Since 2019, COVID-19 has been a major problem for the world's population. COVID-19 is known for its fast transmission and strong infection. Therefore, how to reduce the burden of medical system is becoming a hot topic in current research. Previous researchers have used deep learning techniques to effectively classify COVID-19. Although the results are remarkable, the input method (X-ray images) is simple. Therefore, a new multi-modality fusion network is proposed in this paper. In this network, the spatial and structural feature information in the image were highlighted by means of thermal map. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed network.


THE SAGA OF SOME POLLUTANTS starts with a synthetic chemical that is produced commercially for years before it is linked to health problems. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), widely used as insulating fluids for decades before they were banned in the mid-1970s, are an example. A similar but more complicated story is emerging for the compound perfluorooctanoic acid. PFOA is used in the manufacture of fluoropolymers including DuPont's Teflon and in breathable, waterproof fabrics. During the manufacture of these materials, PFOA is used as a surfactant but is not incorporated into the end product. PFOA, which is sometimes called C8, is persistent in the environment. Finding PFOA contamination around industrial sites where the compound has historically been manufactured and used was not surprising. Yet the compound is showing up in the blood of people across the U.S. and the world, including those living thousands of miles from the manufacturing sites [ Environ. Sci. Technol , published online July 24 ...


The purpose of this paper is to examine the poverty situation in West Bengal in a multidimensional framework and to explore possible strategies towards reduction of poverty in the state, keeping in view the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). [IDSK OP 20].


Abstract We consider functionals given by the sum of the perimeter and the double integral of some kernel g : ℝ N × ℝ N → ℝ + {g:\mathbb{R}^{N}\times\mathbb{R}^{N}\to\mathbb{R}^{+}} , multiplied by a "mass parameter" ε. We show that, whenever g is admissible, radial and decreasing, the unique minimizer of this functional among sets of given volume is the ball as soon as ε ≪ 1 {\varepsilon\ll 1} .


We present an all-optical time-resolved measurement of spin wave (SW) dynamics in a series of antidot lattices based on [Co(0.75 nm)/Pd(0.9 nm)]8 multilayer (ML) systems with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The spectra depend significantly on the areal density of the antidots. The observed SW modes are qualitatively reproduced by the plane wave method. The interesting results found in our measurements and calculations at small lattice constants can be attributed to the increase of areal density of the shells with modified magnetic properties probably due to distortion of the regular ML structure by the Ga ion bombardment and to increased coupling between localized modes. We propose and discuss the possible mechanisms for this coupling including exchange interaction, tunnelling, and dipolar interactions.


Oxygen pressure and oxygen composition of phase equilibria involving the Y{sub 2}Cu{sub 2}O{sub 5} and YCuO{sub 2} phases in the Y{sub 2}O{sub 3}-Cu-CuO system have been studied by oxygen coulometric titration (OCT). The OCT-apparatus is specially designed to allow for a rapid quenching of the sample from a preselected equilibrium point. The phases present in the selected equilibrium are determined by X-ray diffraction. This simultaneous determination of oxygen pressure and composition and of the involved phases is considered to be superior to conventional e.m.f. studies in a complex oxide system where the equilibrium phases are questionable. It is shown that for a consistent and clear interpretation of the data that the combined use of stability diagrams and phase diagrams is essential and helpful. The decomposition conditions for Y{sub 2}Cu{sub 2}O{sub 5} and YCuO{sub 2} with decreasing temperature are discussed in detail. The YCuO{sub 2} phase is identified as the {open_quotes}problem{close_quotes} phase, which is easily retained or even formed under metastable (supercooled) conditions. This metastable YCuO{sub 2} disturbs the low temperature equilibria involving the Y{sub 2}Cu{sub 2}O{sub 5} phase, thus leading to the large uncertainty observed for the decomposition temperature of Y{sub 2}Cu{sub 2}O{sub 5}.


This study aimed to determine the effects from biochar types application and dolomite-coffee compost application on characteristic of soybean germination. This study used factorial randomized design with two factors and two replications. The biochar types application that were applied were no biochar, rice husk biochar, rice straw biochar. Second factor was dolomite-coffee compost application such as control, dolomite 500 kg/ha, coffee compost 10 ton/ha, dolomite 500 kg/ha + coffee compost 10 ton/ha. The parameters observed in this research were root length, shoot length, root volume, root and shoot dry weight. Result of study indicated that rice straw biochar had the highest value of soybean germination like shoot length, root volume, root and shoot dry weight compared with other biochar types application. The highest value of root volume and root dry weight were found from dolomite application. Combination rice straw biochar with dolomite application showed the highest value of soybean germination.


Abstract : The U.S. Air Force, U.S. sister services, coalition partners, and agencies face an on-going elevated threat level from attacks, whether by force or explosion, from both foreign and domestic enemies. As the US establishes and maintains airbases to provide support around the globe, we are challenged to protect our planes, our equipment - and above all else - the lives of our personnel. The attacks may include rockets and mortars, which may lead to damaged facilities that employ relocatable construction techniques. This test program aimed to assist in managing some risk factors for CONEX-based relocatable structures. Specifically, this program focused on progressive collapse of CONEX-based relocatable structures as a result of an attack using an explosive weapon. Analysis of a typical relocatable barracks is briefly discussed followed by a review of column removal testing; finally results are presented from a 155-mm artillery shell detonation against the barracks. Ultimately, the reader should realize as a result of this work that progressive collapse of CONEX-based relocatable barracks as described in Unified Facilities Criteria is not a concern when constructed per the method presented in this paper.


Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852) is a freshwater mussel of major commercial importance for pearl culture in China. In this study, five polymorphic microsatellites from H. cumingii were identified and employed to investigate the occurrence and frequency of multiple paternity in 15 H. cumingii broods caught from Poyang Lake, China. The allele number of each locus ranged from 12 to 25, with a mean of 16.8 ± 5.4 alleles per locus. Multiple paternity was discovered in 10 broods by genotyping the dam mussel and the offspring from each brood. The sire number inferred by COLONY software in the 10 broods ranged from 2 to 4 with a mean of 2.7 ± 0.26 sires per brood. In 6 of the 10 broods, sires contributed skewed numbers of offspring (P < 0.05). These factors may be important for avoidance of inbreeding, optimization of genetic variation in offspring and for the persistence and evolution of H. cumingii.


The goal of the article is to characterize Mykola Hrinchenko as a historian of Ukrainian music, a researcher of the folk music; to analyze his "History of Ukrainian Music" (1922) and to identify the place of folklore related problems in it. The activity of M. Hrinchenko as a teacher, scientist, musical and public figure is characterized, its importance in the development of musical folkloristics is highlighted. An overview of the works of the early period of the scientist's creative life has been carried out, the formation of M. Hrinchenko's views on Ukrainian folk art has been traced. Characterizing the creativity of Ukrainian composers (M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, P. Kozytskyi), M. Hrinchenko focuses primarily on those achievements related to folklore sources. The scientist considers its genetic connection with the native culture to be a sign of the artistic value of a musical piece. The goal of Ukrainian music, according to M. Hrinchenko, is to reach the heights of world musical art and at the same time preserve its national roots.
The "History of Ukrainian Music" (Kyiv, 1922) has been analyzed and the importance of folk art as a mandatory component of music-historical work is outlined. The author's statement about the fundamental importance of musical folklore for the development of Ukrainian culture, which is unique and different from all other cultures of the world, is defined as the conceptual basis of the monograph. It is proven that M. Hrinchenko initiated certain traditions with his monograph, which are still followed by almost all authors of studies on the history of Ukrainian music. In particular, the presence of a section devoted to the history of folk musical art is mandatory. The periodization of the history of Ukrainian folk art from ancient times to the time of the creation of the book is considered: pre-Christian era, Christian (pre-Cossack), Cossack era, modern period. M. Hrinchenko sees Ukrainian musical culture as a component of the European one. The impact of his ideas on the development of Ukrainian historical musicology and folkloristics in subsequent periods is indicated.


It is considered the questions of one value solvability of the nonlinear Volterra integral equations with degenerate kernels. The method of degenerate kernel is developed to the case of Volterra integral equations. It is used the method of successive approximations combined it with the method of compressing maps.


One of the typical foods consumed daily as a side dish by the community is tofu. Tofu is made with soybean as raw material which is crushed into a pulp and protein coagulated to form the texture of the tofu. Until now, soybeans are the main raw material for making tofu. In fact, according to the analysis, the projection of soybean demand is much higher than the supply of soybeans that can be produced, so that the potential to meet the demand for soybeans will be carried out through imports. Imported soybeans will affect the selling price of tofu because the price of imported soybeans varies depending on the exchange rate and under certain conditions, the price of imported soybeans is cheaper. If this condition continues, the original tofu made from local soybeans will be crushed by the use of imported soybeans, farmers will lose because local soybeans are not selling well, tofu traders suffer a lot, the price of tofu varies, and it is possible to reduce the original taste of local tofu. Therefore, it is necessary to have raw materials that can substitute soybeans in making tofu, including cowpeas. This study aims to determine the combination of cowpea-soybean formulations and coagulation ingredients to produce the best physicochemical quality of tofu. The best treatment is the use of a combination of 90% soybeans with 10% cowpeas and vinegar as a coagulant for protein. The treatment resulted in tofu with levels of protein, fat, fiber, carbohydrates, water, and ash, respectively 12.10%; 2.8%; 0.6%; 9.29%; 71.56%; and 3.64%.


