The popularization of social media generates a large amount of user-oriented data, where text data especially attracts researchers and speculators to infer user attributes (e.g., age, gender) for fulfilling their intents. Generally, this line of work casts attribute inference as a text classification problem, and starts to leverage graph neural networks for higher-level text representations. However, these text graphs are constructed on words, suffering from high memory consumption and ineffectiveness on few labeled texts. To address this challenge, we design a text-graph-based few-shot learning model for social media attribute inferences. Our model builds a text graph with texts as nodes and edges learned from current text representations via manifold learning and message passing. To further use unlabeled texts to improve few-shot performance, a knowledge distillation is devised to optimize the problem. This offers a trade-off between expressiveness and complexity. Experiments on social media datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our model on attribute inferences with considerably fewer labeled texts.


When firms competitively price discriminate, best-response functions may exhibit either best-response symmetry (firms' ranking of strong and weak markets coincide) or best-response asymmetry (one firm's strong market is another firm's weak market). It has been shown in Corts (1998) and many models of behavior-based price discrimination that prices of all firms may decrease in all markets with best-response asymmetry. While one may presume that total consumption will increase upon low prices by all firms in all markets, such output effect has not been explicitly shown. We provide conditions on demands that are necessary for an output to increase as a result of competitive price discrimination. In particular, we link the condition to cross-price elasticity between the firms and the industry-level elasticity to average market price.


In view of the college students?poor health addition and the features of weakness, difficulty, prehistory existing in the work of the college morning exercises, this article discusses the function and the importance of the morning exercises in the college physical education. In emphasizes that the strengthening of the management of college morning exercises in the new stage is very important to raise the students?awareness and condition of health, and that the teachers?taking parting in the morning exercises is significant.


Abstract. Ceftriaxone is a broad spectrum parenteral cephalosporin that is eliminated through renal as well as biliary excretion. In order to characterize factors influencing the biliary excretion of ceftriaxone, and possible effects of this organic anion on biliary lipid transport, we studied six healthy volunteers before and during ceftriaxone infusion. The biliary secretion rates of cholesterol, bile acids, phospholipids and ceftriaxone were determined using a duodenal perfusion technique, and the biliary lipid composition and cholesterol saturation of stimulated hepatic bile were determined. Changes in the intestinal microflora induced by ceftriaxone treatment were also analysed. There was a three‐fold interindividual variation in biliary excretion of ceftriaxone, and this was correlated with the secretion rate of bile acids (rs=0·83, P=0·05). During ceftriaxone infusion, the secretion rate of cholesterol was reduced by 32% (P<0·05), which resulted in a reduction of cholesterol saturation of bile, from 107±11 to 75±12% (SEM, P<0·05). The suppression of intestinal Escherichia coli and Bacteroides, and the proliferation of enterococci and lactobacilli were related to the biliary excretion of ceftriaxone. We conclude (i) that biliary excretion of ceftriaxone is of major importance for its effects on intestinal microflora, (ii) that secretion of this organic anion into bile is largely dependent on bile acid secretion, and (iii) that ceftriaxone inhibits the biliary secretion of cholesterol.


In this study, the possibility of optimizing the use of fertilizers on Ranunculus asiaticus by adding chabazite with Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) to the substrate was evaluated. The five experimental groups in cultivation were: i) group without zeolites (CTRL), irrigated with water and substrate previously fertilized; ii) group with natural chabazite (CN) and 100% fertilised substrate; iii) group with chabazite enriched with PGPR (CM) and 100% fertilised substrate; iv) group with natural chabazite (CN2) and 50% fertilised substrate; v) group with chabazite enriched with PGPR (CM2) and 50% fertilised substrate. All plants treated with chabazite (CN and CN2) and chabazite enriched with PGPR (CM and CM2) showed a significant increase in the agronomic characteristics analysed compared to the untreated control (CTRL). The results show that the microorganisms are able to improve the performance of zeolitite, probably increasing the efficiency of nutrient and water absorption by the roots. This is also evident when evaluating physiological parameters where the photosynthesis rate and chlorophyll content are significantly better in (CM) and (CM2) than in (CN) and (CN2). Zeolites can act as a "home" for microorganisms, as is normally the case in nature with clays. In fact, under conditions of water stress, microorganisms take refuge inside the clay particles until the environmental conditions are suitable again to colonize the soil. Zeolites are able to actively interact with the organic components present in the soil or brought with fertilization, and have the ability to make more available the mineral and nutritional components present within their crystalline lattice, according to the needs of the plant.


