further, Ulin tries to synthesize hermeneutic approaches with Marxist ones, to produce an anthropology that is "critical and emancipatory". Ulin first considers three ancestors Boas, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard to show that interpretive questions were grappled with "in the beginning", but imperfectly so. He then tacks between the opposed theses of "scientistic" construals of culture and rationality, exemplified first by Popper, Jarvie and Horton, and interpretive ones, represented first by Winch's redaction of Wittgenstein for the understanding of culture (there are as many rationalities as there are communities forms of life playing their language-games). Although Ulin finds in Winch an antidote for scientism, he faults him for: privileging the native's rationality over the analyst's (denying the reflexive potential of critical anthropology); an inability to account for the social formation and reproduction of the native's rationality (blinding one to power, inequality, etc.); and his idealist relativism (endangering the enterprise of comparative social science). To address these faults Ulin proposes works by Lukes, MacIntyre, Gadamer and Ricoeur: the first two primarily to overcome relativist tendencies in Winch, the latter primarily to ground his notions of language-games and forms of life in more-or-less coherent and methodologically defensible theories of interpretation. Nevertheless, for Ulin, Lukes, and MacIntyre are still burdened by positivism and the logic of a unified science, while Gadamer and Ricoeur are not mindful of power constraints and historical determination. Thus Ulin turns to some contemporary Marxist approaches, and his analysis here falters. The intent is clear: to use Marxist perspectives to account for the social and historically specific conditions under which interpretable discourse is produced, and the social constraints of power and processes of labor and production to which all symbolic interactions are subject. But the analysis, and the reader, must struggle with the delphic writings of the Marxists and their conceptual opacity. What is one to make of a Marxism (Hindes and Hirst's) that proclaims "the study of history is not only scientifically but politically valueless" (p. 132); or one (E.P. Thompson's) that finds it necessary thus to demonstrate "that exploitation and domination are historically lived relations" (p. 152); as if this needs demonstration!); or one (Raymond Williams') that asserts "language as a means of production" (p. 163)? Ulin grapples with these perspectives, and this is worth attending to, in a book worth attending to. But in the end, the heremtic character of the Marxisms he draws upon does much to defeat the synthesis of practical and critical reason he strives to achieve.


The three books that have recently been traveling between my desk and an airplane seat are placed by their respective publishers into the following categories: "business/marketing," "economics & finance," and "popular culture/American anthropology." Yet each of these recent publications has something to say to and about our field as well; the authors engage with theatre, theatricality, and performance as crucial to their interrogations of the contemporary world.


Abstract Bcl‐xL, an antiapoptotic protein, is frequently overexpressed in cancer to promote survival of tumor cells. However, we have previously shown that Bcl‐xL promotes migration, invasion, and metastasis independent of its antiapoptotic function in mitochondria. The pro‐metastatic function of Bcl‐xL may require its translocation into the nucleus. Besides overexpression, patient‐associated mutations of Bcl‐xL have been identified in large‐scale cancer genomics projects. Understanding the functions of these mutations will guide the development of precision medicine. Here, we selected four patient‐associated Bcl‐xL mutations, R132W, N136K, R165W, and A201T, to investigate their impacts on antiapoptosis, migration, and nuclear translocation. We found that all four mutation proteins could be detected in both the nucleus and cytosol. Although all four mutations disrupted the antiapoptosis function, one of these mutants, N136K, significantly improved the ability to promote cell migration. These data suggest the importance of developing novel Bcl‐xL inhibitors to ablate both antiapoptotic and pro‐metastatic functions of Bcl‐xL in cancer.


A calendar of reproductive events is established in Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter, a sexual tetraploid Ethiopian cereal, using the microsporogenesis and microgametogenesis as reference scales to which the female gametophytogenesis is related. The absolute frequency is noted for each correlation brought out (microgametogenesis–megagametogenesis). The frequencies of all the female stages found at a same level of anther development are also specified. This preliminary work is done within the scope of an interspecific hybridization program which aims at transferring, to E. tef, genes responsible for the apomictic character present in the genus.


This paper describes the features of the 24C serial EEPROM and its application to an intelligent length counting metering unit as well as the connection of the 80C31 microcomputer with the 24C08 involved with its read write operation.


This paper will discuss the integration of sonificationin urban design and planning. Being both temporal and polyphonic in nature, soundcan assist in the representation of the multiple temporal flows whichcontribute to the urban dynamic of a city. Thus we propose a 'sonified' urban masterplan to represent the city in time as well as space, allowing us to better compose urban flows such as movement. First, we introduce the Sonified Urban Masterplan tool, and describe how it can be used to sonify the multiple layers of graphical information used in urban design and planning. Then, we describe how we can use sound to representdifferent urban systems, before explaining the generation of a Sonified Urban Masterplan for the city of Paris. Through adiscussion ofthe various reactions received from members of the general public, we conclude with the different advantages of the integration of sonification in urban design and planning.


AbstractThe present location of the East Siberian cement industry is irrational because it does not correspond to the location of its markets, depends heavily on raw-material hauls from other parts of the country, and does not supply the cement types needed within the East Siberian region. Because of a shortage of natural cement materials within the region, it is proposed that cement production be based on the utilization of by-products of other industries, such as alumina production.


Background: Colorectal cancers rank fourth in frequency in men and third in women. There is at least a 25-fold variation in occurrence of colorectal cancer worldwide.Bcl-2 is known to inhibit apoptosis and is thought to play a role in colorectal tumor development. In colon cancer, p16 expression is mostly elevated, whereas normal tissues exhibit only little or no protein expression. Objective: To examine the impact of cellular dysregulation mediated by the concordant protein expressions of P16 & BCL-2 in implicated in colorectal carcinogenesis. Patients and methods: Seventy-five formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded colorectal tissues were enrolled, among them, 60 biopsies obtained from patients with colorectal carcinomas (30 biopsies from the cancer mass and another 30 biopsies from the marginal tissues of these colorectal cancers) and 15 tissues as control group, which were proved by colonoscopic and histopathological examinations as an apparently normal colorectal tissues. Immunohistochemistry detection system was used to demonstrate the expression of P16 & Bcl2 genes. Results: Expression of Bcl_2protein was detected by IHC in 14 cases (46.7%) of the CRCmass group, 12 cases (40%) of marginal group, and none in control group. A significant differences (P<0.05) were found when comparing the mass group with its control group. Expression of P16 protein was detected by IHC in 18 cases (60%) of the CRCmass group, 10 cases (33.3%) of marginal group, and none in control group. A significant differences (P<0.05) were found when comparing the mass group with its control group. Conclusions: Our results indicate that the significance prevalence of BCL-2 as well as P16 expression in colorectal carcinoma could point to an important contributing role of these molecular factors in the development and carcinogenesis of a subset of colorectal cancers. Key word: CRC, BCL-2, P16,IHC.


Abstract : A growing need exists to develop improved methods for the disposal and/or recovery of solid rocket propellants. Laboratory, bench-scale, and prototype tests were performed to develop the dry washout concept for size reduction and removal of solid propellants using cryogenic media. Three propellant types were investigated: Hazard Class 1.1 composite modified double base (CMDB), Hazard Class 1.1 cross-linked double base (XLDB), and Hazard Class 1.3 hydroxl terminated polybutadiene (HTPB). No propellant initiations were detected. The laboratory tests established that essentially no change in the sensitivity of the test propellants occurs between ambient and cryogenic temperature. Impact, friction, low-level shock and electrostatic discharge sensitivity tests were conducted. Over 2000 trials were conducted. The bench- scale tests demonstrated the safety of liquid nitrogen washout and established parameter ranges for effective propellant removal. Removal rates of greater than 60 pounds per hour were achieved for all propellant types. The prototype tests demonstrated cryogenic washout of several reduced scale motors in a semiautomated process. Two motors were processed, one containing 40 pounds of XLDB propellant, the other containing 60 pounds of HTPB propellant. Propellant removal rates ranged from 8.3 pounds per hour to 156 pounds per hour with liquid nitrogen flow of less than 4 gpm.


This study considers whether television shows depicting the media industries are reflexive about the challenges currently facing traditional media. It draws upon a multimethod qualitative analysis of five series—30 Rock, Entourage, Mad Men, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ,a ndUgly Betty—to investigate whether reflexivity constitutes an attempt to safeguardtheseindustries'mythicalplaceatthe''mediatedcenter.''Wearguethatreflexivity elucidates these shows in 3 ways: via textual reflexivity (within the shows themselves); producer reflexivity (as articulated by the production staff); and research reflexivity (how we, as researchers, engage with the data and their contradictions). We conclude, however, that reflexivity is used to inoculate these representations from highlighting the very real threats facing traditional media industries. An episode from the second season of the NBC Emmy-winning sitcom 30 Rock opens with a promotion for a fictional reality TV series, MILF Island ,i n which teenage boys compete for the attention of attractive older women. Following this vignette, NBC/GE Executive Jack Donaghy coaxes head writer Liz Lemon to develop a spin-off of the show centered on one of the MILF Island contestants, DeBorah: ''just a struggling actress living in LA ...[with] real star quality.'' Despite Jack's fervor, Liz declines the spin-off, stating, ''I don't want anything to do with MILF Island, that show's kinda lowest common dominator.'' When Jack responds, ''The critics said the same thing about Shakespeare,'' Liz counters with, ''Yeah, but Shakespeare never had a Confessional Shower sponsored by Dove Pro-age.'' Jack says she's turning down ''an obscene amount of money.'' Her defense of her artistic integrity is intercut with scenes from her own show, The Girlie Show (TGS), in which Tracy Jordan loses control of the ''Fart Engine'': ''It's farting! It's farting!''


