The utility model discloses a goods shelf capable of being dismounted freely. The goods shelf is characterized by comprising a fixed plate and 2-5 movable pieces. The fixed plate is a rectangular vertical plate provided with a plurality of rows of circular holes, the movable pieces are a string of cylindrical bars which are tightly strung by two strings at equal intervals, a groove is formed in the center of each cylindrical bar, the two strings are arranged on one side of the grooves, and the cylindrical bars can be inserted into the circular holes. According to the goods shelf capable of being dismounted freely, the different cylindrical bars can be inserted into the circular holes till the groove positions from the ends without the strings according to needs, and then tight or loose goods shelves with different shapes can be formed to contain objects with different natures; meanwhile, different goods can be placed on two sides of the fixed plate, and therefore space can be fully utilized. The goods shelf capable of being dismounted freely is simple in structure and convenient to use, and industrialized production can be achieved easily.


A small molecule named DR3TSBDT with dialkylthiol-substituted benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene (BDT) as the central unit was designed and synthesized for solution-processed bulk-heterojunction solar cells. A notable power conversion efficiency of 9.95% (certified 9.938%) has been achieved under AM 1.5G irradiation (100 mW cm(-2)), with an average PCE of 9.60% based on 50 devices.


Ni8-Fe2-LSGMC5 composite anodes doped with various amounts of La_(0.8)Sr_(0.2)Ga_(0.8)Mg_(0.15)Co_(0.05_O_(3-δ) (LSGMC5) were prepared by using the impregnation method. The electrochemical properties of the anodes and the power generation characteristics of corresponding cells were studied by alternating current (AC) impedance spectrometry and direct current (DC) polarization using hydrogen and dimethyl ether as fuels, respectively. The results showed that the introduction of LSGMC5 powders into the Ni-Fe anodes improved the structure of the anodes and the anode/electrolyte interfaces significantly, which decreased the Ohmic resistance of the cell and the polarization resistance of the anodes. The LSGMC5 powders in the composite anodes showed different effects on the electro-catalytic oxidation of hydrogen and dimethyl ether (DME). The polarization resistance of the anode decreased with increasing concentration of LSGMC5, and the anode containing 30% LSGMC5 powder showed the best electrochemical properties when using DME as a fuel. The maximum power densities of the cell in DME based on the anode containing 30% LSGMC5 powder reached 1.00, 0.61, and 0.40 W·cm~(-2) at 1073, 1023, and 973 K, respectively. The anode doped with 20% LSGMC5 powder had the best electrochemical properties when using H_2 as a fuel, with the further increase in the amount of LSGMC5 powder the polarization resistance increased quickly.


To satisfy these needs, it is important to design connectors that transfer the electrical signal. Finite element analysis was applied to evaluate assembly force because that was very important factor in the design of the connectors. And, the study of terminal design factors was conducted for improving the assembly force.


The number, nature, and distribution of generalist physicians will be a focus of considerable attention as we restructure our health care system. Inner cities and rural areas have too few of them, ...


Clinical evidence suggests that high aldosterone plasma levels contributes to progressive kidney disease. Although administration of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) or angiotensin type 1 receptor blockers (ARB) can delay kidney disease progression, plasma aldosterone levels may increase to a significant extent even after the initiation of such treatment. Thus, administration of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists such as spironolactone, on top of treatment with ACEi or ARBs has been shown to reduce albuminuria and slow down kidney function deterioration. Nevertheless, there is scanty evidence on the effect of eplerenone in patients with kidney disease due to glomerulonephritis.

 In this prospective open-label study, we evaluated the effects of eplerenone in patients with biopsy proven glomerulonephritis already treated with ACEi or ARBs. Patients were divided in the active treatment arm, who received 25 mg of eplerenone daily besides ACEi or ARBs, and a control group that received only standard treatment. Protein excretion in 24 h urine, eGFR, blood pressure and serum K+ levels were measured at 3, 6 and 12 months after study initiation.

 Out of 83 patients who were screened, 62 patients were included in the final analysis. Twenty-six received eplerenone and 36 were treated with ACEi (25) or ARBs (9) alone (controls). After 1 year of treatment with eplerenone, proteinuria decreased from 1597 to 1145 mg/24 h while it did not alter in controls. Eplerenone reduced proteinuria especially in those with baseline proteinuria of >1000 mg/24 h. Kidney function remained stable in patients treated with eplerenone (from eGFR: 82.51±22.6 to 84.68±31.7 ml/min/1.73 m2, p = 0.8) and showed a non significant deterioration in controls (from eGFR: 68.39±26.2 to 66.63±29.8 ml/min/1.73 m2, p = 0.08). Systolic blood pressure was significantly reduced in the active treatment arm (from 128.1±17.5 to 126.3±10.93 mmHg, p = 0.03), whereas eplerenone did not increase serum K+ levels or had any other significant adverse effect.

 Administration of eplerenone at a dose of 25 mg/day, on top of treatment with ACEi or ARBs, can further reduce proteinuria and systolic blood pressure in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis.


Opening experimental teaching is an effective way to cultivate innovative talents.The construction,operational foundation and guarantees of opening teaching were discussed,and the practice on this teaching mode was generalized.


The metrical technique of Catullus in his elegiac verse has not yet received the detailed examination that has been given to the usage of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid by Platnauer in his Latin Elegiac Verse (Cambridge, 1951). Robinson Ellis in the Prolegomena to his Commentary on Catullus (Oxford, 1876) introduced this part of his subject in these words: 'If we examine the metrical peculiarities of these elegies, we shall find their defects to lie mainly in the too exclusive imitation of Greek models.' He then goes on to speak of the Greek practice of allowing the thought to run on uninterruptedly without necessarily a pause at the end of the couplet, and of the Greek freedom in admitting words of any length in the last place in the pentameter: 'in these respects the Catullian elegy is completely Greek.' In the Introduction to the Select Elegies of Propertius (Macmillan, 1884) by J.P. Postgate there is a brief reference to what is described as the 'carelessness' of Catullus about the ending of the pentameter, and a further censure is implied in the mention of 'his extraordinary number of elisions'; in short, Postgate describes the elegiac of Catullus as 'still semi-barbarous'. Clearly, we have a problem here, since it is hard to reconcile the two descriptions of verse which in some respects is 'completely Greek' and in others 'semi-barbarous'.


Finance-combined business and a large size of financial institution have become as a world stream at present. As for the financing industry of our country confronted with crisis due to IMF cold wave which made a sudden attack at the end of 1997, an effort to reorganize thereof linking the holding company has being made progress. Through revision of fair trade acts in early 1999, a system of the holding company has restrictively been introduced and a law regarding the finance holding company for readjustment of structure was established in Oct.2000, and it has become possible to establish a finance holding company according to stock exchange and stock transfer.
Viewing the major contents of the finance holding company law, they are as follows. First, to divide into industrial capital and financial capital, and finance holding company is viewed as a pure holding company. Secondly, with respect to forming a financial group, less than a granddaughter company is not allowed in principle. Thirdly, the possession limit of the finance holding company is restricted. Fourthly, in order to accelerate the establishment of the finance holding company enabling to establish a finance holding company according to entry method to a finance holding company by exchange and transfer of stocks.
As stated above, as a plan to strengthen competitive power of the financial industry of our country, a system of the finance holding company was introduced and put into practical use. In the reform progress of the financial industry, it is no exaggeration to say that such reorganization toward system of the finance holding company of the banks which can be the backbone of the financial business has become a phase that the government controls directly the financial business of all types. Accordingly, the phase that such financial institution was concentrated under guidance of government may be very worrisome. So personnel affairs intervened by government or direct control of the financial market should be rejected, and especially a plan for transparency of control structure of the finance holding company is required to be considered. Thus, a moral relaxation by lack of the master consciousness uplifting autonomous control function should be suspended.
Furthermore, in order to activate more the establishment of the finance holding company, it should be adjusted for matters related to the tax-related matters such as introduction of coupling tax payment system, enlargement of postponement scope of taxation about transfer balance, and related to the labor law such as collective bargaining between the management of the holding company and the labor union in the case that the holding company decides upon combination of subsidiary company etc.
Giving consideration to the reality that the actual results are relatively insufficient on the finance holding company, different from those that discussion was well progressed long time ago by the foreign country, more researches should be carried out in our country. In particular, the financial institutions, direct parties concerned with interests of the system of finance holding company should concentrate on operating the finance holding company through investigation of the actual operation of foreign financial agencies.


Festschrift Volume honoring Ward Edwards, scheduled for publication in 1998. The chapter was published in 1999 and should be cited as follows: Birnbaum (1999). The paradoxes of Allais, stochastic dominance, and decision weights. In J. C. Shanteau, B. A. Mellers, & D. Schum (Eds.), Decision Science and Technology: Reflections on the contributions of Ward Edwards. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 27-52.


