Purpose
An individual's standard of living is profoundly affected by industrialization and technology's continuous revolution. At present, the environment is uncontrollable and global warming is increasing. Therefore, there is a need to protect the earth immediately as the lives of all creatures are at risk. The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors related to green purchase behavior (GPB) by incorporating religious values (RGV) as a moderator. Moreover, the moderating role of RGV has been incorporated so that the importance of RGV in the life of millennials can be examined.

Design/methodology/approach
Smart partial least square (PLS) has been used for data analysis, and PLS-structural equation modeling has been used to assess measurement and structural models.

Findings
The findings reveal that environmental concern, environmental knowledge and green perceived value positively and significantly affect attitude and subjective norm (SN). Moreover, attitudes toward the purchase of green products and SNs also show a positive and significant relationship with green purchase intention (GPI). In addition, GPI is also positively and significantly associated with GPB. However, green brand knowledge portrays a positive but insignificant relationship with attitude and SN. Finally, RGV does not strengthen the relationship between intention and behavior.

Originality/value
Religion is a strong predictor of individual behavior as people are emotionally connected with Islam's teachings. Therefore, the study provides a unique contribution by adding RGV as a moderator in the model of TRA. Also, the authors targeted the specific generation, i.e. millennials, so that millennials' behavior can be identified as it covers Pakistan's large population. Also, millennials are the people who are more involved in decision-making.


Industrialization has bought many changes in the society good as well as bad. It has provided employment on a large scale, which has in turn improved the standard of living of employees. At the same time industrialization has affected adversely the health of employees in certain sectors. In order to protect the health of employees the government has enacted certain acts that every company had to follow and conduct all activities according to it. It enacted the Factories Act 1948 for all factories. Certain provisions have been made for social security measure etc. This paper have covered provisions of factories act in regards to Labour welfare, social security measures, provisions, Historical development of Labour welfare. The satisfaction level of employees was checked in accordance with the welfare facilities provided by the organization.


The invention belongs to the field of beverages, in particular relates to tartary buckwheat functional red rice health protection tea, and also relates to a preparation method of the health protection tea. The tartary buckwheat functional red rice health protection tea comprises the following components in by weight percent: 10-100 parts of the root of red-rooted salvia, 10-100 parts of semen cassia, 10-100 parts of chrysanthemum, 10-100 parts of hawthorn, 1-10 parts of stevia rebaudian, and 100-1500 parts of tartary buckwheat functional red rice. The tartary buckwheat functional red rice health protection tea provided by the invention has the beneficial effects of having the effects of blood fat reduction, blood pressure lowering and aging resistance, not only reflecting the health protection effect of the functional red rice, but also highlighting the nutrition health protection value of tartary buckwheat. Buckwheat contains a great amount of bioflavonoid, and has multiple kinds of physiological functions of preventing and treating diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary disease, preventing cancer and internal haemorrhage, delaying senescence and the like; and meanwhile with the compatibility of homology of medicine and food of the root of red-rooted salvia, semen cassia, chrysanthemum and hawthorn, the tartary buckwheat functional red rice health protection tea has the effects of clearing heat, improving eyesight, and nourishing and protecting the liver.


Bump Buddies (BB) offers a service to women who are experiencing a range of challenging issues during their pregnancy and early parenthood. These women may be homeless, asylum seekers, living in poverty, survivors of domestic violence, have poor mental health or previous traumatic experiences giving birth. The service is provided by one full-time and two part-time staff and by volunteer mentors who are local mothers.
The BB programme is situated within Shoreditch Trust, a voluntary organisation in the London Borough of Hackney, and contributes to their strategic aim to reduce economic and social disadvantage in the borough. This independent evaluation study was started by the researcher at the Centre for Social Justice and Change, University of East London in May 2016 and completed whilst visiting the Mannheim Centre for Crime and Criminology, London School of Economics, in July 2017. Our research approach is problems-based and realistic and data collected and collated included academic studies, BB reports, project monitoring data, case files (14), selfcompletion questionnaires (7 by mentors and 25 by mentees) interviews with women (6), mentors (6) and partners (4) and three in-depth discussions with staff. BB is an intervention at a critical juncture in the lives of women as they transition from pregnancy to giving birth and early motherhood and offers emotional and practical support at these times of heightened vulnerability, which are also opportunities for change. Previous studies have found peer mentoring offers positive experiences but no discernible additional maternal or child outcomes even though there is strong evidence for the need to intervene to improve life chances of these families.


Adaptive control systems based on the parameters identification of the object are not the good solution for small underwater vehicles (UV) because the state of such vehicles can change very fast. The progress of digital technology enables the use of more complex control algorithms, which can work in real time. One of solutions is the combination of an adaptive control with a fuzzy gain scheduling control (control system based on vehicle parameters fuzzy data base). The parameters data base enables the controller coefficients adaptation to fast changes of the vehicle state. The identification of parameters in the data base enables the adaptation to external conditions and vehicle equipment changes.


N.59 There is growing consensus that agriculture statistics are plagued with different types of nonsampling errors which may derive from distortions introduced via data collection methodology and techniques, interviewer's effect, respondents' interpretation of specific questions and their motivation to provide accurate answers, as well as respondents' characteristics like their level of education and gender. A relatively recent addition to the toolbox of farm and household survey practitioners is the use of GPS for the measurement of land areas. Household surveys, particularly multi-purpose surveys like the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), commonly rely on farmers' self-reporting to estimate the area under ownership and cultivation. The use of GPS is increasingly been used in household surveys and preliminary empirical evidence suggest that the differences with self-reporting may be substantial, and that such difference varies by farm size. In this intuition is correct, using GPS may have considerable implication on the much debated and contentious relationship between farm size and productivity. Making use of household surveys from Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique, in which both self-reported and GPS-based measurement were collected, we propose to systematically analyze the difference in land area measurement using both measurements, and estimate the impact on productivity estimates. The findings may have farreaching implications for land policy reforms in developing countries.


Banking liquidity regulation has transformed banks' business model and hampered entrepreneurial finance by reducing credit distribution. If capitalization and liquidity ratio have induced more stability, they have reduced the margin and profitability of European financial institutions. This fact has influenced the financing of enterprises in general and small and medium sized enterprises in particular. Hence, firms were obliged to find other sources of financing to undertake their projects and have contributed to transforming the business model of banking institutions.


The article describes the activities of the dissertation Council, formed on the basis of the research institute of introscopyin 1975, provides information on the results of the Council's work and the directions in which the defenses were performed in the period from 2000 to 2022. In conclusion, the prospects for the transformation of the Council in connection with the introduction of a new nomenclature of scientific specialties are considered.


The present invention relates to a gas turbine automatic control system and control method of the cooling water, the cooling water control system comprises automatic data acquisition, control, water pump and cooling water systems. The control system is a cooling water system can monitor the status of the entire cooling water system, the operation of the automatic control of the cooling water system, and controlling the temperature of the lubricating oil main pipe by adjusting the cooling water valve opening degree, the controller can not solve the existing as a separate control device, leading to the monitoring needs can not be achieved, and the difficulties of operating problems. The present invention provides a control method to achieve automatic control of the entire cooling water circuit, to achieve a pre-diagnosis function and effect of the cooling water system, cooling water system and the control of the gas turbine integrated with the control, good economical, simple operation, and the advantage of easy operation.


The authors describe an experimental study designed to determine the effects of a monetary incentive on (1) a potential respondent's decision to participate in a central-location interview, (2) that person's expressed willingness to participate in a future survey, and (3) the cost of data collection.


The invention relates to a manufacturing method of a fine silver-gold alloy bonding line for polycrystalline serial LED. The fine silver-gold alloy bonding line comprises 35-55wt% of Au, 0.3-0.5wt% of Ce and the balance Ag. The manufacturing method comprises the following steps of 1, silver-gold alloy bonding line blank melting and continuous casting, 2, silver-gold alloy rod drawing and 3, silver-gold alloy line intermediate heat treatment. The manufacturing method solves the problems of ignited balls, ball offset and sharpening of the common silver-gold alloy bonding line, improves silver-gold alloy bonding line corrosion resistance, and solves the problem that the existing polycrystalline serial LED has a small bonding point size and produces an irregular first welding spot ball in bonding thereby causing welding spot short circuit and bonding strength reduction.


Based on UBV differential photometric observations carried out at the Braeside Observatory between October 19, 1984 and January 11, 1985, it is shown that EZ Peg is in synchronous rotation with a photometric period of 11.6626 days. The orbital solution of Griffin (1985) is in good agreement with the present results, and it is employed to analyze the emission properties of the Ca II and H-alpha emission in the system. It is suggested that the emission of the system is almost entirely associated with the primary component, and the two stars appear to be similar in size and luminosity.


This study undertakes an integrated review of previous literature and theories regarding the Big Five personality traits and job involvement in an attempt to identify their relationship. Using questionnaire data gathered from 272 Taiwanese plastics industry employees, the study tests five hypotheses using structural equations. Empirical findings show that neuroticism relates negatively to employee job involvement, whereas extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness relate positively to it. These results may serve as a reference point for management and operations, particularly in plastics industry organizations.


The risk assessment for pests that may be carried by imported seedlings of Anthuruim spp. was reported with four quarantine pests and three non-restrictive quarantine pests, and the measures of pest risk management were also put forward.