A critical phase in the life cycle of sessile benthic marine invertebrates is locating a suitable substratum for settlement. For barnacles, it is the lecithotrophic cypris larva that makes this plankto–benthic transition. In exploring possible substrata for settlement, the cyprid leaves behind 'footprints' of a proteinaceous secretion that reportedly functions as a temporary adhesive, and also acts as a secondary cue in larval–larval interactions at settlement. Here, we show that two polyclonal antibodies raised against peptides localized at the N- and C-terminal regions of the adult settlement cue—the settlement-inducing protein complex (SIPC)—could both detect 'temporary adhesive' indicating that the SIPC is either a component of this secretion or that they are the same protein.


DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE AND PEER INSTITUTIONS: A COMPARA TIVE STUDY OF THE GROWTH AND INTERRELATIONSHIP OF US MILITARY SENIOR SERVICE COLLEGES Vernon Eugene Johnson, Ed.D. The College of William and Mary in Virginia Chairman: Professor Paul Unger The purpose of this study was to investigate reasons for establish ment of the National War College, its interrelationship with other Senior Service Schools, and to assess why the multiple institutions con tinue to exist. The study contained three hypotheses. First, the National War College was planned and developed to be the capstone of the nation's military educational system. It never achieved that position. Instead it has shared the summit of professional military education with the other four Senior Service Colleges. Second, the National War College and each of the other Senior Service Colleges had unique missions which prevented any institution from becoming surpreme in the military educa tion system. Third, although one could establish the interrelationships among the Senior Service Colleges, one could not assess readily the reasons the multiple institutions existed. The present investigation is significant because the interrelation ship that exist among the National War College and the other Senior Service Schools seem to be misunderstood by the civilian sector and ignored by the military. The study attempted to clarify those relation ships for both elements. It was hypothesized that by investigating the historical antece dents of military higher education in the United States one could better understand the development of the National War College and its inter relationships with the other Senior Service Colleges. It was also the contention of the author that an analysis of factors leading to the development of the Senior Service Colleges would provide insight into the reasons all the senior institutions exist today. Additionally, the author believed that one would have to investigate the roles, attitudes, and influences of military and civilian leaders as well as curriculum development and instructional strategies at the Senior Service Colleges before one could fully understand why they developed as they did. It was concluded that all the Senior Service Colleges are re quired, and the present arrangement appears to be the best for military higher education given the current state of desires of military officials and indifference to military advanced graduate education by the civilian sector.


We demonstrate single-pixel coherent diffraction imaging, whereby broadband terahertz waveforms passed through a slanted phase retarder (SPR), diffracted from an object, were measured by a terahertz detector located in the far field. For one dimensional imaging, the fixed-location single-pixel broadband detector simultaneously measured all the spatial frequency components of the object because the frequency components of the source maintain a one-to-one correspondence with the object's spatial frequency. For two dimensional imaging, the angular position of the SPR enabled the diffracted terahertz wave to carry an angular projection image of the object.


The interfacial or grain boundary free-energy contribution to mineral interrelationships is largely ignored in the petrologic literature. Although only a small part of the total energy of the system, the interf acial free energy could play a dominant role during nucleation, crystal growth, exsolution, replacement, and diffusion transfer-processes that largely involve surface phenomena. By effectively determining the saturation point of the disperse phase, the nucleation sites, nucleation frequency, grain form, extent of individual grain growth, and, for certain systems, modal composition for the mineral assemblage could be determined by the minimum interfacial free energy of the system. Because of a continuously changing environment about a grain during its growth (caused by any grain boundary strain or orientation and/or compositional differences of the adjacent grains or phases), the average interfacial free energy associated with the grain and its associated grains must continuously increase, so that a continuous increase in the effective concentration of the disperse phase is required to support further growth, especially in systems of heterogeneous nucleation. In certain systems this increase in interfacial free energy could result in a maximum grain association limit for the growing grain if the concentration required for its further growth is higher than required to precipitate the material as a separate group of grains, such as in veins of the phase. Relative grain sizes, grain distributions, extent of various grain associations, and nature of grain contacts are interpreted as an expression of a minimum interfacial free energy of the mineral assemblage. A mechanism by which the influence of the interfacial free energy on the crystallization of a grain assemblage could be made significant is discussed in terms of a nucleation-crystal-growth model.


An adolescent male's relationship with his father and his best friend is investigated. 413 male college students filled out a rating scale in which each reported how much he felt understood by his father, mother, by best male friend, best female friend, by favorite teacher, and by any additional person he wished to designate. The ratings were on a 7-point scale, ranging from "virtually a total stranger" to "complete understanding." The mean ratings for a son's feeling of being understood by significant others was analyzed by a procedure for the multiple comparison of means described by Games (1971). The sons felt relatively more understood by their best friends than they did by their fathers. Implications of the findings for a theory of friendship and for psychotherapy with adolescent males are discussed.


During acute phase, the plasma concentration of haptoglobin (Hp) increases threefold to fourfold in adult rats.' One of the major functions of haptoglobin is to bind free hemoglobin after hemolysis to prevent kidney damage. The goal of this study is to identify the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling expression of rat Hp. The hormone requirement for stimulated production of Hp has been determined in rat H35 hepatoma cells (subclone T-7-18)? mRNA accumulation and synthesis of Hp is stimulated by IL1, IL-6, and dexamethasone. Each hormone acts independently. Additive action has been noted between IL-I and dexamethasone and between IL-1 and IL-6. The latter combination yielded maximal expression in these cells. The stimulation of Hp expression by the hormones is immediate and the maximal level is reached after 12 h. The effect of the hormones is dependent on protein synthesis because no increase in Hp mRNA was observed in cycloheximide-treated cells. The regulatory properties of the haptoglobin gene are similar to those of other'type I acute phase proteins, including a,-acid glycoprotein and complement C3. To elucidate the gene elements receiving the hormonal signals, we have cloned and sequenced the entire rat haptoglobin gene. Southern blot hybridization to Hp cDNA showed the presence of only one Hp gene per haploid genome. The exon/ intron structure was found to be similar to the human haptoglobin-related gene (FIGURE l).3 A 7-kb fragment containing the structural Hp gene (spanning positions 1100 to +5900) was subcloned and transiently introduced into human hepatoma (HepG2) cells. The synthesis of rat Hp protein in these cells was stimuIated by IL6 and dexamethasone, but not by IL-1, thus suggesting that the gene element responsive to the latter hormone is not contained within the cloned sequence. The 1 100-bp 5'-flanking region ( 1100 to -2) was subdivided into three fragments and tested for transcription regulatory function in combination with the Hp gene on the promoter or in combination with an enhancerless SV40 promoter, both linked to the gene encoding chloramphenicol acetyltransferase. Tests in transiently transfected HepG2 cells4 revealed only an IL-6-responsive enhancer. For full IL-6 regulation, the first 400 bp (-4.00 to -2) were required. Because these assays did not indicate the presence of a glucocorticoid-responsive enhancer within the 5'4anking region, we speculate that this element may reside within the region from 1 to + 5900. The present data suggest that the transcriptional activity of the rat Hp gene might be controlled by three physically separable enhancer elements responsive to IL1, IL-


Health systems seeking responsible stewardship of community benefit dollars supporting Faith Community Nursing Networks require demonstration of positive measurable health outcomes. Faith Community Nurses (FCNs) answer the call for measurable outcomes by documenting cost savings and cost avoidances to families, communities, and health systems associated with their interventions. Using a spreadsheet tool based on Medicare reimbursements and diagnostic-related groupings, 3 networks of FCNs have together shown more than 600 000 (for calendar year 2008) healthcare dollars saved by avoidance of unnecessary acute care visits and extended care placements. The cost–benefit ratio of support dollars to cost savings and cost avoidance demonstrates that support of FCNs is good stewardship of community benefit dollars.


WHO ASKS the questions in your classroom? M st of us would have to agree that we as teachers assume the role of primary questioner. In fact, we have been encouraged and supported in this behavior by supervisors who respond positively when we ask "motivating and stimulating" questions. For some of us, a good portion of our professional education has been spent in analyzing, labeling, and formulating questions according to various categorizations. We have been confronted with writings which support the notion that effective questioning is one mark of effective teaching (Carner, 1963; Cushen berry, 1969; Taba, Elzey and Levine, 1964). It may be, however, that teacher questioning is only a part of effec tive questioning in the classroom. Therefore, we designed a study to evaluate differences in students' interpretive reading ability which resulted among groups where only the teacher posed questions, com pared with those where both teacher and students were questioners. During the 1960s at least ten systems for classifying questions emerged. Presently the methodolog ical textbooks use many of these categorizations to illustrate the teaching of various thinking skills (Ryan, 1973). Most teachers spend a large part of their day questioning their students, assuming that those questions will facilitate their students' learning. Writers like Aschner (1961) regard questioning as one of the basic ways by which the teacher can stimulate teaching and learning. Aschner includes remembering, reasoning, evaluating, and creative thinking among the cognitive processes which


Recent analyses using suprathermal electrons as sensors of true magnetic polarity indicate that the steady‐state concepts of the heliospheric current sheet and its encasing plasma sheet often break down at solar wind time scales of less than a day owing to transient and turbulent effects. These create magnetic configurations with localized current and plasma sheets and sometimes cause the current to split off from the surface separating fields of true opposite polarity.


Between Chinese traditional culture and ideological and political education are closely linked, is the ideological and political education on college students' cultural background. In Chinese traditional culture cultivate the spirit of patriotism, molding ideal personality, cultivate the positive attitude and improve the moral cultivation, the ideological and political education with great enlightenment, is worth using for reference.