This paper includes an overview of ecological studies conducted since 1986 in the Ratanica pine-beech forested catchment located in the polluted, high populated southern part of Poland. General characteristics of the catchment (including soil and vegetation, air pollution, input/output of nutrients and pollutants, element budget data and forest health assessment) are presented. Based on biogeochemical and bioindication results, the Ratanica catchment has been classified as a moderately to heavily deteriorated area. Predictions for this forested catchment for various deposition of anthropogenic pollutants, are also disscused.


s and Presentation 1. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2015) Insulin signaling regulates pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation. 5 Annual Meeting of the Indiana Physiology Society (talk). 2. Ye L, Robertson MA, Hesselson D, Stainier DY, Anderson RA. (2014) Glucagon signaling is essential for β cell neogenesis and transdifferentiation from α cells in zebrafish. 73 Annual Society for Developmental biology Meeting (poster). 3. Ye L, Robertson MA, Hesselson D, Stainnier DY, Anderson RA. (2014) Glucagon signaling is essential for β cell neogenesis and transdifferentiation from α cells in zebrafish. 52 Annual Midwest Society for development biology meeting (talk). 4. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2014) Insulin signaling directs pancreas development via Pdx1 regulation. 5 Annual Midwest Graduate Research Symposium (talk). 5. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2013) Glucagon is critical for β cell regeneration in zebrafish model. 6 Annual Midwest islet club conference (talk). 6. Ye L, Anderson RA. (2012) Inhibition of DNA methylation promotes β cell regeneration in zebrafish model. Inhibition of DNA methylation promotes β cell regeneration in zebrafish model. 50 Annual Midwest Society for development biology meeting (poster). 7. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2012) Inhibition of DNA methylation promotes β cell regeneration in zebrafish model. 10 international zebrafish conference (poster). 8. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2014) Glucagon is critical for β cell regeneration in zebrafish model. 1 KOI zebrafish meeting (talk). 9. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2014) Insulin signaling directs early pancreatic progenitor differentiation. IUPUI Research Day (poster). 10. Ye L, Robertson MA, Anderson RA. (2013) The endocrine control of pancreatic β cell regeneration. IUSM Center for Diabetes Research Seminar Series (invited talk). 11. Gao Z, Zhao Y, Ye L, Yang X, Wang K. (2009) Interaction of Vanadium Compounds with Mitochondria. J Biol Inorg Chem, 14(suppl 1):S21-S27. 12. Ye L, Zhe S, Yang X, Liu H, Wang K. (2009) GdCl3 induce the apoptosis of HepG2 cells via mitochondrial pathway, 10 Chinese National Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (poster). 13. Gao Z, Zhao Y, Ye L, Yang X. (2009) Hypoglycemic vanadium compounds: cellular protection versus toxicity, 14 International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry(poster).


Because of the pseudo-theorem of Birkhoff, the important problem related to the dynamical gravitational field of a non-stationary spherical mass is ignored by the relativists. A clear formulation of this problem appears in the paper [5], which deals also with the establishment of the appropriate form of the spacetime metric. In the present paper we establish the corresponding equations of gravitation and bring out their solutions.


The purpose of this research paper is to bring awareness to the students of post-colonial fiction of Angela Carter. She won Nobel Prize for literature for her revolutionary feminism and deconstruction of patriarchy. Carter gives the image of the wolf to characterize the monstrous quality of his Bluebeards in her novels. The wolf is a deadly; in each plot of her novels there is a deadly conflict between wolf and the dove. Carter uses all the elements of the Gothic novels of Mrs. Anne Redcliff to create an atmosphere of horror and supernaturalism. The forces of darkness are in tune with the threatening atmosphere of the novel symbolizing death and destruction. Carter has used this tool in her short stories The Bloody Chamber as well. Carter uses the images of mirror, snow, blood, moon, fire, forest and old castles to depict the presence of her Bluebeards symbolic of bloodthirsty traditional patriarchy. In this study the main issues of sexuality of women, gender discrimination are investigated in detail.


This study investigated the attitudes of teachers towards the inclusion o f children with special educational needs inio the mainstream after they had taught in an inclusive education system for a year. Twenty nine teachers completed a questionnaire that assessed their perceived competence and attitudes towards inclusive education and investigated the perceived problems and concerns that the teachers felt they may have encountered. The data was compared to a previous study in which the attitudes of teachers who have not yet had the opportunity to practise inclusive education were measured. The research results indicated that teachers in the present study felt competent regarding their knowledge of and ability to teach in inclusive education. Their attitudes were significantly (p<G.05) positive towards inclusive education. There was no significant statistical difference between teachers' attitudes in the present and previous study. However, teachers expressed concerns that inclusive education can only work_provided that the number o f children per class remains below 15, that teachers receive ongoing professional development, that teacher-aides are available in every class and that a support team is present at all times. DESCRIPTORS : inclusive education; teachers' attitudes; learning disabilities; special educational needs; mainstreaming


But what if we were to "whip up" the eggs of all literary "fowl" in one shlletthe prerevolutionary, revolutionary, and postrevolutionary; the Soviet, anti-Soviet, and post-Soviet; the CmigrCs, dissidents, and nativist patriots; the classical, avant-garde, and socialist realist-all that has come to us "over the peaks of the ages /And over the heads of poets and governments"? To mix them all up, so that it's no longer possible to tell what was forbidden and what permitted by those long-forgotten governments, what was "right" or "left," "red" or white," "yellow" or "black," and so on. Of course, there are still those among us who can vaguely recall the difference between "Soviet" and "anti-Soviet," but virtually no one can recall how to tell "red" from "white" unless they happened to hear it from their grandparents.


Effective interfirm collaboration is an incresingly significant factor in technological innovation. A wide and complex range of options exists within collabotative arrangements which affect the outcome and rewards for both partners. Firms are often unaware of the strategic implications of collaborative ventures. While some large firms may be invloved in strategic alliances at the corporate level in order to establish or maintain competitiveness, many remain unaware or unconvinced of the potential for the generation of innovations through collaborations with small, flexible, 'hi-tech" firms. the pace of change and the challenge of international competition threatens Western European firms with a 'technology gap' within a 'disorganized capitalist' setting. Various forms of interfirm cooperation within and across natinal boundaires may be important responses to such uncertainty and amy ultimately provide successful strategic remedies to the situation. This article presents the findings of a recently complete...


Recent investigations in neuromorphic photonics exploit optical device physics for neuron models, and optical interconnects for distributed, parallel, and analog processing. Integrated solutions enabled by silicon photonics enable high-bandwidth, low-latency and low switching energy, making it a promising candidate for special-purpose artificial intelligence hardware accelerators. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a silicon photonic chip that can perform training and testing of a Hopfield network, i.e. recurrent neural network, via vector dot products. We demonstrate that after online training, our trained Hopfield network can successfully reconstruct corrupted input patterns.


A signal processing system for a position-sensitive detector has been developed wherein the more usual electronic circuitry has been replaced by a stand-alone, electrically programmable read-only memory (EPROM) circuit. Using this simple cost-effective method, rapid determination of the position of individual particles is achieved without recourse to analogue or digital computation techniques.


In any current discussion of child health in Australia, the financial aspect is usually predominant. Governments tell us that there has been a 'blow-out' in health costs. This argument is not supported by the facts which show that health expenditure in Australia has merely kept up with inflation, remaining at between 7 5% and 8-1% of gross domestic product for the last 15 years. The blow-out in health costs is in fact similar to the blow-out in the cost of ball point pens and breakfast cereal. For child health the challenge is how to get an adequate share of the health budget and how to use it most appropriately. Of course there are many other clinical challenges which confront Australian paediatricians. Relatively little impact has been made on the two biggest causes of death of children after the first month of life, the suddent infant death syndrome in the first year and accidents beyond the first year. Even up to 1 month of age, while there has been considerable progress in the intensive care of extremely low birthweight infants, there has been far less progress in preventing the premature births which lead to these problems. Other major health challenges for Australian paediatricians, in terms of size and seriousness, include better understanding and improved management of asthma, a reduction in the number of cases of child abuse and neglect, and providing care for the increasing number of children surviving, often into adult life, with chronic handicaps. While none of these challenges have simple answers, the four headings in this paper: health costs; hospitals, their communities and health delivery; child health education; and a national child health policy, are relevant to progress in these areas.


Though you may have taken a break from ICD-10 planning and prep when news of the delay first broke, it's time to get back to work.


Two-hundred and twenty-five beginning college students completed the Degrees of Reading Power, Form CP-1A (DRP). The internal-consistency estimate of reliability (KR-20) was .82; the mean score was 52.9; and the scores ranged from a low of 26 to a high of 63 (100%). The DRP scores for a subset of 168 freshmen were correlated positively with Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT) scores (r = .67) and with ACT Composite scores (r = .64), but not with the students' high school grade point averages (r =.10, p < .09). However, the correlation between the DRP and the ND Comprehension test was only .27, and the DRP and the NDRT produced somewhat different predictions of student reading abilities.


A case study from the Developing Enterprising Students project, a strategic teaching and learning project at the University of Huddersfield.
This case study is based on a 2011 paper by Dina Williams, who was a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Department of Strategy & Marketing at The Business School, University of Huddersfield. The paper 'Impact of Business Simulation Games in Enterprise Education' was presented at the 2010 University of Huddersfield Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.


This biography of Warren Buffett is the latest in a series of books about the life and philosophy of the "Sage of Omaha." Schroeder is the first author to obtain Buffett's full cooperation, including permission to rummage through his files. The result is the definitive Buffett biography, allowing us not only to understand his personal side but also to gain insight into some of his investment decisions. Eschewing the authorized biographer's temptation to confer sainthood on her subject—and throwing in one or two small flaws to make him seem human—Schroeder leaves readers feeling that they have seen the real Buffett, warts and all.


Photographs captured with sufficient exposure under low-light conditions are usually blurred if there are moving objects. Under some circumstances, the restoration is challenging because of complicated motion blur such as rotation and distortion. In this paper, we propose a novel method to replace the motion blur objects of blurred image with the corresponding sharp objects of flash image using Poisson interpolation. First, assisted by the sufficient exposure blurred image, we adopt graph-cut to minimize a simple cost function and extract the intensely lightened sharp objects in the flash image. Second, we interpolate the extracted sharp objects into the blurred image, and then remove the remnant blur around the sharp objects through gradient domain Poisson interpolation. Further, a simple method is designed that the user can interactively adjust the brightness and contrast of flash area in the synthetical image. The experiments demonstrate that our algorithms are efficient.