1. 'The famous skull of the peace treaty', in: The New York Times, 7 December 1930; 'Article 246 of the treaty', in: New York Herald Tribune, 26 May 1933. 2. The New York Times, 26 October 1930; 7 December 1930. 3. 'Briton offers clue to the skull of Mkwawa: German war trophy believed seen in Africa', in: The New York Times, 4 September 1933. The Mkwawa complex: A Tanzanian-European history about provenance, restitution, and politics


Density is at the centre of urban change, and is often politicised. Building on Geographical and Urban scholarship, we set out a critical approach to understanding density through a focus on value. Following a review of key approaches to density, we show that while value is often at stake in efforts to manage, change, defend, or promote densities of different kinds, it has rarely been the explicit focus of critical research on density. We address this by outlining how density propositions entail a politics of value through three inter-related urban domains: speculation, regulation, and the popular, followed by consequences for future research.


Background: Chronic suppurative otitis media is an inflammation of the mucoperiosteal lining of the middle ear cleft. 10% of Indian population suffers from hearing impairment. Methods: The study comprises of 60 patients admitted in the department of ENT and head and neck surgery, AJIMS, Mangalore between June 2015 and May 2017. All patients suffered from CSOM, tubotympanic type. Selection criteria was patients with CSOM, TTD type with no or minimal SNHL, AB gap more than 20dB, absence of ossicular defects, no history of previous ear surgery and was operated on worse hearing ear. Exclusion criteria were atticoantral disease, ossicular defects, previous ear surgery, otomycosis and systemic diseases. Results: The majority of the patients were between the age group of 20-40 years. Out of the 60 patients, 28 were male and 32 female. 8 patients with moderate size and 20 with large perforations underwent underlay myringoplasty. For onlay corresponding numbers were 17 and 13. 26 patients (86.7%) who underwent underlay and 27 patients (90%) who underwent overlay had good hearing improvement. 43.3% of the group had significant hearing improvement at 6 months follow up. 20 patients had pneumatised and 40 patients had sclerotic mastoids in the study. Graft take up was 90% for underlay and 96.6% for overlay. The hearing loss was more with larger perforations.18 patients with large perforations who underwent underlay had good hearing improvement versus 13 for overlay whereas for moderate perforations, only 8 patients had good hearing improvement for underlay versus 15 for overlay. Conclusions: The hearing improvement obtained with underlay and overlay myringoplasty are comparable. The cellularity of mastoid has no influence on the hearing improvement. The size of the perforation correlates well with the degree of hearing loss. Underlay myringoplasty seems to give better results for large perforations, overlay for moderate sized ones.


The paper examines the theoretical and practical foundations of the initiation of criminal cases for crimes in the field of computer information. The stage of pre-investigation verification of a crime report is quite difficult due to the need to identify and consolidate the trace picture, requires the involvement of special knowledge in the field of information technology, the performance of certain actions, including of a technical nature, etc. Based on the analysis of domestic and foreign sources carried out by the authors, generalization of forensic practice and procedural regulation, an algorithm has been developed for conducting a pre-investigation check of reports of a crime of this type. Particular attention is given to tactical recommendations for interviewing a victim, namely an individual and a legal entity. Other verification and investigative actions are presented, depending on typical versions and situations. The operational search measures used to establish the fact of a crime are considered separately. At the same time, the generalization of the forensic practice of investigating crimes in the field of computer information and the questioning of representatives of law enforcement agencies made it possible to identify certain problematic points related to the pre-investigation verification of reports on these crimes, including the procedure for the treatment of victims with reports of incidents, with information from open sources of cyberspace within the framework of operational-search activities, etc. Based on the results of the research conducted by the authors, effective foreign practices are proposed, the transfer of which to domestic soil will help reduce the latency of these crimes, increase the efficiency of investigation and disclosure of this category of criminal cases.


A method of coating a body with a flowable coating, comprising the steps: - application of the varnish in a coating zone to form a flowable coating on the body, - solidifying said flowable coating in a solidification zone, characterized, in that - the body is cooled to ≤ 18 ° C by supplying cooled air with a relative humidity of 0% to 99% prior to the introduction into the coating zone, - in the coating zone, a coating is applied, water-based, wherein - the flowable coating in the solidification zone is cooled by supplying cooled air with a relative humidity of> 70% and a temperature of ≤ 15 ° C.


With advancement in computer science research on artificial intelligence and in cognitive psychology research on human learning and performance, the next generation of computer-based tutoring systems moved beyond the simple presentation of pages of text or graphics. These new intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) called cognitive tutors; incorporated model-tracing technology which is a cognitive model of student problem solving that captures students multiple strategies and common misconceptions. Such Intelligent tutoring systems or Knowledge Based Tutoring Systems can guide learners to progress in the learning process at their best. This paper deals with the review of various Intelligent tutoring systems using Bayesian Networks and how Bayesian Networks can be used for efficient decision making.


Although thumb duplication is often seen as a relatively simple difference to the paediatrician or surgeon, it can be very complex and its treatment is not simply resection of one of the two fingers or rays. As well as the bony anatomical anomalies, the flexor and extensor tendons can have different insertions with altered lines of pull. Furthermore, they may have aberrant and intricate connections, affecting the movement of the joints. In addition the collateral ligaments might be deficient, and the joint surfaces incongruent. Dependent on the type of polydactyly, the intrinsic muscles may also be involved. In most cases, both thumbs are inadequate in size, width and nail development, as compared to the opposite normal thumb (if not involved as well). A true hypoplastic thumb component such as aplasia or hypoplasia of the thenar muscles might also occur, as well as features of an adducted thumb. Therefore, knowledge on the pathological anatomy and all the variations is necessary to treat a "seemingly simple" congenital hand anomaly as radial polydactyly. Patel et al (2013) have stated that recognition of these different anomalies is important in treating Wassel type IV thumb polydactyly. One of the well-known debates over the Wassel classification is the description of Wassel type IV when the duplication is distal to the epiphysis, which is in essence a Wassel type III polydactyly. However, because of skeletal immaturity when mostly children are examined for thumb polydactyly, no distinction can be made on radiographs, therefore pooling occurs in type III and IV radial polydactylies. For research purposes, results on outcome could be biased by this failure of differentiation. Furthermore, when evaluating outcome, as in all assessment studies, one should know if the classification system used is distinctive enough to find differences within the anomaly regarding (surgical) outcome. As well as the different ways of interpreting the Wassel classification, the variations of expression of a radial polydactyly within the types are numerous. For Wassel type IV radial polydactylies there will be different approaches and outcomes for thumbs with, a hypoplastic extra thumb on metacarpal phalangeal joint level on the radial side of the more developed ulnar extra thumb (figure 1) compared to a so-called diamond shaped radial polydactyly (figure 2). Therefore, we tend to use an all-encompassing classification (Zuidam et al., 2008) incorporating the above-mentioned classifications for research purposes. 538149 JHS0010.1177/1753193414538149Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)Commentary research-article2014


Objective Through studying the influence on PetCO2 and wounded artery diastolic pressure in emergency CPR,to understand clinical effect of cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine.Methods From June 2010 to June 2012 in emergency department of our hospital,patients with cardiac arrest were selected and randomly divided into unarmed group of 15 cases and cardiopulmonary resuscitation group of 18 cases according to the press way,other rescue measures based on cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines in 2010.Monitor recovery immediately(0 min,10 min,20 min) PetCO2 and wounded artery diastolic pressure,at the same time,according to whether achieve spontaneous circulation(ROSC) recovery,all patients were divided into success/failure group of ROSC,record the number and do statistical analysis respectively.Results ROSC success rate 55.56% of cardiopulmonary resuscitation group was higher than that of unarmed group 26.67%(P 0.05);ROSC successful group 0 min point PetCO2and wounded artery diastolic pressure of two groups had no statistically difference(P 0.05);ROSC successful groups 20 min PetCO2 and wounded artery diastolic pressure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation group were higher than that of unarmed group(P 0.05).Conclusion Cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine can improve tissue perfusion of cardiac arrest patients,and improve the success rate of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.


There is a small but deliberate difference between the above title and that of an article by Suleiman M. Ahmad which appeared in PBS A in 1978.11 would wholeheartedly support Ahmad's concluding point that "it is high time that all Hardy's latest revisions were embodied in the text of A Pair of Blue Eyes." However, I would take issue with him on a number of points, particularly the fact that he greatly oversimplifies the later textual situation of A Pair of Blue Eyes by not referring to certain pieces of available evidence and by ignoring the fact that the revisions contained in Hardy's own study copy of


The microstructure and mechanical properties of new kind of hot-rolled high strengthand high elongation steels with retained austenite were studied by discussing the in-fluence of different carbon content. The research results indicate that carbon contenthas a significant effect on retaining austenite and consequently resulting in high elon-gation. Besides, new findings about relationship between carbon content and retainedaustenite as well as properties were discussed in the paper.


Objectives: Total circulatory arrest (TCA) technique is a method used in cardiac surgery accompanied by cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). It has been shown that Tulbaghia violacea extract increases antioxidant capacity, regulates blood pressure, decreases lipid peroxide, and reduces atherosclerosis. In this experimental study, we aimed to investigate the effect of T. violacea extract administration on serum oxidative stress parameters (Total antioxidant status [TAS], total oxidant status [TOS] and oxidative stress index [OSI] and deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA] damage level with 8-Hydroxy-2-Deoxyguanosine [8-OHdG]) and histopathological changes in the heart and other organs in rats with deep circulatory arrest model. Methods: In this study, 48 Wistar Albino adult rats, 24 female and 24 male, obtained from Harran University Experimental Animals Research Center were used. The average weight of female rats was 250-300 g, and the average weight of male rats was 450-500g. These rats were randomly divided into four groups. 6 male and 6 female rats were used in each group (Group 1 = Sham, Group 2 = Injury, Group 3 = Treatment and Injury, Group 4 = Treatment). Results: As a result of this experimental study, the changes in the biochemical 8-OHdG, TOS, OSI and TAS levels of the groups were found to be statistically significant ( p < 0.001). In the subgroup analyzes of the data, 8-OHdG level, which is an oxidative DNA damage marker in Group 2 was higher than the Group 1, Group 3 and Group 4 and there was a statistically significant difference ( p < 0.001, p = 0.027 and p < 0.001; respectively). The TOS level of the injury group was higher than Group 1, Group 3 and Group 4 and there was a statistically significant difference ( p < 0.001, p = 0.003 and p < 0.001; respectively). Conclusions: As a result of our study, we revealed that T. violacea extract has a protective effect on organ and tissue damage in the TCA model.