Cloud computing is an evolving paradigm that redefines the way in which Information based Technology services are being offered. Cloud Computing has created a new era in the IT industry, offering businesses and individuals technical and economical benefits, such as utilising computing resources through virtualisation and user paying only for what it uses. In cloud-based computing, the applications run on servers in the data center. These data centers contributing to high operational costs by consume huge amounts of energy and that leads to carbon footprints in the environment. So there is focus on energy consumption in data centers in cloud computing. In our study we discuss various energy efficiency techniques in cloud computing i.e DVFS, VM Consolidation, Resource throttling and DCD. A theoretical comparative study of all these energy efficiency approaches in cloud computing is done and this study shows that all these approaches are used with the goal to reduce the energy consumption and maximization of performance in the cloud computing.


Abstract Speaking using English language helps students to improve their ability to communicate with other people. Drilling is one of the teaching methods used in improving English speaking skill as focussed on this study. This research aimed to find out students' perception on the use of drilling method in English learning in a private junior high school in Yogyakarta. This research used descriptive qualitative method as the research design. The data collection method in this research was interview. The instrument used in this research was interview guideline. The number of participants in this research was four students of eighth grade in a private junior high school in Yogyakarta. The first finding was about the students' perception on the implementation of drilling method. The findings showed that all participants agreed that the implementation of drilling was good because the way the teacher teach made the students feel happy and also the teacher implemented drilling method in a fun way. The second finding was about the students' perception on the advantages of drilling method in English learning. It showed that drilling helped the students in their pronunciation, increased students' vocabulary size, and also helped students more confident in speaking. The third findings was about the students' perception on the disadvantages of drilling method in English learning. It showed that continuous drilling method made students exhausted. Moreover, monotonous drilling method made students bored.


Abstract : The effects of hot isostatic pressing on the physical and electrical properties of sintered lead zirconate titanate are presented. Hot isostatic pressing for short times (1 hour) with low applied pressures (6.9 - 20.7 MPa) at 1300 deg C is shown to produce lead zirconate titanate with a higher density than that obtained by conventional sintering techniques. Densification is shown to occur without an appreciable change in grain size. Localized microstructural inhomogenieties observed after pressing indicate the migration of a PbTiO3 - rich lead zirconate titanate liquid to pores during hot isostatic pressing. The rapid initial increase in density and shrinkage of macropores (approx. 100 micrometers in diameter) indicates that rearrangement and/or solution-precipitation initially control densification during hot isostatic pressing. A decreased rate of macropore shrinkage for extended pressing times indicates that solid state diffusion controls the later stage of pore shrinkage. (Author)


The methanolic extract of Lysimachiae christinae Herba, which has been used for diuretic, calculi remover and jaundice remedy in oriental countries, was found to possess analgesic and antiinflammatory effect in Freund's complete adjuvant treated rat. From ethyl acetate fraction of the herb a phenyl propanoid isoferulic acid was isolated as an active principle.


Global climate change is already affecting Mongolia. It is putting poor and vulnerable children and their parents at risk of losing their lives and livelihoods in the short run and becoming increasingly vulnerable to detrimental changes in the long run. Predicted effects include the increased frequency of extreme weather and environmental hazards, such as flash floods, droughts, snow and dust storms as well as gradual unfavourable changes in precipitation patterns, the shifting in ecological zones and desertification.


Automatic summarization of long documents is a challenging task and it is not well studied. The existing text summarization approaches are developed and tested mainly on relatively short documents such as news, web pages etc. In this paper, we aim to study the performance of some of the existing state of the art text summarization algorithms on scientific papers, which are relatively long documents. For the conducted experiments we used the Yale Scientific Article Summarization Dataset. Summarizing scientific texts is a challenge itself due to the many different topics that have uncommon words, long and complex sentences and are hard to understand even by humans. The dataset consists of 1000 scientific papers with both human-generated summaries and the original abstracts. We have used both abstractive and extractive text-summarization algorithms. We propose a chunk-based approach for the abstractive algorithms (Google Pegasus and T5). The ROUGE score is used to evaluate and compare the results.


experiments, these writers arrive at the conclusions that " idiopathic" hematuria, in the first place, is not dependent upon an excessive amount of arterial blood reaching the kidney ; secondly, it is not dependent upon an acutely developed vascular injury ; thirdly, it is not induced by lessening the quantitative input of arterial blood, lowering the kidney arterial pressure, and inducing a passive congestion by interfering with the arterial side of the renal circulation. Their experiments would contravene also Klemperer's theory of angioneurotic oedema. It seems most probable that the clinical condition is due to a chronic type of nephritis ; one in which there is a rupture of a glomerular vessel and the bleeding kept up by the high local pressure constantly found in chronic nephritis. This condition is, of course, distinct from the hsematuria from angioma of the papilla?. ?Roy F. Young.


The effect of varying the temperature (T cr) of an As4→As2 cracker furnace between 600 and 700 °C on the properties of GaAs grown by molecular beam epitaxy has been evaluated using 4–300 K Hall measurements and 4.2 K far‐infrared photoconduction spectroscopy, in an extension of earlier work on high‐mobility material (Ref. 1). The residual donors are silicon and sulphur with mid‐1013 cm−3 concentrations under As2‐growth conditions (T cr=700 °C). By lowering T cr, the silicon concentration is reduced substantially, leaving sulphur as the principal impurity. A 15‐μm‐thick layer grown with T cr=650 °C has measured free‐electron densities of ≊2.8×1013 cm−3 and peak mobilities ≊4×105 cm2 V−1 s−1 at ≊28–42 K, the highest ever recorded in bulk GaAs.


Solitude and modernity: Some reflections on Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's poetry. The text aims to an analysis of Droste's poetry in consideration of the condition of the modern poet, who reflects upon himself's loneliness. Far from being an individual, autobiographical condition, it is the basis for a consideration about general human's condition, his social alienation which has made him/her incapable of feeling nature.


It became clear that non-coding RNAs(ncRNA) participate in the control of gene expression at different levels of regulation. However, ncRNA genes are usually not annotated within genomes. Better understanding of genome functioning requires refined computational tools for ncRNA prediction, some are emerging in the nowadays genomic era. I developed a computational system, called snoRMP, to identify the box C/D snoRNAs that play a fundamental role in ribosome biogenesis. I applied it to the rice genome and identified 346 snoRNAs that grouped into 120 paralogous sets, sequence differences of which allowed to find clues about the mechanisms of duplication and evolution of snoRNAs. I also used the snoRMP to screen the genomes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Drosophila melanogaster and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In addition, I performed an extensive analysis of 415 rRNA and box C/D snoRNA complementary sequences involved in methylation of 124 rRNA sites from fungi, plants and animals. I could define snoRNA-rRNA duplex cores of 9 base pairs, over which single mutations had been severely counter-selected, and double compensatory mutations, retained. The Paramecium tetraurelia genome arose through at least three whole-genome duplications(WGD). In contrast with most genomes having evolved by WGDs that had lost a large fraction of the gene duplicates, the P. Tetraurelia genome had not. I used motif-based methods to recover extensive contents of P. Tetraurelia RNA genes, and analyzed their evolution in this specific WGD context. At last, I used a combination of comparative sequence analysis and structure predictions to analyze the whole amount of ncDNA and identify 137 ncRNA candidates.


Synopsis The augmented generalisation of mobility and the necessity for the creation of interconnection systems is an argument in favour of investments in transport infrastructures. It thus appears necessary to determine the level and destination of investments to improve the economy and infrastructures system in its entirety. Investments in transport infrastructures produce a circular process. They produce an impact on a nation's development, as well as on its economic structure and productive activities and thus increase mobility, which in turn leads to the need for new investments in infrastructures. The relationship between infrastructure and development thus appears to be biunique. Many studies have shown that there is not always a correspondence between infrastructures and economic development. The main purpose of this work is to evaluate the increase in mobility with respect to development and to establish if and how expenditures in the road sector influence the demand for mobility. A further consideration is how such expenditures influence economic development. This paper describes functional ties between increases in mobility and expenditures in the road construction sector. Macroeconomic variables influencing, or related to private passenger, road network extension, number of vehicles per person and, GDP were first identified. Secondly, the possible relationship between the variables were analysed. Cointegration, which was developed by Johansen in 1988-1990, was the procedure used to find the relationship between the different variables. It studies both short-and long-term relationships between the variables of the system. Time series were reproduced for the variables, capital outlay and current outlays for road infrastructures and transport. Cointegration was applied after standard tests on the stationariness of time series had been performed. All this aimed at evaluating the influence and possible time-spread between the overall development of national wealth and the ensuing demand for mobility and between investments and mobility. The final objective of this research work was the formulation of analytical functions capable of describing the phenomenon. Also a series of social and economic time variables were verified, e.g. how mobility is influenced or can exert an influence on the general pattern of development.


Increased mechanization in the forestry means usually increased traffic on a ground which is also used as a growth substrate. In this state‐of‐the‐art article it is found that the traffic could have an areal extent of 10–30% of the site area mainly due to yarding at clear‐felling and thinning. In the future there could be up to 6 machine entries on the site till a stand age of 50 year. Skidding is often recognized as the major cause of soil disturbance with 50–75% of the skid trails considered as apparently compacted. Rut formation after forwarders can also be a problem but harvesters seems to be forgotten or give minor problems. In order to reduce soil compaction smaller machines must be considered on many sites. Maybe 5–10 tonnes machines with a real mean ground pressure of 60–70 kPa could give, thanks to good tyres, an acceptable level of soil disturbance. High tractive forces and slip may contribute to the soil disturbance as much as double the ground pressure. Calculations show it is therefore better...


This paper analyses characteristics of single-phase ground fault and presents a fault line selecting method based on wavelet transform. Base on Sampling frequency, it selects the special frequency band, the singularity detection with wavelet is employed to obtain the polarities and magnitudes of the abrupt of current, and through comparing the polarities and magnitudes the fault circuit can be determined. So the detection technique is correct, feasible, it is proved by a great deal of simulating tests.