This article deals with the problems of city planning activities in metropolitan cities and areas of Turkey. The administrative and juristical infrastructure of city planning is like a jungle: old and new, ancient and modern, central and local responsibilities and authorities crossing eaehother; are mixed and the borders are not clearly recognizable at first sight. Especially in metropolitan areas clashing often central and local authorities. This slows the planning process and so grows the problems.


PURPOSE
To investigate repeatability and agreement of total corneal and sublayer pachymetry with 2 different algorithms of fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) in myopic and post-photorefractive keratectectomy (PRK) eyes.

SETTING
Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

DESIGN
Prospective observational study.

METHODS
Total corneal, epithelial, and stromal thicknesses of 95 myopic, and 117 post-PRK individuals was measured using RTVue-XR OCT with Pachymetry + Cpwr (6 mm algorithm) and PachymetryWide (9 mm algorithm) scan patterns. The repeatability of 25 zones of 9 mm map and 17 zones of 6 mm map, and the agreement between measurements of these 2 algorithms were calculated.

RESULTS
By the 9 mm algorithm, coefficient of variation (CoV) for total cornea was ≤2.33% and ≤2.49% and for epithelium was ≤5.14% and ≤5.18%; and by the 6 mm algorithm, CoV for total cornea was ≤1.80% and ≤2.59% and for epithelial thickness was ≤3.08% and ≤4.80% in myopic and post-PRK eyes, respectively. Bland-Altman mean difference for epithelial thickness was ≤0.69 and ≤1.16 and 95% limits of agreement for epithelial thickness was ≤6.81 and ≤8.56 in myopic and post-PRK eyes, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS
Good repeatability was seen in measurements of total corneal, stromal, and epithelial thicknesses by both algorithms. Agreement of the 2 algorithms in central zone was also good. However, large range of variation in paracentral thickness measurements did not allow us to consider these algorithms as interchangeable.


Introduction Until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on December 18, 1865, the presumptive status of all African Americans in the United States was that of slave. However, from the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown in 1619, a small minority of the black American population was not enslaved and played a critically important role in antebellum history—a role little known outside the ranks of professional historians. This minority grew larger when the northern states began the slow process of ending slavery during the American Revolution and, by the mid-1820s, this "first emancipation" had eliminated human bondage in New England, the mid-Atlantic states and the Old Northwest Territory. For example, by 1800, the black American population had grown to slightly more than one million, 11 percent of whom were free and by 1830 the black population stood at more than two million, three hundred thousand, 14 percent of whom were free.1 Free


