AbstractBackground: Stillbirths are believed to contribute to the overwhelming majority of perinatalmortality in some developing countries. Though the facilities and expertise for perinatal postmortem examination are lacking in Ethiopia, studies have indicated that useful informationcould be obtained from careful review of clinical records.Objective: This study is aimed at identifying probable causes, comparison of selected fetaland maternal variables between cases and controls and suggests possible preventive options.Methods: This study was a retrospective comparative study of stillbirths with sex matchedlive births. It was conducted at Tikur Anbessa Hospital. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Sept.11, 2000-Sept. 10 2001, based on information retrieved from individual patient records andusing a structured data entry format. The main study variables were maternal sociodemographicfeatures, antenatal care(ANC) attendance, and gestational age of indexpregnancy, birth weight, modes of delivery and probable causes of stillbirths.Results: The stillbirth rate (SBR) was 55.3/1000 births and contributed to 77.2% of thegross perinatal mortality (GPNM). ANC attendance (85.7%) and residence in Addis Ababa(82.3%) were significantly higher among controls than cases which had corresponding figuresof 69.4% and 55.1%, respectively. There was a statistically significant difference in low birthweight (40.5%) and preterm (32.1%) stillbirths than controls with the respective figures of15% and 11%, respectively. Mechanical factors were the commonest probable causes of deathaccounting for 44.2% of all stillbirths, while 21.8% were unexplained stillbirths and antepartum hemorrhage contributed to 15.7%.Conclusion: It is suggested that proper antenatal and intra partum care can reducestillbirth.Keywords: Stillbirth rate, peri-natal mortality, intra-partum care


Optical multichannel photometry is combined with radio infrared data on MWC 349. The optical continuum and line emission varied in 24 hours. A very reddened, probably hot star coexists with a small H ii region of high electron density, a dust cloud (radiating above 1 mu ), and (probably) an inhomogeneous themal radio source. A tentative model is described. (auth)


Previous studies suggest that anaerobic activity in anurans enhances aerobic metabolism during nonsustainable locomotion (see Gatten et al. 1992). To test the hypothesis that lactic acidosis promotes blood‐O2 transport, adult R. pipiens were subjected to daily bouts of exhaustive hopping exercise for 3 wk. Anaerobic locomotion caused a significant metabolic and respiratory acidosis. In vivo blood acid‐base properties for exercised frogs at 22oC were pH 7.27, PCO2 = 23 Torr, and [Lact] = 14 mM; corresponding values for resting animals were pH 7.85, PCO2 = 9 Torr, and [Lact] = 1 mM. O2 equilibrium curves (O2EC) were generated at 22oC by thin‐film techniques. Anaerobic exercise caused a significant reduction in blood‐O2 affinity; P50's for exercised and resting frogs were 43 and 37 Torr, respectively. Exogenous lactic acid, added to whole blood from resting animals and to purified frog hemoglobin solutions, caused similar reductions in Hb‐O2 affinity. The maximum effect of exogenous lactic acid on whole blood P50 was achieved at [Lact] = 8–14 mM. These effects of exhaustive anaerobic exercise and exogenous lactic acid on Hb‐O2 affinity were solely pH (Bohr effect) phenomena. The O2 binding curves generated for both whole blood and purified Hb solutions exhibited complex O2EC shapes; Hill coefficients (n) increased with increasing Hb‐O2 saturation. Exhaustive exercise also caused rapid (~5 min) and significant reductions in Hct (25%) and [Hb] (30%), with no change in RBC volume. We conclude that lactic acidosis resulting from nonsustainable hopping activity in frogs promotes tissue O2 delivery without compromising pulmonary O2 loading.


Connectivity is one of the most fundamental properties of wireless multi-hop networks. This paper studies the connectivity of large wireless networks with secrecy constraint, i.e. a pair of nodes can communicate securely against eavesdropping. Specifically, we consider a network with a mixture of legitimate nodes and eavesdroppers that are distributed according to two independent Poisson point processes on a √n × √n square. Assuming that legitimate nodes can generate artificial noise, which is shown in the literature to be an effective way of suppressing eavesdropping, we provide sufficient conditions on the transmission power and the noise generation power required for a network with known intensity of eavesdroppers to be asymptotically almost surely connected with secrecy constraint as n → ∞, considering the cases of both non-colluding and colluding eavesdroppers.


Although phonological analysis of disordered speech has become very common since the late 1970s, relatively little has been written about how to use the results of a phonological analysis in planning remediation, particularly in selecting therapy targets. This paper is an attempt to fill part of that gap. After a brief review of suggestions made in the published phonological assessment procedures, several criteria for selecting target processes are presented. Next, there is a discussion of criteria to be used in selecting target sounds. In addition, some


Background: Although fungal phytase is frequently used as an additive to animal feed few investigations of its allergenic property have been conducted.


Modeling and control issues concerning certain smart material actuators utilized in nonlinear regimes will be presented. Piezoceramic, electrostrictive, and magnetostrictive materials all exhibit various degrees of hysteresis and nonlinear dynamics at high‐drive levels. The accurate and efficient quantification of these effects and their incorporation in control design are necessary to attain the full capabilities of the materials. The models described here are based on the quantification of domain effects inherent to ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials. These models require a small number of parameters and are robust with respect to a variety of operating conditions. Hence, they are amenable to control design. Linear control methods prove ineffective at high‐drive levels and certain nonlinear control laws and inverse compensation techniques for smart material applications will be discussed.


OBJECTIVE:To determine the content and release rate in vitro of Minocycline hydrochloride ointment,and to discuss the mechanism of drug release.METHODS:HPLC method was adopted.The Inertsil C8-3 column was adopted with mobile phase consisted of 0.2 mol/L ammonium acetate-DMF-THF(600:398:2,including 0.01 mol/L EDTA-2Na)at the flow rate of 1 ml/min.The detection wavelength was set at 274 nm under room temperature.Self-made kit was used to determine release rate in vitro.Paddle method was adopted using 500 ml distilled water as medium at rotational speed of 100 r/min and the temperature of(37.0± 0.5)℃.Release time of them were 1,4,8,12 and 24 h,and the data of drug release was fitted with different models.RESULTS:The linear range of minocycline hydrochloride was 0.05-1.90 mg/ml(r=0.999 7,n=5),with an average recovery of 100.1%(RSD=0.61%,n=9).The release rate in vitro of the preparation at 1,4,8,12,24 h was 11.03%,25.01%,36.14%,51.06% and 64.62%,respectively,which showed that the related coefficient fitted by equations were similar and close to 1,among which that fitted by first-order equation was the greatest(r=0.999 0).CONCLUSIONS:Established method is simple,rapid and accurate,and it is suitable for the quality control of minocycline hydrochloride and ointment.The ointment displays the extended-release function,and first-order release is more obvious.


The invention discloses a method for establishing an equivalent model of a radar servo system, and belongs to the field of system simulation. The method mainly comprises the three steps of simulating the design of a low pass filter, converting a simulation filter into a digital filter and conducting filtering processing on a IIR digital filter. Input data are target angle data, and through filtering processing of the IIR digital filter, an output servo system drives an antenna to rotate to a corresponding angle value to achieve the function that the radar servo system controls the antenna to precisely track an object. According to the method, according to the technical indexes such as the stability, the transient process quality and the dynamic response capacity of the radar servo system, the radar servo system is regarded as a linear time invariant system with infinitely long unit impulse response, and a digital filtering technology is used for enabling the radar servo system to be approximately equivalent to a IIR recursive filter with infinitely long impulse response. Due to the facts that the model establishing process is simple, and numerical calculation is not large, the method for establishing the equivalent model of the radar servo system is well applied to radar system digital simulation.


Objective: The aim of this study is to present the integrated author's concept of the Competitive-Behavioral Man. Research Design & Methods: The study is theoretical and conceptual in nature and was based on a study of the literature on the subject. Findings: The study presents the original concept of the Competitive-Behavioral Man. Implications/Recommendations: The concept of the Competitive-Behavioral Man can be used to improve human resource management and to support soft management and soft competitiveness. Contribution: Development of the proprietary concept of a Competitive-Behavioral Man who brings a different perspective on human resource management.


In recent years, many researchers have done a lot of work in different field of aspects in MANET. Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a collection of nodes which consist of infrastructure less and are designed to communicate with each other. Routing protocol send data from source to destination that discover the optimal path between the two nodes and describe how routers communicate between each other in order to complete this task. In this paper we focus on the three categories on the basis of the performance of the routing protocols OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing), AODV(Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector) and Geographical Routing Protocol (GRP) under mobility models i.e. Vector Mobility and Random Direction model. The comparison is done based on metrics such as throughput, packet delivery ratio and average end-to-end delay by using the OPNET simulator. The simulation based results are based on varying node density and network pause time.


Affidavit In Any Fact by N. J. Daniels concerning a man entering City Hall from the Main Street ramp. Daniels states that for a moment the ramp was left unguarded and he noticed a white male, approximately fifty years of age, enter the basement from the ramp without being approached by an officer. Daniels also states that he knows an officer who was nearby, Officer Vaughn, saw the man entering the basement but did not stop him or say anything to him.


On May 4, 1977, a polar orbiting low-altitude DMSP satellite passed close to the Finnish riometer stations at the same time as an absorption bay preceding an onset of substorm was observed. The combined ground and satellite measurements show that the absorption bay was characterized by intense precipitation of energetic electrons at the inner border of the compressed plasma sheet. The precipitation occurred in a narrow band of latitude, perhaps less than 50 km wide. We suggest that the pre-bay precipitation was due to strong pitch angle diffusion and/or scatter of energetic electrons at the inner border of the plasma sheet, probably from the outer radiation zone.