A new integrated directional relaying principle for transmission line and busbar is presented in this paper. This novel directional relay, which integrates the protective functionality of line directional protection and busbar protection, is implemented with the polarity comparison of the current travelling waves. The function of line directional protection of the integrated directional relay (IDR), which is actually the protective decision of IDR, is defined as the virtual directional protection (VDP). Using morphological gradient to characterize the initial current travelling wave into spike signal the direction of a fault can be determined by the polarity comparison of the formulated spike signals. A busbar fault can be detected if all the compared spike signals have the same polarities. Otherwise, a forward fault is identified by the VDP of one of the transmission lines connected to this busbar. In addition, the integrated directional relay is used to consist of the duplicated main protection scheme combined with the classical directional protection, classical distance protection and differential protection of busbar. By virtue of the individual protection principles and the measurements, the proposed duplicated protection scheme is promising to obtain higher reliability compared with the conventional schemes


The International Conference on Computing and Data Science (CONF-CDS) is a leading conference on computing technology, machine learning, computer science, and data science. Participants worldwide are welcome to share their findings and inspirations in relevant fields through research papers, speeches, and presentations. CONF-CDS hopes to build an international platform for researchers, scholars, and academicians to carry out academic exchange and thus promote cooperation. This volume contains the papers of the 4th International Conference on Computing and Data Science (CONF-CDS 2022). Submissions were reviewed by the editorial team and professional reviewers. Each paper has been examined and evaluated for its theme, content, structure, language, and other necessary elements of an academic paper. These papers all lie in the field of computing and data science, focusing on various algorithms, machine learning, and neural networks for example. CONF-CDS 2022 was successfully held online during July 16-25, 2022. Authors of high-quality papers were invited to deliver presentations of their works. Prof. Chengzhong Xu from the University of Macau, Prof. Tanzila Saba from Prince Sultan University, Prof. Li Xiong from Emory University, and Prof. Lewis Tseng from Boston College, Massachusetts were invited as keynote speakers and have given brilliant speeches on their latest research and frontier technologies. We would like to give sincere thanks to all authors who have submitted their papers to CONF-CDS 2022, editors and reviewers who guaranteed the quality of papers with their expertise, and the committee members who have devoted themselves to the success of this conference. Hope you may find it enjoyable and draw inspiration from this volume. List of Committee Members are available in the pdf.


Background: Hypertension is an increasing problem in Southeast Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. Hypertension often goes unnoticed until a complication occurs. Adolescence is an age of transition and clearly recognized for its vulnerability to adoption of behavior predisposing to hypertension development. Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the awareness about hypertension among secondary school children. Methods: A descriptive study design was conducted. 141 participants were recruited conveniently for this study. This study was approved from the IRB of NIANER and BSMMU. Data was collected by using a self-report structured questionnaire consisting of two parts: (1) The demographic data questionnaire and (2) Awareness of Hypertension Related Questionnaire. Correlation (r), t-test and ANOVA were used for the data analysis. Results: The mean age of the participants was 14.94 years (±.947). The majority (62.4%) were girls. Most of them (83.0%) were Muslim. The total average awareness of hypertension 3.86(SD=0.472). There was a statistically significant relationship between age and awareness (r = 0.35, p = <.001); family income and awareness (r= 0.26, p =.002). There was a significant difference among class of education (p = <.001), sources of knowledge, and awareness of hypertension (p =. 012). There was a positive relationship between physical activity and awareness (r = 0.23, p = 0.006). Conclusion: The adolescent perceived high level of awareness about hypertension. The findings of the study will provide information for the nurses who may help to the people. Better awareness of hypertension of adolescent adapted healthy life style and practiced primary level of prevention of hypertension.


Purpose: The study's aim was to describe the experience of motivational interviewing (MI) training for parents with adolescents. Methods: Focus group interviews were carried out with 12 mothers in 3 groups who participated in the MI training. The study had a qualitative descriptive design, and qualitative content analysis was used. Results: Data analysis was separated into 4 domains: acceptance, relational skills, self-reflection, and rebuilding relationships. Seven categories and 11 subcategories included (1) enhancing acceptance and empathy, (2) recognizing the importance of the MI spirit and applying core skills, (3) improving self-expression and self-control of negative emotions and behavior, (4) recognizing self-problems, and (5) true communication and recovery of trust. Conclusion: Through MI training, participants have experienced not only the enhancement of their communication skills but also personal modifications (in self-acceptance, self-reflection, and self-control) and positive interpersonal relationships (rebuilding relationships). In addition, participants have realized the importance of listening and reflection in such experiences. Reflection training has provided participants meaningful experiences. Our key insight from these findings is that skill is not most important in communication training. MI elements such as acceptance, collaboration, and a respectful attitude are more likely to be used than conventional communication skills.


In wireless sensor networks, various applications involve learning one or multiple functions of the measurements observed by sensors, rather than the measurements themselves. This paper focuses on type-threshold functions, e.g., the maximum and indicator functions. Previous work studied this problem under the collocated collision network model and showed that under many probabilistic models for the measurements, the achievable computation rates converge to zero as the number of sensors increases. This paper considers two network models reflecting both the broadcast and superposition properties of wireless channels: the collocated linear finite field network and the collocated Gaussian network. A general multi-round coding scheme exploiting not only the broadcast property but particularly also the superposition property of the networks is developed. Through careful scheduling of concurrent transmissions to reduce redundancy, it is shown that given any independent measurement distribution, all type-threshold functions can be computed reliably with a non-vanishing rate in the collocated Gaussian network, even if the number of sensors tends to infinity.


This paper seeks to critically analyze the notion of 'musical scene' (Straw, 1991, 2006), in which, through its propagation in academia, as well as some of its methodological applicability, we find a discourse based upon a 'modernist' and 'universalist' ideal. Using decolonialist theory, we propose to rethink this notion, which in turn makes us critically review its archaeology and, at the same time, opens gaps through which we can apply this notion of musical scene and other musical forms which need to be anglophone. From that, we suggest to reconfigure the idea of musical scene by moving away, in a manner of speaking, from what is conventionally thought of as assumptions of scene, such as the anglo-saxon language and what is generally understood as cosmopolitanism.


IN CHEMISTRY, Boyle's law describes the inversely proportional relationship, in a gas, between volume and pressure. As the volume of a gas increases, its pressure decreases, and vice versa. Demonstrations of Boyle's law occasionally feature balloons or shaving cream, but most often they involve a marshmallow inside a syringe. A syringe with a stopper valve creates a vacuum. When the plunger of the syringe is depressed--when the volume decreases--the marshmallow, which is filled with pockets of gas, becomes shriveled and much less festive. The withered husk of confectionery stands as sad and vivid testament to the increased pressure inside the syringe. Conceptually speaking, Boyle's law can be relevant to the study of the novel because novels are systems with interdependent elements, and the novelist must always negotiate this relationship between volume and pressure. In the case of the novel, we might say that volume equals time. Time, not physical space, is the container in which a novel occurs. The novelist's choice about temporal scope--when does the drama begin and when does it end?--determines its relative volume. Almost every novel is analogous to that marshmallow in a syringe (where marshmallow equals character). A book about a fifty-year-old protagonist does not dramatize fifty years; rather, the novelist finds ways to decrease volume, creating a time scheme that exerts withering dramatic pressure. Even (or perhaps especially) a sprawling, multigenerational novel requires temporal compression. But as readers we never feel the volume/pressure dynamic as acutely as in novels of small scope. Boyle's law novels, in which high dramatic pressure is palpably and inextricably a function of reduced time, are books that take place in just a few days, a weekend, an evening or afternoon. To name just a few: Paula Fox's Desperate Characters and The Widow's Children, Glenway Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Ian McEwan's Saturday and On Chesil Beach, Donald Antrim's The Hundred Brothers and The Verificationist, even Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City. In these novels the author has contrived to begin the book very close, in time, to its climactic events. We often get flashback, a crucial sense of history--and occasionally an expansive coda--but the container of the key dramatic events is small, and correspondingly, the pressure is high. Dorothy Baker's 1962 novel Cassandra at the Wedding, which takes place over perhaps ninety-six hours, is an exemplar of the low-volume/high-pressure novel. In the opening pages, Cassandra leaves Berkeley, where she is a graduate student, and drives home to the family ranch for the wedding of her identical twin sister, Judith. Their mother has died; their father is warm but disengaged; their grandmother is loving but unfailingly proper. It is a journey, but not a quest. Cassandra, who narrates sections one and three (Judith narrates the middle section), moves forward not with ambitious agency, but with profound reluctance and anxiety. She feels, almost literally, that she and Judith are two halves of a single being, and thus her sister's imminent wedding threatens to dissolve not only the sororal bond, but also Cassandra's precarious identity. In a novel with a large scope, the protagonist often moves through time in a series of causally linked, desire-driven episodes. This kind of protagonist, a wanter, pushes the book, advances it. In the short-span novel, however, this propulsive desire is often inverted. The desire is not positive (to achieve, find, or solve), but negative (to extricate or avoid). The protagonist wants something not to happen. This not wanting is a powerful form of wanting, but it creates a different kind of structural logic. It means that the character is pulled unwillingly through the book by the gravity of an impending event or an unprocessed truth. Fear and dread, rather than yearning or need, are the animating emotions. …


Objective:To explore the best approach of removal of the maxillary sinus cyst with the nasal sinus endoscope.Methods:Three approaches were adopted to 30 cases of maxillary sinus cyst,(1)enlarged natural aperture to remove the cyst;(2)the approach of windowing of the inferior nasal meatus;(3)the approach of overturn of the bone flap of anterior wall of maxillary sinus with pedicel.Result: By more than six months follow-up and re-examination by CT, none recurred and the mucous membrane of the maxillary sinus was smooth, without foreign body and accumulated fluid in the maxillary sinus. Conclusion:Compared with the traditional method(Caldwell-Luc operation),the three approaches of removal of the maxillary sinus cyst with the nasal sinus endoscope, are with small trauma, a little bleeding, small distress and quick restoration. But the three approaches also have merits and defects, they should be adopted based on the condition of the case.