IOLOGISTS AND POUCYMAKERS ARE RAONG the clock to document and preserve biological diversity in the face of a growing global human population and alterations of natural habitats. Given the magnitude and rapid pace of changes to natural ecosys, biologists are challenged with the taSk of identifying essential features in the organization of biological communities. Notwithstanding the inherent uniqueness of different geographical regions and the evolutionary histories of their flora and fauna, the recognition of common features among communities and the species that comprise them is sometimes possible. This study contributes to our understanding of biodiversity by further examining the ecological characteristics of natural freshwater fish communities from around the world. One of ecology's greatest challenges is to explain patterns of regional species diversity as well as the ecological, morphological, and behavioral variation among and within populations. Patterns of ecological and morphological diversification are of interest to both ecologists and phylogenetic systematists. Systematists use interspecific variation as the raw material for constructing phylogenies. Ecologists would like to know if interspecific variation in a given trait arises randomly during evolutionary divergence following speciation, or whether this variation is correlated with ecological function. This difficult task is further complicated by unique events. Traits adaptive in a particular ecosystem may be neutral or maladaptive in a new environment. If a maladaptive trait is genetically correlated with one or more strongly adaptive traits, then it might persist in the population for many generations. In one form or another, evolutionary biologists and ecologists seek to identify, interpret, and model patterns of functional (adaptive) variation.21 Similarities in patterns of individual, population, and community-level variation among different faunas provide evidence that, in many cases, the same deterministic processes organize biological systems. Biological convergence is the independent evolution of the same feature (physiological, morphological, ecological, etc.) within two divergent phylogenetic lineages. Divergence is the evolution of dissimilar traits between closely related lineages. Remarkable examples of morphological and ecological divergence are well-known in vinually all higher taxa. Examples from the independent adaptive radiation among marsupial mammals of Australia and eutherian mammals of the other continents appear in most introductory biology textbooks. Convergence of ecological niches is seen in rodents and marsupial mice; shrews and marsupial insectivores; and eutherian canines and marsupial wolves. The bony fishes Figure 1. The body shape. posidon of fins. and nwuth structure of afish influence its ecological performance. Trout possess a generalited nwrphology that allows them to use the endre water column and a wide variety of food items in habitats that contain reladvely few compedng species.


BACKGROUND
In patients with xeroderma pigmentosum the frequency of all forms of skin cancer is higher than in the general population, owing to a genetic defect in DNA repair. The bacterial DNA repair enzyme, T4 endonuclease V, delivered intracellularly, increases the rate of repair of sunlight-induced DNA damage in human cells. We tested the ability of this enzyme in a liposomal delivery vehicle applied topically (T4N5 liposome lotion) to lower the rate of new skin cancers in patients with xeroderma pigmentosum.

METHODS
30 patients were enrolled in this prospective, multicentre, double-blind study. Patients were randomly assigned T4N5 liposome lotion or a placebo liposome lotion, to be applied daily for 1 year. At 3-monthly visits, new actinic keratoses and basal-cell carcinomas were identified and removed. Analyses were by intention to treat.

FINDINGS
20 patients were assigned T4N5 liposome lotion and ten placebo lotion; one placebo-group patient withdrew before treatment and one withdrew with progressive disease at 9 months. The annualised rate of new actinic keratoses was 8.2 among the patients assigned T4N5 liposome lotion and 25.9 among those assigned placebo (difference 17.7 [95% CI 11.8-26.5]; p=0.004 by Poisson modelling). For basal-cell carcinoma, the annualised rates of new lesions were 3.8 in the treatment group and 5.4 in the placebo group (difference 1.6 [0.38-2.82]). No significant adverse effects were found among any of the patients.

INTERPRETATION
DNA damage has an important role in the development of skin cancer and precancerous skin lesions. The topical application of DNA repair enzymes to sun-damaged skin of patients with xeroderma pigmentosum lowered the rate of development of two forms of these lesions during a year of treatment.


The invention relates to a preparation method used for a PSA (pressure swing adsorption) process adsorbent. In the production of polysilicon, a great deal of tail gases is purged, and a PSA method is a good method for separating and recovering the tail gases. The adsorbent is modified activated carbon which is subjected to special processing, resistant of high temperature, free of dust drop, suitable for separating and recycling the tail gases and capable of obtaining a polysilicon product with high quality.


Mark-resighting constitutes a technologically advanced approach for estimating animal abundance; a sample of animals is captured and marked and resightings are performed during subsequent occasions. The joint hypergeometric maximum likelihood estimator, the Minta-Mangel estimator and the Bowden estimator are usually adopted with markresighting data. Recently, the basic assumptions regarding these widely applied procedures have been investigated. In presence of any tendency of animals to aggregate into groups, theoretical considerations and simulation results demonstrate that the Bowden estimator is the sole reliable method among those usually adopted, providing that marks are quite evenly distributed among groups. In some cetacean surveys, marking disturbances are avoided by means of natural marking, a procedure in which the marked units are the animals recognizable owing to their peculiar characteristics (e.g. flipper shapes). Under natural marking, resightings can be simply performed by means of individual recognitions. This paper proposes the joint use of natural marking and Bowden criterion to estimate the abundance of street-dwelling populations. In analogy with the procedure applied for cetacean populations, the marked individuals are the persons identified and recorded in the initial part of the survey and easily recognizable in the subsequent occasions. A simulation study is performed in order to determine the performance of the Bowden estimator in terms of bias, accuracy and coverage of confidence intervals under a wide set of situations attempting to take into account some features of street-dwelling populations. As expected, simulation results demonstrate the goodness of the proposed strategy when marked individuals are evenly distributed among groups.


