This study examined young adult chronic patients' interpretations of the cause, severity, and prognosis of mental illness. Findings fail to support fully the hypothesis that changes in the service delivery system have encouraged patients to conceptualize psychiatric disorders in sickness terms. Nearly two thirds of the patients rejected the etiological opinion that psychiatric problems are involuntary illnesses. They also regarded psychiatric disorders as serious but assigned them an optimistic prognosis. Structural factors continue to play an important role in patients' views, yet the professional and lay recovery networks operate differently for perceptions of severity, cause, and curability.


The leakage radiation exposure rate was measured outside the main beam of the RUM-17 orthovoltage therapeutic x-ray unit by a 1000 cm3 ionization chamber. The results were corrected according to the detector volume averaging. It has been shown that the relative exposure rate normalized to the beam axis exposure rate does not depend on voltage and filter thickness. It can be represented by the same equation. The most important sources of non-used radiation are leakages from the shield (near the treatment cone connection) and scattering in the plexiglass window of the treatment cone.


Eight trace elements (scandium, chromium, iron, cobalt, zinc, selenium, rubidium and caesium) were determined simultaneously in human skin by instrumental neutron-activation analysis. The concentrations of all trace elements studied were higher in the abdominal epidermis than the dermis. Site specification was found to be essential.Application of cluster analysis revealed that iron and zinc were the most similar trace elements in their distribution in the dermis relative to the others studied, and chromium in the epidermis was the most dissimilar.


Editorial, Robin Gill Cult books revisited: Karl Popper and the evaluation of religious knowledge, Leslie Buck Theology's part-time future: A fresh initiative in theological education and religious literacy?, Clive Marsh God, post-truth, Beverley Jameson Catholic homophobia, Gerard Loughlin Difficult texts: Psalm 1, Leslie J. Francis and Greg Smith Review article: Biblical Truths by Dale B. Martin, Andy Angel Poetry: In a French Garden, The hymn of the Christian atheist, C. J. Driver


Lithium has been used as the main mood stabilizer for approximately 50 years, but approximately 35% of bipolar disorder patients do not respond to lithium alone. 1 Lithium augmentation with valproate or clonazepam has been recommended as a strategy in the treatment of bipolar disorder refractory to lithium monotherapy, 2 but there have been no reports on the effectiveness of this combination of mood stabilizers. Nor have there been any reports on the combination of lithium, valproate and clonazepam in cases of longterm bipolar disorder refractory to mood stabilizer monotherapy. In the present case, the patient had been refractory to lithium alone, and to lithium with carbamazepine or valproate. We successfully treated the patient with lithium augmented with valproate and clonazepam for 4 years, after a 47 year history of illness. The present case history might be useful in designing combination therapy for bipolar disorder refractory to long-term monotherapy of several mood stabilizers.


Conventional document clustering techniques are mainly based on the existence of keywords and the number of occurrences of it. Most of the term frequency based clustering techniques consider the documents as bag-of-words and ignore the important relationships between the words in the document. Phrase based clustering techniques also capture only the order in which the words occur in a sentence rather than the semantics behind the words. Hence a concept based clustering technique is proposed in this paper. It uses Medical Subject Headings MeSH ontology for concept extraction and concept weight calculation based on the identity and synonymy relationships. K-means algorithm is used for clustering the documents based on the semantic similarity and the results are analyzed.


The present invention reduces the benzodioxanyl furan imidazoline derivatives and intraocular pressure, and to provide a benzodioxanyl furanyl formidacillin gelsolin derivative for providing neuroprotection eye, wherein, A, B and D are independently N or it is selected from any and C, however, a, at least one of B or D, a N,; E is is C or N; R is H or Preferably, the compound is 2-; is (8-bromo - - benzo [1,2-b 4,5-b '] difuran-4-yl) imidazoline hydrochloride.


1378 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Retrieval Number:F12420476S519/19©BEIESP Abstract:The revolutionary and dynamic situation that occurred in Aceh over the past three centuries, especially after the death of Sheikh Maulana Syiah Kuala, has divided the concentration of Acehnese leaders and intellectuals in maintaining their historical heritage so that many are abandoned, lost, destroyed and even deliberately eliminated for reasons security. The author has several reasons for fear of resource persons who have valuable relics in the form of important Aceh manuscripts, because if they are known the authorities will be taken and they are accused of being rebels or separatists. As a result, many important manuscripts of Aceh's civilization relics were embedded, lost or changed hands abroad. The fundamentalism of Syiah can be manifested in such a latent nuance of adaptive ideology and survive the life of ritual, tradition, and its millenarian believe even in the turbulent time. Wahhabi should not be left in Aceh and Acehnese supported the insistence of the santri to reject all Wahabi and Syiah denominations in Aceh.


The role that is played by a schematic diagram in the analysis of a mechanical system is discussed. Having defined the function of these diagrams, it is then possible to collect together those ideas and principles on the basis of which a systematic technique for constructing these diagrams can be evolved. Illustrations of the process are given.


This study describes the clinical and behavioral features of adult-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). The authors reviewed the charts of 646


Mg2+ is the most abundant divalent cation in living cells. It is present at a total cellular concentration of 15–25 mM in both prokaryotic and mammalian cells (39, 53, 55). In the cytosol, the majority of Mg2+ is bound to ATP and other phosphonucleotides and to multiple enzymes. In all cells, Mg2+ serves as an essential structural element for ribosomes and membranes and as a required cofactor for ATP in the catalytic pocket of a multitude of enzymes. In prokaryotes, Mg2+ has also been identified as an important regulatory signal essential for virulence (10, 70). The chemistry of divalent magnesium is unique among the biologically important cations. The hydrated radius of Mg2+ is ~400 times larger than the dehydrated radius, a much larger difference than that seen with Na+ and Ca2+ (~25-fold) or K+ (fourfold). Of all biological cations, Mg2+ is the most charge dense, holding the waters within its hydration shell tighter by a factor of 103–104 than do Ca2+, K+, and Na2+ (39). In addition, the hydrated Mg2+ cation is more rigid than other cations, always hexacoordinate, and almost always prefers to coordinate with oxygen. Proteins that transport Mg2+ must be able to recognize the very large hydrated cation, strip the tightly bound hydration shell from the cation, and only then transport the dehydrated form. These chemical properties of Mg2+ thus predict that proteins that recognize and transport Mg2+ will be unique (19, 36).


A major reason for the low take-up rate of telecommuting is that companies are not convinced of the economic benefits of telecommuting. They believe most of the benefits accrue to the workers but not the company. The paper presents the findings of a cost benefit analysis. Four categories of costs and benefits are identified. The analysis considers three categories of workers: managers, professionals and clerical workers. The results show that although savings from rent and overheads are significant, they are not the most important benefits. The main benefit comes from an increase in productivity. The initial startup and capital costs are significant, particularly for managers and professionals. However, in the long run, operating costs and management costs are more important. The optimum arrangement is for managers and professionals to telecommute two to three days a week and for clerical workers to telecommute at least three days per week.


Bonding of orthodontic attachments to enamel has been in use for over 40 years, although the exact date of the first use of the technique is disputed (Cueto, 1990; Mitchell 1992; Newman 1992). The success of fixed appliance therapy depends on attachments having adequate bond strengths and a low failure rate. The overall time required to place an appliance is an important factor in the cost of treatment, whilst the need to replace brackets frequently may severely impair the progress of fixed appliances, and can be costly in terms of materials and time. Orthodontic attachments are subjected to a large number of forces in the mouth, resulting in a complex distribution of stresses within the adhesive and at its junctions with the enamel and the bracket base. Bond strength to enamel will depend on a large number of factors including the nature of the enamel surface, enamel conditioning procedures, the types of adhesive used, and the shape and design of the bracket base. Adhesive Precoated Brackets (APC; 3M Unitek, P.O. Box 1, Bradford, BD5 9UY, UK) have been introduced recently. The composite used to precoat the brackets is a version of Transbond XT (3M Unitek, P.O. Box 1, Bradford, BD5 9UY, UK), modified by an increased viscosity (Bergstrand, 1996, personal communication). Cooper et al. (1992) listed the following advantages of APC over other systems:


Women entrepreneurs play a vital role in India, particularly in Dairy industry. It is one of the important en- terprises which fortify the economic activities of the women in the areas of Thrissur district of Kerala. The objective of the study was to find out the role and the involvement of women in dairy industry. It also focuses on the motivational factors that propel women to undertake such profession. The study was carried out in Madakkathara and Vellanikkara panchayat of Thrissur district in Kerala. Structured questionnaire, interviews and observations were used for collecting primary data. 65 women entrepreneurs from dairy farming were selected on the basis of their involvement in dairy farming and broadly categorized into five aspects as feeding, management, breeding, health care and processing of milk. And motivational attributes were measured on five point Likert scale. The analysis was done by using statisti- cal tools like weighted average and simple percentage. The study revealed that women participation was maximum in caring of pregnant animals; followed by feeding, care of new born and sick animals, fodder collection, cleaning etc. It also concluded that family support and dairy income were the main motivational factors which insist women to take up dairying


Biomedical implant can be divided into permanent and temporary employment. The duration of a temporary implant applied to children and adult is different due to different bone healing rate among the children and adult. Magnesium and its alloys are compatible for the biodegradable implanting application. Nevertheless, it is difficult to control the degradation rate of magnesium alloy to suit the application on both the children and adult. Powder mixed electrical discharge machining (PM-EDM) method, a modified EDM process, has high capability to improve the EDM process efficiency and machined surface quality. The objective of this paper is to establish a formula to control the degradation rate of magnesium alloy using the PM-EDM method. The different corrosion rate of machined surface is hypothesized to be obtained by having different combinations of PM-EDM operation inputs. PM-EDM experiments are conducted using an opened-loop PM-EDM system and the in-vitro corrosion tests are carried out on the machined surface of each specimen. There are four operation inputs investigated in this study which are zinc powder concentration, peak current, pulse on-time and pulse off-time. The results indicate that zinc powder concentration is significantly affecting the response with 2 g/l of zinc powder concentration obtaining the lowest corrosion rate. The high localized temperature at the cutting zone in spark erosion process causes some of the zinc particles get deposited on the machined surface, hence improving the surface characteristics. The suspended zinc particles in the dielectric fluid have also improve the sparking efficiency and the uniformity of sparks distribution. From the statistical analysis, a formula was developed to control the corrosion rate of magnesium alloy within the range from 0.000183 mm/year to 0.001528 mm/year.


