A closed incubation system was developed for laboratory simulation of composting conditions at the interior of a large compost pile. A conductive heat flux control system (CHFC) was used to adjust the temperature of the internal wall to that of the compost center and compensate for heat loss. Insulated small vessels (400 cm 3) controlled by the CHFC system were compared with similar vessels maintained at 30°C (mesophilic) and 55°C (thermophilic), and with large vessels (10 000 cm3) with and without the CHFC. Compost temperature rose rapidly to a maximum within 2-4 days, then gradually decreased. In mesophilic treatments (no CHFC), temperature at the matrix center increased to a maximum of 36°C in the small vessel and 50°C in the large vessel, while temperature in both vessels reached 50°C with the CHFC. Microbial activity was maintained by allowing compost to self-heat and controlling temperature externally with the CHFC. Higher temperatures were sustained for longer periods in CHFC vessels than in vessels without the CHFC. Periodic mixing of the compost matrix increased temperature and CO2 evolution. Small vessels were successfully used in laboratory simulation of field-scale composting of a soil/organic matrix containing TNT and RDX munitions. The small vessel system reduced subsample error in compost monitoring from that of the large vessels. The CHFC has particular utility in research requiring expensive chemicals or hazardous substances.


Solar air heaters (SAH) are becoming increasingly popular in the food industry, agriculture, and especially in the building sector. The paper presents results of the assessment of the environmental effects resulting from the application of these devices for preheating ventilation air. In the first step it was determined energy efficiency of typical solar air heater based on results of experiments performed under the operating conditions. In the next step the potential annual energy savings for typical houses and potential reduction of the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were calculated.


The utility model provides a force assembly and disassembly demonstrating instrument, which belongs to a steady and precise demonstrating instrument. The demonstrating instrument conducts an experiment by two circular chutes and a pulley thereon. The demonstrating instrument is connected with a weight and a dynamometer to view the degrees in the dial to conduct the force assembly and disassembly demonstrating experiment.


Digital tools have fostered an evolution in enterprise culture discourse, in which 'enterprise for all' is expected to be achieved through online means. This paper critically analyses the potential for digital entrepreneurship to offer a pathway to greater economic participation amongst marginalised groups. Using a critical realist perspective on a sample of resource-constrained women in the UK, we find that the online environment can reproduce or exacerbate offline barriers to the creation of digital ventures. We contribute to emerging critiques interrogating the Internet as an enabling context for entrepreneurship by theorising the relationship between social conditions, entrepreneurship, and contemporary digital technologies.


Two-dimensional modeling of water movement in unsaturated soils The soil moisture distribution for different soil types under different flow regimes can be used to optimize the design of an irrigation system, water manage water in the root zone, or increase the precision of the application of fertilizers in the rhizosphere. Therefore, the objective of this research was to develop a two-dimensional numerical model capable of simulating the soil moisture distribution in soil profile for different irrigation systems. The model is a finite difference solution of the Richards equation solution, in which the Picard iteration method is used to ensure the conservation of mass. The numerical model also takes water extraction by plants and water evaporation on the soil surface into account. The mathematical model was developed in the Department of Biosystems Engineering, College of Agriculture "Luiz de Queiroz", ESALQ / USP. It was coded in Fortran 90, and structured to allow interactive input of a) physical and hydraulic properties soil profile, and b) type of irrigation, irrigation application time, and simulation. The simulation of water extraction by the plants is optional. And to evaluate its performance a sensitivity analysis was done. Data obtained in an experiment carried out in the older Rural Engineering Department, College of Agriculture "Luiz de Queiroz" by Rivera (2004), were used to validate the model. Model performance was evaluated using the Willmott index of agreement; efficiency coefficient, root mean square error, average error and the maximum absolute error. Sensitivity analyses were performed on the density of water flow, saturated hydraulic conductivity, and on alpha and n (setting parameters of the soil water retention curve). From the results obtained, the model satisfactory simulated the measured soil moisture distributions in the experimental soil moisture profiles. The model was most sensitive to variations in the parameters of the input stream and to n, a parameter in the soil water retention equation (van Genuchten model, 1980). This results is indicative that these input parameters need to be determined with greater accuracy. The model output was not very sensitive to alpha, a shape parameter in the soil water retention curve.


In the framework of the Organza project, an international seminar on coaching creative entrepreneurship was held on November 8 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The main issue focused on the question to what extent coaching creative entrepreneurship is different from coaching 'ordinary' entrepreneurship. Our research at ARCCI has shown that creative people are more entrepreneurial than average, but in many cases don't define themselves as entrepreneurs. As a consequence, many creative professionals do not manage their business as professionally as they should.


Providing a simple and convenient interface for the users is the target of each management information system. This paper introduces some methods for increasing the efficiency and accuracy of data entry through applying VB data binding control options to realize the option entry and repeat entry of the data.


In this article, a new class of functions is defined using the concepts of (j, i)-symmetric functions and Janowski functions in conic regions. Certain interesting coefficient inequalities are discussed. c ©2017 All rights reserved.


Deformation structures, within some Quaternary calcretes of Botswana and South Africa, have been classified into five types. Type 1 folds are small-scale ( 20 m), but low amplitude (< 1 m), anticlines in hardpan calcrete; structural evidence suggests dominantly horizontal compression within the hardpan due either to an overall increase in volume of the calcrete, or to the disruptive formation of calcrete in joints in the synclinal areas. The mineralogy of the calcretes is dominated by low-Mg calcite which may have inverted from a high-Mg form; the deformation in type 1 and 2 folds was probably caused by the disruptive and displacive growth of calcite during calcretization. Type 3 folds are saucer-shaped depressions in hardpan calcrete and may be due to the removal of soluble salts below the folded layer during or after calcretization. Finally, type 4 folds are small, diapiric anticlines resulting from the upward injection of swelling clays into calcrete or calcretized shale.


Intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCTs) are rare, composing about 10% of all neoplasms of the CNS in children.20 Presently, the best available treatment for IMSCTs is microsurgery with the objective of maximal tumor removal and minimal neurological morbidity. It has been shown that the oncological outcome for low-grade glial tumors depends on the extent of resection. However, once near-total resection is achieved, further removal of small remnants appears to provide no additional benefit.7 Furthermore, this "last remnant" resection would logically carry the highest risk of surgery-induced neurological damage. The ability to avoid such neurological damage during surgery has improved with the development and standard use of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.12,14,21 To evaluate neurological function preand postoperatively or to compare neurological function between groups, the McCormick Scale (often modified for pediatric needs) is widely used.7,16 The modified McCormick Scale (mMS) as well as other spinal cord injury scales focuses on more or less detailed neurological assessment (Table 1). The more comprehensive question of patient quality of life (QOL)—particularly in the long term—is less well delineated by such functional scores and has not been studied in much detail. Any significant adverse effects of surgery upon a broader measure of QOL cannot be studQuality of life after surgical treatment of primary intramedullary spinal cord tumors in children


Multiple independent sensors are used in security and military applications in order to increase sensitivity, selectivity and data reliability. The Xsense project has been initiated at the Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with a number of partners in an effort to produce a handheld sensor for trace detection of explosives. We are using micro- and nano technological approaches for integrating four sensing principles into a single device. At the end of the project, the consortium aims at having delivered a sensor platform consisting of four independent detector principles capable of identifying concentrations of TNT, DNT, HMX and RDX at sub parts-per-billion (ppb) levels and with a false positive rate less than 1 parts-per-thousand. The specificity, sensitivity, reliability and the speed of responses are ensured by the use of advanced data processing, surface functionalization and nanostructured sensors and sensor design.


This study will scrutinize the gender roles in George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss thoroughly to see how these two novels reflected the roles of women and their pre-coded roles in Victorian society. Besides, this study focuses on where George Eliot stands for feminism. George Eliot, one of the most important writers of the Victorian age, has been debated over the years about being a feminist or not. Although she offers limited choices to the female characters she creates in her fictions, her living her private life without any boundaries caused reactions.Actually, Eliot sees the problems of women in the male-dominated Victorian society and reveals 'Woman Question' with the characters in her fictions. This work claims that Eliot's aim is to promote the idea of women having a good education and an ability to exist in their societies.


THE SUBJECT OF ADULTERY AND DIVORCE IN LATE GEORGIAN BRITAIN poses a formidable challenge to orthodox disciplinary frameworks because it relates to many dimensions of late eighteenth-century life--marriage, the family, sexuality, gender, the law, morality, the regulation of the social order and the well-being of the nation, property, class, sociability, and social space--and also because it is locatable in a wide range of texts and media such as trial publications, newspapers and magazines, poems, plays and novels, as well as visual art. (1) Not only is it discursively permeable, late Georgian adultery is also epistemologically difficult: the slipperiness and intractability of its meanings confound explanations for human behavior based on distinctions between public and private selves, or between social and affective or psychological experience. (2) In the case of adultery, desires, emotions, and the sexual act itself have public, social, "adulterated" meanings: in some cases, moreover, these meanings are elusive and uncertain. As such, adultery goes against the grain of those trends in Enlightenment and Romantic culture that helped produce the very disciplinary frameworks in which it has been analyzed. This article attempts to negotiate some of these conceptual and methodological issues by proposing theatricality as one possible framework within which the amplitude of adultery's meanings in late eighteenth-century society might be gauged. In particular, I want to examine the link between the figure of the adulteress and the status of the actress Sarah Siddons, the consummate interpreter of the female outcast as tragic heroine in the Romantic period. My focus is the 1790s, when Siddons's appearance as an adulteress at Drury Lane coincided with the height of the panic generated by adultery, intersecting with legal and political discourses and threatening the iconic status of Siddons herself. As such, I hope to suggest not only a new way of configuring adultery in late eighteenth-century culture, but also a new perspective on Siddons and the Romantic theatre. I. The Theatre of Adultery The theatricality of late Georgian adultery is evident in the adultery "story" itself, as represented in divorce trials and the print culture of the period. This story was often constructed dramatically around crucial incidents such as the discovery of the erring parties or confrontations and/or tearful partings between a wronged husband and wife. The role of servants in giving evidence of these incidents, either as spectators in the household or as active agents in detecting an affair, also highlights the status of adultery as a drama played out before interested spectators (in a way that reinforces Jurgen Habennas's observation that behavior, even in the intimate sphere of the conjugal family, was always "audience-oriented"). (3) The publication of adultery trials, many of which featured illustrations of curious or intriguing "scenes" in the affair, analogous to illustrations in contemporary dramatic texts or novels, also had the effect of theatricalizing adultery for the virtual audience of the reading public. (4) An additional element of the theatricality of adultery was constituted by the law. There were three main forums in which the adultery case could be tried in English law: the ecclesiastical courts, principally the Consistory Court and the Court of Arches at Doctors' Commons, which entailed the presentation by legal representatives of the parties of previously recorded depositions of witnesses before a judge who could record a sentence of separation from bed and board without the right of remarriage; the civil courts, in the form of a case for criminal conversation by which a husband could sue an adulterer for the loss of consortium in his wife; and finally, Parliament, where a husband could obtain a divorce by a private act which allowed for remarriage. Normally both an ecclesiastical divorce and a successful action for criminal conversation, or crim. …


