The invention relates to a method and system for supporting, in particular, Internet Protocol version 6 based mobility in a low power Wireless Personal Area Network of the present invention relates to mobility support in the low-power wireless networks. In the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) based Wireless Personal Area Network (PAN) of the present invention, mobility when there is a movement of the mobile router confirming that the mobile in the mobile router to another PAN that the movement within the mobile same PAN then, the above movement is movement in the same PAN, to generate a message requesting the neighbor discovery by the mobile router sends a request message to the to the gateway of said mobile PAN, and the gateway receiving this, the mobile router moves and generates a temporary address to be used in the PAN including the temporary addresses and transmits the response message to the mobile router. In addition, the movement to another when moving in the PAN, and the response after receiving the message of the transmission to the gateway, the source address of the binding update message, the gateway generates a binding update message to the temporary address as a source address the address after the change is sent to the home agent. In this way a two-way tunnel is established between the gateway and the home agent. 6LoWPAN (IPv6 Low power Wireless PAN), NEMO (NEtwork MObility), mobility, PAN Coordinator (Coordinator), CoA (Care-of-Address), bi-directional tunnel


Direct displacement‐based design (DDBD) procedure utilizes an equivalent single‐degree‐of‐freedom model to predict seismic demands while neglecting the higher mode effects. Controlled rocking steel cores (CRSCs) vibrate in the first mode of vibration; however, higher modes greatly influence the member forces. Previous studies, in which DDBD has been utilized, have not quantified the contribution of higher mode demands to CRSC's assemblies. This paper aims to extend the DDBD (EDDBD) procedure for low‐damage buildings, equipped with CRSCs. Modal responses are combined with modified SRSS at the design displacement. Design is formulated for the strength and stiffness of the CRSC components. The application of the proposed design approach is illustrated by 3‐, 9‐, and 15‐story archetypes. Results verified by nonlinear dynamic analyses demonstrate the high precision of EDDBD in the design of low‐ to mid‐rise CRSCs. The proposed procedure is applicable to commercial software.


The application of multilayered neural networks (MNN) for transient identification in nuclear power plants has been reported in the literature. However, an obvious disadvantage of the neural networks reported in the literature for the purpose is that they are highly nonlinear in the parameters. A viable alternative to highly nonlinear in the parameter neural netorks is the radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. Therefore, in this paper, a RBF neural network for transient identification in nuclear power plants is presented. Performance comparison of the RBF neural networks and the backpropagation neural networks are also presented.


The problem of reconstructing the body attitude from TLE is difficult due to the accuracy of TLE information and data frequency. However, attitude could be reconstructed when additional information is available, for instance, optical measurements or when additional assumptions could be made (e.g. stable attitude behavior). In this paper we present the main outcomes of the work performed within the Bench-marking Reentry Predictions ESA study, where we analyzed space objects that present similarities with GOCE in terms of aerodynamic stability and geometry.


Changes in employment policies,the expansion of college enrollment,the high demand of the employer and the international financial crisis as well as the university student own subjective and objective reasons,have caused the current university graduates to encounter the unprecedented difficulties in employment,which have also brought about the graduates a series of employment psychological problems including the cognition,mood,society,interpersonal relationship,etc.Country's macro-control,the university's employment guidance,family understanding and support as well as student's self-adjustment are the effective methods to address employment psychological problems of university graduates.


Current media attention on policy about Indigenous people has largely focused
on the plight of rural and remote Indigenous communities and has centred
around two main areas: land and economic well-being. The second dimension
defines the Indigenous person as an economically rational being seeking to
maximise individual benefit and share costs across the community. Policy
options based on individual wealth maximising behaviour and rational self
interested actions may serve to explain economic growth in the dominant
culture of developed countries but is less useful in other contexts. We argue
that assumptions inherent in capitalist policies are unlikely to mesh with
traditional Aboriginal settings.
Capitalist enterprises establish labour contracts founded on notions of individual
self interest that may conflict with cultural community responsibilities and
expression of identity. Individual identity in community and connection to place
may undermine the motivational assumptions of free market solutions. Where
norms and social interactions are important policy options should explicitly
consider ownership structures and property relations.
Cooperatives as a form of organisation offer the potential for economic
development initiatives to align with the sociological and citizenship features of
Indigenous communities. We propose that business can be structured so that it
meets collective needs, operates to develop a competitive advantage from its
cultural base, and competes in a western socio-economic dominant market.
Explicit consideration can and should be given to the culturally evolving
landscape in remote Indigenous communities. Policy alternatives incorporating
traditional conceptions of citizenship offer some prospect for discontinuing
colonialist legacies.


The IAEA is challenged with limited availability of human resources for inspection and data analysis while proliferation threats increase. PNNL has a variety of IT solutions and techniques (at varying levels of maturity and development) that take raw data closer to useful knowledge, thereby assisting with and standardizing the analytical processes. This paper highlights some PNNL tools and techniques which are applicable to the international safeguards community, including: • Intelligent in-situ triage of data prior to reliable transmission to an analysis center resulting in the transmission of smaller and more relevant data sets • Capture of expert knowledge in re-usable search strings tailored to specific mission outcomes • Image based searching fused with text based searching • Use of gaming to discover unexpected proliferation scenarios • Process modeling (e.g. Physical Model) as the basis for an information integration portal, which links to data storage locations along with analyst annotations, categorizations, geographic data, search strings and visualization outputs.


This monograph is recommended for students pursuing courses in the social sciences and allied disciplines such as agricultural extension and community development. They will find it particularly useful for courses like programme monitoring and evaluation. Development intervention organisations like the World Bank, World Bank assisted programmes, International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Food and Agriculture Organisation will find the monograph as an immense asset in evaluating their programmes. Individuals and corporate bodies will also benefit from the step-wise procedure outlined in this monograph for monitoring and evaluating social development programmes. Based on the approach, the monograph can be called a simplistic model to monitoring and evaluation. Rush now to avail yourself of the knowledge contained in this monograph. Your efforts will not be wasted.


Simple Summary Liquid biopsy is a minimally invasive method that emerged as a new promising tool for improving diagnosis, risk stratification, follow-up, and treatment of cancer patients. To date, the majority of the research in the area of liquid biopsy has focused on plasma-based cell-free DNA as a potential surrogate for tumor DNA obtained from a tissue biopsy. In the last decades, breakthrough advancements have been performed in the knowledge of thyroid cancer genetics, and the role of molecular characterization in clinical decision-making is continuously rising, from diagnosis completion to the personalization of treatment approach. Hence, it is expectable for cell-free DNA to be applicable in thyroid cancer management. This review aims to investigate the cell-free DNA utility for thyroid cancer patients' care. Abstract Thyroid cancer is the most frequent endocrine malignancy with an increasing incidence trend during the past forty years and a concomitant rise in cancer-related mortality. The circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis is a patient's friendly and repeatable procedure allowing to obtain surrogate information about the genetics and epigenetics of the tumor. The aim of the present review was to address the suitability of cfDNA testing in different forms of thyroid cancer, and the potential clinical applications, as referred to the clinical weaknesses. Despite being limited by the absence of standardization and by reproducibility and validity issues, cfDNA assessment has great potential for the improvement of thyroid cancer management. cfDNA may support the pre-surgical definition of thyroid nodules by complementing invasive thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology. In addition, it may empower risk stratification and could be used as a biomarker for monitoring the post-surgical disease status, both during active surveillance and in the case of anti-tumor treatment.


We have examined the intermediacy of sulfur-centred radical cations in the one-electron oxidation of (anthracen-9-yl)methyl sulfides. Reaction of (anthracen-9-yl)methyl sulfides with ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) gave predominantly nitration and oxidation products along with products arising through sulfur-centred radical cations in minor amounts. Upon irradiation, (anthracen-9-yl)methyl sulfides underwent efficient intramolecular single electron transfer leading to a variety of products arising through the intermediacy of sulfur-centred radical cations.


In this paper, a multi-destination multi-source traffic network of a single kind of vehicles is considered. In particular, an analysis of the system model in steady-state conditions has been performed both as regards the input flows from the external and the splitting rates. It has been investigated under which conditions the system admits a unique asymptotically stable equilibrium point under Lyapunov's indirect method. The condition that will be described has a very clear physical significance and it represents an interesting insight about the way by which the unique asymptotically stable equilibrium point can be found analytically when the information about the external inputs, the values of the splitting rates, and the parameters characterizing each link in the network are made available.