Lutetium Oxyorthosilicate (LSO) is an attractive scintillator for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, due to its relatively high light output, short decay time, and high stopping power. LSO has a 2.6% natural abundance of Lu-176, a long-lived (3.78×1010 years) radioisotope that generates an intrinsic background. This low background rate has been capitalized on to perform PET quality checks and measure transmission data. In this work, LSO was exposed to the neutrons produced by the O-18(p, n)F-18 reaction in a Siemens Eclipse Cyclotron to selectively alter the intrinsic background rate. The cyclotron was run for a total of 1827 microamp-hours over two weeks, with mean proton energy of 11 MeV. Ten LSO pixels (4×4×20 mm3) were placed in locations selected for a desired neutron energy range. The range of neutron energies produced permitted the Lu-175(n,γ)Lu-176 and Lu-176(n,γ)Lu-177 reactions. Three of the pixels were placed behind polyethylene to further moderate the neutrons. The pixel's scintillation properties were measured to determine if they had been damaged by the irradiation. Gamma ray spectroscopy was performed for several weeks following the irradiation to evaluate the transmutations engendered. Despite an increase in trapping centers, scintillation properties were not changed, and the expected Lu-177 activation occurred.


I have chosen play as a topic because my first conversation about theory with Regina Flannery was about methods of studying primitive children, especially primitive children at play (Flannery 1937, 1941, 1962). I had already begun my field studies of children when Dr. John Cooper asked me if I would discuss methods with her. During the subsequent forty years very little has been done with the study of children's play and still less on the study of play which includes not only games and toys, but the style of imitative and imaginative play, the ways in which adults participate in directing or originating children's play and children's play style over time.1 The occurrence of toys and identifiable games, however, is very easy for a superficial observer, or an inexperienced field worker to record, and cat's cradles, for example, have been a frequent recourse for the industrious, but unskilled observer. So Boas kept remarking with humorous repetition, that a student who accompanied him on his last field trip to the Northwest Coast was as "an expert at cat's cradles" (Mead 1959b:407). Children's games also tend to be listed with riddles, other word games, children's songs, etc., and collected along with folklore, especially in studies of less literate groups in modern countries.


To report the clinical observation and nursing of 3 cryptococosis patients.The intensive observation and nursing of intracranial pressure on acute atage,prevention of continuous increase of intracranial pressure are the key point to the successful treatment.Meanwhile observe closely and treat promptly of the adverse effect of the druge and take good mental nursing and basic nursing are same.


Objective To develop a standardized measuring tool for evaluating TCM syndromes of sub-health state.Methods Through determining the concept of sub-health state and TCM basic syndromes,constructing questionnaire frame and item pool,making questions and answers,carrying out pre-investigation,testing the reliability and validity,and revising the questionnaire,the questionnaire for evaluating TCM basic syndromes of sub-health state was developed according to the principles and steps of questionnaire design combining with literature research,expert consultation and TCM basic theory.Results A questionnaire was developed combined with self-assessment and interviews,which included 9 dimensions-liver depression syndrome,liver-qi deficiency syndrome,spleen-qi deficiency syndrome,liver-fire syndrome,heart-fire syndrome,stomach-fire syndrome,heart-qi deficiency syndrome,lung-qi deficiency syndrome and dampness syndrome,and 66 items(50 items of them for five-class quantization).Conclusion The questionnaire can quantize the TCM syndromes in sub-health population to some extent,find out the characteristics of TCM basic syndromes of sub-health state through epidemiological investigation in high-risk people group,and supply a standardized tool for syndrome classification study in sub-health people group.


This study is anchored on a range of perspectives regarding the traditional role of the mass media. Whitney (1975, p. 69) asserts that they inform, educate and entertain people as well as deepen their perspectives on issues, but Lasswell (cited in Popoola 2012, p.160) avers that surveillance of the environment, correlation of parts of the society in responding to the environment and transmission of social heritage from one generation to another are their topmost functions. Rao (1968, cited in Martin and Chaudhary, 1983, p. 102) says: "the mass media may not be the prime movers of development in general, but they provide part of the necessary social interactions in a development cycle." The reports in the Nigerian media on China, a key player in global affairs, were examined with reference to these perspectives. A survey carried out across print media establishments in Lagos, Nigeria, with agenda-setting theory as the anchor, found out that a major determinant of the way China was reported by the Nigerian print media was the newsy nature of developments back home in China. The newsy nature, however, was what the Nigerian editors considered it to be. Keywords: Reporting, print media, surveillance, correlation, framing, agenda setting, China, Nigeria.


Objective To investigate the role of imatinib in the adjuvant care for gastrointestinal stromal tumor(GIST).Methods We reviewed the medical records of 18 patients who were treated with imatinib for GISTs in the first affiliated hospital of Soochow university,ranging from January 2003 to December 2009.Eighteen patients were received imatinib 400mg/d adjuvant therapy while 17 patients were in control group.The primary objective was 2-year recurrence-free survival(RFS).Results Out of 35 patients,the median follow-up time was 28.3 months and median treatment duration in adjuvant therapy group was 24 months(range 12-36).There was relatively higher 2-year RFS in the adjuvant therapy group compared with the control group(72.2% vs.41.2%,P0.01).Eighteen patients were valuable for the toxicity assessment.The main toxicity included grade 1-2 leukopenia(7 cases),mild diarrhea(2 cases),nausea and vomiting(6 cases),periorbital edema(1 cases),mild skin rash(8 cases),and mild fatigue(2 patients).Conclusion Adjuvant therapy with imatinib can improve 2-year RFS for patients with GIST.Imatinib treatment of adverse reactions is mild and well tolerated.


Betz (1978) proposed that 68% of students in mathematics classes experience high levels of math anxiety. This is most unfortunate as it is a well-established fact that math anxiety is negatively correlated with mathematics performance (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001; Ashcraft & Moore, 2009; Foley et al., 2017). This does not necessarily imply that math anxiety is an indicator of lower potential to succeed in mathematics. Arnsten (2009) and Diamond et al. (2007) have shown that moderate levels of anxiety can help focus attention and enhance working memory which is known to be a major factor in math competence. It has also been shown that the negative correlation between math anxiety and math performance is stronger for those with high working memory capacity (Foley et al., 2017). Though there has been much research on working memory and situational factors associated with math anxiety, there is not much research which synthesizes the data on working memory with classroom experiences relating to math anxiety. Furthermore, few studies on math anxiety include participants with a broad range of math anxiety levels. In this study, we sample students in a year-long calculus course. We dig deeper into how students experience math anxiety and how they interpret past classroom experiences. The study utilizes tests for both math anxiety and general anxiety. Interviews are conducted in order to examine past classroom experiences and how these experiences helped to shape the students' belief of math anxiety. We use the interpretation framework developed by Ramirez et al. (2018) to explore the impact of classroom experiences on the development of math anxiety. Under this framework, we hope to discover ways in which the instructor can construct rigorous and engaging classroom activities which would ultimately fashion a favorable impression upon the student. We also use the disruption account framework proposed by Ashcraft & Kirk (2001) to interpret the role in which working memory affects math anxiety and math performance. The interviews include various working memory tests along with written mathematical procedures. We hope to synthesize the information we gain from these activities with the data we collected for math anxiety and experiences in order to gain deeper insight into how we understand math anxiety.


Proceedings of a workshop on Seismic Performance and Simulation of Pile Foundations in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground, held in Davis, California, March 16-18, 2005. Sponsored by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center; University of California at Berkeley; Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering; Tokyo Institute of Technology; Geo-Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 25 papers that discuss physical measurements and observations from earthquake case histories, field tests in blast-liquefied ground, dynamic centrifuge model studies, and large-scale shaking table studies. Papers contain recent findings on fundamental soil-pile interaction mechanisms, numerical analysis methods, and reviews and evaluations of existing and emerging design methodologies. This proceeding provides comprehensive coverage of a major issue in earthquake engineering practice and hazard mitigation efforts.


In this contribution, the cross sections for the competing channels for the heavy quark production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC are compared and investigated in detail.


Wide Area Monitoring and Control (WAMC) of power grids is one application of emerging smart grid technologies. A key feature of smart grids is the use of two-way digital communication between Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), and system operators and controllers. The performance and security of the communications network is critical in this application. This work developed an emulation of a communication network as a component of a smart grid test-bed. The test-bed consists of a physical emulation of a power system, a number of IEDs, a Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) and user interface for data acquisition and control connected via a local area network. Network emulation was integrated using Riverbed Modeler, a communications network emulator, utilizing the software's SITL (System-in-the-Loop) capability to interface the IEDs and physical hardware with the network emulation using real-simulation gateways. The emulation enables modeling of various networks and the analysis of operation of the communications network for WAMC applications. This paper presents a methodology of network emulation for this application and analyzes the performance of the emulation as a communications network for smart grid test-beds.


Motivated by the stringent requirements on delay performance in data center networks, we study a connection-level model for bandwidth sharing among data transfer flows, where file sizes have phase-type distributions and proportionally fair bandwidth allocation is used. We analyze the expected number of files in steady-state by setting the steady-state drift of an appropriately chosen Lyapunov function equal to zero. We consider the heavy-traffic regime and obtain asymptotically tight bounds on the expected number of files in the system. Our results show that the expected number of files under proportionally fair bandwidth allocation is insensitive in heavy traffic to file size distributions, thus complementing the diffusion approximation result of Vlasiou et al. [20].