Energy harvesting is raising area of research now as the whole world is looking for clean and green energy as an alternative source. This paper describes energy harvesting from piezoelectric materials. The proposed model of Energy Harvester from piezoelectric Materials has been presented. The MATLAB simulation model of piezoelectric energy harvester has been developed and results are obtained in the form of waveforms. The generation of electric energy when some force is applied on the sensors depends upon various factors such as number of piezoelectric transducers, electromechanical coupling coefficient of piezoelectric sensors, amount of load applied, and also on the scheme of arrangement. This paper also describes the process of making an efficient piezoelectric harvester. The model design is purely for studying the energy generation and capturing phenomenon in an efficient manner. It can be implemented to generate large power.


Models of baryogenesis which may lead to astronomically significant amount of antimatter in the universe are reviewed. Observational features are briefly discussed.


Aims:  To  understand  how  the  multidisciplinary  team  conceivesadherence  to  the  treatment  of  users  inserted  in  CAPS  AD.  Methodology:  This  is  a descriptive and exploratory study, using a qualitative approach conducted with professionals  from  a  mental  health  service  through  semi-structured  interviews  and subsequent thematic analysis. Results: Two categories have emerged - the conception of adherence to treatment which highlighted the link, the recognition of the will to treat on the  part  of  the  person  and  understanding  in  terms  of  abstinence;  and  how  the  team takes  care  of  the  users  and  the  service,  which  emphasized  the  multidisciplinary  work, organization  of  the  work  process,  flexibility  of  schedules,  active  search  for  the  absent persons,  individual  therapeutic  project,  and  attention  to  the  care  needs  of  the  person undergoing treatment. Conclusion: It highlighted the importance of welcoming attitudes to  strengthen  the  bond,  permeating  the  understanding  in  terms  of  adhesion  and influence over the multi-professional teamwork process.


Copper zinc tin sulfur (CZTS) thin films have been extensively studied in recent years for their advantages of low cost, high absorption coefficient (≥104 cm−1), appropriate band gap (~1.5 eV), and nontoxicity. CZTS thin films are promising materials of solar cells like copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). In this work, CZTS thin films were prepared on glass substrates by vacuum evaporation and sulfurization method. Sn/Cu/ZnS (CZT) precursors were deposited by thermal evaporation and then sulfurized in N2


We describe an adaptive optics system designed to obtain diffraction limited imaging in the near infrared (~2 microns) with the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The basic system consists of a 55 element adaptive mirror, a 37 element Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor, and a dedicated microprocessor for analysis of sensor data and active mirror control. This polychromatic adaptive optics system utilizes the visible radiation from a semi-stellar source, or nearby star, for wavefront sensing while imaging the near-infrared radiation on an InSb array detector. Recent laboratory tests of the working system are summarized.


Despite the unresolved histogenetic origin of ASPS, the molecular translocation has been successfully recognized resulting in der17t(X;17)(p11.2;q25) fusing TFE3 gene on the chromosome X with ASPL on chromosome 17. This fusion leads to the overexpression of TFE3 which can be detected with a commercially available antibody and its positive staining is considered diagnostic of ASPS. Our case not only demonstrates that ASPS can arise as a primary bone sarcoma, but also that TFE3 immunostain can be of extreme utility in confi rming this diagnosis in a location where metastatic renal clear cell carcinoma or other mimics are more favored possibilities.


Abstract Microstructural changes of MBBA liquid crystal films are investigated where the direction of observation is perpendicular to the applied electric field (dc or low frequency ac) direction. Some unusual features are reported and possible mechanisms for the formation of Williams domains and the "dynamic scattering" state from the microstructural point of view are discussed.


The efficiency of mining complete set of frequent items remains a key factor to determine association rules.As to the bottlenecks of the Apriori algorithm,an improved method was put forward.The array was used to store items information,it just need once scans to database and reduce a mass of time.The improved method added a pruning process before connection,the number of candidate items could be reduced.The example showed that the improved algorithm was more efficient.


There are few data on changing patterns of localization‐related epileptic syndromes with time and particularly on changes in seizure semiology as patients age. We retrospectively reviewed 53 patients aged >60 years who had had partial epileptic seizures for a mean duration of 44 years. In 20 patients, seizures became progressively less elaborate and briefer with time. In 29 patients, seizures were unchanged. In four patients, seizures worsened, with the appearance of drop attacks, secondarily generalized seizures, increasing drug resistance, and mental deterioration. These latter 4 patients had cerebrovascular disease with multiple strokes.


Aim. To analyze the prevalence and role of comorbidities in variety of clinical manifestations in patients with congenital occipital hypoplasia «overcroded posterior cranial fossa» syndrome. Methods. Clinical history and physical examination of 200 patients (aged 16-74 years, males 108, females 92) with «overcrowded posterior cranial fossa» syndrome, including 134 with cerebellar ectopia, 92 with syringomyelia, 24 with hydrocephalus, were analyzed. Results. The diseases identified in patients with «overcrowded posterior cranial fossa» syndrome were combined into six groups: cardiovascular diseases (n=120; 60.0%), infectious and inflammatory diseases (n=39; 19.5%), gastrointestinal diseases (n=37; 18.5%), metabolic and endocrine diseases (n=31; 15.5%), diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (including cervical vertebral stenosis (n=53; 26.5%), scoliosis (n=50; 25.0%), arthropathies (n=21; 10.5%), other diseases and pathological conditions (including mild traumatic brain injury (n=74; 37.0%), seizures (n=13; 6.5%). In patients with «overcrowded posterior cranial fossa» syndrome the prevalence of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal diseases, traumatic brain injury, obesity, primary or secondary cervical vertebral stenosis was significantly higher (p


Yellow River Conservancy Commission has ensured that there is no depletion occurred in the Yellow River under the conditions of continuous low coming water from 2000 to 2004. This is a major achievement of the river harnessing in the new period, another milestone from conventional harnessing to modern management and of important ecological, economic, social and political significance. The practice of depletion prevention of the Yellow River is a successful system transition. It has strengthened the total quantity control of regional consumption through integrated water regulation, changed the incentive structure of water use of each province along the river and pushed forward the establishment of allocation system of water right in the basin. System building is the key for successful depletion prevention. The successful experiences of depletion prevention also has provided important lessons for water right system building of major rivers in China, which represents the orientation of China water reform. At present, the burden of no depletion happened in the river is heavy. It still needs further major changes of allocation system of the basin.


PURPOSE
The goal of this study is to leverage an advanced fast imaging technique, wave-controlled aliasing in parallel imaging (Wave-CAIPI), and a generative adversarial network (GAN) for denoising to achieve accelerated high-quality high-signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) volumetric MRI.

METHODS
Three-dimensional (3D) T2 -weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) image data were acquired on 33 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using a prototype Wave-CAIPI sequence (acceleration factor R = 3×2, 2.75 minutes) and a standard T2 -SPACE FLAIR sequence (R = 2, 7.25 minutes). A hybrid denoising GAN entitled "HDnGAN" consisting of a 3D generator and a 2D discriminator was proposed to denoise highly accelerated Wave-CAIPI images. HDnGAN benefits from the improved image synthesis performance provided by the 3D generator and increased training samples from a limited number of patients for training the 2D discriminator. HDnGAN was trained and validated on data from 25 MS patients with the standard FLAIR images as the target and evaluated on data from 8 MS patients not seen during training. HDnGAN was compared to other denoising methods including AONLM, BM4D, MU-Net, and 3D GAN in qualitative and quantitative analysis of output images using the mean squared error (MSE) and VGG perceptual loss compared to standard FLAIR images, and a reader assessment by two neuroradiologists regarding sharpness, SNR, lesion conspicuity, and overall quality. Finally, the performance of these denoising methods was compared at higher noise levels using simulated data with added Rician noise.

RESULTS
HDnGAN effectively denoised low-SNR Wave-CAIPI images with sharpness and rich textural details, which could be adjusted by controlling the contribution of the adversarial loss to the total loss when training the generator. Quantitatively, HDnGAN (λ = 10-3 ) achieved low MSE and the lowest VGG perceptual loss. The reader study showed that HDnGAN (λ = 10-3 ) significantly improved the SNR of Wave-CAIPI images (P<0.001), outperformed AONLM (P = 0.015), BM4D (P<0.001), MU-Net (P<0.001) and 3D GAN (λ = 10-3 ) (P<0.001) regarding image sharpness, and outperformed MU-Net (P<0.001) and 3D GAN (λ = 10-3 ) (P = 0.001) regarding lesion conspicuity. The overall quality score of HDnGAN (λ = 10-3 ) (4.25±0.43) was significantly higher than those from Wave-CAIPI (3.69±0.46, P = 0.003), BM4D (3.50±0.71, P = 0.001), MU-Net (3.25±0.75, P<0.001), and 3D GAN (λ = 10-3 ) (3.50±0.50, P<0.001), with no significant difference compared to standard FLAIR images (4.38±0.48, P = 0.333). The advantages of HDnGAN over other methods were more obvious at higher noise levels.