BACKGROUND: A 46-year-old male, with a history of old myocardial infarction in the first diagonal branch (D1) treated with balloon angioplasty three years before, was admitted to our institution because of chest pain on effort. He underwent coronary angiography which revealed multiple coronary aneurysms in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and the D1 with severe stenoses in the LAD, D1, and the obtuse marginal branch. INVESTIGATION: Coronary angiography, fractional flow reserve, scintigraphy, coronary computed tomography. DIAGNOSIS: Multiple coronary aneurysms with severe stenoses. MANAGEMENT: Percutaneous coil embolisation and stenting.


The usefulness of this book for those wishing to pursue aspects of the topic further is seriously diminished by B.'s frequent habit of providing, not the ancient evidence (which would assist the reader both in evaluating B.'s view and reaching his own conclusion), but merely a reference to an earlier discussion of his own which, he believes, established the view stated summarily as fact in the text. To rely on these statements would often be dangerous (see e.g. Birks' review of Lawyers and Politics in the Early Roman Empire [Munich, 1989] in JRS 82 [1992], 260-2). On the other hand, to seek out the relevant publications would be an arduous task, as well as a strain upon the bookshelf: no fewer than twenty-four publications are listed, fifteen of these being articles.


Abstract One of the major economic criteria is associated with the growth of maintenance costs of old rail vehicles. The research aims to determine the ageing criteria of passenger rolling stock, which could take into account fuel, diesel oil and repair costs. Therefore, economic criteria based on the above costs are generated and their comparative analysis is made. The research object is Vilnius locomotive depot.


Glass of composition 40SiO2–20B2O3–30SrO–10La2O3 was prepared by splat quenching techniques. Based on differential thermal analysis (DTA) studies the glass was heated at 900º and 950ºC for different time durations. This heat treatment temperature which is nearly operating temperature of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) was knowingly selected to determine the nature of crystalline phases present in glass matrix. The as prepared and heat treated glass was characterized by X-ray diffraction technique for its confirmation of glassy structure and crystalline phases, respectively. The microstructural analyses of these heat treated glasses were done using scanning electron microscope (SEM) to study the morphology of crystalline phases. The thermal expansion coefficients (TEC) of glass and glass-ceramics were observed within required limit for SOFC application.


Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a new communication paradigm that shifts the focus from content location to content objects themselves. Users request the content by its name or some other form of identifier. Then, the network is responsible for locating the requested content and sending it to the users. Despite a large number of works on ICN in recent years, the problem of scalability of ICN systems has not been studied and addressed adequately. This is especially true when considering real-world deployments and the so-called alternative networks such as community networks. In this work, we explore the applicability of ICN principles in the challenging and unpredictable environments of community networks. In particular, we focus on stateless content dissemination based on Bloom filters (BFs). We highlight the scalability limitations of the classical single-stage BF based approach and argue that by enabling multiple BF stages would lead to performance enhancements. That is, a multi-stage BF based content dissemination mechanism could support large network topologies with heterogeneous traffic and diverse channel conditions. In addition to scalability improvements, this approach also is more secure with regard to Denial of Service attacks.


espanolIntroduccion El uso del laser de alta potencia en podologia se va afianzando y cada vez son mas los pedologosque lo utilizan para realizar El objetivo del presente trabajo es el de mostrar los resultados obtenidos en el tratamiento de onicomicosis y helomas tras tres anos de seguimiento. Material y metodos Se ha utilizado el laser de alta potencia Podylas 1064nm (INTERmedic, BCN-Espana), con parametros adecuados a las diferentes patologias a tratar. Resultados Se trataron 110 pacientes (n=l 10) con diagnostico de onicomicosis por cultivo, de los cuales, 94 pacientes se curaron (85%) y 16 no (14,54%). Se realizaron cuatro sesiones de laser, una cada quince dias. En el tratamiento de helomas, se trato un total de 23 pacientes (n=23) y 122 helomas, realizando una media de 2 sesiones, una cada 15 dias. Se realizo tratamiento ortopodologico para control del mecanismo causal. El 87% de los pacientes se curaron. El 64% de los helomas tratados se curaron totalmente, el 32,8% mejoraron y el 3,2 no. Conclusiones Los resultados de tratamiento de la onicomicosis y helomas con laser S30 Podylas tras tres anos de seguimiento son: Eficacia en el 85,4%de los casos de onicomicosis y en un 87% en el caso de los helomas. El uso del laser para tratamiento de onicomicosis se presenta como una opcion que reporta una tasa de curacion alta. Es imprescindible controlar los factores de riesgo para evitar recurrencias. El uso del laser para el tratamiento de helomas permite evitar cirugias en muchos casos y eliminar el dolor ya desde la primera sesion. Los resultados se mantienen en el tiempo y se puede utilizar como tratamiento de mantenimiento, aunque es necesario el uso de tratamientos ortopodologicos previos para evitar su reaparicion EnglishIntroduction The use of high-powered iasers in podiatry is growing and increasing numhers ofpodiatnsts are using them to treat conditions iike onychomycosis, corns and warts, and as an anti-inflammatory (ILT^^). The aim of this paper is to show the results obtained in the treatment of onychomycosis and corns after three years of follow-up. Material and methods The system used was the high-powered Podylas 1064 nm laser (INTERmedic, Barcelona, Spain), which features settings that can address mony different conditions. Results 110 patients (n=UO) diagnosed with onychomycosis by culture were treated, of which 94 were cured (85%) and 16 (14.54%) were not. 4 laser sessions took place at fortnightiy intervals. In the corn treatment, a total of23 patients (n=23) and 122 corns were treated overan average of two sessions at fortnightiy intervals. Orthoses were applied to control the causal mechanism. 87% of patients were cured. 64% ofthe corns treated were completely cured, 32.8% improved and 3.2% were unresponsive to treatment. Conclusions The results of the onychomycosis treatment with the Podylas S30 laser aner three years of follow-up were: Effectiveness in 85.4% afeases. The use of lasers for onychomycosis treatment is an option with a high cure rate. It is imperative to control risk factors to prevent recurrence. Using lasers to treat corns precludes the need for surgery in many cases and is a pain-free option from the very first session. Results persist over time and the laser can be used as a maintenance treatment in conjunction with the application of orthoses to prevent recurrence.


A (3+1)-evolutionary method in Regge Calculus, essentially a method of approximating manifolds with rigid simplices, makes an excellent tool to probe the evolution of mani-folds with non-trivial topology. The " Parallelizable Implicit Evolution Scheme " in Regge Calculus is one such method, powerful enough to investigate manifolds devoid of symmetry. Causality however, has not been incorporated in this method properly. In this paper, we show how causality can be accounted for in this evolutionary scheme: we derive three different equations corresponding to the variation of a time-like bone with respect to a time-like edge and a time-like or a space-like bone with respect to a space-like edge. In addition, we conclude that in a curved empty space, a space-like edge which is a side to a space-like bone must also be a side to at least a time-like bone.


The paper makes use of the knowledge of mutrixes,and the vector of function row that expresses the every grade difference of function as the vector is made into the product of function row and a matrix,which, thereby, bring light the internal relation of function difference and function,increases knowledge of function difference list.


In Germany, about 70% of the final energy demand of domestic households is used for space heating. While electricity generation by renewable sources increased considerably in the last years, heat is still predominantly supplied by combustion of fossil fuels. As a consequence, the heat sector contributes about 30% of Germany's yearly CO2 emissions. One way to increase the renewable share in the heating sector is to use electricity for space heating. Nevertheless, the heat is mainly demanded in winter whereas the supply of PV-panels prevalently occurs in summer. Thermochemical energy storages are well suited to overcome this seasonal discrepancy as the energy is mainly stored in chemical potential with a high energy density and free of thermal losses. Furthermore, the reaction system calcium hydroxide/oxide offers several advantages as the material is cheap, abundantly available and environmental friendly. The reversibility of the reaction and the storage operation in lab scale reactors has already been demonstrated. Seasonal thermal energy storage for space heating requires large capacities (for example about 8000 kWh for a single family house) but only small discharging powers (around 10 kW). Therefore, it is necessary to decouple the storage container (capacity) from the reactor (power), for example by a moving bed reactor concept. However, the movement of the material is rather difficult due to its tendency to clog and agglomerate. One approach to overcome this drawback, currently investigated at DLR, is to mechanically assist the transport of the material through the reactor. To investigate this concept a multifunctional test bench has been set into operation and a first reactor concept was investigated where a screw conveyor transports the material while simultaneously the screw is inductively heated thereby driving the charging reaction. With this concept the continuous charging of the material under incorporation of electrical energy was successfully demonstrated. However, the experiments also revealed that the heat transfer from the surface of the screw into the bulk limits the achieved charging power. To increase the power density of the reactor the heat transfer into the storage material needs to be improved. Current works therefore aim to optimize the screw geometry to enlarge the available heat transfer surface and increase the mixing of the particles. In particular, the mixing of the particles will lead to a drastically increased heat transfer rate into the moving bulk.


THE progressive series which in 1842* I introduced into organic chemistry, have become the chief means of classifl.cation ~nd of connecting organic substances generally. Several years after the introduction of the series, Gerhardt used them in the sense just mentioned in his Traite de Chimie and thereby contributed a great deal toward their general knowledge.t But the idea this distinguished chemist had formed of series was very imperfect, as is proved by the single fact that he ranged benzoic acid and acetic acid in what he called an isologous series (Traite, T. I, 127). As in the present state of chemical science, it is highly important that the principles of seriation be clearly understood, I will try to expound them in a more general and methodical manner than has been done hitherto. The general formula of organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen is B"H~B'l' By giving to r successivelv the values 1, 2, 3, 4, . .. we may form the following series of oxydation : (A) B"H~B B"H~B2 B"H(3Ba B"H~B4


This paper comprehensively summarizes the basic concepts,principles,algorithm and research situation of smart antenna,and discusses several problems that need to be solved urgently in practical applications. Finally, in the light of the applications of smart antenna, MIMO related technologies and development prospect,this paper presents the authors′opinions on the difficulties and problems that should be considered in the research of smart antenna.