1. Ryoo and Rosen's (2004) partial equilibrium model of the market for engineers; 2. Rosen, Murphy, and Scheinkman's (1994) model of cattle cycles; 3. Lucas's (1978) model of asset prices; 4. Brock and Mirman's (1972) and Hall's (1978) model of the permanent income theory of consumption; 5. Time-to-build models of business cycles; 6. Siow's (1984) model of occupational choice; 7. Topel and Rosen's (1988) model of the dynamics of house prices and quantities; 8. Theories of dynamic demand curves; 9. Theories of dynamic supply curves; 10. Lucas and Prescott's (1971) model of investment under uncertainty.


The matchless fortune of Alessandro Manzoni's masterpiece The Betrothed, due to the mandatory reading in all the Italian schools, is responsible for the negative, prejudicial and enduring image of Milan in the seventeenth century. This essay aims to dismantle such a picture of decline, by tracing Manzoni's ideas of economics and by uncovering the political reasons that supported the novelist's representation of backwardness. Indeed, first Manzoni developed a moralized view of economics, in which free market prices embodied Providence, and any other kind of intervention was regarded as not proper. Second, he depicted the seventeenth century Milanese society in a very static way in order to over-emphasize progres of his time. Thus, due to Manzoni's moralized economic approach and historical reconstruction, the Spanish domination of Milan met its doom of rough justice. Yet, a new generation of historians, free from any teleological slant, is now providing a new vision of Spanish Milan as a resilient and lively society, with some institutions conducive to modernization. Parole chiave: Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi, Milano, secolo XVII, teoria e


Contents Preface Looking Forward, Looking Back: 1985-1999 1.The Critical Debate and Its Origins 2.History: Representation and Misrepresentation - The Case of Abstract Expressionism: Revisionism in the 1970s and early 1980s 3.Revisionism Revisited


Poetics proposed by structuralists at its best did not respect its own premises in a dogmatic manner. It profited knowledge that today's Theory (or so-called Post-Theory) considers helpful while dealing with the text. Unlike approaches held on metodologically narrow perspective, the heterogenic Post-Theory has a capacity for the reneval because it pays due regard to the consideration of paratopia of literaty text. It often happens that post-Theory is accused of obscurity and hermeticism, but "ignotum per ignotum, obscurum per obscurum rhetorics" is not always a vice, sometimes it seeks to respect the mystery of the text and its secret language.


Although financial support for renewable electricity sources has existed via the non-fossil fuel obligation since 1990, the UK 'green power' market is still in its infancy. This paper looks at attitudes to tariffs for green power' in light of the proposed phase-out of the non- fossil fuel obligation. The hypothesis tested was the con sumers' willingness to pay for electricity generated from renewable energy sources and to see if this was related to income and attitude. Data for analysis were taken from replies to a questionnaire sent to an energy-aware sub population of Leicester which were analysed by a variety of statistical tests. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that whether someone was willing to pay more was significantly correlated with attitude, experience (whether they had visited an environmental centre) and the purchasing power placed on £5. This finding has implications for the methods by which support for green tariffs can be increased. Education and raising people's awareness through experience should be able to change attitudes and so increase their willingness to pay.


The present invention relates to a production method of superfine silicon micropowder. Said method includes the steps of crushing high-quality silicon raw material, washing with water, magnetic separation, acid washing to remove iron impurity, wet ball grinding, naturally precipitating slurry obtained by ball-grinding process and separating precipitate. The invented key lies in that in the ball-grinding slurry suspension obtained after the precipitate is separated out, a preciptant is added and stood still for several hr., then the upper clear liquor is separated out, and the lower precipitated slurry can be fed into press filter to make filter pressing operation, then the filter press cave is dried and pulverized so as to obtain the superfine silicon dioxide micropowder whose grain size is 1.0-0.1 micrometer.


One key to the success of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is the availability of a clear market for the products. Meanwhile, the fundamental weaknesses faced by SMEs in marketing are low market orientation, weakness in a complex and sharp competition and inadequate marketing infrastructure. Faced with an increasingly open market mechanisms and competitive, market control is prerequisite for improving competitiveness. Therefore, expansion of market access with Web-based Information Technology is now needed as a medium for global communication. One thing that gives a competitive advantage in international trade competition is information technology of electronic commerce or e-commerce. This paper shows the important role of e-commerce for SMEs in Indonesia and how to model the development of e-commerce. This paper intends to show the important role of e-commerce for SMEs in Indonesia and how to model the development of ecommerce.


After its triumphant vindication last year at CERN, a 1964 theory that endows fundamental particles with mass wins science's highest accolade. After its triumphant vindication last year at CERN, a 1964 theory that endows fundamental particles with mass wins science's highest accolade.


Antidiuretic hormone (ADH, vasopressin) is an octapeptide normally secreted by the neurohy pophysis (posterior pituitary) in response to in creased plasma osmolality. Two specific receptors exist for circulating ADH, located in the vascular smooth muscle and the collecting duct of the renal tubule. Stim ulation of vascular smooth muscle receptors causes ar teriolar vasoconstriction with a concomitant increase in arterial pressure. Stimulation of receptors in the renal collecting tubule results in increased water permeability in the collecting ducts and alteration of plasma osmolal ity. Normally, ADH secretion occurs in response to an increase in plasma osmolality. Increased plasma osmo lality promotes free water reabsorption, which results in an inhibition of diuresis and formation of more con centrated urine. In the event of low or decreased plas ma osmolality, ADH secretion is inhibited. This results in diuresis and formation of dilute urine secondary to inhibition of free water reabsorption in the renal tubule. Thus, plasma osmolality is maintained within a rela tively narrow range of approximately 270-290 mmol/kg by the release of ADH and the thirst response.-


Objective To investigate the influence factors of dried blood spot determination of glucose-6-phosph-ate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) in newborns. Methods The influence factors of assay such as collecting blood in different seasons, sampling site, born baby sex, accouchement way (natural labor or caesarean), specimen store condition and time, wiping off blood spots or not and determination times were observed. Results The collection of blood in different seasons, accouchment ways, after adding the copper reagent to wipe off blood spot or not and determination time had influence for G6PD result. The sampling site of dried blood spots and born baby sex had no influence on G6PD result. Conclusions Many influencing factors were noted in newborn screening assay by dried blood spots. To assure the quality of screening best condition should be controlled. The screening quality can be assured effectively.


Ancient Egypt is often treated as oriental tyranny where death sentence was a norm. But there are only two sources proving the existence of capital punishment in Ptolemaic law. Both sources relate to abuses of officials: forging weight measures used for taxation (Tebt. I.5.85-92) and wrong registration of citizens' names (BGU 1250). The form of capital punishment in Ptolemaic period is mentioned in hieroglyphic part of Memphis decree. After the suppression of uprising in Lycopolis Ptolemy V ordered to impale rebels (Urk. II.183). Basing on the Egyptian tradition we conclude that it was the only way of execution.


OpenGL is soft interface of image display hardware (display card). The hardware driver is called by OpenGL API to interacte with image display hardware directly. In the real-time display application of radar image, the chartlet of image point was drawn with glDrawPixels function. The current raster position was defined with glRasterPos, and chartlet form of image point was controlled with glPixelStore. The factor of proportionality for amplification and reduction in horizontal and vertical was set up with glPixelZoom. The result of simulation test proved that the OpenGL satisfies the need of radar image display.


This paper briefly discusses the ways of voice service realization of EPON based on VoIP technology and analyzes the realization principles and the limitations of VoIP technology.


This paper sums up and analyzes on the importance,current state,effecting factors and future developing trends of the journal exchange of university library,and puts forward some corresponding countermeasures for improving the journal exchange of university library.


Welcome to West Point!

It is our great pleasure to host the 2011 ACM Conference on Information Technology Education. The theme of this year's conference is "Growth and New Vistas." The academic field of IT is experiencing many changes. As we enter a new decade in the Digital Age, IT will continue to face new opportunities, changes, and challenges. How do we continue to grow the profession and encourage more students to pursue IT? What is the scope of research for IT? What are the best practices for covering the knowledge areas in the IT Model Curriculum? How do we balance the challenges of accreditation against the need for curriculum evolution?