In recent times an attempt has been made to use behaviour-orientated models as the basis of urban transport planning in addition to the already proven gravity models. Behaviour-orientated models combine traffic generation, traffic distribution and choice of transport mode as stages in the four stage algorithm into a single simulation sequence. Only route selection must be carried out separately for pragmatic reasons. The advantages of the behaviour-orientated models lie in the possibility of being able to quantify the effects of certain behavioural changes or changes in the structure of availability on traffic behaviour and traffic demand. (TRRL)


Kerrick, in a succinct opening chapter, introduces many of the themes of the volume, and draws comparisons with regional metamorphism. I fail to see why he need be so tentative in suggesting that some areas of low-P regional metamorphism are intermediate in character, representing regional-scale contact metamorphism. The bulk of the chapters are in any case of broader scope than just contact metamorphism. A highlight is Labotka's summary of the properties and compositions of metamorphic fluids; not only do you get an instant reference of all the equilibrium constants and equations of state you need for C O H fluid calculations (no, I haven't checked for typographical errors), but for once the, often more abundant salt components are also taken into account. P-T conditions for low-pressure rocks are dealt with in two chapters. Pattison and Tracy take on the metapelites, dividing them up into facies series with distinctive assemblages and developing a petrogenetic grid to illustrate phase relations between them. Use of geothemometers and geobarometers is also reviewed briefly and there is an exhaustive list of those aureoles which have been described in English, classified according to facies series. This may be galling for Welsh language enthusiasts and other anglophobes, but a godsend to anyone looking for a particular natural example to prove his latest inspired idea, or just wanting good teaching ideas. Tracy and Frost carry out a similar exercise on low-P-high-T phase equilibria in all the other rock types that do anything interesting during contact metamorphism. My editon has copious errata to the figure captions for this chapter. The theme of metamorphic fluids returns with a review by Brenan of metamorphic permeability and its implications for how fluids move through crystalline rocks. This chapter considers both cracking and fracture permeability, and equilibrium fluid distributions along grain boundaries. Unfortunately, metamorphic secondary porosity, long predicted from stable isotope studies, and increasingly imaged by cathodoluminesence or back-scattered electron microscopy, does not get comparable billing. Metasomatism in aureoles is described and summarised by Barton, Ilchik and Marikos, in a chapter which comes dangerously close to letting metamorphic petrologists know that some aureoles contain ore deposits. Their pragmatic recognition of a wide range of fluid types and sources in aureoles is sharply juxtaposed against a chapter by Ferry which takes a highly theoretical approach to a very simplified system. Further chapters deal with several practical approaches to aureole studies: Nabelek on stable isotopes, and Furlong, Hanson and Bowers on modelling thermal regimes. This chapter is a particularly important introduction to modern modelling methods that incorporate evaluating fluid flow. Kinetics of specific reactions in aureoles (although not necessarily the underlying processes) are discussed in chapters by Joesten and by Kerrick, Lasaga and Raeburn. The book concludes with chapters on aureole tectonics, by Paterson, Vernon and Fowler, and on 'aureole systematics' (the most extensive lists yet, of aureoles described in English) by Barton, Staude, Snow and Johnson. With all this in 850 pages, what else can be said? The main omission that I felt was the emphasis in most chapters on contact metamorphism as a low pressure equivalent of regional metamorphism, where most of the same rules still apply (e.g. lithostatic pressure = fluid pressure), rather than as a deeper equivalent of geothermal field alteration, closely related in space and time but not always operating under the same constraints (e.g. fluid pressure = lithostatic pressure). There have been studies, notably the work of Fournier in Yellowstone, which attempt to link contact metamorphism to contemporary active processes rather than to our inferences of deeper, and still more obscure events and this must surely be an important direction in the future. That said, such criticism is offered primarily because it is obligatory to demonstrate that the reviewer has read the book and thought about it. The reality is that this is an outstanding volume that should be on the bookshelf of every researcher or graduate student concerned with metamorphism in any of its guises. B. W. D. YARDLEY


For the general class of pseudo-Finsler spaces with (α,β)-metrics, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions such that these admit a Finsler spacetime structure. This means that the fundamental tensor has a Lorentzian signature on a conic subbundle of the tangent bundle and thus the existence of a cone of future-pointing time-like vectors is ensured. The identified (α,β)-Finsler spacetimes are candidates for applications in gravitational physics. Moreover, we completely determine the relation between the isometries of an (α,β)-metric and the isometries of the underlying pseudo-Riemannian metric a; in particular, we list all (α,β)-metrics which admit isometries that are not isometries of a.


Following ideas of V. Batyrev, we prove an analogue of the Cone Theorem for the closed cone of nef curves: an enlargement of the cone of nef curves is the closure of the sum of a K_X-non-negative portion and countably many K_X-negative coextremal rays. An example shows that this enlargement is necessary. We also describe the relationship between K_X-negative faces of this cone and the possible outcomes of the minimal model program.


In recent years, evidence has accumulated that there are four distinct states of consciousness under normal conditions; in addition to the three commonly experienced states of wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming, there is a fourth state achieved by various Eastern meditation techniques. A model of man is discussed that could account for these states. This model, inspired by the concepts of cybernetics, holds that man's behavior and experience can be accounted for by feedback‐control processes and that these processes are hierarchically organized. This paper first attempts to demonstrate that the existence of four distinct states of consciousness is consistent with a general cybernetic view of man. Then, a specific information‐flow model of the mind, developed by Powers, is introduced and it is shown that with some revision this model well accounts for the four states.


How does acoustics affect the symphonic music performed in a concert hall? The lecture begins with an illustrated discussion of the architectural features that influence the acoustics. Boston Symphony Hall, which was built in 1900 when only one facet of architectural design was known, now rates as one of the world's great halls. How this occurred will be presented. Music is composed with some acoustical environment in mind and this varies with time from the Baroque to the Romantic to the Modern musical period. Conductors vary their interpretation according to the hall they are in. Well‐traveled listeners and music critics have favorite halls. The lecture then presents a list of 58 halls rank ordered according to their acoustical quality based on interviews of music critics and conductors. Modern acoustical measurements made in these halls are compared with their rankings. Music recordings will be presented that demonstrate how halls sound that have different measured acoustical parameters. Photographs of a number of recently built halls are shown as examples of how these known acoustical factors have been incorporated into architectural design.


Based on theoretic model of multi stage mounting vibration isolation (floating foundation)the influence law of the system inherent character and vibration isolation result was analysed when the structure parameters of system (mass ratio,damping of the mounting the hull,stiffness of the elastic mounting elements floating foundation etc.) are changed in the two stage vibration isolation system with small mass ratio.The calculation of a cylindrical two stage mounting vibration isolation system model of an oscillating disk heat engine has been made.Some dependence curves and tables obtained by calculation are attached to this paper.These data afford technology basis for the vibration isolation system design of this special marine power set.


In this document, we analyze the estimation algorithm proposed by I. Ilani in a contribution to the standardization [1]. The algorithm is briefly described and formalized. The performance of this algorithm is then analyzed.


Proposals for the decriminalization of heroin are examined and then analyzed in terms of the ideology of tolerance which informs anti-psychiatry, labeling sociology, and the concept of the victimless crime. Marcuse's discussion of repressive tolerance is brought to bear on this issue in order to suggest that tolerance for deviance may have consequences not immediately expected by those who advance reformist proposals regarding narcotics policy.


The International Space Station Command and Data Handling System for the ISS Utilization has been developed around the Space Lab Program. Since the beginning of the ISS Program the expectations for the on board data networks have exceeded requirements. This paper establishes, as the ISS Program Baseline, design for support of the Utilization of the Space Station.


To improve the solving efficiency and performance,a new Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization(DPSO) algorithm for the problem of weapon-target assignment(WTA) was presented,in which the velocity and position in the original PSO formulas were redefined to solve a discrete combination optimization such as WTA.The greedy heuristic policies were exploited to adjust the solutions generated during the execution of the algorithm to find optimal or suboptimal solution rapidly.The experiments show that the new algorithm can get the optimal or suboptimal solution quickly,and the result is satisfying.


A generalization of the r(1−m)/m strain singularity of higher-order isoparametric elements is presented. It is shown that, by variable placement of the side nodes between their original and singular positions, the point of singularity sensed by the element can be controlled. The transition elements have a strain singularity outside their domain. The singular and non-singular elements are elements are special cases of the general mapping. The transition elements, together with the singular isoparametric elements, can be used for solving crack problems.


This paper investigates the statistical characterization of multiscale wavelet coefficients corresponding to random signals and images. Virtually all approaches to wavelet shrinkage model the wavelet coefficients as independent; we challenge that assumption and demonstrate several cases where substantial correlations may be present in the wavelet domain. In particular, the correlation between scales can be surprisingly substantial, even for pixels separated by several scales. Our goal is to develop an efficient random field model describing these statistical correlations, and demonstrate its effectiveness in the context of Bayesian wavelet shrinkage for signal and image denoising.


This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance , intolerance and indifference. We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. --Edward R. Murrow


The present invention relates to a novel amorphous and polymorphic forms of naltrexone relates to the discovery of (solvate, hydrate, including anhydrides and other crystalline forms and combinations thereof). New forms of these naltrexone, confers advantages in pharmaceutical formulations containing them (such as sustained or long acting formulation).


In this paper,the trend of four respects on RD in the field of marine drugs was summarized: marine pharmaceutical organism developed to the direction of artificial aquaculture;the research on marine drugs changed to utilize the resource of marine microorganisms;and shifted to exploit the resource of marine extreme organisms;the development moved to biotechnology.


Practically all processes related to development and metabolism are controlled by one or more plant growth regulators. Jasmonic acid has been considered as belonging to a new class of phytohormone, known as a signaling molecule in plants in response to injury by herbivores, stress situations, in addition to several other functions in plants. This review presents the main steps in the discover and the steps taken to unravel the roles and biosynthesis pathway of jasmonic acid, its main focus on applications in agriculture, with emphasis on protection of plants against attack by insect pests, and stress situations, and results already achieved with its induction or application.


The paper presents an integrated assessment of trends in changing of climatic and hydrological conditions in contemporary period and for the 2041-2060 period within the zone of major national hydropower stations in order to specify operational modes and to prevent unfavorable consequences of climate changes for hydropower stations. Abstract: Impact of hydropower construction on the solutes content and discharge in the Bureya River water in low-water year (2008) and high-water years (2012-2013) have been considered. Evening of seasonal differences in the main ions, as well as nitrogen, iron and organic matter mineral forms content has been stated. Increase of ion discharge, as well as biogenic and organic matter discharge in winter period has been revealed. During high-water years in summer-fall period micro/ elements higher concentration and discharge have been registered, in comparison with the same prior to regulation. The nitrate nitrogen and iron discharge was higher, too.