Argon based capillary discharge lasers operate in the extreme ultra violet (EUV) at 46.9 nm with an output of up to 0.5 mJ energy per pulse and up to a 10 Hz repetition rate. Focussed irradiances of up to 1012 W cm-2 are achievable and can be used to generate plasma in the warm dense matter regime by irradiating solid material. To model the interaction between such an EUV laser and solid material, the 2D radiative-hydrodynamic code POLLUX has been modified to include absorption via direct photo-ionisation, a super-configuration model to describe the ionisation dependant electronic configurations and a calculation of plasma refractive indices for ray tracing of the incident EUV laser radiation. A simulation study is presented, demonstrating how capillary discharge lasers of 1.2ns pulse duration can be used to generate strongly coupled plasma at close to solid density with temperatures of a few eV and energy densities up to 1×105 J cm-3. Plasmas produced by EUV laser irradiation are shown to be useful for examining the equation-of-state properties of warm dense matter. One difficulty with this technique is the reduction of the strong temperature and density gradients which are produced during the interaction. Methods to inhibit and control these gradients will be examined.


This study aims to examine the effect of socio-demographic, lifestyle and dietary factors on body composition among students from a private Lebanese University.,In this cross-sectional study, socio-demographic and lifestyle variables were collected. Height and waist circumference were measured. Inbody 720 (Biospace, Korea) was used to assess body composition (percentage body fat [PBF], visceral fat area [VFA], skeletal muscle mass [SMM]) and fitness score. Diet was assessed using the MEDFICTS (meats, eggs, dairy, fried foods, fat in baked goods, convenience foods, fats added at the table and snacks) questionnaire.,Out of 392 students, 3.1 per cent were underweight, 59 per cent were normal and 40 per cent were overweight and obese. In women,10.5 per cent adhered to the therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) compared to men (2.5 per cent), while 52.5 per cent of men needed dietary changes compared to 39.5 per cent of women, (p < 0.01). The most important predictors of PBF were being a woman, older age, lower fitness score and lower MEDFICTS score. The predictors of VFA were being a man, older age, less sleep time and lower fitness score. Being a man, smoking, higher fitness score and higher MEDFICTS score were predictors of SMM.,Upon university acceptance and as part of usual health screenings in universities, the authors' study recommends screening of lifestyle and dietary habits of students, identifying students at risk and providing appropriate health interventions tailored to students' needs.,This study is the first, in Lebanon, to assess the effects of sleep, stress, fitness and dietary habits on body composition of Lebanese university students.


In this paper, the content-based retrieval with audio examples based on MP3 digital music archive for one singer is considered. In our proposed method, the sub-band coefficients (SBC) in a MP3 frame is used for feature extraction. Both quantization-tree indexing (QT) approach and the melody-line tracking (MLT) approach are proposed for indexing MP3 objects. Finally, a two-stage comparison method is used to measure the similarity between MP3 objects. We also employ the measurement of the similarity between query sample and database items for a singer. Evaluations on a content-based MP3 retrieval system are performed. Experimental results show that our proposed approach can achieve good performance and high accuracy


A multilevel quantum system interacting with an intense laser field is shown to exhibit many invariants, or constants of evolution, under various conditions. Our results also apply to other similar physical problems.


Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text. Objectives: To identify the most suitable parameters to describe keratoconus progression. Methods: Longitudinal retrospective cohort study. Monotonicity and consistency of over 250 parameters extracted from the Pentacam tomographies (Oculus, Germany) of 743 patients was analyzed. Repeatability was calculated for 69 patients (published elsewhere). The parameters were scored based on their performance for each desired feature and a global ranking was created. Results: Overall, parameters that average a higher number of corneal points performed better than single-point parameters. Zonal keratometries on areas surrounding the maximum curvature point and the steepest front keratometry performed best, followed by front best-fit sphere and mean keratometry of both surfaces. Platform-dependent indices (e.g., Belin-Ambrósio Deviation- or index height decentration-) obtained good scores, but platform-independent LOGIK performed slightly better. Finally, although minimum radius in both surfaces worked competently, minimum pachymetry (PachyMin) performed considerably poorer. Conclusions: We presented a list of parameters whose behavior was repeatable, monotonic and consistent, features desirable to describe change. The parameters normally used to follow keratoconus progression may not be the most adequate, as evidenced by the poor performance of PachyMin. Although calculated for a specific Scheimpflug device, most of the best-performing parameters are platform-independent variables, and results may be generalized, pending validation.


With advances in surgical techniques and perioperative care, the survival rate of patients with congenital heart disease continues to increase. As such, patients with palliated or corrected congenital heart disease may present for major surgical procedures. Although alternative techniques are now available for the anatomic repair of patients with transposition of the great arteries (TGA), an atrial level baf" e (Mustard or Senning procedure) was previously performed. As these patients age, long-term adverse effects may occur including myocardial dysfunction, rhythm disturbances requiring pacemaker placement, pulmonary hypertension, and baf" e obstruction. We present a case report of a 14 year old girl with TGA, who underwent a Senning procedure during infancy and now presented for posterior spinal fusion in the treatment of kyphoscoliosis. The perioperative care of such patients is discussed.


The results of ab initio and density functional theory DFT calculations of dipole moments and electronic contributions to static dipole (hyper)polarizabilities of benzaldehyde and thiobenzaldehyde molecules in gas phase are presented. These properties were evaluated at the SCF, MP2, MP4 and DFT (B3LYP) levels of theory with a selection of basis sets that include polarization and diffuse functions on the C, O, S and H atoms: 6-31+G(d,p) (A), 6-311++G(3d,3p) (B), 6-31+G(d*,p) (C) and the Sadlej (D) basis sets, using HF/A, MP2/A and B3LYP/A optimized geometries under the Cs symmetry restriction. The C basis set has been optimized in terms of the maxima second hyperpolarizability at HF level. Both MP2 and MP4 methods, performed at full electron configuration, have shown to perform well in the calculation of such properties.

Considering the basis sets effects, the impact of the electron correlation in the (hyper)polarizabilities of these molecules is analyzed systematically in terms of the differences between MP2 and MP4 perturbation theory and those from DFT(B3LYP) methods.

The effects of substitution of the C=S fragment by the C=O group in the benzaldehyde molecule, giving the formation of thiobenzaldehyde, lead to enhanced results of nonlinear optical properties in terms of their first (β) and second hyperpolarizability (γ), that shown to be higher than those for para-Nitroaniline molecules. In fact, thiobenzaldehyde exhibit significant values of nonlinear optical properties which make this chromophore a prospective building block for nonlinear optical materials.


Introduction. It is necessary to develop, implement and continuously improve the mechanism of competitive management to ensure the effective implementation of competitive strategies to achieve the desired level of competitiveness of the enterprise during the implementation of marketing policy. The special role of this potential in the system of innovation and investment development is due to the need to form a mechanism for selecting the most effective solutions and activities that require resources and meet the requirements of modern high-tech society.
The purpose of the article is to substantiate the architecture of the mechanism of managing the competitive potential of agribusiness entities in ensuring innovation and investment development.
Results. It is established that the mechanism of competitive potential management in ensuring innovation and investment development of agribusiness entities should include a methodological basis of management, which combines stages, functions, methods, goals, laws and principles, on the basis of which the competitive potential management process is implemented based on many types of collateral. Within the framework of certain components, the architectonics of the specified mechanism is offered. It is substantiated that the purpose of the mechanism is to ensure movement and transformation, which in the context of management activities, which includes competitive management, involves management decisions in the form of justification of a specific competitive strategy for a particular strategic area and its implementation. The essence of the elements of the mechanism of competitive potential management in ensuring the innovation and investment development of agribusiness entities with an emphasis on economic laws, which are included in the methodological basis of management.
Keywords: architecture, mechanism, competitive potential, innovation and investment development, competitive strategies, agribusiness entities.


Robust source coding provides the compression and noise mitigation necessary for image transmission over noisy channels. Two methods are compared-differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) and predictive trellis coded quantisation (PTCQ)-incorporating linear and nonlinear filters. Findings show that although PTCQ has better rate-distortion properties, DPCM provides better performance in noise. Additionally, the nonlinear filter yields better images.


Test quality, automation and data reliability are main factors of creep test. Technical innovation of temperature control, automatic level adjusting and data processing system was realized. The technique provides basis of remote control for creep test.