Over the years, we have found this conference to be both a well spring of ideas to address issues such as the above and a much needed opportunity to network and bond with fellow IT educators. We hope you find this year's conference as beneficial and rewarding as the many we have attended in the past.

We are truly fortunate this year to have Dave Ferrucci as our keynote speaker. Dave was a lead designer for the IBM Watson design team. We have heard him speak before, and we look forward to an exciting presentation. Other conference social activities include a unique tour of the West Point's cadet area and a beautiful and collegial boat ride on the scenic Hudson River.

The call for papers attracted 95 submissions from Asia, Canada, Europe, Africa, and the United States. The program committee accepted 49 papers, 13 posters, and 5 panels. This year the SIGITE reviewer pool grew substantially and we had over 90 reviewers and thus each submission was evaluated by at least four reviewers. The program committee would also like to thank those dedicated emergency reviewers who stepped in at the last moment to review one or two extra papers under tight time constraints.


The BLAST detector is presently under construction by an international collaboration of 11 institutions. The initial scientiic program calls for comprehensive measurements of the spin dependent electromagnetic response of the few body systems. The experiments are carried out with a circulating, continuous polarized electron beam of up to 1 (GeV), polarized internal gas targets and the large acceptance magnetic detector. Projected results in the accessible Q 2-range are presented for the charge form factor of the neutron G n E , the quadrupole amplitudes in the N ! transition, the deuteron tensor analyzing power T 20 and, the spin dependent nucleon momentum distributions in the 3-body system. Other projected studies are also described as well as new evolving opportunities.


This article is an attempt to explore how scholarly doctors perceived and treated "demonic affliction" in Ming-Qing China. In the recent past certain medical historians claimed that the classic Chinese medicine is a "rationalized" medical system primarily based on naturalistic explanations of illness and methods of treatment. To me, this viewpoint is only partly true. In fact, shamanistic exorcism and religious healings have never been excluded completely from Chinese medicine throughout the ages. The ritual therapies of zhouyou 祝由 and zhoujin 咒禁 have even become a part of the official medical education since the Tang until the late Ming. It is therefore my interest to examine if the scholarly doctors in the later ages employed any ritual therapy of this kind, particularly in the cases of "demonic affliction". To begin with, my article introduces a category of illnesses, namely, xiesui (literally trans. "evil influences") as recorded in Ming-Qing medical writings. Some doctors interpreted xiesui in terms of xie as "excessive evil" of environmental factors. Others viewed xiesui primarily as "demonic influences". Some of them indicated the ailments of qi depletion, blood depletion, phlegm and Fire often confused with that of xiesui. Some others suggested that the madness of xiesui should be distinguished from that of dian-, kuang-and xian-illness. Despite these incoherent viewpoints, the scholarly doctors all had an agreeable stance at its etiology, i.e., xiesui as exterior pathogens could only attack to those whose body and spirit is weak andvulnerable. For those who believed in the existence of xiesui as evil spirits, they went further to divide xiesui illnesses into various kinds, ranging from that of deities, spirits, goblins, animal fairies, ghosts, and certain "worms-transmitted" diseases. The "polluted" locations where afflictions by xiesui likely occur were also taken into account in some of their writings. As for the therapies, the scholarly doctors proposed methods of pulse diagnoses, prognostication and prescriptions for treating xiesui. The commonly used were drug decoctions, needling/acupuncture, burning incense/moxibustion, etc. Sometimes ointments were applied to the sexual organs of the sufferers in the cases of "demonic sexual obsession". Occasionally, the doctors might employ shamanistic-like methods, such as charms, spells and prayers. The ritual therapy of zhuyou was mentioned, yet never playing a key in their treatments, except for the special cases in which zhuyou serves as a sort of psychotherapy. In summary, this article is aimed at revealing the diversity of Ming-Qing scholarly doctors' interpretations and prescriptions of "demonic afflictions". In so doing, it only shows their perceptions of boundaries between normality and the pathological, the naturalistic and the supernatural, but to some extent the confrontation between scholarly doctors and religious healers in Ming-Qing China.


The invention relates to a method for preparing a hydrophobic coating by using a hot spraying technology. The coating has the anti-icing effect. The method comprises the following steps of: coating nano ceramic powder on the surface of micro metal or alloy powder by adopting a nano agglomeration coating technology to form composite powder, preparing the coating by using the composite powder as a raw material and adopting the hot spraying technology, and forming a micro and nano composite 'mastoid process' structure on the surface of the coating so as to improve the hydrophobic effect of the coating. The method is simple in process and high in coating preparation efficiency, can be widely applied in the industries of aviation, printing, automobiles, power and the like, and plays a hydrophobic and anti-icing role.


The obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is a complex nosological entity characterised by an obstruction at various levels of the upper airways during sleep. The gold standard treatment is represented by ventilation therapy with c-PAP, which, despite being safe and effective, is sometimes poorly tolerated by patients. In this case, the surgical therapy might be a good option but its efficacy depends on the ability to locate and solve the different obstructive sites. One of the sites which can create an obstruction during sleep is the hypopharynx which includes the tongue base and the epiglottis. The surgery at this level aims at widening the retro-lingual space of the airway. The purpose of our study was to describe a new epiglottoplasty technique executed via transoral endoscopy by means of Coblation technology .


The new concept of 'citizen families' in European society, including Germany, is sometimes idealized in literary works. The concept of covoc family was established in connection with the enlightenment and the civil revolution and industrialization process developed in the 18th-19th century. The theme of family is a subject covered in academic fields such as psychology, pedagogy, cultural history, and social history. Literary works from the Enlightenment period not only on the ideals and values of the civic family of the time, but also on the inherent conflict issues. It's easy to form a consensus when the main characters of a play watched by the citizen audience are in the same class. Lessing feels the misfortune that the citizen audience experienced in the citizen's family and the feelings of the characters in the play through civic tragedy. Thus, in "Emilia Gallotti", Lessing said, "At a time when a new form of small family emerged, the problems of patriarchy and individual.


to be easily testable. The I-Space is based on an "intuitively plausible premise: structured knowledge flows more readily and extensively than unstructured knowledge," and that "Human knowledge is built up through the twin processes of discrimination and association." Boisot's I-Space model context is not necessarily organizational, but rather actively informational and social. The I-Space is summarized as follows: The relationship between the codification, abstraction and diffusion of knowledge is illustrated by the diffusion curve of Figure 5. The more codified and abstract a given message, the larger the population that it can be diffused to in a given time period. Codification, abstraction, and diffusion, make up only one part of a social learning process. Knowledge that is diffused within a target population must also get absorbed by that population and then get applied in specific situations. When applied, such knowledge may not fit in well with existing schema and may trigger a search for adjustments and adaptations a process of assimilation and accommodation and we shall refer to as scanning. This social learning process forms a cycle in the I-Space indicated by the directional curve. In the I-Space, the value of knowledge, its utility, is achieved by moving up the space towards the apex of codification and abstraction. Scarcity is achieved by keeping the knowledge assets created located towards the left hand side of the diffusion curve. The biggest asset of the I-Space is that it has been successfully tested and validated in operational settings. 92 Canals, A. Boisot, M.H. MacMillan, I. 2004. Simulating I-Space (SimISpace): An Agent-based Approach to Modeling Knowledge Flows, 2. 93 Boisot, M.H. Canals, A. 2003. Modeling knowledge‐based economic processes, 3. 94 Boisot, M.H. Canals, A. 2003. Modeling knowledge‐based economic processes, 4-5. 95 Boisot, M.H. Canals, A. 2003. Modeling knowledge‐based economic processes, 5. 96 Canals, A. Boisot, MacMillan, I. 2004. Simulating I-Space (SimISpace): An Agent-based Approach to Modeling Knowledge Flows, 31. Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za


Towards the end of the Second World War, during the massive bombardments of German cities, priceless art treasures were destroyed. The more precious works from the more important museums, however, and the art treasures which had been plundered from other European countries during six years of war,' had been preventively put in safety in depots throughout Germany, which were mostly unused mines or specially-built bunkers.


The present invention does not inhibit the anti-reflection property, and the transparency is excellent, and obtain the antistatic performance, by suppressing the adhesion of dirt and dust, scratches and the smoking difficult optical member, or forming art optical member which method to provide. Optical members, it is provided with a lack equivalent titanium oxide film is formed by depositing a lack equivalent titanium oxide in the vacuum chamber by introducing an oxygen gas at a vacuum degree adjustment, the vacuum film formation when the pressure p (Pa) and the lack of equivalent weight in the chamber titanium oxide film, the optical film thickness (refractive index 2.50, the design center wavelength 500nm) are, (1) p≥0.005, (2) an optical thickness ≤0.500λ, (3) an optical thickness ≥ (0.001exp (905.73p) -0.050 ) λ, exp has an exponential relationship of a base for the bottom e of a natural logarithm.


Natural killer (NK) cells are paramount for immunity against infectious agents and tumors. Their cytokine and cytolytic responses can be mediated by natural killer group 2, member D (NKG2D), an activating receptor whose ligands (NKG2DL) expression is induced in conditions of cell stress and malignant transformation. Since sustained expression of NKG2DL MICA is related to lower survival rates in gastric adenocarcinoma patients, and Helicobacter pylori infection contributes to tumorigenesis; we asked whether H. pylori stimulus could promote NKG2DL expression on human gastric adenocarcinoma cells.


Since known approved drugs like liponavir and ritonavir failed to cure SARS-CoV-2

infected patients, it is high time to generate new chemical entities against this virus.

3CL main protease acts as key enzyme for the growth of a virus which acts as

biocatalyst and helps to break protein and ultimately in the growth of coronavirus.

Based on a recently solved structure (PDB ID: 6LU7), we developed a novel

advanced deep Q-learning network with the fragment-based drug design

(ADQN-FBDD) along with variational autoencoder with KL annealing and circular

annealing for generating potential lead compounds targeting SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro.