The present invention discloses a universal remote controller for transmitting multimedia streaming content and game content to the multimedia device. The remote controller includes; a display; browser module, for selecting a content or data associated with the content identification; streaming module, and for arranging the multimedia content streaming; and a control module, with to control streaming multimedia content and controlling device during streaming. Also disclosed is a universal remote controller comprising a display area on a remote controller; ad a controller for communicating with the advertising platform to receive and display ads on a display area; and an event analyzer for analyzing using data universal remote controller and provide events performed by the user to remotely control the ads controller. Advertising controllers defined in accordance with the request for advertising platform event.


Real-time 3D ultrasonic imaging with 2D array is difficult to implement because of the challenge in fabricating and interconnecting the 2D transducer array with a large number of elements. Row-column addressing provides a simple manufacturing method with 2N connections rather than N2 for an N×N array. The top and bottom electrodes of the transducer are designed to be orthogonal, resulting in essentially two orthogonal1-D arrays in a single transducer. However, this interconnection scheme degrades the image quality because of defocusing in column direction in transmit event. To solve this problem, a split row-column addressing (SRCA) scheme is proposed in this paper. Rather than connecting all the elements in the column direction together, the array is divided into several disconnected blocks. This method can access focusing beams in both row and column directions. Selecting an appropriate split scheme is the key to maintaining a reasonable trade off in image quality and the number of connections. The relation between the number of split and the corresponding main-lobe width is discussed. The simulated point spread functions of 32×32 array with and without split row-column addressing are given out. The result shows the image quality is similar to fully addressing for 32×32 array in case of five blocks with 4, 6, 12, 6, and 4 elements of each block.


All of the high-T/sub c/ perovskite superconductors appear to show disorder of certain oxygen atoms. In (La,Sr)/sub 2/CuO/sub 4/ and perhaps also in YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7/ this is associated with a structural transition. The Bi and Tl superconductors, for which the authors have neutron structural data on four different phases, also how oxygen disorder which may be associated with valence fluctuations. In Tl/sub 2/Ba/sub 2/CuO/sub 6/, electron holes are created by the absence of 1/8 of the atoms in the TlO plane, producing a marked superstructure. However, this material is not superconducting if the superstructure is well ordered, with an orthorhombic (strictly monoclinic) structure. The T/sub c/ appears to depend on the disorder of the superstructure to produce a pseudotetragonal metric in which the oxygen atoms within the TlO plane are distributed over four equivalent sites about the center of the Tl square.


This qualitative analysis aims to investigate the current state of transmission and conservation of Qin'an Xiaoqu folk music in Gansu, China. The research adopts a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative research techniques, fieldwork, literature analysis, and interviews. Key informants, including musicians, folk artists, cultural experts, and residents, contribute their knowledge and experiences related to Qin'an Xiaoqu. Ethnographic observations, participant observations, and in-depth interviews provide firsthand insights into the musical characteristics, historical significance, and cultural relevance of this tradition. The results underscore the historical, cultural, and spiritual importance of Qin'an Xiaoqu, reflecting the essence of the Chinese nation. However, challenges such as weak awareness, funding constraints, lack of successors, and changing cultural environment threaten its continuity. The research proposes strategies such as cultivating professional archivists, enhancing education transmission, and supporting musicians to preserve and transmit this musical heritage effectively. By recognizing its significance and implementing robust conservation strategies, this cherished musical legacy can endure for future generations, reinforcing the enduring spirit of Chinese culture.


Abstract This article analyses the presence of Neo-Platonic ideas in the poetics of Ibn Khaldūn's (1332–1406). It particularly focuses on the sixth part of the Muqaddima, in which Ibn Khaldūn presents the Arab-Islamic system of knowledge. I argue that Ibn Khaldūn analyses poetry in terms of a peculiar kind of knowledge and that his views on poetry are largely dominated by a Neo-Platonic paradigm, deriving from Avicenna's Psychology and Sufism. I focus on four topics: the "weak" rational position of poetics among the sciences of logic; the rhetorical norm of muṭābaqa ("conformity" between "words" and "ideas", and between "speech" and the "requirement of the situation"), the musical norm of talāʾum (appropriateness of note combinations) and the notion of poetical "models" (uslūb; pl. asālīb). My conclusion is that the Muqaddima provides the modern reader with a precious longue-durée overall view of pre-modern Arab-Islamic poetics.


This study aims to find out the students of UIN SMH Banten in Islamic Banks. Questionnaires were distributed to 32 FEBI students at UIN SMH Banten, Serang City. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.  Based on the data obtained, it is known that the variables of bank reputation and beliefs influence the interest in saving for UIN SMH Banten students in Islamic banks. The purpose of this study is to analyze the interest of FEBI students at UIN SMH Banten in saving at Islamic banks. This research is quantitative descriptive research using primary data. The variables used in this study consist of bank reputation and trust as independent variables and interest in saving students as the dependent variable. The data collection method uses by providing questionnaires. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis.The results of the study show that the difference between men and interest in savings in Islamic banks is significantly different.


We determined the inner products of two conformal vectors with central charge 1 2 whose τ -involutions generates S3 if none of τ -involutions are trivial. We also see that a subVA generated by such conformal vectors is a VOA with central charge 1 2 + 20 21 or 4 5 + 6 7 and has a Griess algebra of dimension three or four, respectively.


A new type cold frame is intruduced.The deformation of unsymmetry section steel after cooling is mainly eliminated by reversely curring it on line,ensuring the achievement of automation of meticulous repair.At the same time the disposing principle of equilibrium weight on the driving axis of cold frame drived by eccentric wheel was improved.The torsional moment of transmission shaft and power of electric motor are reduced by the method.


A windshield wiper system for vehicles having a wiper arm and with a provided at one end of the wiper arm the wiper blade carrier for mounting for attaching a wiper blade is formed with a kinematic over which the wiper arm for a pivoting or wiping movement between a parking position and at least one reversing position and for an additional lifting movement radially or approximately radially movable for swiveling or wiping movement. The wiper blade carrier is hinged to the wiper arm and is controlled via a coupling by pivoting relative to the wiper arm such that, when mounted on a vehicle windshield wiper system, the wiper blade with a wiper blade longitudinal axis at least in the parked position and in the turn position parallel or substantially parallel to a respective adjacent edge is oriented to a vehicle window.


Higher education is an efficient investment.It,together with in-service training,can help develop human resources,improve people's qualities,boost labors' capabilities and promote personal development and economic growth,as is proved by the theory and experimental analysis of Ningbo's higher education.Some departments,colleges and enterprises in Ningbo should cooperate to take some measures to improve Ningbo's higher education,thus promoting personal development and regional economic growth.


Objective To investigate the possible mechanism of the effect of short-term gonadotropin-re-leasing hormone agonist(GnRHa)on linear growth in female pubertal rats. Methods Forty 3-week-old female rats were randomly divided into 5 groups(n=8 each). One group was sacrificed as base-line control. Group OVX was operated for ovariectomy at the beginning of experiment. Group Gn and group E2 each received two intramuscu-lar injections of 2.5mg·kg-1 triptorelin 2 weeks apart, and group E2 received additional daily 1μg·kg-1·d-1estradiol(E2)s. c. at three days after the second GnRHa injection for 11 days. Group Ctrl was sham-operated ascontrol. Each rat, except for the base-line control group. received 30mg/kg oxytetracycline s. c. and 20mg/kgcalcein s. c. 9 and 2 days respectively before sacrifice. Hepatic GH receptor mRNA, insulin-like growth factor(IGF)-I and IGF binding protein(IGFBP)-3, circulating IGF-I and IGFBP-3, local IGF-I/IGF-I receptor(IGF-IR)and proliferation rate(PFR)in epiphyseal growth plate(EGP)were evaluated after 4-week treatment.Results Similar to group OVX, the rats in group Gn became taller and heavier than group Ctrl with greater tibial length, wider EGP, greater longitudinal growth rate(LGR)and higher PFR(P<0.05 or P<0.01). Estrogen supplement reversed the effect of GnRHa. There was no statistical difference among the 4 groups regarding plasma IGF-I and IGFBP-3, hepatic IGF-I and IGFBP-3 mRNA levels, local IGF-I and IGF-I R levels in EGF. GnRHa down-regulated hepatic GHR mRNA expression, which was reversed by estrogen supplement. Conclusion GnRHa accelerates longitudinal growth of female pubertal rats. Estrogen deprivation contributes to GnRHa-induced alteration of linear growth in female rats, through improving PFR and suppressing the senescence of EGP. The underlying mechanism does not attribute to endocrine change of GH/IGF-I axis or local IGF-I/IGF-IR in EGP.

Key words:
Puberty;  Epiphyseal growth plate;  Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist;  Estrogen


1. The central dogma 2. RNA secondary structure 3. Comparing DNA sequences 4. Statistical models 5. Substitution matrices for amino acids 6. Sequence databases 7. Local alignment and the BLAST heuristic 8. Statistics of BLAST database searches 9. Multiple sequence alignment I 10. Multiple sequence alignment II 11. Phylogeny reconstruction 12. Protein motifs and PROSITE 13. Fragment assembly 14. Coding sequence prediction with dicodon frequencies 15. Satellite identification 16. Restriction mapping 17. Hybridization mapping 18. Genome rearrangement: gates and hurdles 19. Now what? Appendix A: drawing RNA cloverleaves Appendix B: space-saving strategies for alignment Appendix C. a data structure for disjoint sets Appendix D. a data structure for set operations.