A generalized Einstein relation for gaseous ions is shown to be accurate even at high electric field strengths, provided care is taken in the evaluation of the ion temperature. Comparison with experiment is made for K+ ions in He, Ne, and Ar. The validity of this relation means that gaseous ion diffusion coefficients can be calculated from the more easily measured mobilities.


UML sequence diagram is an important component of software design model based on UML. Because it de- scribes the dynamic behaviors of a software system, it becomes a valuable information source in software integration test. This paper proposes an approach to generate scenario test cases based on UML sequence diagrams. It takes UML sequence diagrams as its main test model and generates all test scenarios combining UML state diagrams and class diagrams, then it applies category partition method to find environmental settings related to each scenario and combines them with method call sequence ,as well as input and output, to form a test case for each scenario, thus we can test the interactive behavior of the software. Because UML has been widely used in software analysis and design phrases, using UML to generate test cases can make the most of the existing design results and reduce the expenses of test phrase. Accordingly, it is significant to industry in which UML has been used.


This paper proposed to empower a connected graph the smallest loop to traverse the path to solve practice problems,combined with the traveling salesman problem and the Chinese postman problem.In this program,referring to Prim algorithm of the minimum spanning tree,based on Dijkstra algorithm,by successive approximation and the shortest path to empower the connected graph,the minimum loop traversal path is found.


The experimental performance of a small 250 mm diameter novel water turbine PM generator, originally designed as a tip driven integrated thruster, was studied in a towing tank. The PM rotor of the generator forms a ring around the tips of the turbine blades. The stator is integrated into the turbine ducting. The test results show that the alternator produces about 50 W of power in a stream with a flow speed of 2 m/s at an efficiency of 35%. This performance is slightly better than that of a commercially available device. A set of nondimensional curves derived from the test results are also presented in the paper. These curves can be used to predict the performance of different sizes of this type of generator for different stream speeds. The paper discusses the potential of this type of generator in the light of these results.


In 2007, two South Korean films appeared which place the May 1980 Kwangju uprising at the heart of their stories: The Old Garden , an adaptation of the novel of that name by Hwang Sǒk-yǒng; and May 18 , the first big-budget narrative film to propose tackling the May uprising head-on. This chapter looks in some detail at the two films to consider the artistic and commercial choices made by these two very different productions. It sets the films alongside earlier cinematic treatment of the Kwangju uprising and briefly takes into account two other film visions of insurrection: Luo Ye's Summer Palace and Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday . The chapter attempts to assess what significance the films may have beyond the context of the South Korean film industry. Keywords: Bloody Sunday ; Hwang Sǒk-yǒng;; Kwangju; May 18 ; South Korean film industry; Summer Palace ; The Old Garden


This paper studies the effect of lamination and fiber orientation on the geometrically nonlinear dynamic response of debonded regions in walls strengthened with FRP. The paper adopts an analytical/numerical approach and uses a specially tailored finite element formulation for the layered structure. By means of this analytical/numerical tool, two strengthening layouts for a wall segment subjected to a dynamic shear loading are compared. In the first layout, the fibers are oriented along the width and height of the segment and in the second one, they are oriented along its diagonals. The analysis reveals that the two layouts are involved with significantly different critical points and significantly different dynamic post-buckling behaviors. Specifically, it shows that the diagonal layout, which better serves the shear loading scenario, is involved with a much smaller critical displacement and a dynamic post-buckling behavior that is governed by the stiffer compressed and tensed diagonals.


This course builds on the concepts learned in the first course to expand your knowledge regarding the use of information technology in a business environment. During the course we will review the main business models powered by technology and how the information is stored and processed in a business setting. As part of the course we will develop our own information system for an ecommerce site (inventory management, billing and customer support) to help us understand fully how these systems are built. While building our system we will expand both our knowledge regarding information systems and the Java J2EE framework for web programming


We have performed semi-empirical modelling of amorphous silicon/microcrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells in tandem optical configuration, under series (two-terminal) and independent (four-terminal) electrical connection. The four-terminal connection relaxes the constraint of current matching between the cells. Computer simulations indicate an increase in maximum initial efficiency from 10.0% (two-terminal) to 10.8% (four-terminal). Following degradation of the amorphous silicon top-cell the figures are 8.5% and 9.8% respectively, with an optimum top-cell absorber layer thickness in four-terminal connection of 150 nm. Changes in solar spectral quality have been simulated by applying weighted spectra, and improvements in efficiency favouring four-terminal connection occur under red- and blue-rich conditions. However, these typically convey only a small fraction of the total annual insolation, and gains of 5% or less in annual electrical output are predicted. Possible increased optical and electrical losses due to additional contact layers in four-terminal connection are not taken into account.


Trust plays an important role in successful online businesses. In this paper, we consider the important case of interactions in peer communities, and then propose a trust established model based on social computing which aims at avoiding interaction with undesirable participants. Our specific approach based on game to trust computing leads to a decentralized society in which agents help each other weed out undesirable players.


The history of the disaster management plan at Patan Hospital goes back to 1995 A.D (2051 B.S). The plan was first written by Dr. Cleve Chevassut. This was a hospital-based disaster management plan and consisted of a hospital incident command system (HICS), triaging, patient flow, job description, and management protocol. This plan was regularly updated and tested with disaster drills. In the year 2013, the 10th revision of the disaster management plan was done. This plan was tested with a disaster drill and the template of this plan was circulated to different hospitals of Nepal.  This document consists of a part of experiences and evidence of hospital-based disaster activity that took place inside Patan hospital and activities to establish hospital-based disaster management plan in different hospitals of the country from 2013 to 2020. This document does not cover the overall preparedness response of all hospitals and that of the country.


Three‐dimensional computer graphic systems are an emerging tool in the design of therapeutic compounds. The molecular recognition process involved in drug‐receptor interaction implies a three‐dimensional stereospecificity shared by a set of drugs of similar pharmacological action. In investigating the pharmacophore, it is therefore necessary to go beyond two‐dimensional structures by including the description of the spatial properties of drugs.


A new species of rhenopyrgid edrioasteroid Rhenopyrgus piojoensis sp. nov. is described form the Silurian (Lower Ludlow) Los Espejos Formation in the Precordillera of Argentina. This species is the first reported edrioasteroid from South America. Rhenopyrgids are widely distributed in Ordovician through Devonian deposits of most continents. Numerous juvenile specimens show that the general bodyplan is organized early in ontogeny and that the pedenculate zone lengthens with age. Phylogenetic analysis shows that rhenopyrgids are more closely related to edrioasterid edrioasteroids such as edrioblastoids and cyathocystids than to pyrgocystid isorophids.


Since 1985, publicly traded property-casualty insurers have been required to disclose in their 10-K filings both estimation errors in previous claim expense estimates and the correction for previous estimation errors included in current earnings. This paper examines the value relevance of these disclosures. Basically, the authors argue that errors in previous claim expense estimates reflect noise (lack of precision) in reported earnings and that the variability of these errors over time is a reasonable measure of the degree of noise in reported earnings. Further, like some other authors (e.g., Teoh and Wong [1993]), they use the Holthausen and Verrecchia (1988) framework to show that the earnings response coefficient (ERC) of a firm is inversely related to the noise in its earnings. Accordingly, for a property casualty insurer, this ERC is hypothesized to be negatively related to the standard deviation of errors in its previous claim expense estimates. More specifically, the authors use the following model (their eq. [S]) where current earnings are divided into two components:


Noise reduction algorithms in hearing aids are crucial to improve speech understanding in background noise for hearing-impaired persons. For binaural hearing aids multi-microphone algorithms, exploiting signals from both the left and the right hearing aid, are considered to be promising techniques for noise reduction, because in addition to spectral information spatial sound information can be exploited. The performance of these algorithms however highly depends on prior assumptions about the acoustic environment and/or estimates of the signal statistics. In this paper the performance of 3 algorithms for a simulated everyday situation has been investigated using objective and subjective performance measures.


Long-lived storage of arbitrary transverse multimodes is important for establishing a highchannel-capacity quantum network. Most of the pioneering works focused on atomic diffusion as the dominant impact on the retrieved pattern in an atom-based memory. In this work, we demonstrate that the unsynchronized Larmor precession of atoms in the inhomogeneous magnetic field dominates the distortion of the pattern stored in a cold-atom-based memory. We find that this distortion effect can be eliminated by applying a strong uniform polarization magnetic field. By preparing atoms in magnetically insensitive states, the destructive interference between different spin-wave components is diminished, and the stored localized patterns are synchronized further in a single spin-wave component; then, an obvious enhancement in preserving patterns for a long time is obtained. The reported results are very promising for studying transverse multimode decoherence in storage and high-dimensional quantum networks in the future.


This paper reports on the comparison of Fenton-like and electrochemical-assisted Fenton processes on 2,6-dimethylaniline removal. The influences of initial pH, ferric ion, hydrogen peroxide, and electric current on the oxidation of 2,6-dimethylaniline were also evaluated to determine the optimum operating parameters. Results showed that oxidation efficiency of the electro-Fenton process was better than the Fenton process. The experimental data revealed that increasing ferric ions, hydrogen peroxide concentration, and applied electric current enhanced the oxidation efficiency. However, too much ferric ion and hydrogen peroxide decreased the removal efficiency because of the scavenging effects that occur in the solution. When the electric current was increased to 5 A, the regeneration of ferrous ions decreased. This was because a too-high electric current resulted in water electrolysis and reduced the current efficiency of ferric reduction and therefore increased power cost. The results also showed that low...