The purpose of this paper is to explain the relationship between demographic factors and other factors that affect the purchase on-line, for the construction and implementation of marketing relationships in online shopping for the B2C market. Case Albania. The main hypothes that we have raised in this paper is: Which is the importance of demographic factors in the construction of relationship marketing in the online B2C market, in Albania? It was taken a sample of 500 respondents who answered 7 questions. Have been used 100% of the questionnaires. The first question excluded from the survey those who have never made purchases online. The questionnaires were filled in only by people who had experience in shopping online. The choice is made on an occasional basis. The respondents were grouped by age, sex and education. The questionnaires were completed in the two main cities of Albania: Tirana and Durres. The study was based on primary and secondary data for the case of Albania. The results and conclusions of this article are significant. Albania marks the highest growth compared with other countries in the region in terms of Internet usage.
 DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n2p649


Ocean Optics USB4000-XR1 spectrometer was utilized to collect spectrum data from Brassica chinensis L.leaves with no pest,with a small number of pests,and with plentiful pests,so as to identify pests species and pest severity by clustering analysis methods.Three representative clustering analysis methods,Euclidean distance,included angle cosine and correlation coefficient,were selected to carry out cluster analysis and pest identification.The results showed that using Euclidean distance and included angle cosine methods could accurately identify different samples for insect pests of Brassica chinensis L.based on spectrum.It could be concluded that,spectrum analysed by clustering can provide efficient,reliable and accurate technical support for vegetables pest and disease control,in aspects of non-destructive analysis,diagnosis and identification.


Growth, population dynamics and biomass yield of two forage legumes oversown into natural pasture were evaluated. Two legumes ( Stylosanthes guianensis cv. Cook and Stylosanthes hamata cv. Verano), two tillage methods (zero-tillage and minimal tillage) and two sowing methods (broadcast and drill) were combined into eight (8) treatments and replicated 4 times as a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial arrangements in a randomized complete block design. Planting was carried out in late rainy season (September, 2013) and the natural pasture were evaluated for height and canopy/soil cover between 2-8 months after sowing (MAS) which covered the dry and rainy seasons. Evaluation of dry matter yield (DMY) of the sown legumes, dominant grass and other herbaceous species occurred at the onset of rains (May and July, 2014). There were significant differences (p<0.05) in the height of dominant grass, soil covered by sown legumes and other herbaceous species in the dry season. In May, S. guianensis produced higher DMY (9.00 t/ha) with minimal tillage prior to broadcast compared to similar least yields of 4.00 t/ha and 4.25 t/ha recorded for the same legume when oversown with minimal tillage-drill and zero tillage-broadcast respectively. Proportions of other herbaceous species were very low in ShZtD (11.79 %) and ShMtD (17.51 %) at 8 and 10 MAS respectively. Irrespective of the tillage or sowing methods employed, the two oversown legumes survived competition from existing species and drought of dry season; but with minimal tillage, drilled S. hamata thrived more and contributed higher DM yield amidst other companion species .


The antigenic determinant of thermally denatured salmon sperm (ss) DNA was extensively investigated with a radioimmunoassay technique using the ssDNA immune system. It was demonstrated that mixed sequences of purines and pyrimidines play a key role in the antigenic determination of DNA. On the other hand, the importance of the bases in the manifestation of DNA antigenicity was demonstrated by using brominated, methylated and/or ultraviolet irradiated ssDNA preparations.


The aim of the study was analyze the types of haemoglobinopathies in patients of Anemia using hemoglobin electrophoresis. Haemoglobinopathies like thalassaemia and sickle cell anemia etc are increasing due to unawareness of rural population. Microcytic hypochromic anemia is common problem in central India. The haemoglobinopathies (Structural and functional disorders of haemoglobin) are major World health problem. These are single gene,autosomal,recessive monogenic disorders that include thalassaemia and sickle cell anemia. Hemoglobinopathies presents as microcytic hypochromic anemia.They are misdiagnosed and treated as iron deficiency anemiainhemoglobinopathies iron is not required by the body. This causes burden to the patient economically as well as on health. The excess iron which is not required by body has a toxic effect on the body. By doing electrophoresis in microcytic hypochromic anemia, we can categorize anemia into different groups. Electrophoresis helps in giving correct diagnosis. Most common cause of microcytic hypochromic anemia was iron deficiency anemia and abnormal hemoglobin disorder . Differential diagnosis based on complete hemogram and peripheral smear is possible but special tests like serum iron profile and haemoglobin electrophoresis are a must for confirmation of the diagnosis.


Abstract Universities, industry and governments have shared interests that provide incentives for actively managed, mutually beneficial, economic development alliances. Benefits from these alliances include enriched entrepreneurship capital and support for knowledge-based startups and high-impact firms. Regions realizing these outcomes can expect enhanced economic outcomes like job creation, better wages, and higher innovation rates. Aside from prior research demonstrating how tech transfer processes promote innovation and high-tech business formation, little is known about other types of university alliance initiatives and how they contribute to economic development. We seek to describe several university alliances linking partners in academia, industry and government aimed at promoting entrepreneurship capital and high-impact firms. First, we describe research that provides justification for university alliances as a means of promoting regional economic development. We then describe five university alliance initiatives, and provide examples of how each has enriched the region encompassed within the Florida High Tech Corridor.


Lately, the idea of indoor vertical farming has caught a wide attention throughout the world either for domestic or commercial purposes. This is one of the ideal decisions in modern agriculture technique when the land area for the plantation activities has become the major concern especially in the urban area. However, certain factors must be considered to mimic the actual condition of the outdoor natural environment. One of the critical elements for the plant to grow is the light source. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to study the effects of few artificial lights such as daylight compact fluorescent light (CFL), blue and red colours of light emitter diode (LED), with a wavelength of 475 nm and 650 nm, respectively, towards the height of the plant, chlorophyll content in the leaves, carbon dioxide release as well as their water contains in the leaves of Typhonium Flagelliforme plants. Based on the result obtained in this research, the blue light promotes and enhances the height of the plant as well as contains the most water in the leaves. Meanwhile, the red light encourages the production of the chlorophyll in the leaves. However, the red LED emits more carbon dioxide compared to others


At stake in this chapter is a reading of Lacan and the Sophists as sharing a common and radical challenge to the Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction (something "cannot be and not be at the same time"). This is what Cassin has elsewhere theorized as the Aristotelian "decision of meaning," or logos as an operation of exclusion of its "bad others," including polysemy, homonymy, and nonsense.Equivocation becomes for Cassin, as it is for Lacan, not simply one aspect among others of language (and by extension, of translation), but its very condition of possibility. Through a detailed reading of key sections of Freud's Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud and Lacan are, when read in the light of Aristotle and in terms of this decision of meaning, seen as perhaps first and foremost Sophists.


secret, patented or proprietary remedies, save OT' the prescription of a medical practitioner. We call be certain that a compact of this kind would find favour with Departments of Public Health, and that steps would be taken to render the sale of these proscribed preparations difficult through other agencies. The herbalist, the druggist, and the storekeeper would be forced into a corner. if the wares sold could not be obtained at a reputable pharmacy. The time is rife for some move in New South Wales, when the Department of Public Health is prosecuting proprietors and vendors of nostrums for which incorrect claims are being made. Unfortunately, we have to realize that some of these cases act as a splendid advertisement for the preparation. Cases have been known in which the manufacturer himself has laid the information for the purpose of obtaining this puff. This plan, however, will fail if sufficient publicity be given to the methods of manufacturers and proprietors of some of the world's most dangerous nostrums. o


The authors deal with the issues, arising in the course of bringing of special procedure for the consideration of a criminal case if the accused agrees with the accusation presented (Chapter 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of RF). The authors point out three fundamental problems: an insignificant role of a defender; the possibility for a public prosecutor, a private (individual) prosecutor and a victim to recall their consents to a special procedure for a criminal case considered; unrestrained prosecutorial discretion in making a decision on the consent to consider a criminal case in special order.


In 1979, the first Brazilian legislation was passed on division of urban land, which also required areas for deployment of utility equipment. Prior to that date, there was no control and/or direction of the growth of the city. At the same time, the supply of public education was very restricted. These assumptions underlie this research that intends to present a brief report on the relationship between the growth of Presidente Prudente-SP, and the establishment of elementary schools in this city, between the years 1945 and 1964. It was found that the local public administration showed some concern with educational issues. The methodology was based on historical surveys and urban mapping.


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The aim of the study was to evaluate the character and frequency of pathological changes in the oral cavity mucous membrane and xerostomy in patients with prolonged hospital and ambulatory treatment due to rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

EXAMINATION MATERIAL
The study was conducted in 120 patients with RA, average age 54, and in the control group of 40 generally healthy examinees, average age 53.

RESULTS
In patients with RA pathological changes in the oral cavity appeared much more frequently: erosions, fissures, perleche, candidiasis oris, lichen Wilsoni, leukoplakia and persistent xerostomy. RA patients more often used partial prosthesis and more frequently were edentulous.

CONCLUSIONS
The treatment of oral cavity diseases and prophylaxis should be provided together with the RA treatment, with special emphasis put on the elimination of xerostomy. Good cooperation of rheumatologists and periodontologists is recommended RA diagnosis.


Reduction of energy consumption in manufacturing processes are becoming necessary due to the growing concern of industrial pollution and of electricity prices over time. Several factors such as raising of process automation, fluids consumption, process parameters selection and motion control influence the energy consumption. The consistent motion control on CNC machines are the most important for the machining process and are achievable by main drive control and auxiliary drive control. Positioning along lengths of travel can be linear (driven along a straight path) and rotary (driven along a circular path). Over the decades, mass of the machine tool is decreasing, and speeds are increasing what influence necessary kinetic energy for motion. Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) on machine tools is one possible solution.