Digital backpropagation (DBP) is the most effective fiber optic compensation technique. While DBP can increase the achievable data rate, its high computational complexity prevents its use in real-time applications. Parallelization is one of the most promising techniques to allow real-time DBP. Existing parallel DBP (PDBP) are based on coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE), which only considers cross-phase modulation and discards the rest of the inter-channel impairments. Therefore, these methods lose their performance in today's wavelength-division multiplexing systems. We fill this gap by proposing a PDBP capable of working with regular NLSE and compensating for all fiber impairments, including four-wave mixing. We analytically derive the compensation equations for the parallel scheme and handle them efficiently to reduce the complexity. Our simulations show a significant improvement in the sense of optimal launched power, achievable data rate, and system reach over existing DBPs with comparable complexity.


Two monoclonal antibodies (Mabs), that react in an enzyme linked immunoabsorbant assay, were generated against Aedes aegypti vitellin. One of these Mabs, VIIG9 that reacted predominantly with a 64 kDa component of Ae. aegypti yolk protein, also recognized 68 kDa and 66 kDa components in the yolk proteins of Culex sitiens and Cx. annulirostris, respectively. Mab VIIG9 has been used to detect vitellin or vitellin precursors in gravid female and non-blood fed nulliparous female mosquitoes as a possible age grading method. The presence of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to vitellin in the blood meal did not affect the fecundity of Ae. aegypti.RésuméDeux anticorps monoclones (Mabs), qui reagissent dans un essai enzyme lie et immunoabsorbant, ont ete generes contre Aedes aegypti vitelline. L'un de ces Mabs, V11G9 qui a reagi d'une maniere predominante avec un constituant 64 kDa de proteine de vitellus de Ae. aegypti a egalement reconnu les constituants 68kDa et 66 kDa dans les proteines de vitellus de Culex sitiens et de Cx. annulirostris respectivement. On s'est servi de Mab VIIG9 pour decouvrir la vitelline ou les precurseurs de la vitelline dans des femelles pleines et des moustiques femelles non nourries de sang et nullipares comme une methode possible de classer l'age. La presence d'anticorps polyclones et monoclones a la vitelline dans le sang absorbe n'a pas eu d'effect sur la fecondite de Ae. aegypti.


A 79-year-old man was admitted to our clinic with a 3-month history of diffuse scaly and bullous lesions. Skin examination revealed multiple blisters with an annular shape on the lower dorsum and abdominal areas (Fig. 1), while on the scalp and in the retroauricolar area lesions appeared as erythematous scales and crusts (Fig. 2). Symptoms referred were burning and itching. Past medical history of the patient revealed that he was affected by prostate cancer, treated with ormonal therapy. Chest X-ray and routine laboratory investigations were within normal limits. A TC scan and total body scintigraphy excluded distant metastasis. A paraneoplastic pemphigus was suspected and skin samples from scaly eythematous and bullous lesions were taken for histopathological examination and direct immunofluorescence. Indirect immunofluorescence on


Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study was to investigate and measure the competitive environment in the banking sector in Oman. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study considered an effort towards measuring the nature of competition of 12 out of 16 Omani banks from 2009 to 2019 over applying Panzar and Rosse (PR-model). It measured the competition index, called H-statistic, as it gives a quantitative assessment of the competitive nature of the studied market. The non-structural model was adopted to measure the competitive behavior of the banking sector. The data was taken from Muscat Securities Market (MSM) over obtaining financial statements of banks and data was tested using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Findings: The result showed that it was not able to reject the monopolistic competition that H value considered between values of zero and one for the banking market in Oman. Thus, Omani banks operate under monopolistic competition. Practical Implications: The study has interesting policy implications. It is recommended to encourage foreign banks' presence to enhance the competitive condition of the banking sector thus making sure the exit and the entrance of banks in the industry to raise the competition. Social Implications: The flexibility in the competitive condition of the banking sector will lead to an increased competition so this will produce a variety of services and products to improve the banks' performance and customer satisfaction. Originality/value: This is the first study of its kind in studying and testing the competitive environment for the banking sector in Oman using the PR-model. Keywords: Banking Competition in Oman, Monopolistic Competition, Market Equilibrium, Market contestability, Pazan, and Rosse (PR model).


Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the asthma-suppressive and immuno-regulatory effect of Lepidii Semen Herbal-acupu ncture(LS-HA) at $Joksanmi(ST_{36})$ on ovalbumin(OVA)-induced asthma in mice. Methods : C57BL/6 mice out of all the experimental groups, except the Normal group ...


Abstract The origin of agriculture in numerous independent regions soon after the last glacial period points to a global limitation for domestication. One hypothesis proposes that the post-glacial rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration from 180 to 270 ppm increased the productivity of wild crop progenitors, thereby removing a barrier to domestication. However, the inclusion of C4 crops among the earliest domesticates challenges this hypothesis, because these species possess a carbon-concentrating mechanism that is expected to offset CO2 limitation. We used an experimental approach to test this aspect of the hypothesis, finding that an increase in CO2 from glacial to post-glacial levels caused significant gains in vegetative biomass in wild modern representatives of C3 and C4 cereals. Investigation into the underlying mechanisms showed photosynthesis to be limited by CO2 at glacial levels in both types. More significantly, for the C4 species, transpiration rates were reduced, leading to indirect benefits for photosynthesis when water was limited. Finally, higher CO2 levels stimulated yield by 50% in C3 species and 10–15% in C4 species. The data provide experimental support for the CO2-limitation hypothesis, showing that atmospheric conditions of the last glaciation would have placed direct and indirect restrictions on the productivity of crop progenitors.


The invention relates to an apparatus for determining a rotor position of a motor (10) formed one on an output side of the motor (10) A end shield (13); a shaft (12) which is arranged by means of the A end shield (13) the roller bearing (15) is rotatably mounted; a rotor (11) which is secured radially on the shaft (12); a Magnetgeberrad (16-1, 16-2), which is angularly coupled to the shaft (12), wherein the Magnetgeberrad (16-1, 16-2) (on a rotor (11) opposite side of the A end shield 13); a sensor element (19) which is arranged in a region (26) between the side opposite the rotor (11) side of the A end shield (13) and the shaft (12) and angularly integral to the A end shield (13) is coupled, wherein the sensor element (19) is formed, the rotor position of the motor (10) by determining a position of the Magnetgeberrads (16-1, 16-2) to be determined.


An ultra‐high‐quality MVA‐LCD has been developed using a newly designed CF. The Cr black‐matrix was replaced by multi‐layer CF resin, which was also used to eliminate the conventional bead spacer. The protrusions that are essential to building rubbing‐less MVA panels are stacked on the multi‐layer CF resin coated by ITO to prevent electrical shorting between the CF and TFT substrates and to maintain the appropriate cell gap. This beadless MVA panel improves the transmittance and cell gap uniformity. Moreover, this new design removes Cr BM from the CF structure and eliminates both spacer dispersion and rubbing from the MVA panel process.


With the continuous development of computer technology, multimedia display technology has been developed further and applied in wider fields. While in terms of landscape, the application of multimedia display technology is still in the preliminary phase. This paper demonstrates and analyzes the application of multimedia system in landscape field with the example of Jiufeng multimedia display system and forwards the construction flow and realization methodology of multimedia display system in landscape field.


Background: With massive development of artificial intelligence in all industries, the development of artificial intelligence technology in healthcare considered delayed compared with other field. The slow development of healthcare related to many factors including financial, ethical and social among other contributors. The aim of this literature is to review the positive and negative implications of artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery in hospital setting. Methods: Review of articles concerning the implications of artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery in hospital setting were done by using keyword including artificial intelligence, healthcare delivery, implication of artificial intelligence, and hospital. Using search database Scopus, Science Direct, Google scholar and PubMed. Articles directly related to the topic was included, Qualitative and quantitative studies included, no specific time for the materials. Result: Most available studies showed that artificial intelligence has positively influence the health care delivery in terms of quality of care, efficiency and accuracy. On the other hand, several studies showed that AI can also have negative implications in terms of ethical, privacy and de-humanization of care. Conclusion: In conclusion, the positive implication of artificial intelligence and the wide range opportunity of technological development exceed the negative aspect, especially when the negative aspects are addressed appropriately or avoided. Keywords: " Artificial intelligence", "Healthcare delivery", "Implication", and "hospital".


An on-chip 1 Mb SRAM, that has three modes of operation, for application processors is developed to reduce power consumption. It operates at 300 MHz, with leakage of 25 /spl mu/A/Mb in the standby mode, and 50 /spl mu/A/Mb in the low-leakage-active mode.


As a most basic and all- round data information in economic society,financial information is a superior resource in investigation work for its large quantity,wide scope and high quality. But financial activity has been quickly changing,posing a big challenge towards capital investigation and control. Obstruction of information among different financial departments also constitutes an obstacle to investigation work. The ways of capital investigation and control are passively used; It is not enough to undermine and process financial information; It is difficult to produce deeper- level intelligence; Capital circulation channel cannot be effectively controlled. Public security organs and various coordination departments shall conduct convenient and smooth coordination mechanism and construct coordination mechanism to realize information sharing and mutual flow of information; They also need to step up promotion and application of capital investigation and control techniques to cultivate a number of experts who are good at capital investigation and control and upgrade the capability of capital investigation and control in the whole investigation department.