CONCLUSION
HDnGAN provides robust and feasible denoising while preserving rich textural detail in empirical volumetric MRI data. Our study using empirical patient data and systematic evaluation supports the use of HDnGAN in combination with modern fast imaging techniques such as Wave-CAIPI to achieve high-fidelity fast volumetric MRI and represents an important step to the clinical translation of GANs. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


Until now, the academic study of Lurianic kabbala has largely pursued three roads of inquiry. The first, following Scholem, has been the study of Lurianic kabbala as a mystical and eschatological response to the historical events of the Jewish expulsion from Spain in 1492, an event viewed as the root of the mystical heresy of Shabbtai Tzvi. The second pathway has been the scholarly analysis of Lurianic teaching as the most extreme example of kabbalistic theosophy, surpassing both the Zohar and Cordoverean Kabbala in its intricate and complex delineation of the cosmic world. The third approach has addressed the unusually complicated task of deciphering, categorizing, and pointing out the voluminous manuscripts of Luria's students, a literary oeuvre which is as diverse as it is complex. While all of these are important and contribute to the overall understanding of what is the most influential kabbalistic doctrine since the Zohar, I would like to approach the Lurianic material from a different perspective.


There has been a growing interest in measuring and optimizing the power efficiency of mobile apps. Traditional power evaluations rely either on inaccurate software-based solutions or on ad-hoc testbeds composed of a power meter and a mobile device. This demonstration presents BatteryLab, our solution to share existing battery testing setups to build a distributed platform for battery measurements. Our vision is to transform independent battery testing setups into vantage points of a planetary-scale measurement platform offering heterogeneous devices and testing conditions. We demonstrate BatteryLab functionalities by investigating the energy efficiency of popular websites when loaded via both Android and iOS browsers. Our demonstration is also live at https://batterylab.dev/.


The annual financial statement is a technical and accounting instrument capable to provide with, periodically, a synthetic representation of the patrimonial and financial statement and of the economical result of an entity. In Europe, the financial accounting phenomenon was born in the second half of the 80s, when the legislature started to modify the aspects concerning the procedure to make the balance sheet. Later on, in the beginning of the 90s, computing and accounting techniques studying was begun, by creating a real and true branch of the economical sciences, called "financial accounting". For these reasons, the attention was mainly focused on making specific norms, concerning the structure and evaluation of the financial statement, aiming to limit the liberty enjoyed by the administrators in choosing the rules to adopt in making the balance sheet. The fact that each evaluation of a patrimonial item is changing, varying with the purpose the one that makes the balance sheet proposes to get to by evaluation, was recognized; therefore deriving the necessity not to let to the administrators the decision concerning the way that the patrimonial elements will be evaluated, a highly- important decision and with a practically relevant impact over the obtained results


The applications of fly ash are wide, but in the subtropical zone because of climate reasons causing some technical difficulties the application is few. According to the experience of engineering the changes of technical functions of slip form concrete, mass concrete, pump concrete and underwater concrete caused by fly ash under hot climate condition are stated.


in the post-war-time, the scrapers, so primitive, began to be adopted to increase the filling speed in Cut and Fill stopes. After many experiments and employments, they were aplied in actual operations in 1949 and resulted in the remarkable progress of effecency in haulage, required by the development of Sub-Level stoping method with the long and semi-long holes. They are three main factors on the design of scrapers ;self-weight, digging angle and weight balance. Among then, self-weight seem to be most influential to treat such the blocken are in bigger size as the one at the Kamioka Mine. They are use in the various waies and now occupy are little less than 50% of the total output. Thus they have brought many advantages in mining engineering on the problems of the increase of haulage effecency, the lowering of haulage cost, the concentration of stopes and prevention of accident.


High volume change and low thermal conductivity will impede the application of paraffin wax (PW). Expanded graphite (EG) is one of the best materials to shape-stabilize PW and improve its thermal conductivity. NanoSiO2 is also considered as a good supporting material of PW. Herein, a novel nanoSiO2-EG-PW ternary form-stable phase change material (FSPCM) with enhanced thermal properties was reported. Subsequently, the effect of nanoSiO2-EG-PW with different amounts on the chemical composition, morphology, and thermal properties of PW-based hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) was investigated using Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal gravimetric analyzer (TGA), thermal cycling test, and thermal conductivity, respectively. These results indicated that nanoSiO2-EG-PW could effectively shape-stabilize PW in the HTPB matrix without chemical reaction. The thermal conductivity of nanoSiO2-EG-PW was improved fro...


The relationship between family socio-economic status (SES) and the academic performance of children is well established in sociological research. While there is disagreement over how best to measure SES, most studies indicate that children from low SES families do not perform as well as they potentially could at school compared to children from high SES families (Graetz, 1995). Most studies, however, compare students from across all SES backgrounds to reach the conclusion that low SES adversely affects a range of educational outcomes. Another important dimension, however, is the factors that may influence educational outcomes within particular SES bands. This paper presents data on the educational performance of children from financially disadvantaged backgrounds and examines its variation as affected by traditional measures of SES as well as by a range of other family, individual and contextual factors.


The invention provides a backlight driving circuit with double BOOST booster circuits. The backlight driving circuit comprises a power module, a first inductor, a second inductor, a first rectifier diode, a second rectifier diode, a light-emitting diode (LED) light string, a constant current driver chip, a capacitor, a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) tube, a second MOS tube, a first voltage comparator and a constant voltage source. The first voltage comparator is used for generating two driving signals with opposite phase positions, the two driving signals are respectively used for driving two MOS tubes in the double BOOST booster circuits, and therefore the two BOOST booster circuits are enabled to work in a forked mode, the current converging to the rear ends of the circuits is an approximate direct current, the amplitude of the current is equal to the peak value of a triangular wave peak of a single BOOST booster circuit, circuit amplitude is improved, the situation of reduplicating the amplitude is avoided, and therefore the standard of the rectifier diodes does not need to be increased, producing cost is reduced, the size of the ripple of an output current is reduced, and the phenomenon that electromagnetic interference is reduplicated due to the fact that the double BOOST booster circuits work simultaneously is avoided.


On the basis of result analysis of numerical solution of heat conductivity difference equations for layer medium it is shown, the accuracy difference equations at boundary points as on boundary body both and on laminate boundary is low on the order of accuracy on inside points.


Solving analytic systems using inversion can be implemented in a variety of ways. One method is to use Lagrange inversion and variations. Here we present a different approach, based on dual vector fields. For a function analytic in a neighborhood of the origin in the complex plane, we associate a vector field and its dual, an operator version of Fourier transform. The construction extends naturally to functions of several variables. We illustrate with various examples and present an efficient algorithm readily implemented as a symbolic procedure in Maple while suitable as well for numerical computations using languages such as C or Java.


Encephalitis is a serious neurological condition; delayed diagnosis of encephalitis can cause significant mortality and morbidity. Even timely treatment may not be enough to save the patient. In this article we report a case of herpes encephalitis which was treated and discharged from the intensive care unit with cure, but readmitted with status epilepticus with a relapse of encephalitis. Herpes relapse was dismissed by PCR and although the diagnostic workup was inconclusive the patient was diagnosed as autoimmune encephalitis. The patient's seizures couldn't be controlled for 175 days and all treatment attempts failed to reverse the clinical situation. The patient was lost during the intensive care treatment.


Yahoo's advanced products team is a small team that develops and incubates new product ideas before formally launching them and integrating them with the Yahoo! network. We conceived, built and launched Mixd, a social mobile product experiment, in a 9 month timeframe. We were extremely focused on a specific problem of our target audience and remained true to that problem throughout. We focused ourselves and selected our product features with our target audience in mind. We took every opportunity to spend time with our users and integrated their feedback through the entire design process. Our process was agile and enabled us to move quickly and change course based on the feedback we received. We experienced first hand how a focus on our users and how removing complexity and assumptions in our product allowed people to use our product in unintended ways. Those unanticipated uses can end up being more interesting than your original idea.


The angles and the axes of rotation for all possible types of mutual misorientations of 576 fcc crystals that can form upon double fcc → bcc → fcc (γ → α → γ) martensitic transformation were calculated. The misorientations of α crystals after the α → γ → α cycle were determined. The orientation relationships were taken to be the same in both transformations: they were of the intermediate, Kurdjumov-Sachs, and Nishiyama types. It was found that the numbers of the types of misorientations for the y crystals in the former case and for the α crystals in the latter case for these orientation relationships were 18, 11, 7, and 21, 11, 6, respectively. Histograms of the distributions of the calculated misorientations with respect to the angle of rotation were constructed.


N-propylsulfanyl and isopropylsulfanyl substituted 2,5-di(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)-1,3-dithiolane-4-thione derivatives with methoxycarbonyl groups were synthesized, and their redox and electronic properties and crystal structures were investigated. Solid-state absorption spectra showed that both derivatives absorb almost all visible light. Furthermore isopropylsulfanyl-substituted derivatives absorb near-infrared light and the absorption edge reaches around 1320 nm. The crystal structures show that both derivatives are stacked in one dimension to form a columnar structure, but the molecular arrangements of their columns were quite different from each other. The stacked n-propylsulfanyl derivatives kept their orientation of thiocarbonyl groups in the same direction and the one molecule of the isopropylsulfanyl derivatives were rotated in relation to each other by an angle of 56° about their longer molecular axis. The TD-DFT calculation of stacked molecules suggests that the molecular arrangement among the st...