The present study investigates the change of gender role attitudes in Germany between 1982 and 2016. Nine waves of the German General Social Survey are used (N = 26,389). In contrast to previous trend studies, which largely ignore age effects, a mechanism-based age-period-cohort model (Winship/Harding 2008) is applied. It becomes clear that age, period and cohort independently have an impact on gender role ideology. Compared to earlier research, new insights concerning the shape of cohort effects come to light: Specific to traditional gender ideology in Western Germany, it is apparent that the trend towards increasingly egalitarian attitudes comes to a halt in men born around 1956 and later and in women born 1966. For Eastern Germany we observe that the cohort-specific trend towards liberalisation in younger cohorts either is diminishing or even tends to reverse. This pattern of effects mainly mirrors the phases of the feminist movement in Western Germany and the rise and decline of the German Democratic Republic, respectively.


Objectives: Spaceflight back pain and intervertebral disc (IVD) herniations cause problems in astronauts. Purpose of this study was to assess changes in T2-relaxation-time through MRI measurements before and after head-down tilt bed-rest, a spaceflight analog. Methods: 8 men participated in the bed-rest study. Subjects remained in 6° head down tilt bed-rest in two campaigns of 21 days, and received a nutritional intervention (potassium bicarbonate 90 mmol/d) in a cross-over design. MRI measurements were performed 2 days before bed-rest, as well as one and five days after getting up. Image segmentation and data analysis were conducted for the IVDs Th12/L1 to L5/S1. Results: 7 subjects, average age of 27.6 (SD 3.3) years, completed the study. Results showed a significant increase in T2-time in all IVDs (p < 0.001), more pronounced in the nucleus pulposus than in the annulus fibrosus (p<0.001). Oral potassium bicarbonate did not show an effect (p=0.443). Pfirrmann-grade correlated with the T2-time (p<0.001). Conclusions: 6° head-down tilt bed-rest leads to a T2-time increase in lumbar IVDs. Oral potassium bicarbonate supplementation does not have an effect on IVD T2-time.


Internet of Things (IoT) is a connection of interconnected any things deployed in different applications. The IoT is emerging as a technique for real-time monitoring the environment like Earthquake early detection. Snow level monitoring, forest fire detection, Gas level monitoring in a Smart Kitchen. IoT based sensor network need secure communication, processing, analytics and transient storage for better monitoring of smart environments. In this article, the authors proposed a secure framework for data collection and further processing from the sensors network to the core of the network using Fog-Cloud based architecture. The paper implemented the proposed framework taking different sensors deploy in an IoT based smart kitchen environment. For experimental purpose, Raspberry Pi used as a fog node and local cloud server to monitor the environment in real-time, SQLite is used as buffer storage. The experimental setup and result show that the proposed framework is secure to monitoring in a sensor network.


Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are ubiquitous in industrial control processes, such as power grids, water supply systems, traffic control, oil and natural gas mining, space stations and nuclear plants. However, their security faces the threat of being compromised due to the increasing use of open-access networks. Furthermore, one of the research gaps involves the emergence of quantum computing, which has exposed a new type of risk to SCADA systems. Failure to secure SCADA systems can lead to catastrophic consequences. For example, a malicious attack can take control of the power supply to a city, shut down the water supply system, or cause malfunction of a nuclear reactor. The primary purpose of this paper is to identify the new type of attack based on quantum computing and design a novel security scheme to defend against traditional attacks as well as the quantum attack. The methodology of the proposed signcryption is built on the foundation of the classical Bennett and Brassard 1984 (BB84) cryptographic scheme and does not involve computationally expensive third-party validation. The proposed signcryption scheme provides both encryption and intrusion detection. In particular, it detects the man-in-the-middle attack that can lead to other types of attacks. We have simulated the proposed algorithm using the Quantum Information Toolkit in Python. Furthermore, we have validated and analyzed the proposed design through security verification tools, namely, Scyther and PRISM.


When studying the history of Cultural Revolution,scholars home and abroad basically follows two explanatory approaches:one is the theory of conflicts within upper echelons and the other is the theory of social conflicts.The scholars holding the explanatory approaches confine the historical subjects to be examined in one part of people in the society and neglects the influence and interaction among different classes,which leads to the contradictions in the learning and understanding of variety of historical facts.New perspectives are to be had to study Cultural Revolution,that is,from the perspectives of Chinese historical transformation from traditional agricultural society to modern industrial society,social stratification and of the relationship between country and society so that the study of Cultural Revolution can be deepened.


In this paper, fuel consumption of a 5.7-ton municipal tractor in a wheel loader application is studied, and methods for improving the fuel efficiency are compared with each other. Experimental data from the baseline machine with load-sensing hydraulics has been gathered during a y-pattern cycle, and the data is inputted to an optimization function having realistic loss models for a hydraulic pump and diesel engine. Dynamic programming is used to analyze different system configurations in order to determine optimal control sequence for each system. Besides optimization of variable engine rotational speed on the baseline system during the working cycle (considering the point of operation), three hybrid supply systems are studied: 1) a hydraulic flywheel, 2) parallel supply pumps and 3) a throttled accumulator. These systems utilize a hydraulic accumulator as an energy source/sink alongside the diesel engine. The optimal sequence for charging and discharging of the accumulator is examined in order to minimize the fuel consumption of the machine. The idea is to use the lowest acceptable, constant engine rotational speed, to cut down the diesel losses. In addition, the study covers an analysis of adjusting the engine rotational speed for each point of operation also when the hybrid systems are considered. The results show that finding advantageous engine rotational speed for each loading condition can decrease the fuel consumption of the baseline machine around 14%, whereas hybridization of the supply system can further improve the result by a couple of percentage units. Hybrid systems also reduce engine's maximum load by making it more uniform, which allegedly reduces emissions. The possibility of engine downsizing to further improve the fuel efficiency of hybrid systems is not considered, because the maximum engine power is usually determined by the hydrostatic transmission of a municipal tractor. However, the study assumes that actuators are controlled using traditional 4/3 proportional control valves; hence, there are still potential for greater fuel savings. For example, applying independent metering valves on the actuator control can further decrease the system losses.


Peripheral flip chip interconnection on gold plated pads would be required to assemble the chip with surface mount technology (SMT) because the gold pads are sometimes used for SMT. Chip Connection (C2) which uses solder-capped copper pillar bumps on the chip and uses reflow process is an attractive method for ultra fine pitch peripheral flip chip interconnection. 50 μm-pitch interconnection on gold plated pads was made with C2 and the shape of the solder joints was discussed. It was found from a mechanical analysis that the stress in low-k layer would be reduced when the solder did not wet on the sides of copper pillars on the chip. Direct immersion gold (DIG) surface treatment would be attractive for not only compatibility to assemble with surface mount components but also for chip-package interaction improvement.


Stock return can be one of the representations of a company's performance in investment. This study aims at investigating the factors determining the stock return of the largest users of energy production of oil, gas and coal classified in the manufacturing companies at Indonesia's Stock Exchange for the period of 2016-2018. It involved 134 companies classifies as the largest users of energy production of oil, gas and coal classified as the manufacturing entries in IDX that were used as the target of the population and all were selected for the sample of this study. Financial distress probability, firm size, liquidity and price to cash flow from operating activities ratio become independent variables. The result of multiple linear regression indicated that financial distress probability and liquidity influence significantly on the stock return at alpha five percent in this energy user companies. It implies that the companies must continually maintain their financial health and also invest their idle cash in order to generate the return.


This paper proposes an active-clamping zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) isolated inverse-SEPIC converter. The high voltage spikes when turning off the switches are eliminated. The energies stored in the parasitic elements can be recycled to achieve the ZVS of switches. Therefore the converter efficiency increases substantially, and the circuit cost is also reduced. Detailed analysis and design of this new topology are described. Experimental results are recorded for a prototype converter with a DC input voltage ranging from 130 to 180V, an output voltage of 12 V and an output rated power of 120 W, operating at a switching frequency of 65 kHz. The average active-mode efficiency is above 88 %.


Vocal cord paralysis is defined as vocal cord immobility following the disruption of motor innervation to the larynx. The most common presenting symptoms in children are stridor, dysphonia, feeding difficulty, and aspiration. Vocal cord paralysis may be unilateral or bilateral. The etiology in the pediatric population differs from that in adults. There are a number of pediatric causes of vocal cord paralysis, including traumatic birth, endotracheal intubation, cerebrovascular disorders, surgery, viral infection, neoplastic disease, neurologic entities, and blunt or penetrating trauma. There are several reports of unilateral or bilateral vocal cord paralysis following closed head injury; most are unilateral and associated with basilar skull fracture, usually involving the occipital condyles. Although unilateral vocal cord paralysis has been reported in patients with isolated vagus nerve paralysis, to our knowledge and literature review, there are no reports of isolated unilateral distal vagus nerve palsy following closed head injury published in the literature. Herein, we present a child with isolated unilateral vocal cord paralysis secondary to left distal vagus nerve palsy following closed head injury.