Abstract Thispaperproposesacontext-dependentadditiveacousticmod-elling technique and its application to logarithmic fundamentalfrequency (logF 0 ) modelling for HMM-based speech synthe-sis. Intheproposedtechnique,meanvectorsofstate-outputdis-tributions are composed as the weighted sum of decision tree-clustered context-dependent bias terms. Its model parametersand decision trees are estimated and built based on the maxi-mumlikelihood(ML)criterion. Theproposedtechniquehasthepotential to capture the additive structure of logF 0 contours. Apreliminary experiment using a small database showed that theproposed technique yielded encouraging results. Index Terms : speech synthesis, HMMs, logF 0 modelling 1. Introduction Hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis [1] hasgrowninpopularityinrecentyears. Inthisframework,thespec-trum, excitation, and durations of speech are modelled simul-taneously in a unified framework of HMMs. For a given textto be synthesized, speech parameter trajectories that maximisetheir output probabilities are generated from estimated HMMsunder constraints between static and dynamic features [2]. Typ-ical instances of this framework use mel-cepstral coefficientsor line spectral pairs for their spectral parameters and logF


The deaths from meningitis in children 0-5 have been a little less than half the total for all other age groups combined (i.e., up to 65). Dr. Gaisford in his article on primary tuberculosis in childhood (Jan. 19, p. 84) speaks of "scores of infants dying from tuberculous meningitis." In 'the administrative county area in a population given above the deaths in the age group 0-5 in 1943 were 36. How can tuberculous meningitis be greatly reduced or prevented ? In the Lancashire research on The Fate of Young Children in Tuberculous Households (C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., Liverpool, London, and Prescot, 1929, p. 37) one of the conclusions ran:


Abstract Five poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd.), 'Freedom Red', 'Angelika Red', 'Nutcracker Red', 'Maren', and 'Red Splendor' received the following treatments of a commercial fertilizer based on nitrogen (N) concentrations of: 75 mg L‐1 to anthesis; 75 mg L‐1 first 4 weeks then 125 mg L‐1 to anthesis; 125 mg L‐1 first 4 weeks then 200 mg L‐1 to anthesis; and 200 mg L‐1 to anthesis. Plants were fertigated to appearance of leachate from the bottom of the pot. Treatment concentrations greater than 125/200 and 200 mg.L‐1 significantly increased plant width of 'Red Splendor', height of 'Nutcracker Red' and dry weight of 'Angelika Red', 'Nutcracker Red', and 'Maren'. Tissue concentrations of N, phosphorus (P), magnesium (Mg), and sulfur (S) increased as fertilizer treatment concentration increased for some cultivars. Significant differences between elemental concentrations of poinsettia cultivars occurred, specifically 'Nutcracker Red'. Although tissue nutrient concentrations were at or below the critical level, general observations of each cultivar indicated that all plants were of commercial quality and almost indistinguishable between treatments. Poinsettia stem strength was not significantly affected by any fertilizer treatment used in this study.


The research and development of self-ignition engines presently focuses on the reduction of the emission of toxic compounds into the atmosphere and on lowering fuel consumption. These objectives can be reached by the application of fuel injectors fitted with a fuel preheating system directly into the injector body. Furthermore, some of the results obtained prove that engine efficiency is enhanced when preliminary catalytic fuel treatment is applied. Research is con-tinued on combining the thermal and catalytic methods of fuel treatment, which can be done within the injector.


This paper investigates the benefits of Fast Cut Back (FCB) function of thermal generating units in the self-healing control context. The FCB function enables a generating unit to reduce its output down to the auxiliary power level within seconds. The output can later be restored to normal level promptly without cold start process. This ability can provide dispatchers additional measures in both the emergency control and the restorative control. In this paper, the model of FCB function generating units is established. The benefits of the FCB function in system restoration context are described. Case studies are presented to show: 1) FCB function can be used to maintain generation balance in controlled separation; 2) FCB function reduces the restoration time in the blackstart stage.


The invention discloses a novel tilt wing aircraft, which is capable of carrying out vertical take-off, landing and hovering, capable of flying in a fixed wing airscrew aircraft mode, and also capable of switching between two modes. The aircraft mainly consists of an aircraft structure, a connection structure and a flying control system, wherein aircraft wings are divided into a fixed part and a movable part; when the aircraft takes off, lands and hovers, the movable wings and non-variable torque airscrew systems fixed to the movable wings tilt along a rotating shaft to a vertical state, and a lift force is provided by airscrews; when the aircraft is in flat flight, the movable wings and the airscrew systems rotate to the fixed wing part, and the aircraft flies like a normal layout fixed wing aircraft; in a switching phase, the aircraft is controlled by the flying control system which is independently researched. The aircraft has the characteristics that the functions are many, the use range is wide, the structure is simple, the cost is low and the like, and can be widely applicable to fields of air photography, expressway patrol, disaster situation reconnaissance, military reconnaissance and the like.


The New Criticism is a type of formalist literary criticism that reached its height during the 1940s and 1950s and that received its name from John Crowe Ransom's 1941 book The New Criticism. New Critics treat a work of literature as if it were a self-contained, self-referential object. Rather than basing their interpretations of a text on the reader's response, the author's stated intentions, or parallels between the text and historical contexts (such as author's life), New Critics perform a close reading, concentrating on the relationships within the text that give it its own distinctive character or form. New Critics emphasize that the structure of a work should not be divorced from meaning, viewing the two as constituting a quasi-organic unity. Special attention is paid to repetition, particularly of images or symbols, but also of sound effects and rhythms in poetry. New Critics especially appreciate the use of literary devices, such as irony, to achieve a balance or reconciliation between dissimilar, even conflicting, elements in a text.


This work is proposed chaotic true random number generator (TRNG) based on chaotic PWM sequence generator. The chaos CMOS circuit presents here is the chaotic sequence generator. The main components of the chaotic PWM circuit is chaotic sequence generator for chaotic triangular waveforms. The chaotic TRNG was designed by using 0.18μm CMOS process. The full system is prose to be a implementation of IoT secure data communication system using chaotic security.


Abstract Objective Although SARS-CoV2 vaccines have been developed with multiple novel technologies and rapidly disseminated worldwide, the full profile of adverse effects has not been known. Recently, there are sporadic but increasing reports of endocrinopathies in relation to SARS-CoV2 vaccination. Here, we report a rare case of hypophysitis with acute onset of diabetes insipidus after SARS-CoV2 vaccination. Case Report A 48-year-old female who had been in her usual state of health until she received the first SARS-CoV2 vaccine. Two days after the vaccination, she started to have flu-like symptoms including severe headache and myalgia as well as persistent headache, polydipsia and polyuria. On presentation, her vital signs were stable, with her pulse being 81 bpm, BP: 122/84 mm Hg, temperature: 98.6F. Her physical examination was unremarkable. Laboratory evaluation revealed normal values of the basic metabolic panel including sodium level of 142 mmol/L and normal complete blood count. Due to her prolonged and worsening headache, she underwent a brain MRI which revealed a 4 mm round shape of thickening pituitary stalk and partial empty sella. The polydipsia, polyuria, and the thickening of the pituitary stalk led to further pituitary work-up. She underwent the overnight water deprivation test followed by the desmopressin challenge test. Her overnight water deprivation test revealed hypernatremia (Na 147 mmol/L), elevated serum osmolarity (309 mmol/kg), and low urinary osmolarity (83 mmol/kg) which were compatible with diabetes insipidus. Her IGF1 level revealed low normal range (66 ng/mL). Her 250 mcg cosyntropin test showed appropriate response without adrenal insufficiency. DDAVP was started. 3 months after the vaccination, her symptoms have partially improved, and on repeating the MRI brain she has persistent pituitary stalk thickening. Discussion We report a rare case of diabetes insipidus from hypophysitis associated with SARS-CoV2 vaccine. Mechanisms of SARS-CoV2 vaccination-associated endocrinopathy is unknown. From our literature search, we found increasing numbers of the cases of endocrinopathy reported after the SARS- CoV2 vaccination. The thyroid seems the most frequently reported endocrine organ (83%), followed by the pituitary (11%) and adrenal (6%). Average onset is 1-5 days after the vaccinations and reported with all types of SARS-CoV2 vaccines. More mid-age (average age 46) female (78%) cases have been reported. Although associations are not confirmed, endocrinopathies may be underestimated in the post vaccinated population. Further studies are warranted to better understand SARS-CoV2 vaccinations and potential associations of endocrinopathy. Presentation: Monday, June 13, 2022 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.


The public speaking fear constitutes a recognizable subtype of social phobia in epidemiologic studies. This type of social anxiety may have a negative impact on the lives of many individuals. Here in our country, not exist at the moment none self-rating scale who evaluate the severe public speaking fear relate with the social phobia diagnosis. Because of this limitation, we developed the D'El Rey Public Speaking Fear Scale (EDMF), a 10-item self-rating scale. This report describes theoretical elaboration and semantic analysis of the EDMF. Thirty nine persons of both sexes and diverses educational levels (25 controls and 14 non-generalized social phobics – public speaking fear) participed of the semantic analysis study. None person show comprehension difficulties of EDMF item. The scale now read to psychometric validation.


By choosing two typical input parameter points in the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model and using the QCD factorization (QCDF) approach, we studied the supersymmetric (SUSY) effects to the CP violation of the two-body charmless hadronic B meson decays. We found that though the SUSY contributions can give large corrections to the CP asymmetries for some decay channels, they could not be distinguished experimentally from the standard model (SM) values because of the large theoretical errors dominated by the annihilation contributions in the QCDF approach.