Many smart home devices, such as smart speakers, are connected to a home network. However, conventional home networks do not control communications among devices including malicious devices. As a result, some malicious devices in a home network can steal private information from or manipulate devices that have no or weak access control mechanism. Some methods have been proposed to protect devices in home networks, but they require users to configure policies to do fine-grained control of device communications and it is a difficult task for ordinary people. In this paper, we propose an architecture to protect devices from malicious or unintended communications. We designed a capability based authorization architecture based on requirements for easy and user-centric access control in home networks. Also, we designed a method to control communications among devices relying on capabilities that are authorized in the proposed architecture. We have implemented a prototype system and have shown that it is possible to do fine-grained access control among devices in a home network with capability based authorization.


Devices for detonation velocity measurement, fragmentation analysis, burden measurement, face velocity measurement, vibration monitoring, and computer modeling are reviewed. Detonation measurement devices include: averaging velocity of detonation (VOD) meters and continuous VOD systems. Power meters and a computer imaging system for fragmentation analysis are discussed. Electronic burden meters and surface survey systems for burden measurement are examined. High-speed cameras and their use in face velocity measurement are discussed. Electronic seismographs used in vibration monitoring are briefly touched on.<<ETX>>


This study aimed to provide field-based assessment for the theoretical possibility that there is a relationship between colour polymorphism and male-killing in the butterfly Acraea encedon . In an extensive, three year study conducted in Uganda, the spatial variations and temporal changes in the ratios of different colour forms were observed. Moreover, the association between Wolbachia susceptibility and colour pattern was analyzed statistically. Two hypotheses were tested: first, morph ratio dynamics is a consequence of random extinction-colonization cycles, caused by Wolbachia spread, and second, particular colour forms are less susceptible to Wolbachia infection than others, implying the existence of colour form-specific resistance alleles. Overall, obtained data are consistent with the first hypothesis but not with the second, however, further research is needed before any firm conclusions can be made on the reality, scale and nature of the presumed association between polymorphism and male-killing in A. encedon .


A knowledge of the droplet size distribution of a water-in-oil emulsion subjected to an electric field provides useful information regarding electrostatic coalescence which can aid the formulation of coalescence models and the design of commercial electrostatic separators. Water droplet size-distribution measurements made using a laser light-scattering technique during the electrostatic resolution of a low-water-content water-in-oil emulsion are reported. A qualitative explanation of the results is presented.


BACKGROUND
In racehorses, serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) activity is positively correlated with cumulative days in training and, when ≥100 IU/L, has been associated with poor performance. The prevalence of increased GGT activity in North American Thoroughbreds and its aetiopathogenesis are unknown. Four emerging viruses, pegivirus E (PgV E; equine pegivirus), hepacivirus A (HcV A; equine hepacivirus), pegivirus D (PgV D; Theiler's disease virus), and equine parvovirus-hepatitis (EqPV-H) have been identified in horses with clinical and subclinical hepatopathy. Available prevalence data indicate these viruses may commonly infect racehorses and contribute to increased liver enzyme activity in this population.

OBJECTIVES
To investigate the association between viral infection and increased liver enzyme activity in racing Thoroughbreds.

STUDY DESIGN
Cross-sectional study.

METHODS
Prerace blood samples were collected from 802 Thoroughbreds and tested for GGT and sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH) activity, and the presence of PgV E, HcV A, PgV D and EqPV-H nucleic acid.