In this paper, the optimal estimators of the coefficients of a second-order bivariate polynomial for piecewise grayvalue distributions of image are derived by using the least quadrate multiplication,and the remaning components within eath patch can be attributed to white noise with zero meanvalue.Therefore, the quadratic model is set up, which is the best approacl to piecewise grayvauc distributions.In order to detect changes between consecutive frames, the statistical assumption test model which follows F-distribution with degrees of freedon(n+ 3, 2n-12) is detived based on the quadratic model,where n is the number of pixels in detection window. Because singe motion target can not be generally selected from the detected changes if there is noly F-test, the techniques of clustering analysis and filling holes are also designed, which can make the target loss and false alarm appronch to zerr. The experimental results made with the television-and infrared image sequences fully show the validity and compatibility of the technique route and key techniques proposed.


Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has defined a flagship science facility Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes (MaRIE) (~$1.3B for full capabilities) that builds on the existing Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) facility to provide unique experimental tools to develop next-generation materials that will perform predictably and on demand for currently unattainable lifetimes in extreme environments. At its core a 42 keV XFEL will be coupled with the MW class proton accelerator at LANSCE. While the larger MaRIE project is working on a preconceptual design, a smaller LANL team is working on an injector test stand to be constructed at LANL in the course of preparation for MaRIE. The test stand will consist of a photo injector and an initial accelerating section with a bunch compression section. The goal of this facility will be to carry out studies that will validate and determine optimal design parameters for the prototype injector, and to facilitate a direct demonstration of the required beam characteristics for MaRIE. This paper will give a brief overview of the proposed MaRIE facility and present the conceptual design for the injector test stand with the focus on timing, instrumentation and control system.


In article the characteristic of concept of personal responsibility in relation to pregnant women is considered. The detailed structure of personal responsibility as system construct is given. On the basis of results of pilot research the analysis of potential level of self-checking of pregnant women, levels of an external and internal is provided in various spheres of their life and influence of an event and semantic context of the value orientations of the personality on their readiness for responsibility.


We report a case of thyroid cancer with primary hyperparathyroidism (1°-PHP) which was found accidentally during the examination of thyroid cancer. A 56-year-old woman was pointed out to have an anterior cervical mass, and was admitted to our department under a diagnosis of thyroid cancer. The patient complained of no subjective symptoms. Preoperative examination for thyroid cancer revealed an increased serum calcium (11.2 mg/dl). Increased serum parathyroid hormone level and urinary output of calcium were also observed, leading to a diagnosis of 10-PTH. Total thyroidctomy with bilateral modified neck dissection and extirpation of right lower parathyroid gland were performed. Histopathological diagnosis was bilateral papillary thyroid cancer and parathyroid adenoma. Serum calcium level decreased soon after operation.It is usual that thyroid tumors are found during the examination or operation of 10-PHP. On the contrary, we must take care of serum calcium level not be overlook probable 1°-PHP when we treat the thyroid tumors.


In today's working life, the management of content represents one of the most critical success factors. Quick access to required information considerably enhances business process efficiency as well as effectiveness. Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?a presently emerging field in Information Systems (IS) research?aims at providing concepts on how to best administer an organization's individual content situation. Nevertheless, due to the novelty of the topic, there is still a lack of methodical support for ECM systems (ECMS) analysis and specification. A further drawback to a frictionless implementation of ECM results from the negligence of re-engineering affected business processes. With this paper, we present an integrated framework for ECM adoption and business process re-engineering, reverting to established methods in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) and IS analysis and specification techniques.


An aqueous polymer dispersion P containing 0.1 to 10% by weight of additives of the general formula I ** ** Formula with R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6> = H, alkyl having 1 to n carbon atoms carbon, R1 to R6 may be either the same, as different, X, Y> = Cl, Br, I, n, m> = 1-8, being obtainable the aqueous polymer dispersion by aqueous emulsion polymerization via radicals of a monomer mixture containing a) 45 to 70 parts by weight of at least one monomer whose homopolymer has a glass transition temperature Tg 50 ° c, and c) 0 to 30 parts by weight of other monomers.


This study documents and accounts for the behavior of the place of articulation of latent segments in the Panoan languages Shipibo-Konibo and Capanahua. In these languages, the lexical category of the word governs the place of articulation (PoA) of latent consonants. Latent segments only surface when they are syllabified as syllable onsets. They surface as coronal consonants when they are part of verbs; but they occur as non-coronal consonants when they belong to nouns or adjectives. In non-verb forms, by default, they are neutralized to dorsal in Shipibo-Konibo, and to labial in Capanahua. The analysis proposed consists in using the well-known markedness hierarchy on PoA, |Labial, Dorsal > Coronal > Pharyngeal|, and harmonically aligning it with a morphological markedness hierarchy in which non-verb forms are more marked than verb forms: |NonVerb > Verb|. This creates two fixed rankings of markedness constraints: one on verb forms in which, as expected, coronal/laryngeal is deemed the least marked PoA, and another one on non-verb forms in which the familiar markedness on PoA is reversed so that labial and dorsal become the least marked places of articulation. The study shows that although both Panoan languages follow the general cross-linguistic tendency to have coronal as a default PoA, this default can be overridden by morphology.


The general situation of the No.5 line Tiantan East door subway station of Beijing is introduced in the article,it discusses on the engineering difficulties and the measure,and the application of the shallow buried tunreling meihod in the construction project of the main structure,the method if the references to shallow-buried large span tunnel,especial the city underground project that strictly on subsidence.


the replacement of one or more nucleotide residues in the potent α-thrombin-binding aptamer NU172 with hexitol-based nucleotides has been devised, studying the effect of these substitutions on the physicochemical and functional properties of the anticoagulant agent. The incorporation of single hexitol nucleotides at T9 and G18 positions of NU172 substantially retained the physicochemical features of the parent oligonucleotide, as a result of the biomimetic properties of the hexitol backbone. Importantly, the NU172- T H 9 mutant exhibited a higher binding affinity toward human α-thrombin than the native aptamer and an improved stability even after 24 h in 90% human serum, with a significant increase in the estimated half-life. The anticoagulant activity of the modified oligonucleotide was also found as slightly preferable than NU172. Overall, these results confirm the potential of hexitol nucleotides as biomimetic agents, while laying the foundations for the development of NU172-inspired α-thrombin-binding aptamers.


DURING the last few years we have been investigating the possibility -of using moderate or inferior cows as incubators for the development of genetically high-grade germinal material. Preliminary investigations in rabbits proved highly successful with most of the transplanted ova being successfully carried to term, and in this species it has been possible to store fertilized ova at reduced temperatures for sever#l days and then to transplant them successfully. When attempts were made to repeat these findings in the cow they consistently failed despite the fact that many workers all over the world were engaged on the problem. There was, however, a certain difference in technique, for whereas in the rabbit the ovum transfer had been an aseptic surgical operation, in the cow the ova were placed in the uterus by means ofa pipette passed through the cervical canal, and complete asepsis was therefore extremely difficult.


Different "ex vivo" studies have shown both a greater platelet activation and higher rates of resistance to clopidogrel in obese patients. Although there is less evidence, less prasugrel activity has also been observed in these patients. Our aim was to study the variability of the response to clopidogrel, ticagrelor and prasugrel in obese patients, defined as a body mass index ≥30.

 Prospective, multicenter, observational, pharmacodynamic study, conducted in a Spanish population of patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and double anti-aggregation with acetylsalicylic acid and a P2Y12 receptor inhibitor. Platelet function tests were performed the morning after the ICP and 30 days after it, including: 1) VerifyNow P2Y12 assay; 2) multiple electrode aggreometry (Multiplate); and 3) VASP analysis.

 Of the total patients included (988), 300 were obese (30.3%). The obese group was younger (62.8±12 years vs 64.9±12), had a higher incidence of arterial hypertension (76.3% vs. 56.7%), diabetes mellitus (35% vs. 27.5%); and lower incidence of chronic kidney disease (7.7% vs. 17%). There were no differences in the acute phase (day 1 after PCI) in the pharmacodynamic response to any of the P2Y12 inhibitors used. After 30 days, greater platelet aggregation (decreased response) was documented in obese patients treated with prasugrel according to VASP tests (PRI in non-obese 23.9±13% vs. 30.4±14.7% in obese, p 0.035) and MEA (area under the aggregation units curve in non-obese 251.7±104.1 vs 320±166.7 in obese, p 0.007) and a numerical trend with VerifyNow. A trend in the same direction was also observed in patients treated with clopidogrel that did not reach statistical significance with all the platelet function tests used. No differences were observed in the ticagrelor group.

 Obese patients with an ACS treated with PCI have a worse response to thienopyridines than non-obese patients in the maintenance phase of antiaggregant treatment, while the response to ticagrelor is not affected by obesity. Completing the clinical follow-up proposed by the registry is necessary to know if these differences have an implication in cardiovascular events.

 Type of funding source: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main funding source(s): Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS)


Whether the police style is good or not can directly reflect the quality, level of enforcement, ability of the police force. The contrasting analysis of the current police style has obviously showed not only the internal necessity and urgency of bettering the construction of police style but also the necessary choice based on the objective conditions and outside environment. From the angles of individuals, systems of organizations and other aspects, the key to improve police style lies in a scientific and effective system of construction of police style.