This paper considers the realization of algorithms by programs composed of conditional instructions (binary programs). A mathematical tool, the algebra of P-functions, is introduced for the analysis and synthesis of these programs. P-functions present the following advantages with respect to other known methods: they detect automatically the reconvergent instructions and are able to synthesize a class of programs (non-simple programs) non reachable by other methods. 1. Introduetion The purpose of the present paper is to introduce the concept of P-function which will appear to be the adequate mathematical tool for synthesizing, transforming and hence optimizing evaluation programs. Section 2 may be considered as a large introductory chapter which simultaneously states the problems at hand and describes in a formal way the types of solutions that will be proposed. In section 3 one develops the algebra of P-functions which will be used in section 4 for synthesizing programs and in part IU of this work for optimizing these evaluation programs. (1) 2. Introduetion to conditional program transformation 2.1. Problem statement Glushkov 1,2) has proposed to describe systems performing computations, a model of cooperation between two subsystems, called operational automaton and control automaton, respectively (see ref. 3). The control automaton is the actual implementation of the computation algorithm; it accepts instructions of the following type. N


We report the discovery of an X-ray nebula associated with the nearby millisecond pulsar PSR J2124-3358. This is the first time that extended emission from a solitary millisecond pulsar is detected. The emission extends from the pulsar to the northwest by ~ 0.5 arcmin. The spectrum of the nebular emission can be modeled by a power law spectrum with photon index of 2.2 +/-0.4. This is inline with the emission being originated from accelerated particles in the post shock flow.


Event extraction is a difficult information extraction task. Li et al. (2014) explore the benefits of modeling event extraction and two related tasks, entity mention and relation extraction, jointly. This joint system achieves state-of-the-art performance in all tasks. However, as a system operating only at the sentence level, it misses valuable information from other parts of the document. In this paper, we present an incremental easy-first approach to make the global context of the entire document available to the intra-sentential, state-of-the-art event extractor. We show that our method robustly increases performance on two datasets, namely ACE 2005 and TAC 2015.


In the present paper, we propose a hierarchical MMI system architecture that is currently being discussed by the speech interface committee of the Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan (ITSCJ). First, we present an overview of the proposed hierarchical architecture of multimodal dialogue systems. Next, we explain the first draft of informative descriptions of each layer. The proposed architecture is intended not only to support practical system development by complying with the existing description language and development framework, but also to function as a research platform by specifying the role of each component.


Solon the Athenian lawgiver and statesman is also the first Athenian poet to whom a body of poetry is attributed, significant fragments of which have survived. These poems have triggered in recent years increasing scholarly interest of re-reading and re-assessment, which attempts to strike a more nuanced balance between Solon the statesman and Solon the poet. Pursuing along these lines, this paper examines the self-representation of the poet in its performance context and looks at the ways in which it is configured and thereby targets a more complementary relation between Solon's poetics and politics. Starting from 5 th century BC Solon was remembered by the Greeks as one of the Seven Sages and a performer of wisdom. Since sophia is crucial to Solon's self-representation as a poet, this early reception of Solon as a sophos is ensured by his poetry, where a poet-lawgiver figure functions as the concrete embodiment of Solonian sophia. Holding onto this classical image of Solon as a representative sophos of the archaic period, I seek to explain the use made of Solon's persona that emerges from the Solonian corpus of poetry. I argue that the primary function of the paradigmatic persona that is configured in the Solonian corpus is not autobiographical commentary on or self-defense of what the historical Solon did as lawgiver and statesman, but rather for any performer of the poetry in Solon's absence, historical or metaphorical, to reenact a Solonian sophos as an isolated lawgiver standing in opposition to the tyrant.


With our limited access to the literature we have been unable to find any satisfactory description for an arthroplasty of the shoulder-joint. Having a case for operation, we began the work on the cadaver and developed the following technic, which we believe is nearest anatomically correct of anything we have been able to find. In this operation we have utilized a portion of the short head of the biceps for a flap to interpose, because it is covered bymore dense tendinous sheath than any other structure in the neighborhood of the shoulder-joint, is correctly located anatomically and we believe in the majority of cases will furnish sufficient fascia and muscle to make a flap of necessary dimensions. The flap obtained is quite sufficient to line the glenoid fossa and cover the entire head of the humerus. In our clinical case there was considerable enlargement of the head of the humerus,


Partially sulfonated poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoro propylene)/partially sulfonated polyaniline (SPVdF-co-HFP/SPAni) binary blend membranes have shown promising results in terms of low methanol permeability and high membrane selectivity compared to Nafion-117 membrane. However, the proton conductivity and IEC of this binary blend membrane was much lower than Nafion-117. It was found that incorporation of minimal quantity of Nafion within SPVdF-co-HFP/SPAni blend membrane at a constituent weight % ratio of SPVdF-co-HFP:SPAni:Nafion = 50:40:10 induced significant improvements in ion-exchange capacity (IEC), proton conductivity and tensile strength over that of the binary blend membrane. In addition, the SPVdF-co-HFP/SPAni/Nafion ternary blend membrane exhibited much lower methanol permeability, higher membrane and relative selectivities and comparable IEC to Nafion-117. In effect, presence of minimal quantity of Nafion induced significant positive attributes to the ternary blend membrane; and assisted in reaching a balance between material cost and properties. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016, 133, 43294.


T EA C H IN G E xc ep ti on al C hi ld re n , V ol . 48 , N o. 6 , pp . 28 2 – 29 2. C op yr ig ht 2 01 6 T he A ut ho r( s) . D O I: 1 0. 11 77 /0 04 00 59 91 66 50 63 4 Mr. Alexander's students will be starting a science unit in their firstgrade general education class on insects (known in first-grade playground nomenclature as "bugs"). To help his students prepare for the unit, Mr. Alexander selects an informational text from the core reading program's booklist to help preteach vocabulary and familiarize students with key concepts they will encounter during the unit. Mr. Alexander knows the text might be difficult for many of his students to read and understand, and he isn't highly confident about how to use complex, informational text with struggling readers. He does know, however, that using the informational text will provide valuable exposure to content and comprehension strategy practice for his students. By selecting this text from the core reading program's booklist, he aligns his instruction with the content his students will encounter in the general education classroom.


The invention discloses a mobile terminal and an operating method for a standby interface of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises an icon display module, an icon selection module, an icon movement module and an icon motion module, wherein the icon motion module controls a released icon to motion on a desktop when after a user releases the selected icon, and a motion way is that the released icon performs damping motion at a second position which is taken as a starting point and finally gets stationary at a first position. By the mobile terminal, the icon on the desktop can motion in a set motion way in a standby mode, and the selected icon on the desktop can be edited. By the operating method for the standby interface of the mobile terminal, the icon on the desktop can be operated and edited in the standby mode, so that the interestingness and operability of the mobile terminal are enhanced, the interest of the user is improved, and interesting experiences brought by the mobile terminal are enhanced.


Virtual reality technology(VRT) is a new human-computer interface technology that(vividly) simulates the human actions such as visual sense,hearing sense and movement in natural environment.The application foreground of VRT to hydrogeology is presented.The corresponding(geological,) hydrogeological and professional models are set up by using the immersion sense,interaction with computer as well as realtime forecast function of VRT so that hydrogeological conditions,groundwater flow,groundwater quality,environmental geological problems such as land subsidence,sea water intrusion,soil desertification,soil salinization-alkalization,swampiness and the development tendency of cone of depression caused by groundwater exploitation,can be represented in the virtual environment.The main steps in realizing virtual reality includes establishing virtual reality database,constructing three-dimensional geological model,establishing groundwater flow model,establishing professional model and building realtime forecasting model.


The chemical shift of the nitro-group in the 14N n.m.r. spectra of substituted nitrobenzenes is almost identical for ortho-, para-, and meta-isomers, thus showing that π-electron conjugation has no effect. Substituents in the phenyl ring affect the shift only if they exert a strong inductive effect. Electron-withdrawing substituents, such as formyl and nitro-groups, move the 14N signal of the nitro-group to higher field, whereas the methyl, hydroxy- and methoxy-groups do not give observable changes. No spectral shifts due to hydrogen bonding are observed for nitrophenols but there is a slight effect due to steric hindrance in ortho-substituted nitrobenzenes.


A number of sesquiterpene hydrocarbons commonly occurring in essential oils has been prepared as racemic mixtures by chemical synthesis. Preparative gas chromatography with selectively per-O-alkylated cyclodextrins has been employed for the isolation of enantiomeric mixtures or pure enantiomers from the essential oils of higher plants and liverworts (Hepaticae). The enantiomers of α-curcumene, α- and β-bisabolene, β-elemene, δ-elemene, α-copaene, δ-cadinene, cis- and trans-calamenene, and bicyclogermacrene could be resolved by enantioselective gas chromatography on capillary columns coated with cyclodextrin derivatives. The enantiomeric composition of these sesquiterpene hydrocarbons in various essential oils was determined.


We first describe a new way to access the chiral odd transversity parton distribution in the proton through the photoproduction of lepton pairs. The basic ingredient is the interference of the usual Bethe-Heitler or Drell-Yan amplitudes with the amplitude of a process, where the photon couples to quarks through its chiral-odd distribution amplitude, which is normalized to the magnetic susceptibility of the QCD vacuum. We also show how the chiral-odd transversity generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon can be accessed experimentally through the exclusive electro - or photoproduction process of a meson pair with a large invariant mass and when the final nucleon has a small transverse momentum. We calculate perturbatively the scattering amplitude at leading order, both in the high energy domain which may be accessed in electron-ion colliders and in the medium energy range. Estimated rates are encouraging.