RESULTS
Increased SDH and/or GGT were detected in 56.2% of the 802 serum samples. The infection prevalence and relative risk (RR) of having concurrently increased liver enzyme activity were: PgV E = 18.2% (RR = 0.820, 95% CI = 0.662-0.978, P = 0.03), HcV A = 2.5% (RR = 1.132, 95% CI = 0.719-1.466, P = 0.6), PgV D = 0.5% (RR = 0.875, 95% CI = 0.165-1.598, P>0.9), EqPV-H = 2.9% (RR = 0.916, 95% CI = 0.564-1.266, P = 0.7).

MAIN LIMITATIONS
Longitudinal samples were not tested.

CONCLUSIONS
While viral infection was common among Thoroughbreds in this study, infection did not explain the high prevalence of increased liver enzyme activity. In fact, PgV E infection was associated with a reduced risk of having increased liver enzyme activity, indicating PgV E is unlikely to be a cause of hepatitis in horses. Importantly, like GGT, increased SDH activity was highly prevalent in this study, and provides additional evidence that hepatocellular injury was occurring in these horses.


Introduction Otto Von Bismarck(1815.1-1898)became 19th-century Europe's greatest statesman(alongside Napoleon)through the sheer force of his personality,assisted by his outstanding intelligence,gargantuan capacity for work and his quasi-symbiotic relationship with King William I of Prussia.His diplomacy of Realpolitik and powerful rule gained him the nickname the"Iron chancellor".In the 19th century,Bismarck was appointed prime minister of Prussia and led the victory of war through reunification of Germany.He used balance-of-power diplomacy to keep Europe peaceful in the 1870s and 1880s.


estimated that up to 30% of patients become resistant to optimized medical therapy and are potential surgical candidates. 2 Criteria for this distinction have varied, but most agree that failure of 2 appropriate antiepileptic drugs to adequately control seizures, with more than one seizure/month over an 18-month–2-year period, constitute intractability. 2 Additional important clinical features indicating that the patient may be a surgical candidate include stereotyped, lateralizing seizures with focality of semiology, a localized "epileptogenic zone" by scalp electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), or surface EEG, and a localized anatomical target on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). 2 In fact, the presence of an imaging abnormality is one of the key findings that predict resistance to medical therapy and may be a critical finding in determining suitability for surgical therapy. 3 Interestingly, it is thought by many pediatric epileptologists that younger children may in fact be better candidates for epilepsy surgery than adults because of their increased neuroplasticity and the detrimental effect of repeated seizures on normal neurologic development. 4 Cortical dysplasia is the most common neuropathology noted after surgical resection for intractable epilepsy in children, and recent clinicopathologic classification systems have had a significant effect on the treatment and understanding of this disorder. 5,6 Some forms of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) (such as type IIb) have typical imaging manifestations, whereas other types such as isolated type I cortical dysplasia have variable and often nonlocalizing imaging features. As imaging findings indicating cortical dysplasia may significantly affect selection for potential surgery, radiologists involved with the workup of these patients must be familiar with the imaging spectrum of FCD, especially in children. In this article, we review the current pathologic classification and imaging findings in cortical dysplasia with an emphasis on the pediatric population.


The overall financial structure of US higher education has changed dramatically over the past 30 years, resulting in a significant reduction of public funding. One result of this shift has been the steadily increasing costs of tuition as an increasing portion of the financial structure of higher education is shifted to students. Increased costs to students have resulted in the emergence of complex access issues that stratify student participation across a number of variables, perhaps the most important being the ability to pay. Federal government efforts to assist within this equation have resulted in both the far greater capacity of students to borrow federal funds (or guaranteed funds), but with the result that in the changing job economy of the US students exhibit increased time to graduation, lessened success in gaining post-graduation employment and the prospect of significant debt repayment obligations. Overall, governmental policy may be contradictory within those aspects that seek to continue to provide increased access, including the rise of private sector for-profit education, and the overall ability of students and their families to sustain the associated costs.