Academic abilities were substantially correlated with academic self-concept for Year 6 students (n = 305), but were uncorrelated with non-academic self-concepts. Schools for this study were specifically chosen to represent the highest and lowest strata of socioeconomic status (SES) within the same geographical area, and students from the high-SES schools were substantially higher in family SES, reading ability, IQ, and teacher ratings of academic ability. Nevertheless, students from the high-SES schools had paradoxically lower academic self-concepts after controlling for academic ability and/or family SES. Thus, academic self-concept is positively affected by individual ability and SES, but is negatively affected by school-average values of these same variables. These paradoxical findings are consistent with a frame of reference model which hypothesizes that students appraise their own academic ability, compare this with the observed abilities of other children in the school, and use this relativistic impression of their ability to form their academic self-concept. Thus, a given child will see him/herself to be relatively more able in a low-SES/ability school and will form a more favourable academic self-concept than if the same child is in a high-SES/ability school.


In recent years, the discharge problems in buffer layer have drawn wide attention in the industry. Relative humidity is an important impact factor of partial discharge, and it is necessary to carry out research on the mechanism of relative humidity on partial discharge characteristics. Based on the cable buffer layer structure, the partial discharge test platform based on the pulse-current method for buffer layer was established within a controllable humidity environment. The results show that the variation of relative humidity has no effects on the geometric shape of the partial discharge pattern, but it will affect the characteristic parameters of partial discharge. Under the lower humidity conditions, the discharge amplitude gradually decreases with the increase of relative humidity. Under the higher humidity conditions, the rise of relative humidity will promote the development of discharge activities in the buffer layer, and the discharge amplitude will increase with the increase of relative humidity.


Many recent applications involve data models that rely on heterogeneous graphs (multiple node and relation types). Drawing these graphs is more difficult than drawing standard graphs, as it is desirable to take into account the heterogeneity of graphs in the form of constraints, possibly stemming from user preferences, to compute the layout. In this paper we propose a method for hierarchical graph drawing that is based on structural constraint modeling . These constraints are combined with crossing minimization algorithms to yield the desired visual effect. Three types of constraints are considered and illustrated, giving special attention to the drawing of multiple relations for interactive graph visualization.


We speculated that mood would affect responses to global measures of job and career satisfaction. We randomly selected 692 pharmacists from the Iowa Board of Pharmacy Examiners' mailing list. After two follow-up mailings, 389 questionnaires were received for a usable rate of 56.9%. "Good day" pharmacists were more satisfied with their jobs and careers than "typical day" pharmacists, supporting the contention that global satisfaction indicators reflect affective satisfaction.


metritis, and normally in the prepuce, and in intertrigo. The author believes the special character of the disease consists in cicatricial atrophy of the nasal mucous membrane, produced by chronic catarrhal inflammation and consecutive keratoid epithelial metamorphosis. RYDYGIER (Cracow). On Rhinosderoma. Demonstration of two cases ol this disease, which is very rare in Germany. The treatment must consist of very early extirpation of the affected parts. ANGERER (Miinchen) showed the macerated head of a patient with lateral nasal fissure. There was also a great defect in the front bone. The author has found recorded only four such cases. TRENDELENBURG (Bonn). On Operations for Deflected Noses. The author removes with a chisel the malformed bone, and then applies the apparatus of Adams to keep the nose in the fresh position. ROTTER (Miinchen). Plastic Operations on the Month and Nose. The author showed a case of plastic restitution of the palate by implantation of skin. He also showed a case of total rhinoplasty. RUDOLF W O L F (Hamburg). Accessory Thyroid Gland in the Tongue. A girl, twenty years old, has had always difficulty in swallowing, which has increased during the last year. The laryngoscope showed a tumour on the left side of the lower part of the tongue. The tumour commenced at the circumvallate papilla?, and was very dense. Under applications of iodine it decreased somewhat, but a short time later became larger again. Prophylactic tracheotomy was done, extirpation performed, the patient being fed by a Nelaton catheter. A cure resulted. The tumour consisted of thyroid tissue. HANS SCHMID (Stettin). Total Extirpation of the Larynx two and a halj years previously. Loud voice without Artificial Larynx. Demonstration of the case already published in Langenbech's Archiv. Michael.


O ver the past decades, the knowledge of genetics has improved substantially and is becoming increasingly important in the understanding of diseases and development of individual-based treatment strategies. In cardiac electrophysiology, specific genetic mutations or subtypes are able to cause severe clinical arrhythmias leading to sudden cardiac death. Recently, a specific haplotype of the dipeptidylpeptidase 6 (DPP6) gene was found to be associated with a risk of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF). A single base transition in a regulatory region of the DPP6 gene results in an increased DPP6 expression. DPP6 is suggested to be a key element of the voltage-gated potassium channel, which contributes to the transient outward current (Ito). Recent findings propose an early repolarization syndrome in the Purkinje fibers as possible mechanism facilitating VF. In a Dutch cohort of idiopathic VF families, the highrisk haplotype was found in 20% and was associated with a 50% incidence of sudden cardiac events before the age of 58. Therefore, carriers of the risk haplotype of the DPP6 gene are currently advised an implantable cardioverterdefibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention between the ages of 20 and 50 years, in which there is an increased risk of sudden (cardiac) death. VF can also be triggered by various other conditions and medications and the cause determines the indication for an ICD. This case is the 1st to describe 2 separate episodes of VF in a DPP6 carrier above the indicated age for preventive ICD treatment. It represents the difficulties in determining the cause and indications for ICD and the manner in which genetic makeup will become increasingly important in determining treatment plans. A 64-year-old man with no cardiac history had recently been diagnosed as a carrier of the risk DPP6 haplotype and was referred from the clinical genetics department for cardiac screening. His medical history consisted of rheumatoid arthritis and 2 cardiac risk factors, and he was free of any symptoms. One of his sons had died suddenly at 22 years, and the other survived an episode of VF and had been identified with the same high-risk DPP6 haplotype. Furthermore, family history included aortic pathologies. The electrocardiogram showed no abnormalities, and additional tests had been ordered. However, before the next follow-up, he presented with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in bed due to VF without ST elevations. CT scan showed no cerebral pathology, aortic aneurysm or dissection. There were no electrolyte disturbances. Cardiac enzymes were increased (hsTNT 273 ng/L [0–13 ng/L] and CKMB 15.2 ng/L [0–7.5 ng/L]). The next day, coronary angiogram revealed a subtotal occlusion of the right coronary artery and angioplasty with stenting was performed. However, MRI showed no infarcted areas or other structural abnormalities making coronary disease as the single cause of VF questionable. A month after discharge, an ajmaline test was performed, which had been routinely scheduled for the outpatient cardiogenetic screening and accidentally not cancelled afterward. During the test, there were no signs of Brugada syndrome and with the final infusion, QRS broadening became significant (88 to 124 milliseconds; +40%; Figure 1, top panel). However, 2 minutes after completion, 3 close-coupled ventricular extrasystoles were followed by VF (Figure 1, bottom panel). After successful cardioversion, he received a subcutaneous ICD, which had to be extracted later due to pocket infection. The transvenous ICD lead placed thereafter unluckily was dislocated during physical exercise in the cardiac rehabilitation program. Because of altered sensing and pacing thresholds, the lead had to be replaced.


Steel and aluminum, and alloy material of different materials bonded body, bonding a specific steel composition, to the external oxide layer and internal oxide of each other specific composition On the other hand, bonding the aluminum alloy material of Al-Mg-Si based aluminum of a specific composition to the surface that according to the bonding interface between the alloy and the aluminum alloy of the dissimilar material bonded jaecheuk, after regulating the content of Fe, and a junction of different materials bonded body in the interface reaction layer of Fe and Al is formed in the dissimilar material bonded to obtain a high bonding strength .


Abstract Recent reports suggested that phosphatase of regenerating liver (PRL-3) might be involved in colorectal carcinoma metastasis with gene amplification. PRL-3 mRNA expression was elevated in nearly all metastatic lesions derived from colorectal cancers, regardless of the site of metastasis (liver, lung, brain, or ovary). PRL-3 is also a protein tyrosine phosphatase. The molecule has prenylation motif at the C terminus. When the prenylation site is removed, the PRL-3 can be found to translocate to the nucleus. It may involve in dephosphorylating its substrates that is related to cell motility. One of the possibilities is that substrates or cofactors that could interact with PRL-3 to facilitate its functions. In order to identify PRL-3 associated proteins we used the yeast two-hybrid system to screen the proteins which interact with human PRL-3. The results of screening showed that ribosomal protein S5 (207 amino acids) and a small peptide (65 amino acids) related to small cell lung carcinoma may interact with PRL-3. We found that these two proteins can interact with PRL-3 by using in vitro translational products of these two proteins and carried out the pull-down assay with GST fussed PRL-3. We also found that the prenylation site of PRL-3 can interact with a small peptide related to small cell lung carcinoma and this peptide may enhance the tyrosine phosphatase activity of PRL-3. Together, these results provide evidence that PRL-3 plays a causal role in tumor metastasis.


Motorcycle industry has more than million sales every year in Taiwan. Every motorcycle manufacturer actively develops new products and causes whole motorcycle market more competitive. In order to meet various consumers under the competitive market and effectively control design direction, understanding consumer behavior becomes important and necessary information for new model design and marketing strategy setting. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to establish main considerable factors for motorcycle design and development through the research of consumer behavior and utilization of quality function deployment (QFD). The methodology adopted in the study is to analyze the consumer behavior and the affective elements of selecting motorcycle products from consumers in the beginning. Then, according to the results of analysis, this study applies and integrates QFD method into PGO motorcycle case study to make design factors more concrete, systematic and quantitative. As a result of this study, it provides not only the guidance and direction for product design and development but also the important information for establishing marketing strategy.