Tom Hatch's research interests in school reform and theories of action and my research interests in teachers' narrative knowledge and the shaping effects of context come together in this issue of Curriculum Inquiry. Tom offers an important response to my article and raises key points. I am grateful to him and the editors for the opportunity to continue the discussion. I also am thankful to the T. P. Yaeger educators who carefully read the manuscript and the review, participated in rich conversations about the pieces, and reiterated what they knew and did not know about the statedirected, national reform initiative introduced to their school. This rejoinder is informed not only by my own thinking, but also by the school-based educators' interpretations of, and responses to, Tom's comments and by my more extensive experiences of reforming school contexts in the time since the paper was written. In his personal reading of "A Case of 'The Monkey's Paw'" piece, Tom Hatch found a story of reform and repetition, the stuff that makes the history of school reform "legendary." In this reply I will provide a kind of a metalevel narrative analysis where I will further unpack the original research, keeping Tom's commentary on the T. P. Yaeger reform experience and his questions and wonders sharply in view. In the process, I will weave in my own set of reflective queries arising from Hatch's interpretation of the article, namely, (1) why the repetition in reform occurs and (2) why the practical/theoretical dissatisfaction with educational reform continues. I begin with the tale (i.e., Fletcher, 1996) passed along in the oral tradition that provided the creative seed for Jacobs's short story. It offers powerful images that are useful to keep in mind as this metal-level narrative analysis unfolds.


There has recently been published an anthology of Spanish civil war poetry edited by Valentine Cunningham (Penguin, 1980): the first comprehensive collection so far made. Many of the poems have, of course, appeared previously: Stephen Spender and John Lehman edited Poems For Spain in 1939; Robin Skelton's useful Poetry of the Thirties (Penguin, 1964) included a section on Spain; and there have been separate collections of individual poets. This new anthology, however, includes much that has been out of print for many years, and it also contains a good deal of new material, the prison poems of Clive Branson being among the most notable.


Pulse radiolysis of oxygen-saturated bromobenzene yields a transient absorption with λmax = 480 nm at pulse end, which is identified as due to the BrO2-radical. To confirm this assignment the same radical was produced by flash photolysis of a Br2/O2-gas mixture and by chemical synthesis at low temperature. The absorption spectra of these BrO2-samples present a maximum between 480 and 380 nm dependent on the solvent. The influence of complex-formation on this absorption band is discussed. The ESR.-spectrum of chemically synthesized BrO2 is given.


Summary form only given. The multiplexer of independent inputs, each being regenerative ON-OFF, i.e. memoryless OFF and generally distributed ON has been recently resurrected in the limit M/G//spl infin/ and subexponentially tailed ON for the purpose of understanding the long range dependence and the self-similarity of the aggregation of heterogeneous high speed traffic. We remark that for the purpose of computing the tail distribution, the M/G//spl infin/ subexponentially tailed ON reduces to one subexponentially tailed ON multiplexed with compound Poisson input and that furthermore, it is possible to obtain a complete analysis for a multiplexing network. A unidirectional bus is a special case (tandem concentrating network). A single multiplexer is a further specialized case (concentrating station). We assume that the service rate is nondecreasing in the direction of the traffic flow (in particular all the stations may have the same service rate). We point out that for input/output purposes the network is equivalent to a single multiplexer and that under these assumptions the network becomes a distributed multiplexer for which the multidimensional queueing process sampled at particular epochs along a tandem path decomposes in stationarity into independent one dimensional processes. We discuss the network queueing analysis for several service disciplines (FCFS, priority), searching for the distribution of the buffer content at each station and for the joint queueing distribution encountered by each source at all the stations along its tandem path.


A two-way piezoelectric-mechanical coupled theory is used to investigate the multiple field interactions of composite laminates with surface-bonded piezoelectric actuators and sensors. A higher order electrical potential field is used to accurately describe the nonuniform distribution of electric potential through the thickness of piezoelectric layers. A higher order laminate theory is used to describe the displacement fields of both composite laminate and piezoelectric layers to accurately model transverse shear deformation which is significant in moderately thick constructions. A finite element laminate model with surface bonded/embedded piezoelectric actuators or sensors is developed to implement the theory. Induced deformation, charge and current are investigated to evaluate actuation and sensing effects of piezoelectric materials. The results obtained using this coupled theory are compared with those obtained using an uncoupled theory. Numerical results indicate that two-way coupling effects affect the prediction of structural deflection, stress distribution and electrical signal significantly. The thickness ratio of piezoelectric layer to plate structure is a critical parameter that governs the significance of coupling effects. The coupled piezoelectric-mechanical theory is capable of accurately modeling the characteristics of thick piezoelectric layers.


Prophylactic anticoagulant therapy within a few days of admitting a patient with a spinal injury appears to offer advantages in preventing pulmonary emboli. It was not found to hinder the patient's management.


Objectives In this preclinical investigation, the feasibility of using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to study contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI) is explored, comparing radiographic outcomes with histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings after repeated animal exposures to iodinated contrast agent. Materials and Methods Forty-five male wistar rats were allocated to three groups (n = 15 each), each receiving two separate injections 1 day apart: group 1 (iodixanol then saline); group 2 (iodixanol twice); and control group (saline twice). Five rats were then randomly selected from each group at three separate time points (1 h, 24 h, and 120 h) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Upon MRI completion, the animals were sacrificed, examining renal tissue and serum creatinine level. DTI data served to calculate fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). Results FA values were significantly lower in group 2 than in the others. Compared with controls, FA assessments at 1 h, 24 h, and 120 h after injections commenced were significantly lower in group 2; and ADC was significantly more pronounced at 24 h. Serum creatinine levels at 24 h were markedly elevated in both groups 1 and 2. Pearson correlation analysis revealed significant negative correlations between FA (r = −0.730; p < 0.05) or ADC (r = −0.827; p < 0.05) and tubular injury and between FA (r = −0.563; p < 0.05) or ADC (r = −0.805; p < 0.05) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1α. Conclusions Analytic approaches to DTI with better reproducibility should aid in monitoring the early pathophysiologic derangements of CIAKI, thus facilitating timely reversal of the detrimental effects.


∗Introduced the current status and development of the feeding device of the rubber extruder, and discussed the three different feeding methods of the feeding device, especially the side pressure roller feeding and the spiral meshing feeding, and analyzed and compared the two feeding methods. It is concluded that the spiral intermeshing feeding is better than the feeding by the pressure roller. The many advantages of the spiral intermeshing feeding technology make it have a wide range of application prospects.


Paper No.18-00534 © 2019 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers [DOI: 10.1299/jamdsm.2019jamdsm0044] Abstract A precision reducer is the core component in an industrial robot and largely determines the performance of a robot. Lost motion is a key index of the performance of precision reducers and its measurement and evaluation are the basis for improving the performance of precision reducers. The dynamic measurement of the lost motion is affected by load torque and speed, but there is no uniform standard or scientific basis for measurement speed, thus leading to the deviations in measurement results. In this paper, the principle of the dynamic measurement of the lost motion of precision reducers was firstly introduced and the method of separating the geometric lost motion based on optimal measurement speed was put forward. Then, according to the Stribeck friction effect of precision reducers, the method of determining the optimal measurement speed was proposed and the calculation model of the optimal measurement speed was established. Finally, taking the RV reducer as an example, the measurement experiment was carried out. The friction torque of the RV reducer was the least and the mean value of the measured geometric lost motion was the least under the optimal measurement speed, thus verifying the proposed method.


On page 179 of the January 2006 issue, "Lamin A/C Expression Is a Marker of Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation" by Dan Constantinescu, Heather L. Gray, Paul J. Sammak, Gerald P. Schatten, and Antonei B. Csoka, Figure 1C was incorrectly labeled. The RT-PCR data under the lamin A/C heading represents lamin B1, and the RT-PCR data under the lamin B1 heading represents lamin A/C. Here we reprint the correct figure.


Jennifer Macomber, a research associate with the Urban Institute?s Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, talks about vulnerable families and what's being done to protect the children.


We study how energy dependence in the electronic density of states {ital N}({var epsilon}) affects the isotope-effect coefficient {beta} within a realistic Eliashberg formalism. For structure in {ital N}({var epsilon}), sharp on the scale of the Debye energy, the value of {beta} can be significantly affected and can be smaller or larger than the canonical value 0.5. In some cases, when coupled with large values of the Coulomb pseudopotential {mu}{sup *}, {beta} can be quite small with otherwise fairly unremarkable values of the other parameters.


Previous work has shown that dendritic cells (DCs) express specific chemokine receptors that allow for coordinated movement in vivo. To test the in vivo relevance of this, we used a murine melanoma system and knockout mice to investigate the function of the chemokine receptor CCR5 and its ligands, CCR ligand (CCL)3 and CCL5. We found that the lack of CCR5 in the host mouse resulted in delayed tumor growth, but this effect was overcome at a higher tumor load. With the administration of tumor charged DCs, CCR5 (cid:1) / (cid:1) mice that had previously been injected with tumor were completely protected from tumor. This effect was dependent on the dose of tumor cells and the expression of CCR5 on the DC and its absence in the host. In contrast, the loss of the CCR5 ligand, CCL3, led to an early delay in tumor growth that did not persist, while the absence of the CCR5 ligand, CCL5, had no effect. Blocking the activity of CCR5 in the host may represent a new strategy for enhancing the activity of a therapeutic melanoma DC vaccine. The Journal of Immunology, 2003, 170: 4201–4208. (cid:1) / (cid:1) mice did not develop measurable tumor growth through day 70. This delayed tumor growth was statistically significant through day 29 ( p (cid:5) 0.03) and approached significance through day 53 ( p (cid:5) 0.06, p values by Student's t test). C , With 2.5 (cid:2) 10 3 tumor cells, the CCR5 (cid:1) / (cid:1) mice demonstrated a statistically significant survival rate compared with wild-type mice ( p (cid:5) 0.03, by Fisher's Exact test). With 1 (cid:2) 10 4 tumor cells, the CCR5 (cid:1) / (cid:1) mice showed a trend toward improved survival compared with the wild-type controls.