In 1990, Northern Arizona University, Intel Corporation, and Motorola Inc. entered into a joint partnership with the goal of creating an exemplary laboratory for undergraduate instruction in semiconductor fabrication. By the time the laboratory was completed, over a dozen smaller companies has joined in the effort. The resulting laboratory not only satisfied the original goal, but it also became a catalyst causing fundamental changes in the engineering curriculum at NAU. This project both demonstrates the potential for such joint efforts and shows some pitfalls to be avoided.<<ETX>>


Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent cancers with high morbidity and mortality rates. Despite current advances in surgical/multimodal therapies, the overall patient's survival of advanced colorectal cancer has been still low. Recent studies have proposed many novel biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of colorectal cancer. Among them, immunohistochemically detectable tissue markers are useful for the pathologists. Useful prognostic tissue markers are limited in number, while several diagnostic tissue markers such as caudal type homeobox 2 (CDX2) have been established. The article authored by Koshino et al. describes the clinicopathological significance of phospho‐histone H3 (PHH3) expression in colorectal cancer. The authors focused on the immunohistochemical expression of four cellular proliferation markers: phospho‐histone H3 (PHH3), cyclin A (CCNA), geminin (GMNN), and marker of proliferation Ki‐67 (MKI67), and analyzed their clinicopathological significance using the 269 surgically resected colorectal cancers.4–6 They performed the immunostaining using an ordinary manufactured instrument (Ventana BenchMark XT; Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland), and detected clear immunohistochemical staining patterns of the four cellular proliferation markers. The authors demonstrated interesting results that patients with PHH3‐high (≥7 per high power field (HPF)) tumors showed a significantly longer 5‐year patient's survival than those with PHH3‐low (≤6 per HPF) (81.8% vs. 65.5%; P = 0.0047), while there was no significant association between CCNA, GMNN, or MKI67 expression and 5‐year patient's survival. PHH3 expression was significantly fewer in the tumor invasive area than the tumor surface, and significantly even fewer in the tumor invasive front than in the tumor invasive area. Furthermore, the multivariable Cox hazards regression analysis revealed PHH3‐high expression, well to moderately differentiated histology, and younger age (<70 years) as potential favorable factors, while lymph node metastasis, and peritoneal metastasis were shown as potential independent risk factors. It has been unclear why PHH3‐high expression was correlated with better clinical outcomes of the colorectal cancer patients. However, immunohistochemical PHH3 expression is easy to detect, and is thought to be one of the useful markers to predict the patient's survival of the advanced colorectal cancer.


The histological and serological changes in animals made experimentally hypersensitive to foreign proteins have been separately studied by many investigators. I t does not fall within the scope of this report to review the extensive literature dealing with these subjects. I t is our purpose to at tempt to correlate the sequences in the development of definite tissue changes with concomitant serological studies of the levels of antigen and antibody. The demonstration by Rich and Gregory (1), that a single large injection of heterologous serum may produce marked vascular lesions in rabbits not sensitized previously, has provided an experimental technique adaptable to such studies. Hektoen and Cole (2), Cannon and Marshall (3), and others have pointed out the importance of using only highly purified and well characterized proteins in studies on the fundamental nature of immune reactions. The methods for the fractionation of plasma proteins recently developed in the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Harvard Medical School (4-10) have made available many of the proteins of both human and bovine blood plasma in states of greater purity and in larger amounts than could readily have been obtained by previous methods. The use of these materials has provided a new approach to studies of the reactions of hypersensitivity as well as to many other problems in biology and in clinical medicine.


Computer or microprocessor has brought great achievements in relaying protection field. Therefore, more expectations are given to the relay protection equipment. In this paper, the functions of the microprocessor based protection to the operation, maintenance, plant or station automation and production innovation are discussed based on the power network operation.


The paper is devoted to studying the exponential stability of a mild solution of stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion with an aperiodically intermittent control. The aperiodically intermittent control is added into the drift coefficients, when intermittent intervals and coefficients satisfy suitable conditions; by use of the G-Lyapunov function, the p-th exponential stability is obtained. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the availability of the obtained results.


This paper studies the relationship between the holding concentration and performance of close-end fund.We use Gini coefficient and Herfindahl index to measure the holding concentration of fund,and use three factors Jensen Alpha,Fama and French to measure the performance of fund.We find that: the higher the holding concentration,the high the fund's performance.


A receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) is a statistical tool to assess the accuracy of a test. In this article, we propose to review the methods and applications of the ROC curve for various situations in clinical trials and drug development. The ROC curve is widely accepted as a method for selecting an optimal cutoff point and for comparing the accuracy of diagnostic tests. It is a plot of the true positive rate against the false positive rate for different cutoff points. The sensitivity and specificity of a test, however, depend on the level that has been chosen as a cutoff point for normal or abnormal. In bioavailability or bioequivalence (BA/BE) studies, the area under the curve (AUC) is often used to measure the extent of absorption or total amount of drug absorbed into the body. AUC is usually calculated using a trapezoidal rule based on blood or plasma concentrations obtained at various sampling time points. In pharmacovigilance, the ROC curve is used in signal detection.


Objective To discuss the changes of serum neuron-specific enolase(NSE) and S100B protein levels of patients with acute cerebral infarction before and after medical treatment. Methods 50 cases of patients with acute cerebral infarction from January 2010 to March 2013 in People's Hospital of Sanmen County were selected as case group,and were given the symptomatic treatment,such as the control of intracranial pressure,blood pressure and blood glucose anti-platelet aggregation,brain cells protection,prevention and treatment of complications,and other treatments for 2 weeks. According to the size of cerebral infarction area(≥5 cm2or 5 cm2),large area group(21 cases) and small area group(19 cases) were divided,The changes of serum NSE and S100B protein levels and the sizes of cerebral infarction of patients before and after medical treatment were compared,the relationship between infarction area in case group,serum NSE and S100B protein levels were observed. Additionally,30 cases of healthy people who were taking the physical examination at the same period were selected as health group,and the serum NSE and S100B protein levels of health group were compared with case group. Results ①The serum NES and S100B protein levels of patients in case group [(32.57±7.12) ng/mL,(2.15±0.43) ng/mL] were higher than those in health group [(7.34±1.98) ng/mL,(0.34±0.07) ng/mL],the differences were statistically significant(t = 7.26,8.92,P 0.01). The serum NSE and S100B protein levels of patients in case group 2 weeks after the medical treatment [(18.72±3.65) ng/mL,(0.97±0.18) ng/mL] were obviously lower than those of before treatment [(32.57±7.12) ng/mL,(2.15±0.43) ng/mL],and the infarction area after medical treatment [(4.37±1.06) cm2] was smaller than those of before medical treatment [(5.75±1.58) cm2],the differences were statistically significant(t = 3.12,5.31,2.34,P 0.05 or P 0.01). ②The NSE and S100B protein levels in large area group [(38.56±8.14) ng/mL,(2.38±0.49) ng/mL] was higher than those of small area group [(24.30 ±6.17) ng/mL,(1.83±0.38) ng/mL],the differences were statistically significant(t = 2.87,2.30,P 0.05 or P 0.01). Conclusion The patients with acute cerebral infarction have abnormally high serum NSE and S100B protein levels,which have some correlation with stroke infarction. It is right to take the serum NSE and S100B as the serological markers of levels,areas,therapeutic and prognosis evaluation of acute cerebral infarction.


Purpose
This paper aims to analyze factors based on organizational knowledge management (KM; transactional memory systems and knowledge-oriented leadership [K-OL]) that help firms to mitigate conflicts based on task management at work, with the aim to improve their innovation capabilities (IC). The knowledge-based view of the firm, conflict management theory and cognitive collective engagement theory have been used to build a model of relationships that connects the development of positive KM contexts and management of dysfunctional conflict with IC improvement.

Design/methodology/approach
Data survey collected from inland hotel establishments in Spain is used to test seven hypotheses by means of structural equations modeling, applying the partial least squares technique. Direct, indirect and mediating relationships between variables are examined from the structural path model.

Findings
The results confirm that, as expected, IC improve when K-OL and transactive memory systems (TMSs) are properly implemented by hotel establishments, which leads them to reduce negative effects of task management conflict (TMC). Significant direct effects are found between the key variables of the study and also a significant indirect effect between K-OL and IC through TMS reinforcement and the mitigation of TMC.

Practical implications
This paper provides useful ideas for hotel managers about how to improve KM contexts in their establishments while avoiding TMC. Efforts devoted to creating those contexts by hotel establishments are shown to be effective to improve their IC and create competitive advantages.

Originality/value
The analysis of IC improvement by studying TMC mitigation had not been researched to date by the KM literature. The consideration and testing of a model that integrates KM-related tools such as K-OL and TMS to avoid TMC in the hotel industry is the main contribution of this study.


