuit. Analysis results showed that harmonic originated by AC inverter's current-changing was the major cause of driving system's electromagnetic disturbance. Through forms of static coupling, electronic inductance, electromagnetic radiating and earthing system transimitting harmonic caused disturbance to other controlling and measuring circuit. According to the degree of circuit's sensibility to disturbance, electronic circuits were classfied. Based on different kind of circuits and it's specific working condition, methods such as screening,properly earthing and fitting of filter were useful remediation to control electromagnetic disturbance.