Structure-based optimization policy (SBOP) is used in reinforcement learning. The

reason for using variational autoencoders is that it does not deviate much from actual

inhibitors, but since VAE suffers from KL diminishing we have used KL annealing

and circular annealing to address this issue. Researchers can use this compound as

potential drugs against SARS-CoV-2


Climate change is among the main threats to ecosystems, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services. These changes are associated with increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]). This study aimed to investigate how [CO2] influences chlorophyll a fluorescence, vegetative growth, biomass production, and the number of root nodules (NRN) of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a critically endangered species. The study was conducted in six open‐top chambers with two CO2 levels, at elevated [CO2] (eCO2, 717 ± 77 ppm) and at ambient [CO2] (aCO2, 539 ± 42 ppm). We monitored vegetative growth weekly, and at the end of the experiment, we measured chlorophyll a fluorescence and biomass production. Dimorphandra wilsonii plants under eCO2 showed higher (p < 0.05) average leaf dry mass, average leaf area, and lower (p < 0.05) root/shoot ratio than plants under aCO2. The greater aerial biomass allocation contributes to maximizing the photosynthesis performance but could also result in the self‐shading of old basal leaves by new distal leaves on branches. This adjustment could be advantageous in the competition for light; however, it would be a disadvantage for below‐ground resource competition (such as water and nutrients), which could result in decreased drought resistance. Also, this adjustment would be unfavorable to D. wilsonii, which occurs in a seasonal climate environment competing with invasive grasses. Thus, it is possible that climate change scenarios with increases in [CO2] and drought periods could negatively influence the establishment of young plants of D. wilsonii in their natural occurrence area, which could worsen the conservation status of the species.


Complex components, high moisture and low caloric value of raw Chinese MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) lead to the difficulties of keeping stable burning and low pollutant emission. Differential Density Circulated Fluidized Bed (DDCFB) incinerator was first developed by Zhejiang University to overcome such difficulties. The research of organic pollutants, especially dioxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emission and control from MSW incinerators has been carried out in ITPE since 1998. The aim of this paper is to provide the scheme of a new co-firing CFB incineration technology, and useful data for environmental evaluation of trace organic pollutants emission from incinerators. The art of co-firing CFB is presented briefly in the first part of this paper. The dioxin content in original Chinese MSW is estimated to be 10 pg I-TEQ/g based on the data from Abad et al. Several test runs are conducted in a real-scale (150ton/day) incinerator co-firing MSW and coal to investigate dioxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emission to ambient air. Test results show that dioxins input into the incinerator is estimated around 300∼600 mg I-TEQ/y, dioxins output is estimated 3∼100 mg I-TEQ/y, and dioxins emitted to ambient air is around 0.1∼15mg I-TEQ/y. It seemed that most of dioxins in original waste are decomposed by incineration process. For seventeen priority PAHs, its emission to ambient air is around 200∼4160g/y for co-firing runs, which is much more than 80g/y for coal combustion only. This suggests that PAHs emission to ambient air needed to be more concerned than dioxins. That is to say, PAHs emission regulatory should be proposed as soon as possible to restrict all incinerators. Several new incinerators (200 tons/day per unit and 300 tons/day per unit) were built by using new Co-firing CFB technology in past few years. From the environmental evaluation report, dioxins emission in stack gas is in range of 0.0025∼0.06 ng I-TEQ/Nm3 , which seemed far below the European limit. The annual dioxin emission to air for 200ton/day or 300 t/d units is around 3∼6 mg I-TEQ. It shows that co-firing CFB incinerator is capable of reducing dioxin emission effectively. Based on industrial demonstration experience of new co-firing CFB incineration technology, it has been proven environmental friendly method for thermal treatment of MSW in developing countries. Some reasons for low dioxin emission of co-firing processes are discussed in this paper.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


In This study investigated the effects of various intensity cycling exercise on body composition, blood lipids and fat metabolism in obese middle-aged women. 17 people obesity middle – aged women aged 35 to 55 years were divided into 3 groups: 5 people in the low intensity group, 6 people in the medium intensity group, and 6 people in the high intensity group. The object of this study was to compare the effect of cycle exercise performed between 20 ~ 50 minutes per a day,1 3 day times per week on the body composition, lipid profile and lipid metabolism of obesity middle – aged women. There was not substantial difference in body construction between groups. in blood lipid changes, there was a substantial difference in glucose between groups, There was not substantial difference between groups in the change of fat metabolism. In addition, there was not substantial difference in the interaction effect between time and time × group. It is expected that the results of this study will be used as basic data for related field.


The Pocaterra dam on the Kananaskis River provides a unique opportunity to assess dam induced changes in channel morphology because it has caused reduction in the magnitude of high flows and creation of daily peaking flows with no associated alteration in sediment supply. We assessed reach scale morphological change of the Kananaskis as a result of the hydropeaking flow regime considering change in geometry, planform, vegetation, and pool characteristics and distribution. Pre and post-dam channel conditions were assessed through historical photos, field measurements, remote sensing techniques and modeling. The channel just downstream of the dam widened, the middle six sites show no statistical change, and the most downstream three sites showed statistically significant narrowing. Further changes included a shift towards fewer active channels, abandonment of back channels, increase in density of riparian vegetation, and low diversity of successional stages within the riparian forests. A rational regime model reasonably predicted width adjustment and shift in number of active channels. We also found depth distributions to differ from statistical distributions in the most upstream sites with a higher proportion of low depths while the most downstream site matched the statistical distributions. Pool characteristics were associated with local attributes with large pools formed near large wood and back channels and numerous smaller free forming pools. The hydropeaking signal appears to drive channel change in the upper reaches where the models did not correspond to observed channel characteristics while the reduction in peak flows appears to drive channel morphology in the more downstream reaches. The interactions of the hydropeaking flows with winter ice dynamics also appear to control channel change in this system and contribute to the unique morphology. Channel change is likely associated with decrease in the


Present paper computes the Laplace transforms of pretrigonometric, prehyperbolic and extended pretrigonometric and prehyperbolic functions. Then obtain the prefunctions by solving initial value problems for second order non-homogeneous differential equations using Laplace Transforms. In the later part considered the matrix differential equations whose solutions leads to extended matrix trigonometric functions.


In this work the emulsion polymerisation of styrene was carried out in presence of the inisurfs (reactive surfactants). The reaction kinetics was followed by dilatometric and calorimetric measurements. The influence of the inisurf concentration in reaction mixture as well as the reaction temperature on the particle properties were studied. Resulting particles were characterised with FFFF-MALLS and PCS. Viscosity measurements indicate the formation of particle flocks in the solution at certain inisurf concentration in reaction mixture.


ESL Population and Program Patterns in Community Colleges. ERIC Digest...........................................................................1 CURRICULUM AND ENROLLMENT TRENDS........................... 2 THE ESL STUDENT POPULATION.........................................2 TYPES OF ESL CLASSES................................................... 3 CONCLUSION.................................................................. 5 REFERENCES.................................................................. 5


Duplicate determinations of residual milk and fat were made at milkings following intervals of 10, 14, and 24 hr at two stages of lactation in 12 cows. The data obtained thus represented 144 milkings. The amount of residual milk was correlated with total yield whether differences in total yield arose from differences between cows, stages of lactation, milking intervals, or error variation. The effect of changes in total yield was greater in early lactation than later, but within either stage of lactation the same relationship persisted approximately over most of the variables examined. However, between different milking intervals, change in total yield produced somewhat less effect on residual milk than when total yield varied from other causes. There were also differences between cows in the degree to which residual milk was affected by variation in total yield. For early and late lactation, and for milkings at 10 and 14-hr intervals, the mean relative amount of residual milk was constant at 17.8 per cent. of total yield. For 24-hr milkings it was 13.9 per cent. Independently of differences in yield, cows differed significantly in amount of residual milk. These differences were highly correlated with differences in persistency of lactation, low persistency being associated with high proportion of residual milk. Seventy-five per cent. of variation in persistency was accounted for by differences in residual milk. Fat percentages of residual milk differed between cows, between stages of lactation, and between milking intervals. The data were used to calculate rates of secretion of milk and fat, and fat percentage of milk secreted, during intervals of 10, 14, and 24 hr. With cows normally milked at intervals of 10 and 14 hr, secretion rate was not significantly less during the longer interval, and any difference which may exist must be extremely small. Fat percentage of milk secreted increased when the milking interval was lengthened. Imposition of a single 24-hr interval on cows normally milked twice daily reduced milk secretion rate by only 15 per cent., but there was also an aftereffect of the long interval upon immediately subsequent secretion rate.