The concepts of Poka Yoke (mistake-proofing) and source inspection have been applied to two digital bipolar integrated-circuit processing steps: sputter etch (prior to metal deposition) and wet etch of oxide. In both applications, the opportunities for error were identified, and error-prevention techniques were defined to eliminate the potential for error at the source. The sputter etch application involves embedding a microprocessor into an MRC-903 sputtering system. The operator interacts with the microprocessor, which provides set-up assistance and monitors the quality of the sputter etch process. Deposition of metal is not allowed if the sputter etch does not meet minimum processing specifications. The probability of defects (high-resistance via contacts) is greatly reduced: these defects could otherwise remain undetected until later electrical testing. The wet oxide etch application uses a stand-alone microcomputer to provide expert assistance to the production operator. The assistance provides help with etchant qualification, special instructions associated with difficult process requirements, location of areas to be measured, specified process control limits, and calculation of etch times. This microcomputer implementation allows the retention of a relatively complicated process sequence while minimizing the occurrence of wafer loss due to human error.<<ETX>>


Multidrug resistance among Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections (UTIs) and diarrhea are major public health problem worldwide which cause difficulty in treating the infections caused by Escherichia coli due to the high resistances. The study is aimed to determine the phenotypic and molecular detection of multidrug resistant E. coli isolated from clinical samples of patients attending selected Hospitals in Damaturu, Yobe State-Nigeria.
Methods: Two hundred (200) clinical samples were collected aseptically from patient diagnosed with (100 stool samples) and UTI's (100 urine samples) using sterile universal container. The samples were processed using standard microbiological methods for identification of E. coli. Samples were cultured on MacConkey agar (stool) and Cystine lactose electrolyte deficient agar (urine). The resulting colonies of isolates were further subculture on Eosin methylene blue agar for confirmatory and followed by gram stain, biochemical identification at Microbiology laboratory unit of Yobe State Specialist and Yobe State Teaching Hospital respectively. The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns were determined using Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion techniques and the phenotypic expression of extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) were determined using modified double disc synergy test (MDDST) and also the three (3) resistance genes (blaTEM, accC1 and qnrA) were detected using polymerase chain reaction.
Results: One hundred and twenty-two (122) isolates were resistant to antibiotics. The highest level of resistance was against amoxicillin (90.2%) while the least resistance was against sparfloxacin (24.3%). Thirty-seven (37) E. coli isolates shows MDR; the highest MDR was (24.3%) while least MDR was (5.4%). The PCR amplification of resistant genes (blaTEM, accC1 and qnrA) were detected on E. coli that shows positive ESBL and the bands were separated using agarose gel electrophoresis.
Conclusion: The findings of this study show augmentin, ciprofloxacin and sparfloxacin are the most effective antibiotics against E. coli isolated from patients attending the two hospitals in Damaturu; who are diagnose with UTI and diarrheic infection. The resistant genes include; blaTEM, accC1 and qnrA coding for beta-lactam, aminoglycoside and quinolones were present in E. coli isolated from patients attending selected Hospitals in Yobe State, Nigeria.

Keywords: Multidrug resistant, Escherichia coli, extended spectrum beta lactamase, resistance-associated genes, urinary tract infections, diarrheic.


The impact of light-duty passenger vehicle emissions on global carbon dioxide concentrations was estimated using the MAGICC reduced-form climate model combined with the PNNL contribution to the CCSP scenarios product. Our central estimate is that tailpipe light duty vehicle emissions of carbon-dioxide over the 21st century will increase global carbon dioxide concentrations by slightly over 12 ppmv by 2100.


In this article, the processes of energy absorption and coherent transfer in a dimer are studied. The dimer includes two two-level pigments, donor and acceptor, where the donor is assumed to be excited by a control pulse in the time domain. We investigate the dynamics of probability that the acceptor is in the excited state and the total efficiency of energy absorption and transfer under different temporal shapes of the control pulse. Quantum concurrence of the dimer is also discussed.


This text describes the work developed in the research; Literary reading in the oral processes of children between 7 and 9 years old. This was aimed at demonstrating the influence of literary reading and the relationship between comprehension and interpretation processes, with oral language skills in students. The research was carried out with a group of third-grade boys and girls of the La Estancia San Isidro Labrador Institucion de Educacion Distrital I.E.D., located in the town of Ciudad Bolivar, in Bogota. To this objective, a didactic sequence was designed and implemented as a pedagogical object, which made it possible to demonstrate the transit from literary reading, of oral interventions by boys and girls; from spontaneity, to the planning and presentation of ideas, opinions and intentional and formal oral arguments. It was developed under the paradigm of qualitative research and the systematization of experiences approach, the validation of research results allows us to see how literary reading practices mediated by the teacher in the classroom make possible the experience and approach of students with strategies and elements that gradually they strengthen their language skills, specifically in the construction of formal oral language.


Numerous studies have identified the perceptual characteristics of speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD), imprecise consonants (e.g., Darley, Aronson, and Brown, 1969). Acoustic studies have supported these findings with the observations such as spirantization, or the incomplete closure and fricative-like production of aperiodic noise during the closuresilent interval of stop consonants (Weismer, Yunusova, and Bunton, 2012). The current presentation explores the articulatory kinematics in speakers with PD during the closure interval duration of stop consonants with respect to distance, displacement, and timing of inter-articulators motion. In addition, the changes in articulatory movements during this brief time interval are examined as the speakers voluntarily vary the degree of speech intelligibility. Participants with PD and neurologically healthy controls were asked to read sentences containing stop consonants (e.g.," Buy Bobby a puppy"). Movement data were collected using the WAVE (NDI, Canada). The...


This research studied the effects of music experiences on the language development of toddlers in the day care setting. Subjects were 44(23 experimental group; 21 control group) 29- to 42-month-old children. The experimental group experienced 10 weeks of music activities, including musical sense, singing, listening, playing instruments, improvisation, finger plays, movement, simple games, word-sound music games and music routines. Language development was tested by the Preschool Receptive-Expressive Language Scale(Kim et al. 2003). Significant differences were found in the receptive language development of 30- to 36-month-old and in the expressive language development of 36- to 42-month-old toddlers, respectively.


This paper addresses the governance of regional innovations towards sustainability. From the literature it is clear that variety is a major source of innovations: innovations come into being in interplay between a variety of public and private actors who bring with them a large variety of identities, values, realities and practices. In this context, traditional concepts of governance such as planning and control, formalized processes and top–down steering are less appropriate. Yet some stability and structures are needed to create common understandings and mutual trust.


It is shown that the NSO group has little resonance interaction with a benzene ring in the ground state but that it is capable of resonance donation or acceptance in the presence of a second substituent, depending on the electron demand. This variable interaction is compared with that of related groups.


Writing is a major language skill that should be the concern of teachers and students. Some firstyear English language students seem less interested in writing correct sentences and paragraphs because of the lack of grammar and writing practice in the classroom. They mostly encounter grammar use difficulties, which impede their written communication. The research question that arises in this respect is: does summarizing strategy help learners improve their grammar and writing skills? The aim is to raise teachers' awareness about the importance of summary as a strategy to help learners apply grammar rules correctly when writing. The participants were firstyear students from the department of English, Dr. Tahar Mouley UniversitySaida. To achieve the work, the researcher applied the quantitative and qualitative research methods that resulted in excellent productions. Yet, findings displayed recurrent errors as tense verb agreement, articles misuse, and irregular verb past simple tense, in addition to mechanics and style problems. The purpose was precisely to cure these problems. Nevertheless, students showed interest and found it enjoyable to write summaries, for it offered them the opportunity not only to practice grammar rules but also to produce complete sentences, including mechanics. Subsequently, summarizing a movie, a book, an event, or a discussion could be recommended.


Background Although Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and optic neuritis have different causes and managements,their clinical manifestations are difficult to be distinguished.Real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction(RTFQ-PCR) is a high flux,simple,rapid and specific detecting technology,so establishing a specific diagnosis method of LHON with RTFQ-PCR has a practical significance.Objective Purpose of the present study was to establish a real-time Taqman probe for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)11778G>A mutation in LHON patients.Methods Primers and Taqman probe for mtDNA 11778G>A mutation were designed based on mtDNA complete geneme.Eighty-four patients with LHON were selected from the LHON DNA bank of Molecular Biology Laboratory,Henan Eye Institute,and 40 normal physical examinees aged 18-20 years were from Henan People's Hospital.2 ml of periphery blood was collected from each individual.Based on the double-blindness principle,mtDNA 11778G>A mutation was tested by both Taqman probe and sequencing to check the reliability of real-time Taqman probe.Results The mtDNA 11778G>A mutation was found in 23 out of 84 patients,and 61 showed a negative result by the technique of real-time Taqman probe.The Ct values of 23 patients with mtDNA 11778G>A mutation were 22.993 ±0.708,but those of 5 normal controls were 0.These findings showed a consistent rate of 100% with the sequencing results.In addition,both the false positive rate and the false negative rate were zero.Conclusions Real-time Taqman probe technique is an accurate,convenient,sensitive,specific and intuitionistic method for the diagnosis of mtDNA 11778G>A mutation in LHON patients.It is feasible and suitable to screen the LHON patients with mtDNA 11778G>A mutation in a large scale.

Key words:
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy;  Mitochondrial DNA;  Real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction;  Point mutation


ABSTRACTThe manual adjustment required for allowing for variations of PRF in the hard tube PRF multiplier previously reported has been made automatic by using a frequency sensing system. This consists of a suitable combination of an a.c. coupled gate, a diode clamp and a Miller integrator using a cathode follower which feeds to a rectifier. Although the circuit described is for the PRF doubler only, an indication is given of how the principles emerging out from this could be utilized for obtaining an n th order multiplication of the PRF. Also, a use of the circuit is described whereby it acts with minor adjustments as a generator of simulated input pulse with a delay (with reference to the input) which is any desired fraction of the varying pulse recurrence time of the regularly recurrent input.


Abstract All higher and further education institutions who reported having a student counselling service were surveyed, using a postal questionnaire, during 1985. Information from 212 institutions is presented. It describes what services exist, how long they have existed, their staffing and their workload (in terms of numbers counselled and type of service offered). Comparisons between universities, polytechnics and colleges of higher and further education are made. The stated objectives of the counselling services are summarised, together with identified priorities in counselling functions. Some of the characteristics of counsellors are outlined, including hours worked, training and qualifications.