This paper describes a new activity-based microsimulation model called the ADAPTS (Agent-based Dynamic Activity Planning and Travel Scheduling) model, which dynamically simulates activity and travel planning and scheduling. The dynamic activity planning framework is a rule-based process model which attempts to replicate the decisions which comprise time-dependent activity scheduling. The model presents a major step forward in which the usual concepts of activity generation and activity scheduling that are found in other rule-based activity scheduling models are significantly enhanced by adding an additional component referred to as activity planning in which the various attributes which describe the activity are determined. The model framework, therefore, separates activity planning from activity generation and treats all three components, generation, planning and scheduling, as separate discrete but dynamic events within the overall microsimulation. By modeling the actual underlying activity and travel planning and scheduling processes rather than revealed activity-travel patterns, the model can represent a much wider range of travel demand management policies, especially policies which are expected to impact the planning process of individuals. In contrast with previous activity scheduling models, by considering activity planning and scheduling steps as discrete events within the overall activity-travel simulation, and furthermore considering each attribute decision as a separate event, a more complete picture of the dynamics of activity planning and scheduling will be developed. The model of activity planning and scheduling is truly dynamic since each event is simulated at specific times and the outcome of each decision depends on previous decisions. Incorporating planning and scheduling dynamics into the activity-based model will allow for a more realistic set of scenarios to be evaluated in the model. In addition, the paper also develops the framework for modeling each attribute of the activity in the activity planning component of the model. The activity planning model allows the activity attributes to be planned in any order, therefore there is no pre-determined planning order assumed in the model. Rather the order in which the activity attributes are planned is determined at the time the activity is generated using an attribute planning order model based on personal characteristics, existing schedule characteristics, activity type, space-time constraints, etc. The fundamental concept implemented in the planning order model is the extension of the planning horizon concept from activity planning to activity attribute planning such that each component attribute of each activity has its own planning horizon. The planning order is set by evaluating a plan horizon for each attribute which defines an event at some later time in the simulation for that attribute to be planned. So an activity can be generated at a given time, and each attribute of the newly generated activity would be chosen at some set of future times, with each attribute decision depending on the current state of the individual and schedule at the time it is made as well as all previous attributes of the activity that have already been determined, hence creating a fully dynamic time-dependent planning model incorporating dynamic scheduling constraints and even potential random events or changes to the schedule. The use of a non-fixed planning order in the model, however, occasions the use of a set of conditional choice models for each attribute decision rather than one fixed model which could be used if the planning order was known beforehand. Therefore, the paper also discusses the development of the set of conditional choice models. An example would be a location choice model. The location choice can depend on none, one, several or all of the other attributes of the activity, depending on what has already been planned. For this reason, a set of location choice models is needed, one where the location depends on no other attributes, one where the location depends on the mode, one where the location depends on the mode and time of day being known, and so on. The same is true for all other attributes modeled in ADAPTS, and the estimation of these models is discussed at length in the paper. Finally, discussion of the activity scheduling steps implemented, and how each component fits together within the overall simulation are discussed. The activity scheduling model used in ADAPTS is a rule-based system which includes our previously developed conflict resolution model to schedule the generated and planned activities. As the activity planning process is undertaken the activity can begin to be provisionally added to the activity schedule following a set of scheduling process rules once the time-ofday is defined and further refined as the location, mode, etc. are determined. The system adds the activity to the currently developed schedule and resolves any scheduling conflicts. Overall, the incorporation of dynamics into activity planning and scheduling and removing the fixed planning order assumption for activity planning should allow for a more realistic and policy sensitive microsimulation model. The various stages of the model that are implemented in an overall simulation framework to achieve this are discussed. In addition, data results from a GPS-based prompted recall survey used to capture the underlying activity attribute planning process are presented and discussed in the context of the overall model framework and used to validate the use of ann activity attribute planning order model in place of an assumed fixed sequential planning order.


This report is a continuation of an earlier report (Report SSC-196, June 1969), giving results of the analysis of all available stress data from full-scale, measurements on the following dry cargo ships: S. S. WOLVERINE STATE, S.S. HOOSIER STATE, S.S. MORMACSCAN, and S.S. CALIFORNIA BEAR. The results for the first two, which are sister ships of the C4-S-B5 type cover a total of about 10 ship-years in the North Atlantic, and results are felt to be consistent and reliable. Results for the MORMACSCAN, covering brief periods in the runs from New York to Europe and New York to South America, appear to provide inadequate statistical samples. CALIFORNIA BEAR results for the North Pacific appear to be reasonable for that service. Further details are given on two techniques for the analysis and extrapolation of full-scale data to longer periods of time, in order to predict extreme bending stresses (or bending moments) in service. One of the techniques employs the integration of rms stress data from individual stress records; the other makes use of the highest stresses obtained in each record (extreme values). Both techniques involve the classification of data by severity of weather in order to obtain greater generality of results. It is shown that extrapolated trends from two methods are consistent. Comparisons are made of non-dimensional bending moment coefficients for all of the ships on the basis of the same "standard" weather distribution.


Estimates of the effectiveness of an altimetric correction, and interpretation of sea level variability as a response to atmospheric forcing, both depend upon assuming that residual errors in altimetric corrections are uncorrelated among themselves and with residual sea level, or knowing the correlations. Not surprisingly, many corrections are highly correlated since they involve atmospheric properties and the ocean surface's response to them. The full corrections (including their geographically varying time mean values), show correlations between electromagnetic bias (mostly the height of wind waves) and either atmospheric pressure or water vapor of -40%, and between atmospheric pressure and water vapor of 28%. In the more commonly used collinear differences (after removal of the geographically varying time mean), atmospheric pressure and wave height show a -30% correlation, atmospheric pressure and water vapor a -10% correlation, both pressure and water vapor a 7% correlation with residual sea level, and a bit surprisingly, ionospheric electron content and wave height a 15% correlation. Only the ocean tide is totally uncorrelated with other corrections or residual sea level. The effectiveness of three ionospheric corrections (TOPEX dual-frequency, a smoothed version of the TOPEX dual-frequency, and Doppler orbitography and radiopositioning integrated by satellite (DORIS) is also evaluated in terms of their reduction in variance of residual sea level. Smooth (90-200 km along-track) versions of the dual-frequency altimeter ionosphere perform best both globally and within 20 deg in latitude from the equator. The noise variance in the 1/s TOPEX inospheric samples is approximately (11 mm) squared, about the same as noise in the DORIS-based correction; however, the latter has its error over scales of order 10(exp 3) km. Within 20 deg of the equator, the DORIS-based correction adds (14 mm) squared to the residual sea level variance.


: An unusual case of metastatic intraepithelial transitional cell carcinoma in situ to the vulvar epithelium resembling extramammary Paget's disease is presented in a 75-year-old woman with a history of concurrent high-grade transitional cell carcinoma in situ of the bladder. Histologically and immunohistochemically, the tumor cells resembled the in situ bladder lesion. Epidermotropic spread of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder is extremely rare, with lesions known to occur in urethral mucosa and around urethral meatus, representing an extramammary form of Paget's disease. The present case represents previously unreported isolated intraepithelial metastasis of a urothelial carcinoma in situ to vulvar epithelium resembling extramammary Paget's disease.


Although the quality of life have greatly improved over the last decades in the most countries, we do not pay more attention to studying it. The concept of the quality of life is a fundamental indicator both of health and medical action, so it is important to calculate the quality of life index to assess it and solve the problem on the quality of life. Factor analysis is employed in this study to set up a model.


Yokogawa has developed a new LED color sensor for the B/M9000VP paper quality control system. A high brightness LED as a light source ensures accurate and stable measurement, and a high power UV LED enables continuous measurement of the fluorescence whitening effect. In addition the long life light sources reduce maintenance work. The optical system with greater depth of focus and the newly developed wavelength shifting method (WSM) for ranging correction eliminates the influence from paper fluttering and wrinkles. This paper describes the features of this color sensor.


This paper discusses the outstanding contribution of Han Yu to the history of Chinese culture from the following respects:inheriting the old tradition,establishing new Confucianism;literature revolution and literary style innovation;valuing education,being engaged in the education personally;the achievements in combining education theories and practice.


Forty genotypes of blackgram were grouped into seven clusters. Cluster I contained 15 genotypes, followed by nine in cluster IV, eight in cluster II, four in cluster III, two in cluster VI and one each in cluster V and VII. Highest intra-cluster D2 value was observed for cluster I, followed by cluster IV. The maximum inter-cluster D2 value was observed between cluster II and IV, followed by III and VI. The cluster means estimated for 12 characters revealed that the cluster II with eight genotypes had the lowest mean value for days to 50% flowering and maturity. Genotypes in cluster IV showed highest mean value for seeds per pod, 100 seed weight, grain yield per plant and protein content.


Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented. The company will henceforth build its transistors in three dimensions, a shift that-if all goes well-should add at least a half dozen years to the life of Moore's Law, the biennial doubling in transistor density that has driven the chip industry for decades. But Intel's big announcement was notable for another reason: It signaled the start of a growing schism among chipmakers. Despite all the great advantages of going 3-D, a simpler alternative design is also nearing production. Although it's not yet clear which device architecture will win out, what is certain is that the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) field-effect transistor (FET)-the centerpiece of computer processors since the 1980s-will get an entirely new look. And the change is more than cosmetic; these designs will help open up a new world of low-power mobile electronics with fantastic capabilities.


A visitor to the computer visualization center unveiled last week at Brown University interacts with virtual alphabet blocks in a cubicle called "the cave." But blocks are just the basics—scientists can have an "out of body" experience in the cave that allows them to float within a molecule or other complex structures generated on a computer screen. The $8 million center, established in collaboration with IBM, houses an IBM supercomputer and the 8-foot cubic cave, where high-resolution stereographies are projected onto the walls and floor to create a three-dimensional virtual reality environment. Walking into the cave "gives you the sense that you are inside the graphics display," says chemistry professor Jimmie D. Doll, who anticipates using the cave to simulate electronic structures and physical properties of complex materials. Chemists have been using Brown's supercomputer for complex calculations and are now gearing up to exploit the cave to help elucidate their projections. The new center integrates ...