The publication explores the problem of happiness as a common, universal indicator of socio-economic development. The factors influencing the subjective, individual estimation of happiness are defined. The relationship between the level of happiness and the pace of economic growth is characterized. A relatively new direction of economic theory – the economics of happiness – is considered; the object and subject matter of its research are determined; the main issues that fall into account of the scholars working within terms of this direction are listed. A number of experimental studies on happiness were considered, which used primarily psychological methodology and relied on the results of mass opinion polls in different regions of the world. The global happiness index (The Happy Planet Index) and the World Happiness Report are paid the major attention. The methodology for carrying out these studies is described. The leaders of these ratings are identified according to the data for 2019 and 2020. Ukraine's place in these ratings is determined. The need to clarify the links between the objective indicator of economic well-being (GDP per capita) and subjective estimates by the population is substantiated. The essence, purpose, main tasks and directions of the State policy on the formation of happiness are considered. The main components and priorities of the State policy in this context are characterized. It is concluded that the main goal of the State policy focused on achieving happiness is to create conditions under which timely, complete and qualitative satisfaction of various needs of both the lower and the higher levels is possible for the population, i.e. ensuring material and spiritual satisfaction with life. It is specified that traditional objective indicators of economic well-being retain their importance when assessing the level of socio-economic development of a certain country, however, they are not sufficient to have the problem fully studied, and it is necessary to take into account subjective assessments of the population. These subjective indicators are necessary because they allow a better choice of the right directions of economic and social policy.


Tourism has become an activity massified, dedicated to leisure, in the period after the 2nd World War and was in the twentieth century that appeared the new modes of activity, such as business segments, events, religious and health. In the city of Maringa, where there's no natural amenities and, consequently, the ability for leisure tourism, there is a promotion of the city, by the agents, in other words, government and local entities, to the tourism and business events, fact related to growth and economic diversity of the city. There are many challenges to such agents Maringa become a major tourist center, for issues related to urban infrastructure and tourism should be improved.


Measuring environmental performance is a key challenge facing corporate environmental managers. This article describes issues in Environmental Performance Evaluation (EPE). It illustrates the approach to these issues taken by J.M. Huber Corporation to develop a multidimensional, readily implemented environmental performance index that is used by senior management to track performance and to report to the Board of Directors. It then describes how the same approach can be used to evaluate life cycle impacts in the electronics industry.<<ETX>>


Age at marriage particularly of women plays a major role in relation to social demographic and economic changes of the population and fertility. Several studies have been conducted on differentials and determinants in age at marriage. This paper presents a model for age at marriage particularly of Asian women as based on the model developed by Verma and Pathak. The Verma and Pathak model consisted of exponential distributions under various assumptions to describe the distribution of females according to their age at marriage. Though the model provided good approximation a large difference of frequencies was observed particularly at the later ages. The model was applied to the data from the National Family Health Survey of Uttar Pradesh India. It is noted that a minimum legal age at marriage in India is 18 years but marriages still take place at lower ages. Thus an in-depth study of factors influencing age at marriage may be undertaken which may contribute substantially in the reduction of fertility.


As with all aspects of public management, the control, financing, and regulation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are matters subject to changing international trends and domestic political imperatives. The effects of the global financial crisis (GFC) on the ownership, financing, and role of SOEs are still unfolding, but undoubtedly will be heavily influenced by a new era of public sector reforms principally designed to reassert central political controls, as well as by fiscal pressures to balance state budgets. In this regard, the Irish experience is instructive, with the findings from two datasets being used here to examine various modes of state enterprise control and their corresponding autonomy. Significantly, there has been considerable variety within and across the SOE sector, demonstrating the need for more detailed understanding of how SOEs are managed.


We report a simple plasmonic sensor based on the Fano resonance in a cavity coupled defective metal–dielectric–metal (MDM) waveguide. A theoretical expression for characterizing the sensing property is first derived. We show the formation and evolution of Fano resonance in this cavity coupled waveguide system. Based on the derived theoretical expression and the numerical analysis, we find that the cavity length plays an important role for tuning and optimizing the sensing performance. A highest figure of merit (FOM) of ~6100 is obtained. This plasmonic sensor possesses the advantages of easy fabrication and compactness. The findings and the proposed structure may provide some guidance for the fundamental research of the integrated plasmonic nanosensor applications and designs.


The ability of the cells to sense mechanical cues is an integral component of "social" cell behavior inside tissues with a complex architecture. Through "mechanosensation" cells are in fact able to decrypt motion, geometries and physical information of surrounding cells and extracellular matrices by activating intracellular pathways converging onto gene expression circuitries controlling cell and tissue homeostasis. Additionally, only recently cell mechanosensation has been integrated systematically as a crucial element in tissue pathophysiology. In the present review, we highlight some of the current efforts to assess the relevance of mechanical sensing into pathology modeling and manufacturing criteria for a next generation of cardiovascular tissue implants.


The minimization of multiple-valued functions has many important applications in logic synthesis. In particular, the problems of two-level multiple-output minimization, symbolic input encoding, and state assignment rely on eficient solutions to the multiple-valued minimization problem. Previously, ezact solution to this problem can only be oflorded for modemte size problems. A fundamental bottleneck in ezisting state-of-the-art ezact minimizers is the inability to eficientlg genemte and represent all prime impliconts for large functions. This paper presents new techniques based on the implicit representation and generation of primes and essential primes that can tackle multiple-valued functions with sets of primes seveml orders of magnitude larger than ezisting methods. finctions with over 10" primes have been successfully generated using our proposed method.


Nonactivated progesterone receptors in extracts of human T47D mammary carcinoma cells were investigated. Chemical cross-linking with dimethyl suberimidate resulted in complete stabilization of the A and B receptors with an average molecular mass of 340 kDa. For analyzing the subunit structure, we concentrated on the larger B receptor, which was separated from the A form by immunoaffnimty chromatography. Progressive cross-linking of the photoaffmity-labeled receptor resulted in patterns oflabeled bands in SDS gels, which are indicative of a heterotetrameric structure. It consists of one receptor polypeptide in association with two 90-kDa subunits and one polypeptide of -60 kDa. The completely cross-linked B receptor has a molecular mass of -390 kDa. To identify the subunits, the oligomeric B receptor was cross-linked with a cleavable bisimidate, highly purified by immunoaffinity chromatography, and analyzed by gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting. The receptor polypeptide has a mass of 116.5 kDa. The 90-kDa band was identified as the heat shock protein hsp90 and was roughly twice as intense as the receptor polypeptide. By use of specific antibodies, we identified the fourth receptor subunit as a 59-kDa protein (p59); we did not obtain any evidence for the heat shock protein hsp7O being a receptor component. We suggest an analogous heterotetrameric structure for the nonactivated A receptor. The progesterone receptor is a member of the steroid hormone receptor family; it is exceptional in the sense that it is expressed in vertebrates in two forms, A and B (1, 2). These steroid-binding polypeptides are identical except that the amino-terminal region is missing from the A polypeptide (3). Both polypeptides appear to be synthesized as individual entities (4, 5) but may be functionally distinct (5, 6). Progesterone receptors can be recovered in extracts of target cells in a nonactivated large molecular mass state that is unable to interact with DNA but binds the hormonal ligand (7). Although A and B receptor polypeptides are known to occur in independent large molecular mass forms (8-10), the structures of these are uncertain. Reports in the literature describe various protein species of largely differing size, which have been found in association with purified progesterone receptors of different vertebrate species (11-15). However, copurification of proteins with a given receptor poses a problem: it is very difficult to distinguish between a bona fide structural component and a persistent contaminant of the purification protocol. Chemical cross-linking between protein subunits prior to extensive purification provides a means to avoid such confusion. We used this approach here to obtain definitive information on the subunit structure of progesterone receptors in terms of stoichiometry and identity of the individual components. For technical reasons, we largely concentrated on the large molecular mass B receptor of human T47D mammary carcinoma cells. We unequivocally demonstrate that it has a heterotetrameric subunit


In this work, design, analysis, and simulation of microstrip patch antenna for Sub-6 GHz application has been investigated. The research method is based on the Sonnet Suites software. The aim of the study was to design and analyze microstrip patch antenna for Sub-6 GHz antenna for 5G applications and usage. The antenna is designed with the help of using partial ground architecture. Design architecture consideration and analysis of different parameters and simulations were investigated. The antenna operates at 4.32 GHz and the results are compact design area of 21.5 x 36.9 mm2, reflection coefficient is of -18 dB, and the gain in the range from 4.30 to 4.32 dB.


Participating artist in year long Arts Council funded research project lead by Phyllida Barlow to establish a working environment where a selected group of [16] artists could engage with the processes of making artwork with no prerequisite outcomes. The impact on artists due to the persistent emphasis on the commodification of the art object was addressed through workshops, discussions, debates, seminars. An ignorance of how art becomes made and how artists work – what artists do - is prevalent at all levels of art, from secondary school through to high level retrospective exhibitions at international venues. The participating artists in the project did not all necessarily agree or support this contention and were have been appointed with this in mind. November 2007 – December 2008.