Purpose. To study refractive indices in children with a predisposition to myopia and hyperopia after congenital cataract extraction and IOL  implantation. Material  and methods . 60 children (95 eyes) aged 1 to 12 years were examined  for refraction error 30–36 months after congenital cataract extraction and IOL implantation. The examination  included case history data to find out whether the children were  predisposed to myopia or hyperopia before IOL implantation. Results. Refraction increase in pseudophakia is observed both in and beyond the risk group. Myopia and emmetropia disproportionate to age were manifested in most children with a predisposition to myopia (70.2 %). The authors believe that abnormal refractive changes may be a result of inadequate selection of IOL  optical power, explained by the fact that it is calculated by a universal formula irrespective of the risk of abnormal refraction changes in children and specific biometry in the risk group. The high frequency of unplanned refraction in case of pseudophakia  in children predisposed to abnormal refractive changes is probably due to either obscuration and refractive amblyopia. Conclusion. In children at risk of abnormal refractive changes, it is advisable to determine an individual  correction coefficient for the formula calculating IOL  power prior to IOL  implantation, to correct residual refraction and to treat amblyopia.


A particular document related to environment named, Charter of the Global Greens (CGG) adopted in 2001. The core of the document sets out the principles that bind together Greens from around the world such as ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, nonviolence, sustainability, and respect for diversity. Basically, this study based this charter. Interestingly, this chatter has not been much exposed for developing countries like Sri Lanka. In the context of Sri Lanka, there can be found policies and some political mandates and that concerned the notion of environment and sustainable development. Among these, the National Environment Policy (NEP) and Strategies in 2003 can be identified as an important policy.


Building Design Process management plays a strategic role in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry concerned with business performance, users' comfort and satisfaction, and sustainable use of natural resources over buildings' lifecycles. Of particular importance are the Reactive Maint enance (RM) services performed within the longest and costly phase of Operation and Maintenance (O&M). RM is characterized by delays, waste, and difficulties in service prioritization and identification of root causes of failures, impacting on critical pro blems attendance and users' experience. Such inefficiencies are mainly related to the management of asset information and communication and hamper the generation and access to accurate information over a lifecycle. Recently, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Internet of Things (IoT) have been applied to Facilities Management (FM) activities, showing potential for predictive and sustainable practices. However, the literature lacks scientific and empirical evidence regarding process requirements and impacts involved in their implementation in FM. In this respect, this research aimed at the development of a framework for BIM and IoT implementation in reactive maintenance services oriented to a predictive approach from the definition of three key objectives: (i) to characterize critical reactive maintenance problems and scenarios and opportunities for BIM and IoT implementation; (ii) to analyse and classify BIM and IoT solutions recently applied to FM and reactive maintenance services according to their benefits, gains, enablers, and barriers; and (iii) to characterize strategies and decisions involved in the planning, development, implementation, testing, and assessment of a BIM and IoT-based smart maintenance system and its impacts on the maintenance services and potential contributions to the design phase. The research was based on a pragmatic philosophy and a qualitative and quantitative mixed method design. Multiple Case Study and Prototyping were the research strategies, adopting university campuses as objects of investigation. Literature Review and Systematic Literature Review (SLR) supported the generation of theoretical data for the multiple case study and prototyping and discussion of the findings. Documental Analysis, Semi-structured Interviews, Focus Group, and Prototype development assisted the generation of empirical data on universities' FM sector and RM services. Qualitative and Content Analyses were applied to qualitative data, whereas Statistical Analysis involved quantitative ones. Both research process and methodology contributed to knowledge gain. The study has provided a holistic approach of the topic through the clarification of circumstances in which maintenance services and FM sectors can benefit from BIM and IoT and identification of technological, procedural, and policy issues involved in their implementation. The research findings have evidenced a necessity for the identification of critical services and activities within organizations and standards, guidelines, and upskilling actions for an efficient data management between BIM and IoT systems and over a building's lifecycle. They have also demonstrated the role of building performance information as an input for improvements in O&M and the initial design process stages. The thesis has addressed an agenda towards an innovative, sustainable, and efficient management of buildings, mitigating the environmental impacts of AEC industry and its contributions to climate change.


Alcohol and leisure have always had a very close relationship between adolescents but in recent years has been gaining a practice known as intensive consumption. This practice, also called Binge drinking (BD) in the Anglo world, has become an important social and health problem. To find associations between personality traits and alcohol used in adolescents allows designing prevention programs aimed at personality profiles inclined to consumption.


This paper presents a variation-tolerant ternary neural arithmetic memory (VT-TNAM) for energy-efficient processing-in-memory (PIM) accelerators. The VT-TNAM macro installs the newly proposed discharging current calibration (DCC) architecture using adjustable-current ternary bit cells (ACTBCs) to effectively mitigate local process variation. Furthermore, hierarchical MAC-operation skipping (HMS) architecture using the proposed small current detector (SCD) is also developed to compensate for energy efficiency degradation caused by MAC accuracy improvement. Successful reduction of process variation is verified using a fabricated test-element-group (TEG) in 22nm process and 20.0 – 59.2 TOPS/W is achieved by introducing the HMS architecture from analysis using the measured power of the TEG and HSPICE simulations.


A millimeter wave stepped frequency radar image simulation process applied to three dimensional earth terrain is developed. This radar image simulation involves four domains of study: terrain volume and surface backscattering properties modeling, radar sensor modeling, radar image simulation techniques, and application of these methods to computerized simulation. Two theoretical scattering models are used to characterize the terrain. Volume scattering properties are modeled with a two-layer anisotropic random medium model and surface scattering is calculated using a small perturbation method. A Gaussian statistics model is applied to the scattered pulses from the illuminated terrain to simulate the speckle pattern that appear on real radar images. Two simulation techniques are investigated. In the first simulation method, the synthetic high range resolution stepped frequency system is considered as the basis for idealized image generation. The second image synthesis approach models the real sensor and involves a Fourier transform based high resolution image recovery algorithm. Since the imaged area is not flat, both of the simulation approaches take into account the shadowing effect. From these techniques, two computer programs are developed and implemented. The simulation results from the idealized method and the real sensor approach are compared together and to the actual terrain map. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Jin Au Kong. Title: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ying-Ching Eric Yang. Title: Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics.


[1] We observe the nucleation phase of in-plane ruptures in the laboratory. We show that the nucleation is composed of two distinct phases, a quasi-static and an acceleration stage, followed by dynamic propagation. We propose an empirical model which describes the rupture length evolution: The quasi-static phase is described by an exponential growth while the acceleration phase is described by an inverse power law of time. The transition from quasi-static to accelerating rupture is related to the critical nucleation length, which scales inversely with normal stress in accordance with theoretical predictions, and to a critical surfacic power, which may be an intrinsic property of the interface. Finally, we discuss these results in the frame of previous studies and propose a scaling up to natural earthquake dimensions. Citation: Latour, S., A. Schubnel, S. Nielsen, R. Madariaga, and S. Vinciguerra (2013), Characterization of nucleation during laboratory earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 5064–5069, doi:10.1002/grl.50974.


Through making passenger questionnaires in high-speed passenger stations in cities of different grades, this paper analyzes the basic characteristics of high-speed railway passenger flow, passenger traveling characteristics and their intention of taking high-speed railway in cities of different grades, and combining with investigation and statistics, the paper analyzes difference and same of passenger flow characteristics and puts forward suggestions on reasonably optimizing train departure frequency in high-speed railway passenger stations in each grade of city, improving the connection between high-speed railway passenger station in each middle and small city and traffic inside county and city, establishing market-oriented fluctuation mechanism for high-speed railway ticket price and increasing convenience of inner facilities in high-speed railway stations.


This paper contributes for the further advancement of the analysis and design of robust nonlinear control systems. A nonlinear on-off element with hysteresis is considered as a nonlinear section of the plant discussed in this research. An innovative robust controller design is accomplished by a number of successive steps. Based on the difference equations of its stages, the robust controller is realized by two microcontrollers. Taking into account the Euler's approximation, the method of the D-partitioning and the describing-function stability analysis, as well as robust assessment are applied before and after the robust compensation. The research is a further development of the author's work on the analysis and design of linear and digital robust control systems. The suggested innovative tool for analysis and design of nonlinear robust control systems by applying a digital robust controller is vital and useful for the further advancement of control theory in this field


Effect of calcination and sintering conditions on the formation of the perovskite phase and dielectric properties in the system xPb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-(1 - x)Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3 are studied. The perovskite phase can be stabilised up to x ≤ 0.6. A relative density of more than 90% is obtained at a sintering temperature of around 1000°C. A peak dielectric constant of 13250, dielectric loss of 2.8% and a Curie temperature of 125°C are achieved for the composition 0.4Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.6Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3. With suitable additives to reduce the Curie temperature and the dielectric loss, this composition may be a potential candidate for the multilayer ceramic capacitor applications.


Objective:To investigate the effect of tissue homogenate from the colons of Hirschsprung's disease patients on the differentiation and migration of neural stem cells. Methods:The tissue homogenate was obtained from the colons of Hirschsprung's disease patients, then applied to the cultured neural stem cells after total protein was quantified. Meantime, tissue homogenate from normal colon was used as comparison object. The differential percent was calculated. Transwell method was performed to investigate the migration of cultured neural stem cells. Results:Compared with the normal colons, the tissue homogenate from Hirschsprung's disease patients significantly decreased the ability of the differentiation and migration of cultured neural stem cells. Conclusion:That might give us a hint that the normal colon tissue microenvironment may provide some factors to promote the differentiation and migration of neural stem cells, while the colons of Hirschsprung's disease patients lost or reduced them.