Combining with Anhui Huainan new south district engineering example,the paper introduces the concept of BRB,describes the principles,types and performance of BRB bracing components,and points out its advantages,such as good energy dissipation and vibration reduction,and good hysteretic energy dissipation ability,which is worth promoting.


Summary 1. The antibiotic substances and sulfonamides arranged in the order of decreasing bacteriostatic properties in vitro for the anaerobes of the gas gangrene group are: Tyrothricin, penicillin, sulfadiazine, sulfathiazole, aspergillic acid, gliotoxin, and sulfanilamide. 2. Penicillin and aspergillic acid were active in vitro against a sulfathiazole-fast strain of Cl. perfringens. 3. When given locally to mice infected intramuscularly with Cl. perfringens, penicillin and sodium sulfadiazine were more effective than aspergillic acid. Gliotoxin and tyrothricin were not effective in doses of 1 mg suspended in sesame oil.


The electrical and optical properties of diamondlike carbon films deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering on Si substrates at room temperature have been measured as a function of the ion e ...


Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) has been interpreted as behaviour involving children showing disrespect or hostility toward their parents, resulting from the malicious influence of one of their parents or even of third parties. It is a process in which minors' minds are manipulated in order for them to repeat untruths, fanciful stories and descriptions of non-existent abuse or mistreatment created by the parent or whoever is guiding the minor. It is recognised today that parental alienation does not only arise in processes involving litigation or legal disputes over child custody; it also presents itself in the context of everyday family dynamics. In this regard, the aim of this article is to identify the presence of alienating practices among 150 families from 12 neighbourhoods in Ciudad de Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The conclusion is that parental alienation is present among the families studied, even though none of them are involved in processes of separation or litigation over child custody. This means that there does not necessarily have to be a formal separation process in order for parental alienation or its impacts to be present.


ABSTRACT A generalization of Shockley's relation for cyclotron resonance of electrons in semiconductors permits calculation of the resonant frequencies in n-germaniuin for any orientation of the magnetic field relative to the crystal axes. The method consists of transforming the Hamiltonian in the ellipsoidal energy surface reference frame to the cubic axes from whence the equations of motion lead to a secular determinant whose value defines the resonances.


This book will enhance Christian Joppke's growing reputa- tion as one of the most thoughtful commentators on the politics of international migration and citizenship. Immigra- tion and the Nation-State is an impressive cross-national comparison that builds on elite interviews and reanalysis of primary materials, but its chief value is in its bold synthesis and critique of a rapidly growing and highly disjointed secondary literature. Although it assesses a variety of theo- retical concepts, the book is primarily a historically rooted, richly empirical work of analysis and interpretation. Joppke deals expertly with three liberal states with different nation- hood traditions and immigration histories. The United King- dom is distinctive in that it was at once a nation-state and an empire. The United States is the only case of the three in which governments deliberately sought to foster immigration for settlement. Germany was a divided nation whose com- mitment to reunification, embedded in the Basic Law, posed particularly troublesome issues for immigration and citizen- ship policy.


In this paper, we investigate the problem of dynamic spectrum access for small-cell networks using a graphical game approach. Compared with existing studies, we take the features of different cell loads and local interference relationship into account. It is proven that the formulated spectrum access game is an exact potential game (EPG) with the aggregate interference level as the potential function, and the Nash equilibrium (NE) of the game corresponds to the global or local optima of the original optimization problem. A lower bound of the achievable aggregate interference level is rigorously derived. Finally, we propose an autonomous best response (BR) learning algorithm to converge toward its NE. It is shown that the proposed game-theoretic solution converges rapidly, and its achievable performance is close to the optimum solution.


Many studies have demonstrated the utility of tamoxifen for the treatment of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer (1) and more recently for the prevention of breast cancer in women at increased risk (2–4). However, the toxicities of tamoxifen such as thromboembolic events and endometrial cancers still pose a clinically significant problem. To reduce the risk of these adverse events, effective, yet safe drugs are being sought that could replace tamoxifen. Indeed, new endocrine agents such as selective ER modulators (SERMs) and aromatase inhibitors are being evaluated as alternatives to tamoxifen for the treatment (5–9) and prevention (10) of breast cancer. In this issue of the Journal, Decensi et al. (11) propose a different strategy to reduce the side effects of tamoxifen. They suggest that, by using a lower dose of tamoxifen, it may be possible to reduce tamoxifen's side effects while retaining its therapeutic and preventive efficacy. To investigate the biologic effect of low doses of tamoxifen, Decensi et al. (11) measured biomarkers associated with breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, and bone fracture risk. They conducted a randomized, double-blind, three-arm study to investigate the ability of different doses of tamoxifen (1 mg/day, 5 mg/day, or 20 mg/day) to modulate these biomarkers in women with ER-positive breast cancer. They also compared these results to results obtained in two control groups: women with ER-negative breast cancer and women with ER-positive breast cancer. None of the women in the control groups received preoperative tamoxifen. The results of their study show that tamoxifen decreased the expression of the proliferation marker Ki-67 in breast tissue at all doses tested and that there was no difference in the magnitude of this reduction between the different doses. At the same time, a statistically significant dose response was observed when blood biomarkers of breast cancer (insulin-like growth factor-I and sex hormone-binding globulin) and cardiovascular disease (low-density lipoprotein [LDL] cholesterol, ultrasensitive Creactive protein [CRP], fibrinogen, and antithrombin-III) were compared. In each of these cases, standard-dose tamoxifen was more effective at modulating the blood biomarkers than was low-dose tamoxifen. On the basis of these results, the authors concluded that low-dose tamoxifen retains its ability to suppress breast cell proliferation but has diminished activity in modulating serum biomarkers. The authors also conclude that the riskto-benefit ratio associated with tamoxifen may be improved by using lower doses of the drug and recommend further clinical studies to define the utility of low-dose tamoxifen for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. The modulation of biomarkers observed in the study by Decensi et al. (11) is similar to results of other studies using tamoxifen. Decensi et al. published previous studies demonstrating that doses as low as 10 mg/day or every other day are comparable with the 20-mg/day dose in modulating blood biomarkers (12,13). In the current study (11), the response to lower tamoxifen doses was investigated. In addition, breast tissue proliferation was also measured, allowing the investigators to associate the changes seen in the breast tissue with changes in blood biomarkers. Other investigators have shown that a reduction in Ki-67 expression in breast cancer cells similar to that seen in the current study is associated with a clinically relevant response (14– 16). Makris et al. (14) observed a median decrease in Ki-67 expression of 4.8% in patients who had a clinically significant response to tamoxifen. In addition, failure to decrease Ki-67 expression substantially has been associated with a lack of response to tamoxifen (14) and increased risk of relapse (16). Thus, the reductions of Ki-67 expression observed with the lower doses of tamoxifen used by Decensi et al. (11) are in a range that would be expected to predict a response to treatment. To investigate the efficacy of low-dose tamoxifen for the prevention of breast cancer, it will be necessary to demonstrate an effect on normal or premalignant breast tissue. Studies of 10 mg/day of tamoxifen compared with 20 mg/day or placebo demonstrated that both doses of tamoxifen were equally effective at reducing normal breast cell proliferation (17). However, the results of a more recent study by de Lima et al. (18) demonstrate that lower doses of tamoxifen (5 mg/day and 10 mg/day) are less effective than the 20 mg/day dose at reducing normal breast cell proliferation, as measured by mitotic index. These data argue against using lower doses of tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention. Although all doses of tamoxifen reduced Ki-67 expression in the study by Decensi et al. (11), the other biomarkers examined varied with tamoxifen dose. One possible explanation for this difference may be the differential response of the breast tissue versus other tissues to tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is well known to have differential effects on the breast tissue relative to effects on the endometrium. It is also possible that low-dose tamoxifen is able to block the growth-promoting effects of estrogen in the breast, without affecting estrogen-regulated genes in the liver (LDL cholesterol, CRP, or antithrombin-III). Alternatively, this differential effect on breast cell proliferation relative to other estrogen-regulated biomarkers may result from differences in specific gene-regulatory elements or proteins that mediate the


We prove that all n-cotilting R-modules are pure-injective for any ring R and any n ≥ 0. To achieve this, we prove that ⊥1U is a covering class whenever U is an R-module such that ⊥1U is closed under products and pure submodules. This paper has been published in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), no. 7, 1891–1897. ALL n-COTILTING MODULES ARE PURE-INJECTIVE


Nursing care is often directed towards meeting unmet needs. While providing nursing care all the dimensions that affects basic needs should be taken into consideration. This allows the nurse to provide proper nursing care while ensuring all basic health care needs are met. Proper oral care and suctioning have been identified as preventive measures against acquiring ventilator-associated pneumonia and for reducing the risk of complications.


Neoprene coatings are not paints and their application is not within the scope of tradesmen without instruction. This is particularly the case with the high or low build catalysed materials employed for the protection of immersed surfaces subject to violent fluid movement as, for instance, on pump impellers and casings, road tankers, etc.


The 'It Gets Better Project' started as an online campaign responding to the suicide deaths of multiple young gay men in Fall 2010. The campaign involved people posting videos providing messages of hope and helpful health information for youth as they finish high school and can move on with their lives. Although there is seemingly good intentions driving this this campaign, we were troubled by the initial positioning of the campaign. In this paper we use an intersectional critique to discuss the lack of inclusivity in these videos and how it created a potential opportunity to engage with more LGBTQ youth. Furthermore, we suggest that future online campaigns for gender/sexual minority populations be more mindful of others' lived experiences and how this may impact how they seek health information.