Most patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) express the BCR-ABL transcript with the b2a2 (e13a2) or b3a2 (e14a2) junctions corresponding to the major BCR gene breakpoint cluster region (M-BCR). We and others have reported that a small proportion of CML patients (1–2%), which have breakpoints that fall outside of the M-BCR, giving rise to shortened BCR-ABL transcripts (m-BCR, e6a2, b2a3, b3a3) or longer BCR-ABL transcripts (μ-BCR). The clinical and hematologic features of 8 additional patients with e8a2 BCR-ABL fusions transcripts have been recently reviewed (Demehri et al, Leukemia 2005) and, according to the authors, could be associated with thrombocytosis and a worse prognosis than common M-BCR transcripts. Here, we report three additional CML patients with an e8a2 BCR-ABL fusion transcript treated with imatinib and who achieved hematologic, cytogenetic remission. Molecular studies allowed us to quantify this rare BCR-ABL fusion mRNA. All the patients showed a major molecular response with a reduction of at least 3 logs compared to initial samples at a median follow-up of 34 months (range 30–39). None of the cases (patients #1, 2 and 3) described here showed thrombocytosis at diagnosis. The diagnosis of chronic phase CML was based on typical peripheral blood findings and cytogenetics. In all cases, standard karyotyping demonstrated a t(9;22)(q34;q11), but further molecular analysis revealed an atypical e8a2 BCR-ABL fusion gene. In case #1, FISH using the LSI-bcr/abl ES probe (Vysis) showed a typical M-BCR picture which was different with the case previously described. Multiplex RT-PCR for BCR-ABL and sequencing showed a fusion between BCR exon e8 and ABL exon a2, with a 55 base pair (bp) insert, which perfectly matched an inverted sequence from ABL intron Ib. Most of the patients with an e8a2 BCR-ABL fusion transcript previously described seem to be associated with a worse prognosis because none of them treated with interferon achieved even a minor response. Here, all the patients are alive, achieved complete cytogenetic and major molecular responses with a prolonged follow up, confirming thus the efficacy of imatinib mesylate in patients with rare BCR-ABL transcripts. Of note, in cases #2 and #3, the major molecular response was obtained after increasing the dosage of imatinib (400 to 600 mg/day), suggesting that those patients may require higher doses of imatinib to achieve proper molecular response. The aggressive clinical course of these leukemias could be shrouded by appropriate targeted therapy. A longer follow-up and the analysis of a large cohort of patients with e8a2 BCR-ABL fusions are necessary to analyse the clinical outcome of these patients. The study of these unusual transcripts is essential to gain more insights of their molecular pathological function and a more comprehensive survey of the different functions of the BCR-ABL chimeric protein.


l-irregular s-irregular h-irregular i-irregular u-irregular p-irregular t-irregular ye-irregular Id-irregular kara-irregular nara-irregular li-irregular Recently several linguists ( Kim 1968, Lee 1973, Cook 1973, Kim-Renaud 1973) have attempted to show from a generative point of view that these irregular ~Iternations are not really exceptions to some fi xed phonological rules by postulating different under lying forms. Therefore, superficially identical forms of these irregular verbs as well as reg ular ones are thought to be a direct result of ce~tajn environment. What I wish to do in this paper is to examine some of the most impressive solutions thus far given and to determine if those solutions can effectively explain the irregularities of those predicates and to prese nt my own claims for underling representa tions of the irregular predicates and the phonological rules required to derive thei r correct final phonetic shapes. Since, as Kim notes, 'the a-series' irregular verbs ( borrowing a term from Kim) are found only in an extremely limited number of vocabulary items, and their alternant shapes in affixation must be regarded as lexica ll y, rather than phonologically, co nditioned, I will discuss only three types of irregular verbs, namely p-irregular, t-irregular, and s irregular, out of the above-listed twelve. As for the rest, i-, U-, h-, and I-irregular, I agree with Kim's analysis in general. Thus I will not discuss them further here.


The authors study the influence of two geometric variables, the air gap and the magnet thicknesses, by using a finite element method based package, thus avoiding the parametric representation. The fundamental component of each variable was used to determine power and speed. A sinusoidal no-load voltage as well as a sinusoidal current source justify this approach. >


I present some methods to generate electromagnetic fields wich, in my opinion, have a good chance to represent linked and knotted fields and, maybe, the electron.


OBJECTIVE To study the changes in pathogen spectra and drug resistance of bacteria from patients with bacterial peritonitis. METHODS Diffusion tests were used to measure the antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria isolated from the patients with bacterial peritonitis,and resistance was analysed according to NCCLS standard. RESULTS A total of 184 isolates were collected since 1994, the proportion of enterococci in bacterial peritonitis increased significantly, and enterococci were of a multiple drug resistance(MDR) character. It was appeared that E.coli and Klebsiella produced extended spectrum β lactamases (ESBLs).The resistant percentage of the most isolates to the commonly used antibiotics increased significantly since 1994. CONCLUSIONS The resistance of bacteria to the commonly used antibiotics was produced in various degrees. Bacteria resistance should be emphasised during clinical therapy with antibiotics,and trends in resistance of isolates should be followed.


This paper presents an approach of improving power generation of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) by using three dimensional (3D) anodes modified with commercial carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nitrogen-containing carbon nanostructures derived from polyaniline (PANI) precursors. The materials used for anode modification were characterized using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The power output, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) of two-chamber MFCs with 3D modified anodes were compared. Results showed that the maximum power density of 3D anodes modified with nitrogen-containing carbon nanostructures could reach 17.8 mW/cm compared with MFC anode modified with commercial CNTs. The inflow and outflow wastewater analysis show that both MFCs units lead to an improvement of wastewater quality with a better performance for the MFCs using 3D anode modified with nitrogen-containing carbon nanostructures.


Migration behavior of Eu(III) in sandy soil in the presence of dissolved organic material (DOM) was studied by the column experiments using a constant feed technique. A site specific DOM, isolated from the groundwater at Chalk River in Canada, a reagent humic acid (HA) from Aldrich Co. Ltd. and Suwannee River HA and River fulvic acid (FA) from the International Humic Substances Society, as reference materials, were used in this study for comparing their effects on the mobility of Eu(III). Solutions of Eu in the presence of the DOMs at pH 5.5 and ionic strength of 0.01 Μ NaC104 were introduced onto the column (2.5 cm I.D. X 2.5 cm long) packed with the sandy soil at a constant flow rate of 1.0 mL · min. In the absence of DOM, Eu was not detected even after 90 pore volumes were eluted from the column. Europium elution was observed, however, when any of the DOMs were present. Maximum relative concentrations of Eu were observed in the order: River FA < Groundwater DOM < River HA = Aldrich HA. This sequence suggests that differences in characteristics of DOM may be reflected in mobility of Eu-DOM complexes in sandy soil.


When I read Ibsen, I always hear noises, not the noises of the words, but the noises behind and between the words, noises that risk reducing those words to mere noises, to birdsong. In other words, to use theatrical parlance, I hear 'noises off'. For the most part, the noise remains in the background like a distant but faintly audible throb; a ringing, hissing, gnawing, whisking, rustling or distant singing, like the trickling of the polluted springs in An Enemy of the People. But at times the noise becomes cacophonous, drowning out the voices of the characters and dominating the dramatic action, like the roar of the cataracts at the beginning of Brand, or the running of the mill-race in Rosmersholm. At these moments the noise becomes both actor and action. When I read or watch Ghosts, I hear the steady rain over the gloomy fjord landscape and the flames of the burning orphanage. In Hedda Gabler, I hear the crackling fire that consumes Lövborg's manuscript on the future of civilization, thereby consuming the possibility of the future. In A Doll's House, I hear a rising tidal wave of black, icy water that only breaks with Nora's moment of lucidity, 'Yes, now I'm really beginning to understand'. It is the high mountain snow that consumes Rubek and Irene in the avalanche at the end of When We Dead Awaken, just like the thunder of snow that swallows Brand at the end of that play, which is a cacophony of noise: the rifle shooting the silver bullet and the screaming of the strange white bird. The sounds of fire and water, those primal elements, are the natural soundtrack to Ibsen's dramas. But there are other noises in


The invention discloses a piece of high-filtering precision filter paper of a filter for hemp pulp. The filter paper is prepared by the following materials by weight part: 95-100 parts of hemp pulp fiber, 10-12 parts of asbestos fiber, 2-4 parts of modified nacrite, 1-2 parts of modified nano montmorillonite powder, 0.3-.05 parts of water-soluble nano silica sol, 1-2 parts of nano titanium dioxide, 0.5-1 parts of nano calcium carbonate, 0.5-1 parts of sodium salt of carboxy methyl-cellulose, 0.05-0.12 parts of sodium pentachlorophenate, 1-2 parts of fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether sodium sulfate, and 0.25-0.48 parts of PAE wet strength agent. According to the materials adopted by the invention, the adsorbability of the piece of the filter paper is increased through adding the modified nacrite and the improved nano montmorillonite powder so as to improve the filtering precision.


The enterprise-involvement into vocational education in Germany and the USA has a long history,which has diverse motivations with a wide range of forms of participation and a good system.It is of practical significance to study and summarize the practice of the involvement.Therefore,it is suggested that the connotation and importance of enterprise-involvement into vocational education should be reviewed and re-understood so that relevant regulations can be better made to determine the legal role of the enterprises in their participation of vocational education.It is also proposed that the operational mechanism of enterprise-guidance and enterprise-participation vocational education should be practiced as a long-term mechanism.


the ne^ lrta^aria until Goldman (1938) described \vithUre a case naturally-acquired malaria ars .ni,1nerous relapses with the new trivalent ^ ^ic-al preparation produced by Parke, Davis araf"3"' and known as mapharside*. This preptoxi *+n sypbilis is of high potency and low in i^i Niven (1940) tested this preparation f> /a. .aiiy acquired malaria in Malaya against clParum, P. vivax and P. malaria. Niven's two tables summarizing the effect of the drug on the peripheral blood findings are here reproduced.


In the paper the structure of program environment for real-time geoinformation complexes on the base of object-oriented approach is proposed. The method of geometric range searching that uses moving objects representation on the screen data, for real-time geoinformation complexes is described and its effectiveness are compared with Bentley trees, exhaustive and moving points search methods. Formulas for determination, which of these methods is the most effective for a given character of the dynamic scenes analysis, are deduced.