ABSTRACT: The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) has been used for hydrologic analyses at various watershed scales. However, little is known about the model's performance in coastal watersheds. In this study SWAT was evaluated for its applicability in three Louisiana coastal watersheds: the Amite, Tickfaw, and Tangipahoa River watersheds. The model was calibrated with daily discharge from 1976 to 1977 and validated from 1979 to 1999 for the Amite and Tangipahoa and with daily discharge from 1979 to 1989 for the Tickfaw. Deviation of mean discharge and the Nash‐Sutcliffe model efficiency were used to evaluate model behavior. The study found that Manning's roughness coefficient for the main channel, SCS curve number, and soil evaporation compensation factor were the most sensitive parameters for these coastal watersheds. The Manning's roughness coefficient showed the greatest effect on the response time of surface runoff, suggesting the critical role of channel routing in hydrologic modeling for lowland watersheds. The SWAT model demonstrated an excellent performance, with Nash‐Sutcliffe efficiencies of 0.935, 0.940, and 0.960 for calibrations of the Amite, Tickfaw, and Tangipahoa watersheds, respectively, and of 0.851, 0.811, and 0.867 for validations. The modeling results demonstrate that SWAT is capable of simulating hydrologic processes for medium scale to large scale coastal lowland watersheds in Louisiana.


Water scarcity is occurring worldwide due to factors including climate change, population increases, and economic activity. The situation is most severe in arid areas. Based on a water supply stress index and virtual water for production, a fuzzy linear programming model is used to provide a set of solutions that contain a range of possible values rather than a specific optimal solution. The model is used to investigate cropping patterns that can obtain acceptable stress levels on local water resources for both current and future climate scenarios. Results in Gansu Province indicate that existing cropping patterns are causing extreme stress on local water resources, especially in eastern Gansu, and the stress will continue in the future if cropping patterns are not adjusted. The optimization model indicates that a considerable amount of water used is not necessarily needed, and deficits of virtual water demands can be covered by virtual water transfers. Optimal cropping patterns show that in the current scenario, total cropping areas in eastern Gansu should be reduced by up to 55% to attain acceptable water stress, and 24.2 and 22.5% for western Gansu and mid Gansu, respectively. The enormous cropping reduction in certain crops and the relatively larger decreases of cropping areas in the eastern region are indicated as a direction, to improve the balance between irrigation and municipal water needs. Virtual water transfer analysis shows that mid Gansu can be a major export region, while eastern Gansu will require large amounts of virtual water imports.


The invention relates to a method and a device for resource distributing in a cloud management platform. The method comprises the following steps of building in analysis parameters of each application server, and monitoring resource usage of each application server at different times on the basis of the analysis parameters; comparing the monitored resource usage of each application server at different times with set corresponding analysis parameter threshold values; confirming to correspondingly increase or decrease the resources used by each application server at different times according to the comparison result; carrying out corresponding resource distribution for each application server at corresponding times on the basis of the confirmed resource distribution of each application server. According to the invention, optimal resource distribution can be carried out in advance for each application server.


We report, for the first time, the use of Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) images to perform automatic prostate cancer diagnosis. A machine learning algorithm is implemented to learn textural behaviors of prostate samples imaged under QPI and produce labeled maps of different regions for testing biopsies (e.g. gland, stroma, lumen etc.). From these maps, morphological and textural features are calculated to predict outcomes of the testing samples. Current performance is reported on a dataset of more than 300 cores of various diagnosis results.


Adult Education Amendments - Provides that not more than 15 percent of funds appropriated under the Adult Education Act shall be reserved for special projects. Provides that State plans desiring an allotment of Federal funds under such Act shall provide for cooperation with manpower development and training programs and occupational education programs and shall provide that the State agency will make available not to exceed 25 percent of the State's allotment for programs of high school equivalency certificates. Permits any State which receives assistance under the Act to establish and maintain a State advisory council which shall be appointed by the Governor. Sets forth the functions of such Council. Authorizes to be approprated $225,000,000 for each of the next six fiscal years to carry out the purposes of this Act.