The F2 and F2∶3 soybean segregating populations derived from a cross,which was Jinong18 with high oil content and Jiyu47 with high protein content,were used for QTLs markers for oil trait.Seven high oil content QTLs were selected by using inclusive composite interval mapping method.They distributed into four genetic linkage groups and could explain 3.60% to 20.98% genetic variations.In 10 soybean lines,marker satt636 had a testing conformance as high as 83.33% and had potential in molecular marker assisted breeding.


identified a peri-odic and lateralized pattern, which they described as periodic lateralized epilepti-form discharges (PLEDs). The acronym encapsulates the essential characteristics of PLEDs, namely, wide distribution, polymorphism, one or more sharp components in a repeti-tive way (usually at the rate of one to two seconds), and localization over the hemisphere. Subsequent studies have described other variable periodic patterns as two independent PLED types in the same EEG (BIPLEDs), multifocal PLEDs, generalized periodic epileptiform dis-charges (GPEDs), and stimulus-induced rhythmic, periodic, or ictal discharges (SIRPIDs)


services from which it was translated is not complete and where it has its own character in many specific hymns. It is feasible that this has a tradition of its own, lost in the ordinary lines of transmission. Dr. Black has also pointed to an interesting survival of old monthelite theology which is found here, though in general its theology is completely 'orthodox'. Prof. Baumstark would have thought of immediate influence of Jewish Targumim on some of the O.T. variants, but Dr. Black was quite justified, I think, in not following Baumstark here; he prefers influence through the Peshitta. The rich introduction of the editor is followed by a good translation and a beautifully printed text. The whole work is a worthy example of excellent scholarship and a happy start of this renewed undertaking. May this second series surpass, if possible, its predecessor and form a new monument of British learning! UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT W. C. VAN UNNIK


Simulations of maximum annual thaw at a continuous and a discontinuous permafrost site in Canada were performed using Community Land Model version 3 (CLM3) and randomized historical climate records from these sites, superimposed with United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) A2 scenario of climate change. A positive trend in permafrost degradation was simulated for the 2000 to 2100 period in response to climate warming. Surface cover condition and soil properties play a dominant role in affecting ground thaw. In particular, a thin peat layer or surface organic cover can significantly buffer the permafrost against severe degradation. The occurrence of vegetation and extensive presence of a peat and organic layer in the circumpolar areas will modulate the regional impact of climate warming on permafrost thaw.


The simply supported beam bridge of 32 m is taken as the background,depending on the vehicle,rail structure and bridge as a system,which establishes the system vibration equations based on the principle of total potential energy with stationary value in elastic system dynamics and the "set-in-right-position" rule for formulating matrixes.ANSYS simulation is used to calculate the dynamic responses of slab ballastless track under vehicle load,and the effect of the stiffness and damping of cement asphalt mortar on the vertical vibration of the system was analyzed.Results show that variation tendency and amplitude of dynamic response of the system is compliance with the design operation requirements of ballastless track and the reasonable value of the cement asphalt mortar stiffness is 1×109~2×109 N/m,and the large damping of mortar layer can effectively reduce the vibration of the low track slab and bridge.


To increase the strength of infrared high efficiency antireflection coatings is a problem difficult to be resolved. A mixture of BaF2 and CeF2 has been used as a low refractive index material to design and prepare infrared 8 - 11.5 (mu) high efficiency anti-reflection coating to acquire good strength of film layer. The processing conditions of the films deposition have also been introduced. The spectral transmittance measured, physical and chemical properties of the infrared anti-reflection coating are given.


AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionCentralised Exchanges and Over-the-Counter MarketsThe Black–Scholes FunctionsThe Price Quotation Conventions of the Over-the-Counter MarketsThe Volatility Smile: Straddles, Strangles and Risk ReversalsConclusionsReferences


In an earlier paper (6) we have presented evidence of the nonuniform distribution of current and potential on A1Sn specimens polarized in NaOH. By combining microscopic observations and electrochemical measurements we have previously concluded inferentially that local potentials on polarized electrodes can differ substantially (several hundred mV) between the center and the edge of a specimen. In this paper we were able to prove experimentally that such nonuniform distributions of the potential and the current do exist. Results of potentiostatic and potentiodynamic experiments with A1 in 0.1M NaOH are presented. The potential differences between center and edge were found to be influenced by the geometry of the specimen. This dependency in return influences the integral current and hence the shape of current density/ potential plots in an unpredictable way. A particular specimen arrangement in conjunction with a low impedance measuring device for divided currents added to a conventional potentiostat is proposed to eliminate the distorting effects on electrochemical measurements caused by the nonuniform potential distribution.


The structures of 1-naphthol/alcohol clusters, 1-NpOH(ROH)n (n = 1−3; ROH = MeOH, EtOH, and t-BuOH), have been investigated by resonant two-photon ionization (R2PI) spectroscopy and ion-detected IR dip spectroscopy. On the basis of the calculated spectra obtained by ab initio MO calculations, the spectra of 1-NpOH(MeOH)n was analyzed. The analysis elucidated that 1-NpOH(MeOH)2,3 was a ring structure. From a similarity of the spectral pattern, the structures of 1-NpOH(EtOH)n and 1-NpOH(t-BuOH)n were also determined to be a ring conformation. From a frequency shift of the hydrogen-bonded OH stretching vibration, the hydrogen bonding is weakened by a steric hindrance due to an alkyl group of ROH. The difference in the solvation mechanism between 1-NpOH(MeOH)n and 1-NpOH(H2O)n is discussed.


Case notes of 308 longstay residents of a mental handicap hospital were studied during 1992 and the details of epilepsy management for 102 (33%) residents were noted. Theer were 58 (57%) males and 44 (43%) females, and 90% of them had an IQ less than 50. A total of 1986 seizures (83% generalized, 15.5% partial and 1.5% unclassified) were recorded. 72% of the residents had one or more seizures and 26.5% had more than 10 seizures.


Improving teaching effectiveness, facilitating learning among learners, encouraging long life learning and maximizing motivation as well as reducing the dropout rates are among the main issues of Adaptive Learning Systems (ALS) that conquer the interest of educational actors and partners, especially in higher education. The present paper aims to give the foundation of a framework for an ALS that gives extensive attention at each stage of the design process to the end-user: learners. The system proposed is based on balanced combination of Agile Learning Design (Agile LD) and Learner-Centered Design.


The subject areas identified at the top of the back cover of this wonderful book are 'RELIGION/AFRICAN STUDIES/ANTHROPOLOGY,' and Yolanda Covington-Ward's Gesture and Power makes significant contri...


The geometrical structure of Mg,Zn,Cd doped 32-atom supercell of InN was optimized using the ultra-soft pseudopotential method of total-energy plane wave based upon the density functional theory (DFT). Cell parameters of both doped and undoped cells were calculated theoretically. The binding energy, partial density of states, Mulliken charges, electron density differences of doped InN crystals were calculated and discussed in detail. The results revealed that compared with Zn and Cd, Mg substituting for In has the greatest solubility and yield more states of holes.So Mg is suitable for p-type doping of InN.


At this time, when there is a discussion as to the advisability of removing the "symptomless fibroid," it may not be inopportune to report the following case: History. —The patient, Miss D. M., aged 40, came under my care at the St. Francis Hospital on Dec. 28, 1907. Her menstruation had been established at seventeen and had been regular every four weeks with a scanty flow of one or two days' duration. She had some pain the day before each menstrual period. On Dec. 16, 1907, she was taken with pain in the lower abdomen and with difficult and frequent urination. She had a temperature of 102, pulse 100. She complained of an intense pelvic soreness. This was the first sickness she had had for eighteen years. Her menstrual period began the next day, December 17, and lasted one day with a very scanty flow. On December 18 the soreness


which allude to the Moroccan expeditions to the Western Sudan, to Taghaza and Timbuctoo in the sixteenth century. One can easily see why Christopher Marlowe made reference to this in his Tamburlaine. In Letter no 6 of 30 January 1592, from Ahmad al-Mansur to Elizabeth, it is specifically stated so: ' this kingdom of the Blacks and the Touareg (tarjiyya) which has been added, by God's grace, to our realms, and threaded, by divine conquest and the shining sword, on our necklace'. In Tamburlaine, Usumcasane refers to this kingdom as ' southern Guallatia ' (Walata). Apart from the Tarja in Ibn Khaldun, located nearer to Ifriqiya, this is among the earliest references to the Touareg by name in an Arabic document. Most Arabic documents from the Western Sudan, and also the writings of al-Maghlli, make mention, almost exclusively, of a medieval name, the Massufa, at that date. The SGs figures quite prominently; and not onlythe principality of Iligh. The somewhatsensitive relations between the Makhzan and the Siba tribes are also apparent, and there is also mention of the Hassanis who were pushing south into the Western Sahara at this time. There is a reference to an identified port of Khunig al-Hammam below Wad Nun in a letter addressed to the Governor of Gibraltar by Muhammad I in March 1765 (p. 87) indicating that this place was inhabited by certain Arabs called the Maghafira, ' who are our maternal relatives, and it is counted in what owes us obedience and is incorporated under our Kingdom as far as 23° (agrad). What is beyond 23° remains open to them and others '. Such specific distances would suggest precise ideas regarding Moroccan frontiers and Saharan claims at that time. The reference above to agrad, ' degrees ', is one of over fifty terms which appear in a useful glossary (pp. xiii-xvi). There is also a short bibliography and index. Variant spellings are clearly indicated in the notes. In sum, this collection of letters will be of permanent value to all who are concerned with the history of the Maghreb, with relations between this country and Morocco, with the source material of the early British orientalists and with the Arabic of the Moors, since there are a number of local forms, dialect words and unusual loanwords to be discovered in its pages. As a wholly separate, though relevant, study alongside these translations of Hopkins, attention may be drawn to the article by N. L. Cigar, entitled, ' Mulay Isma'il and the Glorious Revolution in England ', published in The, Maghreb Review, m, 7-8, 1978, 7-11. This article should be read in order better to appreciate the relations of the Ruler of Morocco with both James II and William of Orange. The examples of correspondence between the monarchs of Morocco and Great Britain published in Arabic and English in James Grey Jackson's, The account of the empire of Morocco (first ed., 1809), third ed., London, 1968, vii, and 316-25, should also not be overlooked in any study of this chancery material.