Squamous carcinomas in WHT/Ht mice were exposed to the biomedical pion beam at the TRIUMF cyclotron. The biological effects of the pion beam were studied using the TD50 assay at the proximal peak and pre- and postpeak plateaus of the pion depth-dose profile. The dose rate of pions was 0.15-0.20 Gy/min. RBE values for pions at the proximal peak were calculated from the ratio of the X-ray and pion D0 values and were found to be 1.3 ± 0.2 for oxic cells and 1.5 ± 0.3 for hypoxic cells. OER values were 2.0 ± 0.4 for pions at the proximal peak and 2.4 ± 0.4 for 250 kVp X rays.


The purpose of the study. To develop the functional approach to the use of quality management tools in the evaluation of internal audits in the education complex. Materials and methods. Were used the following methods: design, system analysis, checklist, Ishikawa diagram, Pareto chart, ABC analysis, the tree diagram Results. Was proposed, a functional approach to the use of quality management tools in the processing of the results the internal audits. Conclusion. The considered quality management tools allow objectively evaluate the results of the internal audit and develop the competent management decisions based on facts.


The current status of foreign heliborne laser warning technology and equipment is described. The development and application are generally analyzed . At last, the future trend of heliborne laser warning technology and equipment is presented.


That the party can not do without the people is Deng Xiaoping's important thinking on the party building.Close connecting with the masses is the source of the party's power,regarding interests as the people is a manifestation of the party's purpose,and building a clean government is the key to win the trust of the people.


ABSTRACT Correctional services are plagued by poor staff retention, shortages, and high rates of turnover, which represent costly challenges for recruitment, training, and administration. Central to addressing challenges of correctional officer retention and staffing shortages is insight into what motivates individuals to pursue a career in correctional services. Although researchers have looked at the motivations of correctional officers entering the Canadian provincial system, researchers have yet to study the motivations of individuals' entering the field of correctional services in the Canadian federal correctional system. In the current exploratory study, we apply Herzberg's theory to investigate federal correctional officer recruits' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations toward becoming correctional officers with the Correctional Service of Canada. By drawing on the voices of recruits (N = 70) interviewed prior to the start of their employment, we thematically examined their rationales for seeking employment as federal correctional officers, their career aspirations, and their expectations about the correctional officer job. Our examination identified three overarching themes: the first tied more purely to extrinsic motivations, the second purely intrinsic, and the third more closely resembled a "drifting" phenomenon. We discuss the results in the context of officer recruitment and retention.


Pancreatic resections for benign diseases may lead to long‐term endocrine/exocrine impairment. The aim of this study was to compare postoperative and long‐term results after different pancreatic resections for benign disease.


ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE YEARS after its ratification, the Constitution of the United States has become the subject of a great book. The reference applies to the recently published two-volume work entitled Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States, by William Winslow Crosskey, a member of the law faculty at the University of Chicago. Some people will call Crosskey's book vicious, because it proposes a construction of the Constitution which they fear; others will call it an irreverent work, for by implication it criticises those they revere; still others will damn it as a corrupting influence, for it challenges many of the orthodoxies of our legal and political system. Unquestionably it is the most revolutionary commentary ever published on the Constitution. Yet these very controversies are bound to contribute to the acceptance of the construction these volumes expound. When examined, the legal structure which unfolds not only is convincing, but in addition is most compatible with the present political economy of the United States. Logic, evidence, methodology and economic interest are combined so effectively that a break with currently accepted concepts about the Constitution seems almost assured within a few years.


The invention is suitable for the technical field of display, and provides a method for realizing audio or subtitle switch in case of broadcasting an audio/video file, comprising the following steps: A, receiving a user instruction, and switching on or off a USB audio and subtitle linked switch; and B, if the USB audio and subtitle linked switch is switched on, switching the audio of the broadcast USB audio/video file based on the control instruction of the user for switching the audio, and controlling the subtitle of the audio/video file for linked switch so as to keep the audio and the subtitle in the same language; or switching the subtitle of the audio/video file based on the control instruction of the user for switching the subtitle, and controlling the audio for linked switch so as to keep the audio and the subtitle in the same language. By the technical scheme in the invention, the requirement of users on that the audio and subtitle are in the same language can be achieved by primary selection in the process of broadcasting the USB audio/video file, thus simplifying user operation.


Aims: The present study aimed to determine the effect of a long-term cholesterol enriched diet on spatial learning performance in middle to old aged rats. Materials and methods: Based on initial Morris water maze results, 40 female SD rats aged 12-month were screened and randomly divided into 2 groups. Two groups of female SD rats were fed either a balanced diet or a high cholesterol diet for 6 months on their 12-month aged of life (n=20 per group). At the end of the dietary intervention, behavioral testing by the Morris water maze task was applied again at 18 months to evaluate the spatial learning of aged rats by measuring latency, compared to controls. Results: Consumption of a long term high cholesterol diet for 6 months significantly elevated serum cholesterol levels reported to controls. During the transition period from middle age to old age, rats fed with cholesterol enriched diet exhibited a longer escape latency than that of control group. Conclusion: Our findings provided evidence that a long-term cholesterol-treated rats impaired aged rats' spatial learning.


Turn-of-the-month effect in the security market means that the average rate of return between the first several trading days and the last trading is higher than that of the other trading days.Through the demonstration,we find there is a statistically notable and positive turn-of-the-month effect in the security market of our country.In China,the average rate of return between the first six trading days and the last trading is higher than that of the other trading days.


Energy conservation is one of the critical issues facing society today. Our civilization depends on energy for its sustenance. However, energy resources are finite and the ever increasing demands being made for diminishing supplies increases the cost of energy putting it beyond the reach of a large part of society. Renewable energy concepts for new communities offer exciting possibilities for new forms of living. Since India is blessed with abundant sunshine, we can plan and organize our settlements for utilizing renewable energy resources and implementing innovative concepts for shelter, transportation, etc.


The concepts of k-degree and k-balance control sets of graphs are abstracted from some real-world problems such as the location of cameras for saving resources in street security monitoring and the arrangement of major sensors for balancing load in wireless sensor networks. Then using a new matrix analysis tool, semi-tensor product of matrices (STP) developed in recent years, such two kinds of control sets are formulated by establishing a necessary and sufficient conditions that determine whether or not a vertex subset of a graph is a k-degree control set, and a necessary condition that facilitates finding k-balance control sets of a graph. Finally the effectiveness of the idea and the correctness of the results are verified by studying security monitoring of a street.


The paper focuses on the economic valuation of indirect damages caused by high water events incurred by an important Venetian stakeholder: the business activities located and operating on the ground floor in the city of Venice. Given the non-market nature of the indirect damages, we propose to work with a survey valuation approach, adapting stateof-the-art non-market valuation methods to the Venetian context. This way, we develop a valuation methodology that combines both the use of a stated choice questionnaire with hedonic pricing. Estimation results show that the marginal willingness to pay for having a business activity in a higher quota with respect to the sea level is ranges from 6 000 Euro to 9 000 Euro. In addition, the marginal WTP for the catwalks reveals to be positive and its estimate magnitude stronger among the business activities that works with tourists. Finally, the marginal valuation of business activities that are described in the survey as 'working mainly with tourists' is stronger among the business activities that currently already work with a great deal of tourists, including hotels and fashion/cloths shops. This signals a clear trend for specialization in the areas of the city of Venice with the highest presence of tourists, such as San Marco and Rialto district areas, towards economic activities exclusively tailored for tourists, bringing along with it a loss in the social diversity in that same areas.


prevail, not least because of the lowly social status of those who enjoyed such activities and the way in which they encroached on public space in a disorderly manner. The marginalisation of these sports over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries signified a victory for 'the middling sort' in establishing new expectations relating to behaviour in public. 'In so doing', Kelly observes drily, 'they imposed their view on the apprentices, labourers, cattle-drivers, servants and others for whom throwing at cocks and bull-baiting were adrenaline-boosting recreations' (236). Given these developments, it is perhaps surprising that the demise of cockfighting was so protracted, though this owed much to its aristocratic supporters and the fact that it was usually conducted at private venues leaving public space uncompromised. In the mid-eighteenth century, at the height of its popularity, there was also a noticeable 'trend towards greater uniformity in the manner in which the sport was conducted' (168). Cockfighting thus shared some important developmental features with horse racing, another sport where gambling was a significant factor behind the impulse to regulate, before being eventually washed away by the tide of new bourgeois sensibility. Kelly is too astute to be tempted by present-minded history and team sports – hurling, commons (also played with a stick and a small ball) and football – are viewed from a contemporary perspective rather than as precursors of sports reinvented and codified by Irish patriots in the late nineteenth century. Of these pursuits, hurling and commons appear to have the most authentically Gaelic pedigree whereas football was 'a lowly-valued cultural offshoot of the English presence in the kingdom' (273). By the 1830s, however, all three were in decline, with commons the most vulnerable having failed to make any inroads in the towns. In the eyes of sport's detractors, team sports were little better than bull-baiting or throwing at cocks, especially as they were associated with public disorder and often played on Sundays. In this respect Ireland was much like England where 'mass football games found few articulate friends' (282). Such friends, especially if they were in high places, could make all the difference in determining whether a sport died out or survived into the modern era.