Public outcomes:
Skit. Roy Voss and David Cheeseman – Performance, Warwick Arts Centre. October 2008.
Farmer's Market (group exhibition) 12th November – 20th December 2008, Handel Street Projects, London, curated by Fedja Klikovac.
Betrayal (group exhibition) 11th July – 1st August 2009, East House Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway / Whitecross Gallery, London, curated by Gavin Ramsey and developed around the theme of Camp as discussed by Susan Sontag in her influential 1964 essay Notes on Camp.


BlueGene/L is a partnership between IBM, US ASIC Tri-Labs and Universities to develop and build a 360 Teraflops massively parallel supercomputer. In this article, we first discuss the background of this project. We then describe the detailed architecture of the BlueGene/L computer and give an update to the current project status.


This research aims to find out the improvement of three learning competencies that are process skills, responsibility attitude, and mastery concept students through learning model application cycle 7E in Physics. The three competencies are very important to be mastered by the students. The research implemented on grade 10 SMA Lentera Harapan Curug students from July to November 2016. The research method is weak experimental design the static-group pretest-posttest. The data obtained using questionnaire and written test to get the mean value and n gain, to see the difference between the experimental class and control class used by Mann Whitney test for process skills and responsibility attitude, and the t-test the mastery concept. The conclusion of Wilcoxon test for process skills, responsibility attitude, and concepts mastery is that there were significant differences in pretest and posttest results of the experimental class by using model 7E cycle learning.


The designing technique of a micromachined silicon acceleration switch with cross beams is discussed in this paper. At first, on the basis of static stiffness deduced and a set of geometry sizes of sensitivity element,the deformed shapes under acceleration from different direction are simulated. According to the structure characteristics and micromachining methods, several machining errors that can affect its precision are analyzed,and the error limit of beams thickness is provided on the condition that the switch action error is smaller than ±5%. The analyzing and calculating results can guide the designing and machining of this kind of acceleration switch.


Genetic testing is increasingly being used in the management of cancer. Cytogenetic and molecular genetic assays now play a part in the diagnosis and monitoring of a variety of leukemias, lymphomas, and solid tumors. Moreover, the identification of inherited mutations of genes that cause susceptibility to cancer provides new tools for the prevention and early detection of cancer.1 The study by Gryfe et al. in this issue of the Journal concerns the prognostic importance of a genetic abnormality (microsatellite instability) that occurs not only in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer but also in colorectal tumors in young patients (50 years of . . .


Reproduction is a key profit driver in beef cattle production systems around the world. However genetic evaluation for reproduction traits is generally limited or non-existent. This is likely a function of low levels of recording reproduction traits, and low heritabilities. Traditional BLUP based genetic evaluations have been used effectively in beef for generating estimated breeding values and, in conjunction with selection indices, have generated significant improvement in growth and carcase traits. Recent studies in Australia have shown component traits of both female and male reproduction have moderate to high heritabilities and there are promising results for the application of genomic selection. This paper sumarises genetic evaluation of reproduction in beef cattle world-wide and presents results from a large, long-term Australian research project that provides a blueprint for building future genetic evaluations to increase the rate of genetic improvement in beef cattle reproduction.


It is well known that Ground Penetrating Radar produces images which are very similar -though on a different scale- to reflection seismic; The idea of using seismic software to process GPR data is not new. The cost of seismic processing is no longer a deterre for using it with such an inexpensive geophysical imaging technique as GPR . We shall show how the specificity of GPR data can be taken into account by proper adaptation of processing sequences and parameters


1. TV antenna comprising at least a support bar STAYING WHERE VAN ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPALS ASSETS OR DIPOLO ELEMENT, ELEMENT REFLECTOR AND A PIECE OF FIXING THAT UNITES THE BAR AND REFLECTOR, REFLECTOR ELEMENT wherein consists of a single sheet disposed perpendicular to the support bar which crosses TO THE sheet through the bracket.


A stimulus-induced change in cellular Ca2+ levels is a critical component of energy transduction in plant and animal development. Demonstrating Ca2+'s involvement in any developmental process requires identification of mechanisms that regulate these Ca2+ changes. In plants, biochemical studies have implicated the activity of Ca2+ channels in increases in cellular Ca2+ levels; however, molecular evidence for these transporters is lacking. Our studies used the mosses Physcomitrella patens and Funaria hygrometrica to establish a role for Ca2+ in hormone-induced morphogenesis and to use this developmental process to identify transporters responsible for increasing cytosolic Ca2+ levels. Using 1,4-dihydropyridines (DHPs), molecules that block Ca2+ movement through voltage-dependent channels in animal cells, we have shown that Ca2+ is important early in the transition from filamentous to meristematic-like growth that occurs in response to the plant hormone cytokinin. In addition to inhibiting moss growth (see below), these Ca2+ channel blockers prevent Ca2+ transport into moss cells (Schumaker and Gizinski, 1993) and bind specifically to two proteins in the moss plasma membrane (Schumaker and Gizinski, 1994; 1996; Dietrich et al., unpublished results). We used tandem mass spectrometry of the partially purified DHP-binding proteins with the goal of identifying the putative Ca2+ channel and providing sequence informationmore » for studies to understand channel expression, regulation, structure, and function during development. In addition, we used insertional mutagenesis to identify additional components of the pathway underlying hormone-induced morphogenesis.« less


Objective To investigate nutritional support(NS)used in patients undergoing major operation for gastrointestinal tract,its related complications and cost,so as to provide a reference for reasonable application of NS. Methods Data of patients received surgery for gastrointestinal tract in the Department of General Surgery of our hospital were collected.Nutritional risk screening was conducted using NRS-2002,patients with a score of NRS≥3were regarded as having nutritional risk,their application of NS,complications and expenses were recorded,the relationship between NS and clinical outcomes as well as expenses was analyzed,and cost-effectiveness assessment was done as well. Results Data of 276patients were collected,those with nutritional risk accounted for 73.91%.The incidence of complications-infectious complications in particular-in patients received NS was markedly lower than those without(χ2=6.295,P0.05).The average expense in a patient in NS group was 3 356.86± 1 575.03Chinese Yuan,the cost-effectiveness ratio being 3 834.00. Conclusion A reasonable NS can improve the clinical outcomes of patients with nutritional risk and reduce their infectious complications.The cost-effectiveness of NS group is slightly lower than that without NS group.


The article considers some aspects of international cooperation in area of counteraction to offences in the field of computer information. In conclusions the author of the article brings approach of improvement to the national legislation regarding responsibility for offence in the field of computer information, and also directions of international cooperation in area of counteraction to cyber offences.


It is well understood that the pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) representation of continuous phase modulation (CPM) can lead to reduced-complexity detection methods with near optimum performance. It has recently been shown that the PAM representation also extends to multi-h CPM schemes. In this paper we present a class of reduced-complexity detectors for multi-h CPM which are based on the PAM representation. We show that it is possible to achieve complexity savings greater than a factor of ten with these detectors in terms of trellis states and matched filtering requirements, in exchange for minor performance losses. We also give an exact expression for the pairwise error probability for these detectors over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. In arriving at this expression we show that PAM-based detectors for CPM are a special case of the broad class of mismatched CPM detectors. We also show that the metrics for PAM-based detectors accumulate distance in a different manner than metrics for other CPM detectors. These distance properties are particularly useful in this setting where the trellis size is greatly reduced. We give thorough examples of the analysis for two signaling formats: the multi-h satellite communication standard MIL-STD-188-181B and the advanced range telemetry (ARTM) multi-h CPM waveform.


Summary Studies were undertaken to determine the influence of dietary proteins on the rennin and pepsin contents of preruminant calf vell. Three groups of 12 Friesian calves were each fed either milk proteins, whey proteins or a 50:50 mixture of these 2 diets. They were slaughtered at a constant weight of 150kg and their vells collected and dried. Another group of vells was obtained from 8 animals that had been fed milk proteins in a separate experiment. The extraction of the abomasal enzymes was carried out at acid pH, and the extracts were quantitatively analysed for rennin and pepsin by DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. Qualitative analyses were also performed by agarose-acrylamide gel electrophoresis. The only enzymes observed using this last method were rennin and bovine pepsin II. Statistical analysis of the quantitative enzyme determinations indicated a trend for the vells from calves fed diets containing casein to be richer in total activity and in rennin, while the level of pepsin remained approximately constant. It seems that casein may induce the secretion of rennin. However, further experiments will be necessary to confirm this. Important differences were observed between the 2 groups of veils from calves given the same diet, but grown in slightly different conditions.


This purpose of this study is to propose a knowledge-discovery system that can abstract helpful information from character strings representing shopper visits to product sections associated with positive and negative purchasing events by applying character string parsing technologies to stream data describing customer purchasing behavior inside a store. Taking data that traced customers' movements we focus on the number of times customers stop by particular product sections, and by representing those visits in the form of character strings, we propose a way to efficiently handle large stream data. During our experiment, we abstract store-section visiting patterns that characterize customers who purchase a relatively larger volume of items, and are able to show the usefulness of these visiting patterns. In addition, we examine index functions, calculation time, and prediction accuracy, and clarify technological issues warranting further research. In the present study, we demonstrate the feasibility of employing stream data in the marketing field and the usefulness of the employing character parsing techniques.


Wasn't it a wonderful evening for those of us dedicated planners who gathered at the Kelvin Club to hear Peter Droege's opening remarks (about his well researched and encouraging new book 'The Renewable City') before being healthily challenged and entertained by the intellectual sparring between the Emeritus and Young planners? Well, of course, the content of that great debate on whether it's too late to stave off the worst of what is to come as a result of global warming has continued to direct my ponderous musings over days and weeks after.