In this paper, the area coordinate method is generalized to formulate quadrilateral elements. The general theory of area coordinate for quadrilateral elements is presented and new quadrilateral elements for membrane and plate bending are formulated by using the area coordinate method.


Experiments were carried out on DNB (Departure from Nucleate Boiling) heat flux for both upflow and downflow in a rectangular vertical channel simulating a subchannel in the fuel element of the research reactor JRR-3, which is scheduled to be upgraded at 20MWt with 20% low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The experiments were carried out for the conditions of pressure and velocity which are important for the safety design of the JRR-3. With the investigation of the data of the present experiment along with already existing data for both rectangular channels and other channels, a scheme of DNB heat flux correlations was obtained for upflow and downflow. With the all available data, the errors of the correlations adopted in this scheme were so evaluated as to utilize these results in the safety analysis of the JRR-3. This scheme includes a new correlation of DNB heat flux for upflow and the identification of a region of high coolant flow rate where no remarkable differences in the DNB heat flux are observed bet...


Myiasis is rare disease of nose. In this case report we present a 47 years female with nasal myiasis along with palatal perforation which was managed conservatively with antibiotics, manual removal of maggots and planned for closure of oro-nasal fistula later. Later on the bleeding was gradually controlled. Patient was advised for imaging of nose and paranasal sinuses. The imaging showed soft tissues densities in the bilateral nasal cavity with erosion of nasal septum, hard palate and soft palate with oronasal fistula formation


Polybutenes are the isotactic polymers of isobutene and n-butene. Polybutenes provide viscosity or emulsifiability to more than 80 cosmetic products in concentrations up to 50%. The results of acute oral and percutaneous toxicity tests of Polybutenes show these materials to be relatively harmless. Acute skin irritation tests on rabbits showed no or mild irritation. Other test results indicate that Polybutenes are not toxic: (a) there were no observable effects in rats after inhalation at concentrations up to 18.5 mg/l of air; (b) there was only mild, transient eye irritation in rabbits; (c) intravaginal application of concentrated Polybutene daily for 30 days produced no observable effect in rabbits. Chronic oral toxicity in rats fed up to 20,000 ppm for three successive generations showed no impairment in reproduction. The available human clinical data indicated only very mild effects. Skin tests for sensitization, irritancy, phototoxicity, and photosensitization were limited to cosmetic formulations. On the basis of the available information, it was concluded that Polybutenes are safe as presently used in cosmetics.


It is found that high lands in the areas where Yamase winds are predominant are recommended as grasslands after analysing the vertical profiles of atmosphere in Tohoku district.Being based on the temperature lapse rates and the screen temperatures, the vertical profiles of atmosphere in the summer in Tohoku district are classified in ten types:When Yamase blows, the vertical profile is complex and one or two inversion layers often exist and Misawa and Sendai which are located in pacific sea side. On the other hand, the vertical profile does have no or one inversion layer at Akita which is located in Japan sea side.It is difficult to estimate the air temperatures at 1400m height in Misawa from the temperature lapse rate, because of the existence of the temperature inversion layer.But the air temperature of Misawa at 1400m height is in rather good agreement with the measured air temperature at the top of Hakkoda mountain whose altitude is 1400m, and it is clear that there is very little temperature difference according to altitude.When Yamase blows, there is very little temperature difference according to altitude, therefore it is considered that similar biomass production can be expected at high lands to that plain.In August, high land in Yamase region are often covered by mountain clouds which decrease solar radiation and bring high humidity, therefore summer depression of vegetation is considered to be little.


This paper describes formal syntheses of the title compounds from the easily prepared chiral synthon (+)-5. One of the structural features of the cuparene family is the presence of vicinal quaternary carbons on the five-membered ring. The quaternary carbon with the tolyl function could be constructed by stereoselective 1, 4-addition of (p-tolyl)2 Zn to(+)-5. The key intermediate β-ketol (13), obtained from (+)-5 via a sequence of reactions, was successfully applied to formal syntheses of the title compounds.


Notes are given on nests with live diapausing prepupae of Sceliphron (Sceliphron) laetum, S. (S.) caementarium and S. (Proscelphron)formosum intercepted in New Zealand. A key to the species of Sceliphron recorded in New Zealand is provided.


Colombia presently requires geotechnical design criteria for levees, structures that are used for water containment and flood prevention. The ways in which floods and their characteristics are presented are not equal in all areas. Because it is necessary to generate a set of criteria for these designs based on experiences in recent years in the country. That's why through modeling tools such as Hydrus 2.0 and SLIDE 5.0 certain scenarios in which different types of dikes in order to obtain geotechnical design criteria for levees were simulated were developed.


PurposeWood is one of the materials that is used for building construction either as structural member or as finishes from ages past to contemporary generation. It is composed of elongated, hollow spindle shaped cells that are arranged parallel to each other along the trunk of a tree. The resistance to water, chemicals, strength properties, appearance and decay rate is dictated by the fibrous cells. The purpose of this paper was to examine the application and use of wooden floor finish (an extract from wood) in residential buildings in Lagos, Nigeria, with a view to determine its effectiveness.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a dual stage survey approach before the administration of questionnaire on 100 respondents that were selected through purposive sampling after the initial inquiry on the use of the material from 384 randomly selected samples from the entire population.FindingsThe study shows that the material is applied in all interior spaces except bathrooms and toilets. Minimal adoption is also seen in the kitchen area. Users indicate that wooden floor finish requires little maintenance, has low impact on users' health, considered safe-minimal occurrence of home accidents is recorded, has moderate thermal insulation and affordable.Practical implicationsThe usage has impact on the environment due to continuous lumbering activities and lack of adequate plan for reforestation. This suggests that its sustainability depends on afforestation programmes. Its poor performance in sound insulation, water and fire resistance requires further attention. The maintenance is relatively easy and affordable.Originality/valueThe author made a new foray into investigating the performance of wooden floor finish due to its resurgence in the area bearing in mind the unseasoned condition of wood in circulation in the area. Previous adoptions were done by a less aggressive generation of well-trained artisans. Best places for its usage within the interior spaces are identified.


An 88-year-old male,received clopidogrel sulfate,aspirin,metoprolol tartrate,telmisartan,simvastatin,dalteparin sodium and nitroglycerin for acute coronary syndrome.On day 5 of treatment,the dosage of simvastatin was increased from 20 mg every night to 40 mg every night.On day 8,telmisartan was stopped and amlodipine besylate and diltiazem 15 mg thrice daily were added.On day 42,the patient developed severe skeletal muscular weakness and myalgia.Laboratory tests revealed the following levels: creatine kinase(CK) 8100 U/L,creatine kinase-MB 305 U/L,troponin 0.046 μg/L,alanine aminotransferase(ALT) 102 U/L,aspartate aminotransferase(AST) 151 U/L.Simvastatin was stopped and he was given by an IV infusion of tiopronin.On day 16 of simvastatin withdrawal,repeat biochemical blood tests revealed the following levels: CK 55 U/L,ALT 13 U/L,and AST 14 U/L.Eight days later,simvastatin 10mg every night was administered again combined with diltiazem 30 mg thrice daily.Abnormalities of CK and liver function tests were not seen with a 22-day of treatment.


We compared the functional analysis of several agricultural products cultivated in conventional and pesticide-free condition in high glucose-induced activation of mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) in primary cultured rat mesangial cells. Extracts of tomato, apple and Hallabong cultivated in conventional and pesticide-free (chitin degrading microbes mixture of Bacillus cereus, Serratia marcescens, Paenibacillus illinoisensis and Bacillus subtilis extracted from soil) condition were treated to the mesangial cells in high glucose condition (25mM glucose). In the present study, high glucose increased phosphorylation of pERK, pJNK, and p38 MAPK in mesangial cells. Among treated agricultural products, only the extracts of Hallabong cultivated in pesticide-free condition protected high glucose-induced activation of pERK, pJNK, and p38 MAPK. In addition, the extracts of Hallabong cultivated in pesticide-free condition protected high glucose-induced increase of [³H]-arachidonic acid (AA) release and exhibited more antioxidant effect compared to Hallabong cultivated in conventional condition. In conclusion, extracts of Hallabong cultivated in pesticide-free condition exhibited anti-diabetic effect in mesangial cells, compared to those of Hallabong cultivated in conventional condition.


Cities are developing at a faster pace with increase in population giving rise to increase in no. of vehicles on road. This has resulted in heavy traffic congestion. Research has been going on based on Internet of things for the reduction of traffic congestion. One of the most recent research topics in the Internet of Things is Intelligent Traffic System. Existing signal system lacks the technology to handle the traffic in efficient way. Using IOT, we can propose the alternate approach to improve the traffic conditions. Proposed system makes use of different sensors which are deployed on the roadside for collecting data regarding congestion which will be further processed by the micro controller situated on the traffic signals. Depending on the threshold, the signal can be controlled dynamically and efficiently. This paper also includes higher priority for emergency vehicles like Ambulance such that the lane that contains emergency vehicle would go first until emergency vehicle passes.


The demand for eco products grows in every part of life and work. Global ecologic trends are being reflected on tourism as an active component of society. This is how ecotourism became, one of the modern tourism forms that is less destructive than the other. It creates at the same time chance for development of underdeveloped, mostly rural regions. Ecotourism development has a positive effect on complementary branches of economy, agriculture before all. There are multiple positive reflexive ecotourism effects on ecological farming and vice versa. Intensive ecotourism development and its linking to agriculture creates possibility of additional revenue for agricultural households in rural areas which contributes to the quality of life and to suspending of the demographic downfall. Eco agricultural production significantly contributes to the competitiveness of ecotouristic product on one side, while on the other besides creating possibility for producers to directly place their products through ecotourism, also offers the possibility to valorize immaterial elements of offer: knowledge, skill, experience, hospitality, etc. Montenegrin agriculture is characterized by small households, unexploited ground, low usage levels of mineral fertilizers and pesticides, inability to use mechanization, water shortage and undeveloped infrastructure makes it uncompetitive in quantitative sense but presents an excellent base for its transformation from conventional to eco farming. Strategic linking of ecotourism with eclogical farming presents real chance for sustainable development of rural areas in Montenegro.