– The morphology of the epithelium-connective tissue interface was studied in gingival biopsy specimens of 29 male and 16 female Caucasians. Ten were 7–13 years of age, twenty 20–25, and fifteen 65–77 years of age. Separate three-dimensional wax models (200 ×) were produced of the epithelium and connective tissue of the oral aspect of the free and attached gingiva. The average height, width, and number of connective tissue papillae or ridges and the average width of epithelial ridges were assessed for each specimen. In ten specimens of each age group measurements were made of the contact area between the epithelium and connective tissue. The length of the basement membrane and the volume of the epithelium was assessed within the same area. The essential age change of the epithelium-connective tissue interface is the conversion of the connective tissue ridges to papillae. The contact area between the epithelium and connective tissue increases from the prepuberty to 20–25 years of age. The volume of the epithelium does not change with age. Sex-related variations could not be observed.


There are numerous and divergent opinions concerning infection of the tonsil, but the majority seem to agree on the presence of cryptal plugs as a factor. Cryptal plugs are conducive to tonsillar infection because they block the passage through which the tonsil normally rids itself of cells and bacteria. They provide an environment of warmth, moisture, nutriment and varying degrees of oxygen tension, which is ideal for the growth, propagation and colonization of both aerobic and anaerobic organisms, and favor the retention and absorption of toxic metabolic products. Many of these, notably members of the Fusiformis group, are capable of causing necrosis in the deep epithelial lining of the crypt, with ensuing tonsillar infection. Aeration and circulation are interfered with, causing pressure on contiguous tissues and capillaries, a condition which may in turn produce congestion, inflammation and thrombosis. In 1933, Dr. Otto Kahler 1 published an extensive review of the tonsil


Female labour market participation has risen significantly since the 1960s. Whole libraries have been written about the explanations, determinants and causes of this remarkable evolution. In the field of comparative welfare research it is only recently that female employment in the Baltic countries has been looked into. In most of the studies, these countries (which faced a retreat of state intervention, a period of rough capitalism and finally the inclusion into the European Union after the collapse of the Soviet system) were either neglected, classified among Central Eastern European countries as 'transitional' or 'post-communist' or taken together with the 'liberal' welfare states, depending on the researcher's point of view. However, given the particularity of the Baltic countries with regards to female employment, social expenditure, poverty figures etc., it is appropriate that these countries are now treated sui generis by scholars. The present book, the publication of the author's doctoral dissertation, is a contribution to this on-going debate. It consists of a collection of four scientific papers preceded by an introductory chapter. Remarkably, only the first one of the constituent studies has been published (coincidently in the present journal) and thus submitted to double blind peer review. The main aim of the studies is to call into question the assumption that 'for females in Eastern Europe, the economic changes seem to have evoked a renaissance of traditional gender roles' (p. 9), called the 'retraditionalization thesis', and that normative beliefs about a gendered division of work are one of the forces that underpin the female inclusion in or exclusion from the labour market. Thus, the endeavor to unravel female employment patterns in the Baltic countries is focused on 'gender roles' and 'attitudes'. The structure of the book is as follows: after an introductory chapter in which the author explains more in depth some theoretical considerations and summarizes her findings, four papers are presented whereby the first three can be considered as belonging together. Study one analyses the relationship between policies, gender-role attitudes and actual household practices regarding the gendered division of work, while the second and third studies leave policies out of the analysis and concentrate on the connection between attitudes and practices alone, albeit for different countries. Of particular interest is the combination of quantitative and qualitative data used in the third paper. The fourth and last study of the book does not really fit with the previous ones, as it is devoted to an analysis of the descriptive statistics used in the other studies and gives detailed and interesting background information on the labour markets in the Baltic countries. It does not however provide new insights regarding the research questions. The starting point for all the analyses is 1990, which coincides with the collapse of communism. The finding that there is 'no common ex-socialist heritage in terms of gender-role attitudes' (p. 17) and that the interrelation between policies, practices and attitudes is not straightforward sounds familiar, as countries mostly do not follow expected (theoretical) welfare patterns. Even in Lithuania, where gender roles are highly traditional with much support for the housewife role, gender roles do not necessarily relate to employment patterns. The opposite is true for family policies which can facilitate female employment, but in turn do not influence normative orientations about gender roles. In general, the studies reject the 'retraditionalization thesis' and confirm that there is an evolution towards greater acceptance of women's working roles. Unfortunately, the book is confronted with some drawbacks. Firstly, by explicitly taking into account the normative aspects of female employment and concentrating on gender roles, the structural explanations are somewhat neglected in the analyses. This leads to unsatisfactory answers and an 'explanation gap': if gender roles and attitudes fail to explain female employment patterns, then what does? Secondly, the book gives an eclectic impression and the title seems somewhat misleading, since the first study concerns Sweden and Russia and not the Baltic states, the second one compares the Baltic states to West and Eastern Germany and the third study only presents a case study of Lithuania. Finally, several interesting thoughts for research questions are formulated in the introduction, such as the role of male employment in the conceptualization of gendered work patterns, but these are not further elaborated in the actual papers. Despite these criticisms, and the existence of possibly more essential reading for students, scholars and policymakers interested in female employment and gender roles in the Baltic states, the findings are of interest and the studies contribute significantly to the knowledge in this particular field of research.


. A whole portrayal of the most brilliant echoes against the unbearable shown racist feelings on the black population is without any doubt pretty well mirrored in the American novel `I know why the caged bird sings` by Maya Angelou. The sad echoes of extremely loneliness, the feeling of being under evaluated, of being disregarded as human beings, are depicted in a marvelous way in this novel. Maya had not a pleasant childhood at all. She was the sister of Bailey whose parents were divorced. They were sent to St. Louis. From this moment, the very realistic feelings about her life have been shown throughout the whole novel. First of all, the author puts the emphasis on the unbearable oppression of racism so freely shown on the blacks, the humiliation that she has to go through almost all her life, the unpleasant situations that she has to experience. That is why this book is an ode to the cosmopolitan echoes which are hidden in almost every single word of throughout the whole novel. The whole novel is an autobiographical story of Maya`s life. She struggles about one of the worst evils present even nowadays in a great number of countries all around the world. She feels imprisoned inside the metal bars which symbolize her stress, pain, complete dissatisfaction with the idea how bad and harmful can human beings be. Her living in one and only one place, hat is the frequent movement from one place to another also causes her an enormous stress, because she raises her voice against the planned dislocation of the black people from one place to another, thus not having a stable living place. She also writes about her own dissatisfaction of her physical look, beginning with her teeth. Still, this is a wonderful novel which deals with the extremely harmful deformities of a lot of societies in the so called ``our modern world``.


Takotsubo cardiomyopathy usually occurs as a result of catecholamine release causing myocardial 'stunning' during physical or emotional stress. Typically coronary angiogram shows normal or minor coronary artery disease and echocardiogram shows apical ballooning with basal wall hyperkinesia. The prognosis is excellent with good cardiac functional recovery within days to weeks. We report the first case of takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a patient with acute-on-chronic liver failure.


Objective To explore the pattern of foodborne disease incidence so as to provide foundation for foodsafty administration.Methods Date and cases associated with food poisoning and five foodborne disease were collected and analyzed.Results Two types of foodborne diseases were predominated and accounted for 60.74% of total cases.Bacillary dysentery,Hepatitis A Virus was main foodborne infectious disease.Bacterial food poisoning was the main causes,accounting for 62.50%、66.42% of the total outbreaks and cases.Secondly Pathogenic factors are poisonous animal and plant contamination,accounting for 12.50%、21.43% of the total outbreaks.The food-poisoning divides into four parts:diningrooms、households、food service units and other unites,especially the family in rural village is the dangerous site for place of food-poisoning.The peak season of foodborne infectious disease was focused from June to Augest;The age of the patients was mainly concentrated on 0-5,10-15 and 30-34 years old.Conclusion Since the data in this report did not cover all foodborne diseases,The number reported was only part of the iceberg.Sanitary management of the dining room in middle and primary countryside schools should be improved.Strengthen the force of food poisoning prevention and control;Meanwhile,to amplify consumer 's consciousness of self-protection is also of extreme importance.Attention be paid on protection of students,children below 10 years old,and the peasant.Suggestion:Crystalize definition of foodborne illness;Establish Computer network for monitoring the foodborne illness.So as to control and early-alert the foodborne disease.


Differential Privacy (DP) is a formal definition of privacy that provides rigorous guarantees against risks of privacy breaches during data processing. It makes no assumptions about the knowledge or computational power of adversaries, and provides an interpretable, quantifiable and composable formalism. DP has been actively researched during the last 15 years, but it is still hard to master for many Machine Learning (ML)) practitioners. This paper aims to provide an overview of the most important ideas, concepts and uses of DP in ML, with special focus on its intersection with Federated Learning (FL).


Despite suggestions which claim substantial benefits can be realized by embracing reliability-centred maintenance (RCM), serious difficulties have been encountered during its application. In many industries, including electricity transmission, implementation is forestalled by an inability to obtain quantitative results from the pilot study phase. This inability can, in part, be attributed to a general failure by would-be practitioners to suitably address the fundamental argument surrounding the introduction; whether RCM will, or will not, prove economically beneficial. To ensure profitable RCM applications, a rigorous financial evaluation must serve as a prelude to implementation; by regarding its introduction as an investment decision, by identifying, and subsequently quantifying, the true benefits of RCM, more successful applications can ensue. Such an evaluation framework, developed by the National Grid Company ple (NGC) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), designed to address the shortcomings of traditional methods of RCM appraisal, is described.