I argue that St. Augustine of Hippo was the first in the history of Christian spirituality who expressed a key tendency of Christian mysticism, which implies a gradual intellectual ascent of the human soul to God, consisting of the three main stages: external, internal, and supernal. In this ascent a Christian mystic proceeds from the knowledge of external beings to self-knowledge (from outward to inward), and from his inner self to direct mystical contemplation of God (from inward to higher). Similar doctrines may be found in the writings of the Greek Fathers (Great Cappadocians, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, etc.). Although there are many similarities in the overall doctrine and in particular details between them, it does not imply the direct impact of Augustine's theological thought on the Greek Fathers but rather the influence of the Neoplatonic philosophy on both Western and Eastern Christianity, in particular, of Plotinus' theory of intellectual cognition.


A composition comprising an extract of a mixture of crude drugs is provided to inhibit appetite and also prevent fat from being accumulated in body by decreasing absorption of excessively taken fat through the inhibition of the lipase activity and promoting elimination. A composition for inhibiting and treating obesity comprises an extract of a mixture crude drugs consisting of 17-23 wt.% of Citrus unshiu Markovich, 17-23 wt.% of Coicis Semen, 17-23 wt.% of Crataegus pinnatifida, 8-12 wt.% of Bupleurum falcatum L., 8-12 wt.% of Artemisia Capillaris Thunb, 8-12 wt.% of Alisma canaliculatum, 2-6 wt.% of Eucommia ulmoides, 2-6 wt.% of Glycyrrhiza uralensis and 1-3 wt.% of Pinellia ternata, where the mixture crude drugs further comprises 1-3 wt.% of gypsum.


Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in pediatric patients with high risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) such as those with non-Down de novo acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL), transformed myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), therapy-related AML (tAML) and refractory/resistant AML (rAML) has been limited by graft failure, regimen related toxicity (RRT) and relapse. Between September 2005 and July 2008, 10 pediatric patients, median age of 7.6 (range, 1.3 – 17.0) years with such high risk AML (AMKL, n=2; MDS/AML, n=4; tAML, n=1; rAML; n=3) received a novel Fludarabinebased preparative regimen followed by T cell replete transplantation with bone marrow (BM, n=4), peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC, n=5) or umbilical cord blood (UCB, n=1) in a Singapore Pediatric BMT center. Seven patients received stem cells from alternate donors (AD) and 3 from matched related donors (MRD). Prior to HCT, 6 patients were in 1 st complete remission (CR1), 2 in CR2 and 2 had progressive diseases. AD consisted of single antigen mismatched related and non-genoidentical unrelated donors (antigenic match at HLA-A, B, DRB1*). All patients received IV FLU 125 mg/m2, BU, 0.8 – 1.2 mg/kg 6 hourly, MEL, 140mg/m2. AD recipients received additional ATG (Thymoglobuline) 5mg/kg. GVHD prophylaxis consisted of cyclosporine and methotrexate or mycophenolate motfetil depending on the stem cell source. Excluding the 2 patients who entered HCT with progressive diseases, all other patients achieved myeloid engraftment at a median of 14 (range, 9 – 16) days and achieved sustained stable full donor chimera from 21 days after HCT. The median duration and costs of HCT admissions was 34 (range, 17 – 66) days and USD 51,317 (range, 41,416 – 155,905), respectively. Common post-HCT complications included engraftment syndrome (n=4) and reactivation of Herpes viruses (n=4). There was no severe RRT. Incidences of grade I–III acute GVHD and chronic GVHD were 63% and 67%, respectively. All these patients are alive in sustained CR at a median follow-up of 303 (range, 44 – 1037) days with Karnosky/Lansky scores of 90 – 100%. Both the patients with progressive diseases had graft failures and subsequently died of disease at a median of 138 (range, 77 – 198) days after HCT despite experimental salvage therapy with allogeneic natural killer cell transplantation from parental donors. In summary, this novel FLU based preparative regimen paired with non-genoidentical HCT is safe, inexpensive, allows prompt engraftment, and appears to provide anti-leukemia effects in pediatric patients with high risk AML entering HCT in remission. Long term follow-up will determine relapse risks and whether this non-irradiation based regimen is associated with a reduction in late effects including malignancy.


The number of disputes related to water that reach courts in Chile has increased in the last decades, the topics of these disputes have become more complex, and the current conflict resolution system has not been able to adjust to this situation. This study analyzes colonial texts from water-related conflicts that were addressed at the Royal Hearings in Santiago (1691–1800) and from the Cabildo gatherings (1541–1802), using an adaptation of the Institutional Analysis and Development framework. The research shows a strong institutional system surrounding conflict resolution during colonial times, with nested schemes and empowered figures appointed in leading roles. However, a lack of equity and inclusion of all actors is also visible, reducing its legitimacy. At present, the increasing value of water and a sense of distrust in the institutional system have led to longer and more complex conflict resolution processes. Here, learning from past times about the empowerment of the institutional system for solving water disputes could be useful. An increased support towards initial conflict resolution mechanisms, giving space for local knowledge and generating stronger participation in these initial steps, is a lesson for the future.


Background Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been the standard reperfusion strategy for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the contemporary era. Meanwhile, the incidence and prognosis of left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) in AMI patients remain ambiguous. The aim of the current study is to identify the predictor and long-term prognosis of LVA in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction. Methods We prospectively enrolled 942 consecutive patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction who were treated by primary PCI. The baseline characteristics, procedural features, and one-year clinical outcomes were compared between the patients with and without LVA. The primary endpoint of major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) was defined as a composite of cardiac death, target vessel revascularization, and ischemic stroke. Multiple logistic regression was applied to predict LVA formation and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to evaluate the accuracy of the multivariate analysis model. Results The general incidence of LVA was 15.92%. At one-year clinical follow-up, patients in the LVA group had significantly higher incidence of MACCEs (15.33% vs. 6.44%, P<0.01), mainly driven by an increased incidence of cardiac death (8.00% vs. 2.78%, P<0.01), target vessel revascularization (5.33% vs. 2.27%, P=0.03), and ischemic stroke (4.00% vs. 1.39%, P=0.03). Multivariate analysis found that longer symptom-to-balloon time (S2B) [odds ratio (OR): 1.16, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.11–1.21, P<0.01], higher initial and residual SYNTAX score (iSS, OR: 1.19, 95% CI: 1.14–1.24, P<0.01; rSS, OR: 1.33, 95% CI: 1.22–1.45, P<0.01), lower left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (OR: 1.15, 95% CI: 1.11–1.18, P<0.01), and persistent ST segment elevation (OR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.06–3.38, P=0.03) were independent predictors of LVA formation. Conclusions LVA is still common in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction in the contemporary PCI era, and the prognosis of these patients was significantly worse during the one-year clinical follow-up. Strategies of prompt reperfusion and complete revascularization may be helpful in preventing LVA formation and improving clinical outcomes.


Locke's theory of property in the Two Treatises of Government is shaped by his deep involvement in the development of colonial policy, as secretary to both the Lord Proprietors of Carolina and the Council of Trade and Plantations. This article will demonstrate the extent to which chapter five of the Second Treatise mirrors the arguments made both by the ethical and economic defenders of the English plantation. By calling America vacant, by beginning property in land through enclosure and cultivation and limiting it to that which does not spoil, and by introducing money and international commerce as the means by which the spoilage proviso can be transcended, Locke incorporates both an ethical justification for taking Indian occupied land and economic reasons for favouring settled agrarian based colonies. Thus, embedded within Locke's theory of property is a vigorous economic and ethical defence of England's colonial activities in the new world.


The performance of traditional beamformers tends to degrade due to inaccurate estimation of covariance matrix and imprecise knowledge of array steering vector. The inaccurate estimation of covariance matrix can be attributed to limited data samples and the presence of desired signal in the training data. The mismatch between the actual and presumed steering vectors can be due to the error in the position (geometry) and/or in the look direction estimate. In this paper, we propose a difierential evolution (DE) based robust adaptive beamforming that is able to achieve near optimal performance even in the presence of geometry error. Initially, we estimate an optimal steering vector by maximizing and minimizing the signal power in and out of the desired signal's angular range, respectively. Then, we estimate the look direction and reconstruct the covariance matrix. Based on the obtained steering vector, estimate for look direction and reconstructed covariance matrix, near optimal output SINR, can be obtained with the increase in the input SNR without observing any saturation even in the presence of geometry error. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the e-cacy of the proposed algorithm.


This paper examines the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in health care delivery through legislative advocacy. It highlights the various efforts of civil society organisations (CSOs) towards the passage of the National Health Bill (2014). The role of CSOs spanned the various stages of the legislative process. Evidence from their engagement and advocacy for the NHB shows that when CSOs are engaged in developing and reviewing national health plans, they can assist in identifying or sharpening national priorities and consequently help improve health outcomes. The paper concludes by highlighting key lessons learnt in the advocacy process and critical success factors which include knowledge of the legislative process, ability to leverage on existing relationships and networks, and partnership with international partners, among others. Keywords: National Health Act, CSOs, Legislative Advocacy, National Assembly


Nano-structures of cobalt(II) metal-organic compound (Co-MOC) [Co(L) 2 (H 2 O) 4 ] {1} (L = pyridine-3-carboxylic acid), have already been fabricated using two numerous experimental techniques which are including branched tube and sonochemical strategies. Besides the technique employed for 1, an identical crystal structure was obtained. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), powder X-Ray diffraction (PXRD), as well as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), were applied for the characterization of all compounds. Single-crystal X-Ray diffraction (SCXRD) analyses of 1 reveal which Co 2+ ions are 6-coordinated. Additionally, the temperature, time of reaction, the concentration of reactant, and sonication energy on the formation and ultimate morphology of compounds acquired by the sonochemical strategy are investigated. Ultimately, TGA (thermal gravimetric analyses), DTA (differential thermal analyses), as well as Hirshfeld surface analysis (HAS) of 1, were studied. Two strains of gram-negative Escherichi coli (E. coli) and gram-positive S. aureus) Staphylococcus aureus) was re�ned to the current compounds of 1 to determine their biological activities. These compounds exhibited adequate antibacterial activity within an abiotic environment.