An antagonist antibody or fragment thereof which binds to human OX40 comprising a heavy chain CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and a heavy chain CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, and a heavy chain CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3; and comprising a light chain CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 and a light chain CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 and a light chain CDR3 comprising the sequence amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 6.


A new method for the measurement of high field ac conduction current in polymeric insulating materials is developed by using an unbalanced operation of the current comparator type high field tan 6 capacitance bridge and the deconvolution technique. The new method was checked by the known input signal t o the bridge. Finally this technique was applied t o the ac conduction in low-density polyethylene films. INTRODUCTION High field electrical properties of polymeric insulating materials under dc voltage application have been studied extensively, however, about their ac properties only a few papers have been presented('), which are almost limited t o tan 6. High field ac conduction currents, especially their waveform, in polymeric materials have valuable information of high field dielectric loss properties, but they have not been studied because the separation of the loss currents from the extremely large capacitive currents is usually very difficult. Only responses a t very low frequencies were studied(*), where the capacitive currents become of negligible order. The purpose of this paper is t o develop a new method for the detection of ac conduction loss current and its waveform around power or higher frequencies by use of the unbalanced operation of the current comparator type capacitance bridge and the deconvolution technique of signal processing.(3) NEW METHOD AND ITS PRINCIPLE The principle of the new method t o detect the ac conduction current by use of the current comparator type capacitance bridge is shown in Fig. 1, which is almost the same as that of the tan 6 measurement, In the figure, Ix and Is are the current which


Sustainable efficient light emitter based solely on elements-of-hope are needed to replace structural and theoretical investigations suggest a crucial role of structural modifications (self-trapped


The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) recently developed a BRT Strategic Plan to establish a framework for BRT implementation, provide guidance on policy issues, and serve as a vehicle for community interaction. A multi-phased evaluation process was applied to identify the most feasible near-term BRT corridors within the County, develop operating plans and infrastructure strategies, and select the preferred BRT operating and infrastructure strategy. Three corridors were prioritized for near-term BRT. The preferred operating strategy was forecast to generate 25,000 more daily riders in 2030 than the No Project Scenario, showing promise to improve mobility along key arterials around San Jose. The BRT Strategic Plan was adopted by the VTA Board in mid-2009 and VTA is moving forward with engineering and planning work on the three near-term corridors. This paper discusses the approach and processes adopted in the Strategic Plan that effectively moved the BRT discussion forward. The Strategic Plan discussion is supplemented with an ongoing operations case-study of a critical segment along one of the preferred corridors. The case-study assesses various options for providing a single-lane, reversible, transit-only busway along the Valley Fair/Santana Row segment of the Stevens Creek BRT corridor. This segment is one of the most constrained and congested in the proposed network. The case-study provides an example of how ongoing operations analyses of this critical bottleneck are complementing VTA's BRT strategic planning efforts.


The joining of thick composite laminated plates to metal or other composite plates is widely used in the aviation structures Adhesive is applied along through thickness contoured interfaces, employing tongue and groove geometry It is paper investigated the stress of this kind of joints and the influence on stress of different size of composite laminated plates to metal plate And it has been found that there is no remarkable difference in cases of length of the tongue and groove joint, thickness of the adhesives and width of the plate And it has also been found that the relative thickness of the two plates has more remarkable effect on the von Mises stress With the increasing of the thickness of the metal plate, the maximal von Mises stress decreased.


There is a saying which goes ''travel broadens the mind.'' This is certainly true in my circumstances and conditions, and I have imagined this is true for many social work researchers, educators, and practitioners interested in Research on Social Work Practice who travel to another country (Kraayenoord, 1999). The opportunity to attend conferences and visit universities, schools, and centers in other countries enables one to reexamine social welfare policies and social work practice in one's own country and to learn about new issues and debates (Megahead, 2012, 2015a, 2015b). I have had an opportunity to broaden my mind through numerous visits to a number of different European states, such as the Netherlands, England, and Northern Ireland. Some of the topics of conversations and issues of debate with which I have engaged in and became aware of on my several trips are also represented in this special section of Research on Social Work Practice. Other topics that have appeared in this special section I have engaged in by virtue of being the guest editor of this special section. As an international journal, it is quite possible to ''travel'' in this special section entitled Research on Social Work Practice in Egypt and the Arab World to Egypt, the Arab world, Turkey, and Australia. The first article by the guest editor, Hamido A. Megahead, deals with Research on Social Work Practice in Egypt and the Arab world. This specific topic has been discussed in terms of doctoral dissertation and other research themes. It is in fact not only a formal discourse of writing but a distinctive form of designing research in Egypt and the Arab world. A detailed mapping of the features of social work research in Egypt and the Arab world has been also offered. Two other articles are concerned with psychosocial assessment tools. The significance of assessment is specified in two axioms of treatment (Hudson, 1978). The first axiom asserted that if social work practitioners cannot measure the client's problems of social and/or interpersonal significance, they do not exist. The second axiom stated that if social work practitioners cannot measure the client's problem of social and/or interpersonal significance, then they cannot treat it. Also the significance of assessment is specified in two additional axioms of development. The first axiom referred that if the social work practitioners cannot measure the client's lack of specific skills, positive behavior, and/or resources, it does not exist. The second axiom mentioned that if social work practitioners cannot measure the client's specific skills, positive behavior, and/or resources, then they cannot develop and create it. A great deal of adapted Arabic versions of English-language objective psychosocial assessment tools in Egypt and the Arab world have been published For measuring the client's problem of social and/or interpersonal significance, there have been identified three scales; namely, the Arabic version of the Depressive Cognition Scale for Egyptian adolescents (Bekhet & Zauszniewski, 2010), the Arabic version of the Cohen Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) for pregnant women (Chaaya, Osman, Naassan, & Mahfoud, 2010), and the Arabic version of the Composite Abuse Scale for use with Saudi women (Alhabib, Feder1, & Horwood, 2013). For measuring the client's specific skills, positive behavior, and/or resources, there have been identified four other scales, namely, the Arabic version of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory for adolescents and youth (Ibrahim, 2016), the Arabic State Self-Esteem and Satisfaction With Life Scales regarding Emirates' married persons (AlDarmaki et al., 2015), the Arabic version of the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale for Lebanese women (Charafeddine, Tamim, Soubra, De la Mora, Nabulsi, 2016), and the Arabic version of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (Khalil, 2011). For the current special section, two scales have been included. Ozmete and Megahead, screening for elder abuse among Turkish older people: validity of the Hwalek– Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S ''East''), and Moussa et al. psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales. These two adopted scales are interesting. The first scale could be useful application and tool within the elderly person's families (Dogan & Deger, 2004), nursing homes, and residential long-term care facilities (Saka & Varol, 2007). The second scale is urgently needed in the context of the massive waves of refugees since the Second World War. Arab refugees are currently and continuously fleeing to the Western world. As this Foreword is being written, Arab, Christian and Muslim refugees from Iraq (e.g., Mosul), Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia are using very unsafe boats to cross Mediterranean Sea to Europe and to the other


Religious pluralism exist because of the many religions and beliefs adopted in this world.  In this case, the Christian Education organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church both in the church and education at schools and universities not only transfer the knowledge of science and technology but also motivate learners to practice it through IMTAK (faith piety), in order to cultivate good deeds which is the core of the doctrine or the teachings of the church itself.  As an example of the ambivalence between the Adventist Church's teachings and practices, is the thinking that only members of the Adventist church alone are savevd when the church has never taught that way.  Here is the role of Christian education, to educate students that everybody can be saved when they have faith in Jesus and His teachings.


It is common to analyze volatile organic compound (VOC) or semi-VOC (SVOC) in a sample composed of a complex matrix consisting of multiple components such as bloods through a separation process. Adsorption is a physical phenomenon in which certain components accumulate on the surface of other phases. In order to overcome difficulties in the pretreatment process, an adsorption is frequently used. Solid phase microextraction (SPME) equipment with porous carbon carboxen (CAR) is an example of adsorption application. In this study, the adsorption of 4-octylphenol to carboxen was examined. To do so, the extraction efficiency for such solvents as dichloromethane (CH2Cl2, DCM), ethylacetate (CH3COOC2H5, EA) and diethylether (C2H5OC2H5, Et2O) was studied and also the derivatization reaction for 4-octylphenol with reagents of bistrimethylsilyltrifluoroacetamide (BSTFA), methylchloroformate (MCF) and pentafluorobenzylbromide (PFBBr) was compared. The combination of DCM and BSTFA showed good performance thus they were adopted for this study. Thermodynamic adsorption experiments showed that the adsorption process was endothermic and Freundlich isotherm equation was more suitable than Langmuir isotherm. It was also found that the adsorption followed a pseudo-2 order kinetic model.


Abstract Having been struck by the Levinasian aspects of J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron, this article tries to 'reveal' Coetzee's novel as a Levinasian narration of how the other ruptures a specific subject's self-regarding egoism, leading the subject to take up its responsibility for the other. Throughout, the concreteness and realism of the novel is considered supplementary to the abstraction of Levinas's philosophical thought. It is demonstrated how the main character in Age of Iron, Elizabeth Curren, is confronted by the other as a face, has her right to be put into question by the other, experiences guilt for her usurpation of the place of the other, which becomes positive in her assuming responsibility for the other. In awakening to the other, Curren moves from a Heideggerean concern with her own death (she is dying of cancer) towards a Levinasian prioritising of the other's life over her own. Her coming into contact with the political violence and oppression of late 1980s South Africa adds to and focuses her expiation for the other.