18F-fluoromethylcholine (FCho), 18Ffluoroethyltyrosine (FET), and 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) for the discrimination between high-grade glioma and radiation necrosis in rats: A PET study Julie Bolcaen a, Benedicte Descamps b, Karel Deblaere c, Tom Boterberg d, Filip De Vos Pharm e,Jean-Pierre Kalala f, Caroline Van den Broecke Gent Apr-15 Nuclear Medicine and Biology GBM / PET imaging / Radiation Induced Brain Necrosis Nuclear Medicine and Biology. Volume 42, Issue 1. Jan 2015, Pages 38-45. This group is investigating a non-invasive imaging techcnique to differniate between tumor recurrence and radiation necrosis using various PET contrast agents. Using Rat model. SARRP used to induce radiation necrosis. This modle was compared to a GBM model to differeniate between necorsis and tumor using three different PET contrast agents. the commerically available f-FDG had the best results and showed a clear differeniation between tumors and necrosis A comprehensive system for dosimetric commissioning and Monte Carlo validation for the small animal radiation research platform. Tryggestad E, Armour M, Iordachita I, Verhaegen F, Wong JW. JHU Aug-09 PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Dose Commissioning Phys Med Biol. 2009 Sep 7;54(17):534157. Cell-based tumor immunotherapy (CBTI) is a technique that combines a tumor cell line plus and engineered cell line that expresses GM-CSF. This works as a vaccine with intact angtigens. These researchers studied this vaccine plus RT in a TRAMP (prostate)


The invention relates to a novel combined boxing stand comprising a base. A support floor stand is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the base, a weight ball cantilever and a sandbag cantilever are arranged on two sides of the top end of the support floor stand respectively, the weight ball cantilever is mounted on one side of the upper end of the support floor stand through a weight ball cantilever adjusting lever, and a plurality of universal wheels are arranged at the lower end of the base. The novel combined boxing stand is simple in structure, diversified in body-building events, small in floor area and suitable for being used at home and in office building offices and the like, carrying and moving of the boxing stand are facilitated by the universal wheels added under the base, and physical output is reduced.


The invention discloses a large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe. The wall of the body comprises a liner layer, a continuous glass fiber-reinforced structure layer and a circumferential outer protective layer, and the outside of the circumferential outer protective layer is provided with a plurality of glass fiber fabric reinforcing rib rings which are arranged at intervals. The comprehensive internal pressure-resisting and external load-resisting capability of the large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe provided by the invention is greatly enhanced. The inner wall of the large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe is smooth, the rigidity of the large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe is high, and the size of the rib ring and the rib density can be designed according to rigidity requirement; compared with the rigidity of the pure glass fiber-reinforced plastic smooth pipe, the rigidity of the large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe is higher, and the large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe is lighter and stronger than the glass fiber-reinforced plastic mortar pipe; and as a novel delivery pipe, the large-caliber glass fiber-reinforced plastic ribbed pipe has the advantages of corrosion resistance, low fluid resistance, long service life and the like, is easy to maintain, and is particularly applicable to the fields of deeply buried large-caliber drainage pipelines, seawater delivery, seawater desalination and the like.


v Chapter One: Introduction Statement of the Problem Research Questions Conceptual Framework Definition of Variables Significance of the Study 1 4 5 5 6 8 Chapter Two: Review of Literature Predictors of Quality of Life in Cancer Patients Near the End of Life Symptom Severity, Distress and Quality of Life Constipation and Cancer Constipation and QOL Among Cancer Patients Summary 10 10 13 15 16 17 Chapter Three: Methods Research Design Sample and Setting Instruments The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) The Hospice QOL Index-14 (HQLI-14) Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) Demographic Data Form Procedures Data Analysis 18 18 18 19 19 19 20 20 21 21 21


The invention provides network selection method, equipment and system, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring first indicating information on a terminal supporting single PDN (packet data network) connection or multi-PDN connection; acquiring second indicating information on a base station supporting single PDN (public data network) connection or multi-PDN connection; and selecting an adaptive network according to the acquired first and second indicating information so as to acquire related service. By utilizing the technical scheme, the network resource waste caused as the terminal and the base station are inadaptive when being used as network frameworks of a local export during bearing and building of related service can be avoided, thus improving the system efficiency.


In industrial automation, unexpected failures often generate high direct and indirect costs. To achieve high availability, the critical parts of the system are typically redundant. M-out-of-N (MooN) redundancy is a widespread redundancy pattern because it offers low failover times. This pattern has however two major disadvantages. First, the voter, an essential entity in MooN patterns, is itself a single point of failure. Second, it introduces delay to the control process and significant network load when deployed with multiple voters. This article proposes new MooN redundancy patterns for distributed control systems. These eliminate the voter as a single point of failure and reduce the network load and delay of the MooN redundancy. For each of these patterns we introduce an algorithm, which computes a near-minimum instance for the MooN problem. We validate our solution against minimum values and present a case study giving the delays introduced through our redundancy patterns and the induced network load.


Abstract The results of the present study indicate that, for the most part, the variety of C-S bonded structures formed in TMTD-vulcanized cis-BR qualitatively parallel those found in sulfur-cured vulcanizates of the material. Key exceptions include the demonstrated existence of stable rubber-bound accelerator fragments, and the possible elimination of select intramolecular cyclic species. Cis-to-trans isomerization has again been shown to be the predominant feature of the vulcanization reaction sequence and seems to obey first-order kinetics with respect to the concentration of accelerator. While the kinetic rate of conversion among all intermediate species was too rapid to permit a full account of the process, the spectral data demonstrate further that, subsequent to the formation of rubber-bound accelerator residues, sulfur becomes quickly redistributed to form crosslink structures of low average sulfur rank. In contrast to results obtained from elemental sulfur-cured BR vulcanizates, relatively high c...


Through contrast experiment of several kinds of bacteria observation by scanning electron microscopy( SEM),a novel method for SEM observation with frosted glass as bacterial carrier was optimized. The method mainly includes collecting bacteria,double rinse,pressurized adhesion,fixation,dehydration,substitution,critical point drying,ion sputtering,glue machine,observation and other steps,its innovation is mainly embodied in the use of frosted glass as the carrier of bacterial adhesion,at the same time,through the method of centrifugal pressure to improve the firmness of bacterial adhesion on the surface of frosted glass. This method has strong operability,the actual observation effect is very good and stable,it has a wide range of reference value.


With the development of globalization, cross-cultural teaching has become an important topic in the field of education. In this context, TESOL strategy, as a teaching method, is widely used in cross-cultural teaching. The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness and applicability of TESOL strategy in cross-cultural teaching, and put forward relevant teaching guiding principles. By adopting TESOL strategy, teachers can better meet students' language learning needs and promote the development of their language ability and intercultural communication ability. At the same time, TESOL strategy can help students better understand and adapt to the teaching environment in different cultural backgrounds. However, this study also found that TESOL strategy has some challenges and limitations in cross-cultural teaching. For example, teachers need to have professional knowledge and skills in cross-cultural teaching in order to effectively apply TESOL strategy. In addition, students from different cultural backgrounds may have different reactions and needs to TESOL strategies, and teachers need to flexibly adjust strategies to meet the individual differences of students.


To evaluate the role of the small GTPases RhoA, Rac1 and Cdc42 in meningiomas as therapeutic targets and their interactions in meningiomas.

 We analyzed expression of GTPases in human meningioma samples and meningioma cell lines of various WHO grades. Malignant IOMM-Lee meningioma cells were used to generate shRNA mediated knockdowns of GTPases RhoA, Rac1 or Cdc42 and to study knockdown effects on proliferation and migration, as well as analysis of cell morphology by confocal microscopy. The same tests were used to investigate effects of the two inhibitors Fasudil and EHT-1864 of malignant IOMM-Lee, KT21 and benign Ben-Men cells and the effects of these drugs on IOMM-Lee knockdown cells. The effects of GTPase knockdowns and Fasudil treatment were studied in terms of overall survival by intracranial xenografts of mice. Potential interactions of GTPases regarding NF2, mTOR and FAK-Paxillin were examined.

 Small GTPases were upregulated in meningiomas of higher tumor grades. Reduced proliferation and migration could be achieved by GTPase knockdown in IOMM-Lee cells. Additionally, the ROCK-inhibitor Fasudil and Rac1-inhibitor EHT-1864 reduced proliferation in different meningioma cell lines and reduced proliferation and migration independent of GTPase knockdowns/status. Moreover, overall survival in vivo could also be increased by knockdowns of RhoA and Rac1 as well as Fasudil treatment. GTPase expression was affected dependent on the NF2 status but effects were not very distinct, indicating that NF2 is not strongly involved in GTPase regulation in meningiomas. In terms of mTOR and FAK-Paxillin signaling, each GTPase changes those pathways in a different manner.

 Small GTPases are important effectors in meningioma proliferation and migration in vitro as well as survival in vivo and their inhibition should be considered as potential treatment option.