The present invention relates to a semiconductor testing device provided with a capacitor, and more particularly, by enabling lead to a test pin and inspected semiconductor devices electrically through a conductive layer formed the electrodes of the capacitor in the guide hole, the inspection target semiconductor and the nearest to form a capacitor in a position reducing the inductance of the conductor leading to the guide plate in a capacitor and that relates to a semiconductor testing device provided with a capacitor also possible to properly measure the high frequency characteristics as well as stably supplying power. The semiconductor inspection device having a capacitor according to one embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, the guides have at least one guide hole formed at a side plate; A conductive layer formed on one side of the inner surface of the guide hole; It is inserted provided in the guide hole, and the outer surface side in contact with one side of the conductive layer, a plurality of test pins which lower end is in electrical contact with a semiconductor inspection object; And it is formed at a side surface of the guide plate, at least one conductive trace is electrically coupled to one side at one side of the conductive layer; The guide is installed at a side surface of a plate, a space transformer, which is one of the main board power electrode is a capacitor electrically connected to the power test pins of the test pin; which include, but the conductive traces passes mutually equal signal It is formed so as to electrically connect the conductive layers in contact with the check pin portion is extended and being formed so as to electrically connect the portion of the test pin for each test electrode and the pin of the capacitor.


The research of the relationship between eye-movement and human activity has become a hot spot in the field of the human-computer interaction. In order to recognize the eye-movement patterns related to reading tasks, an algorithm based on electrooculogram(EOG) has been proposed in this paper. In the proposed approach, wavelet packet decomposition was firstly used to smooth EOG signals during reading tasks, and then, according to the predefined coding strategy, the smoothed EOG waveform is translated into a coding string to represent current reading state. Finally, Levenshtein distance is employed to measure the similarity of the template string and the output string. The experiments under the experimental paradigms of autonomy-reading and stimulus-reading and reading with rest state have been carried out. The mean accurate has reached 90%. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can effectively recognize human reading activity state.


Introduction: Since the onset of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), many reports have presented the disease as a respiratory disease, thereby limiting diagnosis to presentations with respiratory symptoms. New evidence is beginning to emerge describing the effect of COVID-19 on other organ systems beyond the pulmonary system. This review critically analyzes and consolidates published literature describing extrapulmonary features of COVID-19. Methods: Recently published full-text literature on the extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 was reviewed. The studies reviewed focused on the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, nervous, hematopoietic, genitourinary, and musculoskeletal systems as well as ocular, otorhinolaryngological, and cutaneous symptoms. Results: A total of 28 original articles were selected and included for analysis. The most common extrapulmonary manifestations identified across the systems include acute cardiac injury (7.2-19.7%), arrhythmia (16.7%), and shock (8.7%) in the cardiovascular system; anorexia (83.8%), abnormal liver function (14.8-37.2%), diarrhea (3.8-29.3%), abdominal pain (0.4-12.0%), nausea (9.5%), and vomiting (0.8-5.0%) in the gastrointestinal system; acute cerebrovascular disease and loss of consciousness (36.4%) in the nervous system; lymphopenia (40.0%-64.0), leukocytosis (14.3-23.4%), anemia (15.0%), thrombocytopenia (7.0%), elevated D-dimer (42.0%), and prolonged prothrombin time (2.1-6.0%) in the hematopoietic system; and proteinuria (43.9-62.7%), hematuria (26.7%), elevated urea (27.1%) and creatinine (18.6%), and acute kidney injury (3.6-5.1%) in the urinary system. Others include sore throat (28.6%), erythematous rash (15.9%), arthralgia/myalgia (14.8%), widespread urticaria (3.4%), and singular reports of acute myopericarditis, acute lymphocytic myocarditis, meningitis, viral encephalitis, testicular pain, anosmia, and acute conjunctivitis.Conclusion: COVID-19 affects every organ-system in the human body and can cause extrapulmonary symptoms with or without respiratory symptoms. A high index of suspicion is required to help healthcare providers achieve early diagnosis, prompt treatment, and reduce the chances of spreading the disease within the community.


A 2-year field study at Beltsville, MD, of soil artificially infested with sclerotia of Sclerotium rolfsii strain Sr-1 demonstrated the ability of fermentor-produced biomass of Gliocladium virens isolate Gl-3 in a powder formulation to prevent damping-off of snap beans caused by this pathogen. Plant stands were counted 11 and 35 days after planting. In addition, the CFU of Gl-3 per g of soil in the treatment plots were determined. Pyrax/biomass amended at rates of 15, 30, 60, and 120 g/1.1 m 2 plots to provide 0.6 to 6.6 x 104 CFU of Gl-3 per g of soil significantly increased plant stands after 35 days, compared with 7 and 19% stands in the pathogen-infested control soils for 1992 and 1993, respectively. In 1992, the stand increase was correlated (r 2 = 0.92) with increased rates of the preparation, such that 60 and 120 g of the Pyrax/biomass per plot resulted in stands comparable to those (>85%) in the noninfested control plots. In 1993, although there was no significant correlation (r 2 = 0.601) between rate of amendment and plant stand, all rates gave stands greater than that in the infested control but not as great as that in the noninfested control. Generally, soil populations of Gl-3 increased by 11 days with higher, but not lower, rates of Pyrax/biomass to about 105 CFU/g soil during both years. Population levels tended to decline after 35 days of plant growth, but generally remained higher than the amounts added. This population increase suggested establishment of Gl-3 in the soil. A study to determine the influence of Pyrax and biomass of various isolates of Trichoderma spp. and G. virens on the germination of sclerotia of two S. rolfsii isolates (Sr-1 and Sr-3) indicated considerable specificity. G. virens isolates were more effective in reducing sclerotial germination than were isolates of T. viride, T. hamatum, and T. harzianum. Moreover, isolate G1-3 was more effective that the other G. virens isolates. In addition, S. rolfsii isolate Sr-3, which produces larger and darker sclerotia than those of Sr-1, was less affected by the various isolates of Trichoderma spp. and G. virens than was Sr-1.


The invention relates to a tool (1) which is used to machine boring surfaces in a precise manner, comprising a blade plate (5) having at least four geometrically defined blades (9, 9'), whereby two are arranged on the front side (11) and two are arranged on the rear side (53) of the blade plate and at least two guide rails (35, 35') whereby one (35) is arranged opposite the blade plate (5) and the other (35') is arranged behind the blade plate (5), when viewed in the direction of rotation, such that it forms an angle of approximately 45° with said blade plate. Said blade plate (5) is inserted into a groove (33) which is formed in the peripheral surface of the tool and forms an insertion angle alpha with an imaginary diametrical line (D1) of the tool. The blade plate (5) comprises, respectively, a cutting surface (49) which is associated with a blade (9, 9') and a free surface (55) which cuts itself and the intersection lines thereof form the cut (9). The free surface (55) forms a free angle s with an imaginary plane (E) which is perpendicular to the central plane (M) of the blade plate and which cuts the blade. An adjusting device (29), which is used to adjust the projection of the blade plate (5) over the peripheral surface of the tool (1), is provided. Said tool is characterised in that the insertion angle alpha and the free angle s are adapted to one another such that the equation alpha - s = approx. 1°, and also an effective free angle of approximately 1 ° is established.


Timothy Brookins, Associate Professor of Classics and Biblical Languages at Houston Baptist University, and Bruce Longenecker, Professor of Early Christianity and the W. W. Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University, have contributed two volumes to the ongoing series of the Handbooks on the Greek New Testament (HBGNT) published by Baylor University Press. Since the inception of this series in 2003, it has become a foundational resource for those interested in an "accessible and comprehensive" (vol. 1, p. v) lexical, grammatical, and syntactical analysis of the Greek New Testament. These two volumes on 1 Corinthians provide excellent additions to the series. These volumes follow a standard analysis format as found in the rest of the HBGNT series. The Greek text of 1 Corinthians (United Bible Society, 5th edn/Nestle-Aland, 28th edn) is broken into appropriate text-segments for which the authors provide a translation, one that leans toward a formal equivalence. After the translation is an analysis of each individual verse in the text-segment, based on its most prominent features. The authors provide the most significant amount of analysis to the grammatical and syntactical aspects of the text-segments. These approaches include supplying the location of verbs, participles, and other significant parts of speech. (Abbreviations for grammatical terms are located at the beginning of each volume.) The authors succinctly explain how particular parts of speech function within their grammatical and linguistic contexts. They are particularly helpful in indicating the function of the various Greek clauses. Beyond the grammatical and syntactical analysis, depending on the text-segment, the authors include issues related to versification, textual variants, grammar, syntax, or linguistics. For example, 1 Cor 14:33 is a good window into the authors' approach, because this verse has issues related to versification. The authors succinctly present whether v 33b goes with what precedes or what follows. Based both on internal stylistic evidence and external evidence, the authors, against several modern translations (and the divisions within the UBS5 and NA28), opt for verse 33b as being a conclusion for what precedes it (vol. 2, p. 127). As is typical throughout these volumes, the authors present complicated issues in an accessible, compact, and clear fashion. One of the strengths of the HBGNT series is its conciseness. These volumes on 1 Corinthians do not attempt to be exhaustive. They serve as a supplement to commentaries that can sometimes neglect grammatical features of a passage. When complex interpretative questions do arise, however, space is devoted to them. A good example relates to the sticky linguistic term "law" (Greek: νόμος) in 14:34. The authors present three options for the meaning of law (vol. 2, pp. 128–29), and then, based on Pauline stylistic tendencies and larger semantic possibilities for νόμος, they present an alternative. In addition, readers are pointed to more detailed resources and discussion. 923300 RAE0010.1177/0034637320923300Review & ExpositorBook Reviews book-review2020


An effective, diversity oriented, one-pot reaction of 4-amino-2-(het)aryl/alkyl-5-functionalized thiazoles has been disclosed, utilizing aryl/heteroaryl/alkyl dithioesters as thiocarbonyl coupling partners in a modified Thorpe-Ziegler type cyclization. The reaction proceeds at room temperature, under mild conditions, in excellent yields, displaying broad functional group compatibility at 2 and 5 positions of thiazoles. This synthetic strategy has been further expanded for the one-pot construction of two highly potent tubulin polymerization inhibitors, i.e., 2-(het)aryl-4-amino-5-(3,4,5-trimethoxyaroyl) thiazoles, in high yields.