This is the story of Claas Holder and of my attempts to understand the circumstances of his lonely death. Claas Holder's death is mentioned only twice in the records left by the Dutch authorities at the Cape. The first entry covers only one page, but it is by far the longest. The second is no more than a scratch in the muster rolls of Drakenstein district. Each year from 1710 to 1713, ?Claas Oudom' was listed as a member of a burgher infantry division led by Captain Abraham de Villiers, but his name was crossed off the list for 1713 and someone had pencilled the word ?dood' in the margin. Leviticus 18:23 provides some insight into why it should be necessary to kill the animal: ?You will not have intercourse with any kind of animal; you would become unclean by doing so.Keywords: Captain Abraham de Villiers; Claas Holder; Claas Oudom; dog; Drakenstein district; Leviticus


To improve the efficiency of natural artificial object recognition and defect diagnosis,a method based on improved shape context which achieves the collected and the sample image matching is proposed.The collected image's contour is uniformly sampled.The sampled points are processed by the improved shape context.By using the Hungarian match between the collected and the sample image all the matched points are got.All the distances are computed between the matched point.The collected image is processed by TPS transformation,and the distances between the matched point are computed again.Based on the changing scale of the distance between matched points before TPS and after TPS transformation,this paper determines whether the sample image and the captured image are the images of same category.Based on the same category,the shape context distance is computed.By the matching cost of shape context,it measures how many points are matched to diagnose the image defect.This method achieves the image recognition and defect diagnosis together.The results are satisfying and will be implemented in the Helicopter Inspection System of high voltage power lines.


Simple conversion of various aromatic aldehydes to corresponding benzimidazoles in the presence of zeolite, as an efficient catalyst, is reported. The reactions were carried out at room temperature in ethanol and the catalyst could be reused several times. The yields of products, 3a–p, following recrystallization from benzene or dichloromethane were of the order of 26–93%.


Employee's productivity in an organization, both public and non-public organizations, is still an actual problem to be studied. Work productivity is always directed at how to do or utilize something to reflect the principles of effectiveness and efficiency. This research aims to measure the variables that affect the performance of health workers in a community health center with a case study in district Mapilli of Polewali Mandar regency. This type of research is included in quantitative research with cross-sectional analytic research design to determine the relationship between independent and dependent variables. Sample selection by purposive sampling where the sample was taken is civil servants who work in Mapilli Health Center, as many as 23 people. Data is collected by taking primary data and secondary data. Bivariate analysis was performed to determine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using the Chi-Square test. This study uses a 5% significance test. If P-value ≤ 0.05 then there is a meaningful relationship between variables (age, education, work discipline) with work productivity of community health center employees, and if P-value ≥ 0.05 means there is no meaningful relationship between the variables with the work productivity of health center employees. From obtained data, it showed that there is no relationship between work period with employee work productivity and between education and employee work productivity. However, there is a meaningful relationship between work discipline and employee work productivity.


The global demand for biofuels (liquid or gas fuels deriving from biomass) has grown dramatically in recent years. European Union policies that promote biofuels as more sustainable sources of transport fuel are partly driving this development. In this article, we analyze how Brazil, as a key producer of biofuels, navigates an emerging global governance context for sustainable biofuels. We do so by examining how Brazil responds to EU biofuel sustainability imperatives, including by evoking World Trade Organization disciplines in questioning their transnational validity and reach. While domestically Brazil emphasizes the social and developmental objectives of its biofuel policies, globally it frames itself as a leading producer of sustainable biofuels. In so doing, it navigates intersecting spheres of authority in a manner that promotes its own biofuel policy agenda, partly by seeking to reframe "sustainability" debates internationally to reflect its developmental agenda.


The aim of this study was to document what water types were most stimulatory to oviposition by the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae Giles s.s. In laboratory choice tests, dishes of black cotton and red laterite soils from around Kisumu, Kenya, equally stimulated An. gambiae oviposition when saturated with water. When infused into either soil type, water from Lake Victoria was significantly more stimulatory than any other type of water or infusion tested.Water from natural An. gambiae puddle habitats, borehole water, cow dung infusion, Bermuda grass infusion and distilled water followed in declining rank order. Relative to An. gambiae puddle-habitat water and distilled water, Lake Victoria water appears to provide the strongest chemical cues for An. gambiae oviposition recorded to date. This work suggests that this important vector of human malaria may oviposit in and around Lake Victoria, as well as in its usual puddle habitats. Lake Victoria should be explored for its possible contribution to malaria mosquito populations.


Purpose: The main aim of the current study was to develop an expert system for screening autism spectrum disorders. The statistical properties of the system were further examined. Methods: To design an expert system, having a reliable and valid knowledge base (KL) is very important. To provide the knowledge base, items linked to autism diagnoses were collected from the literature and then reviewed by a group of psychologists and psychometrists experts. The questionnaire was completed by parents of children with autism (85), parents of normal children (65) and parents of children with Down syndrome (20). Next, some psychometric and machine learning methods were implemented to select the items having more power to discriminate children with autism from normal children and children with Down syndrome and evaluate its reliability and validity features. Results: Findings yielded good reliability (0.96) and criterion validity (0.86) for the system. The accuracy was about 0.93 and .92, using Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machines (SVM)), respectively. In addition, specificity and sensitivity of the system using SVM is 84.1 and 98.5%, respectively, while RF is 73.4 specificity and 99.3% sensitivity. Conclusion: This system can be considered as a reliable and valid system for screening ASDs. Citation: Mahmoudi M, Akbari-Zardkhaneh S, Zadeh AAB, Ghobari-Bonab B, Shokoohi-Yekta M, et al. (2018) An Autism Screening Expert System: Reliability, Validity and Factorial Structure. Autism Open Access 8: 230. doi:10.4172/2165-7890.1000230


Suppose G is a p-mixed splitting abelian group and R is a commutative unitary ring of zero characteristic such that the prime number p satisfies p / ∈ inv(R)∪ zd(R). Then R(H) and R(G) are canonically isomorphic R-group algebras for any group H precisely when H and G are isomorphic groups. This statement strengthens results due to W.May published in J.Algebra (1976) and to W.Ullery published in Commun.Algebra (1986), Rocky Mt. J.Math. (1992) and Comment.Math.Univ.Carol. (1995).


Vascularized lymph node transfer (VLNT) is gaining popularity for treatment of lymphedema. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the flap and the donor site morbidity of the supraclavicular (SC) VLNT.


Radiowave absorbers are frequently used in high power applications, such as radar sites, and the rise of temperature of the absorber has often become a matter of concern. In this paper, the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method combined with the heat transport equation (HTE), also known as the FDTD-HTE method, which has been widely used in the analysis of microwave heating or temperature increase in the human head due to portable phones, is used in the analysis of the wave absorption characteristics of a single-layer wave absorber. The complex permittivity of a sample made of epoxy resin, measured by a cavity-resonator method when the sample is irradiated by a high power field for different irradiation times, is used in the analysis, and the wave absorption characteristics of the absorber under investigation highly depend on the input power and irradiation time of the high power field.


Dissimilatory Fe(III) reducing microorganisms are dominant groups widely present in variety anaerobic environments, which share the common features with the ability to use Fe(III) as the terminal electron acceptor to gain energy. It has been found this multifunctional groups of microorganisms evolved with diverse metabolic ability reducing a variety of toxic heavy metals including some radioactive nuclear, degrading and utilizing a broad range of organic pollutants and showed an important value in the bioremediation of contaminated environment. Here the distribution, classification and metabolic diversity of dissimilatory Fe(III) reducing microorganisms and related environmental relevancies were reviewed in this paper, which aimed to attract more attentions of the related researchers and to accelerate the domestic researches in this field by the cooperation of different disciplines.


Volume II of the TRU Waste Sampling Program report contains the data generated from evaluating the adequacy of venting/filtering devices for maintaining safe hydrogen levels in plutonium contaminated waste drums. Additional studies reported in this volume include gas generation rates, selected waste form monitoring, and evaluation of hydrogen migration from sealed 90-mil rigid polyethylene drum liners containing /sup 238/Pu-contaminated wastes. All wastes used in the studies were newly-generated, and the waste drums were under controlled, experimental conditions. Studies using /sup 239/Pu-contaminated wastes were conducted at the Rocky Flats Plant. Studies using /sup 238/Pu-contaminated wastes were conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.


This paper presents a new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to solve the multistage long-term expansion planning problem of electrical distribution systems (EDSs) considering the following alternatives: increasing the capacity of existing substations, constructing new substations, allocating capacitor banks and/or voltage regulators, constructing and/or reinforcing circuits, and modifying, if necessary, the system's topology. The aim is to minimize the investment and operation costs of the EDS over an established planning horizon. The proposed model uses a linearization technique and an approximation for transforming the original problem into an MILP model. The MILP model guarantees convergence to optimality by using existing classical optimization tools. In order to verify the efficiency of the proposed methodology, a 24-node test system was employed.


The most widely accepted method for determining the lability of nervous processes in the physiology of higher nervous activity both in people and animals is the reversal of the signal meaning of conditioned stimuli.


In the current trend of consumption, electricity consumption will become a very high cost for the end-users. Consumers acquire energy from suppliers who use short, medium, and long-term forecasts to place bids in the power market. This study offers a detailed analysis of relevant literature and proposes a deep learning methodology for forecasting industrial electric usage for the next 24 h. The hourly load curves forecasted are from a large furniture factory. The hourly data for one year is split into training (80%) and testing (20%). The algorithms use the previous two weeks of hourly consumption and exogenous variables as input in the deep neural networks. The best results prove that deep recurrent neural networks can retain long-term dependencies in high volatility time series. Gated recurrent units (GRU) obtained the lowest mean absolute percentage error of 4.82% for the testing period. The GRU improves the forecast by 6.23% compared to the second-best algorithm implemented, a combination of GRU and Long short-term memory (LSTM). From a practical perspective, deep learning methods can automate the forecasting processes and optimize the operation of power systems.