The effect of variation in the scouring and bleaching parameters on the absorption of cotton was studied. Novel bleaching treatments selected from the literature were investigated, in an attempt to increase absorption to greater values than can be obtained by the use of traditional bleaching agents. The effect of swelling agents known to decrystallise cotton was investigated after scouring and scouring/bleaching, also with a view to increasing absorption. The swelling agents were sometimes incorporated in the bleach liquor, on the assumption that bleaching of cotton in the decrystallised state would increase fibre absorption.


None of the 40+ equations that have been proposed to describe material properties at the pressures of the Earth's core and mantle have escaped serious criticism. In this paper, some basic algebraic and thermodynamic constraints are reviewed, with the conclusion that the next step should be a re-examination of the relationship between the dependence of the bulk modulus, K, on pressure, P, that is K ′ ≡ d K / d P , and the normalized (dimensionless) pressure, P / K . A linear relationship between 1 / K ′ and P / K terminating at the infinite pressure asymptote, at which these quantities become equal, has been used for analysing properties at extreme pressure, but may be inadequate for calculations requiring precise derivatives of an equation of state. A new analysis indicates that d ( 1 / K ′ ) / d ( P / K ) increases with compression (or P / K ), but there are, at present, no reliable equations representing this. Relationships between higher derivatives of K and the thermodynamic Grüneisen parameter offer the prospect of a resolution of the problem and hence a new generation of fundamentally-based equations of state. Although an earlier conclusion that a completely general 'universal' equation is not possible, in principle, is confirmed in this study, the fundamental relationships present strong constraints for the forms of other proposed equations.


Spectra of highly ionized Er, Yb, Hf, W, Pt, and Au were observed with the TEXT tokamak at the University of Texas at Austin. These metals were injected into the tokamak plasma by laser ablation of thin-film targets. Spectra were photographed with a 2.2-m grazing-incidence spectrograph in the range 40–300 A. Three strong doublets of the Ag i isoelectronic sequence were identified: 4d104f–4d94f(1P)4f2D, 2F and 2G. Interpolated and extrapolated wavelengths in this sequence were derived from plots of the difference between observed and calculated values for the transition energies. The correspondence of the W wavelengths with previously reported tokamak spectra is shown.


The paper describes a novel thermal recovery method for production of heavy oil and natural bitumen using high-temperature heat-transfer medium allowing for natural oil convection in the reservoir as a result of heating thereof up to 300-400°C through a heat exchanger installed in a horizontal borehole, which is also used for production of formation fluids at bottom-hole pressure that is close to original reservoir pressure. Analyses of energy consumption vs. original water saturation and extent of production vs. bottom-hole temperature have been performed.


Aim: In this study, we aimed to investigate the interaction between the COVID-19 pandemic and hand hygiene. Material and Methods: This study was planned as a descriptive cross-sectional involving 856 people living in Turkey between March 22 and April 5, 2020. The difference-in-differences-type design was used to investigate the effect of COVID-19 disease on hand hygiene. Results: Accordingly, the participants' average hand hygiene scores before, during, and after COVID-19 were X_ = 3.350234 ± 1.092372, X_ = 4.603353 ± .4628307, and X_ = 3.365169 ± 1.557933. The average age of the participants was X_ = 28.68 ± 9.34 years. According to education level, the scores obtained from the individuals' hand hygiene score showed a statistical difference (p<0.05). According to the difference-in-differences-type design prediction results, the coefficient (16.65898±3.685992) of DTr X DPost interaction gave us the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic disease on the hand hygiene scores of individuals. Accordingly, it can be stated that the COVID-19 disease increased 17 points of the hand hygiene score of individuals by approximately 7.1%. Discussion: It was seen that hand hygiene gained significant importance during periods of infectious disease outbreaks.


Dendritic cells(DCs),representing a heterogenous population of professional antigen-presenting cells,is the initiator and modulator of the immune response.Cells of dendritic family not only control immunity but also maintain tolerance to self-antigen.Therefore,DCs may be valuable tools for modulating immunity in the setting of auto-immunity,cancer,chronic viral infections and graft rejection,etc.Here we discuss the current knowledge on the function of denditic cells-based immunoregulation and therapeutic applications.


Suspension training is a combination of unique training movements aimed at improving strength, endurance, coordination, flexibility, power, and core stability within a single workout. Suspension training is marketed as a cardiovascular and resistance training exercise modality performed like a circuit-training workout, in which a series of exercises are performed in rotation with minimal rest time. Objective: The purpose of this study was the analysis of the effect a period of TRX training on lipid profile and body composition in overweight women. Methods: 24 cases of overweight women, at the age of 29/41 ± 4.48, height 162/35 ± 4.97cm, weight 73.4 ± 5.47kg and BMI 27.85 ± 2.02 kg/m2 were randomly divided into two control and experimental groups consisting of 12 people. The exercise program was accomplished in eight weeks with three training sessions per week. The training duration from the first week up to the last week increased from 12 to 30 minutes and the exercise intensity from 50 to 80 HRmax. Prior to the implementation of the training program, the performance indicators and body composition were measured and blood test was also conducted for determining the lipid profile. After eight weeks of practicing, all of these tests were taken once more. In experimental group after eight weeks of practicing, fat percentage of body reduced from 39.8 to 36. 97 (p = 0.001) and body fat mass decreased from 28. 22 to 26. 32 (p = 0.001) and the muscle strength increased from 13.85 to 15. 21 Kg (p=0.001) while the lower body muscle strength indicates a rise from 126.78 to 132.24 (p=0.001), and the VO2max from 55.05 to 61. 89 ml.kg.min (p= 0.002). Conclusions: A period time of TRX affects performance indicators significantly and body composition.


Each year, millions of individuals in the United States are treated for a variety of serious medical conditions with prescription drugs whose therapeutic benefits are well known. The vast majority of these medications are used to treat medical and psychiatric illnesses. Generally, they are used as prescribed, and contribute to a better quality of life for persons suffering from debilitating or life-threatening disorders. The fact that a small portion of these medications is diverted by those who seek their psychoactive effects raises the important policy issue: how to make drugs easily available for medical use while limiting access for purposes of abuse. Such a responsibility poses challenges very different from those of the so-called "war" on illicit drugs, because this control must be achieved without impeding patients' access to medical care. A rational public policy would attempt to achieve a balance between the need to minimize abuse and the need to provide relief.


This paper describes the Image-Based Walk-Through System in which people walk-through a town which is historically valuable such as Shirakawa-go stored in a computer. This system is composed of two methods. The panorama-based method changes panoramic images according to the observer's point of view. The panoramic images used in this method is made by integrating images taken by the data capturing system. The morphing method generates images from arbitrary viewpoints from the original images. We can efficiently produce an image-based walk-through system in which people can move and look around rather freely by applying these two methods together.


ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to determine the effects of flour type, baking absorption, variation in sheeting, and dough proofing time on the density, crumb grain (visual texture), and mechanical properties (physical texture) of bread crumb. All response variables were measured on the same bread crumb specimens. Bread loaves were prepared by a short-time bread-making process using four spring wheat flours of varying strength. After crumb density measurement, digital image analysis (DIA) was used to determine crumb grain properties including crumb brightness, cell size, cell wall thickness, and crumb uniformity. Tensile tests were performed on bone-shaped specimens cut from the same bread slices used for DIA to obtain values for Young's modulus, fracture stress, fracture strain, and fracture energy. Proof time had the most profound influence on the bread with substantial effects on loaf volume, crumb density, crumb brightness, and grain, as well as crumb mechanical properties. Increasing proof ...


Physiology of the ruminant stomach - nitrogen metabolism rumen microorganisms and their nutrition dynamics of nitrogen in the rumen host animal protein requirement and protein utilization toward new systems of protein evaluation and new areas for investigaition.


Kennedy disease (KD), also known as X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, was first described by Kennedy in 1968. It is characterized by slowly progressive bulbar and proximal muscle weakness. Other symptoms include gynecomastia, tremor, testicular atrophy, impotence, and infertility. Distal muscle involvement may be later detectable in an advanced course of disease [1]. The molecular basis of KD is the expansion of a trinucleotide CAG repeat in the first exon of androgen receptor (AR) gene. The CAG repeat within normal individuals ranges from 11 to 35, but varies between 40 and 62 repeat in KD patients [2]. What is particular in the pathogenesis of KD is the ligand-dependent mechanism, because the mutant AR has a specific ligand, testosterone [3]. In the last decade, many studies have demonstrated that chemical or surgical castration may improve the symptoms in KD transgenic models [4,5]. This raised the possibility to treat KD patients using presently approved drug. Recently, a clinical trial of leuprorelin on 50 KD patients for 48 weeks has shown some beneficial effects in a phase 2 study [6]; but another multicentre, randomized, doubleblind placebo-controlled clinical trial of leuprorelin treatment on 204 KD patients for 48 weeks did not show a significant effect on swallowing function [7]. Goserelin has been extensively used in the treatment of prostate cancer, but it has not been tested in KD patients before. Therefore, we administered goserelin on a patient clinically and genetically diagnosed with KD for 40 weeks. In surprise, the drug did not produce any beneficial effects on muscle strength, but bring about impotence and breast enlargement. The patient is a 42-year-old man. At the age of about 20, he found that he could not stretch his fingers easily after clenching the fists. If he turned his head to the right exertionally, he had to wait a moment to turn it to the left and vice versa. This tonic spasm of muscle after forceful voluntary contraction occurred, especially in cold weather. Repeated contractions wore it out, but gentle movements did not evoke this phenomenon. This symptom lasted about fifteen years. He did not feel painful muscle cramps in the gastrocnemius or other muscles. Several years later, he felt fasciculations in his face and forearms, and gradually fasciculations occurred on all his body except the tongue. Since the age of 38, he found the difficulties in climbing upstairs especially when he carried heavy things. His weakness gradually worsened, and he began to notice the thighs becoming thinner and thinner. At the age of 39, he began to feel the difficulties in using his distal leg and hand muscles, for example, he could not stand up on his toes or on his heels. Sometimes, his legs were unexpectedly hurt, but he could not feel it. With the worsening of his weakness, the myotonia and fasciculations gradually ameliorated. At the age of 24, he married a healthy woman and had a child later. He did not complain of impotence. On examination, he was 170 cm tall and 60 kg in weight. His intelligence, visual acuity, and swallowing functions were normal. There was no atrophy in his face and tongue. He showed mild to moderate proximal muscle atrophy and weakness, hypotonus, and hyporeflexia in the limbs. His hypothenar muscles showed mild atrophy. After brief percussion, a muscular eminence would be noticed in his biceps brachii. He walked with steppage gait. His sensory system to touch, pinprick, and temperature was mildly to moderately disturbed, but the position and vibration sense was normal. His blood creatine phosphokinase was 1750 u (normal range 25–200), but the electrolytes and glucose in the blood were normal.