Cryptococcal infection remains a significant problem in patients with AIDS in resource-limited settings. Even with the availability of HAART, the 6-month rate of survival after cryptococcal meningitis (CM) reported by several epidemiological studies is very low. The worldwide number of infections and deaths due to CM appears similar to those for diseases that have received greater public health attention. In sub-Saharan Africa, deaths due to CM may be more frequent than TB. However, in many developing countries the capacity to perform the complicated management of severe CM is limited and CM mortality may remain a problem in Africa, and also in areas where antiretroviral therapy is available, as late presentation with advanced disease is common and consequently IRIS is becoming an emerging problem. A focused effort to improve diagnostic capacity, expand treatment options, and identify effective measures for the prevention of cryptococcal disease is urgently required.


In order to estimate amounts of the ammonium nitrogen adsorbed by different fractions of natural organic matter in sediment,effects of fractions of natural organic matter in sediment on sorption of ammonium nitrogen were investigated by batch experiments of equilibrium adsorption.Results show that sorption capacity of the sediment reduced dramatically after its organic matter was removed,with normalized sorption capacity and partition coefficient equaling only to 55.30% and 69.49%,respectively,that of the heavy fraction of organic matter,indicating that organic matter is a main factor affecting sorption of ammonium nitrogen on sediment.However,sorption of ammonium nitrogen in the light fraction of organic matter was dominated by distribution(Koc=85.57).Stably combined humus and tightly combined humus were important adhesive substances in the formation of loose and porous aggregate structure of the sediment.In the heavy fraction of organic matter,besides the mechanism of distribution,sorption of ammonium nitrogen was controlled by the mechanism of pore-filling(Гmoc=3 477.81 mg·kg-1).Furthermore,tightly combined humus(humin) played a leading role in sorption of ammonium nitrogen(Гmoc=5 857.78 mg·kg-1).Consequently,in estimating amount of the ammonium nitrogen adsorbed by the light fraction of organic matter,stably combined humus and tightly combined humus,it is advisable to count it as 0.32,1.21 and 1.68 times,respectively,of that by the heavy fraction of organic matter.


Biomass burning is a major contributor to the atmospheric carbon budget and increases the concentration of many trace gases apart from the adverse effects on soil properties. However, in many parts of India, crop residue burning is a recurrent and widespread practice for disposal of the residues after harvest of the previous crop to facilitate sowing of the succeeding crop. The residue burning on a larger scale also leads to severe atmospheric pollution. Against this backdrop, the present work was conducted to study the effect of wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) residue burning on soil properties and assess the potential greenhouse gas emission from burning of such residues on a regional scale. The study was taken up on farmers' field in Bhopal district, Madhya Pradesh, with two residue disposal methods, viz. residue burning and residue removal, for comparison with respect to their effect on soil properties and the greenhouse gas emission potential. No significant difference was observed between both methods in terms of soil organic carbon, inorganic carbon and available P content at 0-15 and 15-30 cm soil depths. Though residue burning showed favourable effect on available K content, there was reduction in the available N content in the 15-30 cm soil depth. Residue burning did not show significant effect on soil biological activity as estimated from fluorescence diacetate test. On the other hand, there was a significant adverse effect on soil structure and labile carbon content. Residue burning was estimated to result in the emission of 379 Gg C equivalent for India and 14 Gg C equivalent for MP.


Abstract. A Bayesian network (BN) approach is used to model and predict shore-break related injuries and rip-current drowning incidents based on detailed environmental conditions (wave, tide, weather, beach morphology) on the high-energy Gironde coast, southwest France. Six years (2011–2017) of boreal summer (15 June–15 September) surf zone injuries (SZIs) were analysed, comprising 442 (fatal and non-fatal) drownings caused by rip currents and 715 injuries caused by shore-break waves. Environmental conditions at the time of the SZIs were used to train two separate Bayesian networks (BNs), one for rip current drownings and the other one for shore-break wave injuries, each one with a hidden hazard and exposure variables. Both BNs were tested for varying complexity using K-fold cross-validation based on multiple performance metrics. Validation (prediction) results slightly improve predictions of SZIs with a poor to fair skill based on a combination of different metrics. Shore-break related injuries appear more predictable than rip current drowning incidents as the shore-break BN systematically performed better than the rip current BN. Sensitivity and scenario analyses were performed to address the influence of environmental data variables and their interactions on exposure, hazard and resulting life risk. Most of our findings are in line with earlier SZI and physical hazard-based work, that is, that more SZIs are observed for warm sunny days with light winds, long-period waves, with specifically more shore-break related injuries at high tide and for steep beach profiles, and more rip current drownings near low tide with near shore-normal wave incidence and strongly alongshore non-uniform surf zone morphology. The BNs also provided fresh insight, showing that rip current drowning risk is approximately equally distributed between exposure (variance reduction Vr = 14.4 %) and hazard (Vr = 17.4 %), while exposure of water user to shore-break waves is much more important (Vr = 23.5 %) than the hazard (Vr = 10.9 %). Large surf is found to decrease beachgoer exposure to shore-break hazard, while this is not observed for rip currents. Rapid change in tide elevation during days with large tidal range was also found to result in more drowning incidents, presumably because it favors the rapid onset of rip current activity and can therefore surprise unsuspecting bathers. We advocate that such BNs, providing a better understanding of hazard, exposure and life risk, can be developed to improve public safety awareness campaigns, in parallel with the development of more skillful risk predictors to anticipate high life-risk days.


The paper presents the rheological behavior study results of the plastic carbon composites representing the carbon black and dispersing medium mixture. Water solutions and polymer dispersions were added into the composites as a dispersing medium. Plastic carbon composites were found out to show the dilatant or pseudoplastic flow behavior depending on the polymer type. Viscosity and high elasticity modulus variation experimental dependences on the type and amount of polymer in the plastic carbon composite were obtained. It was found out that carbon composites possessing the dilatant properties and having the elastic deformation modulus of 0.2-0.6·107 N/m2 and viscosity in the range of 1-4·109 Pa·s should be used for obtaining complex carbon profiles by extrusion.


The development of information technology has influence a lot in life aspects. The utilization of technology by many companies is aimed to increase the efficiency of employees' works because the work efficiency can support the success a company. PT Windika Utama has utilized web as the facility to have promotion on its products, includes products information and company profile. Promotion conducted is expected to be able to result maximum profit for company.
The design of application program includes many modules; they are product selling application through the website and application on the data of buying from the supplier. In the development of selling application uses PHP and MySql language program as the data base, while for buying application uses Visual Basic.Net by the same database by selling application. The implementation of information system is to process data from resulted document. By this information system, it can increase the speed on report. In order to be more increase the ability of information system, then it should be developed continuously. In further version, it will be increased by more facilities that can increase effectiveness and productivity from the system wholly. The final result of this application is buying and selling report.


ABSTRACT Care, in all its permutations, is the buzzword of the moment, its meanings draining away in its constant evocation. Here, we briefly expand on older and newer meanings of care in the wake of Covid-19. These include the increasingly blurred boundaries between what has been traditionally understood as "care work" versus "essential work"; desperate attempts by corporations to promote themselves as 'caring'; and the adoption of reactionary rather than progressive models of 'care' by populist leaders such as Trump, Johnson, and Bolsonaro. We then argue that we are in urgent need of a politics that recognises our mutual interdependence and vulnerability. Rejecting the extensive carelessness so evident today, our model of 'universal care' calls for inventive forms of collective care at every scale of life. We envisage a world in which genuine care is everywhere —from our most intimate ties to our relationship with the planet itself.