Based on the observed daily wind speed data at different weather stations within 50 km distances to the coastline during 1971-2012 around the Bohai coastal areas,variation of mean wind speed and its influencing factors were analyzed. The results showthat mean seasonal and annual wind speeds both are in decreasing trends,especially in spring with 0. 33 m·s- 1per decade. The decreasing rate of annual average wind speed in 70% weather stations exceeds 0. 20 m·s- 1per decade,especially in Tanggu station of Tianjin and Dalian station of Liaoning province with more than- 0. 50 m·s- 1per decade. Analysis of annual mean wind speed in each station shows that wind speed decreases around the Bohai coastal areas,namely,the number of gentle breeze( ≤3 m·s- 1) day is generally in a significantly increasing trend,while the maximum wind speed and the number of gale day both are in decreasing trends. It is found that the effect of observational environment and relocation of station on the decrease of wind speed is significant,while the effect of atmospheric circulation is not significant.


This is written so as to report the case of a 75-year-old male with a diagnosis of sigmoid adenocarcinoma accompanied by critical coronary artery disease and angina, which was subject to simultaneous surgical treatment. Was performed first an on – pump coronary artery revascularization and then a left colectomy. Our case suggests that performing an on-pump bypass in patient also with reduced ejection fraction procedure prior to cancer surgery can be a safe surgical in appropriately selected cases.


The Holston Formation aka Tennessee "marble", though not steeped in antiquity as many European stones, has been quarried continuously in Tennessee for lime and dimension stone since colonial times in North America. The white to red, massive, coarse-grained limestone occurs as a conspicuous stratigraphic unit within the Middle Ordovician Chickamauga Group in the Valley and Ridge province of East Tennessee. The formation is a reef mass consisting mainly of bryozoan colonies, pelmatazoa and lime mudstone deposited along the hinge of a tectonically subsiding basin southeast of the reef. The mass is 100 m thick and extends along northeast-southwest trending strike belts for nearly 100 km. Though not marble in the geological sense, it is crystalline, takes a high polish, and possesses physical properties that typically surpasses those of metamorphic marble. Its chemical purity and physical properties have made it a popular choice among architects, sculptors, and chemists for over 200 years. Tennessee, along with Vermont and Georgia has always been ranked among the top three marble producers in the U.S. – in 1956 Tennessee led the United States in marble production. Tennessee "marble" has been used in sculptural work, and for major building interiors and exteriors in at least 35 USA states and Canada and continues to be used today.


Justice is the important value of human.The history evolution of the western justice expands on the basis which is established by the philosophers of Ancient Greece.The philosophers of Ancient Greece have thought and answered many important questions of the justice from the region,subject,nature as well as dimension consciously or unconsciously.The theories of the justice of Ancient Greece have produced very important influence on the inoculation of the justice thereafter.


To be satisfied with complex load condition of electric vehicle, fuzzy logic control (FLC) is applied to improve speed response and system robust performance of induction traction machine based on indirect rotor field orientation control. The proposed propulsion system consists of two induction motors (IM) that ensure the drive of the two back driving wheels of lightweight electric vehicle by means the vehicle used for passenger transportation. The electronic differential system ensures the ro- bust control of the vehicle behavior on the road. It also allows controlling, independently, every driving wheel to turn at different speeds in any curve. Our electric vehicle fuzzy inference system control's si- mulated in Matlab SIMULINK environment, the results obtained present the efficiency and the robust- ness of the proposed control with good performances compared with the traditional PI speed control, the FLC induction traction machine presents not only good steady characteristic, but with no over- shoot too.


P!0.1). Overall success rates in initial, repeat, and secondary BMGU were 87.4%, 87.5%, and 70.6%, respectively. In Kaplan-Meier analyses, patients undergoing secondary BMGU fared significantly worse than those undergoing repeat or initial BMGU (P1⁄40.010). This held true in a multivariable model and secondary BMGU was an independent risk factor of recurrence (HR1⁄42.42; 95% CI1⁄41.03-5.68; P1⁄40.043). CONCLUSIONS: We showed excellent results for repeat anterior one-stage BMGU, comparable to patients without previous urethroplasty. Patients undergoing secondary BMGU with a history of prior urethroplasty of different technique are at higher risk of recurrence. However, when performed in a specialized center, success rates are still relatively high.