Pasteurella multocida toxin (PMT) is a highly potent mitogen for a variety of cell types. PMT has been shown to induce various cellular signaling processes, and it has been suggested to function through the heterotrimeric G-proteins Gq/G11. To analyze the role of Gq/G11 in the action of PMT, we have studied the effect of the toxin in Gαq/Gα11double-deficient fibroblasts as well as in fibroblasts lacking only Gαq or Gα11. Interestingly, formation of inositol phosphates in response to PMT was exclusively dependent on Gαq but not on the closely related Gα11. Although Gαq/Gα11 double-deficient and Gαq-deficient cells did not respond with any production of inositol phosphates to PMT, PMT was still able to induce various other cellular effects in these cells, including the activation of Rho, the Rho-dependent formation of actin stress fibers and focal adhesions, as well as the stimulation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase and extracellular signal-regulated kinase. These data show that PMT leads to a variety of cellular effects that are mediated only in part by the heterotrimeric G-protein Gq.


Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae) is a plant species widely present in tropical and subtropical regions that have been studied mainly for its potential for biofuel production; it is also a plant known for its toxic substances. To explore its use as an insecticide, we studied the effect of the seed extract from green fruit and the seed oils from the mature and dried fruit of J. curcas on the green aphid Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Seven concentrations of extracts and oils of different maturation stages of fruits were used and sprayed with the Potter Spray Tower on cabbage leaves containing 10 individuals of M. persicae. Ten repetitions for each concentration were carried out at each stage of maturation (green, ripe, and dry), and the evaluation of the mortality of individuals occurred for a period of 72 hours. The maturation stage of J. curcas, as well as the concentration and time after the application, influenced the mortality of M. persicae. The best results were obtained 48h after applying the dried fruit oil at 2.5% and 72 hours after the application of dry and ripe fruit oil at 2.5%.


We present results from the initial testing of arrays of cryogenic microcalorimeter gamma-ray detectors. The successful fabrication and multiplexed operation of these arrays allow us to make pixel-to-pixel performance comparisons. The relationship between operating conditions and array performance is investigated. Advanced refrigerators for these detectors work without liquid cryogens, achieve temperatures below 100 mK, and operate continuously for many days.


In this research article, we present a novel framework for handling intuitionistic fuzzy soft information by combining the theory of intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets with graphs. We introduce the notion of certain types of intuitionistic fuzzy soft graphs including neighbourly edge regular intuitionistic fuzzy soft graphs and strongyl edge irregular intuitionistic fuzzy soft graphs. We illustrate these novel concepts by several examples, and investigate some of their related properties. We present an application of intuitionistic fuzzy soft graph in a decision-making problem and also present our methods as an algorithm that is used in this application.


It is known that auxin induces the uptake of water by plant tissues. Three principal suggestions have been made concerning the mechanism of such auxininduced net water uptake. The first proposes that auxin in some manner plasticizes the cell wall. The second suggests that auxin brings about active synthesis of cell wall material. These two mechanisms suppose osmotic entry of water into the cell in response to lowered wall pressure. The third is that auxin brings about a non-osmotic transport of water into the tissue. Thimann (22) has grouped these into two hypotheses in the form of models. One model visualizes a pump (active transport) and the other a piston arrangement (cell wall pressure reduction). Such active transport has been rigorously defined by Rosenberg (21) as the movement of a substance against a chemical potential or concentration gradient, i.e., an uptake of water against a diffusion gradient as defined by Levitt (16). Active transport of water would consist then of water movement against an osmotic gradient. A fourth possibility in principle would be that an auxin-induced increase in the concentration of osmotically active solutes might occur within the cell. The cells of plant tissues are surrounded by relatively rigid cell walls and one must discuss water movement in terms of diffusion pressure gradients rather than in terms of osmotic pressure. In the terminology proposed by Meyer and Anderson (19) and by Crafts et al (10), DPD = OP-WP where DPD = diffusion pressure deficit, OP = osmotic pressure of cell contents, and WP = wall pressure. The DPD gradient from an external solution to the inside of the tissue can then be expressed as ? DPD = DPDj -DPDe(DPDe = OPt?) where i= internal and e = external. If ? DPD is negative, the gradient is outward; if ? DPI) is positive, the gradient is inward. To demonstrate a net active water uptake it is necessary to show that water uptake occurs while the purely osmotic ? DPD is negative. When the external solution is hypertonic, wall pressure becomes zero and DPDi = OPi. The net uptake of water from hypertonic solution would then involve movement against an osmotic gradient. It will be shown below that cells of Avena coleoptile sections are essentially in diffusion pressure equilibrium with the external solution over a wide range of external solute concentrations both in the presence and in the absence of auxin. There is no detectable net uptake of water from hypertonic solution by this tissue. It is concluded that water uptake by Avena coleoptile sections both in the presence and absence of auxin is a purely osmotic phenomenon. Materials and Methods


A complete Matlab model is made for a millimeter wave wireless communication system including a four-phase Costas loop for carrier recovery and QPSK demodulation. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the dynamic behaviour of the Costas loop and the effects of noise, linearity and bandwidth limitations. The time domain results are compared to the frequency domain transfer function derived from the Costas loop parameters.


Effect of chromate addition in sea water in inhibiting corrosion of mild steel was studied. Results indicated that the addition of 50 ppm of K2CrO4 was effective to considerably lower the corrosion rate although the pitting corrosion occurred even at 10,000 ppm of chromate concentration. At higher concentrations of chromate corrosion potential moved towards more noble direction and considerable amount of polarisation of both anode and cathode potentials corresponding to a lower value of corrosion current was effected. (Shri D.K. Khan, Scientist and D.K. Basu, Senior Laboratory Assistant, NML Marine Corrosion Research Station, Digha, Shri K.P. Mukherjee, Scientist, National Metallurgical Laboratory)


A business entity interested in long-term business, should realise innovations that drive business and are regarded as a tool to maintain competitiveness. A number of studies and research papers show that innovation has a significant role in the social and economic development. This paper focuses on innovation and information processes and their impact on overall business performance of industrial enterprises in Slovakia, mainly from wood-processing, automotive and engineering industries (N = 164). The business performance was expressed through Return on equity (ROE). The results point that these industrial companies from Slovakia have a strong focus on the systematic application of innovation procedures and specific business processes. Companies that use technological innovations achieve above average ROE value more than 7% (statistically significant dependence p-value < 0.05, the alpha level associated with 95% confidence level) and they need a system to formulate how innovation help them to survive and improve their performance.


Workpieces, which are fed to grinding in a lot, have respective dimensions generated in the previous stage of production and then the stock allowance of each workpiece is distributed in the lot. In this paper, the effects of variations of stock allowance upon dimensional accuracy are theoretically analyzed, based on the accumuration phenomenon in grinding, in case that workpiece dimensions are normally distributed in the lot, by investigating the dimensions of ground parts and their distribution, and the relation between the infeed position of grinding wheel and the percentage of defective products in dimension. It has been made clear that the dimensions of ground products have a close relation to the plunge speed, the sparkout grinding time and the workpiece dimension, that the distribution of product dimensions is not normal and affected by the plunge speed, the sparkout grinding time, the stock allowance and its variance, and that the proper selection of infeed position of grinding wheel makes the percentage of defective products in dimension minimum.


The Greater Lawrence Sanitary District (GLSD) learned in 2002 that pipe supplied to GLSD in 1974 was similar to pipelines experiencing a high rate of catastrophic failures throughout the United States. The District began an assessment program to assess the structural condition of one of its pipelines. Through this evaluation one pipe section was found to be in a state of imminent failure and required emergency repairs to avert a catastrophic failure that would have significant financial and environmental implications. This paper discusses GLSD's implementation of an asset management program to prepare for a possible catastrophic pipe failure, the techniques used for assessing the pipeline, successful repair of the pipe section subject to imminent failure and the cost effective management of this asset.


Hydrogen diffusion in Pd with various H concentrations and Pd-Ag alloys with various Ag and H concentrations is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. At H concentration of 0.5 in Pd, the miscibility gap caused by the spinodal decomposition is observed. The diffusion coefficient of H in Pd is kept constant at H concentration less than 0.1, then increases with increasing H concentration until the phase transition occurs, and after reaching a maximum it decreases with increasing H concentration. The simulations of varying a temperature predict the activation energy for H diffusion of 0.163 eV at H concentration of 0.05, which agrees well with that reported in the literature, and minimum activation energy of 0.144 eV at H concentration of 0.5. Moreover, our results indicate that the addition of Ag to Pd leads to the dissipation of the miscibility gap. The diffusion coefficient of H in Pd-Ag alloys significantly decreases with increasing Ag concentration. The minimum activation energy for H diffusion in Pd-Ag alloys is estimated to be 0.135 eV when Ag and H concentration are 0.1 and 0.5, respectively.


In this study, Yang et al. find that the timing of Ccnb1 mRNA translation in mouse oocytes is dependent on the presence of transcripts with different 3′ UTRs. Their results reveal an additional layer of translation control through alternative polyadenylation usage required to fine-tune the timing of meiosis progression.


The aluminum matrix composite which reinforced by SiCp particles was added Al-5Ti-5Si as filling material in plasma arc "in-situ" welding,and the alternating arc-ultrasonic was needed in the welding process.The microstructures at the interfaces were observed by transmission electron microscopy(TEM)and HRTEM.The results show that the sizes of all new reinforced phases become smaller,and such orientation relationships as Al3Ti(020)∥Al(002),Al3Ti∥Al and AlN∥Al are founded in the joint.There are entire-coherent interface between the Al matrix and the small new reinforced phases of Al3Ti,AlN,Si and TiC,but no resultant production is observed along those interfaces.The Al matrix can grow along the new reinforced phases which have low-dislocation with Al,so the size of Al can be reduced.The mechanical testing results show that the maximum tensile strength of the welded joint is 92.69MPa,which reaches the 62% of the matrix strengths.