Studying the seismic responses of velocity and amplitude on wide-/full-azimuth seismic data is now common for unconventional reservoir characterization. Velocity variation with azimuth (VVAz) and amplitude variation with azimuth (AVAz) are two of the most popular tools to map not only the relative intensity and orientation of natural fractures but also the strength and orientation of the maximum horizontal stress SH. We prestack time migrated a wide-azimuth Barnett Shale survey in North Texas into eight azimuths and reduced noise on the gathers using prestack structure-oriented filtering. We then computed the envelope, spectral peak frequency, and prestack P-wave impedance attributes for each azimuthally limited seismic volume. We compensated the VVAz effects by flattening each sector along the Barnett Shale key horizons, thereby registering the gathers for subsequent AVAz analysis. The results indicate the intensity, orientation, and confidence of azimuthal anisotropy effects on seismic velocity and amplitude, which can be referred to smaller scale vertical cracks or natural fractures. Our analysis reveals four zones of high anisotropy intensity that can be tied to either the regional structures or paleo stress field. Analysis of production data indicate from the anisotropy interpretation results that vertical, sealed fractures are the dominant cause of anisotropy and those specific fractures inhibit production. This observation and results indicate that horizon-based azimuthal anisotropy analysis avoids the VVAz effect and can be applied to fractures and regional stress field prediction. Introduction The strike orientation of openmicrocracks, which represents the present-day stress field, plays a key role in allocating and developing shale resource plays. Our goal is to determine if the anisotropy obtained from amplitude variation with azimuth (AVAz) analysis of a wide-azimuth survey can be correlated to natural fracture distribution and orientation in a shale reservoir. Residual moveout analysis and near core characterization indicate that the Barnett Shale reservoir exhibits moderate horizontal transverse isotropy (HTI) and relatively weak layering-induced vertical transverse isotropy (Gale et al., 2007, 2010, 2014). The moderate intensity of azimuthal anisotropy allows us to use Thomsen (1986) anisotropy analysis. We assume that the main cause of azimuthal anisotropy in the survey is attributed to microcracks that are open perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress. Natural fracture characterization Natural fracture occurrence in unconventional shale reservoirs has received considerable attention because of its potential impact on reservoir quality characterization. Numerous studies have been conducted based on outcrop, core, and subsurface data to understand the origin, preferential distribution pattern, and impact factors on fracture occurrence (Nelson, 2001; Curtis, 2002; Gale et al., 2007; Olson and Taleghani, 2009; Gale and Holder, 2010; Cho et al., 2013). Due to limited access to subsurface data, field fracture characterization is commonly used as an analog (Hennings et al., 2000; Nelson, 2001; Olson and Taleghani, 2009; Milad et al., 2018). Outcrop analogs provide linkage between natural fracture density with bedding thickness and composition. However, other controlling factors include variability in deformational history, initial burial depth, and confining pressure are involved in complexity as well (Hanks et al., 1997; Bai and Pollard, 2000; Nelson, 2001; Galvis-Portilla et al., 2016; Ghosh, 2017). Compared to outcrop analogue characterization, fractures seen in drilled core or downhole image logs are more direct ways to quantify fractures under reservoir conditions. However, such objectives provide only University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73071, USA and State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanism and Effective Development, Beijing, China. E-mail: email@example.com University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73071, USA. E-mail: email@example.com (corresponding author); email@example.com; email@example.com. State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanism and Effective Development, Beijing, China. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Manuscript received by the Editor 23 September 2019; revised manuscript received 20 December 2019; published ahead of production 29 May 2020; published online 26 June 2020. This paper appears in Interpretation, Vol. 8, No. 4 (November 2020); p. SP13–SP29, 20 FIGS., 1 TABLE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/INT-2019-0206.1. © 2020 Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved. t Special section: Seismic interpretation of fractures in deep subsurface Interpretation / November 2020 SP13 D ow nl oa de d 06 /3 0/ 20 to 6 8. 22 8. 16 8. 19 0. R ed is tr ib ut io n su bj ec t t o SE G li ce ns e or c op yr ig ht ; s ee T er m s of U se a t h ttp :// lib ra ry .s eg .o rg /p ag e/ po lic ie s/ te rm s D O I: 10 .1 19 0/ IN T -2 01 902 06 .1 a local, 1D knowledge of the subsurface, which may be difficult to extrapolate to three dimensions (Narr and Lerche, 1984; Lorenz and Hill, 1992; Narr, 1996; Nelson, 2001; Fernández-Ibáñez et al., 2018). A more promising workflow for 3D fracture analysis on a larger scale is to tie the relatively qualitative but dense 3D seismic response to the more quantitative sparse well control. Seismic-based analysis can be applied on natural fractures and hydraulic fractures (Tsvankin and Grechka, 2011; Liu, 2013; Yuan et al., 2018). However, the limited resolution of seismic data with wavelengths of approximately 50 m is challenging to show small-scale (on the order of 10 m), detailed features such as fracture spacing in the Barnett Shale. Even though there are indications of scattering form fractured zones, details on the orientation and density of the fracture system are still hard to verify (Liu, 2013). Neves et al. (2004), Chopra and Marfurt (2007), and Guo et al. (2010) find correlations between the fracture distribution and seismic attributes such as coherence and curvature. Outcrop analysis and finite element models show a good correlation of fractures to the proximity of faults and the intensity of folding, which in turn can be mapped by seismic attributes such as coherence and curvature (Busetti et al., 2012). The presence of such fractures is "inferred" using a deformation model. In contrast, AVAz provides a more direct measure of the presence of natural fractures and stress direction (Liu, 2013). Anisotropy The existence of natural fractures or discontinuities in subsurface are known to influence the traveltimes and amplitudes of seismic waves (Anderson et al., 1974; Kuster and Toksöz, 1974; Boadu, 1995; Boadu and Long, 1996). When clustered fractures are near vertical and maintain a consistent strike direction, the medium will exhibit HTI (Wang, 2002; Helbig and Thomsen, 2005; Tsvankin and Grechka, 2011; Liu, 2013; Alali, 2018; Shi et al., 2018). Seismic compressional wave (P-wave) propagation will be affected when passing through the HTI medium with a corresponding azimuthal variation: (1) a slowed P-wave velocity with the maximum velocity attenuation orthogonal to the fracture plane (fracture strike orientation) and a faster P-wave velocity along the fracture plane (fracture strike orientation) (Anderson et al., 1974; Kuster and Toksöz, 1974; Boadu, 1995; Clifford et al., 2005). This variation results in different arrival times and reflection coefficients for the sourcereceiver on different azimuths. (2) P-wave attenuation due to scattering with the maximum extent when perpendicular to the fracture strike direction, which can be reflected as the amplitude and other amplitude-related seismic attributes attenuation (Maultzsch et al., 2007; Thompson et al., 2010). The amplitude attenuation can be observed from different azimuths and offsets (Samec and Blangy, 1992; Zhu et al., 2007; Sharma et al., 2018) (Figure 1). AVAz of azimuthally sectored migrated seismic data provides a means to map the intensity and orientation of the HTI medium anisotropy (Gray and Head, 2000; Rüger, 2002; Gray et al., 2003; Gray, 2008; Mahmoudian et al., 2013; Liu, 2014; Qi et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2015). AVAz analysis requires the acquisition of wide-/full-azimuth seismic data with sufficient offsets (Rüger, 2002). Thompson et al. (2010) show how one can calculate the intensity (ε), azimuth (Ψ), and confidence (c) of these measures by fitting an ellipse to the different azimuth volumes in each gather for HTI media. For this case study, we began with conducting seismic interpretation on eight azimuthal gathers from one wide-azimuth survey and then we calculated the amplitude-related seismic attributes for each azimuthal gather; next, we flattened the attribute based on seismic key horizons from interpretation and input into AVAz workflow to obtain the key parameters of anisotropy. We conclude the relationship between natural fractures distribution and seismic azimuthal anisotropy by comparing with the gas production map in the study area. Geologic background This case study targets the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin, North Texas, USA (Figure 2). The Mississippian-age Barnett Shale is an organic-rich shale gas reservoir exploited in North America (Singh et al., 2008). The Fort Worth Basin is a foreland basin formed during the late Paleozoic due to the Ouachita orogeny (Walper, 1981; Thompson, 1988). The basin is bounded by the Red River Arch and the Muenster Arch in the north, the Ouachita Thrust-Fold Belt in the east, the Llano Uplift paleohigh in the south, and the Bend Arch in the west. Within the basin, the major Mineral Wells Fault is oriented in a northeast–southwest direction (Pollastro et al., 2007) (Figure 2). Figure 1. Seismic-wave attenuation and velocity reduction when penetrated perpendicular to the fracture strike direction. SP14 Interpretation / November 2020


With the aim to test the effects of roughage source and species on fatty acid (FA) composition of milk, an experiment was initiated on 10 buffalo and 12 bovine cows, allotted by the analog method into control (fed silage) and experimental (fed hay) groups. Milk samples were taken individually at three test days – prior to experiment (TD0), after one (TD1) and two (TD2) months from the start – and subjected to fatty acid analysis. The effects and co-effects were tested by two-way ANOVA's for TD1 and TD2 data, while for the assessment of the differences between species at TD0 – by one-way ANOVA. Compared to the bovine, at TD0 the buffalo milk displayed significantly lower contents of C8:0-C14:0 and higher of C18:1, total SFA being lower; PUFA were significantly lower, concerning also C18:2 (P≤0.01), while MUFA (especially C18:1) were higher (P≤0.05). In the two experimental groups at TD2 PUFA and particularly C18:2 were higher (P≤0.001). In the buffaloes fed hay C18:1 and C18:3 were also established higher (P≤0.001) with noticeably lower SFA, as compared to silage diet. It was contrary in the bovine cows, the experimental group having higher C8:0–C15:0 (P≤0.001) and lower UFA portion. Despite having similar FA profile to the bovine milk, the bubaline milk displayed better n6/n3 ratio; but lower PUFA fraction with tendency to improve, together with MUFA, when roughage source is shifted from silage to hay.


PURPOSE: To enable automatic manufacture of a support structural body which is easily removable from a mold, by a method wherein at the time of the making of the model and a latticelike support on a base rest, a support making sphere is decided in a offset sphere in the circumference of the model through an attribute of both ends of a segment constituting a lattice, the number of the segments crossing the model and an angle to be formed by crossing the model and segment. CONSTITUTION: A sphere offset by W from a projected surface m4 of a model is decided. Then in relation to a segment 17 divided by a crossing point 15 of a lattice of a support 6 and a crossing point 16 with the model m4, in the case where a crossing point of its end part belongs to the inside of an offset sphere 14, the support 6 is not made until a crossing point 15i, but made until an outside cross point 15o. In relation to a segment 18 crossing the model m4, the support is made only when a segment coming out from a cross point 19 of its end part and the model m4 cross once and in the case where two segments 18a, 18b cross the model m4, the support it not made. The support is made only when the single segment 18 crossing the model m4 crosses the model m4 at an angle of at least 30°. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


Migration patterns, choices and outcomes are not gender neutral. There are important gender differences in the drivers and patterns of migration which merit further analysis. Today, women account for close to half of migrants (UNDESA 2013). For the most part, policy attention has focused on female South-North migration. This seems justified by the large numbers of women migrating to the North: in 2013, women represented 52% of all migrants in the North. Their motives for migrating to the North can be explained by a search for better economic opportunities and social conditions related to gender discrimination. For example, sex-based discrimination in the labour market has been identified as an important factor in driving female North-North migration (Baudassé and Bazillier, 2013). However, given that South-South migration represents over 50% of the total migrant stock and women accounted for 43% of all migrants in the South (UNDESA, 2013), expanding analysis to understand the gender dynamics of this type of migration is of increasing importance for migration policies and research.