The present invention relates to new antibiotic material, these material called afters N-amido glucuronide glycoside antibiotic ligand A40926 mixture AB, N-amido glucuronide glycoside antibiotic ligand A40926 factors A, N-amido glucuronide glycoside antibiotic ligand A40926 factor B, N-amido glucuronide glycoside antibiotic ligand A40926 factor B
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Sewerage systems have recently come into wide use in Japan. The pipes and fittings in the systems are exposed not only to the corrosive environment but also to the impact of solid particles contained in the mud drain resulting in erosive wear on the surface. To cope with the trouble, it is intended to replace the traditionally often used iron and steel pipes with those of polymers which have excellent anti-corrosion properties. In this study, slurry erosion test were carried out using a Jet-in-slit apparatus on seven kinds of polyethylenes, three kinds of other polymers and two kinds of iron and steels taking it thoroughly into account that the erosion damage depends remarkably on the particles impact angle. As a result, all the polyethylenes showed an excellent anti-erosion properties as compared with other materials for whole range of particles impact angle. Further, a model was proposed to account the impact angle dependency of the erosion damage. Basing on the model it was made clear why the erosion rate of the polyethylenes were satisfactory correlated with a complex parameter in which the fracture energy and the elastic modulus were combined.


Although Margaret Drabble's tenth novel, The Radiant Way (1987), has been almost exclusively interpreted in the context of feminist criticism, the author's use of spatial narrative trope to give vo...


Digital forensic investigations (DFI) is a process of investigating computers and its associated media to determine whether it has been used to commit a crime or gain unauthorized access. cyberattacks and cybercrimes can be committed globally but reported locally. However, DFI processes vary relative to a particular jurisdiction. Relativism is the perception of universal norms of what is right and wrong or legal and illegal. Although cybercrimes are illegal, what constitutes illegal is relative to a jurisdiction. Cyber espionage attacks may be considered legal or illegal based on economic advantage for someone or as target for attack based on motive and intent. Further, following legal procedures in evidence gathering at a digital crime scene is critical for prosecution. However, there are challenges in gathering evidence using the existing DFI models on all attacks. UNODC, report on the globalization of cybercrimes highlighted the challenges of cybercrime and ranked some emerging economies among the first 10 offending nations globally. There are existing models that are specific to certain jurisdictions and assist the judiciary, law enforcement agencies, and forensic experts. Consequently, presenting digital forensic evidence in court has proved to be challenging, due to a lack of procedures and DFI models specific to emerging economies. In this paper, we identify the phase that is relevant and could facilitate DFI processes from emerging economies' perspective. Further, we review some existing models to determine their relative procedures. This paper does not negate existing models, rather derives a relative model from existing models. We propose a model that will improve the DFI process from the result of the evaluation with inference from international standards.


The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the physical risks due to lighting
in administrative jobs at SERVICIVIL S.A.S in the municipality of Barrancabermeja,
Santander. Collecting 15-point samples where luxumetric measurements,
subjective assessment questionnaire and lighting test were performed, for workers
in the administrative area in order to know the health effects generated in each of
the workers and the breach of Resolution 180540 of 2010 in numeral 410.1 literal
a., which was 53% of the evaluated jobs which due to excess or deficiency lighting
require an improvement plan such as relocation of jobs, use of blackout and
installation of lighting fixtures in order to minimize risk and improve the quality of
life of workers.


This paper develops sulfide calibration standards for quantitative determination of platinum group elements in natural sulfide-containing minerals by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). A series of sulfide calibration standards containing different concentrations of platinum group elements were prepared using a home-made high temperature furnace. Homogeneity of element distribution expressed as the RSD of signal intensity were less than 10%. The effective concentrations of platinum group elements in synthetic calibration standards were obtained both by pneumatic nebulization ICP-MS and by LA-ICP-MS. Relative percentage differences of these results obtained by two methods were mainly less than 11%. The synthetic calibration standards were then employed as calibrators for quantitative determination of platinum group elements in two natural chalcopyrite samples. The valid results demonstrated that our synthetic standards could be considered for quantitative microanalysis of platinum group elements in natural sulfide-containing minerals.


Creating and functioning of the ecclesiastical legal entities is regulated by state law and ecclesiastical law. Experience shows that separation of these two legal systems is not possible. The legislator and the courts have to apply to the cannon law. Other solutions may cause defects in the state law system


The effects on antivirus disease mechanism of seedless watermelon grafted in pumpkin were studied in this paper. The results showed that its physiological functions and botany character, the growth level,the superoxide enzyme activity, the chlorophyll content,the root activity and the photosynthesis rate,were developed or strengthened.


In cultured pea roots there is extrachromosomal DNA associated with cells that differentiate from the G2 phase of the cell cycle that is absent from those that differentiate from the G1 phase. We examined this extrachromosomal DNA by electron microscopy and found that it consisted of three types: (i) double- stranded linear molecules with single-stranded branches (74%), (ii) double-stranded molecules without branches (26%), and (iii) free single-stranded molecules. The double-stranded molecules with or without branches were similar in length, having a modal length of 10-15 /um. The free single-stranded molecules were shorter and had a mean length of 3.8 ,um. The length of the branches attached to the duplex molecules was only slightly less than that of the free form. The duplex molecules with branches were interpreted as configurations reflecting an ongoing strand- displacement process that results in free single-stranded mole- cules. Finally, measurements on duplex molecules with multiple branches suggested that the extrachromosomal DNA may exist in the form of tandemly repeated sequences. Recent experiments by Van't Hof and Bjerknes (1) showed that cells of the pea-root meristem have extrachromosomal DNA (exDNA). In an individual root the exDNA is produced in cells located in the 2-mm tip but not in those of the adjacent elon- gation zone, even though nuclei in both tissues are replicating DNA. The presence of newly formed radioactive exDNA is de- tectable either by sedimentation in an alkaline sucrose gradient after 24 hr of labeling with (3H)thymidine or by selective ex- traction by the Hirt (2) procedure. The exDNA is a linear dou- ble-stranded molecule, which bands at the same buoyant den- sity as nuclear DNA but has a shoulder on the higher density side of the profile. Cytological analyses showed that the exDNA is associated with root-tip cells that stopped dividing and dif- ferentiated from G2 phase but not with those that differentiated from G1 phase. Sedimentation experiments indicated that exDNA molecules had a modal molecular weight of about 26 x 106 (1) but these analyses were insufficient to give needed details about the structure of the molecules. Consequently, the exDNA was ex- amined by electron microscopy and we present the results of this examination in this paper. We were surprised to find that exDNA had three forms: there were double-stranded linear molecules, double-stranded duplexes with single-stranded branches (RF DNA), and free single-stranded molecules (ss DNA) corresponding in length to that of the branches. The presence of RF DNA and free ss DNA molecules was interpreted as an indication that the single-stranded forms were produced by strand displacement.


OBJECTIVE The study can provide scientific theory for extraction and cultivation technologies of Guizhou Litsea cubeba.METHODS With steam distillation extraction method,cubeba fruits essential oil was extracted from the wild and cultivated fruits cubeba.The optimum conditions were determined by orthogonal test methods.The qualitative and quantitative analysis of cubeba fruits essential oil were carried out with GC-MS.RESULTS The optimum conditions were concluded by comparing the results of orthogonal test methods.And chemical components and relative contents were identified by GC-MS.CONCLUSION The chemical components of the wild and cultivated cubeba fruits essential oil were similar.And the cultivated Litsea cubeba contains much more essential oil than the wild.So it can be cultivated widely.


Electrocardiogram (ECG) effectively records the difference between body potentials generated during the physiological function of the heart. Both ECG and heartbeat sounds are viewed as powerful tools to diagnose abnormal arrhythmias. In the past, the accuracy of such diagnoses has been significantly improved due to the development of machine-learning algorithms. However, current models still do not provide acceptable performance due to similarities of signal waveforms as well as ambient noises and interferences. In this paper, we propose a novel deep-learning model that incorporates a WaveNet model based on dilated convolutions as the backbone followed by multiple bi-directional long-short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) layers to further enhance the discriminant capabilities of temporal relations. A typical clinical dataset, i.e., the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, which considers intra-patient and inter-patient paradigms based on the American Association of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) EC57 standard, is used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach. Numerical results show that our model has achieved the state-of-the-art classification accuracies.


Hermann et al 1987 Amsterdam: North-Holland xxii + 600 pp price $111 ISBN 0 444 87037 7 The first of two volumes on the history of CERN, the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research in Geneva, up to the mid-1960s deals with the period 1949–54 – the 'pre-history'. It is an impressively detailed and documented account of the deliberations, both scientific and political, that led to establishment of the organisation in the sensitive post-war environment.


Abstract : Impact-induced damage mechanisms for GE 2-2-3 Carbon-Carbon have been identified for both axial and transverse fiber bundles, and changes in the nature and severity of damage have been observed as a function of location with respect to the impact crater geometry. Although axial fiber bundles exhibited column buckling failure when immediately beneath an impact crater, they were relatively intact (except for tensile cracks in some individual fibers) at positions alongside or away from the major craters. Transverse fiber bundles, however, showed column buckling failure in locations alongside or between craters, while only flexural-type failures were noted in locations directly below a crater. (Author)


This paper presents education systems of Nordic Walking instructors in Great Britain and Poland. These countries have different levels of socio-economic development however in both the percentage of Nordic walkers has significantly increased since the activity became a very popular form of maintaining physical condition, especially among the elderly.