— Ubiquitous computing is considered one of the most impactful scientific achievements in the last decade. This conception created tremendous revolution in the end-user interactions through the concept of context-awareness. Ubiquitous computing offers a new opportunity to redesign the pattern of conventional solutions where it can easily tailor its processes upon existing contextual situations. Several theoretical architectures have been developed to enable context-awareness computing in pervasive settings. In order to exceed the limits of these related works, we will make a comparative study of these architectures and we will propose our solution. The objective of this article is to propose an adaptation architecture which aims to design and validate a contextual model for ubiquitous systems in order to offer services adapted to the preferences of the user.


Antimicrobial properties of several nonpigmented bacteria isolated from the marine environment have been well understood. However, marine bacteria with distinct asset of pigmentation have not been studied intensively and explored unlike nonpigmented bacteria. Recently, several studies have found multidrug-resistant microbes against various diseases. Therefore, search for alternative novel and natural bioactive compounds is in demand at current research. Furthermore, the application of synthetic colorants in the food industry has several harmful effects; thus, exploring pigments from natural environments is important to substitute synthetic colorants. This review emphasizes marine pigmented bacteria as a potential alternative source of natural compounds as well as natural colorants. The antibacterial potential of marine bacterial pigmented compounds reported from the year 2000 to hitherto is detailed cogitatively in this review, along with the best-known paradigms of pigments such as prodigiosin and violacein. In parenthesis, some other important applications of well-studied prodigiosin and violacein pigment molecules are highlighted briefly.


In the current European guidelines, sarcopenia is diagnosed on the basis of low muscle strength, with low muscle mass used to confirm diagnosis. The added value of measuring muscle mass is unclear. We performed a systematic review to assess whether muscle mass was independently associated with adverse outcomes in patients with hip fracture.

 The systematic review protocol was registered on the PROSPERO database (CRD42021274981). Electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, CINAHL, Clinicaltrials.gov) were searched for observational studies of patients with hip fracture aged ≥60 who had muscle mass or strength assessment perioperatively. Two reviewers independently screened titles/abstracts for inclusion. The association of muscle mass or strength with postoperative outcomes (mortality, Barthel Index, mobility, physical performance measures, length of stay, complications) was recorded. Risk-of-bias was assessed using the AXIS or ROBINS-I tool as appropriate. Due to the degree of study heterogeneity, data were analysed by narrative synthesis.

 The search strategy identified 3,007 records. Ten studies were included (n=2281 participants), containing 27 associations between muscle mass assessment and hip fracture postoperative outcomes. Four studies had intermediate risk of bias; 6 studies had high risk of bias. Lower muscle mass was associated with higher mortality and worse physical performance measures in univariate analyses but there was no significant association between muscle mass and mobility, length of stay and postoperative complication scores in any included study. Six studies assessed both muscle mass and strength. Muscle mass was not a significant independent predictor of any adverse outcome in any included study after adjustment for muscle strength and other predictor variables.

 Data on the clinical utility of muscle mass measurement in patients with hip fracture are limited in volume and quality, but available studies suggest muscle mass does not offer additional prognostic benefit to muscle strength measures.


Unikaryon euzeti sp. nov. is a microsporidian parasite infesting the gut, adipose tissue, Malpighian tubules, and muscles of Mylabris vestita (Coleoptera, Meloidae). The meronts of U. euzeti are, in turn, uninucleate or binucleate and are surrounded by a single plasma membrane. The sporonts are also alternately uninucleate or binucleate but they are surrounded by a wall about 15 nm thick. The binucleate sporonts give rise to two uninucleate sporoblasts which turn into spores. Mature spores are uninucleate, ovoid, and measure 2.22 ± 0.11 × 1.38 ± 0.07 μm. Their polar filament describes seven to nine coils and their polaroplast is divided into an anterior lamellar part and a posterior granular one.


One of the crucial software elements in the upcoming generation of autonomous vehicles is image recognition. Traditional approaches to image recognition using computer vision and machine learning typically have a lengthy response time. Modern artificial neural network-based methods and designs, including the YOLOv5s algorithm, are able to tackle this issue without suffering precision losses. In this study, we demonstrate how to use the most recent YOLOv5s algorithm to identify traffic signs. We showed the reliability of the method by training the network for 4 traffic sign classes (speed limit, traffic light, crosswalks, stop,).


The purpose of this research is to determine whether the financial condition and sharia supervisory board have a significant influence on the compliance of corporate taxpayers either partially or simultaneously. The samples are selected by purposive sampling method so that 9 sharia commercial bank samples are obtained. The unit of analysis in the study amounted to 45 annual reports of Islamic banks. The type of quantitative data is in the form of financial reports (annual reports) of each bank from 2014- 2018. The results of this study find that financial conditions affect the compliance of corporate taxpayers, indicated the better financial condition, the greater the profits obtained, the better the compliance of corporate taxpayers. Sharia Supervisory Board affects the compliance of corporate taxpayers, it is indicated that the better the one in supervising a  bank, the better and obedient the company is in compliance with corporate taxpayers.


Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) generation is becoming more popular. Similarly, the number of electronic loads has increased along with the need to improve power quality. The PV-Shunt Active Filter (PV-SAF) is a system capable of injecting the PV power generated in the electrical grid and eliminating harmonics of current and reactive power of the local installation load. In the single-stage topology, the PV array is connected directly to the SAF DC bus, without the need for an intermediate DC-DC converter. In this paper, a three-phase single-stage PV-SAF system is evaluated in partial shading conditions. For this, a Global Maximum Power Point Tracking (GMPPT) technique capable of quickly tracking the point of maximum power even in the presence of several peaks in the power-voltage curve of the PV array is proposed. A night-time mode is implemented for the system operation when there is no PV generation. The instantaneous power theory and the adaptive hysteresis band current controller are used to control the SAF currents. The results obtained through an experimental prototype show that the PV-SAF system with the control strategies adopted is capable of simultaneously injecting into the grid the maximum power of the PV system and compensating harmonics and reactive power.


c-myc gene was amplified in the human ovarian tumor line OS-4 5-6-fold and in the OvCa-1 line 3-4-fold. The relative amount of the transcript from the c-myc gene to the total RNA in OS-4 was 6-fold that for normal cells.


Abstract Education in Japan has been experiencing a profound innovation, the Kumon Method, which in just three decades has influenced 1.5 million students and become a household word to 70 per cent of the mothers in Japan. We shall focus on this Kumon Method of education in order to shed some light on the secret of its remarkable growth from the standpoints of: 1. innovation of educational technology; 2. innovation in management for the education industry; and 3. creation of an educational ideal to suit a new era. We shall then empirically examine the contents. This is a case study of a successful educational system in Japan. The structure of the educational system based on this Kumon method could well be considered a perfect model for the excellent educational system of the future.


This paper examines the long memory properties in both the returns and volatility of Korean stock prices. For this purpose, the ARFIMA-FIGARCH model was applied to the daily KOSPI and KOSDAQ return series. In the data analysis, the ARFIMA-FIGARCH model establishes the robustness of long memory results, although the presence of long memory is questionable in the returns of two daily indices. In addition, the assumption of non-normality is appropriate for capturing the asymmetry and tail fatness of estimated residuals. These findings suggest that the model based on the Gaussian normality assumption may be inappropriate for modeling the long memory property. Finally, the presence of long memory in the Korean stock market is not spurious as a result of market structural changes.


It is pointed out that lack of understanding of light-induced degradation in a-Si:H has prevented not only its reduction, but also its basic characterization. That is, there has been no quantitative index of material stability that can be used as a criterion of material quality, thus precluding evaluation of preparation conditions or comparative stability of different materials. From the recently developed stretched-exponential description of degradation, it is shown that the saturated behavior is the only reliable criterion, although it is little used. A recent atomic model for the metastable defects that is consistent with this description and explains most defect properties is summarized. This model is an adaptation of a model for the metastable DX centers in GaAs and differs from the usual Si-Si bond-breaking models in a-Si:H in that it is based on foreign atoms.<<ETX>>


This research compares cooperative child day care centers to for-profit and independent nonprofit centers in terms of parental involvement in operations (such as fundraising and classroom participation), parental involvement in governance (specifically, serving on the board and attending the annual meeting), and quality of care. It also tests whether parent control of the board is associated with quality. Findings show that cooperative centers feature greater parental involvement in operational aspects, including fundraising and care of the center or grounds compared to for-profits and independent nonprofits. Cooperatives are also more likely to have parents on their boards and feature boards with parent majorities compared to independent nonprofits, although more than half of these nonprofit centers also have parent-controlled boards. Results also show that while the cooperative form, tested as a distinct organizational type, is not a predictor of quality, parent control of the board is a positive predictor of this outcome.


Amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 (a-GST) film, 100nm thick, was grown by cosputtering from GeTe and Sb2Te3 targets on a silicon wafer at room temperature. The native oxidized layer, which was formed in air and about 20nm thick measured by secondary ion mass spectroscopy, was removed by Ne+ ion sputtering for 1h with 0.6kV beam energy. Core-level spectra of the Te 3d and 4d, Sb 3d and 4d, and Ge 3d of the oxygen-free a-GST were obtained by high-resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation and compared with those from Ge and GeTe. The analysis implies that the a-GST is composed on the base of chemical states of GeTe.


Previous adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) studies suggest anterior overgrowth of vertebral bodies (VB) contribute to scoliotic curve progression and reduced kyphosis. To understand how sagittal parameters change with scoliotic curve progression, this study used a sequential series of magnetic resonance images (MRI) for both AIS patients and non-scoliotic controls. VB wedge angles, intervertebral disc (IVD) wedge angles and kyphosis were compared at three time-points during adolescent growth to assess any changes in sagittal plane measures.