The radiative effects of mineral dust in the atmosphere are uncertain. Further, the human contribution to the mineral aerosol concentration is difficult to quantify. We have performed several global sensitivity experiments to investigate the radiative forcing due to mineral dust. Two global data sets of mineral aerosol distribution are used. Radiative transfer schemes for thermal infrared and solar radiation are used in the calculations. We have investigated the sensitivity of the global radiative forcing to the spatial distribution of the aerosols, including the altitude, the size distribution, and optical parameters. Our strongest emphasis has been on the size distribution of the mineral aerosol, for which we have found a strong sensitivity. A range of −0.7 Wm−2 to 0.5 Wm−2 is estimated for the human influence on the global radiative forcing due to mineral aerosols. We find it almost as probable with a positive radiative forcing as with a negative forcing. Even if the global mean radiative forcing is small, there are large contributions of different sign in certain regions.


Oxalidaceae Family Description Six to eight genera and ca. 780 species: mostly in tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres but extending into temperate regions. 2 genera in Australia. Genera Biophytum A Pantropical genus of ca. 70 species; 1 species introduced and naturalised in Australia. Oxalis A Cosmopolitan genus of ca. 700 species mainly from South America and the Cape Region in South Africa; ca. 9 native species in Australia and 13 naturalised species. References Thompson, J. (1982). Oxalis in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 32: 4-6. Jaspars, T.W. (1986). Oxalidaceae. Flora of South Australia. 4th edn 2: 709-716. Conn, B.J. (1992). Oxalidaceae. Flora of New South Wales. 3: 17-22. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Online edition


The main goal of the article is to provide a comparative legal analysis of the historical characteristics and the current state of state protection of some foreign states. The author considers the mechanisms and the results of ensuring the security of heads of states. The main conclusion: despite the fact that each of the State Security Services of the considered states has been developed in different ways and at different speeds, most of them are currently very similar in their internal structure and functions.


To evaluate, in a pilot prospective randomized trial, the safety, effectiveness and radiological recurrence of retroperitoneal renal cyst decortication compared with retroperitoneal decortication with wadding using perirenal pedicled fat tissue.


Abstract Atoms submitted to intense radiation are ionized regardless of the light frequency by simultaneous absorption of several photons. Furthermore, once it has been released by this multiphoton ionization process, the electron can absorb extra photons and gain kinetic energy. This paper reviews recent studies of multiphoton ionization and above-threshold ionization viewed as natural extensions of the photoelectric effect towards the high-intensity regime. Experimental information can also be obtained in such experiments on the coupling of a quasi-free electron with the strong progressive electromagnetic wave.


Solar Cells
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites used in solar cells exhibit long carrier lifetimes compared with all-inorganic perovskites. This is in spite of the higher amount of disorder in the former that would normally increase unproductive carrier recombination. Zhu et al. used time-resolved photoluminescence and optical Kerr effect spectroscopies to compare the hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites CH3NH3PbBr3 and CH(NH2)2PbBr3 and the all-inorganic perovskite CsPbBr3 (see the Perspective by Ziffer and Ginger). The hybrid materials exhibited hot fluorescence indicative of liquid-like organic cation motion, which may protect charge carriers through solvation or formation of large polarons.

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This paper presents a new system, called BGPmon, for monitoring the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is the routing protocol for the global Internet. Monitoring BGP is important for both operations and research; a number of public and private BGP monitors are deployed and widely used. These existing monitors typically collect data using a full implementation of a BGP router. In contrast, BGPmon eliminates the unnecessary functions of route selection and data forwarding to focus solely on the monitoring function. BGPmon uses a publish/subscribe overlay network to provide real-time access to vast numbers of peers and clients. All routing events are consolidated into a single XML stream. XML allows us to add additional features such as labeling updates to allow easy identification of useful data by clients. Clients subscribe to BGPmon and receive the XML stream, performing tasks such as archiving, filtering, or real-time data analysis. BGPmon enables scalable real-time monitoring data distribution by allowing monitors to peer with each other and form an overlay network to provide new services and features without modifying the monitors. We illustrate the effectiveness of the BGPmon data using the Cyclops route monitoring system.


This study used a community-based participatory research approach to examine what adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) view as important topics in sexuality education. A thematic analysis was conducted on questions written by adults with IDD regarding sexuality after attending a sexuality education group. Results were checked for accuracy using a community focus group. Findings provide direct implications for community-based sexuality education programs for adults with IDD, demonstrating the need for mentoring regarding authentic relationship experiences as well as developmentally appropriate sexual health information. Programs need to focus on helping adults with IDD navigate these interpersonal experiences. This study also demonstrates the importance of including the voices of adults with IDD in research in order to ensure its applicability and acceptability.


IT is an accepted fact that the greater part of the continuing increase in the world's population is contributed by underdeveloped areas with a low standard of living, in which Western influences are beginning to operate. These territories are in those stages of the demographic cycle which have been described by Blacker (I947) as the early and late expanding phases, and into these categories fall most of the British Colonial territories. It is probably correct to state that the transition into these phases from the primitive state, in which birthand deathrates balance over a period of years at a high level, has been mainly caused by social and administrative advances, such as abolition of slavery or inter-tribal warfare and famine relief. To offset the factors tending to save or prolong life those tending to increase the death-rate or reduce fertility have been of negligible importance. The total effect has been greatly to augment population growth. In our Colonies the medical services originated in an attempt to safeguard the lives of officials and traders, and hence they were mainly confined to the administrative centres. They were primarily curative services for these immigants, and only slowly did they become available to the indigenous people in other towns and the larger villages. When preventive medicine was introduced it combated first the most obvious environmental causes of disease, such as pollution and insect vectors. It was essentially a sanitary service, and only in recent years has pit taken an active interest in other common causes of ill health such as malnutrition and tuberculosis. The Colonial medical service is, in fact, a replica of the medical organization in civilized communities, with the emphasis on cure rather than on prevention. Vital statistics are not available in primitive areas, which would permit us to determine the effect of curative medical services on population growth, but there has been little in the past to suggest that they have produced any marked reduction in mortality throughout the community. The reasons for this failure were, firstly, the small proportion of the population to which the service was readily available, and, secondly, the apathy of the people who tended to come only when the illness was at an advanced stage and difficult to cure. It must be understood that the diseases of the tropics are widespread to a degree not realized in civilized communities; for example, in some communities every child from soon after birth until eight to ten years of age suffers continually from malaria.; again, 8o per cent of the community may be infected with one of the pathogenic worms, and a considerable proportion suffer from ill health as a result. It is not surprising that a service which attempted to cure the sick should have been overwhelmed by the wealth of material available and that the vast expenditure necessary should have prevented it becoming sufficiently widespread significantly to improve the health of the multitude. One way in which there was some real progress was in the attack on epidemic disease. It is not possible to calculate the saving of life which resulted from the control of epidemics among the communities we are considering. Plague, typhus, malaria, smallpox, cerebro-spinal meningitis and other epidemic diseases have, in the past, spread in waves from their starting-point, decimating the population in their path. With freedom of movement resulting from peace and safety the people travelled from infected areas to markets and in search of work, often spreading infection all along their route. The opening up of the country, and with it the increase of information from remote areas, enabled the medical organization to undertake the control of epidemics at their start.


. In the framework of deterministic finslerian models, a mechanism producing dissipative dynamics at the Planck scale is discussed. It is based on a geometric evolution from Finsler to Riemann structures defined on the fiber bundle TM → M . Quantum states are equivalence classes, composed by the configurations that evolve through an internal dynamics drive by the above geometric evolution. Each equivalence class is conformed by the ontological states that evolve to the same final state. The existence of an hermitian scalar product in an associated linear space is discussed and related with the quantum pre-Hilbert space. This hermitian product emerges from geometric and statistical considerations. Our scheme recovers the main ingredients of the usual Quantum Mechanics. Several consequences are discussed and compared with the predictions of the standard Quantum Mechanics. A natural solution of the cosmological constant problems is proposed, as well as a mechanism for the absence of quantum interferences at classical scales.


Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference of test anxiety, academic exhaustion, and resilience by the grade and the effects of test anxiety, academic exhaustion, and resilience on academic achievement of medical students. Method: The subjects of the study were 415 medical students. In the first and second years of medical school students were divided into lower grade group, and the 3rd and 4th grade were divided into higher grade group, and then test anxiety, academic burnout, and resilience test were conducted. The academic achievement was converted into the standard score Z score. Results were analyzed by independent sample t-test, correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results: Test anxiety and academic burnout showed no difference between grade levels, and resilience was found to be higher in the lower grade than in the upper grade. In the case of lower grades, resilience has a statistically significant effect on academic achievement, while academic burnout and test anxiety have negative effects. In the case of the older students, inactivity, which is a subfactor of academic burnout, has a negative effect on academic achievement. Conclusion: Test anxiety and academic burnout have a negative impact on academic achievement, and resilience is a factor that has a positive effect on academic achievement. In order to improve the resilience of medical students, educational intervention should be prepared.