The pectin is among the most studied soluble dietary fiber with cholesterol lowering properties. The major difficulty in its use is the slow dissolution and the lumps formation when placed in water. The main objective of this research is through technological methods to achieve a more rapid and complete dissolution of high-esterified citrus pectin in water. The method used is wet granulation with different granulation liquids (sucrose solution, distilled water and water-ethanol mixtures) and the resulting variant granules are tested for particle size distribution, solubility and hydration rate. Granulation of high-methoxyl citrus pectin improves its dissolution in water in comparison with the powder pectin. Also, the hydration rate at the 300 th s is greater than 90% with the granulated pectin and only 54% with non-granulated. Among the obtained five variants of granules, the best results are observed in the variant, granulated with 40% (v/v) ethanol. The analysis of the size and distribution of the particles reports the least scattering of the results during the variants granulated with 25% and 40% ethanol, which corresponds to the highest degree of uniformity of the granules.


The analysis of the Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument (TOBI) side scan sonar images along the Southwest Indian Ridge between 63°40′E and 65°40′E reveals strong focusing of magmatic activity and long amagmatic accretionary ridge segments. Fresh‐looking volcanic terrains are observed at distinct locations along the axis separated by highly tectonized and sedimented terrains of an along‐axis extent as much as 82 km. The largest tectonized section corresponds to a dramatically thin crust area with moderate magnetization anomalies. We suggest that seafloor spreading is mainly amagmatic in this tectonized section of the Southwest Indian Ridge with upper mantle rocks exposed at the seafloor. Amagmatic accretionary ridge segments of such dimensions are quite distinct from what is observed at the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge but are also recognized at the Gakkel Ridge and may thus be characteristic of ultra‐slow spreading ridges. The correlation between the distribution of fresh‐looking volcanic terrains, the occurrence of shallow areas crowned by axial volcanic ridges, and high magnetization values suggests a shallow segmentation of the ridge mainly related to variation in the thickness and/or the intrinsic magnetization of the basaltic source layer. By contrast, strong along‐axis variations of the gravity‐derived crustal thickness are shrunken in length relative to this shallow segmentation of the ridge and occur only beneath the elevated segments. Adjacent to these elevated segments, small bathymetric swells with fresh‐looking volcanic constructions do not correspond to thicker crust areas. This suggests a highly focused melt supply beneath the elevated segments which may feed volcanic constructions up to 60 km from the center of these segments by shallow lateral melt migration in the crust, probably through large dikes. Neither the ultra‐slow spreading rate nor the ridge obliquity explains the variation of the magmatic vigor along the ridge. Mantle source heterogeneities together with lower mantle temperatures beneath the easternmost Southwest Indian Ridge could partly control its segmentation.


Frying is one process among others to perform drying of foods. Its short duration treatments and its cooking potentialities are appealing. However, the design of a frying process is not so easy. The aim of this work is to build-up a dynamic model of the plantain banana frying to be able to simulate both the moisture content and the oil uptake for design and control purposes. Since water activity gets rapidly under 1, a variable boiling temperature must be considered. Moreover the relationship between product temperature and moisture content (i e. the boiling curve) had to be determined through experiments. To represent the internal gradients (moisture and temperature) this model is designed as 3 compartments in series with only heat resistances (no mass resistances). It leads to three unknown transfer coefficients which where identified from experimental data. The oil uptake is easily represented by a first order reaction leading to two unknown parameters easily identified from experimental data. The comparison between simulations and experiments shows a good agreement for both the moisture content and oil uptake. (Resume d'auteur)


Background: Haploinsufficiency of GATA2 results in familial immunodeficiency and MDS/ AML. We identified a family with a novel c1339A>C, pS447R germline GATA2 mutation. Unlike most other disease-causing GATA2 mutations, this mutation occurred in the non-zinc finger domain. Methods: After due IRB approval, clinical and laboratory data were retrospectively abstracted. Results: Seven family members with the mutation are being followed at our institution. (Table 1), of whom two have MDS, one MDS/AML and one with isolated neutropenia. At the time of diagnosis 5/7(71%) pt had decreased monocyte count. 4/7(57%) patients had decreased NK cell count and/or function. Only 1/7(14%) patient had decreased CD4 count. 3/7(42%) patients had reduced B cell numbers and 5/7(71%) patients had persistent HPV warts. Other infections include invasive Absidia sinusitis, infectious mononucleosis, pertussis, and blood stream infections with S. maltophilia and S.aureus. One patient had the Emberger9s syndrome presenting with lymphedema and congenital pulmonary stenosis. Pulmonary manifestation included a patient each with decreased DCLO and hyperreactive airway disease. Genitourinary manifestations included pelvic kidney/dysplastic kidney, posterior urethral valve, dermoid cyst and hydrocele. Two female patients developed primary infertility. One patient had a history of appendicular carcinoid. 4/7(57%) patients have successfully undergone allogenic stem-cell transplantation. Conclusion: Germline GATA2 mutations are associated with a high frequency of MDS/AML. We describe a family with a non-zinc finger GATA2 mutation causing MDS/AML, with a spectrum of hematological and non-hematological manifestations, once again, highlighting the heterogeneity of this syndrome and expanding the genotype-phenotype correlation in this disease. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


The patient is an eight-year-old white male with a prior history of a small bowel transplant secondary to gastroschisis and a history of chronic rejection. He was admitted to the hospital to rule out rejection of his second small bowel transplant. During the admission he developed painful erythematous plaques with necrosis and hemorrhagic bullae on his left knee and left neck. Dermatology was consulted and biopsies and tissue cultures were obtained. On H&E there were multiple thick walled non-septate hyphae and the GMS stain showed right angle irregular branching hyphae with an affinity for blood vessels. A further work-up for disseminated disease was negative. The patient was diagnosed with cutaneous mucormycosis. The patient underwent extensive surgical debridement and was started on Ambisone and treated for six months with resolution. Primary cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic deep fungal infection. It is the most acute and fatal of all fungal infections. There are multiple associated conditions including immunosuppression. This disease can be controlled with early diagnosis and a combination treatment plan. There are only a few reported cases in the pediatric population.


Abstract The use of a combined palladium nitrate-magnesium nitrate chemical modifier allows a compromise higher pyrolysis temperature to be used for the simultaneous detection of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and selenium by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. For arsenic and selenium 900 °C, for arsenic, selenium, and lead 600 °C, and for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and selenium 350 °C are recommended.


A conductive contact unit used for stably feeding inspection signals by reducing the variation of the frictional forces produced between conductive contacts and guides. The conductive contact unit comprises a conductive contact holder having first guide grooves for slidingly and fittingly holding the lateral one edges of the conductive contacts and second guide grooves so positioned as to face the first guide grooves and slidably and fittingly holding the other edges of the conductive contacts each fitted into the first guide grooves, the conductive contacts having a first contact part physically brought into contact with one of different circuit structures, a second contact part physically brought into contact with a circuit structure other than that brought into contact with the first contact part, a first connection part interposed between the first contact part and the second contact part and connecting an elastic part to the first contact part, and a second connection part connecting the elastic part to the second contact part and formed in a plate shape, and an aligning means for aligning the conductive contacts.


Magnetic torque of KFeF 3 single crystals have been measured between 4.2 and 120 K. Weak ferromagnetism with the easy direction along the [1\bar10] was observed below the low temperature transition at 41 K. From phenomenological treatment it was suggested that the symmetry of a KFeF 3 crystal below 41 K is monoclinic. The features of the observed torque curves were interpreted on the assumption that the twin walls can be driven by applied magnetic field.


This paper proposed change detector algorithm with human verifier for intelligent surveillance systems in general and sterile zone monitoring in particular. The proposed algorithm can be used during day and night time. It is designed to tackle practical problems such as illumination change, static foreground object, and camouflage foreground object. It uses statistical criteria which helps to detect switch between the color and IR camera. The proposed algorithm uses change detection using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as region proposal. It gives possible region of interest to be intruder. Later, that RP is fed into human verifier which is HOG based SVM classifier. It labels intruder if it is human. The proposed method is tested on the standard datasets.


The article pertains to the part of economics that is called economic epistemology in other countries but is practically unknown in our country. On the example of nine terms that have come to be used in economics from medicine, characteristics of the borrowing and use of terms from another sphere of knowledge are shown.