This paper presents an integrated model based on a compromised solution method to solve fuzzy belief multi-objective large-scale nonlinear programming (FBMOLSNLP) problem with block angular structure. A new method is proposed to transfer each belief decision-making problem into some fuzzy problems. Furthermore, we propose a new compromise method of decision-making as one of the most efficient methods based on the particular measure of closeness to the ideal solution to aggregate multi-objective decision-making (MODM) problems into a single problem. The decomposition algorithm based on Dantzig–Wolfe is utilized to reduce the large-dimensional objective space into a two-dimensional space. Then, Zimmerman method is applied to transfer each bi-objective to a single-objective. Moreover, TOPSIS and VIKOR are utilized as two independent solution methods to aggregate each multi-objective sub-problem. Finally, a new single-objective nonlinear programming problem is solved to find the final solution. To justify the proposed model, two illustrative examples are provided, and the results of three decision methods are compromised.


The production of the tensor mesons f/sup 0/(1270) and K/sup *//sup 0/(1430) and the scalar meson S(975) have been observed in e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation at 29 GeV center-of-mass energy, by use of data obtained with the High-Resolution Spectrometer at the storage ring SLAC e/sup +/e/sup -/ PEP. The mean multiplicities for meson momenta greater than 1450 MeV/c are = 0.11 +- 0.04, = 0.10 +- 0.0 6, and = 0.05 +- 0.02 per hadronic event. The fragmentation functions of the tensor mesons are in good agreement with the predictions of the Webber cluster model. The data are consistent with a predominant strange-quark content of the S meson.


It is only in the last two decades that serious attention has been paid by Egyptian and foreign scholars to the origins and history of Egypt's working class and workers' movement. Before the 1960s, and certainly before the July 1952 revolution that brought Colonel Nasser to power, only a few scattered studies of this social class had been published. Students of modern Egypt generally tended to ignore the histories of the worker and peasant majority, focusing instead on political and diplomatic affairs, and especially on Egypt's struggle for independence from Great Britain (not fully achieved until 1956). But the second decade of the Nasser period brought a new interest among Egyptian historians in the role of the working masses in their country's history, and a number of pioneering studies have subsequently appeared. Several European and American scholars have (and are) also engaged in research in this field.


This paper studies the performance of Sparse Regression Codes for lossy compression with the squared-error distortion criterion. In a sparse regression code, codewords are linear combinations of subsets of columns of a design matrix. It is shown that with minimum-distance encoding, sparse regression codes achieve the Shannon rate-distortion function for i.i.d. Gaussian sources $R^*(D)$ as well as the optimal error exponent. This completes a previous result which showed that $R^*(D)$ and the optimal exponent were achievable for distortions below a certain threshold. The proof of the rate-distortion result is based on the second moment method, a popular technique to show that a non-negative random variable $X$ is strictly positive with high probability. We first identify the reason behind the failure of the standard second moment method for certain distortions, and illustrate the different failure modes via a stylized example. We then use a refinement of the second moment method to show that $R^*(D)$ is achievable for all distortion values. Finally, the refinement technique is applied to Suen's correlation inequality to prove the achievability of the optimal Gaussian error exponent.


This study aimed to investigate factors triggering job stress among nurses working in Intensive Care Units (ICU) amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The subjects were 150 nurses working in the ICU for more than 3 months at D hospital. Result of this study were job stress was 3.60±0.53, biomedical ethics was 2.93±0.02, self esteem was 3.03±0.03, and resilience was 2.29±0.05. A multiple regression analysis indicated that marital status, job satisfaction, self-esteem, and biomedical ethics–right to life of fetus significantly affected job stress. The explanatory power of this model was 22.1%. Through this, it is necessary to prepare an intervention plan to relieve job stress of ICU nurses in the COVID19 era. Correspondingly, it is imperative to prepare an intervention plan to address job stress among ICU nurses in the wake of the pandemic.


Poverty was prevalent in Montreal in the early twentieth century and the houses of the poor were often dangerous and unhealthy.


The invention provides a color electronic paper display screen and a color filter layer thereof. The color filter layer is applied to the electronic paper display screen and comprises multiple color pixel filter units which are evenly and regularly distributed, and each color pixel filter unit comprises a first color basic pixel filter unit, a second color basic pixel filter unit, a third color basic pixel filter unit and a colorless and transparent unit; the first color basic pixel filter unit, the second color basic pixel filter unit, the third color basic pixel filter unit and the colorless and transparent unit are arranged to be shaped like a Chinese character 'tian'.


OF THE DISSERTATION A Zooarchaeological Investigation Into the Meat Industry Established at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.


Ranking method for online recommendation system is challenging due to the rating sparsity and the spam rating attacks. The former can cause the well-known cold start problem while the latter complicates the recommendation task by detecting these unreasonable or biased ratings. In this paper, we treat the spam ratings as 'corruptions' which spatially distribute in a sparse pattern and model them with a L1 norm and a L2,1 norm. We show that these models can characterise the property of the original ratings by removing spam ratings and help to resolve the cold start problem. Furthermore, we propose a group-reputation-based method to re-weight the rating matrix and an iterative programming-based technique for optimising the ranking for online recommendation. We show that our optimisation methods outperform other recommendation approaches. Experimental results on four famous datasets reveal the superior performances of our methods.


The purpose of this project was to pilot a longitudinal study of perimenopausal women. The pilot study determined what instruments are essential in order to describe and predict the nature of women's health in middle age. Concise survey instruments were selected in an effort to assure accuracy of data collection and to encourage participants' cooperation in a longitudinal study. Data collection for the pilot study used the following tools: Demographic questionnaire, Prior's Symptom Diary, Bowles' Menopausal Attitude Survey (MAS), Holmes and Rahe's Recent Life Change Questionnaire (RLCQ), Lazarus' Ways of Coping Checklist (WCC), and Neugarten's Menopause Symptom Checklist (MSC). During the six-month period of data collection only the Symptom Diary and WCC were completed each month during the study. The demographic questionnaire and the MAS were administered once at the beginning of the study. The RLCQ and MSC were administered once at the conclusion of the pilot study. Participants in the pilot study ( n = 11) are a convenience sample of healthy preand perimenopausal women. Statistical analysis was performed on data collected from October 1988 to May 1989. Discriminant function analysis confirmed that symptoms of fluid retention were a significant predictor of ovulation ( p < .05). Implications for future research include a more convenient measure of ovulation than that achieved by use of basal body temperature. On the basis of multivariate analysis of data from the pilot study, relationships among the remaining variables were not significant. Gender studies research has supported a pattern of psychological growth in women on the basis of current tasks within the individual's life cycle irrespective of chronological age.Secondary analysis applied this life-phase framework of women's development to the data collected in an earlier retrospective study by this investigator ( n = 275). On the basis of multivariate analysis of these data, age and reproductive status were inversely related to the number and frequency of symptoms reported ( p < .01). Type of stress reported was related to life-cycle phase of these women: those women whose children were in the process of leaving home reported experiencing more negative stressful events ( p < .05). In view of the results of this project, future research needs to consider the use of qualitative as well as quantitative data collection in order to explain and predict women's health in middle age.


A parameterisation of the track parameter resolutions in the Inner Detector of ATLAS has been used to implement a set of FORTRAN subroutines that can smear charged particle tracks according to these resolutions. The correlations between the track parameters have been taken into account. The data describing the detector performance has been intensively tested for self consistency and compared with results from the Inner Detector TDR. 1 email email@example.com 2 email email@example.com 3 email email@example.com 4 email firstname.lastname@example.com


Identification of regions of mineralization by traditional techniques where spectral information of pixel alone is applied during classification, either at pixel or sub-pixel level, is usually accompanied by some level of un-satisfaction. Impulse noises that are usually experienced in digital images from sudden sharp disturbances in the signal degrade the output. This effect often referred to as the salt and pepper noise could further cause information loss, and change the colour of an RGB image. The use of filters (median and morphological) has not totally eliminated the effects. Object-based methods came in with higher filter smoothers to make it better yet, there is potential limitation because of possible negative impact of under segmentation. The errors of under-segmentation cannot be adjusted within a unit of features, which apparently affect the potential accuracy of the entire classification. Thus, this study evaluates the contribution of the contextual information to reduce the effects of noise in the data for effective mineral identification. Rule-based technique was applied for information extraction from a threshold values derived from band ratio (BR) transformation operations on ASTER data. The result indicates clay has the highest mineral density of 47% in the study area, with silicate having the least (3%), among others. This study provides a robust test for contextual cues as anticipated to be most effective and shall contribute towards reducing environmental impacts and protecting biodiversity which is one of the major aspects of sustainable development in relation to mining and mineral processing


Establishing mental health education courses in university is an effective measure way to promote mental health education of college students.Aiming at the actual conditions of course setting in our university,the writer brought up a thought of introducing game teaching method into classes of mental health education and make a discussion of exploration on the use of game teaching method combined with practical teaching activities.