A set of distributed microcomputer system for high-temperture and long-time strenghth tests of furnace is briefly described.This operater system is more tasks and more interfacial.It can data management thirty-two heatingfurnace in simultaneous,The whole test procedure control is computerized.The meaning and method of the high-temperture and long-time strenghth tests is introduced.Expert PID control has the function of forecast,so the system has less oscillatory.It takes advantage of distributed control and scattered control.The automation of the work is important.


In order to analyze the stability of high explosive of TNT/RDX/Al in some waste projectile warhead,accelerated aging experiment was performed on the explosive sample,and thermal decomposition process of the original sample and the aged sample was measured with the help of differential scanning calorimeter.DSC curve and relative characteristic parameters were got under different warming rates of 5,10,20 ℃/min.Ozawa model and regression analysis were applied to calculate the kinetic parameters.The result showed that average change of the peak temperature is 1.08℃ and alteration of activation energy is 8.01%.It was concluded that the stability of the TNT/RDX/Al explosive is good and meets the recycle demand.


Wetting and de-wetting processes play an Important role in many natural and technological processes. In many cases, wetting is an essential prerequisite for applicatIOn, for example m pa10t films, crop sprays, cosmetics, pharmaceutIcal tablets and m preparation of suspensions. Both eqUlhbrium and dynamic processes of wetting are important in coatings In many industnal and medical apphcations, some strategtes to control drop spreadmg on solid surfaces are be10g developed. One POSSlblhty IS that a surfactant, a surface-actIve polymer, a polyelectrolyte or their mixture are added to a hqUld (usually water). Recently discovered tnsIloxane and other Silicone based surfactants show very unusual behavIOur. The term superspreading means that aqueous solutions of these surfactants exhibit surpnsmgly fast spreadmg over hydrophobic surfaces and allow spreadmg liquids up to 25 times more effective than conventIonal surfactants. Although a number of experimental and theoretical mvestigatIons were carned out, the UllderlY10g superspreadmg mechanism remains uncl ear. The main Idea is to separate the mfluence of different forces associated with surfactant spreadmg. Experimental work mcluded m thiS theSIS investigated on how Marangoni force influences spreading properties of tnsIloxanes Experimental findings indicated that trislloxanes spreadmg under Marangom force are different compared With conventional surfactants. An expenmental procedure was developed to enable Marangoni force to be the dommant force in a spreading experiment. A moving Circular wave front forms after a small droplet of aqueous surfactant solutIOn IS deposited on a thin aqueous layer. The tIme evolution of the radIUS of the moving front was momtored. Surfactants of different solubihty were used at concentrations above CMC. It was shown that the bme evolutIOn of the moving front proceeds m two stages a rapid first stage, which is followed by a slower second stage. The time evolution of the moving front substantially depends on the surfactant solubility. An exact solution for the evolution of the moving front was


Background: Body-mass-index (BMI) is widely accepted as an indicator of nutritional status in adults. Mid-upper-arm-circumference (MUAC) is another anthropometric-measure. The present study attempted to evaluate the correlation between BMI and MUAC. Aim: To assess Nourishment Using Body Mass Index and Mid Upper Arm Circumference in Apparently Healthy Population and its Correlation. Setting and Design: The study was conducted in rural and urban areas of Nellore by using a descriptive design. Materials and Methods: A total of 1527 samples were included in this study. Among this, 1232 samples belongs to rural area and 292 samples belongs to urban area by using convenience sampling technique. Statistical Analysis Used: The collected data was organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive data like mean, standard deviation, actual numbers and percentages. Chi-square test, ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc test was used appropriately. A p value less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: Shows that with regard to nutritional status assesed by mid upper arm circumference versus urban and rural areas in rural areas out of 1235 adults 378(95.94%) are malnourished, 857(75.64%) are normal and in urban areas out of 292 adults 16(4,06%) are malnourished and 276(24.36%) are normal. The correlation between mid upper arm circumference and body mass index value is 1. It shows a Perfect positive correlation between MUAC and BMI. Conclusion: The results show a strong correlation between BMI and MUAC. This finding lays the ground for the suitability of MUAC as an indicator of nutritional status in adult.


The paper maintains that the favorable conditions enjoyed by the stock funds of China's stock companies reveal the hidden problems in corporate management, namely, human manipulation and monopoly by big stock holders, and that the balance and check policy ought to be implemented in this field.


The goal of this note is to give a variant of the generic fibration theorem for Waldhausen K-theory without assuming the factorization axiom.


The microscale thermal transport properties of $\alpha$RDX are believed to be major factors in the initiation process. In this study we present a thorough examination of phonon properties which dominate energy storage and transport in $\alpha$RDX. The phonon lifetimes are determined for all phonon branches, revealing the characteristic time scale of energy transfer amongst phonon modes. The phonon parameters also serve as inputs to a full Brillouin zone three dimensional phonon transport simulation in the presence of a hotspot. In addition to identifying the phonon mode contributions to thermal transport, and as N-N bond breaking is integral to disassociation, we identify phonon modes corresponding to large N-N bond stretch analyzing the manner in which these modes store and transfer energy.


The mental process involved in painting belongs only to the nature and the performance of the craft. When a painter paints he repeats continuous acts of humility; it is like writing about our own incompetence since we feel we can think more than we can do. The struggle to give form to those emotions and our efforts to crystallize an idea are never realized. We must be content with something else, something that appears instead.


This article describes an automated system, using LabVIEW for the purpose of experimental investigation of equipotential field lines mapping between two electrodes. This system is meant for undergraduate students in the engineering laboratory. A computer‐based system installed with motion control hardware are utilized to assist in the study of mapping of equipotential field lines using water as a medium in a water tray system with two electrodes apart. The equipotential line profiles are obtained by automatic sampling, locating the spatial positions/points of equivalent potential values and joining these points. Equipotential line profiles for different electrodes configurations can be investigated with this system. This advanced‐automated system is to complement and assists students in understanding fundamental concepts of static electric fields and mapping of equipotential lines profiles for different electrodes configurations. An additional value of such an activity is to provide introduction to remote access capability or teleoperation of equipment to the students. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 19: 171–182, 2011


Jordan Rosenblum is the author of a fine book on Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Based on the title of his new book, I eagerly anticipated the broadening of his scope of inquiry. My expectations were disappointed, on two accounts: (1) the title of the book is somewhat misleading, for the author's focus is narrower than the title promises; and (2) even on its own terms, the book promises more than it delivers. Rosenblum's book explores two related questions: How did ancient Jews defend "the kosher [sic] laws?" and how did "ancient Others" critique these practices? He reviews the history of Jewish justifications of their eating laws from the Bible through late antiquity, along with the critiques of gentile "Others" pertaining to those same laws. In doing so, he detects three "rhetorical approaches" employed by the ancient authors: reason, revelation, and allegory. These three "strategies" (the first two imported from medieval philosophy, though I think fairly employed here) are used circularly, as each piece of writing on the Jewish eating laws is subsumed within one of the categories. Nevertheless, once one's expectations concerning the subject are adjusted and the analytical categories granted, there is much potential insight in such a project. Unfortunately, Rosenblum's execution often disappoints. The book is generally little more than a survey of ancient literary sources. The survey is mostly comprehensive and on that account excellent, but many of the same sources have already been collected in other recent writings on ancient Jewish eating (the author's own previous book, David Freidenreich's, and my own). Moreover, where analysis (as opposed to mere description) comes to the foreground, Rosenblum makes assumptions with which it is hard to agree. After a thorough presentation of the biblical laws, in the course of which Rosenblum notes that the Bible does not really justify its food laws (the Bible rarely justifies its laws), he offers a survey of modern interpretations of those laws, each of which he critiques in turn. (I'm not really sure why, since the focus of the book is ancient interpretations or justifications of the laws.) His cursory survey doesn't do justice to the modern approaches, and his critiques are almost flip, as well as highly problematic. For example, in his discussion of Howard Eilberg-Schwartz's interpretation of the system of pure-impure (permitted-forbidden) animals, in which Book Reviews


A 30 year-old man presented with massive splenomegaly. He was on regular blood transfusion for anaemia since 25 years of age. His hemoglobin was 96 g/L, total leucocyte count 5.27 × 10/L, and platelet count 176 × 10/L. Peripheral blood smear showed marked anisopoikilocytosis with presence of microcytic hypochromic blood cells, target cells, basophilic stippling and an occasional nucleated red blood cell. High-performance liquid chromatography was performed, which revealed markedly elevated Hb-F (97.2%) with marked reduction in Hb-A, suggesting thalassemia intermedia. Splenectomy was done and examination of the surgical specimen showed features of congestive 585349 IJSXXX10.1177/1066896915585349International Journal of Surgical PathologyGajendra and Sachdev research-article2015


Cassini probe made its first flyby through Titan's wake further down the tail on December 26th, 2005. During this T9 flyby the direction of the local magnetic field of Saturn's magnetosphere was nearly along Titan's orbital plane and the current sheet between the magnetic tail lobes was in an angle of 34 degrees to the nominal orbital tangent. We have made hybrid simulation runs using these parameters and present results for this important flyby. The tail structure seems to have been distorted significantly from the nominal case. We also compare our results with the measurements from the MAG magnetometer.