The theory and practice of free space optical mixing as applied to coherent intersatellite link receivers is addressed in this paper. Factors which contribute to mixing losses in free space are discussed, and theoretical predictions made. An experiment to measure the losses in a 1.5μm DFB coherent system is described, and preliminary results presented. Consideration is given to additional loss and distortion mechanisms which are not modelled, but which come into play for large off-axis angles.


The International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) designs and implements innovative human rights projects to advance the struggle for justice on behalf of individuals and marginalized communities through advocacy, research, and policy development. The IHRLC employs an interdisciplinary model that leverages the intellectual capital of the university to provide innovative solutions to emerging human rights issues. The IHRLC develops collaborative partnerships with researchers, scholars, and human rights activists worldwide. Students are integral to all phases of the IHRLC' s work and acquire unparalleled experience generating knowledge and employing strategies to address the most urgent human rights issues of our day. For more information, please visit: www.humanrightsclinic.org. The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity (Warren Institute) is a multidisciplinary , collaborative venture to produce research, research-based policy prescriptions, and curricu-lar innovation on issues of racial and ethnic justice in California and the nation. The Warren Institute' s mission is to engage the most difficult topics related to civil rights, race and ethnicity in a wide range of legal and public policy subject areas, providing valuable intellectual capital to public and private sector leaders, the media and the general public, while advancing scholarly understanding. Central to its methods are concerted efforts to build bridges connecting the world of research with the world of civic action and policy debate so that each informs the other, while preserving the independence, quality and credibility of the academic enterprise. For more information, please visit: www.warreninstitute.org. The Immigration Law Clinic (ILC) provides legal representation to indigent non-citizens in removal proceedings before U.S. Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and federal courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The ILC provides this necessary service to Northern Cali-fornia' s immigrant communities, offering education and legal services to low-income immigrants facing deportation while enabling students to gain practical, real-world experience. ILC students take on all major aspects of litigation, including interviewing clients and witnesses, preparing legal briefs, drafting pleadings and motions, and arguing complex legal issues. ILC students regularly conduct naturalization workshops and organize various other community legal workshops. Recognizing the increased collaboration between criminal and immigration enforcement agencies, the ILC has been at the forefront of indigent detention and deportation defense. For more information, please visit: www.law.ucdavis.edu. 1 Congress is considering a comprehensive overhaul of the nation' s immigration laws more than a decade after the enactment of strict immigration measures. Lawmakers should …


The strong Scott conjecture about the electron density at a distance 1/Z from an atomic nucleus of charge Z and its generalization for molecules are proved. The density, suitably scaled, converges to an explicit limiting density as Z ! 1. Both a weak convergence and a pointwise convergence on spheres holds.


Context Although being overweight is associated with many adverse health outcomes, observational studies of weight loss show associations between weight loss and increased mortality. This may be because these studies did not distinguish between intentional and unintentional weight loss. Contribution In a national survey of 6391 U.S. adults, people who were trying to lose weight had decreased mortality whether they lost weight or not. Lowest mortality was associated with modest intentional weight loss. People who lost weight unintentionally had increased mortality. Implications Weight loss has adverse associations with mortality only if it is unintentional. Trying to lose weight may have benefit even if people do not actually lose weight. The Editors Despite the many health risks associated with being overweight (1, 2), the effect of weight loss on long-term health and longevity remains controversial (3-5). Randomized clinical studies in overweight persons have shown that weight loss leads to short-term improvements in physiologic risk factors (6) and can prevent or delay hypertension and diabetes (7-9). However, only observational studies have examined the effect of weight loss on mortality rates (3-5) and have typically found weight loss to be associated with increased rather than decreased mortality (3-5, 10, 11). Most observational studies examining weight change and subsequent mortality rates have not assessed weight loss intention. The few studies that have tried to differentiate between the effects of intentional and unintentional weight loss have yielded mixed results (12-18). The Cancer Prevention Study I and the Malm Prevention Study found that intentional weight loss was associated with reduced mortality rates among persons with diabetes (17), impaired glucose tolerance (18), and other health conditions (12, 16). Other studies, however, have found no effect of intentional weight loss on mortality rates (12-16). Another concern is that self-identified intention to lose weight may indicate a healthy lifestyle or better access to health care rather than a biologically protective effect of weight loss. In 1989, part of the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population (19), examined intent to lose weight and self-reported weight change. Death among members of this sample was followed through 1997 (20). Using these data, we estimated the association of weight change and intention to lose weight with all-cause mortality among overweight and obese U.S. adults. Methods Study Design and Study Sample The National Health Interview Survey is an ongoing nationwide survey of health status, conditions, and behaviors among the U.S. noninstitutionalized population (19, 20). The survey uses a multistage, probability-sampling strategy to select approximately 45 000 households and 120 000 persons yearly. Data are weighted to match the age, sex, and ethnicity distributions of the U.S. population and to account for survey nonresponse. In this study, we used data from a supplemental survey conducted in 1989 that assessed intentional weight loss in a random subsample of 20 847 adults older than 18 years of age (19). Sufficient data were available to link 20 439 respondents (98%) to the National Death Index, providing follow-up of vital status through December 1997 (up to 9 years). At this time, all survivors were censored (20). The National Death Index is a computerized database with standard identifying information about virtually all deaths in the United States and has been shown to have a high rate of ascertainment (21). We used an algorithm provided by the National Center for Health Statistics to determine which matches should be classified as deaths (20). Of the 20 439 persons for whom we had both survey and vital status information, we excluded 11 642 whose body mass index (BMI) was less than 25 kg/m2 before weight loss, since weight loss is not typically indicated for such persons. We also excluded 2328 persons younger than 35 years of age because the mortality rate in this group is extremely low (1.5 deaths per 1000 persons per year compared with 15.4 deaths per 1000 persons per year for those >35 years of age; hazard rate ratio [HRR], 0.10 [95% CI, 0.06 to 0.15]). Finally, we excluded 78 persons with missing data on weight loss or other covariates, leaving 6391 overweight and obese persons for the analyses. Measurements Interviewers determined age, ethnicity, sex, smoking status, self-rated health (on a five-point scale from excellent to poor), hospitalizations in the past year, physician visits, days spent in bed during the past year, and chronic and acute conditions that caused hospitalizations or days spent in bed. Participants were also asked whether they were limited in any activities or work because of an impairment or health problem; if they answered yes, they were asked to report the primary and secondary limiting health conditions that led to the impairment. Self-reported height and weight were used to compute BMI. To assess intentional weight loss, participants were asked, Have you tried to lose weight in the past year?; Is your weight now more, less, or about the same as a year ago?; and In the past year, about how much have you gained or lost? Statistical Analyses Chi-square and analysis of variance tests were used to compare study covariates at baseline across weight loss intent and weight change groups. We used Cox proportional-hazards regression analyses to determine the mortality HRR associated with weight loss intention and weight change while adjusting for potentially confounding variables. The HRR is the ratio of two rates of disease or mortality occurrence. It is a relative measure of how rapidly cases of disease or death occur in a group with the risk factor compared with the group without the risk factor. We found no violation of the statistical assumptions underlying the proportional hazards regression in graphical or statistical examinations. Similarly, we found no problematic influential data points or multicollinearity. We also computed predictive margins to estimate the multivariate-adjusted 8-year cumulative hazard rate (equivalent to the mean follow-up) for each weight loss intent and weight change group (22). Predictive margins are a type of direct standardization in which predicted values from the Cox proportional-hazards regression models are averaged over the covariate distribution in the sample. Because we found a statistically significant interaction between weight loss intent and weight change, we stratified weight change according to whether persons reported trying to lose weight. Multivariate models controlled for age, ethnicity, sex, smoking, education, initial BMI, measures of health status (self-rated health and days spent in bed during the past year), diabetes (none, noninsulin treated, insulin treated), cardiovascular disease or cancer cited as a cause of functional limitation, number of acute and chronic conditions, and measures of health care utilization (hospitalizations and physician visits during the past year). We also evaluated models that excluded smokers, since smokers are at increased risk for death and may be more likely to lose weight. We tested for interactions between weight loss intent and weight loss group and age (35 to 64 years vs. 65 years), sex, and BMI (<30 kg/m2 vs. 30 kg/m2) to determine the association with mortality. We computed poststratification weights to account for the 78 missing participants and conducted analyses using SUDAAN, version 7.5.4a (Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), to make the study estimates statistically representative of the U.S. noninstitutionalized population of overweight and obese adults 35 years of age and older. SUDAAN uses Taylor series linearization to estimate variances, allowing analyses to account for the unequal weighting, stratification, and clustering. Role of the Funding Source The authors analyzed the data and wrote this article as employees of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was therefore involved in the analysis and interpretation of the data and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. Results Fifty-eight percent, 12%, and 30% of participants reported no weight change, weight gain, and weight loss, respectively (Table 1). Compared with persons reporting stable weight, those who reported gaining or losing weight were more likely to be women, to report worse overall health and more days in bed, and to have had functional limitations, physician visits, and hospitalizations during the previous year. Persons who lost weight also had higher baseline BMIs and were more likely to be smokers, to have diabetes, and to have been hospitalized during the previous year than persons with stable weight or weight gain. Table 1. Characteristics of 6391 Overweight Persons, according to Weight Loss Intention and Reported Weight Change Fifty-eight percent of the study participants reported trying to lose weight during the previous year (Table 1). Persons who were trying to lose weight reported more weight loss than those who were not trying to lose weight (P < 0.001), but the magnitude of this difference was small (median weight change, 0.4 kg vs. 0.3 kg). Compared with persons who were not trying to lose weight, those who reported attempted weight loss were more likely to be women and to have diabetes, were younger, were more likely to be of white ethnicity and nonsmokers, had higher BMIs, and were less likely to report fair or poor health. Persons attempting weight loss also reported more physician visits and more days in bed during the previous year than those who were not trying to lose weight. During 9 years of follow-up (mean, 8.0 years), 892 participants died (age-adjusted rate, 17.8 deaths per 1000 person-years). Compared with persons with no weight change, pers