To more precisely control the temperature of the dielectric window which transmits the microwave used for the plasma treatment, and provides a better plasma for realizing the processing characteristics plasma processing apparatus, plasma processing method and a temperature adjustment mechanism dielectric window. The plasma processing apparatus 1 includes a processing vessel (2), the dielectric window (shower plate) 3, the antenna 4, the wave guide 5, a cooling block (6), the substrate look for (保持 台) (7) and having a see-ring (upper plate) 15 is attached to the top of the processing vessel (2). See the periphery of the dielectric window 3 is hooking (engage) with the ring (15). On top of the antenna 4, and the cooling block (6) having a cooling passage (6a) capable of flowing the heat medium therein is formed. It is formed with a temperature sensor (16) around the pipe (5), the temperature of such an antenna (4) is detected. Inside of the retainer ring 15 is provided with a lamp heater 151. The dielectric window 3 is heated by means of the cooling means of the cooling block (6) which is controlled by the control means and the look ring 15, is controlled to a predetermined temperature distribution.


The composition and division of cropland values in Fujian Province were evaluated and discussed by geographic information system(GIS) integrated with mathematical models on the basis of cropland economic output value,social capacity value and ecological service value evaluation in grid dimension.The results showed that the proportions of cropland economic output value,social capacity value and ecological service value were 35.73%,53.99% and 10.28% of the total cropland values in Fujian,respectively,and the cropland areas of high,medium and low value division were 4.29%,38.14% and 57.57% of the total cropland areas in Fujian,respectively,which indicated that social capacity value occupied higher proportion and ecological service value occupied less in the composition of cropland value in Fujian,and the most of cropland resources showed medium and low value in Fujian.


Sepsis, a life threatening response to infection, has a well-studied initial cytokine storm, with a less understood secondary immunosuppressive phase. Elevated blood lactate and slow lactate clearance are associated with mortality, however, any regulatory role is unknown. We hypothesized that lactic acid contributes to the late phase of sepsis and is not solely a consequence of bacterial infection. Thus far, no studies have examined the effect of lactic acid on sepsis models in vivo or a mechanism by which they suppress LPS activation in vitro. Because mast cells can be activated systemically and contribute to sepsis, we examined lactic acid effects on the mast cell response to the bacterial product LPS. Lactic acid significantly suppressed LPS-induced cytokine production and NFκB-mediated transcription in mouse bone marrow derived mast cells and cytokine production in peritoneal mast cells. Suppressive effects were MCT-1-dependent and observed with sodium lactate or formic acid. Further, lactic acid significantly suppressed cytokine induction following LPS-induced endotoxemia in mice. Because glycolysis is linked to inflammation and lactic acid is a by-product of this process, we examined changes in glucose metabolism. Lactic acid treatment reduced glucose uptake and lactate export during LPS stimulation. Lactic acid effects were mimicked by glycolytic inhibitors and reversed by increasing ATP availability. These results indicate that glycolytic suppression and ATP production are necessary and sufficient for lactic acid effects. Our work suggests that enhancing glycolysis and ATP production could improve immune function, counteracting lactic acid suppressive effects in the immunosuppressive phase of sepsis.


A study was conducted to explore the efficacy of potential biocontrol agent Cladobotryum mycophilum against different phytopathogenic fungi. The growth rates of 24 isolates of C. mycophilum were determined, and their antagonistic activity was analysed in vitro and in vivo against Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum, Fusarium solani, Phytophthora parasitica, Phytophthora capsici, Pythium aphanidermatum and Mycosphaerella melonis. Most isolates grow rapidly, reaching the opposite end of the Petri dish within 72–96 h. Under dual-culture assays, C. mycophilum showed antagonistic activity in vitro against all phytopathogenic fungi tested, with mycelial growth inhibition ranging from 30 to 90% against all the different phytopathogens tested. Similarly, of all the selected isolates, CL60A, CL17A and CL18A significantly (p < 0.05) reduced the disease incidence and severity in the plant assays compared to the controls for the different pathosystems studied. Based on these results, we conclude that C. mycophilum can be considered as a potential biological control agent in agriculture. This is the first study of Cladobotryum mycophilum as a biological control agent for different diseases caused by highly relevant phytopathogens in horticulture.


Rich in quercetin, shallot (Allium cepa L.) use is beneficial in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic since effective vaccines and pharmacotherapy are still in development. The study aimed to characterize functional groups of shallot tubers planted in the inorganic soil of the seasonal freshwater-wetland (IS-SFW)/Ts-of-RAMSAR-classification ecosystem. The shallot tubers that grew in IS-SFW for 60 days were manually harvested, sun-dried for seven days, and stored for two months before been pressed to produce sample juices. The peaks of wavenumber resulted from FTIR analysis were compared to the infrared database to determine possibly functional groups. The findings showed spectra changed in the fingerprint but not in the mid-IR other regions, indicated the IS-SFW did not affect functional groups beneficial in the COVID-19 treatment. The study concluded that shallot planted in IS-SFW is still beneficial in the COVID-19 treatment.


The dynamic mechanical properties of a material are important keys to investigate the impact characteristic of a structure such as a crash box. For some materials, the stress-strain relationships at high strain rate loadings are different than that at the static condition. These mechanical properties depend on the strain rate of the loadings, and hence an appropriate testing technique is required to measure them. To measure the mechanical properties of a material at high strain rates, ranging from 500 s-1 to 10000 s-1, a Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar is commonly used. In the measurements, strain pulses are generated in the bars system, and pulses being reflected and transmitted by a test specimen in the bar system are measured. The stress-strain curves as the material properties of the test specimen are obtained by processing the measured reflected and transmitted pulses. This paper presents the measurements of the mechanical properties of St 37 mild steel at several strain rates using a Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar. The stress-strain curves obtained in the measurement were curve fitted using the Power Law. The results show that the strength of St 37 material increases as the strain rate increases.


Summary: The planning of a range of future hu-man activities on the Moon requires the use of terres-trial analogs to help these activities be as safe, produc-tive, and cost-effective as possible. We discuss key features of a systematic approach to selecting terres-trial analogs for lunar exploration operations planning. Introduction: A terrestrial analog for a planetary body may be defined as an environment, feature, proc-ess, or activity on Earth, outdoors or indoors, repre-sentating, or relevant to, one or more aspects of an environment, feature, process, or activity on that planetary body [1] . Terrestrial analogs for the Moon are needed to serve all four fundamental functions of analogs: to help i) learn, ii) test, iii) train, and iv) engage [2]. While the overarching goals of analog campaigns are to help re-tire risk, maximize productivity, and minimize pro-gram costs, they are also key to engaging the public, students, local experts, and international partners. Selecting Lunar Analog Sites:


The utility model discloses an electric self-balancing one-wheel scooter. The dynamic balance principle is adopted to perform posture balance control on the scooter, an angle-speed sensor is adopted to detect the inclined angular velocity, an acceleration sensor is adopted to detect inclined angles, a Kalman filtering calculation module is adopted to perform Kalman filtering calculation on inclined angle values and angle speed values so as to integrally calculate out an accurate inclined angle value under the stationary state and the high-speed movement state; then through the logical operation, a required balance voltage control signal for maintaining the balance of a scooter frame can be calculated through the logical operation; meanwhile, the PID operation is performed on motor setting speed and practical motor rotational speed, and a speed voltage control signal for controlling the speed of a motor can be output through the PID operation result; the balance voltage control signal and the speed voltage control signal are subjected to superposition and then output to a motor driving circuit through a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) interface circuit, so as to realize self-balancing operation of the scooter, and more safety is brought to a driver during driving.


Preliminary results and emerging data have shown that lipid droplet high (LDhi) immunosuppressive cells accumulate in tumour tissues. By tracking and phenotypic profiling of LDhi cells, we find that LDhiCD19+, LDhiCD11b+, and LDhiLy6G+ immune cell populations appear in the spleen, thymus, and tumour tissues in a syngeneic tumour model. Using a contact‐dependent reporter system, we discover a LDhiCCR7hi immunosuppressive cell population that migrates from tumour tissues to the spleen and thymus. Hence, we engineered a family of chimeric antigen receptor‐modified macrophages (CAR‐Ms) that direct macrophages to CCR7‐positive cells and show that the cytosolic domain from Mer receptor tyrosine kinase (MerTK) triggers tumour cell cytotoxicity by the CAR‐Ms. In vivo, CCR7‐targeted CAR‐Ms suppressed tumour growth and prolonged survival by preventing metastasis and by inducing systemic anti‐tumour immunity through retarding the migration of LDhiCCR7hi immunosuppressive cells from tumour tissues to distal immune organs, indicating an important role for CCR7 in tumour cell‐induced immune tolerance. © 2020 The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Recently, in medical field, different training methods for medical staff have been proposed. However, the lack of knowledge on the real improvements of trainees makes difficult the real effectiveness of those proposed methods. Therefore, we are proposing an Active Training system for the effective medical training. The Active training system is characterized by providing quantitative information of the trainee's performance of the task to the trainee, simulating real-world conditions of the task, and assuring training effectiveness. In order to fulfill each of these characteristics, we have developed Waseda Kyotokagaku Airway No.3 (WKA-3) which makes it possible to obtain quantitative information for the trainee's performance and reproduce the various cases, individual differences for the airway difficulties for the simulating real-world conditions of the task. In this paper, we are proposing a patient scenario generation which can reproduce the characteristics of the patient simulating real-world conditions of the task for WKA-3. In emergent situation or surgical operation, the characteristics of patients are presented in the three parameters such as: patient initial conditions, time variant status change, and reflex action. By adjusting, and combining each of the three parameters, we can reproduce the various patient scenarios. In this paper, we also state how to generate the Patient Scenario Generation using the position control and virtual compliance control. Finally, a set of experiments has been carried out to the doctor subjects in order to verify effectiveness of the proposed Patient Scenario Generation, and discuss the doctors about the result of the experiments.