Establishing the usefulness of DSM-III for psychotherapy will probably require numerous studies. This paper reports a feasibility study for one kind of investigation: the use of clinical records to survey the DSM-III diagnoses and therapy outcome of 30 patients who had outpatient psychotherapy. We were interested in a) what range of DSM-III diagnoses was represented by patients in outpatient therapy; b) whether judgments of diagnosis and outcome could be made reliably from clinical records; c) how well patients in the therapy fit DSM-III diagnoses; d) if patients did not fit well, why not? We found that a) an exploration of the relationship between DSM-III diagnosis and outcome from clinical records is feasible; b) a relatively wide range (13) of DSM-III diagnoses was represented by the 30 patients; c) 80% of the patients fit well or moderately well into a DSM-III diagnosis; d) most of the 20% who did not fit well represent the class of problems of living, which does not mean, however, that their problems were minor or unimportant; e) in some cases the diagnosis—even when it fit the patient well—did not express the essence of the problem for which he or she was to be treated; f) there was a small correlation (.19) between the patient's rating on axis V and therapy outcome. The findings are discussed in terms of the pro and con arguments that have been made about DSM-III.


We address rotation averaging and its application to real-world 3D reconstruction. Local optimisation based approaches are the defacto choice, though they only guarantee a local optimum. Global optimizers ensure global optimality in low noise conditions, but they are inefficient and may easily deviate under the influence of outliers or elevated noise levels. We push the envelope of global rotation averaging by formulating it as a semi-definite program that can be solved efficiently by applying the Burer-Monteiro method. Both memory and time requirements are thereby largely reduced through a low-rank factorisation. Combined with a fast view graph filtering as preprocessing, and a local optimiser as post-processing, the proposed hybrid approach is robust to outliers. Compared against state-of-the-art globally optimal methods, our approach is 1 ∼ 2 orders of magnitude faster while maintaining the same or better accuracy. We apply the proposed hybrid rotation averaging approach to incremental Structure from Motion (SfM) by adding the resulting global rotations as regularizers to bundle adjustment. Overall, we demonstrate high practicality of the proposed method as bad camera poses are effectively corrected and drift is reduced.


After employing balloon-tipped biliary catheters for nearly two years without recognized difficulty, we recently experienced two instances of intrahepatic biliary disruption. Complete resolution of the intrahepatic cavities eventually occurred after more than four weeks of T-tube drainage. Catheter-precipitated intrahepatic ductal rupture is easily prevented if the short length, modest diameter, and relatively fragile nature of these conduits is appreciated, and if care is taken to inflate the Fogarty balloon slowly and withdraw the catheter gently.


A new anti-bacteria emulsion paint, based on ZnOw compound anti-bacteria agent as active anti-bacteria component and styrene/ acrylic emulsion as film former, has been developed. It has shown that this emulsion paint provided high effectiveness of anti-bacteria performance, safety and non-toxicity, and excellent comprehensive properties, and is a high grade decorative functional paint.


Copyright C 2019 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Asian Spine Journal • pISSN 1976-1902 eISSN 1976-7846 • www.asianspinejournal.org Received Dec 14, 2017; Accepted Dec 25, 2019 Corresponding author: Yong-Soo Choi Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kwangju Christian Hospital, 37 Yangnim-ro, Nam-gu, Gwangju 61661, Korea Tel: +82-62-650-5060, Fax: +82-62-650-5066, E-mail: email@example.com


We believe that a broad class of future applications will span both the Internet and the telephone network because such multiplanar applications have several economic and architectural advantages over conventional ones. We also envision the close interlinking of the telephone network and the Internet to form a multimodal network. In this paper, we describe these applications and networks, outline their architecture, and present our experiences in constructing a prototype multiplanar application.


Few yaers ago the most popular protocol for transporting IP
datagrams in metropolitan area networks was ethernet (fast
ethernet, gigabit ethernet) over dark fiber pairs. Nowadays we
can see some kind of renesance of using SDH as an underlaying
protocol for the same purpose. The aim of this paper is to
recall existing common used protocol for transporting IP
datagrams over SDH network.