In this paper, MATLAB is chosen to serve as the main software support.The mathematic model of high-speed monohull ship's propulsion and manoeuvring system is established,and then according to the mathematic model,establish the corresponding simulation model is established with the help of Simulink, that realize union motion simulation on propulsion and manoeuvring of high-speed monohull ship.In the simulation process, the fuzzy controller is used to control propulsion system, and PID controller is used to control manoeuvring system.The simulation result indicates that the plane movement of high-speed mono-hull ship is reflected quite objectively and actually.Simultaneously,the effect of the two intelligent controllers is very good,the excessive adjusting amount is small and stability is good during direction control.This paper provides a judging platform for dynamically synthetic analyze of propulsion and manoeuvring which are simultaneously taked into account;meanwhile, such intelligent controlling union simulation method supply references to synthetic analyze during primal designing of ship.


If small comets are as numerous in the inner solar system as Prank et al. (1986a) have recently proposed, large and easily detectable amounts of hydrogen would be generated in interplanetary space. Inhibition of water vapor production by a factor of 3 x 10 -9 by very thick dust mantles would be necessary to prevent excitation of a detectable inter- planetary Lyman a glow. Other optical problems associated with the cometesimals are also discussed. Prank et al. (1986a), henceforth FSC, have proposed that small comets 12 meters in diameter, whose' density is 0.1 gm cm -3, impact the earth at a rate of about 20 per minute. This rate requires that the average distance between these cometesimals at 1 AU, before gravitational focussing by the earth, be about 5000 km and their spatial density be about 3 x 10 -26 cometscm -3 (Prank, et al., 1986b). The "standard" rate for production of water molecules from comets at 1 AU is between 1017 and 1018 cm-2s -1 or 3 x 1024 molecules every second from each small comet. Dissociation of the water would result in the production of hydrogen atoms at a rate of 0.14 cm -3 s -1 from this family of small comets at 1 AU, if the water production rate is 5 x 1017 cm -2 s -1. If the lifetime of these atoms before charge exchange with the solar wind ions is 2 x 106 seconds, their density near 1 AU would be about 3 x 105 per cm 3. FSC, recognizing the problem of loading the solar wind with so many pick-up ions, pro- posed that the rate of gas production from the small comets must be kept low by sufficiently thick dust mantles on their exteriors. Reducing the production rate by orders of mag- nitude, to a level between 3 x 101o and 3 x 10 TM cm -2 s -1, would avoid the difficulty with excess generation of pick-up ions (Frank, et al., 1986b). It would not be sufficient to es- cape another difficulty - the excitation of Lyman a radiation by the cometary hydrogen. If gas generation is assumed to vary with heliocentric distances as r -2'6 (Meier and Keller, 1985), a column perpendicular to the solar direction at 1 AU would contain 4.5 x 1018 atoms cm -2 and have an optical depth of 7 x 105 for Lyman a, a fact already pointed out by Chubb (1986). Interplanetary hydrogen is not optically thick in the inner solar system (Purcell and Tousey, 1960; Meier


An analytical procedure to predict the additional damping of low frequency vessel motions associated with second order drift forces is presented. The method is based on use of first order wave-induces motion responses obtained from strip theory analysis which are applied in a simplified three-dimensional model for determining drift forces. Inclusion of forward speed effects, allowing determination of the additional linear wave drift damping term. Comparison of the theoretical results with model test data demonstrates the utility of the method which involves simple calculation in contrast with more complex calculation procedures.


The prevalence of dysmenorrhea in adolescents worldwide ranges from 41.7% -94%. This is caused by age at menarche, genetic, BMI, diet, duration of menstrual bleeding, smoking, coffee consumption and physical activity. Physical activity produces short-term non-specific analgesics thereby reducing pain. To determine the relationship between physical activity and primary dysmenorrhea in young women. This study used a systematic review by searching the literature from four e-databases namely Pubmed, Sciencedirect, Scopus, and Web of science. The inclusion criteria in this study were articles in the last 5 years (2018-2022), English literature, full text, open access literature, originalresearch and described physical activity with the incidence of primary dysmenorrhea in adolescents, while the exclusion criteria for this study were literature originating from non-research study, adolescents with secondary dysmenorrhea. Literature quality assessment uses a quality assessment tool from EPHPP (Effective Public Health Practice Project). From the 9 (nine) articles reviewed, it was found that all articles had a relationship between physical activity and primary dysmenorrhea. Physical activity is associated with primary dysmenorrhea in female adolescents.


Vowel acoustic space is often characterized by polygons, whose vertices are determined by summary statistics such as mean values of the formant frequencies of distinct phonemes. The F1-F2 quadrilateral is the most familiar of these. However, using summary statistics to represent formant-frequency data presents fundamental limitations. These data are inherently lossy—summarizing large amounts of data with single values; mean itself is a non-robust statistic, highly sensitive to outliers; and even robust statistics ignore distributional information within the data, which can vary markedly among different phonemes and age groups. We introduce a new approach characterizing and measuring change in formant spaces statically and developmentally. This approach treats acoustic spaces as point clouds of data, in which no information is abstracted or lost. Within this framework, we measure the spatial overlap of sets of formant data using an approach combining optimization theory and computational statistics. This p...


Membranes based on polymeric materials are known to offer a selective ability towards different gases and vapours. Membrane separations represent a clean and economic way to replace traditional separation and purification technologies based on high pressure or temperature gradients and on phase change. The research activity focuses on the characterization and modeling of the gas permeation into commercial as well as innovative membranes in order to design specific separation processes and to optimize material properties. The research is carried out in combination both with the final users of the separation processes, either in the industrial or pilot plant scale, and with material manufacturers and chemists. Separation of interest include: CO2 removal from natural gas, biogas (see also Membrane for energy applications) or flue gas, purification of hydrogen from steam reforming or from fermentation (biohydrogen), separation of hydrocarbons from light gases, etc. The research also includes macroscopic modeling of the mass transport properties allowing to gain a deep understanding of the separation process. The current activity is particularly focused on: 1) Polyimides membranes (e.g. Matrimid or 6FDA-6FpDA) which exhibit good thermal and mechanical properties and interesting performances in CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2 separations. 2) high free volume glassy polymers (PTMSP, polynorbornenes, polymer of intrinsic microporosity PIM, Amorphous Teflon), with high gas permeability and selectivity. 3) mixed matrix membranes based on glassy polymers and nano-sized silica particles that enhances the permeation rates of gases, with different effects on selectivity. 4) rubbery polymers based on ethylene oxide or propylene oxide with high solubility for CO2.


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Computational notebooks are gaining widespread acceptance as a paradigm for storage, dissemination, and re-production of experimental results. In this paper, we define the computational notebook paradigm (CNP) consisting of entities and processes and discuss how the reproducibility of the experimental process and results is enhanced by each element. This paper also details the interactions of CNP and multi-paradigm modeling (MPM), with an aim of understanding how to support MPM within the CNP, and improve the reproducibility aspects of both the CNP and MPM.


Losses in HVDC thyristor valves are an important economic factor, but their verification by direct electrical measurement is not practical. The origin and method of dissipation of valve losses is described, and alternative methods for valve loss verification are reviewed. The most economic and reliable method appears to be the summation of calculated component losses. >


Following computer technique's development,Electronic literature take up very important stutus in library literature.The article simply expounds the selecting and managing of electronic literature.


The production process of ACR resin is a typical chemical process.The proportion of the monomers is hard to decide by the traditional way.In order to find the best proportion,a simulaton system is built.How to simulate the process with pretty graphic interfaces and animations is the issue we discuss.By use of mixed programming of Matlab and VC++,the simulation system can achieve the aim.It combines the mathematic models,computations,graphic interfaces,as well as animations,to simulates the production process of ACR resin.The system has good intuitionistic effect,and so provides a convenient simulation measure for the analysis of ACR resin production technics.The result shows that the mixed programming of Matlab and VC++ is a good method to solve the problem like this.


TPS9089 Background: In melanoma, tumor hypoxia is associated with invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis formation, as well as treatment resistance such as immune evasion. Evofosfamide (EVO, TH-302) is a hypoxia-activated prodrug designed to release the bis-alkylating DNA crosslinker bromo-isophosphoramide mustard (Br-IPM) when reduced in severe hypoxia. In the Phase 1 study (NCT00495144) of EVO monotherapy, 7 of 36 (19%) patients with advanced melanoma had partial responses and 12 of 36 (33%) stable disease. Dose limiting adverse events included skin and mucosal toxicities. A Phase 2 biomarker-enriched trial was initiated to further evaluate the efficacy of EVO in melanoma, and identify hypoxia and other biomarkers predictive of response. Methods: This Phase 2 trial is a single-arm, multi-center, study investigating the efficacy and safety of EVO monotherapy (NCT01864538). The primary endpoint is 3-mo PFS. The study incorporates a Simon two-stage design (alpha = 0.15; beta = 0.15) based on 3-mo PFS with ...