This study was conducted to determine the relationship between interalar width,width of mouth and maxillary intercanine width,for proper position and tooth arrangement in complete denture result, in 100 subjects of Kalasin adult population. The result found that mean interalar width and mean maxillary intercanine width (middle to middle) was 38.10 millimeters, 38.61 millimeters in men and 35.94 millimeters, 37.36 millimeters in women. Mean width of mouth and mean intercanine width (distal to distal) was 49.18 millimeters, 43.53 millimeters in men and 46.50 millimeters, 41.92 millimeters in women. Different between mean maxillary intercanine width (middle to middle) and mean interalar width was 0.51 millimeters in men and 1.41 millimeters in women. Difference between mean width of mouth and mean maxillary intercanine width (distal to distal) was 5.64 millimeters in men and 4.57 millimeters in women. Conclusion maxillary intercanine width (middle to middle) and interalar width weren't different in men but a little bigger in women. Width of mouth was bigger than intercanine width (distal to distal) approximately 2.3-2.8 millimeters for each side in men and women.


This study aimed to determine semen quality and seminal biochemicals at 1 ejaculate, puberty, and maturity of Holstein bulls administrated with GnRH, hCG and testosterone. Holstein male calves (n=16, 8 mo old) were divided into four groups, 4 in each. During 10-weeks interval, each animal was bi-weekly i.m injected with saline (2 ml), 2 ml GnRH, 1500 IU hCG, and 2 ml testosterone. Results indicated the earliest ages to 1 ejaculation, puberty, and maturity by hCG. Ejaculate volume was higher (P<0.05) by GnRH. Sperm motility and livability increased (P<0.05) by GnRH. Seminal total proteins (TP) and albumin (AL) decreased (P<0.05) by GnRH and hCG. Globulin (GL) and fructose decreased (P<0.05) by treatments in the 1 ejaculate. At puberty and maturity, TP, AL, and fructose increased (P<0.05) by treatments. GL increased (P<0.05) by GnRH and hCG. AL:GL increased by GnRH and testosterone at puberty, and by testosterone at maturity. Triglycerides in 1 ejaculation increased (P<0.05) by GnRH. At puberty, HDL, LDL, cholesterol, and triglycerides in GnRH; LDL, cholesterol, and triglycerides in hCG; and triglycerides in testosterone increased (P<0.05). while HDL in hCG and testosterone decreased (P<0.05). At maturity, LDL and cholesterol in hCG, and triglycerides in GnRH and hCG increased (P<0.05), while HDL decreased (P<0.05) by treatments.This study concluded that the treatment of Holstein male calves with GnRH or hCG (once/two weeks) for 10 weeks prior to puberty (8 months of age) leads to early sexual puberty-maturity ages and semen with good quality and chemical composition.


Voronoi diagrams have been used in many practical applications including solid modeling, Numerical Control machining, Finite Element mesh generation, etc. Investigating the properties of these diagrams is an active research topic with many fruitful results. Computational techniques for Voronoi diagrams, however, have been concentrated on low order elements, for points, lines, polygons, quadratic curves and surfaces. This paper presents a divide-and-conquer scheme computing the diagrams for planar shapes bounded by closed curves commonly encountered in Computer Aided Design. These curves include analytical curves and splines. The algorithm first divides the boundary curve into sections, delimited by curve points with the minimal curvatures. Bisector branches for these sections are then generated and merged recursively to obtain the final diagram. A detailed example in the paper shows the steps of the generation and merging of the bisectors. A simple analysis of the complexity of the algorithm is also presented.


Objective:To evaluate the efficacy of CEUS(contrast enhanced ultrasonography) in accessing immediate curative effects of malignant liver tumor after radiofrequency or microwave therapy.Methods:Fifty-six lesions confirmed by contrast CT,CEUS or biopsy were observed.No enhancement through all periods and normalized serologic indexes were considered as the standard of complete treatment.The phenomena such as residual lesions enhanced through the arterial period,diminished through venous and delayed phase,which similar to that before therapy,was considered as standard of incomplete treatment.Consecutive therapy was applied to those regions until that reached complete treatment standard.Results:CEUS can dynamically show the microcirculation characteristics of therapy regions and different appearance of residual lesions.Conclusion:CEUS can show appearances of therapy regions as well as residual lesions,which should help to make supplementary therapeutic plans.


The radial velocity measured by a conventional along-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (ATI) is contributed by all three orthogonal velocity components of the ocean surface current, of which the oscillatory orbital velocity of surface waves is frequently a dominant term. Mathematically, three simultaneous radial velocity measurements from different incident or azimuthal angles are needed to yield the unique solution of the ocean surface current. The 3D solution for sidelooking ATI is presented. If only two measurements are available, the error of the two horizontal velocity components caused by assuming zero vertical velocity is quantified. A conceptual design of integrating cross-track (XT) and along- track (AT) interferometry is presented. The XTI phase data give the surface wave topography, from which the 3D wave-induced current field can be calculated. The wave contribution in the ATI phase data can then be removed to recover the mean component of the ocean surface current while maintaining the SAR resolution. By taking a zigzag path, both horizontal components of the surface current and the 3D wave field can be resolved from a single sensor on a single platform.


The chrysantemum ornamental potential is expressed by meeting its nutritional requirements. This nutrient demand may vary both during the crop cycle and betw...


The precursor powder of freeze drying was investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy.The"segregation of solute model"is established and discussed.The results show that the precursor powder is amorphous with a smooth surface.The morphology of powder is flaky,club-shaped and a little hexagonal.In the low-temperature-freezing stage,the water is frozen as ice phase,while the solute pre- cipitate as the salt phase.In the temperature-raising stage,the amorphous ice would crystallize.The micro- crystal would segregate at the process of ice crystallization.Because the morphology and the size of the ice crystal are different,the amorphous powder forms differently.When the concentration of the solution is high, the main amorphous powder is flaky and club-shaped,and it appears hexagonal pattern when the concentra- tion is low.


The widespread use of GPS-equipped devices such as smartphones and tablets and the easy handling of online maps are simplifying the production and dissemination of volunteered geographic information (VGI) through the internet. VGI systems collect and distribute this type of information and can be used, for example, in cases of natural disasters, mapping, city management, etc. In some cases, the VGI systems must be implemented within a short timeframe, such as in response to emergencies due to natural disasters. Some tools, such as the Ushahidi and ClickOnMap platforms, have been designed to enable the quick development of VGI systems. The quality of data collected by VGI systems has been and must be questioned, but, in some situations, there are no official data or they have become outdated after the event. Hence, these platforms must provide methods to help the user produce or report data voluntarily, but with quality. This article analyzes the main quality attributes that can be applied in the VGI context and identifies, in the literature, methods that contribute to increasing VGI quality. This study resulted in a set of 19 attributes and 23 quality methods related to VGI. This paper also proposes six new methods that can help obtain data with quality assurance. These methods were implemented with success on the ClickOnMap Platform to assuring the quality of VGI.


Schultz, John J. M. s., F.astern Illinois University. May 1984. Sediment Oxygen Demand in Streams Receiving Sewage Effluent. Sediment oxygen demand is an important factor in determining dissolved oxygen concentrations in streams and rivers subjected to se•,,age effluents and other sources of organic pollution. Resuspension i of sediments during bottom-scouring after periods of heavy precipitation exerts an immediate and increased oxygen demand on the water and is expected to decrease sediment oxygen demand at t� site. Sediment samples were collected mont�ly from April through November, 198) from three small streams subjected to sources of organic pollution. The samples collected were arbitrarily categorized into wet and dry period samples based on the total precipitation between collection dates. Sediment oxygen demand was assessed using the batch respirometric method. Total SOD was partitioned into chemical and biological fractions. Volatile and dried solids were also determined to demonstrate their relationships to sediment oxygen demand. It was concluded that sediment oxygen demand is significantly increased by sewage effluent. Partitions of the sediment oxygen demand were approximately equal exceot at sample sites affected by sewage effluent where the chemical partition was drastically increased. Also demonstrated was the fact that SOD increased with increasing volatile material and that the more compact sediments showed decreased SOD's. Finally, no effects of combined sanitary-storm water sewer overflow or bottom scouring due to heavy precipitation were observed on total sediment oxygen demand in the streams.


In this paper I suggest that Hugh Davies's Repertoire International des Musiques Electroacoustiques / International Electronic Music Catalog (1968)—which lists every work of electronic music up to April 1967—is more than just a list of compositions, and that it in fact expresses a particular view—encapsulates a particular narrative—of electronic music. I also show some of the ways in which that particular narrative has been carried forward in subsequent writings that have referenced the Catalog, as a way of indicating how the Catalog—and by extension Davies's narrative—has shaped subsequent discourses on electronic music and its history. To do this I refer to the systems of classification used in the Catalog, through the theoretical lens provided by Bowker & Star in their book Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences.


Yuqia Coalfield is the main coalfield in Qaidam Basin. A great deal of geology investigation including well logging has been done in the exploration and the study shows that the well loggoning responses of the coal-bearing strata are characterized by low DEN, low GR and high RT. On the other hand, the characters and thickness of coal seams can be determined according to the logging responses with a consistent rate over 95%; and that of the aquifers can also be recognized with a high consistency. The well logging also plays an important role in the correlation of coal-bed,analysis of the rock mechanics,pressure contrast of the roof and floor as well as the intensity forecast of the coal seam roof.


Highly localized quadratic time-frequency distributions cast nonstationary signals as sparse in the joint-variable representations. The linear model relating the ambiguity domain and time-frequency domain permits the application of sparse signal reconstruction techniques to yield high-resolution time-frequency representations. In this paper, we design signal-dependent kernels that enable the resulting time-frequency distribution to meet the two objectives of reduced cross-term interference and increased sparsity. It is shown that, for random undersampling schemes, the new adaptive kernel is superior to traditional reduced interference distribution kernels.