Objective To investigate the indication of cesarean section in fetal distress. Methods Cesarean section performed in 713 patients with fetal distress was analyzed. According to fetal heart monitoring, or stained amniotic fluid abnormalities or both of them 713 patients were devided in three groups. Results The low Apgar score (≤7) rate of newborns was 5. 05% ,2. 32% and 9. 80% in Group Ⅰ, Group Ⅱ, Group Ⅲ, respectively. The differences between group Ⅲ and two other groups were significant. Conclusion Under close observation and monitoring, pregnancy and trial labor might continue in patients with abnormal fetal heart rate or stained amniotic fluid except in patients complicated with high risk factors.


Caffeine is the most common natural neuroactive substance around the world. The exact mechanism of the anticancer effects of caffeine is not clear, especially in the contexts of the cytoskeletal changes. It is known that caffeine exerts an effect on cell cycle, cell proliferation, radiosensivity of cells, and also induces cell death. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of 10 and 20 mM L−1 caffeine on the major cytoskeletal proteins in non-small lung cancer cell line H1299. Caffeine treatment induced abnormalities in morphology and ultrastructure of cells. Moreover, the fluorescence studies showed changes in organization of vimentin, β-tubulin, lamin A/C and F-actin, which were attributed to the induction of cell death. The results also demonstrated that caffeine induced formation of two cell populations: giant, mono- or multinucleated cells, with the phenotype of mitotic catastrophe and shrunken cells with condensation of chromatin, typical of apoptosis. This study for the first time shows the effect of caffeine on the cytoskeleton of H1299 cell line. In conclusion, a high-dose caffeine treatment induces apoptotic cell death and makes it a powerful anticancer agent that should be considered for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.


A Van-Hove-type model with $\mathrm{SL}(2,C)\ensuremath{\bigotimes}\mathrm{SL}(2,C)$ symmetry is constructed for the elastic scattering of pseudoscalar bosons. Reggeization in the complex plane of the principal quantum number of the little group O(4) is performed. Two Lorentz pole trajectories with opposite "Lorentz signatures" and opposite intrinsic parities are shown to give rise to moving Regge daughters without the explicit introduction of unitarity. This result is independent of the choice of 4-momentum squared or the mass squared in the numerator of the spin-1 propagator. The results are the same in the equal-mass case as well.


When uterine preservation is of the essence, myomectomy is the preferred standard of surgical care for removal of myomas, the commonest tumors of the female genital tract. This case report describes the evaluation and treatment of a 42-year-old female with a multi-fibroid uterus, who desired uterine preservation in order to conceive. Diagnostic hystero-laparoscopy with myomectomy resulted in the removal of 34 leiomyomas of varying sizes from different locations within the uterus. Our case study is of particular importance as it emphasizes that effective removal of even a large number of multiple fibroids is attainable in rural, low-resource settings by strict adherence to the established myomectomy protocol and the achievement of as bloodless an operative field as possible using various available techniques.


We study the effect of the ambient – dry (air) and wet (propanol) – environment on the surface, structural and mechanical properties of zirconium samples after irradiation with a KrF excimer laser (wavelength of , pulse duration of and repetition rate of ). The samples are exposed to an increasing number of laser pulses varying from 500 to 2000 in both media. Various features of the treated targets such as surface morphology, chemical composition, crystalline structure and hardness are analysed by complementary characterisation techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and Vickers hardness tester, respectively. Surface morphology and hardness are explained on the basis of modifications in crystalinity, residual pressures and chemical properties of the sample surface after its irradiation.


Abstract This paper reviews the available research on divorce with an emphasis on how children at different ages are differentially affected by the divorce process. Preschoolers seem to feel responsible and guilty but recover in two to three months. Early latency age children are exceptionally sad and vulnerable, while late latency age children are better able to express their anger. All latency age children are more likely to engage in aggressive and antisocial behavior as a result of the divorce. Adolescents are often prematurely made independent of the primary family and often are forced into alliances with one of the parents. Therapeutic implications of these findings are included in the discussion.


In order to eliminate the unfavorable factors and potential safety in coal mine transport,we design an intelligent dash-proof alert system of electric locomotive,and it is more and more important for the safe and effective transport of coal mine.For this,this paper puts forward two design schemes,through the contrast;We find that the intelligent dash-proof alert system based on binocular vision has a strong superiority in transport.


11st Department of Cardiology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland 2University Hospital of Lord's Transfiguration, Poznan, Poland 3Department of Coronary Disease and Heart Failure, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland 41st Department of Cardiology, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland 5Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland 6Department of Population Medicine and Civilisation Disease Prevention, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland 7Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 8Heart Failure and Transplantology Department, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland 91st Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 103rd Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Silesian Centre for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland 11Cardiology Department, Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland 12Department of Heart Disease, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland


The invention discloses a mounting method of trapeze beams and a construction method of a building structure with the trapeze beams, and belongs to the technical field of mounting of the trapeze beams of a crane. According to the mounting method of the trapeze beams and the construction method of the building structure with the trapeze beams, the mounting efficiency of the trapeze beams can be effectively improved, and meanwhile damage to building concrete can be avoided. Before building structural beams and a top plate are constructed, the trapeze beams are lifted to corresponding scaffolds in advance, then, construction of beams and the top plate is carried out, and after construction of the beams and the top plate is completed, mounting of the trapeze beams is carried out. Due to the fact that the trapeze beams are placed on the scaffolds in advance, the trapeze beams are quite convenient to mount subsequently, and the phenomenon that punching is performed on the top plate, and chain blocks are arranged to lift and mount the trapeze beams is avoided. The mounting efficiency of the trapeze beams can be effectively improved, meanwhile, labor and construction investment can be saved, and the damage to the building concrete is avoided.


For a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of 2003, we present a parsimonious Applied General Equilibrium Model (AGEM), useful to analyze several problems; it is used here to analyze the effects of substituting high taxes on Mining -given by the excessive burden on Pemex (the Mexican public petroleum company)-, by an increase in income taxes. We include the SAM, a valuable result by itself -usable with the methods of the structural analysis, among others. We analyze the simulation that eliminates the excessive tax on hydrocarbons extraction and reports magnitude and direction of changes in selected variables.


In order to generate a quality-guaranteed tape-out as the objective of CMOS design, diverse analog integrated circuit synthesis flows have been proposed to address the drawbacks of the traditional iterative design flow that may meet performance requirements but super time-consuming. Due to the indispensable impact of Layout Dependent Effects (LDEs) on electrical performance, standard models of LDEs have been developed to consider stress incurred effects such that simulation tools with built-in LDE models would provide results with higher accuracy at the advanced technology nodes. In addition to a survey of the universal synthesis flows, this paper put more emphasis on layout-aware circuit sizing by exhibiting a comprehensive literature review in this area. In particular, two dominant LDEs, Well Proximity Effects (WPE) and Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) effects, are discussed along with our experiments that aim to illustrate the severity of the induced performance degradation especially on sensitive devices even in the general analog integrated circuit building-blocks. Based on the exposed relationship between LDEs and circuit performance as per our experiments, the layout-related issues need to be seriously addressed in the next-generation analog synthesis methodologies and flows.


An intergenic region V Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) 9 bp deletion located between the genes for tRNA{sup LYS} and cytochrome oxidase II was discovered in a small percentage of Nigerian and Ivory Coast natives. Previously this deletion has been described as Asian-specific and has been reported throughout the New World, Asia, S.E. Asia, and the Pacific Islands at frequencies ranging from 0% to 100%. In the New World and the Pacific Islands, the deletion is almost always accompanied by an Hae III restriction site gain at nt 16517. All 9 occurrences of the deletion observed in Africa (from four different populations) co-occur with the Hae III 16517 site gain, indicating that the African deletion probably shares a common origin with the deletion described as {open_quotes}Asian-specific{close_quotes}. The deletion was found in Benin and Sokoto, Nigeria in 2/54 Edo Bini, 1/2 Edo Ishan, 3/99 Hausa, 0/18 Fulani, and 0/16 other Nigerians. The deletion was also detected in 3/115 Ivory Coast natives from Abidjan. A 9 bp insertion (triplication) was observed in 1/115 Ivory Coast natives. The triplicated individual also possessed the Hae III 16517 site gain. The fragment containing the African deletion was sequenced and found to be identical in sequence to themore » Asian deletion region. D-loop sequence of nts 15975 to 00048 revealed that 2 of the 3 Ivory Coast deleted individuals and 1 of the 6 Nigerians deleted (Hausa) had a T-C transition at nt position 16189 which is common in New World-deleted individuals. These results raise the possibility that the occurrence of this deletion predates the separation of Asian and African populations from a common ancestral populations, or that the deletion has occurred more than once in human evolution. Either explanation requires that caution be exercised when using the 9 bp deletion as a population marker.« less


The dynamic electromagnetic compression technique of metal tube which can be used for study of collapse with cylindrical symmetry like the thick-walled cylinder (TWC) technique is introduced. 3D simulations by multiphysics ANSYS finite element code are used for metal tube compression, and the magnetic flux density, displacement, and strain in process are obtained. The influence of the sizes of the tube is considered in the tube compression. The finite element analysis results show that the specimen which has small height or thinner thickness is easier to compress than the big one. The study can offer valuable information about the process analysis of metal tube electromagnetic compression and specimen design.